What is Love?
Characters: Maria-Jeff, Emily-Alec, Ashley-Randy Janny-Chris
Summary: "Your to conceited to even know what love is!"
Maria and Emily were lying on pool chairs sipping on some henasin while they awaited the arrival of their friends. They had actually been waiting for at least 3 hours. Maria could tell that Emily was beginning to get annoyed...she was complaining.
"I'm bored!" Emily whined. Maria rolled her eyes annoyed at Emily's whining. "Riakinz please call and see whats taking so long!"
"No." Maria simply said. Emily stared at her red-haired friend wide-eyed.
"Please!" She begged.
"No."
"Please!
"No."
"!" Emily screamed.
"Fine!" Maria yelled. She was pushed to her limit by Emily...again. She took out her brand new cell phone that her boyfriend Jeff had gotten her for her birthday along with a three thousand dollar golden bracelet that said Maria Alexis Kanellis.
She dialed in his number and placed the phone to her pierced ear. It rang three times before he finally picked up.
"Hello?" Came a shexi southern accent.
"Hey baby." Maria answered cutely.
"Oh hey Maria. Yea?" He said with a little less interest. Maria frowned sensing his diswanting to talk to her.
"Whats wrong you sound like you don't wanna talk to me?" Maria said.
"Nothings wrong now are you gonna tell me why you called.?" He asked her annoyed.
"Oh yea um how long until you guys get here?" She asked him.
"I'm not coming." He said simply.
"Why?"
"Cause i don't want to."
"Oh well ok. I love you."
"I love you too." He said with no emotion.
"K bye." She said on the verge of tears.
"Whatever." He said he clicked the red end button and rolled over on his side and looked at the sleeping girl beside him. He smirked when she opened her eyes. "Hey beautiful how was your nap?"
"Good, and my playtime before my nap was delicious, but why do i have to keep hiding from her? Why won't you just dump her already so we won't have to sneak around?" The girl asked him. Then to her surprise he got up and began pulling on his pants and then he looked at her.
"I'm not gonna get rid of my son's mother Beth." He said with ice cold green eyes.
"But she'll get rid of you and then it can be us forever and ever and ever." Beth said. "And you don't need that bratty little skank anyway." Beth said smirking. Suddenly his hand went up hard to her cheek. She fell back on the bed holding her red cheek. It burned. He grabbed her by the neck strangling her. She couldn't breath. He finally let her go grabbing her by the hair he dragged her to the floor punching her, abusing her continuesly.
"Don't you ever talk about my fiance like that Beth! Do you understand me?" He screamed at the helpless woman.
"Yes." She managed to choke out. His fist slammed into her jaw and she squealed in pain. She dug her nails into his arm kicking and screaming for him to let her go. "Stop please!" She begged. He threw he into the wall letting her droop down to the floor and cry. He began walking towards the bathroom.
"By the time I get back here Beth you better be gone, or else." He threatened her. He walked into the bathroom and shut the door. Beth lied there whimpering for a few moments until she heard the shower start. She crawled over to her pile of clothes and slipped them on. She grabbed her keys and purse and walked downstairs. When she reached the door she sniffled once or twice before opening it and leaving the big house.
x-x-x
Maria hung up the phone and looked down silently. Emily must've heard her end the conversation because she was like a little kid asking if they could go to the store to get some gum within one second.
"Well, well, well, well? Are they coming are they coming are they coming?" Emily questioned. She had appearantly pushed too many of Maria's buttons because the next thing she knew Maria just snapped.
"Shut up Emily! Gosh why do you always have to be a bratty noisy obsessive Bitch!" Maria screamed at her friend.
"Whoa! Don't get mad at me because Jeff doesn't actually love you cause your such a skank! Oops i mean slut!" Emily retorted. She soon regretted what she said when she saw the tears forming in her friends eyes. She had actually hurt her this time. But it wasn't like she expected it to hurt. "Ri-ri i'm sorry. I didn't mean it. I mean I wouldn't have said it if you hadn't have said what you said. It hurt me just as much as that hurt you." Emily said staring her friend in the eyes to know that she was listening and not ignoring her. Maria nodded and then voices began flowing into the room. The two girls turned around and watched as their other friends began walking around them and setting down their stuff. Maria obviously didn't feel like staying because she got up and began packing her stuff up. "Where are you going ria?" Emily asked her. She didn't answer. "Oh c'mon your not still mad are you?" She yelled out after Maria as she left.
"Nope." Maria simply said. Emily just stared and shrugged turning back around to her other friends as Maria's little sister Janny came and sat beside her.
"Hey Em! What's up?" Janny asked her.
"Nothing much what about you sister girl?" Emily asked her crazy blonde haired friend.
"Oh just arguing with Chris." Janny said and then she sipped on her smoothie.
"What he still thinks that you like him?" Emily asked.
"Yea." Janny answered.
"Why won't he just accept the fact that one girl doesn't like him?" Emily complained.
"Because i do like him." Janny giggled. Emily shook her head at her friend in meer disbelief.
"What? He's really REALLY cute." Janny obsessed.
"He's related to Jeff." Emily said with a hint of disgust.
"Well Jeff may be fugly to you, but he and Chris are pretty darn sexy to me. And yes chica i mean sexy spelled S.E.X.Y." Janny said. "I mean Jeff's eyes are so adorable. Chris' eyes are so oceany and quiet, but not as quiet as Jeff's." Janny raved on and on about the two guys for a few more minutes until Emily took her slushi and poured it in her mouth so she couldn't talk.
"That's better." Emily said smiling.
x-x-x
Maria walked inside her house and began upstairs. When she reached her room she heard the shower running. She walked around the room frowning at the mess. The bed was a mess, stuff turned over and the tv was on.
"Hmmm note to self never leave him home alone again." Maria sighed. She pulled on some short gray sweat shorts and a white tank top and threw her hair up into a messy ponytail and began cleaning. She pulled the sheets off the bed just as the water stopped. Taking them into the laundry room she started washing them.
Jeff walked into the room with a towel around his neck and another one around his waist. Steam was let out of the bathroom as he did so. He noticed something strange, the room was clean the tv was off and the sheets were gone. He heard footsteps behind him and he turned around to see Maria standing in the doorway just looking at him.
"So uh why did you sound like you didn't care about me over the phone mister?" She asked. Instead of answering her he just looked away and ignored her. "Oh what so now your ignoring me?" She asked him. Jeff turned and looked at her.
"What?" He said.
"You heard me now answer the question." She demanded. Jeff was quiet at first.
"I was busy." He said pulling on some dressy black pants over his boxers.
"Busy with what messing up the house." She said stepping closer to him.
"...No, but I was messing." He admitted.
"Messing with what?" She asked him.
"Messing around with dumb mofos." Jeff said putting on a blue button up dress shirt. He buttoned up three leaving two unbuttoned. He handed her a pair of hooped studded earrings. She sat on the bed causing him to have to sit and she put them in for him and when finished she turned him towards her. He could see the question and hurt in her eyes and it pained him.
"Do you love me?" She asked him. There was a small silence.
"Yes. You know i love you." He told her. He watched her as she scanned his eyes searching for the truth. "We need to talk." He sat her down in his lap and held her and then he sighed. "Maria...I don't know how to tell you this...fuck scratch that yes I do, Maria i'm cheating on you." He said. Maria was so shocked she fell out of his lap and onto the floor. She covered her mouth in total surprise. "Baby?" He asked.
"Baby?" She questioned. "BABY! Don't you ever call me that again Jeff !" Maria screamed.
"I'll call you whatever I want to call you and don't talk back to me. The last person who did that went home a litte...hurt." He threatened simply.
"Well "the last person" wasn't your gf for 11 years and they was never your fiance!" Maria screamed. Just then she slapped as hard as she possibly could which was appearantly hard enough. Jeff held his redended cheek and looked at her like she was crazy. He grabbed her by the throat slamming her into the wall. She gasped for air desperately trying to breath. She shut her eyes and felt his grip loosen completely. She lied on the floor crying softly. She screamed at him.
"Shut up Maria!" He warned. She reached for him grabbing his hair since he wasn't standing it made him more reachable. She grabbed his hair tighter making him yell. He was about to beat her when he noticed that she was only trying to hug him. It was strange, but he didn't refuse. She cried in his arms as he just sat there wandering what she was up to. He couldn't place his finger on it, but he knew it was something.
"Why?" She finally asked. "Why don't you actually love me. I gave you what you wanted, a son. My virginity. My life. My promise to spend the rest of my life with you. I gave you everything and you go and ruin it Jeff you just ruined it! ...I can't believe you, I just can't believe you!" She cried. He sighed wishing he had never went to Beth. He picked up the crying woman and took her into the bathroom. He sat her on the counter and ran some water in the bath. He poured some bubble bath in the water feeling to make sure it was warm. He went back towards her.
"Come here Ria." He said gently. To his surprise she came. He looked at the mark around her neck the mark he placed there. "Ok just don't be scared." He told her as he removed the wife-beater. He then removed her bottoms and underclothing and set her in the warm water full of scented bubbles. He watched as she put her hair up in a messy bun. She looked at him in a sort of wanting manner. He raised his eyebrow in question.
"Candles. Strawberries and chocolate." She told him. He went downstairs and retrieved the edibles and came back into the bathroom and opened a cabnient and took out three vanilla scented candles and a lighter. He set the candles around the tub and lit them as she opened the snacks and placed them next to her. He went and dimmed the lights so the candles would glow. He went and sat back next to her and she kissed him. He guessed it was her way of saying thank you. He smiled at her and went back into the room and shut the door and began deciding on what shoes to wear he decided to wear some black boots. He grabbed his leather jacket and stopped when he thought he heard someone calling his name.
"Jeff!" It was Maria. He went back into the lightly lit room and gave her a questioning look. "I forgot the champagne and vodka." She said smirking towards him. He rolled his eyes and went back to the cabinient and pulled out a bottle of champagne and vodka and a glass. He set it next to her for her to do whatever she pleased with.
"Anything else?" He asked.
"Nope, you may go now, but please don't hurt me and don't be gone long." Maria said with pleading eyes.
"I promise, but when you get out if you decide to take a cat nap just remember that Caleb should be coming back home within the aisle of 2 hours." He told her.
"K, now go have fun." She said. He smiled messing up her hair more than it already was and he left the room. Maria poured some champagne and vodka into the glass and took a sip and smiled happily to herself.
x-x-x
Emily was in her house getting dressed for her special time. It was when she went out and had loads of fun doing random yet classically fun things. Like going to dinner, shopping, to the park, but with all this fun she couldn't help but think about the one person she wanted to spend it with, but couldn't. His name was Alec Ramirez and he was the smexist dude alive...well to Emily he was. They've known each other for at least 10 years now. They met through Maria. Maria and her sister Janny have a big brother named Randy and they all have a cousin who is hint hint wink wink nudge nudge Alec.
She liked him instantly it was almost like love at first sight. She was wearing a short black backless dress with a green bow and some green stilettos. Her longish-shortish brunette hair was straight and back. She finished the last of her make up right when the phone rang. She put her eye-shadow back into the make-up bag and picked it up.
"Hello?" She answered.
"Hey, Emily." A voice said from the other line.
"Alec!" Emily said surprised. "Hi, what's up?" She asked blushing.
"Not much just wanted to call and see what you were doing?" He told her.
"Oh not much just getting ready for special time!" She said excitedly.
"Um special time?" Alec asked confused.
"Yea its when I dress up all fancy like and go out and have dinner go shopping and go to the park. I find it really fun." She explained to the dark brown haired man on the other end of the phone.
"Oh really sounds fun. Mind if I tag along?" He asked.
"Really?" She asked him.
"Yea I've got nothing else to do so I choose hanging out with one of the coolest girls I know." Alec said. Emily blushed harder.
"Uh sure then you can tag along." She answered trying to hold back a scream.
"Thanks Em see you in a few then. Bye." Alec said then he hung up. Emily hung up the phone and squealed to herself. Maybe dreams did come true.
x-x-x
Ashley Hardy was hanging out with her two brothers at club zen where Akon had gotten arrested yes. She hadn't seen them in a while so she decided to call them up and find out about tonight.
"So Jeffero how's Ria doing?" Chris her twin brother asked his big brother.
"Eh shes alright." Jeff answered his brother.
"And what about Caleb?" Ashley asked him.
"He's the same a little home resistant, but he's just fine." Jeff said. Caleb didn't like staying at home much that is unless his friends were over. He liked his home a lot, but he had no one there to hang out with so it got pretty boring some times.
"Thats great!" Chris said.
"I know it is, now what about my girls baby sister Chris." Jeff asked.
"What do ya mean?" Chris asked confused.
"Oh c'mon now Christopher. I think its pretty obvious that your still trying to get with Janny." Ashley stated.
"More like trying to hook up with her." Jeff said.
"So not true guys. I don't need Janny. I can move on anytime I want...or not." Chris said. He put his head down on the counter top of the club bar. "Guys I can't get her off my mind. She's so awesome. And she has really great hair too!" Chris added. "But the point is I know she loves me and I love her, but she just won't give it up! I've tried so hard, but i've gotten nowhere." Chris complained even more.
"Just chill bro. Look Janny's supposed to be coming over tommorrow so that her and Maria can spend some time together alright, I'll just ask her she feels about you then ok." Jeff said he took a sip of his henasin.
"Alright, but then what is that gonna do?" Chris asked.
"If she doesn't like you nothing! If she does like you then put the hardy charm on her just like Jeff did to Maria and she'll be like puddy in your hands Chris." Ashley said smirking it up.
"Alright then i'll do it!" He said. They all did a toast a drank the rest of their drinks. Laughing at each others jokes and stories. Yea hanging out with her brothers was the life.
x-x-x
Emily laughed as Alec did an impression of squid ward from spongebob. He was beyond hilarious.
"Wow! That was the best impression I have ever seen in my entire life." Emily complemented.
"Really?" Alec asked.
"Totally. U do squidward's part better then he does his own part!" She laughed. Alec laughed too which made her blush. They were eating a nice moon lit dinner outside on the patio of the restaurant. It was cool and there were stars in the sky everywhere. It was just perfect. So beautiful and elegant. All she needed to do was keep it that way which was apart of her worst fear. Messing it all up.
"So other than these special times what else do you do in your spare time?" He asked.
"Well appearantly I act like a groucy young female. Ya know the word that starts with the letter after the letter A ends in an Itch." Emily said a little dissappointed.
"Who told you that?" He asked.
"Maria." Emily admitted.
"Well screw her and I don't think you act that way." Alec said smiling cupping her chin making her look at him.
"Your really sweet." Emily said smiling at him.
"And so are you." He told her.
"...I should pobably get going now so uh thanks for everything and I'll see you later." Emily said. She began getting up until he stoppd her. To her surprise he kissed her.
"Hopefully." He said smiling. Emily blushed redder and redder. Then with one last wave and good-bye she left.
Maria was sleeping peacefully all relaxed and refreshed. Caleb was sure to be home by now. Matter-of-fact he was. He was sleeping though. He decided he was tired. Jeff came inside quietly hoping not to wake etheir one of them. He slipped out of the boots, the earrings, the jacket, the shirt, and the pants. He was like most men who slept in their boxers. He slipped in under the covers and turned off the headboard light. He was tired. It was definitely time for him to go to sleep. Soon he was there to a peaceful sleep.