When the night of the dinner came, everyone was nervous, especially Peter because he was afraid he'd end up killing the guy. He kept moving around everything, and whenever anyone asked why he was doing this he just said it was because he wanted it to look nice for his castmates but in reality he wanted Kelly to be impressed by his house.
Melinda was also a bit afraid but nervous too because she didn't know Kelly's fiancé yet. What if he is really bad? Should she tell Kelly? On the one hand she kept asking herself questions like these and on the other hand she couldn't wait for the dinner at Peter's house.
Kelly was nervous of what her friends thought of David. They had to like him, after all there was nothing wrong with him. But still she was scared they'd still judge her for marrying him. She'd never admit to anyone how much Peters opinion meant to her.
Both Melinda and Kelly with their partners made tracks to Peter's house now since it was almost 8 pm. Peter finished off his last preparations before his doorbell ringed.
"Hey guys!" Peter said as he greeted Melinda, her husband Steve, Kelly, and David. He wanted to stand there a bit longer and look at what kind of guy David was, but he couldn't just leave them standing on the porch so he figured he would figure him out later. Right now he decided to focus on how beautiful Kelly looked in her red Versace dress.
Melinda, Steve and David already walked in and were welcomed by Peter's wife. The only one still standing on the porch was Kelly. "Hey... Peter" she said smiling and her heart beated faster.
"Wow, Kelly...you look beautiful" was all Peter could say. Kelly blushed and said a quite thank you before walking inside. Peter soon followed and started having a conversation with Steve, while David, Melinda and Kelly talked.
"So you're my fiancée's colleague..." David stared at Melinda for a while. "Well, nice to meet you" he said a bit cold and then gave her his hand.
"Um...yes…yes I am" Melinda faltured as she offered her hand back. She couldn't believe he was so cold..she definitely didn't expect Kelly with someone like this. "And you must be David, it's so nice to finally meet you" Melinda said, trying to be nice, even though she just wanted to glare at the man.
"Yes.. obviously I am David or is there another David around?!" he smiled and Melinda immediately knew that his smile was fake. David looked around in Peter's house and he scrutinized everything closely.
"This is a...nice house...it's...cozy." David said with a smug look on his face that Melinda just wanted to slap off. Melinda also couldn't believe Kelly was letting him talk to her about about Peter this way, her liking for the man as going farther down by the second. As Peters wife came out and announced dinner was ready David just grabbed Kelly's arm and led her out without so much as a goodbye from either of them.
Melinda was under the impression that David was no way a nice guy. Her assumption was proved true: David was just a stuck-up and rich man... She had the suspicion that he might take advantage of Kelly. No, it wasn't just a suspicion, it had to be taking advantage of. She saw it the way he walked away with her.
He led her to the table like a owner leading his dog with him. She wanted to tell Kelly but she knew there was no way she'd take it well. So maybe she'd talk to Peter and Steve later. All while Melinda, David and Kelly were chatting, Steve and Peter were talking about David as well.
David didn't feel comfortable. He knew they all were talking about him. "Honey...I..." he looked at the faces. "I don't feel comfortable here." He whispered.
"Why not?" she asked innocently, She didn't see her friends judging her and David since they walked in the door. " I just don't feel comfortable here anymore and I think we should go home." David said, already walking past her and out the door without so much as a goodbye to anyone. Kelly didn't have much of a choice but to leave as well so she said a quick goodbye as she past everyone.
"Kelly wait!" Peter shouted. "Excuse me" he said to Melinda, Steve and his wife. Then he stood up and ran behind Kelly. "Where are you going? We've just started eating dinner... you can't walk away now."
"David wants to leave..I have to go...I'm sorry about dinner, I really am." and with one last sad look behind her she walked out the door. And as Peter heard the car drive away his opinion, and everyone elses for that matter, was cemented in stone. This guy was a class A asshole.
Everyone started talking about David's behaviour. "Oh man, that dude is really an ass!" Steve said and Paula, Peter's wife, nodded. Peter now knew that it would have been totally ok to kill this guy since he treated Kelly like dirt.
Melinda couldn't believe her best friend just let him control her like that. "Peter...what are we going to do?" Melinda said with a sad look on her face. "I don't know, but didn't you say he's been married two times before?" Peter said. Melinda just nodded. "Well, if this guy is as rich and snobbish as he looks than there should be some information on him..I say we look some stuff up about him and confront Kelly about it."
"You two really want to interfere like that?!" Paula asked. "Yea, honey, we have to do so because Kelly won't notice herself cos love is blind." He turned to Melinda again "So what about looking up something about him on the internet?"
Melinda just nodded and went off to one of Peter's studies to go online. Peter turned to his wife who was giving him a strange look. "Honey, you saw how that guy acted in front of us, just imagine what he may be like when no one else is around." Peter said begging his wife to understand. "Peter! I can not believe you just insinuated that! You know no matter what Kelly would never ever let a man treat her like that." Paula said raising her voice.
"I know Kelly better than you do! She would let a man treat her like that if she's really in love with him. Just believe me!" Peter said raising his voice too. Paula stared toneless at her husband. Peter never thought that his wife and him would pick a quarrel because of Kelly but Kelly meant so much to him, his wife didn't know.
Just as Paula was about to say something else Melinda walked in with a very upset look on her face. Steve, who had stayed silent through Peter and Paula's fight went over to his wife immediatily to see what was wrong. "Sweetie what's wrong?" Steve said hugging his wife. "I read some stuff on how he treated his second wife, it didn't say much about the first but alot about the second. He treated her so bad she had to be hospitalized. He also served her with divorce papers three hours after she gave birth to their son." Melinda said looking down to the floor, she was too shocked to say anything else.
"Oh..My..God" was all Peter could say. He was boiling with rage. "I have to warn Kelly!" he said. He grabbed his car keys. "What do you have in mind?" Melinda asked. "I..I have to go!" Peter just said, then stood up and went to his car.
"Peter wait!" Melinda yelled and grabbed Peter's arm. "She's never going to listen to you right now, plus, she's with David and he'll just somehow discredit you. Let's wait and try to think rationally because i know your not right now." Melinda said still holding tight on his arm. Peter sighed and hung his head low, he knew he wasn't thinking straight but just the thought of the same thing happen happening to Kelly made him boil with anger.
"But.. what if he hits her? What if he hurts Kelly??" Peter said softly. Paula gazed at him very evil. "You just have Kelly in mind, Peter! Kelly here and Kelly there!" Paula said raising her voice and then walked away. Peter didn't follow her but went to his PC again to search for more information.
Melinda knew Peter had a major crush on Kelly, and it was especially obvious after his mini-freak out tonight. "Peter..go apologize to Paula, I know you care about Kelly but there is nothing else to find on the computer and your wife should come first." Melinda said softly.
"Well, it's just that... you know, Kelly and me, I really care about her." Peter said pensive. "But you're right I think I should go apologize." Peter went upstairs to see where his wife was. "Paula? Where are you?" Then he saw her sitting on their bed.
"I understand that you care about her, you've known her for five years, but I'm your wife, and I also understand you want to protect her from this guy, if he is trouble..and believe me if he really does do something, I will fully support you wanting to help her. But obsessing over it right now isn't good for any of us." Paula said looking Peter in the eye, her eyes full of emotion.
"I know honey." He took her hand, then looked her in the eye again. "I'm sorry for what happened." He didn't say anything for a minute. "But it's great that you'd support me." He smiled at her.
She smiled back. "I swear to you, if anything happens that suggests she is being mistreated in any sort of way I give you full premission to obsess. But until then just support her decision."
"Thank you sweetie, you don't know how much that means to me. This kinda makes me realize I've been taking our marriage for granted...I could have easily ended up with a total bitch!" Peter said with a smile and walked out of the room.
He went to Melinda and Steve again. "Did you apologize?" Melinda asked. "Yea I did." Peter said smiling. "Okay then." Melinda still searched for some more information when Peter was with Paula but she didn't find anything new. "I guess we should wait till we see David and her again to see whether he mistreats her in any way or not. If he does so, we'll come up with what we've found out, okay?"
"Okay, we'll just keep an extra eye on her the next couple weeks at work, but don't let her know, because most likely she won't like it at all judging on how she reacted yesterday." Peter said. The three chatted for awhile on random things, like work and their kids until Melinda and Steve announced they had to go relieve their babysitter and left.
