Chapter Two: I say Yes, you say No, and the old man says Whoa

PG-13

"No, no, no, no, no way!" Adam exclaimed as he ran an almost shaky hand through his brown hair. Kendall leaned back in his office chair with a grin, she crossed her arms over her chest and tilted her head back.

"Something wrong dear?" She asked, knowing good and well what the answer would be. Her plan was less than to be desired, in his terms anyways. But when you really look at it she was just be fair. After all she devoted seven years of her life to him, as did he. Another year would be a piece of cake.

"I can not believe you actually have the nerve to ask me that." Adam snapped, pressing his hands on his hips as he looked at her. "I can't believe you have the nerve to blackmail me into marrying you!"

Kendall laughed as she stood. "My darling Ad-dumb, oh you kill me." She said shaking her head.

"Oh if only I could." Adam said laughing along with her, but almost in a serious tone. Kendall cocked her head at him.

"Trust me, if anyone dies in this relationship it won't be me, you can count on that." She told him with a grin. "Now back to my plan, I would love to know what is ever so hard about it."

Adam looked at her as if she was crazy. "Are. You. Kidding. Me?" He asked her as his mouth hung open slightly.

Kendall shook her head; it was amazing she put up with him so long being as dense as he is. "No. I mean, I didn't tell your brother-"

"Half brother."

"Half brother, god you are annoying, what our relationship was. It could work." Kendall said with shrug as she sat on the edge of his desk, crossing her legs. "Nobody would suspect a thing."

Adam shook his head. "No, no no."

Kendall nodded. "Yes, yes yes."

"So what? I am supposed to go to my dad and say 'Hey dad, guess what I never told you but I am engaged and the wedding is this week. Wanna meet my soon-to-be wife Kendall, who I love so much?'." Adam mimicked in a Leave it to Beaver tone.

Kendall laughed slightly. "Well I'd leave out the attidute but yeah. The reasoning could be was that you wanted you, him, and your siblings to have a better relationship before you told them, that way they would come because they liked you and not because they felt like they had too out of guilt."

Adam looked at her impressed, a small smirk formed on his lips. "You've thought about this haven't you?"

Kendall glanced away, smiling slightly. "Ever since you left and I realized you weren't coming back."

Kendall loved Adam, he was the man she wanted to have that almost happily ever after with. But when he left her, her heart was broken beyond repair. To make matters worse her big brother, the one man she could count on no matter what, had committed what the police ruled, suicide. Her mother was half way around the world, living in London with Kendall's aunt/her sister who was recovering was horrible burns due a laughing gas explosion in an amblance. Sure, she had her father's family but deep down they really didn't like her and she knew it.

"Back to my point Adam, in one years time, after we get married, you and I can get divorced. It won't be nasty I promise you that, my reasoning will be that we have Inreconiable Differences. If your family asks the indepth reason, I'm saying it's because you don't want to have kids and you are married to you job."

Adam looked at her, his face fell slightly. No doubt thinking about those seven years filled of the occausional fight about when they will have kids, or get married.

"C'mon, it's not like that isn't true. I doubt me and you will be getting busy during that time to have kids and Adam, let's face it, you've been a work-o-holic since I met you. I highly doubt once we get married that will change, if anything it will increase because you hate being around me." Kendall continued. Her arms were crossed over her chest, as her eyes fell to the floor at the thought. She knew she shouldn't care if he hated her or not, but the idea made her stomach seriously turn. Yet she'd burn to a crisp like her aunt before she ever told that weasel anything.

"Kens, no matter what you do me I couldn't hate you." Adam told her as he took one step towards her, taking her hand into his. She looked back up at him, unable to tell if he was just saying that or really meant it.

"What about what you did and do to me huh? I wish I could say that the feeling the was the same on the other end but I can't, even if knowing you really don't hate me... back to my damn point Adam. After a year we can get divorced and all you will have to do is give me seven-hundred-thousand dollars, or at least half a million." Kendall said softly, unable to say what she really wanted to say. If she was thinking with her heart, thinking as the Kendall she was back when she knew Adam really truly loved her and she loved him, she would have said how much it meant to hear him say that. In fact, if she was that Kendall she highly doubted this conversation would be going on, if anything she'd be begging him to take her back. But that Kendall was gone, and now the fighting bitch Kendall is here in her stead.

Adam looked into her eyes; she looked away, unable to stare back at him. "Kendall…" He softly began, as the office door opened.

An elderly looking man stood before them, a young black haired woman clanged to his arm. Kendall looked over at the pair and knew immediately who those two were.

"Victor, Sabrina. What are you doing here?" Adam asked a little surprised as he turned his head towards the pair.

Victor smiled at Adam as he and the young-bimbo stepped inside the office. "Well I was just about to get lunch with Sabrina, when we thought to come down here and drag you away to come eat something with us." Victor said with a laugh.

"But I see we were interrupting something." Sabrina added with a small smile.

Kendall returned the smile to Victor and Sabrina; her plan could start working if Adam played along. Yet suddenly she felt a knot in her tone stomach now that she was faced to face with the real people she was trying to fool.

Victor turned towards her, his eyes gave her a quick once over then he smiled warmly. Clearly approving, because he gave a quick wink to Adam.

"I see my son as been keeping something from his old man, eh?" Victor said with a small laugh, then he extended his hand. "I'm Victor Newman, Adam's father. It is a pleasure to meet…"

"My fiancée." Adam added quickly with a smile, before his father could finish his sentence. Kendall looked over at Adam, and smiled at him. He was going along with it after all, good boy. "Victor, Sabrina. This is my fiancée Kendall."

Sabrina let out a happy sigh. "That is wonderful, congratulations." She said, as Adam took Kendall's ring finger hand into his. As Victor stared, flabbergasted, at Kendall and Adam's faces, Adam slipped the ring his mother gave him on Kendall's finger before giving her hand a light squeeze.

No one noticed the quick little trick he did, and that knot faded away from her tone stomach as Kendall smiled warmly, her ego and confidence rising. "Thank you, my full name is Kendall Barrett by the way."

"I knew you looked familiar." Victor said, finally snapping out of his trance like state. "You're from that rich family in New York right? Uh, Ned's daughter right?"

Kendall smiled, but shook her head. "Umm, no actually. My father is Ned's cousin, Alan Jr., or AJ for short. Ned is my 2nd or so cousin but he was engaged to my mother when I born so it's kind of an awkward situation, that is way to long to explain." She said, alittle awkwardly with a slight laugh.

"Ah, I knew it. We saw Ed at a party in New York and he was gushing about his great granddaughter, then he started in about her bad choice in a man. If I knew he was talking about my Adam, I would have given him something to complain about." Victor said with a laugh. Kendall, Sabrina, and Adam all laughed all though Sabrina's seemed a bit fake to Kendall.

Kendall couldn't believe Victor actually knew who her family was; this would be horrible when she and Adam did get married. He'd invite them and they'd make another function dreadful, and possibly ruin this whole thing. Damnit all.

"How about we all go to lunch? I mean I would love to get to know my future daughter-in-law, well step-daughter in law." Sabrina said laughing slightly as she smiled, showing off her pearly whites.

Victor's lips transformed into a similar teeth bearing smile, which was more masculine. "I think that would be great. I've only heard what Ed told me about you, and I think it would be great to actually get to know the real you."

Kendall hid her nervousness and only smiled that much brighter. "I'd love to. Adam really didn't tell me much about you all, we were to...umm busy." She said with a small giggle at the end. Kendall turned her head towards Adam as she pulled her hand out of his grasp slightly. "Darling you can take a lunch break right?"

Adam's jaw tightened slightly, she knew he had to work on that proposal but god damnit all to hell she was not doing this by herself and she wasn't below begging and nibbling his ear!

She gave him a look, and Adam knew what it meant. His jaw relaxed and he smiled. "Of course, I can. We all have a lot to talk about." Adam said as he took a step away from Kendall as he grabbed his jacket.

"Yes we do my boy, starting with the fact you never told me you were engaged." Victor said as he put a fatherly arm around Adam's shoulder. "You can tell us all about it on the way to the club." He said with a smile, as Sabrina took Kendall's arm and tugged it along as the four hurried out Adam's office door.

Both had ideas of what to say. Yet the only problem was, would it be the same?

To Be Continued