Episode 4

Somebody's Watching Me

Previously On: Balancing the Burromuerto

As a birthday present for her husband, Heather decides to compile a book full of "Her Best Selfies" for him to keep.

INTRO

Something that Alejandro left Heather responsible for was their finances. Sure, they were very well off, but she made sure that everything they purchased was discussed with one another.
That's why she was confused to see a purchase from a jewelry store, for a very expensive necklace.
"I mean it's not for me or else he would've said something!" Heather argues with her older sister, Amanda.

"How do you know it's not for you," Amanda asked as she leaned over the counter, still in town for her visit.

"Because Amanda, he would've told me!" she answers,"He tells me everything!"

"Jesus Heather," Amanda rolls her eyes, "haven't you ever had a present before? I swear sometimes you-," she rambles before suddenly stopping. She took a deep sigh as she looked at Heather, "why do you have that crazy look in your eye?"

"We are gonna investigate on this." she answers,"Go get changed."

Before Amanda knew it, she was enabling her sister by sitting in her own rental car outside Alejandro's office. "This is not normal.." Amanda simply says

BEGINNING OF CONFESSIONAL

"Sometimes my sister does crazy things," Amanda shrugs behind the green

screen. "Hell, you all saw her on Total Drama," she exclaimed, "when it come

Alejandro.. Heather gets even crazier than she normally is."

END OF CONFESSIONAL

"Hush, it totally is." she answers and watches as he exits the building while holding a wrapped box.
"He doesn't get off of work this early." Heather snaps.

"Maybe he's going to meet his mistress," Amanda joked sarcastically with her head on the passenger window. When she looked at Heather in the driver's seat she groans, "I was kidding," she shouts, "he's not cheating Heather!"

Well I want to figure out what the hell he is doing!" Heather starts the car and speeds off to follow him.

Amanda grips the safety handle the entire time Heather drove. The camera hidden in the car seeing the speed she was going by how fast the car hummed and the background went past.

"He doesn't drive this fast! He's definitely seeing someone Amanda!" she yells and goes faster.

"Yeah well I would drive fast is some weird woman in a car was following me too," Amanda says as they got off the interstate and took the exit Alejandro was.
The two girls followed Alejandro to the very prestigious flower shop. It looked like a plain store, but Heather and Amanda knew that this shop specialized in grand and eccentric bouquet of flowers

"What is he doing?" Heather asks, staring out the window,"Buying flowers..."

"Duh Heather," Amanda replies as Alejandro walked inside. "Look, let's just stay here and not do anything stupid like going look in his car, or-," Amanda starts to say. But once again, before she can finish Heather is out of the rental car and getting out the spare key of Alejandro's car that she owned. Amanda just rubs the bridge of her nose as she got out, and followed her.

"A wrapped box, cake, candy..." Heather lists off,"Amanda...he knows I don't like that kind of candy..." she slams the door and walks off.

"It's Reina's favorite type of candy," Amanda reminds her. Suddenly her eyes catch something in the center cup holder and grabs it, "Look, he left his phone," Amanda said, handing it to Heather.

Heather began to search through his phone, reading text messages between him and his parents. She got to 'crest' and heard Alejandro coming back and set the phone back downs sprinting off.

Thankfully Alejandro didn't see the two due to the giant bouquet of roses in front of his face as he approached the car. He set them on the hood as he opened the door, then gently placed them inside the car.
"See, roses," Amanda emphasized with a grin, "your favorite."

"We'll find out when he is home." Heather answers as they follow him back to the house.
"Hi honey." Heather smiles as she gets out of the car and hugs him,"What a surprise to see your handsome face."

"Hola amour," Alejandro smiled as he kissed her gently, "where have you two been?"

"We went down to the store for a bit what a coincidence that we got home at the same time." she smiles.

"Is this what you're wearing tonight.." Alejandro asked, causing Heather and Amanda to pause.

"Wear to where," Amanda piped up, not knowing either

"To our anniversary dinner.." Alejandro said. "Remember my parents picked up the kids and they'll be over there tonight, you and me have reservations at the sky lounge," he said, "because our actual anniversary is during our trip to Hawaii."

"N-No." Heather answers,"Let me get changed, I'll be quick."

Two hours later, Heather came downstairs in a gorgeous red dress with her hair flat ironed.

Alejandro smiled at his wife, holding the red roses she saw him buy earlier, "these are for you.." he gently smiles, kissing her forehead as he gave them to her.

"You're so romantic." she smiles, kissing him as she took the flowers,"They're beautiful."

"Now we have to hurry, the only reason why Reina is agreeing to be calm about not coming is cause I promised I would drop off her favorite candy to her before," he said, showing the box.

Before they left, Alejandro went to grab his watch from upstairs making Amanda smirk at her sister, "some cheater you have.." she said to Heather.

"Okay, so what if I was wrong?" Heather groans and sits down, feeling guilty,"He's such a good guy..."

"You need to stop being crazy," Amanda says, "alejandro loves you.."she promised. But suddenly Heather had her nose wrinkled up as she thought, "Ugh..what now."

"Where's the necklace then?"

"What," Amanda raised an eyebrow

"He bought a necklace, why hasn't he given it to me?" she asks.

"He might be waiting for dinner Heather," Amanda said, not wanting her sister to ruin her own anniversary dinner with her silly thoughts.

"No.. we give presents /before/ dinner," Heather said."

Before Amanda could calm Heather, Alejandro came down the stairs adjusting his watch. "Heather.. don't say anything stupid," Amanda demanded in a shushed whisper.

"Ready to go?" she asks with a smile and takes his hand.

"Yeah I just need to-," he trails off as he looks at Heather, noticing her forehead wrinkle out. The forehead wrinkle was never a good sign. "What's wrong.." he asked

"You bought something else, I saw while I was doing our finances." she crosses her arms,"It was expensive too."

Alejandro simply raised an eyebrow and looked at her, "so?"

"So, what is it?" she asks with crossed arms.

Alejandro gives a deep sigh as he rubbed the back of his neck, "Heather.." he tries to say, only to get interrupted by his wife who only grew even more suspicious on why he couldn't say what it was for.

"You didn't buy it for me, did you?!" she yells,"Just tell me! Rip the bandaid off and get it over with Alejandro!"

Alejandro stared at her strangely, "Of course its for you, who else would it be for," he asked?

"Then what is it?" she asks, her arms crossed

Alejandro went upstairs for a moment, and when he came back he was holding the wrapped present from earlier. "I was going to wait till we came home and give it to you," he says.

When Heather opened it up, she found a velvet necklace box. As she opened it, Heather saw on the inside lip of the box was neat gold calligraphy. All it simply said was "will you remarry me" above the beautiful diamond necklace

She covered her mouth for a second and looked up at him,"Alejandro...yes! Oh my god yes!"

Heather jumps into his arms and tackles him on the couch, repeatedly kissing him as they giggled like high school kids,"It's beautiful! Oh I love you so much!" she kisses him again and grins.

"See," Amanda said, "I told you that you shouldn't be so paranoid."

"You were paranoid," Alejandro asked as he looked at her, "about what?"

"I was just thinking about dumb things, but it doesn't matter anymore, we're getting remarried." she grins and hugs him again.

Alejandro stared at the camera for a moment before smiling and hugging his wife back.

BEGINNING OF CONFESSIONAL

"Heather doesn't normally rush to conclusions or get insecure about our relationship," he frowned. "The only time she thought that way was when she was.." he stopped speaking as he got lost in thought, his face going a bit pale. But he suddenly shook his head with a smile, "no uh.. she couldn't be, nevermind."

END OF CONFESSIONAL

"I was thinking we could do it in Hawaii.. renew our vows there since it's where we first said them," he proposed

Heather nods, wanting her children involved,"Reina can be the flower girl, and the boys can have the rings. Oh Alejandro it will be perfect." she grins and kisses him again. Alejandro kissed her back, the two getting lost in the moment.

"Yeah.. I think I'm just gonna..go," Amanda said as she walked out the door. She did not need to imagine what was about to unfold in the living room.