Chapter 7: The Meeting

Griffin woke up and thought only an hour or two had passed, but the sun was gazing in the room. He couldn't remember most of last night. 'Drinking obviously.' Then it clicked. 'That's right. I was waiting for her and drawing them...' He sat up and saw his sketch book was open to the pictures he had drawn the night before. 'Hm. Not a half bad drunken artist.' Griffin smirked as he stood up, stretching.

He heard something along the line of a shower running, which abruptly stopped in seconds. 'Speaking of water, I want to wash my face.' He walked over to the door he had seen the girl walk out of the day before. Hesitantly, he opened the door. No one was in there. He looked around. It was a lavish bedroom. "What the hell?" he mumbled to himself when he saw the motorcycle in the room. He began towards it.

Someone from behind him cleared their throat. Griffin looked over his shoulder and turned around. Angela was standing next to the bed, hair dripping wet, and wearing nothing but a towel. She crossed her arms in front of her chest. Griffin couldn't help but let his eyes wander, but she stopped that real quick. "Excuse me," her accent sounded a bit cracked. "Get out and stop starin' at me," she gradually got louder as she spoke.

"Alright, sweetheart," he made sure he added sarcasm when he called her 'sweetheart'. 'Vicious, not sweet.' He stole another glance returned to the living room.

As Griffin saw down on the couch again, he heard Angela's voice from the other room. "Oh. Hey! I found David," she called.

Griffin smiled. "...And? What's your point?" 'Damn. I hope she can't see me smiling about this.' His smile faded away as she came into the room. Angela sat down beside him.

"You asked me to find him. And I did. He wants to meet up with ya," she looked over at him. His eyes met with hers and she instantly looked away.

"Where?" he leaned forward, trying to pry more information from her.

Her head whipped towards him. "It's obvious, isn't it? He wants to meet you where you first met. And I'm going along," she smirked at him with raised eyebrows.

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Angela saw the look on Griffin's face. A bored expression as he said, "Fine...But stay out of my way."

She quickly reached out and grabbed his arm, making sure he wouldn't jump away. "He won't fight you. So don't do anything stupid, twitchy," she glared at him.

He shook off her grip and grabbed her hand. "Alright, sweetheart." She felt herself blush a bit but made sure to turn her face to anger as he jumped.

She was standing next to Griffin behind a pillar in the Roman Coliseum. He had dropped her hand and walked around the pillar. Angela followed him and saw David standing there.

"Hey David," she smiled and forgot to add her accent.

Griffin looked over his shoulder curiously at her. "Where the bloody hell'd your accent go?"

'Shit. Stupid brain.' "I...uh..." she stuttered.'Is he mad? Can't really tell...'

Griffin rolled his eyes and turned back to David.

David stood with his hands in the pockets of the worn, grey, woolen jacket. "Griffin," he was looking at the ground. He looked up at Griffin. David's eyes looked at Angela for a split second, then back to Griffin.

'Was that agony? Is David okay?' He looked as if he was going to cry.

"I know I left you there. I was gunna come back-"

Griffin cut him off. "But ye didn't, David!" he yelled. Angela felt like the spotlight was on her now, as Griffin was pointing at her. "She's the one who helped me. Creepily, she was followin' us, but at least she helped me!" his hand dropped to his side and turned into a clenched fist.

'Its lovely weather we're having. Can you feel the tension?' Angela stepped forward, moving closer to Griffin. "Okay...Guys, I sorta have a proposition but," she sighed. "I'm not sure we'll agree to it..." 'Will they go for it?'

A/N: Sorry About the slow updating but my beta has been M.I.A lately. I've been relying on her to check it. Anyhoo, the story is coming along quite nicely. The fork in the story plot is ahead... I bet you'll all wonder what that will be. Heh. Reviews would be greatly loved!!