Chapter 12

Mid-Season Finale

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Ricky POV

We get to the party, and I find the nearest couch to sit down and chill. Jack says, "The whole point of this party was to mingle and for us to find someone new. Like both of our ex's has."

I say, "I don't know about you, but I'm getting my ex back."

Jack says, "Okay and this is the way to do that. You need to make her jealous and then she will come back."

I say, "I'm not so sure about your logic."

Jack says, "Loosen up man, why don't you try some of the punch? You can't even taste or smell the alcohol."

I say, "Why don't you go off and do your thing?"

Jack says, "Like I said I need a wing man, I don't want to look like a loser."

We go and have a few cups of punch, talk some sports stuff and Jack is scoping out the place for a new hottie. Some hot blonde girl comes up and introduces herself to us, "Hi, I'm Sarah Fields."

Jack says, "Oh this is your house, I'm Jack I play football with your brother Matt. He invited me to the party."

Sarah says, "Well welcome to the party!"

She looks at me and says, "And what's your name sexy?"

I say, "My name is Ricky."

She says, "Very nice to meet you, I have a thing for dark chocolaty brown eyes."

I'm tipsy and I think, "What the hell might as well have some fun while we are here anyways"

I say, "Oh yeah, what else do you have a thing for?"

She laughs and says, "Sexy guys named Ricky."

I laugh.

she says, "Where is your cell phone, so you can save my phone number?"

I check my pockets for it and can't find it.

I say, "I can't find my phone; I will be back in a little while."

I say to Jack, "Dang it, I can't find my cell phone. I wonder if I dropped it in your truck."

Jack and I go outside and check for my phone and once I find it, I see one missed call from Amy with a voicemail.

She said, "I'm calling you from work, one of the ladies baby was sick so I had to come in. John wanted to stay the night at my Mom's with Robbie and Ashley. I was just making sure that was okay with you. Or you can pick him up if you want."

After listening to her voicemail I call Amy back. Once she answers, "Thanks for the late notice, you know I appreciate your Mom being kind enough to help out but every time John stays with her or George, he gets off schedule."

Amy says, "I'm sorry Ricky, I had to go into work. It was late notice and I was in a hurry. You could just pick him up; it's not a big deal."

I say, "I can't."

She says, "Why not Ricky?"

I say, "I'm at a party with Jack and I've been drinking a little bit."

She says, "Okay well it shouldn't be a big deal if he is off schedule for one night. Why are you out drinking? You hate alcohol. "

I get angry and say, "Amy I'm not my parents! I should be able to have a couple drinks and not become an abusive drunk. I would never drink when I have John."

Amy says, "I know Ricky, I wasn't saying you would. I was just concerned because that was your preference. I just wanted to make sure you were okay, I didn't mean to offend you."

I say, "You don't need to worry about me, I'm fine Amy."

Amy POV

I'm at work and I can't stop worrying about Ricky, I hope he isn't drinking because he is sad or depressed about something. I'm also upset because I haven't heard from Jay since I texted him and told him I had to cancel our date tonight because I had to come into work. After my last table it is just Kayla and I here now. We wash the tables, sweep, vacuum, refill all of the sugar packets, and refill the salt shaker and pepper.

After work Kayla says, "Sarah is throwing a party because her parents are out of town; let's go change at my house before we go!"

I say, "I don't know, I haven't heard from Jay. I was going to call and see what's up and if he wanted to come over and watch a movie."

She says, "Come on Amy, he hasn't responded. Maybe he is busy working late."

I say, "Fine, let's go!"

We go to her house to get ready; I borrow one of her dresses because I didn't bring extra clothes.

Kayla wears the blue Sweet Lace Cutout Dress from Forever 21.

I choose a plain black dress and she says, "Oh come on, you can find something hotter than that, Let me choose it for you"

I say, "Fine, not to revealing though."

She chooses for me to wear the Scuba Knit Leopard Bodycon Dress from Forever 21, with some black Studded Peep Toe Platforms. After we finish getting ready we head to the party.

I say, "Thanks for letting me borrow your outfit; you have good taste in clothes."

She says, "No problem girl!"

We get to the party and we look for Sarah but don't find her, so we go out backwhere there is more music and lots more people.

Kayla says, "There she is, she is talking with that hot guy in the corner."

I look and see Sarah talking to Ricky, My Ricky.

I say, "I can't go over there. That is my ex-fiancé, John's father."

Sarah spots Kayla and I, she waves us to come over there. Ricky and I make eye contact and I look away.

We go over there and Sarah introduces us to Jack and Ricky, "This is my best friends from work, Kayla and Amy!"

Jack says, "Hey Amy. Nice to meet you Kayla!" He eagerly shakes her hand.

Ricky shakes Kayla's hand and says, "I'm Ricky, nice to meet you."

She says, "Nice to meet both of you."

Kayla whispers something into Sarah's ear. I don't think on purpose but Sarah says out loud, "Omg that's Amy's Ricky."

Sarah laughs and says to Ricky quietly, "I'm strictly Hoe's before Bro's, you fall into the look but can't touch category. Ex's of my friends are off limits. It was fun chatting with you though."

Ricky says, "I understand, yes it was fun chatting with you."

Jack says, "I'm nobodies ex!"

Kayla laughs and says, "In that case why don't you dance with me?"

Once they leave, talk about awkward, it's just the three of us here.

A couple of random guys come over, and one asks Sarah to dance. She happily accepts his request.

The other guy asks me, "Want to dance?"

I say, "No, I'm okay thank you."

He puts his hand on my waist pulling me to him and says, "Come on ma?"

Ricky gives him a shove, gets in his face and says, "Back off man, she said she doesn't want to dance!"

The guy quickly leaves.

I say, "Thanks Ricky."

He says, "No problem."

I say, "If you really like Sarah, I can tell her that I don't mind if she dates you?"

He looks at me almost hurt, "Would you even mind?"

I say, "Yes, of course but I don't want to be selfish."

He says, "Since when?"

I say, "Ouch."

I start to walk away and he says, "Wait, don't go. I'm sorry. Let's dance?"

I say, "Fine."

We start dancing and a few minutes into dancing my phone goes off.

I get a text from Jay, "I thought you said you were at work?"

I text him back, "I was but now I'm off work now."

I don't get a message back, so we continue dancing.

A few minutes later, someone comes over to us. It's Jay and he's pissed, he grabs my arm a little roughly and says, "I need to talk to you!"

Ricky says, "You need to calm down and take your hand off her!"

Jay says, "Who the hell are you to tell me what to do?! I'm not going to hurt her! I was just grabbing her arm to get her attention! "

I say, "Jay. let go of my arm, we can go inside and talk."

We walk inside and Ricky is following a ways behind. The party has moved to the back yard so we have our privacy inside.

Jay didn't see Ricky follow us inside but he is in the corner watching us. I know Ricky doesn't trust him and just wants to make sure he doesn't hurt me, so I don't say anything about him following us inside.

Jay yells, "What the hell is going on?!"

I start to cry, "Don't yell at me, after work Kayla wanted me to come to Sarah's party with her."

Jay says, "I get that Amy, Why are you here dancing and drinking with your ex?!"

I say, "I haven't had anything to drink! I didn't even know he was here! How did you even know I was here?!"

Jay says, "You are my girlfriend, I don't trust people with things I care about. I have Ryan from my security team look after you from time to time. He said you were at an unfamiliar house at a party talking and dancing with some guy!"

I yell, "You have some security guy stalking me without even asking me?!"

Jay says, "If it keeps you safe, I don't care!"

I say, "Safe from what?! Ricky would never hurt me."

He yells, "Not just him, anyone! Do you have something going on with your ex still?! I need to know right now!"

I yell, "No!"

Jay says, "Fine, let's go. I'm taking you home!"

He is so pissed off that I'm afraid to say anything but to submit to what he wants me to do. Once we get to his car, his driver opens the door for us and we get in.

The whole drive home we don't say a word.

Before I get out of the car I say, "I don't want your security guys following me around ever again Jay?!"

He says, "Too bad Amy, I don't care if you don't want that! If you want to break up with me then you can but until then, Ryan will be looking out for you!"

I say, "Fine be an asshole! Call me when you want to be reasonable!"

Jay says, "Don't you disrespect me, I don't call you names."

I get out of the car and slam his car door.

Jack POV

Hanging out with Kayla has been awesome, she is gorgeous and sweet. We danced for a few songs, now we are on the front porch swing where we have exchanged phone numbers and can get to know each other better.

I say, "So tell me more about yourself?"

She says, "My parents are crazy and still together, I have one younger sister. She is like 5 years younger than me but she is like a spitting image of me. She copies everything I do."

I say, "That is cute."

She laughs and says, "Kind of, I'm playing college volleyball. I love sports, all sports! I work at a bar/restaurant part time. I always wanted to be a professional volleyball player but I'm going to school to do my basics and kind of figure out if there is anything else I would want to do."

I say, "That's awesome; we have a lot in common. Well I don't play volleyball but I'm a football player. I love sports and I'm doing my basics and if football doesn't end up being my career, I will figure it out. My father passed away but I have my mother and step father, they are great."

She says, "I'm so sorry about your dad."

I say, "It is okay, it was a long time ago. I mean it sucks but it gets easier with time. Not easier but life moves on because you have to move on. I believe I will see him again; I'm a Christian as well. "

She says, "I'm Christian too. We go to the Baptist church. I've only had one boyfriend before because I have always been real focused on school and sports. We went out last year, my senior year. He was a soccer player and decided to go to college in Florida to live near his Dad. That's why we broke up."

I say, "Sorry about your break up. I've had a couple girlfriends, only one serious one. I guess it just didn't work; we just wanted to move on. I guess you get older and want different things."

She says, "Oh don't be sorry, I guess they just weren't meant for us."

I ask, "Would you like to go to dinner with me tomorrow night?"

She smiles and says, "I would love too! Afterwards at 8:30 a bunch of us from the youth in our church go to the memorial park where they have the sand volleyball court that stays lit up until midnight, would you like to join me after dinner? "

I say, "That sounds amazing! I would love to do that."

Adrian POV

The following day after Omar's proposal…

My mom went back to California today because I'm doing a lot better and the majority of my memories have come back. After making dinner together and enjoying our meal, Omar and I make love for the first time since the accident. Afterwards I take a shower and get into my Pajama's. I walk into our room and say, "Do you want to watch a movie or something?"

I look over and Omar has my cell phone in his hand.

He says, "You have been texting Ben behind my back?! When you were in the shower he asked if you guys were still on for lunch tomorrow."

I'm so upset I don't even know what to say.

Omar says, "I texted back that you couldn't make it."

I say, "Omar, just because we are engaged doesn't mean you have the right to go through my phone. I know you don't want me hanging out with Ben but I need to talk to him about some stuff. You will have to trust me."

Omar says, "Fine Adrian, let's just go to bed."

He turns out the light on the night stand and moves further away on the bed. He sleeps on his side so that he isn't facing me. I get in bed and face the other way so I don't have to face him.

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