Sheri's story
I awoke the next morning full of anxiety, I searched around for my phone but couldn't find it anywhere. I knew I had it when I spoke to Logan yesterday. I smiled when I remembered that my incrdible Logan was to become a father to a little girl. He had grown up so much lately. Which was more than could be said for the main love in my life... Kendall.
A knock came to my door, I got out of bed and checked the state of my hair, it was a mess, but I wasn't in a mood to care. on looking through the peep hole I saw Antonio and chase.
"Morning." I said with a yawn as I opened my door up.
"Morning Sheriden." Chase said, as Antonio looked up to him like he was a goon speaking so formally all the time, I noticed he carried the duffel bag that held safias dress in that I would be wearing today.
"Chase is up to speed on what needs to be done so feel free to give him a slap if need be..." antonio said with a glint in his eye as he looked up to Chase again as he imagined the scene of me actually slapping a huge guy like that. I reached my hand up to see if I could even reach his face. I could but I don't think I would need to slap.
"I'm so nervous... this won't work and I'm going to fall flat on my face." I said feeling the butterflies creep in to my stomach.
Antonio sat in the seat that was in my room. "Sheri, straight up! You are a fucking drama queen, just get showered and dressed and lets get this thing done then you can be sipping margaritas with Kendall tonight tucked up in bed with him while Madeleine cries herself to sleep after having to sell her house or some shit. I have the contract releasing Kendall from his paisley duties all signed and sealed. We are set!" He said with a wink.
I nodded. "Good! You are right... get the fuck out of my room though, I'm not getting changed while you are in here... It's like undressing in front of my brother or something." I said then stopped as antonio looked at me with a smirk. He knew that Logan was my half brother and he knew that I was fully capable of undressing and doing a lot more with Logan if I wanted to. It dawned on me then that I did see Antonio as a brother figure, a proper brother figure. It was hard not to really. It was nice to be friends with a guy and not want to be romantically attached to him. The thought of doing anything sexual with Ant repulsed me and I would never be so stupid to risk the family life that Antonio and Carlos' dad offered me. I was happy for the first time since forever.
After the guys left my room I showered and dressed, meeting up with my two male companions again. We made our way to paisleys room, Chase knocked his specially coded tap but no answer came so he used the key card her had been given in emergencies and let us in, music played loudly in the room as paisley applied her makeup. Kendall seemed distant. That pissed me off. If he knew the lengths I was going to to help finish this shit between him and paisley then he would be kissing my ass, not giving me the cold shoulder.
I felt awkward, my eyes searched the room as I saw spare sheets on the sofa where Kendall had slept.
"You sleep okay?" I asked my boyfriend.
Kendall placed a hand on his back, letting me know he hadn't slept great but he smiled at me and showed his dimples off, making my heart melt. "It was... okay." He said with a laugh, easing the tension.
I walked towards him and wrapped my arms around his tiny waist. "We are okay aren't we baby?" I said to him while the other members of our group turned a blind eye to our affection.
Kendall nodded as he took my hand and led me in to the bathroom, directly we were in there he shut the door.
"I've needed to ask you the same question... sheri... you and Antonio... I need to know what's going on." He said looking a bit wired.
"Kendy, everything is fine for me, Antonio is just a friend... just like Paisley is to you yeah?" I said discreetly reminding him that he was in a more judging position seeing as he was actively dating another girl in the public eye.
Kendall nodded, then kissed me hard. His jealousy issues would never go away. My mind was then swept back to the first time I made love to Kendall, the lack of feeling he had in him was horrendous and I was glad that I had lost my virginity to James.
"I love you more than life." I said as I pulled away from his kiss and rested my forehead on his chest.
"I needed to hear that sheri... I really did." He said emotionally.
I looked up to his face, he looked like the weight of the world was on his shoulders. "You are okay aren't you? I shouldn't have to tell you that you can tell me anything because you should know that already baby." I said sternly to him.
"I know sheri... I just miss us. I love you." He said in a whisper.
"All that will change today, I promise. Madeleine wont know what's hit her." I said to him.
Kendall smiled. "What are you planning Sheri? You and Antonio, what are you both up to?" He asked.
"I dont want to put the kiss of death on it but all will be revealed very soon." I assured him.
"I trust you Sheri." He said with a smile. "You will look so beautiful on the runway, I'm proud that you are mine even if no one else knows it." He said folding his arms around me.
"I'm always going to be yours!" I smiled.
Kendall kissed me once more, this time was gentle and passionate. I lost myself in him for the first time in ages. That was untill a knock came to the door. "It's time to go guys." Said Chase from outside the bathroom.
Giving kendall one last hug before he had to join hands with paisley I reluctantly let go of the man of my dreams and walked out the bathroom. Paisley was already in her bitch persona it was going to be hard for me to get in to mine as I now felt full of so many emotions after having just a few precious moments with Kendall.
"Come on Sheri, lets go." Antonio said as he opened the door up and gestured for me to leave. It was a short walk down to where I would be showcasing a dress that would be finishing off Madeleine the bitch once and for all. I felt Antonio nudge me in the ribs as we walked up to the lady that sat behind a computer just inside the entrance, it was this lady that I had to distract so Antonio could manually change the name of the campaign, leaving the Petrelli range forgotten.
I looked at Chase who looked nervous, he was sweating and didn't look great. I doubt he was used to the silly tricks that I would get mixed up in, but dread filled my every bone as Madeleine then made an appearance next to me.
I rolled my eyes at the absolutely shit timing that she chose to make her entrance.
"Name and campaign?" said the lady behind the small pedestal style table that had the computer on as she waited for me to speak.
I looked at Antonio with my 'this is not fucking working' face
"Sheriden Lloyd... campaigning Petrelli." I said in a whisper, I felt like a stupid 12 year old girl that didn't have control of anything.
"Maddy can I talk to you quickly." Paisley then said as she and Madeleine walked over to the corner, she still held on to Kendalls hand tightly, dragging him everywhere she needed to go.
I turned to see the girl behind the computer looking at me waiting for me to move on.
"What the fuck are you looking at!" I said to her.
The shocked girl didnt know what to reply, I turned and saw Kendalls full attention on paisley.
"Can you stop this bitch from staring at me Chase!" I demanded from my newly appointed bodyguard.
"Miss Lloyd I think we should be moving on." Chase replied casually.
I pounded my hand on to Chase 's rock hard chest. "Don't you fucking tell me what I should be doing!" I hissed at him, the girl behind the computer now looking at us with interest as she watched the drama unfold.
"You are paid to do as you are told you over sized jack ass!" I said giving him an angry push.
"By miss petrelli, yes!" Was all chase replied calmly.
At this point all brain activity was now gone and no normal thoughts that could be used as a plan of action worked in my mind. The only card I had left to play was the worst one. I slapped Chase hard around the face. On seeing this, paisley cut her conversation with Madeleine short and marched over to me.
"Sheri! what the actual fuck?" She raged as she looked at me then looked at her closest friend in the entire world that had just been slapped for no reason by me.
"That delinquent giant was rude to me! I wont be spoken to like that! I'm Sheriden fucking Lloyd!" I spat at her.
Paisleys eyes looked like they might pop out of her head, she was confused and extremely angry at me, I could see her trying to work it out in her head why I would randomly slap Chase.
"Say sorry to him!" Paisley then demanded off of me. I looked at Antonio as ri saw the optimism glint in his eye.
I walked up to Chase, his blue eyes told me the story that I needed to do what I needed to do...
So I did it. Another great big slap left my hand and caught Chase right around his face, I could already see the glowing hand print left on his skin the second I lost contact with him. It felt from then that everything was going in slow motion, I saw paisley charge at me, she managed to get in a good tug at my hair before Kendall grabbed her and the woman from behind the desk dashed out in front of me as I tried to defend myself, I guess it might of looked like retaliation. Chase grabbed me as I then pretended to kick and scream, hurling a shit load of abuse at paisley. I saw in the carnage though that madeleine was stood away from it all with a smile on her face just watching the whole thing carry on.
"SHERIDEN!" I heard Antonio shout. "Sheri! Enough! Lets get you changed for the runway." He said taking my hand firmly and dragging me away. The look on kendalls face at what I had just done was awful but once I had a chance to explain to him and paisley I knew that everything would be okay.
"Did you do it? Did you change the campaign to creep?" I said in a haze as he marched me away.
"Of course I fucking did!" Antonio smiled.
Relief washed over me as I made my way to my dressing room.
"That wasn't quite the way I was expecting it to go down but we got the hardest part done. All you have to do now is flaunt that fucking dress Sheri." Antonio said as he pulled the dress from his duffel bag that he was lumbering around with him.
"Thank you ant... I mean that so much. We make a good team." I said feeling like I needed a good cry, I dreaded to think what paisley thought of me right now.
"That's what family is for huh." Antonio said as his perfect response.
"Do you know where my phone is?" I asked him as I looked through my purse for the hundredth time
"yeah you left it in my hotel room, I did mean to grab it before I left this morning but I forgot." He said as I unzipped the dress from the suit carrier.
I had forgotton how beautiful it was, it was a deep purple colour and showed every ounce of safias style that she possesed. The girl had a talent she didn't even know. I wondered what she would think if she knew her own design had made it's way to a new york run way.
Time ticked on, I had hoped that Kendall would come knocking but the only person that did visit me was Madeleine, I found it hard to hold my tongue after watching her just look on as she eyed paisley and ei wanting to tear each other apart earlier.
I smiled sweetly as she checked my hair and makeup was up to scratch. Antonio made her leave with him so I could get in to the dress that safia had made without her seeing, Madeleine was expecting me to wear a black thing that she had some budget designer make on her petrelli range. I on the other hand had spent a fair bit of money getting the design of safias made perfectly. Her dress was beautiful.
As the minutes slipped by and my time to shine came nearer and nearer I got more nervous, my hands shook as I waited back stage for one of the other girls to finish her turn I felt goosebumps appear all over my skin as I lost the ability to control my body temperature.
It was obviously the girls first time too at modelling as she came off very emotional and full of chit chat. "Oh my god that was amazing" she gushed.
I smiled at her as I felt my heart quicken. Nerves really set in as I heard an announcement of creep clothing being mentioned. A smile danced on my lips as I imagined what Madeleines face would look like when her petrelli range didnt even get show cased.
"Sheriden you're up." Said a man with a clip board.
I walked up the few steps that would lead me to either make or break my time with Kendall. A silver curtain was the only thing that seperated me from the hundreds of people that owned designer labels already or were investing to buy new ones. I held the sick down that wanted to escape my stomach and stepped out just as the music began. I barely heard the music that boomed out as I worked the run way and I couldn't see anyone in the crowd as the lights shone so brightly toward me. I was actually glad of that, I felt like I was the only person in the room, the nerves went and I was queen of the cat walks. Strutting my sexy 17 year old ass down that run way and on a mission to get my boyfriend back.
On reaching the end of the runway and turning around I saw on two huge screens the words 'creep clothing' being advertised as I walked back towards the silver curtain.
I hoped Antonio got a picture of Madeleines face for me. She was screwed, she had already signed a contract releasing Kendall from being paisleys fake boyfriend. He was my property again now and Madeleine was gonna wish she never screwed with us in the first place.
On exiting the runway I felt relief wash over me now it was over and done with, I didn't fall over and I felt I had done the dress justice. Antonio bounded up to me.
"You did great Sheri!" He said as he led me away and in to a back room that was filled with loads of people. Antonio was in his element. He was seconds away from making this plan work for me. Thats when I saw paisley and Kendall enter the room.
Paisley looked like she had been crying, but it was kendall that approached me.
"What the hell have you done sheri?" He said angrily but his words got lost in the chatter of the crowd around us.
"Baby its fine... it all fine." I began.
"How is it fine, you have just lost paisley her entire lifes work... you blew it sheri." He raged.
"Kendall I havent, listen the creep range is destined to-" but I got interrupted as a woman dressed smartly in red walked over and stood in front of me.
"Sheriden Lloyd?" She asked, holding her hand out.
My mouth gaped open as I knew this woman to be a very wealthy invester. Antonio then stepped in, not wanting me to fuck up the final part in this crazy plan of actually allowing paisley to go away with something by opening up my trash mouth. Antonio talked the talk as I noticed Kendall walk away placing his hand in the small of paisleys back. I told myself once again that once I had chance to explain, everyone would be as happy as I was right now.
I have to admit, listening in to Antonio talk business with this woman remained interesting for about 5 minutes untill I no longer understood what they were talking about. I don't know where Antonio got his intelligence from but I knew for a fact that Carlos definitely had missed out in the brainy gene pool when he was born. Ant had all of safias designs spread out for the woman to look at. She looked impressed.
I estimated that over an hour had gone passed since Kendall had walked away, my feet were itching to go and smooth things over, I hated feeling that I was being called a bitch behind my back when really I had only done good.
Finally I heard words that I understood come from Antonio as he still talked to the woman in red. "Well we will be in touch shortly Mrs Hernandez." He said, sounding slick and smug. I smiled at the woman as Antonio folded up the paper work he had been filling out and making her sign. He then took my hand and pulled me towards the exit.
A small and very unmasculine scream left antonios mouth excitedly as we were now alone and back in my dressing room.
"What happened, I couldnt really follow what was going on." I asked.
"Sheriden Lloyd, I have a contract written out for a miss paisley petrelli stating that she is the new founder of creep clothing and has an 8 month contract worth 4 million dollars!.." he laughed histerically. "... In selling her new range in Alisha Hernandez fashion boutiques across the united states of America." He finished, his smile the biggest I had ever seen it. "We did it Sheri! We fucking did it, we got rid of Madeleine and saved paisley petrelli from going fucking bankrupt... I'm a frikkin genius!" He boasted.
I laughed out loud at him. He was so over excited. "Turn your back so I can get out of this dress and get my boyfriend back." I smiled.
"I will wait outside." He replied with a friendly smile. Just as he opened the door madeleine stormed in. Her face red like a beetroot, but still her blue eyebrows and platinum blonde hair looking so distinct.
"I expect you think you are funny, do you?" she hissed at me.
"Hilarious actually." I replied sarcastically
Madeleine smiled at me as she stood inbetween Antonio and I. "Your hilarity will be greatly need soon, sugar plum when I bleed you dry in court for breaking your contract with me. It stated that you would showcase the petrelli range... which you havent done!" She seethed. "You are in breach of contract sheri! You are screwed." She said.
Antonio chuckled, making Madeleine turn to look at him. "Normally that kind of chit chat would worry me Madeleine but unfortunatly your unprofessional set up has failed you once again. Sheri is a minor... you needed an adult signature alongside hers when she signed herself over to you. You wont win shit from her in any court!" Antonio said holiding the door open for her to leave.
The look on madeleines face was priceless. It was a vision I would never forget.
Chase then appeared in the doorway.
"I think you should leave... for good." He said to madeleine
Madeline looked fit to explode but she turned on her heels and left.
"Chase... I'm so sorry if I hurt you." I said about my previous slaps I had given him.
"It's fine sheri... you two did good today."
"4 million bucks for paisley good!" Antonio said.
Chase grinned at him, he was too proffesional to jump for joy but I bet he would if he could.
Once I had changed back in to regular clothes again I joined my two partners in crime as they waited outside my dressing room. "Lets go and put the final piece in the jigsaw then guys and let kendall and paisley in on the good news." I said with a smile as I pulled my bag over my shoulder.
The walk up to paisley and kendalls room was full of excited talk between Antonio and I. I held the contract Madeleine had signed tightly in my hand which would release him from paisley, eager to give it to kendall. I couldn't wait to leave New York, sit next to my actual boyfriend on the plane and have him visit my house when I wanted and to go out on a proper date and hold his hand in public.
Reaching the door, Chase knocked his usual rhythm that allowed paisley to know it was him but there was no answer. He shrugged then reached in to his pocket and pulled out his copy of the key card. as the door swung open and my eyes adjusted to the scene in front of me I froze. Paisley stood naked in the middle of the room and Kendall was in the bed, a corner of a bed sheet only covering up his modesty, his hair a complete mess on his head as he looked back at me.
My body didn't want to move for several seconds. No one knew what to say to anyone. It was Chase that finally did break the silence. "Give me the creep contract." He said to Antonio, who robotically handed it over to him.
Paisley grabbed her robe and covered up her nakedness. "Miss Petrelli..." Chase said in his prefessional tone as he tried to take any personal feelings out of the equation that this scene left him with.
Paisley took the contract from him in the same dumbfounded way that Antonio had handed it to her bodyguard, I saw the realisation hit her face as she read what we had done for her, the money we had obtained for her.
"This isn't was it looks like." She said as she looked from me to Chase as she lifted her head up from reading the contract.
Chase gave a single nod then left the room, I took another look at Kendall then at the state of the room. An open wine bottle sat on the bedside table and both his and paisleys clothes were scattered all over the place.
"I guess you wont need this after all." I said as I let go of the contract madeleine had signed releasing him from dating paisley. it drifted silently to the floor, as I left I felt my heart break in two.
"Sheri?" I heard both kendall and antonio call but I fled, I wanted to go home.
