This is one of my stupidly short chapters with a cliff hanger at the end but I'll probably update again tomorrow with the next part depending on the amount of reviews I receive tonight. Anyway thank you to your amazing response to the last chapter and well I hope you continue to enjoy this.
"Kate can you get that please? I don't want to answer the door naked and soaking wet" he called out from the en-suite as Kate laughed and climbed off the bed, dressed only in his shirt and a pair of his boxers while her dark hair was messily thrown back in some hairstyle that he continually commented that suited her. Slipping out of the room, she sighed as she walked towards the door and quickly opened it to find a familiar blonde staring at her with a small smirk covering her face.
"Hello Kate, is Richard in?" Gina asked as she pushed her way into the apartment, Kate groaning before she forced a smile onto her face and shut the door. Turning, Kate watched as the blonde immediately walked into the kitchen and began to make herself coffee; both women looking up when they heard a squeak of a door and footsteps before Rick appeared in a t-shirt and boxers; Gina's smirk immediately turning into a smile. "Hello Richard" the blonde declared as Rick immediately forced a smile onto his face. He was confused. Why was Gina here? He knew why she was here, she was here to talk to him but why today? Why the only weekend that month he had alone with Kate because his mother and daughter had gone on a weekend break together?
"Gina hi" he declared, Kate's eyes rolling before she approached the couch and sat down, knowing the blonde wasn't going to leave in the next few minutes because of the coffee she'd made herself. Gina was going to be here for a while! "What are you doing here?" Rick quickly asked before the blonde laughed and rested her hand on Rick's shoulder which didn't go unnoticed by the glaring brunette.
"Well it's the weekend and I know that Martha and Alexis are out of town so I thought I would come over and make sure you're working on the new book. You have deadlines Richard and I'm not leaving until you've written at least two chapters" she explained before the room fell silent. Looking across, Rick sighed as he found Kate staring at him before she shook her head and disappeared upstairs; probably into the guest bedroom where he knew she disappeared when she wanted peace. He knew his girlfriend was angry because they had plans. They were going to go to the movies to watch a showing of Forbidden Planet and they had reservations for a new Italian place that they'd both been desperate to try. "Hurry up Rick, if we stand here all day we're not going to finish the chapters until tomorrow" she explained, a groan leaving the writer's lips before he turned and found himself looking up the stairs again.
"Can I just go and talk to Kate?" he asked, the blonde casually shrugging before he ran off up the stairs. Pushing the door to the guest bedroom open, Rick sighed as he found Kate sat on the bed with book that surprisingly wasn't his. "Are you cheating on me Kate?" he asked, shock covering her face before she noticed that he was looking down at the novel she was holding. "Katie, I'm sorry but I'm going to have too…" he began, falling silent when she held her finger up in his direction.
"Don't even say it Rick" she warned. "You promise the moment that Alexis and Martha told you they were going away that it was going to just be us and we were going to do the things we've not done in a while" she declared as he groaned. "But I understand! Go and work for your leggy blonde and I'll just read a book and pretend I'm not here like Gina wants. Maybe I'll just go and tell her that she's welcome to sleep with you because we both know that's what she wants" she declared, her anger building up as Rick sighed.
"Kate".
"Don't Kate me Rick. We both know that Gina wants me gone so she can move in and be with you. Everyone knows it Rick so why can't you see that's what today is all about? She wants to stop us spending time together" she announced, moving further away on the bed as he groaned and moved to sit down beside her.
"Kate not everyone is again us. Gina is not secretly planning to get rid of you and move in with me" he declared, his frustration obvious as she remained silent. "You need to grow up Kate because you're being stupid right now" he muttered before standing and walking towards the door. "I'll be downstairs when you realise that you're being ridiculous" he declared.
"Well I'll be up here when you realise that I'm right" she muttered, the door shutting a few moments later when he left the room. Walking down the stairs, the writer sighed as he entered his office to find Gina waiting for him.
"Is everything alright?" she asked, the writer quickly nodding as he sat down in his seat and sighed.
"Everything's fine Gina, Kate's just being a bit dramatic because we had to put some plans on hold" he explained, the blonde nodding slowly as the writer slowly began to work on the first chapter of his novel; not even knowing what was going to happen.
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"How about we take a lunch break? The two of us could go and get something to eat together" Gina suggested later that day, the writer groaning as he looked up at the ceiling still thinking about the fight he'd had with Kate. He knew she wasn't stupid and he knew that she was beginning to get jealous of the blonde but he loved her and he couldn't understand why she couldn't just trust him when he said that nothing was going on with Gina. "Rick lunch" Gina practically barked, snapping the writer out of his thoughts as he looked up and sighed.
"I should really get on with this. If I finish the chapter then I can still make the reservations I had tonight with Kate" he explained as Gina sighed.
"Don't worry about that Rick, I already sorted it. You don't have any reservations anymore so we can take a lunch break and you can continue working later" she explained, shocking him. She'd cancelled his dinner reservations? How did she know he had dinner reservations?
"You cancelled my reservations, what made you think that you had the right to do that Gina?" he declared, standing quickly as she smiled at him. "Today was supposed to be an important day for me and Kate and you've already ruined it so why did you cancel the last bit of our plans we could still make?" he asked, furious that she'd taken away the hope he had for making it up to Kate. He'd known how excited Kate had been about going to the new Italian and he had been looking forward to taking her there for the first time.
"I did it because you're wasting your time with her" the blonde explained, also standing up quickly. "She's not right for you Rick, she doesn't understand the world we live in. She doesn't understand any of it and she's not good for you. You need someone who's known, someone who can help sell your books and it's not her" she shouted as Rick approached the door. "She's not even that pretty Richard".
"Kate is beautiful and she's more than all the things you think she is. She's kind and loving, she adores my daughter more than anything in the world and she's been there for me one hundred per cent since the moment we met. She's looked after Alexis when she was sick, she's come to my book tour to keep me company" he listed, stopping when Gina crossed her arms. "All you've done is try to destroy my relationship with…" he began before falling silent. "Kate was right".
"Right about what? Because I doubt she was. She doesn't even go to college" Gina commented as Rick stared at her.
"Kate dropped out of college because her mom was murdered Gina. She's an intelligent young woman and she's going to one day do something amazing with her life, she just needs to work it out for herself" he explained before opening the door and staring at the blonde. "I'd like it if you leave please, I've got to try and fix my reservations for tonight" he admitted, the blonde staring at him before she walked over.
"She's not good for you Richard" the blonde admitted as Rick opened his mouth to speak, shocked when he suddenly found Gina's mouth against his. Moving away quickly, the writer heard a creak on the stairs before he turned to find Kate staring at him; tears filling her eyes as she continued to watch him.
"Kate" he whispered, her head shaking before she ran back up the stairs, determined that Gina wouldn't see her breakdown.
