Yay! And we are back to our regularly once a week updates! The past few weeks have really tested me emotionally, mentally, and physically at work but writing this fanfic and hearing all the awesome feedback and kind words from you all… it literally made my days. Side note, I am so happy you guys liked what I did with José and Kelsey! That was a total crap shoot side plot I wanted to introduce to help keep things fresh, and I am SO thrilled you guys liked it! Thank you! :D Anyway, this chapter picks up immediately after the previous chapter. Enjoy!

({No POV})

Mid-December in Ottawa was in full swing. Ice cold and a fresh layer of snow caked over the urban landscape.

But that didn't stop anyone from going out and enjoying the city during holiday time. Many taking time off work to kick off their holidays early.

Though there were some that were still at work.

One of those individuals being the one of the doormen at Kelsey's apartment building.

This particular man in about his early twenties, did not seem all too pleased with his 'odd job' while he was finishing university and having the apartment residents enjoy walking past him and not acknowledging his existence. And the fact that he was standing out in the bitter cold in an outfit that to him seemed like a rejected mixture of an awful wool marching band and military uniform mixed together in the worst way possible was also less than tolerable.

The doorman continued to stand there and watch his breath pass by his eyes in a clouded fog. He looked as if he was hardly paying attention until he saw a young man about the same age as him that he did not recognize looking like he was about to just walk into the building.

José.

"Um, hey, what apartment?" The doorman started as he got right in José's way.

He was expecting a confrontation, but was surprised when José just gave him a grin and started, "Oh, don't mind me. I'm just going in to see my... girlfriend. Kelsey Wilson in 35C? I'm assuming you know her."

The doorman tilted his head, though knowing exactly who José was talking about.

While Kelsey had never acknowledged his existence like her fellow residents of her building, she was at least a highlight of his shift since she wasn't exactly bad on the eyes, quite the contrary in the doorman's opinion.

But… he never recalled Kelsey ever having or mentioning a 'boyfriend' that would visit in the entire 4 month period he's had the job since residential guests were usually kept track of for security reasons.

The doorman tilted his head even more as he said, "Well, sorry man, but guests have to be announced, ya know? Or they need to be buzzed in with the resident's permission. I'll get her."

It looked like the doorman was about to go to the board and buzz Kelsey's apartment as José grabbed his hand by the wrist to stop him as he started, trying to navigate around the situation as smoothly as he could, "Now now, there's no need for that. You see, I have a surprise for her and wanted to make sure I came at a time she wasn't expecting me. Surely you wouldn't catch me out and ruin it for her?"

Though lying quite smoothly, the doorman still gave José a suspicious look.

He looked like he was about to say something along the lines of calling the police if José didn't leave... until José slid his hand inside his jacket and revealed a $50 bill and passing it to the doorman in a handshake, "Perhaps you just need a little something to recall me being announced , sí?"

While it seemed tempting, the doorman looked like he was about to deny it and call the police like he planned.

Well until José caught it and seemed to be prepared as the doorman's eyes practically bugged out of his head when José introduced two more $50 bills into the equation from his jacket's sleeve.

José smirked as he saw the doorman's will eventually weaken as his hand closed around José's in a handshake as the money was passed off.

They released the handshake as the doorman just opened the door and motioned for José to go in with a nod.

José's smirk contorted in a sly yet satisfied manner as he said while patting the doorman's shoulder, adding an equally sly wink, "Pleasure doing business with you, amigo. Hasta luego."

After that José confidently strode into the building as the doorman closed the door behind him.

The doorman stood there, until he let out a sigh and suddenly had a look of instant regret as he said to himself, looking on the verge of a panic attack, "Dude, I am so fired if my boss finds out about this."

Meanwhile upstairs, Kelsey appeared to have changed out of her clothes she went shopping in and was now in a T-shirt and yoga pants.

Looking prepared for doing nothing but stay in her apartment for the rest of her day off now that her errands and morning workout were out of the way.

She looked like she was about to relax on her couch when she heard knocking on her door, making her spring bolt upright and quirk up an eyebrow in total confusion.

"What the hell?..." Kelsey whispered to herself in confusion.

Mainly she was wondering who it could possibly be at 10:30 AM on a Monday.

At first she rolled her eyes, thinking it was maybe one of her neighbors who also had the day off and wanted to keep trying to recruit her into the Apartment Association despite her denying the offer many times.

Eventually she got up and readjusted her ponytail and got more agitated as the knocking on her door continued.

She grunted in annoyance before starting, blindly open the door at the same time, "Ugh, will you just wait for a damn?!..."

Kelsey immediately went wide eyed in shock at who she was seeing.

Leaning in her doorway in a pair of italian boots, designer pants, and black duffle coat was none other than José.

He had a sly, flirtatious, and cocky grin on his face as he started in a matching tone, waggling his eyebrows slightly, "Hola, bombón. Long time no see..."

Kelsey continued to give him a shocked look about how he even ended up at her door, but didn't seem to give it much more thought as she slammed the door shut.

Well, she tried to shut the door anyway, considering José stuck his foot in the path of the door before opening it again.

He smirked, finding the situation very amusing, as he slid into the doorway and said, his tone extremely flirtatious and getting progressively more seductive, "You know, normally I'm not really into chicas in casual wear, but somehow you seem to even make something like 'this' look muy sexy."

While Kelsey deep down was completely freaked out about what José was doing back and especially was shocked about how he even got into her building in the first place. But, she held her ground as she tried to shove José out of the doorway as she growled, "What the?! UGH, will you just get out of here and fuck off already?!"

But it was to no avail as he instead slipped inside and started, "Well, now. Is that any way to treat me? Particularly after our fascinating night last Friday? Especially since I'm not even here empty handed."

José undid some of the buttons on his coat before he put his hand in and started, "Now normally I'm not one to do things like this. But for you… I thought I'd make an exception."

Kelsey looked like she was about to go off on José again and threaten to call the cops, until she stopped dead in her tracks when José pulled a 2x3 card out of the inside of his jacket.

He took note of Kelsey's confused state before elaborating, "Just something in case you'd be interested in attending my next match on Wednesday. Normally I never saw the point in needing a girl in my corner, but you… well, I'd want a girl as hermosa as you there. Plus, you'd be guaranteed a good show and perhaps we could even celebrate here afterward when I win... You know, I didn't notice before but you certainly have quite a nice apartment."

Then to her shock José took off his coat and hung it on a hook near her front door before sitting on a stool at her breakfast bar and kicking his feet up on the counter, clearly 'making himself at home'.

Kelsey had a vast mix of emotions going and showing through her at the moment ranging from anger to annoyance to disturbed to absolute and total confusion.

Then her Piebald cat Jasper jumped up on the counter next to José as he smirked and commented, "Ah, this must be your cat that you mentioned. Handsome creature, I must say."

José then started scratching Jasper between his ears, causing him to purr… as well as Kelsey to look like she's on the verge of an enraged aneurysm.

Her anger, annoyance, and agitation seemed to win out since she quickly threw the card he gave her away without even really looking at it as she directed, shoving his feet off her countertops, "HEY! That's new high definition granite, you filthy animal! And just who the hell gave you permission to touch my cat?!"

She picked up Jasper before putting him on the floor.

Though Kelsey was still zeroed in on José as she continued her tirade, "And I don't know what sort of weirdass custom this is from wherever the hell you're from to visit girls you have one night stands with and give them business cards or something? So maybe I need to enlighten you on how one night stands work here, okay? Because here, you have sex… and then you never see eachother again. That's it. Transaction over. Finito! Dunzo! Or whatever the hell I need to say to you to get you to leave me the hell alone and get out of my apartment?!"

She got almost nose to nose with him with bared teeth only for José to give her an amused look with a smirk as he got up from the stool and started, somehow managing to back her up into a wall in her hallway as he leaned closer to her with his forearm resting on the wall above her head, "Oh no no no, chica. I am not the one misunderstanding anything here. Believe me, I have had plenty of experience in these situations. But, I have never experienced 'anything', much less a one time thing, like what happened between you and me Friday night."

Kelsey's whole expression continued to contort in flustered, frustrated, annoyed anger as she practically spat, "Um, pardon?! Oh no! There is no 'you and me', you conceited bastard! What the hell are you even talking about anyway?!"

Then it was like her confusion multiplied by 10 as José took a slight step back as he started, "Perhaps then… you need a 'reminder' of what happened said night. You know, considering I left with several momentos from you after the fact."

Kelsey looked about ready to chew him out with more insults again until she suddenly became confused when Jose started unbuttoning his dress shirt he was wearing.

Keeping his eyes on Kelsey with a smirk before simultaneously sliding his shirt off his body with a sly smirk until his shirt was just hanging on by his arms to reveal his bare torso.

Kelsey's whole expression dropped and her face reddened immediately as everything hit her like a truck about what José was 'referring to', even though she was desperately trying to cover up her embarrassment at him exposing something to do with her darkest personal secret with how she is in 'sexual situations'.

Or at least what she tries to hold back unless she slipped like she did with José that night.

His chest and back still had some decently defined scratches from Kelsey's nails as well as even more apparent bite marks on either side of where his shoulders met his neck from that night during their hook up.

José just grinned in satisfaction as he slid his shirt back on over his shoulders before elaborating knowingly and slyly, "I can see the reminders seemed to help, hm? Then of course there were also all the nice little parting gifts you gave me all over my neck and jaw before... and during. No need to worry though, I happen to be a very quick healer. Not to mention, I happened to enjoy every… last… thing that happened that night, very much enjoyed it."

José could see Kelsey look like she was overtaken in a state of embarrassed shock and took the opportunity to lean next to her ear and say knowingly, smirking all the while, "You aren't everything that you seem to be on the outside, are you? I saw what you are really like behind that door. What you're into behind that door. Trust me, I've had plenty of girls that were 'feisty', but I have never had a girl like you before. Though based on certain cues from you, I could tell you felt the same with me… both times. Sí, Kelsey?"

Her eyes widened at him actually saying her name since she just sooner assumed her name went through one ear and out the other with him the moment they hooked up.

But, not wanting to give José the satisfaction having him get to her, Kelsey covered through a scoff, "Yeah, right? Don't flatter yourself. You were just a means to an end for me, that's it."

José; however, got face to face with Kelsey again as he continued to flash his usual cocky and arrogant smirk as he replied, " Oh, is that so? I'd more readily believe that if you just got what you wanted from me after the 'initial go' and then just threw me out. But, that is not what happened, is it? Or are we just going to gloss over the two times I satisfied you during the first time in your bed or those three total other times you respectfully 'had yours' against the wall… then on the floor… or at the side of your bed the second time when you wanted 'more'."

There was a pause as Kelsey looked like she was trying to ignore everything he was saying and phase out of existence, mainly because it was all the truth of what happened that night.

But, then José leaned next to her ear again, his voice low and slightly teasing, as he brought up, "And how about that one instance 'during the moment' when you asked me to choke you a bit?… And it only makes me wonder what other surprises that you'd like to show me? I'd be more than willing to experience them. Especially with a woman who knows what she's doing such as yourself. What do you say, chica?"

Kelsey bit her lip and looked on the verge of some sort of crisis/breakdown, especially when she let out an involuntary gasp as José bit her earlobe and slowly grazed his teeth down while also trying to slide his hands up the front of her t-shirt, causing a chill to go down her spine and desperately looking like she was trying to keep herself under control.

Finally Kelsey just grit her teeth and grabbed José by his shirt before dragging him along and then opening the door and shoving him out into the hallway.

Before José could say another word, Kelsey gave him a hard glare as she threw his coat into his face and then spat, " Asshole."

She slammed and locked her door shut behind her as she immediately walked over and grabbed her phone off the counter and started scrolling with urgency, absolute freaked out, and frustrated anger.

(Heather's POV)

I walked back into the house and kicked off my boots and threw my coat back into the closet, hardly even thinking after yet another shit show of a meeting with a prospective agent.

Ugh… why am I always surrounded by incompetent morons?! Just!... UGH!

Whatever.

I need a bath, jog, or a glass of wine… not necessarily in that order.

But, I'll take what I can get.

I decided to just cut to the chase and just get ready to work out, considering the treadmill in the basement is about the only stupid thing I really can rely on right now to be useful and fulfill its purpose.

Finally I got to my room and just threw my purse into the corner and started taking off my earrings until I heard my phone vibrating.

I quirked up an eyebrow and walked over as I looked at the caller ID.

Alejandro.

Trying not to think too much about it, I just picked up and started, "Hey, what is it?"

"Why must every call I make to you be justified with a reason? Considering I merely called to just talk to you, mi ángel." He said, making me scoff.

I rolled my eyes slightly as I retorted, "Why? You're coming over next week anyway. What's the point?"

There was hardly a second of silence as he immediately responded, more serious and matter of fact than I was expecting, "That you're my girlfriend and I just wanted to talk to you because I miss you. Or is that not 'justified' to you?"

Ugh, why does he always have to be on me about crap like this?

I was trying to come up with something when I heard another incoming call, seeing it as my excuse to get out of this conversation. I didn't even care who it was.

It could have been Gwen, Macie, Demons, ugh… even Courtney for all I cared.

"Hold on, I'm getting another call." I said quickly and put him on hold before he could even get a word in.

Right as I picked up I immediately heard, "You need to fix this right now, you scheming little cunt!"

Kelsey.

Ugh… Oh well? Still less annoying to me than Courtney, I guess… but just barely.

I quirked up an eyebrow as I started, "Um, 'fix' what exactly?"

"Oh, I think I need help with my car… WHAT DO YOU THINK, DIPSHIT?! It's your boyfriend's annoying brother! THAT'S what! He won't leave me alone!"

" So? And how is this my problem?" I responded matter of factly and shortly.

"Hello?! Because you were the one who talked me into going on a date with him, that's fucking why?!" Kelsey exasperated through her teeth at me as I rolled my eyes.

I scoffed in annoyance before responding, my tone ozzing with bitter sarcasm, "Oh! And how is it my fault that Rico Sauve McSkeez has a stupid crush or whatever on you?! What? Do you want me to put a note with a 'no' checked off on it in his damn locker for you like we're in fucking grade 6?!"

"HEY! That 'skeez' just busted into my apartment building today somehow and freaked the ever living shit out of me at my place!" She yelled back, practically making me partially deaf in my right ear for a second.

At first I was about to reply for the millionth time that I didn't care until I caught what she said.

When Kelsey 'got her job' after university, she moved into her apartment complex because of the security it offered being in the middle of downtown and that they have pretty strict 'guest policies' with letting anyone but residents in.

Honestly it was total dumb luck that the doormen were having a shift change when Alejandro and I egged her apartment on our date.

Even though when Kelsey was dating that annoying dipstick stockbroker guy, she was always complaining about how it was stupid that she always had to let the desk know whenever he was coming over and how she always had to meet him outside first to check him in.

But that's not what I was thinking about.

I quirked up an eyebrow as I directed, "How did he even know what apartment you lived in then?"

Silence.

I heard her grunt as she exasperated, "Well… UGH! That's not the point, Heather! Point is…"

"No! Point is there's something you're leaving out on this one, sis. Maybe like your car you decided to take him for a test drive back at your place?" I pointed out, totally seeing through this since I know what my sister is like.

I've had to deal with her crap for my entire life… and she forgets that.

I know her.

Especially I know how she is with guys… and definitely was like with guys back in high school.

She was dead silent before finally exasperating again and practically calling out, "Okay, fine! I fucked him! There! Happy?!" I sat on my bed and crossed my legs as I rolled my eyes and responded, " No. Because I'd be a helluva lot ' happier' if I didn't have to talk to you about something that's not my fucking problem!"

"Oh, fuck you, Heather! I wouldn't have even gotten into any this shit if you didn't set me up with him!" She spat as I immediately shot back, " Hey! It's not my fault you're a total slut that practically has to jump the bones of almost any half-ways decent looking guy with a pulse."

Then almost immediately I heard her retort, "Well, at least I didn't have the reputation of being an insane-ass sociopathic cock tease to every guy I ever dated back in high school like somebody."

"At least I didn't need to screw my way through the school hockey team to get popular." I replied with a smirk as I could even tell I got her without even looking at her.

Yeah, can't counter that, can you?… Sucker.

I waited, hearing nothing over the receiver for almost 20 seconds until she said, "For the last fucking time, it was only 3 of them that I actually slept with from the hockey team."

"And then don't forget the guys from the basketball team, soccer team, volleyball… am I missing any?" I taunted, not helping to hold back my smirk after calling her out on all this crap.

I could totally tell I had her now as she kept stuttering, making me feel so damn vindicated it wasn't even funny, "Well, you can!... I'm just!… UGH! Just stop changing the damn subject and just tell him to leave me alone or something already?!"

But, that didn't stop me as I immediately snapped, "Oh! Right?! Just let me drive to fucking Ottawa and mention it to him. As if! And not a fat fucking chance on the coldest day in hell am I ever helping you. Got it?!"

She scoffed at what I said before taunting, " Yeah… you'd know a lot about 'fat chances', wouldn't you, sis?"

Everything in my body clenched before my blood started almost feeling like it was boiling as I clenched my hands and almost thought I was close to crushing my new phone.

" Kiss… my… ass…" I growled in pure rage through my teeth.

Then it was like she wasn't even listening as she kept going, "Please, I'm pretty sure your twisted little casanova does enough 'ass kissing' for you, doesn't he? Considering he's the only guy insane enough to actually want to date you."

"Say one more fucking word…" I started to threaten.

"Or what, Heather?" She snapped back snide and practically mocking me.

"Kelsey… maybe somewhere in your stupid damn head, you seemed to forget something? So let me remind you. If you think you can 'out revenge' me? Then you can just get bent and go outside to play 'hide and go fuck yourself'. You don't want José coming around your place like a starving rat looking for seconds? Not my fucking problem. You screwed him, you deal with him. So enjoy the craptastic situation that YOU created with your now handsy, annoying douchebag. How's that sound, sis?" I got out, feeling done with this entire call and wondering why the hell I was even still doing this to myself.

It was dead silent for a couple seconds before I heard her growl into the phone, "Cunt-brick."

"Hoe-bag." I snapped right back at her as she hung up on me as I clutched a hand into my hair.

Ugh… I don't even give a crap if it's almost noon. I need a drink.

({No POV})

Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Heather, when she thought she put Alejandro on hold, she forgot the button placements on her new phone were different than her old one.

In the process of thinking she put him on hold, she accidentally added Kelsey's line to her and Alejandro's existing phone call.

Alejandro had been silently listening to Kelsey and Heather's entire exchange just now without Heather even realizing.

He immediately hung up when Kelsey did to avoid being caught; however, he also did it since he needed a few moments to 'collect his thoughts' after hearing all that new information. His mind was going a thousand miles an hour as he processed not only the revelation of what actually happened between José and Kelsey on their 'date' (though it now made sense as he thought back to all the signs), but also what he heard Kelsey and Heather say to each other.

Alejandro was wide eyed and ran a hand through his hair with his free hand as he kept processing.

Well, until he started getting an incoming call from Heather.

He picked up and was immediately met with a, "Um, hello?! Did you seriously hang up after you were the one that called me?!"

Alejandro, although could have made a remark about her just putting him on hold and putting off them talking about their communication as a couple… again, but he wanted to raise the least amount of suspicion possible since he realized Heather didn't seem to catch that he heard the entire conversation between her and Kelsey.

So instead he tried to recompose himself as he lied smoothly, "Lo siento. The call dropped so I decided to just wait for you to call me back. Anyway, enough about that, how was the meeting?"

"Ugh, don't even get me started…" She exasperated in annoyance, making Alejandro smirk a little in amusement at Heather's usual reaction.

He kept listening to Heather, but he couldn't help but continue to ponder and take in everything he just heard.

Okay, I know the Aleheather content wasn't major this chapter, but I PROMISE there will be more focus on them next chapter. But, I do really hope this chapter wasn't a disappointment or anything? While I will concede that I do think that Alejandro is 'quite' arrogant, I could see arrogance being something that would be a common trait to a degree in his family among everyone. Though Alejandro is full of himself, I could just see José being just as bad if not worse just based off his personality we got a glimpse of in the show. And I could see him being so arrogant to think he can just pick and chose when a woman really wants to be with him and expecting absolute reciprocity from the opposite sex the one and only time he decided to want it just because Kelsey just happened to intrigue him during their escapade. And then there's Kelsey. When I first came up with Kelsey's character, I wanted to make her the kind of character that would slightly influence and explain the idea of how Heather ended up as a person. Though I wanted to make Kelsey and Heather have their differences in how they were during their glory days in high school. Making Heather just this iron fisted and power hungry that couldn't give a crap about crushes or even getting serious with a guy. Kelsey; however… well, to put it nicely and you guys probably got the gist, but Kelsey ' got around' in high school and was popular with the boys especially for said reason. And there's nothing wrong with that! But, as you all have seen, Kelsey is kind of a terrible person and an even crappier sister who did nothing but psychologically bully Heather to make her feel terrible about appearance when they were growing up. And I wanted to show that in their call with Heather and Kelsey making petty and immature jabs at each other about things that don't even really matter. And then that spilled over into Kelsey's conundrum with José. Sure, what José did by bribing his way into her apartment was shady and sketchy as all get out, it's not like Kelsey didn't have a part to play in it. Like the concept goes, 'every action has an equal and opposite reaction'. And while Kelsey got what she wanted out of the one night stand, she was just as foolish to assume that José would take things the same way. Also, unfortunately for Kelsey, it seems that she unintentionally met her match with José since he seemed just as into what she was 'bringing to the table' when they had their fling. As you may have guessed, Kelsey is kind of a 'closet freak' behind closed doors… and it was the main reason of many why her previous boyfriend broke up with her since she was a little too much for him. But, not too much for José it seems though much to her current outrage. Lol. ;) And now Alejandro officially knows what happened between José and Kelsey plus what Heather and Kelsey said! Oh, the DRAMA! Haha. XD How will all this unfold? Stay tuned to find out! As always thanks so much for taking the time to read and constructive reviews are always very much appreciated!

A happy and safe New Year to all of you!

Dexter1995