The Fight - Chapter 11

Chloe awoke wondering if it had all been a dream. The phone rang, she knew it was Brady and she knew he was real.

"Hello"

"Hey, did you have a good sleep?"

"I slept excellent. What are you doing?"

"Actually....(hesitantly)..I'm at work."

"I thought we were going to spend the day together?" Chloe said obviously upset.

"I know, I know. It's just that they were short help and called some people in for overtime. I'm sorry I really wanted to see you today too" Brady pleaded.

"All right, I guess I'll talk to you later then" she said disappointed.

"Chloe...I'll make it up to you. I swear"

"You better" she laughed. "Bye"

"Bye"

A few days went by before Chloe got the nerve to call Brady. He agreed to meet her after work that night.

She spotted him on a bench. Chloe walked over to him.

"Well I see nothings wrong with you so I guess I'm just going to have to assume you've changed your mind about us!"

"What? What are you talking about?"

"Brady, you haven't phoned me in four days!"

"I...I was just busy"

"Busy? Busy doing what? Did you meet someone else?" Chloe fumed.

"Chloe, I've been working and like you said it's been four days. I couldn't replace you in that amount of time no matter how hard I tried" he laughed.

"Oh, so this is funny?"

'No and I guess you're right I should have called but I just had to think things through" he confessed.

"What do you mean? Are you still unsure about us dating?"

"No, not anymore. I was just afraid that things were moving too fast. I needed to get some perspective."

"Perspective on what?"

"I was just thinking that if Philip were here, there would be no us. Let's face it if he didn't break up with you, there's no way we would be going out now. Am I right?"

"No Brady, you're wrong. I would have eventually broken up with Philip because he's too possessive and I know that now because of the way you are with me. Philip doesn't understand me the way you do. God Brady, do you even know what you mean to me?" Chloe said, tears welling up in her eyes. "I would never want to go back with Philip. How could I after you? It would be like moving backwards instead of forward."

"And you know what happens when you move backwards" he laughed, trying to cover his own emotional state.

"Ya and I have the cast to prove it."

He stood up and they embraced.

"Well Chloe, I think we just had our first official fight"

"As a couple you mean, because we've been fighting since the day we met"

"..Only now we get to have the full enjoyment of making out, oops I mean making up."

They laughed still absorbed in the hug.

To be continued.....