To Love or To Kill
Chapter 10: Business and Pleasure
It was a rainy October evening that day at the office. Brady had decided to stay and work overtime to finish up some work over the new company that Basic Black had been trying to buyout. Thanks to some very good representatives and easily convinced clients, Basic Black was able to buyout the company in one lump sum. Kate even showed some enthusiastic reaction with the purchase as she kept saying, "We're getting there."
Since the addition to the teen market, the company had grown due to it's popularity in that department and with one specific model raising a lot of eyebrows, business had been going great, running smoothly and best of all, in an even better condition it had been in since John died.
Remembering, Brady let his head hang low for a brief second of praise and respect for the father who did so much in the time he had been here. A tear was in Brady's eye as he came back, and there Chloe was, standing in the doorframe of his office door. She walked over softly as she reached to wipe the tear from his eye.
As she did this, it took Brady back to that night, the night when him and her actually talked. And in that same moment, when she wiped his tear that night, some intimate bond formed with the two, silently they agreed to be there for one another that night. The night she opened up to him and the night he opened up to her…
(Flashback)
Laying on the bed with his hands being used as pillows he stared at the ceiling slowly pondering. Expecting her arrival since she should be coming back with Phillip anytime now. She may have been the last one to get the last word but he sure wasn't going to be gentlemen enough and wait for her so that he could hold the door for her. Slamming it on her at that given time would have been more preferable.
Just to think this was the same girl he couldn't keep from his thoughts all day since it was only in her photos that he had finally seen her. And now haven't met her, he couldn't see the beauty of the mystery that lied within her, she was just an empty confidential document that when opened outlined everything but meant nothing without the quality necessary.
Thinking of her photos though still had the power to take Brady away. As much as he could tell himself how much he could never like a girl like her, she was to young to cope with adult situations, he felt himself melt into her with those blue eyes, hidden soul, and what he could only imagine was a soft touch. Too deep into thought Brady hadn't heard when the living room door opened or shut. Nor could he hear the shrill of Belle's ecstatic voice when she saw Phillip's body enter nor could he hear Chloe make a comment about their tardiness. Nor could he had known what Phillip shared to Chloe on the ride back that enlightened her into his world and he couldn't expect coming from his deep thought to see her standing looking like she did minutes ago but just more beautifully at the door frame to his room. No he hadn't heard here come up the steps after telling Phillip and Belle she needed to take care of something immediately. So there she stood for the third time that day he was in awe of her. First with her photos, then at .com, and now her appearance here. Sitting up on his bed now, he had somehow managed to move his body to the edge of it and at some point when Chloe began walking to him his heart began working in overtime…never did the thought of 'why is she here' come about. There's living in the past and then there's living now.
Brady was personally living in the past for when she snuggled up to him closely all previous thoughts left his mind in an exasperated flutter. Hurriedly the thoughts went out for a long break and left the room to allow him to bask as she sat alongside him. He was wrapped in her arms in an embrace, while her head found it's way to his chest and became buried there.
His own arm slipped from it's position and wrapped her up tightly to his side as his head was left to inhale the scent of her beautiful hair. The softness of it as his arm laid on top of it. Time stopped for a brief moment so that each could sulk in the beauty of what this moment had truly been. The hug itself seemed to last forever but then again, it could have been eternity if Brady had his own input.
Yes he wondered silently as reality still hadn't set in but he knew that something had changed since their encounter at .com. The bitterness of the display each shared and the nasty words that came from them as they had a stand off of the wits. Only going for a simple mocha for Belle, things had got ugly once he came to be behind her in line.
But now it was different and Brady wasn't going to be the one to break the tension as she was already making a deep sigh getting ready to speak.
"I apologize for my actions and what I said earlier," she whispered still buried into his chest taking in the masculine scent of his cotton black shirt. "I know now, that we're not as different as it would seem"
Brady took into mind what she said then realized that to the ordinary eye they might had seemed to be people who known each for years. Yet today was the first time they met and just minutes ago was the first time they interacted, now they sat on his bed like friends. Having share in each other's secret, past, and future.
"But I wasn't the only one who's to blame, I mean I was kind of rude.." she began
Brady interjected by saying, "Kind of? How about full out rude, I was being nice to you before you went lethal"
"Well I'm not one to admit I'm fully wrong and in this case I wasn't, but still I'm sorry. But you have to understand I'm not one to put up with a lot and I know you're the same way as well because you and I are alike. We share something…" Chloe said as a tear welded it up her eye preparing to trickle down the side of her blushed cheek.
Brady reached softly and wiped the tear away, she trembled beneath his touch. His heart felt on the verge of collapsing at how the room became a little more tense. He still felt a question burning as to what she meant. And as if she were reading his mind she continued.
"Though your mother is dead mines just entered my life and for the longest time I hadn't even known she existed. I only had a father and some butlers and maids who acted as loving parents to me those days my father would be gone for days or months without whereabouts to where he was. All I knew was that he was traveling the world to come back to me with story's of love, romance, adventure, danger and mystery. While kids were told book story's I was told the tales my father had witnessed," Chloe smiled at the memory of her Uncle Bart telling her of one story about a Princess who fell in love with a priest when there had been a man in love with the Princess, it was tragic yet beautiful. Chloe thought for a moment on sharing this tender memory but realized it was too soon and it would be getting off topic. "I never had a mother to come into my room during the middle of the night when I lay wide awake due to the fact of my fear. My eye's would water as they burned, I knew I couldn't blink for if I did, I might become the dinner to whatever monster laid under my bed. And as I sat on my bed, my little girl wails would be sometimes heard by my surrogate parents as a maid would run in and tell me everything was all right. I'd cry because I knew I hadn't a mother to tell me that, I had the hired help who loved me more and for that I loved them more. So I know now, that you know the feeling to not have had a mother throughout your childhood. To be one parent short and be one sense extra," she whispered the next part as at some point during her talk she had began holding his hands; warm, safe and…different.
When she was finished, Brady hadn't known was to say but he spoke, "Chloe be thankful you have your mother now and that there's a second chance for you two to have something." Brady hadn't known of the girl for only a few days and he was advising her. There was something indeed they shared.
"But you don't understand how she wants to hold me back. She didn't even want me to work for Basic Black and that's something my father got me into when I came here. Then she doesn't want me to go back to New York next year to attend Julliard. I mean the only reason I'm here for senior year is because my father had some business to take care of and he thought I should try to spend some time with her," Chloe said as she turned to face him and their hands still intertwined with one another. She stared down to their locked fingers.
"I miss my father dearly, Brady. What you don't understand is that I'm staying with a family I barely know about Brady. I'm staying with the woman who carried me for 9 months and gave birth to me with her husband. I've only been there a short time, but I my eyes are so weary from the lack of sleep I'm getting, I lay awake now and wonder will I ever feel like I belong…." the tears wept slowly out her eyes.
Brady placed a kissed on her hand, "I'll be here for you"
(End of Flashback)
And so it had began since that night. She had been there for him and he had been there for her as friends. Though they had there days of exchanging barbs, no one could quite put a finger on their bond but it was there.
Chloe held Brady's hand and placed a kiss onto it as she pulled him forward to make him stand, "Come on"
"Where are we going? I mean, I have a ton of work Chloe I can't just up and leave now, besides that it's pouring down out there. Why are you still here anyways? I thought you hade a date with Phillip or something?"
"For one thing, me and Phillip are NOT dating, I repeat not dating. Try getting that through your pretty stubborn blond head."
"Aw, you know you want this Chloe…," Brady said hugging her and swaying her body in his arms. "Your just so beautifully stubborn about it"
"And so he feels better now, so let's go," she said grabbing his hand and rushing him out into the dark hallway.
"You didn't answer me Chloe, why are you still here and where are you trying to take me?," Brady said as he continued to let Chloe be his guide out his office and down the dark hallway whereas you couldn't see 2 feet in front of you.
"Phillip said he's running late. I don't know, him and Belle needed to take care of something and I just told him I'd get a ride with you since I knew you wouldn't mind."
"Riiight, sure I wouldn't mind. Now how do you know I didn't have some hot date to go to right after I was through with some work?," Brady smiled through the dark as he continued to walk with Chloe's firm grasp on his hand.
"Oh Brady, I didn't know you planned on taking me out today? You shouldn't said so," she smiled as he shook his head to his back fired crack on her. "Besides if you did, I'd have to give her the full application and interview, you know check her out make sure everything's in good quality and condition"
Brady's eyebrow raised, "Prey tell Ms. Wesley, what type of application and what do you mean everything works out?"
"Men, you always have to watch out for them. The application that I will certify saying she can be your date for the evening and that means making sure all her systems a go, but if she shows signs of having defaults she's just going to have to go back to the corner you purchased her from," Chloe smiled as she heard Brady laugh in the dark.
"You're a character, you know that. Like I'd ever need an escort"
"Well who needs one now Mr. Black…"
"That reminds me, where are we going?"
Chloe stopped and turned around to him in the dark. Even in the dark she could stare up to his blue eyes and see the beauty that lay in them. The appearance of crystals glimmer in no light. She raised her other hand to reveal a camera, "We're going to go outside and play in the rain, I get to be photographer for a day and I'm going to photograph you."
"Your crazy, have you seen how it looks outside? It's raining like cats and dogs out there! And besides you're the model, I should be photographing you," Brady winked to her as she shook her head amused at his way of saying he's the photographer.
"Sure Black, whatever you say…"
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Phillip sat on Belle's couch waiting for her to come down. He was already late to pick up Chloe and wasn't helping by taking all day to try on some dress his mother had bought for Belle. It wasn't as if he hadn't wanted to see it on her it was more of not wanting to let Chloe down, again. Each time due to errors on his part and the fact that Belle always came into needing something.
Phillip heard someone clear their throat and he turned to face a stunning Belle with her piled in a style on top of her head. She wore a designer dress that had two very short splits up the sides. The glimmering aqua blue dress extended as far as her knees, hugging the curves of Belle's slim body that seemed to not be so slim anymore. "uummm….," was all that elapsed in the minute silence from Phillips mouth.
"So I can take it that you like it right?" Belle smiled as she moved to stand in front of him, "I mean you don't think it looks too, I don't know… It looks okay on me right?"
"Belle, you look...astounding in it. I mean words can't describe but your sure to knock some people out if you wear that to the dance. I mean Shawn is just going to fall like….Alicia Keys type falling."
Belle laughed at the reference and said, "Well this is not my dress wear, I plan on surprising everyone with that but I don't know about Shawn."
"Why? What's up with that department"
"Absolutely nothing, Phillip, I'm beginning to realize he's not the one I want."
Phillip stared at her confused, "What do you mean"
"This," was all Belle said as she went in for his lips and kissed him…..
Belle face shot up as she awakened from the dream to see her and Phillip had fell asleep on the couch. Having fell asleep on a whole bunch of notes from class. He lay on the right side of the couch with his hand propping up his head. And she'd been laying on his other arm. Shaking her head, she'd done it again with dreaming.
How was it she was able to have something before but not truly want it until it was gone?
Phillip no sooner woke up after her throwing out one of his dimpled smiles before he began speaking on how they must of dozed off along the way; when they were studying for Calculus. Before he soon realized he was going to be running late with his engagement with Chloe. He phoned her the minute he remember and went back to sitting on the couch with Belle.
Belle was then hit with a struck of genius as she thought of something to do to do with Phillip to make him realize that…. She hadn't known what yet but she wasn't ready to lose him yet. Before finishing her thoughts the doorbell chimed and who stood on the other side was no other person than Shawn. A wet one at that.
Quickly she tried to get rid of him before Phillip saw him and she went to standing out side the door with her hand still on the knob to close it. She somehow managed to draw Shawn away from the door as she told him she was busy at the moment to which he was cool with up until he heard a voice from behind the door.
"Who's that?" he asked moving Belle to the side softly.
"Oh that's um…um Phillip, he's here," she said coming out with the truth.
"Cool, so you don't mind if I join you guys I mean is Chloe here too?" he asked.
Then an idea struck Belle's mind, "You know what she isn't but I know she need a ride from work and me and Phillip were still working on some last minute problems, do you think you could pick her up for him?"
"Sure, no problem, she's at Basic Black right?"
Belle nodded sweetly as she kissed Shawn off and went back inside to Phillip, she knew she would have to hurriedly work to get her plan together if she wanted something in Phillip's mind to spark.
"So who was that?" Phillip asked when Belle came back in to the living room.
"Oh that was Shawn, but everything's okay and he's going to pick up Chloe for you so we can finish up these problems and I can show you something," she said stepping over to the couch and dragging Phillip into the kitchen.
"What are we going to do in here?" he asked as his foot stepped across the tiled floors.
"You'll see"
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Brady and Chloe danced in the rain playfully as she would push him onto the wet pavement then run like a school girl as her hair stuck to her face, melding into the roundness of it and dripping tangles of her hair lay on her back and shoulders. Brady chased her as he had finally got his way of getting the camera.
Though she did have her shots of him she caught. Like when they first came out and she pushed him into a puddle to break him into the water. Then there was the shot of him actually posing stupidly as if he were a girl. He even did a Mia Hamm and dropped to his knees and ripped off his business shirt to reveal his white undershirt, a tank that now hung close to each muscle of his torso.
Brady now having caught up with Chloe grabbed her and then turned her body to face him as she tried to continuously dash for an exit. She wiggled underneath his grasp and she finally stopped as he looked to her eyes.
She finally stopped laughing and looked to his as a beam of light, had now spotlighted down onto them. It was only just them again and Brady leant forward as Chloe tightened her arms around his back. She felt lifeless and on the verge of collapsing, things with Brady were always tense and confusing yet it was a rush to be with him. To be the one he talked to, to be his friend on an unique level no one could ever understand but them.
Brady moved a wet lock of hair from Chloe's face as she did so with his. It was so dark outside in the rain yet there was light cascaded upon them as they stayed lock in the embrace. When a voice started coming into reality for them.
"CHL….OE! CHLOE!" the voice shouted as they stepped outside their car after continuously blowing the horn to get their attention.
Shawn ran over to them and didn't notice what he'd interrupted, but knew that he was getting soaked in the process of coming to pick Chloe up.
"Hey Chloe, I came to get you since Phillip still had a few more problems to wrap up with Belle, so umm… do you like need a ride to the penthouse or your house to get some more clothes?"
Chloe looked at Brady to read his face, and then she walked off saying she'd be right back. She left the two in the rain as both soon realized it was still raining and Shawn actually ran to his car so that he could pull into a parking space while Brady ran into the building thinking, 'What just happened?'
TBC…………..
Chapter 10: Business and Pleasure
It was a rainy October evening that day at the office. Brady had decided to stay and work overtime to finish up some work over the new company that Basic Black had been trying to buyout. Thanks to some very good representatives and easily convinced clients, Basic Black was able to buyout the company in one lump sum. Kate even showed some enthusiastic reaction with the purchase as she kept saying, "We're getting there."
Since the addition to the teen market, the company had grown due to it's popularity in that department and with one specific model raising a lot of eyebrows, business had been going great, running smoothly and best of all, in an even better condition it had been in since John died.
Remembering, Brady let his head hang low for a brief second of praise and respect for the father who did so much in the time he had been here. A tear was in Brady's eye as he came back, and there Chloe was, standing in the doorframe of his office door. She walked over softly as she reached to wipe the tear from his eye.
As she did this, it took Brady back to that night, the night when him and her actually talked. And in that same moment, when she wiped his tear that night, some intimate bond formed with the two, silently they agreed to be there for one another that night. The night she opened up to him and the night he opened up to her…
(Flashback)
Laying on the bed with his hands being used as pillows he stared at the ceiling slowly pondering. Expecting her arrival since she should be coming back with Phillip anytime now. She may have been the last one to get the last word but he sure wasn't going to be gentlemen enough and wait for her so that he could hold the door for her. Slamming it on her at that given time would have been more preferable.
Just to think this was the same girl he couldn't keep from his thoughts all day since it was only in her photos that he had finally seen her. And now haven't met her, he couldn't see the beauty of the mystery that lied within her, she was just an empty confidential document that when opened outlined everything but meant nothing without the quality necessary.
Thinking of her photos though still had the power to take Brady away. As much as he could tell himself how much he could never like a girl like her, she was to young to cope with adult situations, he felt himself melt into her with those blue eyes, hidden soul, and what he could only imagine was a soft touch. Too deep into thought Brady hadn't heard when the living room door opened or shut. Nor could he hear the shrill of Belle's ecstatic voice when she saw Phillip's body enter nor could he hear Chloe make a comment about their tardiness. Nor could he had known what Phillip shared to Chloe on the ride back that enlightened her into his world and he couldn't expect coming from his deep thought to see her standing looking like she did minutes ago but just more beautifully at the door frame to his room. No he hadn't heard here come up the steps after telling Phillip and Belle she needed to take care of something immediately. So there she stood for the third time that day he was in awe of her. First with her photos, then at .com, and now her appearance here. Sitting up on his bed now, he had somehow managed to move his body to the edge of it and at some point when Chloe began walking to him his heart began working in overtime…never did the thought of 'why is she here' come about. There's living in the past and then there's living now.
Brady was personally living in the past for when she snuggled up to him closely all previous thoughts left his mind in an exasperated flutter. Hurriedly the thoughts went out for a long break and left the room to allow him to bask as she sat alongside him. He was wrapped in her arms in an embrace, while her head found it's way to his chest and became buried there.
His own arm slipped from it's position and wrapped her up tightly to his side as his head was left to inhale the scent of her beautiful hair. The softness of it as his arm laid on top of it. Time stopped for a brief moment so that each could sulk in the beauty of what this moment had truly been. The hug itself seemed to last forever but then again, it could have been eternity if Brady had his own input.
Yes he wondered silently as reality still hadn't set in but he knew that something had changed since their encounter at .com. The bitterness of the display each shared and the nasty words that came from them as they had a stand off of the wits. Only going for a simple mocha for Belle, things had got ugly once he came to be behind her in line.
But now it was different and Brady wasn't going to be the one to break the tension as she was already making a deep sigh getting ready to speak.
"I apologize for my actions and what I said earlier," she whispered still buried into his chest taking in the masculine scent of his cotton black shirt. "I know now, that we're not as different as it would seem"
Brady took into mind what she said then realized that to the ordinary eye they might had seemed to be people who known each for years. Yet today was the first time they met and just minutes ago was the first time they interacted, now they sat on his bed like friends. Having share in each other's secret, past, and future.
"But I wasn't the only one who's to blame, I mean I was kind of rude.." she began
Brady interjected by saying, "Kind of? How about full out rude, I was being nice to you before you went lethal"
"Well I'm not one to admit I'm fully wrong and in this case I wasn't, but still I'm sorry. But you have to understand I'm not one to put up with a lot and I know you're the same way as well because you and I are alike. We share something…" Chloe said as a tear welded it up her eye preparing to trickle down the side of her blushed cheek.
Brady reached softly and wiped the tear away, she trembled beneath his touch. His heart felt on the verge of collapsing at how the room became a little more tense. He still felt a question burning as to what she meant. And as if she were reading his mind she continued.
"Though your mother is dead mines just entered my life and for the longest time I hadn't even known she existed. I only had a father and some butlers and maids who acted as loving parents to me those days my father would be gone for days or months without whereabouts to where he was. All I knew was that he was traveling the world to come back to me with story's of love, romance, adventure, danger and mystery. While kids were told book story's I was told the tales my father had witnessed," Chloe smiled at the memory of her Uncle Bart telling her of one story about a Princess who fell in love with a priest when there had been a man in love with the Princess, it was tragic yet beautiful. Chloe thought for a moment on sharing this tender memory but realized it was too soon and it would be getting off topic. "I never had a mother to come into my room during the middle of the night when I lay wide awake due to the fact of my fear. My eye's would water as they burned, I knew I couldn't blink for if I did, I might become the dinner to whatever monster laid under my bed. And as I sat on my bed, my little girl wails would be sometimes heard by my surrogate parents as a maid would run in and tell me everything was all right. I'd cry because I knew I hadn't a mother to tell me that, I had the hired help who loved me more and for that I loved them more. So I know now, that you know the feeling to not have had a mother throughout your childhood. To be one parent short and be one sense extra," she whispered the next part as at some point during her talk she had began holding his hands; warm, safe and…different.
When she was finished, Brady hadn't known was to say but he spoke, "Chloe be thankful you have your mother now and that there's a second chance for you two to have something." Brady hadn't known of the girl for only a few days and he was advising her. There was something indeed they shared.
"But you don't understand how she wants to hold me back. She didn't even want me to work for Basic Black and that's something my father got me into when I came here. Then she doesn't want me to go back to New York next year to attend Julliard. I mean the only reason I'm here for senior year is because my father had some business to take care of and he thought I should try to spend some time with her," Chloe said as she turned to face him and their hands still intertwined with one another. She stared down to their locked fingers.
"I miss my father dearly, Brady. What you don't understand is that I'm staying with a family I barely know about Brady. I'm staying with the woman who carried me for 9 months and gave birth to me with her husband. I've only been there a short time, but I my eyes are so weary from the lack of sleep I'm getting, I lay awake now and wonder will I ever feel like I belong…." the tears wept slowly out her eyes.
Brady placed a kissed on her hand, "I'll be here for you"
(End of Flashback)
And so it had began since that night. She had been there for him and he had been there for her as friends. Though they had there days of exchanging barbs, no one could quite put a finger on their bond but it was there.
Chloe held Brady's hand and placed a kiss onto it as she pulled him forward to make him stand, "Come on"
"Where are we going? I mean, I have a ton of work Chloe I can't just up and leave now, besides that it's pouring down out there. Why are you still here anyways? I thought you hade a date with Phillip or something?"
"For one thing, me and Phillip are NOT dating, I repeat not dating. Try getting that through your pretty stubborn blond head."
"Aw, you know you want this Chloe…," Brady said hugging her and swaying her body in his arms. "Your just so beautifully stubborn about it"
"And so he feels better now, so let's go," she said grabbing his hand and rushing him out into the dark hallway.
"You didn't answer me Chloe, why are you still here and where are you trying to take me?," Brady said as he continued to let Chloe be his guide out his office and down the dark hallway whereas you couldn't see 2 feet in front of you.
"Phillip said he's running late. I don't know, him and Belle needed to take care of something and I just told him I'd get a ride with you since I knew you wouldn't mind."
"Riiight, sure I wouldn't mind. Now how do you know I didn't have some hot date to go to right after I was through with some work?," Brady smiled through the dark as he continued to walk with Chloe's firm grasp on his hand.
"Oh Brady, I didn't know you planned on taking me out today? You shouldn't said so," she smiled as he shook his head to his back fired crack on her. "Besides if you did, I'd have to give her the full application and interview, you know check her out make sure everything's in good quality and condition"
Brady's eyebrow raised, "Prey tell Ms. Wesley, what type of application and what do you mean everything works out?"
"Men, you always have to watch out for them. The application that I will certify saying she can be your date for the evening and that means making sure all her systems a go, but if she shows signs of having defaults she's just going to have to go back to the corner you purchased her from," Chloe smiled as she heard Brady laugh in the dark.
"You're a character, you know that. Like I'd ever need an escort"
"Well who needs one now Mr. Black…"
"That reminds me, where are we going?"
Chloe stopped and turned around to him in the dark. Even in the dark she could stare up to his blue eyes and see the beauty that lay in them. The appearance of crystals glimmer in no light. She raised her other hand to reveal a camera, "We're going to go outside and play in the rain, I get to be photographer for a day and I'm going to photograph you."
"Your crazy, have you seen how it looks outside? It's raining like cats and dogs out there! And besides you're the model, I should be photographing you," Brady winked to her as she shook her head amused at his way of saying he's the photographer.
"Sure Black, whatever you say…"
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Phillip sat on Belle's couch waiting for her to come down. He was already late to pick up Chloe and wasn't helping by taking all day to try on some dress his mother had bought for Belle. It wasn't as if he hadn't wanted to see it on her it was more of not wanting to let Chloe down, again. Each time due to errors on his part and the fact that Belle always came into needing something.
Phillip heard someone clear their throat and he turned to face a stunning Belle with her piled in a style on top of her head. She wore a designer dress that had two very short splits up the sides. The glimmering aqua blue dress extended as far as her knees, hugging the curves of Belle's slim body that seemed to not be so slim anymore. "uummm….," was all that elapsed in the minute silence from Phillips mouth.
"So I can take it that you like it right?" Belle smiled as she moved to stand in front of him, "I mean you don't think it looks too, I don't know… It looks okay on me right?"
"Belle, you look...astounding in it. I mean words can't describe but your sure to knock some people out if you wear that to the dance. I mean Shawn is just going to fall like….Alicia Keys type falling."
Belle laughed at the reference and said, "Well this is not my dress wear, I plan on surprising everyone with that but I don't know about Shawn."
"Why? What's up with that department"
"Absolutely nothing, Phillip, I'm beginning to realize he's not the one I want."
Phillip stared at her confused, "What do you mean"
"This," was all Belle said as she went in for his lips and kissed him…..
Belle face shot up as she awakened from the dream to see her and Phillip had fell asleep on the couch. Having fell asleep on a whole bunch of notes from class. He lay on the right side of the couch with his hand propping up his head. And she'd been laying on his other arm. Shaking her head, she'd done it again with dreaming.
How was it she was able to have something before but not truly want it until it was gone?
Phillip no sooner woke up after her throwing out one of his dimpled smiles before he began speaking on how they must of dozed off along the way; when they were studying for Calculus. Before he soon realized he was going to be running late with his engagement with Chloe. He phoned her the minute he remember and went back to sitting on the couch with Belle.
Belle was then hit with a struck of genius as she thought of something to do to do with Phillip to make him realize that…. She hadn't known what yet but she wasn't ready to lose him yet. Before finishing her thoughts the doorbell chimed and who stood on the other side was no other person than Shawn. A wet one at that.
Quickly she tried to get rid of him before Phillip saw him and she went to standing out side the door with her hand still on the knob to close it. She somehow managed to draw Shawn away from the door as she told him she was busy at the moment to which he was cool with up until he heard a voice from behind the door.
"Who's that?" he asked moving Belle to the side softly.
"Oh that's um…um Phillip, he's here," she said coming out with the truth.
"Cool, so you don't mind if I join you guys I mean is Chloe here too?" he asked.
Then an idea struck Belle's mind, "You know what she isn't but I know she need a ride from work and me and Phillip were still working on some last minute problems, do you think you could pick her up for him?"
"Sure, no problem, she's at Basic Black right?"
Belle nodded sweetly as she kissed Shawn off and went back inside to Phillip, she knew she would have to hurriedly work to get her plan together if she wanted something in Phillip's mind to spark.
"So who was that?" Phillip asked when Belle came back in to the living room.
"Oh that was Shawn, but everything's okay and he's going to pick up Chloe for you so we can finish up these problems and I can show you something," she said stepping over to the couch and dragging Phillip into the kitchen.
"What are we going to do in here?" he asked as his foot stepped across the tiled floors.
"You'll see"
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Brady and Chloe danced in the rain playfully as she would push him onto the wet pavement then run like a school girl as her hair stuck to her face, melding into the roundness of it and dripping tangles of her hair lay on her back and shoulders. Brady chased her as he had finally got his way of getting the camera.
Though she did have her shots of him she caught. Like when they first came out and she pushed him into a puddle to break him into the water. Then there was the shot of him actually posing stupidly as if he were a girl. He even did a Mia Hamm and dropped to his knees and ripped off his business shirt to reveal his white undershirt, a tank that now hung close to each muscle of his torso.
Brady now having caught up with Chloe grabbed her and then turned her body to face him as she tried to continuously dash for an exit. She wiggled underneath his grasp and she finally stopped as he looked to her eyes.
She finally stopped laughing and looked to his as a beam of light, had now spotlighted down onto them. It was only just them again and Brady leant forward as Chloe tightened her arms around his back. She felt lifeless and on the verge of collapsing, things with Brady were always tense and confusing yet it was a rush to be with him. To be the one he talked to, to be his friend on an unique level no one could ever understand but them.
Brady moved a wet lock of hair from Chloe's face as she did so with his. It was so dark outside in the rain yet there was light cascaded upon them as they stayed lock in the embrace. When a voice started coming into reality for them.
"CHL….OE! CHLOE!" the voice shouted as they stepped outside their car after continuously blowing the horn to get their attention.
Shawn ran over to them and didn't notice what he'd interrupted, but knew that he was getting soaked in the process of coming to pick Chloe up.
"Hey Chloe, I came to get you since Phillip still had a few more problems to wrap up with Belle, so umm… do you like need a ride to the penthouse or your house to get some more clothes?"
Chloe looked at Brady to read his face, and then she walked off saying she'd be right back. She left the two in the rain as both soon realized it was still raining and Shawn actually ran to his car so that he could pull into a parking space while Brady ran into the building thinking, 'What just happened?'
TBC…………..