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The Loser's Club Ch.35

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" Hang on." Brian ran from the bathroom, trying to button his shirt as his went. "I'm coming." He opened the door and gasped in shock. 

"Pick your mouth up off the floor, Lopez-Fitzgerald." Kay pushed past him, and walked into the room doing a slow spin, to show off her black cocktail dress.

"Madre Dios." She looked breathtaking, the dress clung to her curves, and the slit on the right side showed just enough leg to make him want to lock her up. Her beautiful hair piled onto of her head, with three small wisps of hair framing her angelic face. "I can't let you out of this room, you look to good." "We leave this room, and I'll have to hurt the first man that glances at you. "

"Flirt." Kay however was having similar ideas, Brian too was looking good enough to kill for, and he was wearing a black linen suit with a gray-banded collar shirt that emphasized his strong shoulders. "You look handsome."

"Well I have to, can't take a goddess on the town looking like a pauper." Brian saw the ring box still on his bed, and scrambled to figure out how to get it without Kay seeing. Using his sexiness grin he takes her into his arms and turns back toward the door, leaving just enough time to slip the ring into his pocket." Come my love, dinner awaits."

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"Grace are you ready?" Sam called from the hallway checking the mirror one last time. He walked back into the family and room and found Charity smiling at him, which was strange considering what Grace had told him about what happened at the hospital with Miguel. "You're sure you going to be okay on your own."

"I'm not on my own Uncle Sam, John and Jessica are here." As if they heard their name the two siblings waked into the room. "See."

"Sam I'm ready." Grace and gave her niece a conspiring wink. " Let's go don't want to be late."

"Ok, Bye kids." Sam gave a wave as he opened the door for his wife and started for their car, leaving a grinning Charity behind to answer the stares of her cousins.

"What is that look about?" Jessica asked looked a little worry; the look on her face was very similar to one on Kay's when she was plotting.

"I just have a feeling that things are going to get better." Charity gave a wide smile.

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Just as predicted gentleman at the Seascape couldn't keep their eyes off Kay, but Brian was taking it better then he predicted he merely glared at men that he caught starring. He was a little more then relived when they sat down and most of the stares stopped. " You see." Brian motions toward the waiter that had taken their order all the while staring at Kay. " I'm going to have to hurt someone."

"Down boy, you're the one I'm going home with." Kay smiles and caressed his hand. " So how was your day?"

"It's was okay, I talked to Gabe, who's said, and I quote ' Had Lovely Kay picked me, she wouldn't have ended up like an extra in a Giligan's Island Episode'." " But it would have been better is I could have spent the day with you."

"We needed to rest, and you and I rarely rest when we're together, besides I had to have that talk with Charity." Kay looked down at her napkin, Brain knew all of her secrets, but the topic of Miguel was still a very touchy issue with Brian.

"How'd that go?" He keeps his voice nice and casual, which told Kay immediately that he was feeling anything but.

" Well, she's doing better, I think it made her feel better to know that he was just confused."

Brian began playing with his fork, and looking around the room. " So you think he's confused."

"Yeah, he is, she's been his true love since he first saw her, he literally went to hell for her." "There's no other explanation for it."

"Or." The fork that he had been playing with dropped to the table with a loud thud. " He could actually be in love you." His eyes didn't meet hers, but they didn't need for the message to be sent.

"That's it." Kay threw down her napkin and began walking toward the exit.

"Whoa." Brian quickly caught up to her, and gently pulled her back to the table enlisting stares from the patrons, and a pitied expression from Chad, at the DJ table. "What was that?"

Kay looked at him as if he had grown an extra head. " That was me fed up, with the Miguel issue. " "I am only interested in it because he's being a real jerk to my cousin, who I now happen to like, at least more then I like him. " "But what is really annoying is that you don't believe me."

" Kay, I…"

"Still talking." Kay slammed her fist down on the table, which got them another round of stares from the surrounding dinners. " Obviously you don't because you keep suggesting that Miguel loves me, like it matters." "And it doesn't, because for some strange reason I'm in love with dumba*! Miguel's dumber older brother." Closing her eyes she tries to go over all the reason, she actually loves Brian and releases a breath." I love you, Brian, and nothing except maybe your stupidity will change that."

Brian kissed her hand and began stroking it. " I'm sorry I'm so insecure." He gives a shy smile. " I just keep thinking that you're too good to be true, and definitely to good for me." "But I get it now, and you won't have to go over this 'Miguel Issue' again." " I love you too, and I'll just trust that from now on."

"Good now we can continue our romantic dinner." Kay leaned over to kiss him when a couple at the entrance caught her eye, and she groaned. "Spoke to soon."

Brain followed her gaze, and returned the sentiment. Centered in the entryway were Grace and Sam Bennet, and upon seeing him and Kay Grace smiled and Sam glared. " This town needs more then one restaurant."

"Shut up and smile because they're coming this way." Kay put a huge smile on her face as her mother rushed over dragging her father behind. " Hi Mom, Dad." She hugged her mother but merely nodded to her father who was continued to glare at Brian. 

"Kay, Brian, we didn't know you'd be here." Grace keeps up her cheery façade all the while cursing her bad luck. Convincing Sam that it was a good idea was one thing, but doing it while Kat and Brain were there was different. Sam would have a visual aid that wouldn't ease his mind.

"Well, I thought it be nice to treat Kay to a night on the town."

" It's the least you can do after almost getting her killed."

Kay narrowed her eyes, and started to speak when her mother intervened. " We'll let you get on your evening, and I'll talk to you later okay honey." Grace kissed her cheek and waved to Brain before dragging Her husband to their table.

Their waiter returned with their dinners and they made small talk about various things but the atmosphere was more somber then ever before.

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"I can't believe you." Grace shot her husband a chilly look that should have left the lawman dead. " I understand that you're don't like it, but do you have to mention it to Kay, can't you see how much it hurts her not to have your support." "You and Kay used to be so close, and now you're barley speaking"

"If you haven't notice it yet, my daughter is not the same person she was, and it's due to him."

"You're right she has changed." "Tell me five months ago, what did you think Kay was going to do when she graduated?"

Sam shrugged. " I don't know probably, take the summer off, and in the fall sign up for a few classes." Kay hadn't seemed at all interested in following Noah to college in Texas, or in continuing to work at her mothers shop.

" But instead she's taking summer classes, and signed up for fulltime at Castleton College, she has a internship lined up with Gabe Cortez, and she is happy." "Just in case you haven't notice all that happened the same time she started spending time with Brian."

Sam ventures a glance at his daughter and sees her playing with her food, and nodding at something HE said. " She doesn't look that happy to me."

"That's because her father who she loves and respects, is sitting here be all annoying and disapproving and it's hurting her." She throws down her napkin and stands. " I'm going to say hi to a vendor for my shop, when I get back I hope I find the caring understanding man that I married."

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"Do you want to go?" He watched her continue to play with her food. Sam Bennet was lucky he understood that he was just angry, because anyone else that had made Kay feel this way would have surely got a fist to the face.

"No." She looked up startled. " We're having a romantic dinner, and I'm not going to let anything get in the way." She gave a weak smile, and looked around the room. " Let's dance."

Brian fought the large grin, and nodded, but motioned for her to stay seated. " Hold on, be right back." He walked toward the DJ table and began talking to Chad; he came back with the same grin and opened his arms. "Come on my love." 

Kay stepped into them and let him lead them to the dance floor just as Chad got on the mike. " Good Evening Ladies and Gentleman, let's start the night off with a song for that special someone." The melody started and Kay and Brian lost themselves in the music.

Don't even like think about it

I don't know what I'd without it

I only know I live and breath for your love

"Hello Chad." Grace stood beside him and watched the couple of the floor. " Nice music selection."

"Hey Mrs. Bennet, I'd like to take credit, but Brian choose the song." The couple on the floor, looked perfect for each other, they were completely in sync with each and moved as one person. " They make a nice couple, don't they?"

"I think so." She looks over at her husband who, is staring at the couple with a blank unreadable face. "I just hope other people can see that too."

Baby you came to me in my time of need

When I needed you

You where there for me

Baby the love from you

 Is what me through

It's because of you that I was able to

 Give my heart again

Holding Kay in his arms he realized how sill he had been early, he couldn't imagine her fitting in anyone arms the way she fit in his, like she was suppose to be here. He silently prayed that he would not screw this up, because he knew without her he wouldn't survive.

You gave me

Someone to love

Someone to trust

Someone to hold

Someone to know

You gave me

Someone to love

Someone to trust

Someone to hold

Someone to know

I thought I never love again

I thought my life was all right

I didn't face or even seen another day Babe

Suddenly form nowhere baby you appeared

You dried my tears, you cared for me

Baby your love for me

Truly rescued me

It's because of you that I was able to fall in love again

You gave me

Someone to love

Someone to trust

Someone to hold

Someone to know

You gave me

Someone to love

Someone to trust

Someone to hold

Someone to know

 For so long in my life,

I wouldn't let love inside,

But I swallowed my pride

The day you arrived

And now with you by my side

Everything is all right

It's because of you that I was able to

Give my heart again

Sam watched the couple with narrowed eyes. So what if they looked nice together, and that everyone else in town seemed to think they were a great couple. Lopez-Fitzgerald was still a twenty five year old man dating his eighteen-year-old daughter; he endangered her life in the hurricane, and had her lying to everyone.

Though if he was honest he hadn't come right out and asked her if she was seeing someone much less Brian, and he never told her that he disapproved of a friendship between the two so it was quite possible that it did start out just as innocent as they claim, and he didn't really have a problem with Brian until he found out about him and Kay. And no matter what he told Grace or anyone else, he did miss how close he and Kay were especially in those last few weeks before he found out, he had seen a change in her that he just attributed to her maturing.

"Damn it, I'm softening."

You gave me

Someone to love

You gave me

Someone to trust

You gave me

Someone to hold

You gave me

Someone to known

With the music fading away Brian lead Kay back to their table where their desserts waited. Brian sat down and felt for his pocket where the ring box was, and took it out, placing it on the table. " Kay we uh…."

Kay looked up to smile at him when she caught sight of the ring box on the table and froze. " Brian uh, oh god."

 He tried to categorize the look on her face but couldn't." Kay, I love you, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you, and...."

"Brian, stop." She loved him with everything she ad, but eighteen was too young to get married, and she suddenly saw Theresa' life flash before her eyes." I can't marry you now."

"What?" He gaze followed hers to the ring box, and shook his head, giving a wry smile." No, I wasn't going ask that."

"You're not." At his nod she let out a breath of relief, then narrowed her eyes. " Why not?"

"Because I don't think you're ready, which is why you stopped me from proposing, and I'm not exactly ready either." He opens the ring box and laughs at her expression of delight." Think of it as a pre-engagement ring." He takes the ring out of the box and motions for her hand, which she gives him with s large smile, and stops, with the ring just at the tip of her finger. "So will you Katherine Elizabeth Bennet.."

"SONOFABITCH." Kay eyes flew form Brian smiling face to the man standing behind him, groaned.

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Coming Soon:

We finish up dinner at Seascape.

Check in with some other Harmony residents.