Truth Be Told
Book One: Music of My Heart
Chapter Two
Gwen checked her self one more time in the mirror before applying a little more lipstick. She smiled at herself and ran a hand through her hair. Turning to her side she examined the pale blue tank top she was wearing along with a pair of tan paints and matching sandals. A soft knock on the door told her that Quatre had just arrived taking a deep breath she walked towards the door and opened it. Grabbing her matching blue purse and sweater from the table by the door she stepped out into the hallway. Quatre smiled at her and she smiled back. He was wearing black pants and a blue shirt.
"You look beautiful." Quatre said as he handed her a pink rose.
"Thank you." Gwen said as she opened her door and set the rose on the table inside.
"Should we go?" Quatre asked holding out his hand.
"Yeah I'm ready." she said taking his hand. Quatre tucked it into his arm and started walking down the stairs. Gwen couldn't fight the nervous feeling in the pit of her stomach. Not only was she going out with an incredibly hot looking guy but he was worth a lot of money so people would be watching their every move, not to mention he was a complete stranger Gwen had only known him a day. Quatre opened the car door once the got outside and helped her climb into it. He walked around the car and climbed in himself. Taking a deep breath he turned and looked at her.
"Are you nervous?" Startled Gwen turned and looked at him.
"What makes you think that?" Quatre smiled and turned to look at her, he reached over and took her hand and placed it over his heart.
"I'm nervous too." he said then he lifted her hand and kissed it gently before letting it go. Gwen blushed and pulled her hand away.
"How did you know?" she asked.
"I'm empathic like you are?" Gwen's head whipped around to look at him.
"What makes you think I'm an empath?" Quatre snorted.
"I can sense it."
"O. So were are we going?" Quatre smiled.
"Its a surprise." he said starting the car.
"Quatre I hate surprises just tell me...pplleeaassee!!"
"Nope."
"Please?"
"Nope."
"Why not?"
"Because I like to surprise people...just be glad a didn't blindfold you."
"You wouldn't!" Gwen said.
"The thought didn't cross my mind." he said smiling. Gwen grinned and looked out the window. "Your so lucky." she whispered.
"What makes you say that?"
"Because this place is so beautiful. I would love to live here." Gwen said sighing and inhaling the vastness around her.
"Maybe some day you can." Quatre whispered under his breath.
"Hmm? What did you say?"
"Nothing I was just agreeing with you." Quatre said as he pulled into the restaurants parking lot.
"This it?" Gwen asked at Quatre unbuckled his seat.
"Yep." he said as he opened her door and helped her out. "Dinner and dancing. Sound good to you?"
"It sounds like a blast." they entered the restaurant and were quickly seated. They placed their orders and shortly after began to eat. They made polite conversation but nothing personal was asked until Quatre caught Gwen staring at a couple on the dance floor. Before Quatre could even think he heard his voice asking her a question,
"Do they remind you of someone back home." Quatre mentally smacked himself he just practically asked her if she had a boyfriend back home. Gwen laughed.
"No. No one back home. Its to hard for me to date with two older brothers." Quatre released the breath he was holding. He stood up and walked over to were she was sitting.
"Then maybe you would like to make some memories now. Would you grant me the pleasure of a dance?" Quatre asked. Gwen smiled,
"I would love to." Taking his hand Gwen and Quatre walked out onto the dance floor. Just as they turned to face each other. A faster swing dance song started to play. Smiling Quatre pulled her closer to him.
"Just follow my led." he whispered as the two began to dance. Do a complication of dance moves soon had a crowd gathered around the edges of the dance floor. Shortly after people stopped dancing just to watch them. Quatre and Gwen we oblivious to the attention that they were getting, they were having to much fun. Gwen laughed as Quatre flipped her around and caught her just before she hit the ground as the dance ended. Gwen threw her head back and laughed. She slowly brought her head up to look at him. She didn't realize how close his face was and found herself getting lost in his eyes.
"You an incredible dancer." she whispered.
"As are you." he whispered back as he helped her stand. The audience applauded and Gwen and Quatre bowed to the group. The next song was much slower and Quatre guided Gwen's arms up around his neck and placed his hands on her hips. Quatre couldn't help but watch the rise and fall of her chest that gave a teasing few of cleavage. He instead focused on her eyes.
"Where did you learn to dance like that?" Gwen asked looking up at Quatre. He smiled down at her,
"When I was really young my sisters and I would get bored and we would go into the ball room and just messed around. You could say we invented our own form of swing dance before my father finally got around to hiring some one to teach us."
"Well you teacher did a great job."
"Thank you." They swayed back and forth to the music and once and a while their eyes would meet. The song ended and Quatre tilted his head side ways and said "Your a wonderful dancer." he looked straight down into his eyes and smiled. "Are you ready to go?" Sniffling a yawn, she smiled back up at him.
"Yeah. I guess I am." Grinning Quatre picked up the check and the two were heading out the door in no time at all. They got into Quatre's car and pulled out of the parking lot. As another surprise Quatre decided to take the long way home so they would drive by the lake front which was favorite place of him. "Wow." Quatre grinned as he watched out of the corner of his eyes how Gwen was reacting.
"Would you like to go down there?" he asked not taking his eyes away from the road.
"Could we?" she asked looking over at him.
"Sure." He said as he pulled over to the side of the road and they climbed out. Carefully removing his shoes and then helping Gwen remove hers the two started walking along the beach.
"Isn't it beautiful?" Gwen asked as she looked up at the stars.
"Enchanting." Quatre said looking at her profile. Gwen began turning in fast circles as fast as she could go.
"This reminds me of home. Its so beautiful and the air is so clean out here." She exclaimed while taking a deep breath in.
"You lived near a river?" he asked sitting down in the sand and patting the seat next to him.
"No. We lived by a lake. When we were trying to get Heero to open up I would take him for long walks along it." She smiled, "I was the first one he opened up to. We were walking a long the beach one night and he knelt down and smiled and gave a small chuckle and I asked what was so funny." she paused smiling to herself, "He said the only other women he had ever been on a beach with had been Relena Peacecraft and that he had threatened to kill her. That night I went into such shock that he started laughing at me. You haven't seen scary until you've seen Heero laugh." Gwen smiled.
"I bet that is quite frightening." he said look up at the stars. "Is this your first time on Earth?" Quatre asked after a couple of minutes.
"Yeah...Why?" Gwen asked as she lay down next to him in the sand.
"The moon looks so much more beautiful down here then it does in space...don't you think?" Gwen studied the moon for a couple of minutes.
"Yeah it does. It looks so much bigger and makes me feel so much smaller." she said staring up at the stars. She shivered a little bit as it started to get a little colder.
"Are you cold?" Quatre asked.
"Just a little bit." Quatre stood up and brushed the sand away from his pants. "Come on we should head back its getting late." Nodding Gwen excepted Quatre's hand and the two walked back to his car got in and headed home. Once they got home they went inside and were extra quiet as to make sure not to wake anyone up. As the reached the Gwen's door they said their good nights.
"I had a wonderful time tonight Quatre thank you for taking me out." Gwen whispered.
"It was a pleasure." Quatre said as he raised her and kissed it. "I'll see you tomorrow." He said as he started walking down the hall.
"Good night."
"Good night."
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Gwen opened her eyes to hear a loud shriek come from down stairs. Followed by some ones footsteps running up the stairs before bursting into Gwen's room.
"GWEN!" Gwen sat up to stare into Laura's smiling face.
"Laura quiet down its to early for this." Gwen said pulling the covers over her head.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME YOU AND QUATRE WERE AN ITEM?" Gwen sat up in bed.
"WHAT?"
"Its all over the papers have a look for your self." Laura reached over and grabbed the paper. In bold heading across the top of the paper it read;
WINNER HEIR FINDS A BRIDE AND CHILDREN
Gwen looked down at the article, "There must be three pages here." she whispered to herself. On the front page was a picture of Gwen and Quatre dancing at the restaurant the night before. The camera was angled to make it look the two of them were kissing. On the second page was a picture of Quatre and her at the park. Quatre was smiling slightly as he read while Gwen's head rested on his shoulder. Alex lay between them and Andy on the other side of Gwen. Quatre's arm was rapped around her waist as if pulling them all closer. Gwen felt a blush rise up in her cheeks.
"You two look so cute together. However I don't think it was very nice of them to say that Alex and Andy were your kids when everyone knows that they are Anna's kids. Unless they think that you guys were just using her as a cover." Laura said out loud as she thought.
"LAURA!"
"Sorry just thought." Throwing the covers back Gwen ran down the hall to Quatre's room. Finding that he wasn't in there she ran down the hall to his office.
"QUATRE?!" Gwen yelled knocking on the door. She opened the door just as he hung up the phone. "Did you see the morning paper?" Quatre nodded moving out from behind his desk.
"Just got off the phone with my lawyers. The only problem is that we can't sew. They are within there rights and didn't break any laws. I'm sorry that you had to get caught up in this though."
"I don't care about that I've had plenty of problems with the press. What I want to know is how many different papers have these pictures in it?"
"Well this paper wanted to be the first to let everything else so it won't release any of the pictures and ,thank god, I was able to pull together enough black mail to make sure they didn't give the pictures to any other paper company and these pictures won't leave the country."
"Well that's a relief." Gwen said sitting down in one of the chairs and rubbing her temples.
"Your telling me." He said sitting down next to her.
"So where to from here?" she whispered.
"Well we have two options; A) see this through and let everyone believe we're a couple or b) deny it and become subjected to more press inquires and affairs that we will have no control over."
"Well from my experience with the press," Gwen started, "They like the sad stories so if we go with choice A and make it seem like the perfect romance and keep a low profile."
"Eventually everything will die down."
"Exactly." Gwen said.
"So we're going with topic A?"
"I guess so."
"All right then what should be our first move?" Quatre asked.
"I don't know but nobody can know about this, every one must think that we are having a romance."
"All right. Tonight we'll go out to another restaurant and since I have to go on a business trip at the end of the week for a couple of days. We'll plan for you to come with."
"All right so that's our plan."
"I guess so. This is gonna be hard work though. To make every one believe it."
"I won't be to hard. We'll just have to make sure that we seem attracted to each other. When people are around and when there not. There is no telling when camera's might be hidden."
"Okay lets plan to have lunch together today in town. That will get some people to look at us at least." Gwen nodded and left his office. Went down the hall to her room and closed the door behind her. Throwing herself onto the bed she covered her face with her hands,
"What have I gotten myself into?"
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Hand in hand Gwen and Quatre made there way down the street towards one of the outdoor restaurants. They proceeded to ignore the stares and points that people were sending them. Every where they went every corner they turned they saw at least one paper with there faces on the cover. Quatre leaned over to her as they were waiting to be seated. Pressed a kiss on her cheek and then whispered in her ear. "Don't be nervous just pretend that this is really happening." Gwen nodded and Quatre put an arm around her waist and led her through the restaurant to their seats. They placed their orders and sat in conversation for a while. Quatre would gaze at her with love in his eyes and make comments that would cause her to blush every once in awhile. And through it all they held hands across the table. Gwen straightened in surprise when she returned from the ladies room and found a single red rose lying in front of her. She looked at Quatre who had a look of innocence plastered on his face.
"You didn't have to get me anything." Gwen whispered as the waiter set their food down.
"I know but I wanted to." he said raising her hand so he could kiss her finger tips. Gwen smiled and looked down out the rose. Just because they were pretending didn't mean he couldn't enjoy it, Quatre thought.
"Thank you. Its beautiful." she whispered fingering the rose. She leaned over and pressed a kiss on his cheek. Quatre blushed a little and then went back to eating his food. When they were done eating the two got up and decided to walk around for a little bit down town. They walked around bought a couple of little toys for Alex and Andy. Eventually they got tired and started walking back towards the mansion.
"We leave tomorrow." Quatre said. Gwen nodded her head not really paying attention. She was just trying to keep from getting knocked over by everyone in the busy market place. Quatre grinned as the passed by the music store. "Come on lets go inside." Quatre grabbed her arm and pulled her into the store. Gwen watched with amusement and Quatre looked around with excitement like a little boy at Christmas. Then over the speaker came a sweet little tune. Smiling Quatre turned towards her, "May I have this dance." All activity in the store stopped as Quatre danced Gwen around in his arms. "How's this for romance?" He whispered as he dipped her. Gwen giggled.
"Unlike anything I have ever experienced." she said smiling.
"Good then I will need to impress you as much as I can. That way I will never have to worry about loosing you." He whispered as the song ended. Gwen looked into his eyes and noticed something very different about them. She swallowed hard. Her heart beating faster. She had heard the seriousness in his voice and it was said so that only she could hear it. He thanked her for the dance and all she could see were his lips parting and wondering what it would feel like to have him kiss her. Quatre pulled her into a hug after he thanked her.
"We should probably kiss." she whispered. Quatre pulled back a little startled by what she said. "For appearances." she added quickly. Quatre nodded,
"Of course...for appearances." the two of them leaned in and gave a gentle quick peck on the lips. In that brief millisecond Gwen felt hundreds of emotions run through her body.
"We should probably head back." she whispered. Quatre nodded then taking her hand in his they headed back towards the house. Both unsure of what they felt during that one little kiss.
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Gwen and Quatre gave hugs to Andy and Alex before boarding their plane. After continues good byes and we'll be back soon; They got on their plane. Quatre and Gwen sat down next to each other on the plane. Gwen looked around,
"Are you sure there are no listening devices, or camera's in here?" she whispered.
"Positive. This is my private plane and my own men fly it and inspect it." he said taking her hand and squeezing it.
"All right." Gwen said sitting back in her chair and closing her eyes. They were going to L4 for a conference. It was going to be a long flight. Quatre pulled out his laptop and began working on some of his documents out of the corner of his eye he watched Gwen as she slept. She looked looks like an angel, Quatre thought. Her long brown hair cascaded over one shoulder and the yellow dress she was wearing complimented her curves and gave a teasing view of what lay beneath. Quatre found himself wondering what was under that- Quatre smacked himself. This was one of his friends sisters. Quatre ran a shaky hand through his hair. It was one thing have an interest in her but to start having sexual fantasies was passing the line. Quatre growled, it was going to be harder then he thought if they were to be pretending to have a love interest in. He looked over again at her as she shifted and made herself more comfortable. He smiled at her and tucked a stray hair behind her ear. Turning back to his computer he once again began preparing his documents for the conference that lay ahead. The place trip was about 6 hours. When they finally got there they were assaulted by camera's flashing every where. Quatre mentally smacked himself once again, one thing that he had forgotten only his home country had known about him and Gwen now the press attacked them with questions about how the two met and other things. Quatre took Gwen's hand and began the walk towards the awaiting limo. They climbed in and were whisked away to their hotel. Once they arrived at their hotel they had their bags brought up. While they waited for Quatre's guards to check the room, Gwen's cell phone went off.
"Please excuse me." she said. She turned on her phone as she walked over to one of the windows. "Hello?" she asked, she pulled the phone away as she heard one of her brothers screaming on the other line. At the moment she wasn't sure which one it was. She put the phone back to her ear. "Hello? Todd?" she sighed at least this was better then facing Heero. "Yes Todd I'm fine...no...no Todd I know what I'm doing."
"Are you sure?" Todd asked from the other line.
"Yeah I'm sure. It's just this press issue. We went out to dinner at home and the press went crazy over it, we thought it was better if we just went through with it." Gwen sighed as she heard Todd growl on the other line. "Todd I'm fine I swear and I promise to call you as soon as I can."
"Have you heard from any one else?" Todd asked.
"No. We decided not to contact each other unless it was an emergency."
"Did Heero tell Quatre that there are three of you?"
"No and I don't plan on telling him any time soon. Look I got to go. We have a meeting."
"All right I'll let you go. I miss you."
"I miss you too Todd. I'll see you when I get back."
"Bye."
"Bye." Gwen turned off her cell phone and went to sit down next to Quatre. "That was brother Todd."
"I take it he heard about us on the news?"
"Yep and if I'm right it will only be a matter of time before Heero-" As if on cue her phone started to ring. Quatre chuckled,
"Heero?"
"Must likely, this may take a while. I guess I'll see you at the company dinner." Quatre nodded as Gwen turned on her phone to try to calm down the ragging Heero.
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