Chapter7: An Unholy Alliance

Summmmary: Annette comes to a suprising desecion as Kathryn and Sebastian's plan progresses.



Annette Hardgrove was literally walkinng on air ever since Sebastian called her and asked to see her. At first whe was a little hesitant until Kathryn called her and iformed Annette how remorseful he was. Just maybe she would give him a second chance.

"Annette your friend Sebastian here." Mrs. Hardgorve called up the stairs.

"Thanks mom." Annette called down to her mother. She gave a quick look in the mirror to check her appearence and went to go down the stairs.

As she walked down the stairs she saw Sebastian look up when he heard her. His face lit up with a smile and Annette felt her heart soar. Just maybe things would workout for them.

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Everything about their night out was perfect. They went to an early showing of the latest Sandra Bullock movie and topped it off with an intimate dinner at a small cafe in the city. Annette was literally glowing. This night felt so magical.

"Oh Sebastian this night is so wonderfeul." Annette cooed breathlessy to him.

Sebastian smiled. "Good I want you to know how serious I am about us trying again."

Annette smiled shyly and ducked her head down so Sebastian couldn't see her blush. Ever since she was a little girl she dreamed of meeting her Prince Charming and she felt she finally met him. Not only was this date wonderful, he acted like the perfect gentleman all night. Life couldn't be better!

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After a chaste kiss good bye and watching Sebastian drive away, Annette merrily made her way up her front walk. She wanted to get in her house so she could relive the night in her head. She was thinking that when she suddenly felt someone grab her from behind.

"What the-?" Annette yelped out. Her worse fears were coming true ,some mugger was attacking her! She opened up her mouth th let out a scream out for help.

To her suprise a large hand immediately covered her mouth. "Will you shut up?" An impatient voice said to her.

Annette opened her eyes to face her attacker and was suprised to see Court Reynolds! "Court?" She asked in suprise. "What the hell are you doing?"

Confident that Annette calmed down. Court moved them both into the light of the front yard. "Ohmigod!" Annette said in suprise once she saw his face in the light. He looked like he was in a car accident or something. His face was badly bruised and had a cut above his lip. "What happend to your face?"

Court grimaced slightly before answering. "Your new boyfriend and his partner in crime."

Annette was confused. Did he actually mean Sebastian?! He would never do such a thing! And who was his partner in crime?

Looking at Annette's confused face, Court snickered slightly. She too had been conned by the grusome twosome. "Yes Anette I mean Sebastian and his charming partner Kathryn." Court said bitterly.

"No way!" Annette refuted in disbelief. Sebastian and Kathryn had been nothing but nice to her. Wouldn't she see some kind of sign of their deviousness? Noone was that good of an actor!

Court stared at her for a few seconds. They really had Annette conned! "Look at my face Annette how else do you think it got like this?" Court said calmly.

Annette refused to entertain the thought of Sebastian doing such a thing. "If you are so convinced that they are responsible then let's go confront them."

Court stared at Annette in shock. Was she really that gullible? "Fine let's go." Court snapped walking angrily to his car.

Annette began to follow confident that she would prove him wrong.

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Driving home Sebastian reflected about his date with Annette. One time he felt he could fall in love with her. She was everything that he never saw growing up. A decently kind person with no hidden agenda. At first he silently resented Kathryn for pushing him to attempt to seduce and destroy Annette. But after the date he realized Annette wasn't who made him happy. Sure life with Annette would be calm , but boring! And he knew that it would slowly drive him crazy. It wasn't life with Annette wouldn't unpleasent it's just that it really where his desires laid. As he pulled up to his house he saw the subject of his desire calmly sitting on his front steps.

As soon as he shut off his car Kathryn walked towards his car. "Hey sugar looking for a date?" She called out to him as he opened his car door.

"Only if the price is right." Sebastian said playing along.

"Trust me it is." Kathryn said and opened his passenger door and slid in.

"So how was your date with Country Sally?" Kathryn said teasingly.

"Pleasent. Like no other experince I ever had before." Sebastian answered back looking at Kathryn for her expression.

"Screw you." Kathryn yelled at Sebastian and moved to slap at him. Sebastian chuckled at the fact that Kathryn didn't suprise him at all. He knew her so well.

Sebastian moved into her and leaned his head towards her. " Well what do you expect? It's been so long that I forgot how you were in bed." Sebastian said huskily.

Kathryn felt a shudder go through her as she felt his close presence. "Hmmm maybe I should refresh your memory." Kathryn said and began to climb into his lap.

So intent on their screwing they did not notice a car slowly drive down the street and parked across the street from Sebastian's car.

"What is he doing?" Annette asked. She came to his house confident that Sebastian would prove him wrong, but watching him doing something in his car with someone she felt slightly alarmed.

"Here use this." Court said tossing her a pair of binoculars. Annette looked at him questioningly then shook her head. She didn't even want to know why he had them in his car and what he did with them.

Leaning out of the car window Annette began to watch Sebastian's car with the binoculars. She really wasnt sure what was going on. She could of sworn she saw someone with light brown hair toss their head back. She really couldn't see anything at the angle she was. "I am going closer to the car." She informed Court.

He looked at Annette slightly alarmed. "What if he sees you?" He asked.

Annette silently debated this for a few seconds. What would she say if he did see her? Hi Sebastian I am out for some late night bird watching? Screw it! Sebastian's past behavior left a lot to be desired and she would never be satisfied with never knowing. Carefully she walked to his front yard and positioned her directly across his car and peered through the binoculars. What she saw parctically took the breath out of her.

Sebastian's head was leaned back and he was obviously in some kind of state of pleasure. And a head with light brown hair bobbed up and down . It couldn't be! Pervesely Annette continued to watch to see for sure who this head of light brown hair belonged to. She didn't need to wait for long because shortly after the person raised her head for a long lingering kiss with Sebastian. Annette wanted to vomit. All along they were playing her and she felt right for it!

Weakly she barely made her way back to the car and opned the car to get in.

"I guess you got your proof." Court said quietly as soon as he saw her face.

Annette looked up and glared at Court. "What did you want by telling me?" Annette asked coldly.

Court was waiting for this moment ever since that horrible night at the club. The goons took him to the back alley and began to beat the shit out of him. Only passing headlights stopped them from finishing the job. He somehow dragged himself home and began to plan someway to get his revenge. After hearing through some people about Sebastian dating Annette, Court began to form his plan. He figured that Annette really didn't know about the true Sebastian, and would be horrifed when she found out. He proved to be correct and honestly couldn't have planned this night's events perfectly.

"I am so glad you asked that question?" Court began.