Hey guys, I'm back...sorry it took a little longer than I though but I've had some problems, but here I am again.... By the way, you didn't say anything about the re-posted chapter (Chapter 3) what do you think??? Thank you Julie, for everything...and to Orne and Lissie, I know I can also count with you guys, thank you....
Chapter 4
"Guilt but not regrets ... Bye"
Phoebe had finally got the chance to go to her bedroom. She had gone straight to the convention without even sign in the Hotel. It had been the most boring event she could even imagine. Putting the nice flight aside; which almost loses, by the way, everything was going wrong. 'Oh Elise I'll kill you', she thought. Everything was going wrong for her in this trip. First she almost loses the plane; she got late to the convention because it started earlier; when she had to do a position she messed up with her notes and got confused and made a complete fool of herself in front of more than a hundred persons. It was almost nine o'clock in the night, and she could finally get to her room. She then started to put the clothes in the drawers and set the cosmetics in the bathroom and freaked out when the cosmetic's bag was empty and her toothpaste wasn't there.
"Damn it!", she cursed, "Where in the hell is my White Sensation Colgate?!". She realized she hadn't put when she packed. This really pissed her off, because besides the awful day she was having, she had very sensible teeth and she was cranky towards tooth products. The hotel's store was closed; she noticed it when she passed it before take the elevator, and she hated the regular toothpaste the hotel could provides you. So she thought in an idea.
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Cole had had a hard day as well. He was now working in the hotel bedroom. He sat to work in his laptop since he had got there like two hours ago. He hadn't even undressed when he came; he just took off his suit jacket and tie, served himself a scotch and sat to work. Suddenly his cell phone rang and he picked it up
"Cole Turner"
"Daddy?", a sweet voice asked
"Hey sweetheart", he replied with a smile
"I wanted to say good night", she said. Emma used to call him to say good night when he was out of town for a business trip
"That's great. What did you do today?" he asked
"I went to school and the teacher gave me a star today", she said proudly
"Wow. That's great, honey. That's because you're so smart", he said as any proudly father
"Thank you. Then I came home and I didn't see you", she said sadly
"Yeah, baby, I know. I had to leave before you came back from school. But I'll be there in a couple days"
"You promise?", she asked
"I promise" he replied
"Double promise?", she begged
"Yeah, double promise"; he answered smiling
"I miss you", she told him
"I miss you too, honey", he said.
"Daddy, I know you always bring me a gift when you're in a trip. But this time could you bring something to Phoebe too?", she asked innocently
"Phoebe?", he asked confused
"Yeah, you know, my turtle. I hid it in a box underneath my bed, so mom couldn't see it", she whispered.
"Ok, that will be our big secret", he whispered back and she smiled. Although he couldn't see it, he knew she was smiling.
"Ok", she said
"Alright, baby, It's late, you should go to bed", he said
"I want to talk to you a while longer", she said with disappoint
"Emma...", he stated
"Alright. I love you, daddy", she said
"I love you too, baby. Now go to sleep", he said
"Good night", she said
"Good night and don't let the bed bugs bite", he added
"Bye", she said and hung up. Then Cole came back to his work when he heard a knock in the door. He got up and headed to open de door.
"Cole?", she said surprised
"Phoebe", he said. The truth was that she didn't expect this to happen. With all the toothpaste stuff, she decided to knock to the next bedroom after hers, and ask to the person who would be there for toothpaste. It was stupid to bother some strange for that, but it was important for her.
"Wow, we have to stop meeting like this", she said, "I'm in the next room. The 310", she said. Cole's was 311.
"Great, look like we're neighbors here too", he commented with a smile.
"It's great it's you and not some strange. I need a favor from you", she told him
"Sure. Tell me, how can I help you?", he offered
"I'm a person with very sensible teeth, you know and I'm kinda cranky with toothpaste. I hate the ones from the hotel, and I left mine, so would you...if you have any-", she asked
"Sure", he nodded and entered to the bathroom. "Does 'White Sensation Colgate' work for you?", he asked
"Of course. Thank you sooo much, you're my lifesaver", she thanked him with a smile
"Oh, don't worry", he said.
"I'll bring it back to you later", she replied and got out of his room when Cole closed the door, she knocked again.
"Wow, you're really fast", Cole said laughing and she laughed as well
"Oh... you must be hating me, but I need another favor. When I knocked you the first time I forgot the damn card inside the room. Could you open the door that communicates both rooms, so I can come in mine?", she asked
"Of course", he replied and did what she asked
"Thank you", she said, "I hope I can thank you for this", she said
"Oh, you can", he stated
"How?" she wondered him
"Are you busy right now?", he asked
"Not really. I was going to wash my teeth. That's all I had planed", she replied
"Ok, go and don't close the door", he said pointing to the internal door that communicated both bedrooms. Some minutes later, she came back and get in his room again.
"So tell me, what can I do?" she asked
"I need an opinion", he started, "I have a deposition tomorrow and I've been working in a power point's presentation that I'll use with it. I'd like you to watch it and tell me what you think", he said pointing to his laptop
"Ok", she nodded and sat in the chair Cole had been working before and saw the presentation in the computer.
While she was doing this, he asked, "Would you like something to drink?"
"Oh, mineral water. Thank you", she said
Cole took a mineral water from the mini-bar and served it in a glass.
"Here", he said
"Thank you", she replied, "Ok, I'm done", she said
"What do you think?" he asked
"I think it's great. I know that in the corporate world all is different, but I'd just put a line in these tittles here... and here. Do you mind if-?", she said
"Please. Go ahead", he allowed her and she made some changes. In the end it was great. "I like it better this way", Cole expressed
"Good I could help you", she replied. Cole then noticed he was done and shut off the laptop and sat in the table with Phoebe.
"So...how was your convention?" Cole asked to make some chattering
"Oh it was hell", she said sincerely. "It was awful and think about I have to go tomorrow again", she said
"Too bad. My case wasn't disney land either, but I wouldn't say is that bad", he commented
"Sometimes I hate business trip, you know. You have to work, to be alone and eat alone"
"Yeah, you're right, I hate to eat by myself. But we could make something about that. Why don't we take breakfast together in the morning, since we're in close rooms?"
"That'd would be great", she nodded and agreed.
"I've heard the house's breakfast of this hotel was very good" He added
"Really? Well, I guess we'll try it on tomorrow", she said.
"Great" he nodded.
They kept talking and laughing for almost two more hours. It was incredible the chemistry they had. It was late and they were in the internal door of the rooms and they were going to kiss goodbye in the cheek. Phoebe kissed him in the cheek and then he kissed her in the cheek again. Then they didn't broke apart and kept kissing each other with light kisses in the face until their lips met. It was softly and gently at first. All the tension that was hidden inside of them since they had met, and when they had kissed in the plane and didn't say anything about it, took over them. The things started to heat up and Phoebe wrapped her arms around his neck and ran her hands through his hair while their kiss became more passionately and demanding. Still in each other embrace they broke apart for an instant and breathless they looked at each other in the eyes, and without a word they closed their eyes and started to kiss again. They started to run their hands in each other's body, while they were exploring each other mouths. They shouldn't be doing this, they were married people, but it felt so damn right, that they kept doing it. They slowly started to walk inside Cole's bedroom again never breaking the kiss. Once there, they started to undress each other. Phoebe started to unbutton his shirt and let it fall in the grown. The same way he took off her jacket and blouse, and her shoes and pants followed. She undid his belt and pants letting them fall to his ankles and they slowly laid down in the bed. He was in top of her and broke the kiss.
"We shouldn't be doing this", he said almost breathless
"I know", she replied in the same condition. When you could think they were going to break apart, get dressed and forget the whole incident, like they had done before. They started kissing again, more passionately, deeper and demanding this time. The moment, the passion took over them and drove them to this point. It was like something they had been missing lately and they found again in each other.
He kissed her everywhere with such care and passion. Every touch and kiss was softly and gently, but passionately and sensually at the same time. She shivered with the tender and soft touch of his hands all over her body. They just forgot about everything else and focused in love each other. They both were full of passion and desire for the other, which was showed in caress, kisses and touches.
He worked his hands and mouth in her, in a way that made her feel different, but good different, GREAT different, actually. And there, kissing each other while exploring their bodies, which were new for them, they made love.
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They were laying in each other arms, recovering for all the lovemaking. He had his arms around her and she was softly squeezing his hands. They reminded there like that and quite for some minutes.
"Wow, that was incredible", she was the first in broke the silence
"Yeah, it really was", he agreed
"I had never done this before, you know", she confessed
"Well, you did it good, pretty good actually", he replied playfully. Of course, he knew that wasn't what she meant.
"No", she laughed. "That's not what I mean. What I mean is that I had never cheated on my husband before", she said guilty
"Neither had I", he replied
"You had never cheated on your wife?", she asked surprised
"No, I had never cheated on your husband either", he replied playfully and they both laughed, "But it's true, I had never cheated on my wife either"
"Really? I don't believe you", she said
"Why? Why is so hard to believe?", he asked
"Well, you're a guy and you're a lawyer", at this he chuckled.
"So, you feel guilty?", he asked more serious
"Yes", she replied
"Do you regret it?", he asked again
"No", she told him, "You?" she then asked back
"Me neither", he said. He then grabbed her hand in his. "What are we gonna do?. After", although he was afraid to ask this, somebody would bring the subject up, so, he did it.
"Nothing. We'll finish our business here, come back to San Francisco, and then keep going with our lives. I guess.", she said in a calmly tone. She just said what was in her mind in that moment. She knew both of them had already their own life. And there was no place for either of them in the other's life.
"Sounds like a plan. So that's it? A one night thing?" he asked.
She just sighed and said "Yeah", almost like a whisper. It didn't surprised him; she was married, he was married and had a child; they barely knew each other, although they had come to a deeper level in their relationship.
They both knew it was wrong, it was bad, it was forbidden; but it happened and they didn't regret it, they felt guilty but didn't regret it.
"So... are we still on to take breakfast together on the morning?", he asked sarcastically trying to sound casual.
After she laughed, she replied, "Yes, why not? I still wanna try the hotel's breakfast". The truth was that this guy made her laugh. It was something people have or don't have, and he definitely had it. He could make your day or cheer you up with a little joke.
They stayed like that in each other arms and fell asleep until very early in the morning the next day. Phoebe woke up and Cole was lovingly watching her sleep.
"Hey", he said very softly
"Hey" she simply replied and they lightly kissed in the lips. "I had a wonderful night", she then said and he smiled. He knew it was the moment, he didn't want it to be over, but it had to be, he knew that once she left the room, everything would be like before again, and the little perfect world that had existed that night in that room would not longer exist anymore. Once she left the room, they would be back to normal and act like nothing had ever happened between them; it had happened before when they kissed in the plane, it would probably happen again it was something that was beyond their power. They were married and for them, be together wasn't right, it was forbidden, so they let it be just a one night thing.
"Yeh, so did I", he said in the same softly tone
"I should be leaving", she said. She didn't want to, but she had to.
"Ok", he sadly nodded. If it had been just an affair, not even an affair just a one night thing, something you do when you're away home...if it had been just for the moment, maybe because they needed it, why were both of them so sad to leave the other?... it was something to think about along with the big rush of new emotions that were hunting them since some hours ago.
"I'll meet you to take the breakfast", she said and kissed him in the lips
"Oh, you haven't forgot it have you?", he asked her playfully
"Of course I haven't. I'm already hungry", she replied with a grin and they kissed one more time. "Bye", she slowly and softly said. She gathered her clothes and got dressed, then left room. This 'Bye' didn't just mean that they were saying a 'goodbye, I'll see you in a while', this good bye was a 'This was great, but will never happen again'. They both knew it and didn't have other choice than accept it. It was 'bye' to this little, wonderful and forbidden adventure that is called 'us'; since in the real world 'Us', for them could never be.
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Ok, guys I think we arrived to the part of the story all of you know would come....you know for the title, anyway tell me what you think, and I gotta say that important things are awaiting...what would you think will happen with them? Is it over? It will be just a one night thing? Will they ever see each other again??? What do you think? Idea or suggestions???? Please, say something...
Chapter 4
"Guilt but not regrets ... Bye"
Phoebe had finally got the chance to go to her bedroom. She had gone straight to the convention without even sign in the Hotel. It had been the most boring event she could even imagine. Putting the nice flight aside; which almost loses, by the way, everything was going wrong. 'Oh Elise I'll kill you', she thought. Everything was going wrong for her in this trip. First she almost loses the plane; she got late to the convention because it started earlier; when she had to do a position she messed up with her notes and got confused and made a complete fool of herself in front of more than a hundred persons. It was almost nine o'clock in the night, and she could finally get to her room. She then started to put the clothes in the drawers and set the cosmetics in the bathroom and freaked out when the cosmetic's bag was empty and her toothpaste wasn't there.
"Damn it!", she cursed, "Where in the hell is my White Sensation Colgate?!". She realized she hadn't put when she packed. This really pissed her off, because besides the awful day she was having, she had very sensible teeth and she was cranky towards tooth products. The hotel's store was closed; she noticed it when she passed it before take the elevator, and she hated the regular toothpaste the hotel could provides you. So she thought in an idea.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Cole had had a hard day as well. He was now working in the hotel bedroom. He sat to work in his laptop since he had got there like two hours ago. He hadn't even undressed when he came; he just took off his suit jacket and tie, served himself a scotch and sat to work. Suddenly his cell phone rang and he picked it up
"Cole Turner"
"Daddy?", a sweet voice asked
"Hey sweetheart", he replied with a smile
"I wanted to say good night", she said. Emma used to call him to say good night when he was out of town for a business trip
"That's great. What did you do today?" he asked
"I went to school and the teacher gave me a star today", she said proudly
"Wow. That's great, honey. That's because you're so smart", he said as any proudly father
"Thank you. Then I came home and I didn't see you", she said sadly
"Yeah, baby, I know. I had to leave before you came back from school. But I'll be there in a couple days"
"You promise?", she asked
"I promise" he replied
"Double promise?", she begged
"Yeah, double promise"; he answered smiling
"I miss you", she told him
"I miss you too, honey", he said.
"Daddy, I know you always bring me a gift when you're in a trip. But this time could you bring something to Phoebe too?", she asked innocently
"Phoebe?", he asked confused
"Yeah, you know, my turtle. I hid it in a box underneath my bed, so mom couldn't see it", she whispered.
"Ok, that will be our big secret", he whispered back and she smiled. Although he couldn't see it, he knew she was smiling.
"Ok", she said
"Alright, baby, It's late, you should go to bed", he said
"I want to talk to you a while longer", she said with disappoint
"Emma...", he stated
"Alright. I love you, daddy", she said
"I love you too, baby. Now go to sleep", he said
"Good night", she said
"Good night and don't let the bed bugs bite", he added
"Bye", she said and hung up. Then Cole came back to his work when he heard a knock in the door. He got up and headed to open de door.
"Cole?", she said surprised
"Phoebe", he said. The truth was that she didn't expect this to happen. With all the toothpaste stuff, she decided to knock to the next bedroom after hers, and ask to the person who would be there for toothpaste. It was stupid to bother some strange for that, but it was important for her.
"Wow, we have to stop meeting like this", she said, "I'm in the next room. The 310", she said. Cole's was 311.
"Great, look like we're neighbors here too", he commented with a smile.
"It's great it's you and not some strange. I need a favor from you", she told him
"Sure. Tell me, how can I help you?", he offered
"I'm a person with very sensible teeth, you know and I'm kinda cranky with toothpaste. I hate the ones from the hotel, and I left mine, so would you...if you have any-", she asked
"Sure", he nodded and entered to the bathroom. "Does 'White Sensation Colgate' work for you?", he asked
"Of course. Thank you sooo much, you're my lifesaver", she thanked him with a smile
"Oh, don't worry", he said.
"I'll bring it back to you later", she replied and got out of his room when Cole closed the door, she knocked again.
"Wow, you're really fast", Cole said laughing and she laughed as well
"Oh... you must be hating me, but I need another favor. When I knocked you the first time I forgot the damn card inside the room. Could you open the door that communicates both rooms, so I can come in mine?", she asked
"Of course", he replied and did what she asked
"Thank you", she said, "I hope I can thank you for this", she said
"Oh, you can", he stated
"How?" she wondered him
"Are you busy right now?", he asked
"Not really. I was going to wash my teeth. That's all I had planed", she replied
"Ok, go and don't close the door", he said pointing to the internal door that communicated both bedrooms. Some minutes later, she came back and get in his room again.
"So tell me, what can I do?" she asked
"I need an opinion", he started, "I have a deposition tomorrow and I've been working in a power point's presentation that I'll use with it. I'd like you to watch it and tell me what you think", he said pointing to his laptop
"Ok", she nodded and sat in the chair Cole had been working before and saw the presentation in the computer.
While she was doing this, he asked, "Would you like something to drink?"
"Oh, mineral water. Thank you", she said
Cole took a mineral water from the mini-bar and served it in a glass.
"Here", he said
"Thank you", she replied, "Ok, I'm done", she said
"What do you think?" he asked
"I think it's great. I know that in the corporate world all is different, but I'd just put a line in these tittles here... and here. Do you mind if-?", she said
"Please. Go ahead", he allowed her and she made some changes. In the end it was great. "I like it better this way", Cole expressed
"Good I could help you", she replied. Cole then noticed he was done and shut off the laptop and sat in the table with Phoebe.
"So...how was your convention?" Cole asked to make some chattering
"Oh it was hell", she said sincerely. "It was awful and think about I have to go tomorrow again", she said
"Too bad. My case wasn't disney land either, but I wouldn't say is that bad", he commented
"Sometimes I hate business trip, you know. You have to work, to be alone and eat alone"
"Yeah, you're right, I hate to eat by myself. But we could make something about that. Why don't we take breakfast together in the morning, since we're in close rooms?"
"That'd would be great", she nodded and agreed.
"I've heard the house's breakfast of this hotel was very good" He added
"Really? Well, I guess we'll try it on tomorrow", she said.
"Great" he nodded.
They kept talking and laughing for almost two more hours. It was incredible the chemistry they had. It was late and they were in the internal door of the rooms and they were going to kiss goodbye in the cheek. Phoebe kissed him in the cheek and then he kissed her in the cheek again. Then they didn't broke apart and kept kissing each other with light kisses in the face until their lips met. It was softly and gently at first. All the tension that was hidden inside of them since they had met, and when they had kissed in the plane and didn't say anything about it, took over them. The things started to heat up and Phoebe wrapped her arms around his neck and ran her hands through his hair while their kiss became more passionately and demanding. Still in each other embrace they broke apart for an instant and breathless they looked at each other in the eyes, and without a word they closed their eyes and started to kiss again. They started to run their hands in each other's body, while they were exploring each other mouths. They shouldn't be doing this, they were married people, but it felt so damn right, that they kept doing it. They slowly started to walk inside Cole's bedroom again never breaking the kiss. Once there, they started to undress each other. Phoebe started to unbutton his shirt and let it fall in the grown. The same way he took off her jacket and blouse, and her shoes and pants followed. She undid his belt and pants letting them fall to his ankles and they slowly laid down in the bed. He was in top of her and broke the kiss.
"We shouldn't be doing this", he said almost breathless
"I know", she replied in the same condition. When you could think they were going to break apart, get dressed and forget the whole incident, like they had done before. They started kissing again, more passionately, deeper and demanding this time. The moment, the passion took over them and drove them to this point. It was like something they had been missing lately and they found again in each other.
He kissed her everywhere with such care and passion. Every touch and kiss was softly and gently, but passionately and sensually at the same time. She shivered with the tender and soft touch of his hands all over her body. They just forgot about everything else and focused in love each other. They both were full of passion and desire for the other, which was showed in caress, kisses and touches.
He worked his hands and mouth in her, in a way that made her feel different, but good different, GREAT different, actually. And there, kissing each other while exploring their bodies, which were new for them, they made love.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
They were laying in each other arms, recovering for all the lovemaking. He had his arms around her and she was softly squeezing his hands. They reminded there like that and quite for some minutes.
"Wow, that was incredible", she was the first in broke the silence
"Yeah, it really was", he agreed
"I had never done this before, you know", she confessed
"Well, you did it good, pretty good actually", he replied playfully. Of course, he knew that wasn't what she meant.
"No", she laughed. "That's not what I mean. What I mean is that I had never cheated on my husband before", she said guilty
"Neither had I", he replied
"You had never cheated on your wife?", she asked surprised
"No, I had never cheated on your husband either", he replied playfully and they both laughed, "But it's true, I had never cheated on my wife either"
"Really? I don't believe you", she said
"Why? Why is so hard to believe?", he asked
"Well, you're a guy and you're a lawyer", at this he chuckled.
"So, you feel guilty?", he asked more serious
"Yes", she replied
"Do you regret it?", he asked again
"No", she told him, "You?" she then asked back
"Me neither", he said. He then grabbed her hand in his. "What are we gonna do?. After", although he was afraid to ask this, somebody would bring the subject up, so, he did it.
"Nothing. We'll finish our business here, come back to San Francisco, and then keep going with our lives. I guess.", she said in a calmly tone. She just said what was in her mind in that moment. She knew both of them had already their own life. And there was no place for either of them in the other's life.
"Sounds like a plan. So that's it? A one night thing?" he asked.
She just sighed and said "Yeah", almost like a whisper. It didn't surprised him; she was married, he was married and had a child; they barely knew each other, although they had come to a deeper level in their relationship.
They both knew it was wrong, it was bad, it was forbidden; but it happened and they didn't regret it, they felt guilty but didn't regret it.
"So... are we still on to take breakfast together on the morning?", he asked sarcastically trying to sound casual.
After she laughed, she replied, "Yes, why not? I still wanna try the hotel's breakfast". The truth was that this guy made her laugh. It was something people have or don't have, and he definitely had it. He could make your day or cheer you up with a little joke.
They stayed like that in each other arms and fell asleep until very early in the morning the next day. Phoebe woke up and Cole was lovingly watching her sleep.
"Hey", he said very softly
"Hey" she simply replied and they lightly kissed in the lips. "I had a wonderful night", she then said and he smiled. He knew it was the moment, he didn't want it to be over, but it had to be, he knew that once she left the room, everything would be like before again, and the little perfect world that had existed that night in that room would not longer exist anymore. Once she left the room, they would be back to normal and act like nothing had ever happened between them; it had happened before when they kissed in the plane, it would probably happen again it was something that was beyond their power. They were married and for them, be together wasn't right, it was forbidden, so they let it be just a one night thing.
"Yeh, so did I", he said in the same softly tone
"I should be leaving", she said. She didn't want to, but she had to.
"Ok", he sadly nodded. If it had been just an affair, not even an affair just a one night thing, something you do when you're away home...if it had been just for the moment, maybe because they needed it, why were both of them so sad to leave the other?... it was something to think about along with the big rush of new emotions that were hunting them since some hours ago.
"I'll meet you to take the breakfast", she said and kissed him in the lips
"Oh, you haven't forgot it have you?", he asked her playfully
"Of course I haven't. I'm already hungry", she replied with a grin and they kissed one more time. "Bye", she slowly and softly said. She gathered her clothes and got dressed, then left room. This 'Bye' didn't just mean that they were saying a 'goodbye, I'll see you in a while', this good bye was a 'This was great, but will never happen again'. They both knew it and didn't have other choice than accept it. It was 'bye' to this little, wonderful and forbidden adventure that is called 'us'; since in the real world 'Us', for them could never be.
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Ok, guys I think we arrived to the part of the story all of you know would come....you know for the title, anyway tell me what you think, and I gotta say that important things are awaiting...what would you think will happen with them? Is it over? It will be just a one night thing? Will they ever see each other again??? What do you think? Idea or suggestions???? Please, say something...