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A : You'll have to wait and see who was calling out Connie's name. Yeah I like Connie/Guy too, but I'm really into Connie/Adam at the moment, but unfortunately this isn't going to be one of my Connie/Adam stories since he's with Julie lol. Anyways thanks for your support and review. CHEERS MI DEARS!!!!
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Chapter 3
"Connie"? I heard, though it was muffled by the shower Julie was in.
"Yeah". I answered, applying a little mascara.
"So come on, where are these super special friends that you have plans with"? It was Brian, obviously not exactly in the best of moods.
"Excuse me. Don't you let yourself into my apartment and start talking to me that way". I stood up from my dressing room table and turned to look at him.
"Your apartment, since when has it been your apartment".
"Since I'm the one that pays all the bills for this place". I argued, feeling myself let go, entering what would become a full blown row.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize". Julie mumbled, almost cowering in the bathroom.
"Brian this is Julie my best friend, Jule's this is Brian". I quickly introduced them.
"Hey, how you doing"? Brian leant forward reaching out to shake her hand.
"Hi". Julie mumbled before she crept from the room, dressed in some clean sweats I had leant her, until it was time to get dressed.
"So that's who you're going out with tonight then"? He asked.
"Yeah, do you have a problem with it"?
"You know I have a problem with it, you blew me off to spend time with your friends. Your friends aren't always gonna be around Connie, but I am".
"Well maybe if they aren't always gonna be around, then maybe I should spend some more time with them, you know get more use out of them before they suddenly disappear. And it's funny, because I've been separated from these guys for 7 years and yet they're still here". I was really hotting up now. "You might also want to know that they came out especially for the wedding, but at this rate, there isn't going to be a wedding".
JULIE'S P.O.V
Boy did I feel awkward. I had gotten out of the shower to find Connie and Brian arguing her bedroom. After the quick introductions, I escaped to the living room, still feeling as awkward as ever, that I could still hear most of the argument. It was like when you were a kid, over hearing a parents argument. As kids we all think that our parents are so Brady bunch, but as you get older, you realize they aren't, and they do argue, but the older you get, the more involved in the arguments you become. Connie and Brian arguing was a little bit like that in a way. Half of me wanted to ear wig and find out exactly what they were fighting for, but the other half just wanted it to be over, to get myself out of the situation.
Just then Adam and Charlie walked back in, about to say something until, I held my finger to my lips, hushing them so as not to disturb the argument that was by now getting more and more heated by the second. Charlie looked as though he wanted to go in there and try and calm the situation, but I knew he was level headed enough not to. Connie was her own person, the arguments she had with her fiancé where her business and no-one else's.
"You might also want to know that they came out especially for the wedding, but at this rate, there isn't going to be a wedding". We suddenly heard Connie shout, and cringed, before realizing, they were in fact involving us.
"So what, you don't want to marry me anymore, is that what you're saying? Cause I tell you Connie, you picked one hell of a time to back out". Brian shouted back.
"I don't know Brian. I don't feel as though I even know you anymore. You spend more time at work than you do with me".
"I work the hours I do so that we can have the best life possible, without having to worry where our next meal is coming from. Yes I know I've been preoccupied with work recently, but why do you think I finished early tonight? I finished early so we could spend some quality time together".
"Yeah on your terms. Why is it that every time you say jump, you expect me to ask how high and when shall I come down? But when I ask you to jump, the answer is continuously no. I have to live my life around your schedule, but you just expect me to drop everything for you".
"No I don't expect you to drop everything. I told you yesterday when I came to your office, that we would spend the evening together, since we hadn't been able to yesterday".
"I didn't agree to it. That was before my friends arrived. I don't know how you treat your real friends Brian, but I am not dumping them, just because you finally decide you want to spend some quality time with me".
"Don't be stupid, you're being irrational about this whole thing". He told me.
"So I'm being stupid and irrational now am I? And you don't think for one second that you are"?
"I'm going, I'm not hanging around to argue with you, when you're like this".
"That's right, walk away from your problems. I'm sure your work will be ready and waiting with open arms". Connie was suddenly louder as the door to her room opened and Brian began heading out, followed closely by Connie.
"Grow up Connie". He snapped, then suddenly he was storming across the living room, glancing our way momentarily, then nodding his head as if in greeting then bidding farewell.
"You know what Brian, the wedding is OFF". Connie shouted, following him, then I heard her slam the door.
We watched, a little unsure of what to say or what to do. Most of me wanted to go over there and give her a big hug, but for some reason, I felt the need to hang back, not wanting to crowd her, or make too big a deal of this, when we didn't really know the in's and out's of the situation. We all stood there, watching intently, but trying our hardest not to. She hadn't moved, she was still standing facing the door, in the position she had been in when she had slammed the door too after Brian's departure.
I could see her shoulders beginning to shake, a tell tale sign that she was crying. She quickly turned and dashed passed us all, headed for her room. I stepped forward, prepared to follow her and offer her some support, which I was guessing was what she'd need right now. Instead Charlie was quicker and headed in the same direction as Connie, knocking ever so gently as he entered the room, closing the door tightly behind him.
"Whoa". Adam whispered, shocked at everything we had just heard. "So that's Brian is it"? It was his attempt at trying to make the situation seem that little bit more comfortable than it truly was.
"It would seem that way". I answered, everything Connie had told me, and the recent argument running through my mind.
"Do you think they'll kiss and make up"? He was as shocked as I was, at the whole on-off marriage situation.
"I don't know. By the sounds of it, they've been going through a rough patch for a while now. I suppose it depends on whether either of them want to kiss and make up".
"How'd you mean they've been going through a rough patch for a while"?
"Connie told me earlier, that Brian's a bit of a workaholic, and he hasn't really had anything to do with planning the wedding. I think things have gotten so much on top of her that she's finally snapped". I told him, sitting down on the sofa, my eyes not leaving the bedroom door.
CHARLIE'S P.O.V
"Connie"? I almost whispered, as I went into her room, seeing her sat on the edge of her bed, tears dripping easily into her lap, though she had a handful of tissues.
"I'll be ok in a few minutes". She looked up at me, with those big brown eyes that were bloodshot and swollen.
"Well you don't look ok to me. You wanna tell me about it"? I headed to over and sat next to her on the bed, wrapping a comforting arm around her.
"You probably heard all of it, if not most of it". She sniffed between tears.
"I caught the end of it, and not because I wanted to. Listen, you don't have to feel bad if you don't want to marry him, it's better to back out now than in a few months time when you're married". I probably wasn't being as comforting as I hoped, and Julie would probably be a lot better at this, but I don't know, I suppose I felt as though I had to be the one who help her pick up the pieces.
"I don't know where it all started going wrong. I used to be so happy, walking on air all the time, but I don't know, it suddenly all stopped. I mean I still love him, and will probably always love him, but I'm scared that if he's like this now, what's he going to be like after 6 months/a year of being married"?
I sat there for a good hour, listening to her try and come up with as many reasons as she could find why she should and shouldn't marry him. I could think of a thousand why she shouldn't, but none of why she should, but then again I was completely biased.
So what do you think? Should she go through with the wedding? PLEASE R&R!!!!