I hoped you like chapter 1. Review! Remember I don't know how I'm going to end it so some suggestions would be very welcome, maybe not necessarily used, but still very welcome. I used the word trunk instead of boot to stop confusion. Anyway moving on, here's chapter 2!
Big thanks to Beach chickJASSNL for suggestion, you'll be glad to hear I'm using it! Lots of love PickledOnion.
Chapter 2: BrainwaveElizabeth pulled up to a very normal bungalow in suburbia and turned to look at John.
"This is Anna's house." She said while they both got out of the car. They both closed the car doors.
"Looks normal enough." He said smiling.
"Mmm…could you help me with the stuff in the trunk?" Elizabeth went to the back of the car and opened the trunk door. John was shocked to see crates of beer and lots of bottles of champagne.
"Whoa! When you said you were going to get pissed with these guys you weren't kidding!" He smiled.
"Well," she said while picking up a crate, "I told you, my mother's in town." He laughed and picked up the other crate and a few bottles and followed her down the path to the door where she rang the bell.
John looked at her up and down while she faced the door. For the first time she wasn't wearing a red shirt, but she was still wearing office wear. However, she did look good. A knee-length pencil skirt with a skirt, which made John notice she had a great pair of legs. A simple suit jacket and a white blouse, which subtly revealed a very nice lacy bra, and so John had to remind himself to look at the door and not the woman next to him. Bad John! Don't it!
The door opened and there was a woman with dark blonde hair with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of wine in the other gave a great big smile and looked at John and raised an eyebrow.
"Liz, darling!" John figured she must be Julie as she had an extremely posh English accent.
"You brought company? Well, he's a lot better looking than Simon that's for damn sure. Although I never saw you going for the whole bed-head thing, but I guess-"
"Oh no! John is just a friend who I brought along because he wanted to meet you." Julie's mouth hung open.
"And you told him about Marcus, because seriously you're hot and Marcus goes for that whether you're gay or not, so-"
"Don't scare him away!" Another woman with pale skin and red hair came to the door and eyed John making John feel very uncomfortable.
"You're a man." She said bluntly.
"Yes." John was confused by this statement and looked to Elizabeth for some answers, but she just rolled her eyes.
"You're straight."
"Yes."
"Ever been married?"
"Anna! Would you stop! It is cold and I have brought alcohol so can we come in?"
Anna and Julie looked at the crates and then at each other and said in chorus.
"You're mother's in town." It was a statement not a question. They immediately let them in and they both went into the living room where a man was sitting on the couch with a glass of wine. John guessed it was Marcus.
"You must be Marcus." He said offering his hand. Elizabeth rushed out from the kitchen with two beers. She gave one to John and opened one for herself.
"I'm sorry. I haven't introduced you." Anna and Julie came in from the kitchen and sat down.
"John this is Anna, Julie and Marcus." She pointed to them all and he shook all their hands.
"Guys this is John Sheppard."
"Well, you certainly have soft hands." Marcus said smiling.
"He's straight." Elizabeth said bluntly while sitting down next to John.
"Damn it! All the cute ones are straight!" Marcus said pouting, but then smiled at John. "Anyway, I can get you to change sides. All the women laughed while John looked plain horrified.
"No. I'm good." He said graciously.
There was a bit of silence before Julie spoke up.
"So…what's the story?" She asked Elizabeth.
"I have to go to a family barbecue and of course my mother has flown in New York to be there and I have to go ALONE and somehow tell her that I'm still not married with no kids and now I'm single…again. She liked Simon as well." Elizabeth frowned.
The rest of them started laughing.
"Honey," Anna said comfortingly, "of course she liked Simon she was the one who set you up with him, which pretty much says you're better off with him."
"Well, I'm glad you dumped him!" Marcus jumped in.
"What? You said you liked him!" Elizabeth said shocked.
"Well, I lied. He was an safe, unimaginative, not spontaneous, average looking, boring lawyer who acted like a gay, 60 year old, unimaginative, not spontaneous, average looking, boring lawyer."
John nearly choked on his beer. What weirdoes? However, he decided he liked them.
Elizabeth on the other hand was extremely puzzled.
"Why did he act gay and 60?"
John decided to jump in.
"Did he like sports?"
Elizabeth turned to him.
"Well…no, but-"
"That makes him gay." Julie jumped in.
"And if he had to pick a sport what would it be?" John asked another question.
"I guess golf, although-"
"And that makes him 60." Anna finished.
Marcus smiled. "You know, Johnny boy, I think you're going to fit in round here."
Three hours and two crates of beer later…"…and so to get the A in chemistry I had sex with my professor…on his desk…. twice."
John looked at Elizabeth somewhat shocked. He had learnt more about her in one night than in the past year and his idea of her being the perfect student body president was blown out of the water.
"Anyway, enough about my past." Elizabeth said…just about.
"What am I going to do about the barbecue and my mother?"
"You could move to a far away country and marry some guy who speaks a different language like Spanish. I like Spanish men." Julie, too, was very drunk.
"Well, fortunately for me, I speak Spanish and so that wouldn't be a problem."
"I've got a sudden brainwave!" Said Anna, standing on the sofa, as she was also very pissed.
"Go with him!" She pointed to John.
Elizabeth looked at John then Anna then John then Anna then everyone else.
"Are you crazy? I can-"
"Yes you can!" Said Marcus, suddenly realising what Anna's brainwave was about.
"Pretend he's your boyfriend, who you've been leaving with for the past year, cause you have. Right? I mean you work together and live together on that classified thing that you can't talk about. Right?"
"Right. But I-"
"can pretend! He is the love of your life and you're very serious about each other. Okay?"
Elizabeth cringed; this was just another step towards her being smitten with John. She was just scared pretence was going to turn to reality and John was thinking the exact same thing. However, getting one back on her mother with a handsome, charming boyfriend who she was smitten with and found without her mother's help would shut her up once and for all. Right?
She looked at John and John realised that this would be a nice thing to do for her and genuinely smiled at her.
"I'm up for it if you are." Elizabeth grinned back.
"John Sheppard!" Marcus shouted. "You have made our little Lizzie very happy! I could kiss you!" He got up.
The other four of them looked horrified and screamed in chorus.
"Don't!"
End Of Chapter 2
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