As always, thanks for reviewing and taking the time to even read my story. I meant to update sooner, but I had to help my sister grade her papers. So done with correcting and here's the chapter. Enjoy it. Wow, seven chapters already? That was fast, I think. Okay, whatever. Review please. Thanks!
Chapter 7: One Down, One to Go
Jill sat in the middle of the empty living room with a piece of paper and a pen at hand. She drew up a blue print of her apartment, bedroom and all, and mapped out exactly where she should place stuff so they wouldn't have to decide on that while they were moving stuff around. After many crumpled pieces of papers, she was finally satisfied and made sure that none of her things were left out. In the case that one was, she put a little side note next to the picture that said to place it anywhere convenient and to fix it later. She then laid down on the hard wood floor and ended up falling asleep while waiting for either the movers or the guys to arrive.
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Chris arrived at his destination, which was not that far from Jill's. He parked and turned of the ignition and got out of his car. The guy was waiting for him outside and greeted Chris with a handshake.
"John." He introduced himself.
"Chris. So can I see the bike?" He asked
"Oh yeah, yeah. It's in the garage. Haven't used it much, business trips keep me away from it." John said. Chris followed as John led the way to the garage.
"Wow…" Chris was awed with the Ducati Monster M750.
-Sidewalk Cafe-
"Dude, look at him. He's been sitting there for half an hour and he hasn't even made a move." Richard said. He and Forest were across the street spying on him.
"More or less even talk to her." Forest said.
"Give him time." Richard said.
"He had thirty minutes." Forest said.
"Yeah, but we have to go pretty soon. Jill's is expecting us." Richard said.
"Hey, weren't you the one who said to 'give him time.' And aren't you the one who thinks he's going to score with her? Sheesh, that analysis you made about Chris and Jill is going to your head." Forest said.
"I guess you're right, Jill can wait." Richard said.
-Jill's Apartment: 5:53-
Jill was still snoozing on the hard wood floor when she heard this irritating buzzing sound. She eventually got up and found that someone was buzzing her from the outside. She went to the speaker and asked whom it was.
"Um, Chris."
"Oh hey Chris, I'd invite you up, but there's really nothing in here, literally. I'll be down in a few so we can wait for the others." She said.
"Okay, I guess." Chris stepped away from the door and waited for Jill to come down.
"Hey." She said, emerging from the door. "So you're here first. I thought you'd be the last one."
"The others aren't here yet?" Chris asked, thinking that the others where already there.
"No, not yet. So you did what you had to do already?" She asked.
"Um, yeah." He said.
"What did you have to do?" She asked.
"That." he said and pointed to his bike.
"What's that? A power wheel?" She asked in disbelief.
"A power wheel! Where do you come up with this stuff?" Chris asked.
"I pull it out of my ass." She said sarcastically.
"Oh, really. What else do you have up there?" He teased.
"You know, the usual shit. So…why do you have a bike? Where's your jeep?" She asked.
"Traded it."
"For that?"
"Yeah. Why? It's not like I need your stamp of approval."
"Never said you did." Jill said.
"Whatever." He said and walked up to the sidewalk and took a seat on the curb.
"Will we ever have a normal conversation?" Jill asked, taking the seat next to him.
"I don't know. And can you scoot down a little. Your perfume is, um…overwhelming." Chris said.
"I wasn't wearing any when I went to work and I'm sure as hell that I'm not wearing any right now. What? Did you think I'd just go and put some on because Chris 'Flyboy' Redfield is coming over to my apartment? I don't think so!" Jill said.
"So what is that damn smell! I know it's you! I only smell it when I'm around you."
"Hmm, maybe it's my bath oils. Why do I stink?" She smelled herself.
"Um, no. It smells…nice." He said, not wanting to offend her, but in actuality, he enjoyed her sent.
"Okay because I don't want to take a bath till after I'm done arranging. So what time do you have?"
"What's the point? If I say 6:00, you're going to correct me with a few minutes."
"Not true. I just asked cause I thought my time was a little slow or fast." Jill said.
"Okay." Chris said, putting his hands behind him for support as he leaned back a little.
"Um, so why did you trade your jeep?" She asked before the awkward silence approached.
"I've always liked bikes. Same goes for my sister, although we're not entirely on the same page when it comes to the style of it. While she's into hardcore muscle bikes, I'm into going fast." He said.
"I've noticed." She said.
"Yeah, sorry about that. I was, uh, irritated too, I guess." Chris said.
"Weird way of showing it." Jill said.
"It's just my way of doing things. Not everyone may like it, but it's me. Take it or leave it, you know." Chris said.
"I know what you mean. My father was a thi…" Jill immediately shut up. She never told anyone about her father's 'profession.' The only ones who knew was her former boss, only because her father and Greg Holt are close friends and her best friend.
"Thief?" Chris asked uncertainly.
"Yeah. He was a thief. I guess you know my little 'secret' now. Might as well explain." Jill said.
"You don't have to, and yeah, I may be a jerk at times but your secret is safe with me." He assured.
"No, its okay…I never told anyone and I guess now should be the time." Jill said.
"Why me?" He sat up.
"I don't know. I guess you can say that I trust you." Jill said.
"You trust me? I mean, we just met, I pulled a gun on you and gave you all that crap, all in one day and it isn't even over yet. How exactly do you come to conclusions?" Chris asked.
"I don't. I just feel that I can trust you. I can't explain it but, but, I think I'm in love with you." She said.
"What?" He asked. He was really surprised and that was the last thing he expected. "Um, Jill, I don't…I don't know how to put this but I…"
"Got you." She laughed. "Oh, man you should have seen the look on your face. It was like this. OO" She imitated him.
"You bitch. That was low. Even I would never pull something like that. Toying with someone's emotions. Someone could get hurt you know?" He said.
"Sorry, I had to get back at you again." Jill laughed.
"Ouch. Whatever happened to 'normal' conversations?" He asked.
"Were we having a normal conversation just now?" Chris just looked at her. "Oh, sorry, but I couldn't help myself. We were talking and as I got into our 'normal' conversation, you just had this sincere look on your face and I couldn't resist." Jill said.
"You sure know how mess a guy up, huh?" He said.
"What are you talking about? Oh my god! Did you really believe me?" She asked.
"No." He said calmly.
"Phew. Okay, good." She relaxed knowing he didn't believe her
"That was really messed up though. I mean, what if you just met a guy and you know, it was like a love at first sight bullshit. And then out of the blue, he tells you he loves you and you're like, I love you too. And he just laughs in your face and then he asks you if you really believed him. Won't you be…pissed?" He explained.
"Hmm, I never thought of that I'm sorry. But still, you have to admit that was pretty good." She nudged him with her elbow.
"Yeah, you had me freaked out there for a moment, but let's suspend reality for like a second here." She nodded with an unsure look on her face. "What if you didn't cut me off just yet and I reciprocated. What would you say, more or less do?" He asked.
"Hmm, that's a good one." Jill shifted her position so that she was facing him. "Well, at first I would be shocked and a little bit surprised because I meant mine as a joke but if I see sincerity in your face then I'd think about it."
"You'd think about it?" He asked.
"What would you want me to do? Kiss you?" She asked.
"It'd be a nice gesture."
"I don't kiss strange men. I just met you yesterday." She said.
Chris scoffed. "Oh so I'm strange now? You're weird. You trust me, but I'm strange? How do things work up there?" He tapped on her head.
"HEY!" Forest yelled out, with his upper body sticking out of the car window. They were three buildings away from Jill's and the three of them had a pretty good idea what was going on. "WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING? YOU JUST MET FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!" Forest yelled. Chris and Jill stood up and saw that it was them.
"WHAT! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" Chris yelled back.
"Excuse me, I'm right beside you. Yell somewhere else." Jill rubbed her ears.
"Sorry." Chris said. Richard soon pulled up beside them and they got out of the car.
"So?" Richard wanted an explanation. Apparently from the view that they saw, it looked as though they were smooching.
"So what?" Chris asked, "Nothing's going on. We were just sitting on the sidewalk waiting and talking."
"What the hell are you saying? It was obvious three buildings away that you two were indeed sitting on the sidewalk. What I meant was are the movers here yet cause its 6:15." Richard changed the subject.
"I knew that." Chris said.
"No they're not here yet." Jill said.
"I see. Hmm, hey Redfield, why are you here so early? If I'm not mistaken, you said you would be a little late." Forest said, "I bet you just couldn't stand to be away from Jill, huh?" He teased.
"Ha, ha, ha." Chris fake laughed. "I bet you just want my fist in your face."
"No thanks. Your complexion isn't the same as mine. It would totally throw off my good looks." Forest said.
"Freak." Chris said.
"Hey, I accepted that I am a good looking man, why don't you?" The others just laughed at him.
"Forest Speyer, you are one stupid son of a bitch." Richard patted his back.
"Stupid? Why not arrogant, conceited, narcissistic, egotistical, self-centered?" He asked.
"Because you're not. You and I both know Chris is more of any of those that you are." Richard said.
"Whatever then. Let's get back to interrogating Chris." Forest said.
"Interrogate me about what?" Chris asked.
"I don't know, why are you here so early?" Forest asked.
"Because I finished what I was supposed to do." Chris answered.
"And what was that?" Richard asked.
"That." Jill said and pointed to his bike.
"Hey, that was my line." Chris whined.
"Oh my mommy, is that a Ducati Monster 750?" Forest asked.
"Yeah it is." Chris said.
"Yeah, Chris traded his jeep for that." Jill said in disgust.
"Damn, I would've traded in my ride for that too." Richard agreed.
"What's with you guys? Why are you so intrigued by it anyways?" Jill asked.
"I don't know, Jill. Why are you so if-y about it?" Chris asked.
"I'm not, I'm sorry." Jill said.
"Ah, I know why." Richard said.
"What?" All of them asked.
"You're 'if-y' because now you can't hitch a ride with him." Richard smiled knowing he was right.
"Not true." Jill said.
"No, no. That makes perfect sense." Forest said. "Hey, now we can't hitch a ride with Chris either."
"No one likes the way I drive, so it doesn't matter anyways." Chris said.
"You have a point." Forest said.
"Okay, whatever. So tell us Miss Valentine, why are you so irritable about it? If you are indeed a Miss." Richard asked.
"I am indeed a Miss and I intend to stay a Miss for a long time." She stated as a matter of fact.
"Okay, thanks for the input, but that's not the question I needed you to answer." Richard said.
"Are the movers coming yet?" Forest changed the subject.
"I don't know, I'll give them a call." Jill ran into her apartment.
"Speaking of movers, where is Joe?" Chris noticed he wasn't there.
"Oh, I don't know. We waited and watched him from across the cafe and he never made a move. We got tired left because of the time." Richard said.
"Really? How long was he sitting there?" Chris asked.
"Thirty plus." Richard said.
"So how are you going to know if you won or not?" Chris asked.
"It doesn't matter anymore…there's something else going on." Richard said.
"What?" Chris asked.
"Nothing, don't worry about it. It doesn't concern you." Forest said.
"You guys don't make any sense. Are you guys drunk?" Chris asked, "Cause if you are, I don't think it would be a good idea handling heavy stuff."
"Ah, ha. You just want us to leave so you can be alone with Jill, huh?" Forest teased.
"No. I'm concerned about your health." He said.
"Enough of this bullshit, Chris. What's up?" Richard asked.
"Nothing. We were just talking." He said.
"Oh, so talking made you feel like making out with her?" Forest laughed at this. "Just tell us, we won't say anything."
"What the hell are you talking about? We weren't making out. Where did you get that idea?" Chris asked.
"Oh, so what do you kids call it now, sucking face?" Richard teased.
"Who's sucking face?" Jill asked.
"Oh hey, your back. What did the movers say?" Richard asked.
"They should be here shortly. They took a wrong turn and got lost." Jill said.
"Hey, so can I sample your bike, Chris?" Forest asked.
"Ooo, me too." Richard said.
"I don't know." Chris said.
"Oh, come on." Forest said.
"Fine." Chris gave in.
"Yes!" They said in unison.
"But just around the block." Chris handed his keys to Forest.
"Uh huh." Forest ran to the bike with Richard and Chris walking behind him.
"Boys will be boys." Jill said to herself.
After Chris gave them a brief tutorial of the bike, he saw Jill sitting alone so he thought he would wait with her. "Do you mind?" He asked, holding his helmet in his hand.
"No go right ahead." She said, motioning for him to take a seat
"Thanks." He took the seat beside her and started to search his jacket pocket for his cigarettes. Jill watched him, a little irritated he was about to light one up. He took out a stick and he noticed she was looking at him. "Um, I can wait." He lied, putting the stick back in.
"Thank you." She said, as the others came walking towards them.
"Um, I guess." Chris sighed. "Hey I think I see a truck approaching."
"Finally." Forest said, returning from his joyride.
"Hey, Jill, why didn't you just sell your furniture and buy some here instead of moving it from another state?" Richard asked, giving Chris his keys back.
"Because. I really like the ones I have." Jill said.
"So how did you have time to get it all in there?" Forest asked.
"My best friend and some other friends helped out." She said.
"Wow, you got some great friends. I don't think these guys would do that for me." Richard said. Jill just smiled as she waited for the truck to pull up.
"Um, so how are we going to do this?" Chris asked.
"Oh, yeah, here." She pulled out her little map, "This is where everything will go and whatever."
"You made a blueprint of your apartment and mapped out all the furniture? You're weird." Chris said.
"Whatever, think what you like. I only did this to make it easier on you." Jill said.
"Easier? You want to us to bring in one piece of furniture at a time and place it where it's supposed to go? Why don't we just bring everything up and then place it? That would be much easier." Chris said.
"What? Did you think I wanted you guys to do that? That's ludicrous! All I said was that I already had things planned on where it would go so that we wouldn't have to think on where to put it!" Jill exclaimed.
"Would you two just shut up and help us already." Forest said. Jill hadn't noticed the truck had already pulled up and was ready and waiting to be unloaded.
"Sorry! You guys know that I hate talking to this jerk! He always wants to be right!" Jill said.
"Quit bitching and help us with your junk." Chris said, walking towards the U-Haul to help unload.
"Hmm, I don't think I'll ever understand them." Richard said.
One hour went by and still no sign of Joseph. After moving most of the big stuff into her apartment, the guys went back down to get the rest. "Hey, jackass, help me with this!" Chris yelled at Forest who was taking his sweet time.
"Hold on, my arms are starting to cramp." He said, rubbing his arms. "You're like a freaking machine, don't you ever get tired?"
"Would you stop complaining and hurry up!" Chris said. Forest flicked him off, and walked sluggishly towards Chris. "You got it? Okay, on three, one, two, three." They both lifted her contemporary sofa and brought it up with the rest of her 'junk.'
After much hard work and sweat, the guys and Jill finally got all of her stuff scattered in her apartment. Everyone went up and crashed on the floor, exhausted from the days work. "Hey, guys want pizza, Chinese, whatever?" Jill offered for dinner.
"Uh, yeah." Forest said.
"Which is it, pizza or Chinese?"
Forest and Richard said pizza, while Chris opted for some Chinese. "I think I'm in the mood for some Chinese too. Okay so both it is." Jill said, pulling out her cell from her back pocket and dialing the nearest Chinese takeout. While she was on the phone, someone was buzzing from the outside. "Can someone get that please?" Jill asked.
Richard got up from his seat on the floor and asked whom it was.
"It's Joe."
"Joe, you jerk! Where were you! You offer to help and you show up when all the hard work is done! Go home, you're not needed anymore." Richard said.
"Hey, hey wait, if it means anything, I got you guys some pizzas." Joseph said.
"Pizza? Fine, you're forgiven." He buzzed him in.
"Oh and I brought Kate along, she insisted. Hope you don't mind." Joseph said.
"We don't care. This is Jill's apartment." Richard said.
"Oh, well tell her then, I don't think she would mind anyways." Joseph said.
"How do you know? You've only known Jill for like what, a day?" Richard said.
"That's long enough, just tell her alright. I'm coming up now." Joseph said.
"Yeah whatever." Richard said. "Hey Jill, don't order the pizzas anymore. Joe brought some." He said to Jill who was about to dial the pizza parlor. "Oh and he brought his 'girlfriend' along."
"Oh shit!" Jill suddenly said.
"What?" Richard asked. "Is it a bad thing?"
"We don't have any drinks." She smacked her forehead.
"It's cool, I'll drive down to the store." Richard offered.
"Thanks." Jill said.
"Hey guys look, Chris fell asleep." Forest said, looking down at Chris who was indeed asleep on the floor. "Hey, where did everybody go?"
"Richard went to the store to get some drinks." Jill told him.
"Hmm, can I borrow your make up, Jill?" Forest asked.
"What? Why?" Jill asked.
"So I can paint Chris' face." Forest said.
"No, you're not going to waste my makeup on that." Jill said.
"That sucks. What about anything heavy, like one of those Webster's Dictionaries or something."
"Why?" She asked.
"Nothing of great importance." Forest said.
"Um, I don't a Webster's Dictionary, but you can check in that box if there is one to your liking." She said.
"Which one?" Forest asked, noticing more than one box.
"The one labeled 'books.'" She smiled at him.
Forest went up to the box and tore off the tape that sealed it. He dug into it and found a particular yellow book and flashed it to Jill. "Relationships for Dummies?" He asked.
"What? That's not mine." Jill said.
"Um, Jill, it has 'This Book Belongs to' stamped on the inside, along with the name…Sam Ellison written inside." He smiled, thinking that he got her.
"Um, you do know that my name is Jill Valentine, right?"
"Hehehe." He dropped the book back in the box and continued to look for a nice heavy one. He finally spotted a thick, leather bound book. He pulled it out of the box and smiled. Jill looked at him funny, still wondering what he was going to do. She was about to ask when there was a knock on the door. As she went to answer it, Forest took one of her end tables scattered and placed it next to the sleeping Chris. Jill opened the door and greeted Joseph and Kate. Forest held the book with one hand and stood on top of the table. He held the book out and made sure that it was about four feet high, directly over the target. As Jill invited them in, Forest yelled "TIMBER!" and dropped the 3' thick book on Chris's abdomen. Chris awoke with a jolt and started gasping for air. Forest jumped off the table, laughing his ass off and joined the three, who happened to see everything.
"Damn, that sucks, Forest. I wouldn't want to be Chris right now." Joseph laughed.
"I didn't have this one planned but I saw an opening and took it. Hehehehe. One down, one to go." Forest said in between laughs. Jill had to admit that she too found it a little funny but then as she looked over to Chris, it didn't seem so funny anymore. Chris wasn't in pain from the book slamming into him, but he was in shock of the rude awakening and couldn't seem to catch his breath and fell back to the floor, gasping.
"Chris, are you okay?" Jill asked, walking up to him to check if he was indeed okay. Chris coughed here and there and tried desperately to catch his breath. "Chris, you need to calm down and try to take deep breaths." Jill said, trying to bring him to sit up.
"Um…um…he's turning blue! I think we should call the paramedics!" Kate yelled frantically and fainted. Forest and Joseph stopped laughing and realized this wasn't a joke. They rushed over to Chris side and helped Jill.
"He's going to suffocate if we don't help him." Jill said.
"Don't you think we should call EMS?" Joseph asked.
"Yeah we should, but we have to help him now otherwise we would have to be calling the morgue instead!" Jill yelled.
"Chris, I'm sorry. I'm super, super sorry. I didn't know this would happen." Forest apologized. Suddenly, Chris stopped gasping and his head fell to the side. The three of them panicked and laid him back down. Jill checked his pulse and found that it was fading.
"Shit! He's not breathing and his pulse is fading. We have to give him CPR." She panicked.
"I can't! I mean, I…" Joseph yelled. Jill looked to Forest and found he was too shocked to do anything.
"Fuck you guys. You and your pranks, now you've gone too far!" Jill said, tying her long hair back, preparing to perform CPR. Jill ran her hands over Chris's abdomen to find where his ribs meet and placed her hands.
"RRROOOAAARRR!" Chris yelled, before Jill could start. She jumped back in surprise and screamed her lungs out, which made Forest and Joseph yell also. "How do you like that, bitch!" Chris laughed, bringing himself to sit up. Jill has never felt so pissed off in her entire life. To show it, she slapped him hard on the face where she had punched him earlier. "YYYEEEOOOWWW! What was that for? It wasn't my fault. Here I am sleeping peacefully and I get rudely awaken by that idiot! I just thought I'd teach this ass a lesson."
"By freaking us all out! I thought you were going to die! It wasn't funny, I've never felt that scared in my years of living!" Jill stood up and started to pace to calm herself down.
"Screw you Chris! I thought I was gonna go to jail for murder!" Forest yelled.
Chris just laughed at him. "That would teach you to never mess with me, MUAH, HA, HA, HA!"
"Hey, I have a question, how'd you slow your pulse?" Joseph asked.
"A little trick I learned in the Air Force." He stood up smiling.
"A little trick I learned in the Air Force." Jill mocked.
"What the hell is your problem?" Chris asked, noticing she was sporting an attitude.
"You!"
"Nobody told you to play hero and try to save me!" Chris said.
"Here they go again." Forest said
"If I didn't make an attempt do anything, these two idiots wouldn't have, and you could've died, in the case this was real!" Jill yelled. Chris opened his mouth to say something but Jill cut him off. "You're like that stupid boy who cried wolf, you know that?"
"Hey Joe, isn't that your girlfriend over there?" Forest asked.
"Oh shit! Kate. Help me out Forest." He said and ran towards her.
"For your information, I did not cry anything, nor did I say anything to get any of your attention out of boredom! I fell asleep, and that idiot dropped a fucking book on me. So don't say anything about me pulling someone's leg out of pure boredom!" Chris countered.
"Hey!" Joseph yelled, causing Jill and Chris to turn their attention to him and yelled "What!" in unison.
"Do you have any smelling salts?" he asked.
"No." Jill said
"Shit, what happened?" Chris started to laugh.
"While you were busy freaking us out, Kate freaked out herself and fainted." Forest said.
"Why don't you just toss cold water to her." Chris laughed. Right after he said that, Kate woke up.
"Why don't we toss you off the balcony?" Joseph said, helping her to her feet.
"I'm game." Chris smiled.
"Hey, beam us up Jill." Richard buzzed from the intercom downstairs.
"That's something I look forward to." Jill smiled at Chris and walked towards the door.
"Ouch." Chris said.
Okay here. I guess I'm done with this chapter. I hope you liked it, if not, then well, tell me what you would want to see or whatever. I don't know. I guess that's all for now. I'll try to have chapter 8 in ASAP. Thanks for reading, review please.