Ch. 14

Mr. and Mrs. Carey

"OK, this one looks like a winner." Lucky said, looking at the door.

"You haven't even seen it yet. You're just saying it so we can stop looking." Babe alleged.

"So?" Lucky smiled, and Babe shook her head.

The guy who was showing them this apartment came jogging up, "So sorry I am late. Traffic was murder." He unlocked the door and led them inside, "I'm Travis Wilson, but feel free to call me Travis."

"Hi, I'm Babe Carey." Babe said, holding out her hand.

Travis turned to Lucky and said, "You must be Mr. Carey then."

Both Babe and Lucky laughed, embarrassed.

"No, I'm just a friend. Lucky Spencer." They shook hands.

"Oh, sorry about that." The man chucked, and then started talking about the house.

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After Babe and Lucky were shown all the rooms and Babe asked a couple of questions, Babe looked at Lucky and said, "I think you were right, this is a winner."

"See, I told you!" Lucky said.

Babe looked at the man, "I'll take it."

The man nodded and said, "You've made a very good choice. I'll run and get the papers that I wanted you to sign. I left them on the table."

Babe nodded and the man walked off. Lucky came up to her.

"Well, it was fun today. Thank you for inviting me." Lucky said.

"You're welcome. Thanks for helping me find an apartment." Babe smiled at him, and Lucky nodded.

They both smiled at each other, and then Lucky slowly moved his lips to hers. The kiss was short, but it was sweet and perfect. Lucky pulled away and Babe smiled. Lucky went to kiss her again but the man walked out with the papers.

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After Babe had signed the papers and being told she could move into the apartment in a week, Lucky had taken Babe home. He walked her up to her hotel door and she looked at it.

"I am not going to miss this place." Babe said, looking around.

"Well, I mean it had to be kind of cool living in a hotel." Lucky said.

"For the first week, it was. Then you saw all the nastiness that is the Pine Cone." Babe looked at him.

"Well, if you need any help moving your stuff, you know who to call." Lucky informed her.

"I don't have much to move, but I might need help picking out the furniture." Babe said.

Lucky titled his head to the side, "Now I don't know if I can do that. I think you may want to call Bianca for that one."

"Really?"

"Yeah, but you know what I am good at? Painting walls. Yeah that's me. An excellent wall painter."

Babe laughed out loud, "Well then, I may just take you up on that offer. How much will you cost?"

"Um, maybe a couple kisses per hour." Lucky said, scratching his chin.

Babe grinned, "I might be able to do that."

Lucky leaned down and planted another sweet kiss on her lips. She then pulled back, and said,

"Thanks for everything Lucky. Goodnight." Babe turned and walked inside and shut the door.

She leaned against it and breathed out deeply. She liked Lucky, and she liked their kisses even more, but she didn't want to tell him about her past. She knew she would have to if they kept on becoming closer. Another thing about Lucky was... he just wasn't JR.

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Babe was woken up early the next morning by her cell phone ringing. She got up and answered it sleepily.

"Babe, its Bianca. Did you find an apartment?" She asked.

"Yeah, no thanks to you. But I found someone to go with me." Babe yawned.

"JR?" Bianca asked hopefully.

"No, Lucky." Babe said.

"Lucky, as in Lucky Spencer?"

"The one and only. The apartment is actually really great. It took us a while to find it, but it was way worth it. It comes with a new fridge, microwave, dishwasher, oven, all the things like that."

"That's great. When can you move in?"

"In a week. Which reminds me, you and me are going to be busy."

"Why?"

"We need to go shopping for furniture and paint and pictures, the full enchilada."

"Wow Babe, we really are going to be busy. Fusion must be treating you well."

"It really is. The apartment isn't going cost as much as I planned, so I get to buy other necessities for my apartment. I just won't be able to buy groceries until my next paycheck."

Bianca laughed, "Well, call me when you need me. But it's time to go back to Lucky. What happened?"

"He took me to this beautiful place for lunch, and when we were in my apartment, we..." Babe started, but Bianca finished her sentence for her.

"Kissed?"

"Yeah."

"Oh my god! How was it?"

"It was... amazing." Babe said, but her voice was lacking excitement.

"But it wasn't with JR, so you can't really enjoy the kiss." Bianca said.

"I don't know what is wrong with me! Lucky is a great guy, and I'm even starting to have feelings for him, but I can't get JR out of my mind. Every apartment I went into I wondered what would JR think, and would JR like it?"

"Babe, you're in love. You can't get rid of that love really fast. Just give it time."

"Bianca, I want the pain to go away, but I don't want my love for JR to go away."

"Unfortunately those two go hand in hand, so you can't have one without the other." Bianca said.

Babe sighed.

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Jamie let JR into his apartment the next day and shut the door.

"Why did you call me over here so early?" JR asked, "I haven't even been able to have any coffee."

Jamie gave him a mug full of hot coffee, "We have a problem."

"What is going on?" JR asked, sitting on the couch and drinking coffee.

"Babe and Lucky, yesterday they went apartment hunting."

JR almost spit out his drink, "What? You mean they are already moving in together?"

"No, no, just an apartment for Babe." Jamie reassured him.

"Don't do that again, Jamie." JR warned.

"Sorry. Anyways, well I got to talking to Bianca and she told me that Babe and Lucky ended up... kissing yesterday, and that tomorrow they are going and looking for paint for her apartment."

"God I hate Spencer." JR gritted his teeth.