Chapter 2

Rae opened the door to her one bedroom condo that she had lived in for the past two years. It wasn't anything spectacular like everyone that she knew owned of course Rae wasn't anything like them expect for the occasional shopping spree. Downstairs there was the living room which held her cream colored couch and chair along with the oak entertainment center that held her TV, DVD player and stereo. The kitchen and dinning area led off of the living room and down the hall there was a set of stairs leading to her bedroom then her office, bathroom and laundry area. It wasn't much to most people but Rae loved it.

Rae laid her mail, keys and cell phone on her welcome table that sat just inside the door, deciding that she would check her messages later she took her suite cases upstairs to unpack. Her bedroom was the loft area upstairs which contained her four post bed covered with the soft pink silk comforter surrounded by a white sheer canopy and a night stand which held a bamboo plant and a book that she had been try to read for the past four months, there was also a dresser sitting up against one of the walls, off to the side by the stairs was a set of doors which led to her walk in closet.

After Rae unpacked all of her clothes from the two week long trip she walked down to her bathroom and ran herself a nice hot bath to soak in, she had so many thoughts running through her mind about what had gone on a few days before between her and Dave. Now that she was home she wanted to sit and try to figure out what to do about her feeling for him, as she began to undress her phone started to ring. Reluctantly Rae grabbed her terry cloth white robe to cover herself then walked out into the living room to grab the phone.

"Hello."

"Rae, I just wanted to make sure that you made it home okay." Dave said from the other end of the phone.

"Yeah I just got here." Rae answered as she began to walk back to the bathroom.

"You just seemed so out of it since that night in the hotel I wanted to make sure that you were okay." She smiled.

"Yeah I'm fine I've just got a lot of things running through my head right now and I haven't had much time to sit and figure any of it out." She explained as she took her robe off and slowly stepped into the tub.

"It sounds like you're about to figure everything out now." Dave said referring to the water that he could hear in the back ground. "I didn't mean to interrupt you; I just wanted to make sure that you and I were okay."

"Yeah Dave we're fine we have to be or I don't get paid." Rae joked getting a laugh from Dave.

"Okay then I'll talk to you tomorrow maybe we can go over some of the things that you have planed for on the next trip."

"I plan on sleeping in a little so I'll call you around noon or so if that's okay?"

"Sounds good to me. Take care Rae." She smiled and hung up the phone then laid back against the back of the tub and closed her eyes.

What am I going to do, she thought, I want him so bad and he wants me just as bad. I don't know how much longer I can hold my self together when I'm around him. I know his married and I love Mel like a sister, but my feelings for Dave are starting to get the better end of me. Rae opened her eyes and looked over at her reflection in the mirror. No, I can't and won't sleep with another married man I will not let myself get attached to someone that I can not have, and I know that Dave would never leave Mel and his kids no matter how good fucking me was. That's all we would have is a couple of really good fucks while we're on the road too. No I can't let myself go through that pain again. Rae, giving up on relaxing in the tub, stood and let the water drain. She quickly dried her self off and slipped back into her robe then walked into the kitchen and fixed her a quick bite to eat. After eating her sandwich and watching a little TV she walked back upstairs to her room and crawled under her covers hoping that her dreams tonight would not involve a certain boss of hers.

Rae woke to the sun shining through the window just above her bed; normally it would put a smile on her face seeing the sun blast through her window, but not this morning. She was tried and just wanted to go back to sleep, not being able to get much sleep that night because of her dreams being filled with Dave and the things that she wanted to so badly do to him. Then there were the dreams that replayed ones that showed her she had done in order to survive on the street after her mother died those were the worst dreams and she hadn't had them in so long but now they were coming back full force. Rae threw the covers off her head and slowly climbed out of bed and down the stairs to make her some breakfast hoping that and a nice hot shower would help wake her up and get her through the day. She had so much that she needed to do, calls to return, appointments to set up for Dave such as interviews with different people, signings with the fans and photo shoots and she had to everything done and scheduled by the time they left in three days for the house shows that he had to do that weekend.

After her breakfast and shower, she threw on a pair of black yoga pants a white cami and that matching black jacket then walked into her office and quickly got down to work with hopes that no one interrupted her or she would never get everything done.

Three grueling hours and one phone call later Rae found herself no where near being done with any of her work. One phone call had only accomplished the cancellation of an interview for a radio station.

That was such a waste of my time it took me almost two hours just to cancel a radio interview. I'm not in the mood to do any of this stuff right no. Rae grabbed the phone and started dialing the next number on her list, however it has to be done sometime might as well it get over with now.

Rae looked up at the clock she had sitting on her mantel, it was an old antique clock that she had bought herself for her last birthday since her whole office was decorated in old antiques, and noticed that it was going on lunchtime and with the last few calls going better than the first Rae decided she could use a bit of a break. She stood from her chair and walked out of her office and into the kitchen. Deciding that a cup of hot tea sounded pretty good Rae began to heat up some water in her tea kettle. She was just about to head back to her office when there was a knock on her front door.

Funny I wasn't expecting anyone today. She thought as she changed her direction and headed to the front door. She opened the front door and found Dave standing there dressed in blue jeans and a tee shirt with a pair of sun glasses covering his chocolate eyes and his hands stuffed down inside his pockets. Rae had only seen him dressed so casually a few times before but she had to admit he looked just as good in a pair of blue jeans and a plain tee shirt as he did in those expensive suits that he wore for TV, if not better.

"What are you doing here?" Rae asked stepping a side allowing him to enter her home.

"I told you that I would call you today so we could over all the things that you have me doing on the next trip." Dave stepped inside the condo as Rae shut the door behind him.

"Dave calling someone normally means that you pick up the phone and dial a number then have a conversation with them without leaving your home."

"You think you're so funny don't you?" Rae nodded with a smile. "However I dropped the girls off at the mall to see a movie with a couple of their friends and I figured I would just stop by here and kill some time before I had to go back and pick them up. I hope you don't mind." Dave took his sunglasses off and laid them on her little welcome table then turned back and looked at her.

"No that's fine I was just going over some of the appointments myself." Rae walked into the kitchen when she heard the tea kettle going off. "I can tell you that you have one less interview to do this trip. They called sometime while I was gone and wanted to change the day only they couldn't come up with a time and day that would work with your schedule so we had to cancel, so that means that you have at least one day where you don't have to worry about doing anything." Rae poured the water over top the tea bag she had placed in the cup.

"One whole day where I don't have to run around signing things and answering questions. Whatever shall I do?" Dave mocked with a smile.

"You keep that up and fill that whole day up for you." Rae threw over her shoulder as she walked back to her office with him in tow. Rae sat behind her computer desk and turned her appointment book around for him to look over it as he sat in the chair across from her.

Rae went over all the details as to what hotels they would be staying in and what shows would be where, how they were getting from city to city, the times planes leave and land, the interviews and photo shoots and fan sessions and anything else that she had scheduled for him to do during their trip.

"Rae what exactly are we suppose to do here? We only have ten minutes from the time interview ends to the time that we leave there's no way that we could get to the airport on time." Dave asked looking at the book that lay in front of him.

"That time really doesn't matter, after that interview we start driving up to the next city which I believe is about nine hours away. That following day is the one day that you don't have anything planed so it really doesn't matter what time we get there that day just as long as we're there by that Friday." Rae stood from her chair and walked around and sat on the edge of the desk in front of Dave. "Does everything look okay or do you want to me to change anything?"

"Everything looks good to me, as long as you know what we're doing and when we're supposed to be doing it at I don't care what we do." Dave closed the book and looked up at the woman in front of him. Even with her hair pulled back in a messy pony tail, barely any make-up and baggy clothes she was still the most beautiful woman that he had ever seen and he couldn't stop the images of taken her on the desk behind her from flowing through his mind. Before Dave realized what he was doing he stood from his chair and placed his hands on Rae's hips pulling her closer to her so she was pressed up against the front of him, he slowly lowered his head stopping when his lips were just barely touching Rae's.

"Dave." Rae whispered afraid to say anything that would spoil this, she wanted so badly to taste his lips one time, but she knew that it would not just stop at a kiss. "Dave I think you should be going now. I don't want you to be late picking up the girls from there movie." She lightly pushed against his chest and moved away from him.

"You're right." Dave walked toward the hallway with Rae following behind him. "Rae I'm really sorry, I promise that from now on I will try to not put the moves on you. It's just so hard; you are by far the most beautiful woman that I have seen in a very long time." Dave said as they reached the front door.

"What about Mel?"

"Oh that reminds me; Mel wanted me to invite you over for dinner the day before we left. The girls have been dieing to see you again, between you and some boy at school that's all I hear at home."

"Sure sounds good." You didn't answer my question. With that Dave walked out the front door.