The Party

It's been a week, Sue and I haven't spoken and have barely even been in a room together longer then a few minute and I want to talk to her but every time I try she leaves the room or just ignores me, she is not shy about showing her displeasure. We try not to be too affectionate or even at all around Sue, it's just a bit too uncomfortable and I don't want to rub it in her face. Tonight the city is throwing us a thank you party for stopping Victor's wrath on the entire town, it's going to be held on a yacht, this is going to be the first time that Johnny and I are going to be out in public as a couple and I can't wait but I'm also really nervous. I just got out of the shower and have a towel wrapped around me and I am brushing my hair. I see in the mirror Johnny coming inside, we smile at each other as he walks up, wraps his arms around me and kisses my shoulder, I feel his hands rub my belly, about to open my towel, "you smell so good." He inhales my neck.

I smile and turn around to face him, "you smell good too." I drape my arms over his shoulders while his are on my hips.

"You doing okay?" He softy asked.

"Yeah, I'm so excited and kind of nervous." I confess a little.

"What do you mean?" He rubs my back over my towel.

"It's our first time being out in public together as a real couple...in front of everyone." I was mostly thinking about Sue.

"Yeah...and I'm fully intending on showing you off to everyone."

I smile and give a little chuckle, "oh really?"

"Absolutely...I can actually hold your hand...dance with you...tell everyone that I'm yours."

I put both hands on the sides of his face and kiss him tenderly, he presses his body to mine and continues to rub my back. I go on my tiptoes to reach him even more and he puts his hands on my hips and lifts me up on the bathroom counter, the kiss completely changes to being very passionate and he goes between my legs. I immediately wrap my arms around his head as he wraps one arm completely around me as the other runs it through my wet hair on the back of my head. Soon he puts a hand on my belly and begins to pull away my towel, I don't try to stop him.

"Via, you almost ready?" We hear Ben call out, Johnny stops what he's doing.

"...Yeah, almost..." I try to breathe out from lack of oxygen.

"Oh God, is Johnny in there with you?" We could tell he was rolling his eyes.

We both just smiled and try to hold in our laughter. "Yep blockhead, I am." Johnny spoke out, I smack his arm.

"Well, will you let her finish getting ready lover boy? The party starts in 40 minutes and we still have to get there." He pointed.

"Duly noted." Johnny responded, he helps me off the counter. "I better get out of here before you distract me anymore." He teases.

"Me distract you?" I tease back, he just smirks and walks out.

An hour later we arrived at the party and all of my nerves went away, I am standing beside Johnny and I confidently run my hand down his and link our fingers together, he turns his head to look at me and gives me a sweet smile and squeezes my hand more. We walk up to Ben and he has brought his new girlfriend Alicia, they met the night Victor attacked us, he hasn't been able to stop talking about her.

"Guys, this is Alicia." Ben introduces us, "Alicia, Johnny and Olivia.

"Hi, it's nice to meet you. You can just call me Via." I spoke shaking her hand, I already knew she was blind from Ben mentioning it the other day.

"Ben's told me a lot about you." She replied also shaking my hand.

"Hopefully they are good things."

"Oh of course...but Johnny on the other hand..." She joked, I chuckled. Alicia and I talked just the two of us for about 30 minutes, I really like her! She's just what Ben needs and I am so happy for him, good riddance Debbie!

Johnny has barely left my side all night, he'll rub my back with just his fingers. He doesn't even look at any of the other girls, although they are staring daggers at me but I proudly smile, "yeah, deal with it! He's my man!" I think to myself. Johnny sweetly gets me a drink right before Ben comes up to us.

"He's doing it, come on." He informs us, we're both confused.

We all crowd around to the outside doors and we see Reed proposing to Sue, I couldn't help but shed some happy tears, I know how much and how long she's loved Reed, this was all she ever wanted and he finally did what he should have done a long time ago! I proudly cheer even though it saddened me that she didn't look over at me like she would have before but I choke back my thoughts and continue to cheer for them.

"Hey, no more wisecracks with the way I look, okay?" Ben told Johnny.

"Hey, just call me Mr. Sensitivity." He pats his shoulder, okay, out of way everyone, wide load coming through, he's huge."

I grab him before he can fly away as Alicia did the same to Ben, "oh no you don't." I warn him. "What did I say?"

"What? He's better now...he's got a girlfriend, he can take it." He explains, "Baby, it's what we do." I roll my eyes at him but couldn't help liking the idea of everything going back to normal again...I hope we can all go back to normal soon.

"Okay but you better be nice." I point my finger.

"I'll try...want to dance?" He holds his hand out and I proudly take it.

He leads me to the dance floor, I wrap my arms around his neck and we slowly dance, we don't really say anything and just gaze into each other's eyes. He twirls me a few times that makes me giggle, after the last twirl he holds me close and I put my head on his shoulder. I feel his hands softly rubbing my back as I close my eyes and gently run my fingernails on the back of his neck and inhale his amazing scent on the side of his neck.

"You really do smell good." I speak in his ear.

I just happened to look over at Sue and they are celebrating, drinking champagne with Ben, Alicia and a couple of other people. I would love to go celebrate with her, it makes me sad that I can't even give her a hug and say congratulations. I close my eyes and smile when I feel Johnny give the side of my temple a few pecks with his lips.

"Want to get out of here?" He whispers to me.

"Yes please." I all to quickly responded.

We come home and go into his room. We are starting to kiss, continuing what we started in the bathroom earlier. We both take off each other's jackets, I'm trying to be in the mood like I was earlier but it's hard for me to hide it, I sit on the bed and he can tell right away that I'm not.

He stops and kneels in front of me. "Hey, you okay?" He gently asked. "Did you have a good time?"

"Yeah...it's just...Sue didn't even look at me." I softly replied.

"What do you mean?"

"After Reed proposed...when everyone was cheering...she looked and smiled at everyone...but not me."

"I'm sorry."

"I guess I was kidding myself...I really thought after we talked that eventually she would come around..."

"Hey, we've only been officially together for a week...give her so more time."

"I know...it was just hard not celebrating with her..."

"Your not...having second thoughts about us...are you?" He very hesitantly asked.

"Oh no! Of course not!" I immediately put my hands on his face to show that I truly mean it. "Your the best thing that ever happened to me...I would never regret it." I caress his jawline with my thumbs. "I just miss my friend."

"I know...she hasn't exactly been talking to me either." He told me, I didn't realize she wasn't talking to him too.

"Why didn't you tell me?" I ask him.

"I don't know, you already feel bad and I didn't want you to feel worse."

"...Well, you were right, I do feel worse." I honestly say.

"Hey, don't worry about me." He stands up and goes on the other side of the bed and gets in the middle, he signals with his hand for me to go to him. I softly smile and lay on his shoulder. "We're going to be okay." He whispers in my hair and gives it a lite kiss.

That makes me smile bigger, "yeah, we are." I look up at him and I peck his lips a few times and I hold him close to me. "Thank you." I could only say after a few minutes. I know he was looking forward to us continuing from before but the fact that he knew this is what I truly needed more is the reason why I fell in love with this man. We fall asleep like this and I don't move all night. As much as I miss Sue I do not regret my decision, being in his arms is exactly where I'm suppose to be.

A few weeks later I am walking into the kitchen to get some breakfast and Sue is already in there. We look at each other, I don't know what to do so I just try to be as quick as I can with getting my food. I am about to leave but can't without saying what I need to first.

"Um...I haven't had the chance to tell you, congratulations." I say to her, "I know you and Reed are going to be very happy together."

"...Thanks." She softly responds.

"Just you know...I'm leaving...the building...I think it will be easier for everyone." I confess to her, it was driving me crazy living under pins and needles, "so, don't worry...you won't have to see me unless there is a rescue mission." I go to leave the kitchen.

"Via wait." I hear Sue behind me. "I've been wanting to talk to you...but haven't because I've been feeling incredibly guilty."

"For what?" I ask her.

"I have been so horrible this past month...I'm sorry I've been selfish, stubborn and a complete bitch. I have treated you terribly and you don't deserve it."

"You are?" I shockingly spoke.

"Yeah...I was so focused on the lies and sneaking around, thinking it was weird and wrong, I mean you've always been like a sister to me and that's how I thought you felt about Johnny too, a brother and when you told me you weren't going to stop seeing him no matter what I said just fueled my anger more...so much so that I was too blind to see it."

"See what?"

"How happy you make him...how happy he makes you." She was getting a little emotional, "when he told me to open my eyes and see how great you were together..."

"What do you mean?" I am so confused.

"Didn't he tell you?" I shake my head no. "Johnny talked to me the night after we got engaged, told me how badly I was hurting, especially that night. That I needed to stop being a bitch and just accept that your happy and to get over it."

"He said that?"

"Yeah...he was harsh...but I deserved every bit of it." She softly sighed, "I was so mad at first but then...I couldn't stop thinking about the party...watching you two dance...and ever since I'll see you guys cuddling on the couch or something and I've never seen you both smile so much and the way you look at each other...you really are truly in love." I put my hand over my mouth to stop me from crying. "And I've missed you. You have no idea how much I wanted to go right up to you and show you the ring when Reed proposed." She cries, as do I now.

"Me too." I could only say.

"I'm so sorry, I tried so many times to talk to you but never knew where to start and I thought you wouldn't accept it." She told me.

"Of course I would." I choke out as we give a big hug, many tears were shed.

"No matter what Via, you'll always be my best friend...and you've always been like a sister to me...now it can be for real," she whispers in my ear.

We hear a noise and we see Johnny smiling at us with his arms folded, "It's about damn time you two made up." We just smile at him, he gives me a sublet wink.

"I'll leave you two alone...I need to tell Reed I finally talked to you." She said as she left the kitchen.

He waits until Sue's completely out of the kitchen, he sits on the stool in front of me and holds my hips, I go right between his legs, "you talked to Sue?" He just nods his head without saying anything, "you didn't have to do that."

"Yes I did. That night seeing you so sad...I knew I had to talk to her." He told me as he rubs his thumbs on my hip bones, "and I want to make you happy...and I knew you wouldn't be completely happy without your best friend."

"You do make me happy..." I quickly say. "Did I make you feel like you weren't?" I ask worriedly.

"...No...I just..." I can tell he's not being honest and trying to think of an excuse.

"Baby...I'm so sorry if I made you think I wasn't...you make me happier then I ever thought I could be." I very quickly replied as I wrap my arms around his neck, I feel terrible! "I'm sorry." I repeat one more time.

"Don't worry about it." He gives me a sweet grin.

"By the way...she said you were harsh." I raise my eyebrow at him.

"Well yeah, it was about time she got her head out of her ass." I playfully swat his shoulder.

"Thank you." I smile at him as I reward him with a passionate kiss.


YAY! Sue and Olivia made up and she has her blessing! Wasn't Johnny so sweet talking to her?