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Chapter 5 – Brian's Secret Mission

He had it all planned out already. He was prepared to go on his mission. The only thing he had to do was to come up with an excuse of why he was heading out of the hotel.

Well it wasn't an excuse. It was more of a lie.

Brian picked up his black draw string bag from the chair as he thought about lying to Paul about his whereabouts. He didn't want to but then he knew what Paul would say if he told him where he was intending on doing and he knew without a doubt that he wasn't going to like it one bit.

"Hey Paul…" Brian began to say. Paul was busily being buried into the mystery novel. He lowered it from his eyes as to turn his attention to Brian.

"Yeah man?" Paul asked.

"I'm just going to the…supermarket downtown. You need anything there?"

"A soda would be good. Oh and pretzels too. Paul grinned and then his smile suddenly dropped. "But wait a minute. I thought we've agreed that we're going to head out for tacos."

"Oh yeah…"

Brian had forgotten that they had planned to go there since this morning.

"I'll just go and fetch them afterwards," he said with a quick nod of the head.

"Or how about this idea," as Paul said this, he closed the book and put it on his bedside table. "I'll go with you."

"NO!"

Paul raised a brow at him. Brian had to think of something fast or Paul would be very suspicious of him.

"Uh I mean…I don't want to stop you from reading. I mean you've been reading for the whole afternoon and you haven't put it down yet! And you're halfway through it now aren't you? That book must have been exciting!"

"Well it is actually," said Paul with a grin.

"I'll tell you what. I'll call you when I get there okay and I'll tell you what they have and order it for you."

"Are you sure? I think it would be much better if-"

"It's not a problem at all!" Brian retorted with a smile. "Really."

Paul made a shrug. "Okay then."

"So you're going to have to find your way back again?" Brian asked. "In the book I mean."

"Oh well that's not hard. I made to page 305." Paul grinned.

"Awesome. Well see ya later."

"Alright."

Brian head to the door and as he turned back, Paul was back to reading again. He stepped out of the room with a smirk on his face.

So far so good.

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Brian got to the lobby and as soon as he reached the lounge, he saw Ashley and stopped. He couldn't help but to stare. She looked good in her jeans and a baby blue halter top. Her hair was up in a long ponytail. He smiled as he admired her beauty.

But then there was him. Brian frowned at the sight of CM Punk with her. They were talking and laughing. Hoping that Ashley didn't see him, Brian paced across to seat on a chair and quickly took a comic from his bag and opened it to hide his face behind it. He was holding the Spiderman comic upside down but it didn't matter. It wasn't like he was reading it anyway.

He could hear bits of the conversation and the last bit would prepare him to go on with his mission as he had planned it.

"So if you're ready we can go now."

"Of course I'm ready."

"Good. Let's go."

Brian lowered the comic a little from his face to take a peep. They were heading out of the lounge and out towards the lobby. He smirked.

Perfect. Now is my chance.

He got up and began to follow them. He was good at being sneaky. They didn't suspect a thing yet.

But what he didn't suspect was someone seeing him supposedly 'reading' and then all of a sudden, decided to get up and walk away behind Ashley and her date.

"What in the world is he doing?" Paul asked himself as he scratched his head. He began to pick up the pace so he could catch up to him.

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Brian found a good hiding place in the parking lot of the pizzeria. The bush was big enough to hide his whole body. Once he was bending down then he would be fine. Since Ashley and CM were sitting near the window, spying should be easy as pie for Brian.

He made adjustments of his binoculars it so he could see through clearly. He looked into them and he could Ashley and saw the dirty blonde taking a bite out of her pizza. CM Punk was smiling as he took a sip of his drink.

Brian lowered the binoculars from his eyes and made a smirk. "So far so good."

He looked into them again and Ashley was chewing slowly and then she was drinking through a straw.

"She looks so cute when she eats," said Brian with a chuckle. "And what is he doing? He's rolling up his slice? Who the hell would waste his time to do that? Just eat the freakin' slice already!"

CM did and it was a big bite at that.

"Oh good grief. Now he's treating like it's a taco now? Unbelievable…."

"Since when have you become a secret agent?"

Brian let out a scream and suddenly stood up to his feet without thinking. He turned around to see where the voice was coming from.

"Paul?!"

"And hello to you too," said Paul. "I thought you were going to the supermarket."

"Uh yeah I am," Brian lied. "I was just looking for something."

"In the bush?"

"Yeah I dropped my pen there...and here it is!"

Brian pulled out a blue pen out of his pocket and showed it to him.

"Okay…so you've spend ten minutes looking for a pen that's not working anymore…in the bush?"

"I didn't spend ten minutes," Brian protested. "And who said this pen isn't working?"

"Is it the one with the wrong pen cover?"

"Yes."

"Then it's not working. You borrowed a pen from me today because yours wasn't working remember?"

"Oh yeah…"

Paul folded his arms. "So you've wasted your time for something that's useless?"

"I guess I have," said Brian with a nervous laugh.

"Oh look who we have here," said Paul, looking away. "It's Ash."

Brian turned around to see her talking to CM.

"Oh really?" Brian said as if he didn't know she was there. "Oh yeah…so she is."

The two men were now watching the dirty blonde who seemed to be enjoying herself with her date. He felt a little sad to see this.

"You were spying on her weren't you?"

"Yes," said Brian, who was obviously wasn't aware of his answer.

"You were spying on her?!"

"Yeah….I mean no!"

"Too late," Paul retorted. "I saw you hiding behind the bush for ten minutes now according to my watch…so I was right all along. You were spying!"

Brian sighed. "Okay you got me. But I have my reason."

"And that is?"

"I just wanted to make sure that she's okay."

"She's doing fine man. Look at her. No seriously just look."

Brian turned to look at her once more. She was talking away and appeared to be laughing at some joke that CM was telling her. He was starting to wonder if Ashley really liked CM more than him. It would be a heartbreaking if that was true.

"Come on let's go," said Paul.

He didn't want to go but then he felt that it would be best. So he took one last look at Ashley before he turned to walk away from the parking lot.

"By the way," Brian began as he looked at Paul and raised his brow. "What are you doing here?"

"I came to bring you this," Paul pulled out a wallet from his pocket and made a smirk.

Brian's jaw suddenly dropped and he slapped his forehead. "I forgot my wallet?!"

"Yes you did," said Paul matter of factly. "You left it on the bedside table. Next time make sure you have it or you'll get into trouble with the cashier."

"Gotcha," said Brian with a nervous laugh and took it. "Thanks."

"Well now that we're both out here, are the tacos still on?" Paul asked. "Or do you want to stay at your favorite hang out place?"

Brian let out a laugh. "Trust me Paul. I would rather be anywhere but here."

"Good," said Paul with a chuckle. "Then let's go"

As they got on the pavement, Brian turned to the window once more. She was unaware of Brian and Paul being at the parking lot for she was having a good time with another guy. When he could not longer see the pizzeria, Brian turned away and shoved his hands into his pocket. As he looked ahead of him and strolled alongside with his best friend, the beautiful image of her smile was still etching on his mind.