Here's Chapter 3 Hope you all enjoy & if there is any advice or some drama you want to see go down review it & let me know :)
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It had been three days since lacey and Giuliana's sleepover. The girls had an amazing time catching up and indulging on Chinese food and frozen yogurt while they talked wedding plans. Giuliana still hated the fact that lacey was paying for a good percentage of her wedding but to lacey it wasn't a big deal. She had more than enough money to share and Giuliana was her family and on top of that most of the things she was getting discounts on and cashing in favors from people that owed her a thing or two. And when Giuliana told her the reason for the wedding being in Vegas she couldn't help but want to do whatever she could for spencer and Giuliana no matter what.
Lacey decided to finally climb out of bed and begin her morning ritual shower, brush teeth, decide on outfit for the day getting matching jewelry and apply makeup and do a full 360 in the mirror to make sure she looked good. It might have seemed silly to must but having an organized procedure helped lacey function each morning.
After the hour and a half process was complete she grabbed her phone from the bedside table and then grabbed her purse and headed downstairs. On today's agenda the cable guy was supposed to come by and so was the gardener so she had to stay in the house till two when that was over but after that she had no plans. Giuliana was busy because her fiancé and his team had just got home yesterday afternoon and so they were spending the day together and that meant the dinner she couldn't get out of was tomorrow night. As lacey started the coffee machine to make her a cup of coffee she went outside to get her newspaper she enjoyed the real thing over the online websites. On the cover of the paper she read about a big shot lawyer getting in trouble and the team of people he was using to help. The article made Lacey upset because of course everyone went to her sister to solve their problems and she had no problem fixing them but when her own sister needed help it didn't matter. Lacey fought the urge to get upset she had long ago forgave her family or who she thought was her family for what they had did. She couldn't hate them any longer it was part of her forgiving process but although she forgave didn't mean she could forget.
After enjoying her coffee and a fruit salad for breakfast lacey decided to get some work done for the day and by the time 1:30 had arrived the WI-FI and cable were back on and her yard looked a bit better than it was before. With the rest of her day ahead of her lacey decide to head out to DC and do a little shopping and visit an old friend.
After stopping at a few little boutiques and picking up a cute dress for her dinner tomorrow lacey walked to a little cafe she remembered well it was a few blocks from the white house near where all the journalist hung out to catch a story and where lacey had decided to meet up with her friend James Novak.
"I can't believe my eyes the youngest pope is back in DC and looking amazing I may add" an excited James rushed to hug his friend
"You better stop flirting James that's the last thing we need the white house chief of staff's husband having a little fling with some dashing young gal" replied lacey
James laughed and released lacey from his embrace "oh please I love you lacey but you are not my type"
Lacey laughed and embraced her friend once more in a hug it had been so long since they had seen each other. They meet when lacey was looking for a temporary public speaker for her retails press matters and being new at the whole journalist thing James took the job to earn a little money and when he left for better things the two of them decide to keep it touch.
After a light lunch the two decided to take a little walk and catch up some more
James threw his arm around lacey's shoulder as they walked, he turned and smiled at her "So I know I have said it a million times but it's so good to see you back in DC, California doesn't deserve you, you fit better here" he added with sincerity in his voice.
"California has treated me well as compared to here where I felt it was suffocating me and making me feel like I would collapse at any time" lacey replied with no emotion
James looked over to see lacey's face before asking his next question nervously "I haven't wanted to bring it up but have you talked to anyone in your family or his since the accident"
Lacey let the question sink in and took a deep breath before answering "I've talked to my aunt and grandparents on my mom's side a few times as long as they don't bring up my dad or my sister we are usually good and as far as Carlos's family they still blame me for their son being dead so you know how that goes and it doesn't help that I have his shares of the company but as long as I do my job and we work through lawyers to communicate it's all safe"
James shook his head in disgust "I don't see how those people can be so one sided we all know the mess Carlos made of his life it was all in the media way before he married you, you were just the perfect little pawn he needed in his sick game I still can't believe what he put you through for five years he needed to marry to look like a good guy and he still ended up losing and your sister helping that family I still can't believe it I mean I am nice to Olivia and all but I do it for Cyrus I still haven't forgiven her for what she did to you" he added with hatred in his tone
Lacey shrugged it off and answered with without emotion "Well I learned a valuable lesson, love, marriage and family isn't for everybody some people are better off alone"
"So does this mean you won't let me set you up with anyone then?" James answered with a bit of humor to lighten the situation.
"What is it with you and jewels trying to find me a man?" lacey shook her head while laughing at James.
"We just want to see you happy because if anyone deserves to be its you lacey" James responded to her and placed a kiss on her cheek.
After circling the park Lacey and James went their separate ways but not before making plans to have lunch again next week.
Once back home Lacey changed into a pair of leggings a tank top and sneakers and headed down to the gym in her basement placing her iPod on the dock she hit shuffle on her music and headed to her punching bag. She wrapped her hands and let the music take her to another place.
Flash Back
You sit there in your heartache
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
To save you from your old ways
You play forgiveness
Watch him now, here he come
Lacey was only 26 and had been in college for almost ten years, a whole decade dedicated to a career she wasn't even sure about but she had come this far and only had about a year left plus this would be like the fourth time she changed her mind so she figured she may as well stick it out but the two bottles of pinnacle vodka in front of her instead of her text books weren't of much help to her. Another birthday alone she thought, it was lacey's 26th birthday and she was by herself, her best friend Giuliana had wanted to take her out but lacey declined because Giuliana's dad was in town and they barely saw each other as it was. No what lacey wanted was family it had been almost two years since she had seen them they were always busy or didn't have time even when lacey had offered to take time off to see them they told her not to, but she should have been used to it she was sent to boarding school in England at age 10 and from then on out she hardly saw her family so this was nothing new to her but it didn't mean that it hurt any less. The cake flavored vodka was sweet but burned as it went down her throat. Lacey figured she had enough liquor for the moment and needed some real food in her, so she grabbed her wallet and keys and headed for the little taco place down from her apartment.
The streets were emptier than usual for a Friday night most likely because the semester was almost over and some were either last minute cramming or packing to head home for the summer. Once she got to the taco stand lacey placed her order, paid, got her food and left all the while not paying attention to the guy that had been following her for a few minutes now.
He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
But he talks like a gentleman
Like you imagined when you were young
"You know a young lady shouldn't walk around by herself so late at night"
Lacey turned around and came face to face with a guy she had seen before but couldn't place where he was tall around 6'0 and well-built he had dark eyes and sort of long dark hair. "Why will some strange man just walk up to me and start talking to me" lacey crossed her arms over her chest and smirked at the stranger in front of her.
He returned a smirk back to her "Well my name is Carlos so since you know it I'm not a stranger anymore"
"Well aren't you sweet, I guess you want to know my name now huh" lacey answered him not changing her stance.
"It would be nice" he responded copying lacey's posture.
"Lacey my names Lacey" she answered smiling at the man she now knew as Carlos.
"I figured it must be a beautiful name just by looking at the occupant of that name" he said in a sexy deep voice
"Aren't you such a gentleman?" lacey replied smiling at him
Carlos laughed "Yes I am and to prove it I would like to walk you home"
"I would like that" lacey replied, then she took Carlos hand and headed back to her apartment.
End Flash Back
With one last hard punch lacey slide down to the floor, if I hadn't be so drunk and stupid that night she thought maybe just maybe I could have avoided the worst decision of my life. But the damage had been done that night seven years ago and there was no going back Lacey just had to live with it.
I Pictured Carlos as Dean Cain
The song belongs to The Killers When You Were Young
The Next chapter has a bit more criminal minds and less scandal.
