Ice and Fire
Chapter 8
AMY POV
"Please leave," I said to Jessica. I was irritated. Why did she have to show up in my life when everything was going great for me. She looked up at me sobbing. "Don't be like this Amy, please," she pleaded. "Be like what? You want me to act like you weren't the cause of all my pain? You want me to act like I don't blame you for what you did to me?" I was livid. I always wanted to put her in her place but I never seem to have the courage up until now. She made Karma walk away and God knows what she's thinking about this little situation. "Amy, I never meant to hurt you. I never wanted it to end like it did," she said between sobs. I couldn't hear her pleading anymore. All I was thinking is that I want to try with Karma.
"I have a lot of work to do. Please leave immediately before I have security up here," she looked up at me with disbelief. "Really Amy? You're going to throw away our love of 4 years for a girl you just met?" "I'm not discussing this with you right now. I'm at work. Maybe some other time, okay?" She nodded and walked towards the door with sadness lurking in her strides. She stops at the doorway, "I will always love you." I may have loved her once but not anymore.
I go two days trying to reach Karma. She doesn't pick up her phone or text me back. I want to explain what she saw. I just hope she doesn't think I'm dating multiple people. I get an idea and call Lauren. "Hey loser. How's the job going?" She asked. "Well isn't my loving step sister always so charming," I said trying to get to the point. "Ha-ha very funny. What's up, Raudenfeld? I'm busy watching kids." I sit down on my chair. I check out the clock. It's noon on a Tuesday. "Well that's what I wanted to talk to you about. Are you watching Rachel today?" "Yeah she's here coloring. Why?" "Well, I'm about to get off of work in an hour. Can I swing by and watch her for you?" She was hesitant but doesn't have the time to ask me questions over the phone. She's too busy watching the kids. "Fine," she said, "You can help me watch the other kids as well." "Okay, I'll be over in an hour or so."
I arrived at Lauren's house. I'm quickly greeted by little Rachel. "Hi Amy!" She screamed running towards me. I grabbed her and picked her up. She gave me a really tight squeeze around my neck. "How are you little princess?" "I'm really good!" She said while I put her down. "Can we play a game?" "Of course!" We both walk into the living room and we see all the kids playing around. Lauren must have fun cleaning up there mess.
KARMA POV
My phone won't stop buzzing. It's Amy. I don't want to talk to her. If she thinks she can date two people, well she has another thing coming. I'm not a girl to be messed with.
I'm trying so hard to be mad at Amy but all I do is smile at the thought of her. I saw that girl that we saw at the movies hugging Amy. A surge of jealousy rushed my whole body. I wanted to cry. I really like Amy and she said she really likes me too. Did she mean it? I'm on my way to pick up Rachel. I haven't seen her since her dad dropped her off at daycare. She's been with her dad for the past couple of days. I let him have her for a couple of days since they haven't really been able to have alone time together.
When I pull up, I see the familiar black Range Rover. "Just my luck," I sigh.
I knock on the door and Lauren answers. I apologized for being late yet again. She interrupts me by saying that Alex had picked Rachel up from daycare. I look down at my phone and see that he had called me three times and left me two voicemails and one text message
Alex-hey I'm picking up Rach. I have surprise for her. I know you've been busy. I can take her for the night if you want.
"Oh, wow. I'm sorry for interrupting you. I didn't know she wasn't going to be here" "Don't worry about it. You can come in if you want." "I don't think that's a good idea. I'll see you tomorrow!" I waved goodbye and started to walk towards my car. I hear the door close and I feel eyes on me. You know that feeling when someone's watching you across the room and you feel, well for lack of a better word, watched? It's this feeling you can't shake off. That's what I was feeling. I hear my name being called by the familiar voice. I ignore it and keep walking. I hear her run after me and grab my wrist. I really don't want to cry right now but I feel the stinging behind my eyes and a sob forming in the back of my throat.
"What do you want?!" I snapped around and I could see her face go from worried to sadness in a matter of seconds. "I..I just wanted to talk," She stuttered out. "What is there to talk about? We are not a 'thing' obviously, so you are allowed to do as you please. Just please don't drag me into whatever it is that you do," I said trying to control my anger and tears. "What are you talking about, Karma?" "I'm taking about you having that girl from the theatre hugging you and you seemed pretty happy. So please save me the heartbreak because I really liked you and I don't want to be heartbroken," I said on the verge of tears with a wavy voice. She stepped closer to me. "Karma, you have to understand that I'm not a person who goes and plays with people's heart. I like you karma. A lot. You make me smile even when you're not there. Just thinking about you, you can make me smile. I like it when I hold your hand. I like it when you laugh. I like how you care so much about your daughter. I like so many qualities and if you give me the chance, I want to be able to like more things about you that I've yet come to know about you." "I want to believe you Amy, but I can't chase someone who's chasing someone else." She took another step towards me. "I'm chasing you. I want you," she said grabbing my hand. I look down at the grown and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, Amy, but I can't do this right now." I whipped my tears and broke from the grasp on my wrist and got in my car. I could see her standing there and not moving an inch from the rear view mirror. Why do I have to feel this way about her? I mean, I just met her and I think I'm falling for her way faster than I thought I would.
I drive away but I don't get far. The tears coming down blur my vision and I have to pull over on the side of the road. The silence is killing me so I turn on the radio. Demi Lavato song lightweight started playing. If this song wasn't so relevant to my situation, I would be singing but it just made me cry harder. I had to let it out. I felt like my heart was ripped out. I put my chair in a laying down position and just lay there with my arm slung over my eyes. I'm in deep thought. I'm replaying what she said to me. I like it when I hold her hand too.
In the middle of the song, I had managed to calmed down. All of the sudden I hear a slight knock on my window. I look up and it's Amy. She motions for me to roll down the window. "What do you want?" My voice was harsher than I wanted it to be. "I just want to talk. Please." I look straight ahead and let out a heavy breath, "fine." I turn off my car and get out. I stand by my car with crossed arms, "what do you want to talk about?" "Us." "So now there's an us? Amy, I'm sorry to break it to you but we are not together." "Than why are you so mad at me if we are not a 'thing?' I chased after you. I'm here now aren't I? Doesn't that prove to you that I want you?" I let out a sigh. "Listen, I'm not mad I'm just sad okay?" She stepped closer to me and grabbed both of my hands intertwining them. "Why are you sad?" she asked looking me straight in the eyes. I tried to break eye contact but she wouldn't let me. She kept searching my face. I let out another sigh. I shut my eyes tight. "It's just…it's just that we just met and I'm really starting to fall for you. It's scary but good scary you know?" She lets go of one of my hands and props my chin up with her finger. Forcing me to look up at her. "Look at me," she whispered, "I'm falling for you too." All of the sudden she's kissing me. My free hand goes up to her hair and is tangled in her blond locks. She lets go of my other hand and holds onto my waist. Pushing us into my car. I gasp a little. She breaks the kiss, "I'm sorry," she said against my lips. I shake my head looking at her eyes and down to her lips, "Don't be," was all I manage to say when I kissed her again. We made out on the side of the road for about five minutes. It was pure bliss.
Lightweight. That's how I feel. Lightweight in her arms.
AMY POV
I break the kiss and smile breaks on my face with my eyes close. "Dork," she said and I opened my eyes. I see her smiling. "You're going to be the death of me," I whispered pulling away a little but she stopped me, pulling me closer. "We'll just have to wait and see," she whispered against my lips and kissing me softly.
Out of nowhere, my mouth is moving faster than I could think. "Since I've been to your house, do you want to come to mine?" I was beating myself up mentally. I was hesitant to hear her answer. "I mean you don't have to but I know you'll be alone tonight since Rachel won't be there. I.." She interrupted me. "I would love to. I'll fallow you," she said turning around in my arms. My hands are still laced around her hips. "Umm Amy, you have to get in your car for me to follow you," she said breaking me from my trance. I didn't think she would say yes. "Uh..I..yeah duh!" I said walking away towards my car. "I'll see you at my house," I said shyly. She just laughs and gets into her car.
I get in my car and glance at the dashboard. It's only six in the afternoon. What are we suppose to do at my house?
We get to my house and she parks in my driveway next to me. I get off and walk towards her car. "Come on," I gestured towards her. She looks at me in awe. "You're house is so beautiful and humongous!" She said a bit surprised. "Yeah, I just bought it a year ago." We walk together to the door. I let her go in first and all of the sudden I hear a thud. "Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry! Are you okay?" All I saw was my four legged children running up to her and knocking her to the floor. They kept licking her and she just giggled on the floor. "I think I'm okay," she said between gasps of air. "Cooper! Nala! Sit!" I yelled and they didn't listen. They ran towards me. They missed me. And God I missed them the whole day too. I knelt down and rolled around with them.
"Are you sure you're okay? That sounded pretty hard," I said while helping karma up to her feet. "Yeah I just felt like I got the wind knocked out of me but they are adorable!" She said while we walked further into the house with my dogs in tow.
"Let's go outside!" That caught their attention. I walked to the back and let them out the sliding door.
I walked back into the kitchen to the sight of Karma siting down on the dinning table massaging her head. "Here, let me take a look at you." I walked up to her and used my mini flash light on my keychain to check out her pupils. "Follow my finger for me." She does as I say. "Well, the good news is that there's no concussion. Bad news, your going to have o put some ice on that whole other head growing out of you." She smacks me. "You're suppose to be a children's doctor not a mean doctor!" "It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt, isn't it?" I said grabbing an ice pack from the freezer and walking back to her. "You're so beautiful by the way," I said kissing her forehead. Watching Karma blush is what I live for.
A/N: guys I wrote this chapter like 5 times and I'm still not happy with it. Let me know what you want to see happen. I usually have like three chapters written in advance but since I rewrote this one so many times, I will have to rewrite the other ones to flow with the story. It may take a little longer than usual for me to update. With work and school but I love to read and write and hopefully a new update is up in a couple of days. Thanks for the great comments! Also thanks for reading! love you all! :)