So I've been slacking with this story, my apologies, but last night after Raw I got a little bit of motivation and went with it...Thanks for all the new followers and the reviews...Enjoy the update :)
Punk laid stretched out on his tour bus, every muscle in his back ached, but he couldn't resist smiling talking to Gabby on the phone. They'd been talking for over an hour and the last twenty minutes had been a debate over who was going to hang up.
"Gabby, seriously, you hang up…okay I'll count to three; one, two, three…I can still hear you breathing…okay I'll hang up…no really I will now….I mean it this time…"
Kofi rolled his eyes as he tried to focus on the Celtics game, but the lovebird's brain numbing conversation was getting to him. At his wits end he put down his Gatorade and grabbed the phone from Punk who tried to take it back, but the shooting pain in his back kept him from moving.
"Gabby this is Kofi, Punk says good night and he'll call you tomorrow…are you serious? I'm not saying that…okay fine I'll say it to get you two to call it a night." Looking at Punk he rolled his eyes, "Gabby says good night boo bear and sweet dreams, she'll call you tomorrow." Punk grinned as Kofi got back on the phone, "Goodnight Gabby, sweet dreams…nope it was no trouble at all, but know that you two are killing my basketball time!" Kofi hung up the phone shaking his head as he tossed the phone back to Punk.
"Sorry Kofi didn't mean to disturb the game. We're having some separation issues."
"You two are going to drive me insane, but I will admit it's nice to see you in a good mood. Just so you know people are taking notice too."
"You didn't say anything did you?"
"No man, it's not my place to spread your romance around. Honestly I'm happy for both of you, it seems like things are coming along."
"Yeah, they're coming along slowly, which is the plan. Adam has been helping out with that!"
"Wait what? I thought you were waiting to tell him?"
"We are, but both dates I've planned he's showed up and thrown a wrench in the whole deal. To make matters even more interesting Gabby and I went out Wednesday night after the Cubs game to have dinner and we come across Adam having dinner with…you know what I probably shouldn't say anything…I'm sure she's trying to keep their thing on the low, whatever their thing is."
"You can't leave me hanging! Was he with Amy?"
"Nope, one of my other exes…one that is currently employed here and happens to hate me with a passion."
"Adam and Beth? No way! Well what happened, did they see you?"
"I noticed they were there and decided to take Gabby elsewhere. Mostly because now is not the time to tell Adam, but also the fact that he's dating Beth of all people is just too ridiculous of an idea for me to wrap my head around. This is another reason why my relationship with Gabby needs to stay between us; I'd hate for Beth to hear something and Adam finds out that way. Plus Jay is back now, so that's another person that doesn't need to be in the know."
"I understand and you two can count on me to keep quiet. I like seeing you happy and it seems like she's happy, things are going well, I don't want to see that screwed up…especially when it took you long enough to get a clue; you're welcome again for that."
"Don't go all Sandow on me and throw around 'you're welcome'. I admit it took me some time to figure it out, but I am grateful for the helpful hints; now I just need to keep from screwing everything up."
Gabby groaned at the sound of her alarm not wanting to get up, but the sooner she went to work, the sooner she got home and got her nightly phone call from Punk. She smiled to herself as she got in the shower thinking about the phone call from the night before that was almost never ending until Kofi intervened. While some people might be irked by Kofi, she was grateful seeing it was already past midnight and Gabby knew that she and Punk would have kept talking or texting if he wouldn't have hung up for them.
After putting on her clothes for the day, black pants, a white and black polka dot wrap shirt and her black pointy toed heels; she put some product in her hair deciding to let it dry in its natural state. Checking her reflection in the mirror, she smiled and headed off to work deciding to stop for a latte on her way.
With her venti in hand, she strutted into the office as if nothing was going to ruin her day, until she felt a body crash into her and iced coffee soak her white shirt.
"Oh my god, I'm so sorry…I wasn't paying attention to where I was go…wait, Gabby? Gabby Copeland?" Gabby raised her eyebrows hearing that sexy British accent and looked at the stranger a smile immediately appearing on her face.
"Seriously Max! How are you? I can see you're still clumsy as ever…anyway what brings you to Chicago?"
"I work here now…just started today actually and I apologize again about your top, but I have no idea where I'm going."
"It's not a big deal, you know me I have ten others just like it. So you live in Chicago now, that is so great. We need to get together; actually why don't we do dinner tonight? My roommate is out of town for the week, how does 7:30 sound?"
"Ahh yeah that would be great. I haven't made a lot of friends because I've been so busy getting settled in my apartment, so dinner would be appreciated; a better idea then the corn pops I was planning on."
"Alright, is your number still the same? I'll text you the address."
"Yep same as always and I'm really sorry about your shirt. Even if you do have ten just like it please let me get it dry cleaned."
"We'll see, but I need to go before I'm late. It was nice running into you…literally…I'll see you tonight."
"Later Gabby…" Gabby walked up to her cubicle and set her stuff down before going to the ladies room to attempt to dry off. The upside of this mess was now on her lunch break she had a reason to run to the cute boutique up the street and buy a new shirt.
Sitting back down at her desk she smiled at the large iced vanilla latte complete with the post-it "It's the least I could do…can't wait for dinner!" She took a sip of her coffee and smiled knowing it was going to be a good day especially since she had company for dinner.
You're probably wondering "Who the hell is Max?" Next chapter you'll find out...Also I realized I made an error in referring to Christian as Will, when everyone calls him Jay, so from here on out whenever I mention Jay I'm referring to Christian and damn Wikipedia for steering me in the wrong direction!