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Wearing her little black dress, Hanna was sitting in her living room, flipping through the channels of her TV while waiting for Penn to pick her up for their dinner date. Her boyfriends way of making up to her for their ruined day.
She's been used to Penn bailing on some things they planned to do, in 9 months that they were dating. He's been a good boyfriend but not with 'always being there' part. he tends to cancel the last minute because of something that come up with his work but she can't blame him. It's not his fault if his born to be the heir apparent of their family business.
Some other girls may think, She's lucky her boyfriend was born a millionaire but sometimes she thinks 'What the use of having a millionaire boyfriend if he's not there all the time.'. Maybe it just works for them because she is too busy with work to even acknowledge the presence of a boyfriend in her life. She really do love him, she appreciates how he cares and how he made an effort to make them work but she can't deny that there is still something missing. For years, she had been too guarded after her tragic break up with Caleb. It's been really hard for her to get over him. She had trust issues towards men because of the men who come and go of her life, men who betrayed her and hurt her, her dad, Sean, Lucas, and Caleb.
Penn somehow proves that he's different. He might be leaving her for few days or weeks but he always comes back for her. He somehow provides the security she needed. He had been loyal as a Labrador. Well, she also thought that with Caleb but she knows she's much strong enough if her relationship with Penn turns a different way.
After settling in with a rerun of a tv show she used to watch, she was startled by a knock on her door. She put down the remote she was holding and walk to the door. She opened the door and saw Penn holding a bouquet of flowers smiling widely at her.
"Hey." She greeted.
"Hi, Babe. Looks like you get ready early." Penn said looking at Hanna from head to toe.
"Yes, I do. I just happened to come home early." Hanna said.
"This are for you." Penn said handing her a bouquet of flowers.
"Thank you, it's beautiful. Let me just put this in a vase." Hanna said. She walked inside the apartment and went to the kitchen. Penn followed behind her, he sat in the living room while waiting for her.
After putting the vase in the table pushed through the wall in the living room. She faced Penn and smiled.
"Ready?" Penn asked.
"Yeah, let's go." Hanna said.
She switch the TV off and followed Penn as he walk out of the door.
"Table for two, reserved for Olivia Matheson." Olivia said at the receptionist standing by the door of the fine dining restaurant.
"Let me just check your reservation, Ma'am." The receptionist said.
"So, how do you discover this place?" Caleb asked.
"One of my clients meet me here for lunch and the food is really good." Olivia said.
"Your reservation have been confirmed. One of our waiters will accompany you." The receptionist said. He signaled to one of the waiters.
The waiter lead them inside the restaurant.
Hanna was sitting across from Penn, sipping slowly in her glass of wine.
"I'm leaving tomorrow." Penn said.
"Where?" Hanna asked.
"I'm visiting our company branch in Italy and I'll be gone for two weeks." Penn said.
"Is that what your dad wants you to do when he called you this morning?" Hanna said.
"Yes." Penn said.
Hanna didn't say anything again and just swirl her wine through the glass.
"Hey, Are you upset?" Penn asked concerned, reaching for her hand.
"No, It's fine. We're gonna talk on phone and it's just two weeks. It's not like this is the first time." Hanna said.
"I can feel that your not liking this." Penn said.
"Good for you." Hanna said sarcastically.
"Babe, I'm not liking this either but once I take over the company, I'm all yours and I won't be leaving you anymore." Penn said pleading.
"Penn, I understand but can we not talk about it anymore, Please." Hanna said looking down.
On their way to their table, Olivia recognized someone.
"Hanna?" Olivia called.
Placing her glass of wine in the table Hanna turn her head. "Olivia, Hi." Hanna greeted.
"Hi, Caleb. Strange, this is the second time today." Penn said.
"Rosewood is a small town and we just happen to dine at the same place." Caleb said with a smirk in his face.
"Olivia, this is my boyfriend Penn. Penn, this is Caleb's fiancé Olivia." Hanna introduced.
"Hi, nice meeting you." Olivia said offering her hand for him to shake.
"Nice meeting you too." Penn said he stand up from his seat and shake her hand.
"What do you mean about second time today?" Olivia asked.
"Caleb joined us at breakfast in the coffee shop earlier today." Penn said.
"Ahhh." Olivia said.
"You guys, can join us if you like." Penn offered.
Inviting people to clear the air. Typical Penn. Hanna thought with a sigh.
"It was a nice offer but we have our own reservation and we might just be a bother to you guys." Caleb said.
"Yeah, and we just come by to say hi." Olivia said.
"It's no bother really, I could call someone to set the table for you guys." Penn said. Before Olivia and Caleb could protest, Penn called the waiter that lead Caleb and Olivia inside the restaurant.
"Ed." Penn called the waiter who immediately walk to him. Penn instructed the waiter to set a table for the new comers.
"Looks like you guys are regulars here." Olivia commented once she's seated beside Hanna and across from Caleb.
"Yeah, One of Hanna's best friend owns this place." Penn said to Olivia. "Caleb, you knew Emily, right?" Penn said looking at Caleb.
"Yeah, she owns this place now?" Caleb said.
"Yeah, well, even in high school she's a great cook and she decides to pursue it. She's a chef now." Hanna said.
"Really?" Caleb said smiling. "I really thought, she would be a swim coach or something that relates to swimming." He said.
"She must be really good. I had lunch here the other day and the food is really good so I made a reservation tonight." Olivia said.
"She really is, I remembered when she live with me and my mom in high school, she cook breakfast for us complete with garnish and everything." Hanna said.
"Hanna and her best friends always have their get together held here every Saturday nights. The first time she brings me here is in one of those get together." Penn said.
"He was so scared to meet my friends." Hanna said.
"Why so?" Olivia asked.
"Because all of them are so close even the guys are best friends and they might not like me. And well, her ex are close to them too." Penn said.
"But it turns out they all like you." Hanna said smiling at Penn.
Caleb just remain silent as the three conversed. He looks at Hanna every now and then, watching every expression in her face change.
"So, how do you guys meet?" Olivia asked.
"Penn loves to re-tell it than me." Hanna said smirking.
"We meet at my cousin's engagement party that she organized, I thought that she's friends with the bride or something and I walk up to her." Penn said.
"He throws the corniest pick up lines ever made." Hanna said chuckling.
"But I make you laugh." Penn said.
"What pick up line did you say to her?" Olivia asked.
"I tell her, Do you believe in love at first sight, and she said NO, then I turn around and ask her again, How about at second sight." Penn said.
"What did you tell him?" Olivia asked Hanna while laughing so hard.
Hanna laughed before she answered. "I told him, 'you know what, if you really want to get a girl, you have to really work hard on that'. Then I walk away." she said chuckling.
"I followed her and try again. She said that if I throw another corniest of my pick up line she'll slap me on the face, then I told her that it's fine but if I'll make her laugh, I'll kiss her." Penn said.
"What happened?" Olivia asked.
"I tell her, 'you know why, I keep following you, it's pretty strange but I think you look like my next girlfriend.' She smiled at me challengingly and she whispered to my ear, she said 'I think you're hot but you really suck at making a move.' and after that I grab her and kissed her and that's what earned me a slap." Penn said.
"You slap him?" Olivia said looking at Hanna.
"Hard, really hard. But still he didn't stop following me around." Hanna said.
"I got her number from my cousin's wife. And after almost a hundred calls, she finally agreed to go out with me." Penn said.
"That was really cute." Olivia commented.
The waiter went to their table to placed their food in front of them.
"How about you and Caleb, how do you guys meet?" Penn asked.
"It was out of ordinary, we meet six years ago in an accident." Olivia said.
"What kind of accident?" Penn said.
"We we're in a car accident together with three other people with us. We don't know each other when we were in the car we just got officially introduced at the hospital." Olivia said.
"Wow, that was really out of ordinary. So, what happened?" Penn said.
Olivia tell the whole story about the accident including Miranda dying in the accident.
"So, you're friend died in the accident?" Penn asked Caleb.
"Yeah, I don't know a lot about her, my ex-girlfriend just ask me to take care of her and help her and she died." Caleb said and look at Hanna.
"Wait, you have a girlfriend that time that you meet Olivia?" Penn asked again.
"Yes and she has a boyfriend too that time." Caleb said.
"I was the reason why they broke up." Olivia said.
"How?" Penn asked.
"She saw us kissing." Olivia said and it made Hanna look up to her.
"Dude, you cheated with Olivia?" Penn said.
"Wait, It was you." Hanna said feeling surprised and betrayed at the same time.
Caleb automatically look up at Hanna.
"What do you mean?" Olivia asked confused.
"Uhmm... I-I just kinda sort of know Caleb's ex and she tell me all about it way way back when that happened." Hanna stuttered through her sentence.
"I'm sorry if she was your friend. I really didn't mean to break them up." Olivia said.
"It's okay, she has her own life now." Hanna said looking at Caleb.
"I didn't cheat on her." Caleb said in a sorry tone. "That time, Olivia ambushed me." he continued.
"That is true. I was just too overwhelmed that he was capable of risking his life to save me and I just kissed him without us knowing that his ex is coming to see him." Olivia explained.
"Wow, all I can say is, that is really out of ordinary." Penn commented.
"It really takes long before Caleb forgive me for that. He really loved that girl, it's really hard to compete with his feelings for her." Olivia said.
"But now you guys are getting married. So, it doesn't matter anymore. He loves you now." Hanna said forcing a smile.
"Yeah, I guess we shouldn't talk about that anymore." Olivia said.
Hanna becomes silent, not wanting to say another word. She just watch as the others, mostly Olivia and Penn talk about random things. She occasionally look at Caleb's direction and caught him staring at her. She felt guilty for not letting him explain himself that day, when she broke up with him.
'What if?' is the question that keeps ringing in her head. She keeps thinking of the possibilities, if she just stayed and listened, if she just hear him out, that day when she broke up with him. Maybe, she's not the one planning his wedding with another girl and she's the one planning her own wedding with him instead.
And that's it... I wanna hear your thoughts about the chapter, anything... So, I can keep going...
Now that there is a really big possibility that Haleb will eventually break up... HALEB needs more fanfic... so please to anyone out there, if you are thinking you can't write, everyone can you just need to try. you'll never know, this must be your talent. Just look at my old works, I know that most of them are lame but I've learned and improved in continuing it and going for it... So, pretty please, write more haleb... I will surely read it and review it...Besides, Haleb fanfic will be my life if Haleb on tv got vanished.
I'm just really sad and feeling down that even Tyler wanted to break our haleb hearts... I'm really wishing that Ravenswood will not be renewed and just be gone for life...
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-Trea