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When You're Around

Chapter 41

Rachel held in her emotions as Stephen walked her back to her hotel room after their date with a goodnight kiss on the cheek. After he disappeared from view, she immediately marched down the hall. Once she approached the room she was looking for, she balled her hand in a fist and banged loudly on the door. She waited impatiently for the man on the other end to open the door and once he did, she pushed past him and entered the room.

"Well this is a nice surprise," Adam said with a smug smile as he walked toward her after shutting the door closed behind her.

She turned to face him and scowled. "You have a lot of nerve!" She poked her finger at him.

"Huh?" He played dumb.

She rolled her eyes. "You know exactly what I'm talking about you jackass! I can't believe you ruined my date!"

He threw his hands up at the accusation. "Hey, if you didn't have a good time on your date, don't blame me, I wasn't your date."

She glared at him. "I would have had a great time with Stephen if you hadn't asked us to join you."

"I didn't force you to sit with us," Adam pointed out.

"But you knew Stephen respects you and wasn't going to say no." She said and his silence told her she was telling the truth. "It sure was a coincidence, you being on a date the same place I was, especially considering that earlier you were trying to convince me not to go." She raised an eyebrow.

He grinned. "It sure was, wasn't it?"

She groaned. "You are so infuriating!"

He stepped closer. "You look so tense, let me relax you," He said and put his hands on her shoulder, turning her around before gently kneading neck and shoulder. He smiled when he faintly heard her moan. "I know you don't like me, but I certainly like you." He whispered in her ear as his hands moved expertly over her skin.

She let her eyes flutter closed. Her brain wanted her to fight him off but her body was telling her something else completely. "I don't not like you," She murmured in the moment.

He grinned and leaned forward to gently press his lips to her neck. "Good,"

What is wrong with you! She mentally yelled at herself, he was right, you don't like him! It was like the minute he flashed that knee-weakening smile and touched her, she was under a spell. "I should get going," She heard herself say, though she made no movement to leave.

"Aw, no, don't do that." He said as he trailed his lips to her shoulder. "Stay here with me,"

Oh so tempting. "I can't," She said, feeling mildly responsible. Though her brain was trying to leave, her body wanted no part of it and instead of stepping away from him, she actually relaxed under his touch and leaned into him.

"I think you can," He said before turning her around and pressing his lips to hers. She immediately groaned into the kiss, the anticipation had been killing her. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him close as she opened her mouth, allowing him to deepen the kiss. Her legs instinctively wrapped around his waist when he picked her up and she knew that no matter how hard she tried to deny her attraction toward Adam, it was definitely there and she had a feeling she would give into his advances every time.

"I liked it, what'd you think?" Chloe asked Randy as the pair walked out of the movie theater hand in hand.

Randy grinned. "Well I was otherwise occupied during most of the movie," He said, sending a wink at Chloe. "but I liked what I saw."

Chloe blushed as she remembered her and Randy making out in the back of the dark theater like a couple of teenagers. "Well maybe we'll just have to go see the movie again," She suggested, knowing that was not something he would want to do.

"Not gonna happen babe," He replied. "The next movie we see will be all action all the time."

"Well, no matter what, this was a great date." She said referring to the dinner they had gone to before heading over to the movie theater.

"The date's not over yet." He commented.

She rolled her eyes and tugged him in the direction of the hotel but he stopped walking. She turned to look at him. "Hotel's this way," She gestured.

"Weren't you listening?" He asked as he pulled her in the opposite direction. "The date's not over."

"Oh, I thought you were just talking about…" She trailed off, now embarrassed that she thought he wanted to take her back to the hotel.

"Having my evil way with you?" He asked huskily as he wrapped his arm around her shoulders, pulling her close. Her cheeks reddened. "There will definitely be time for that later." He practically growled before tilting her head up for a quick kiss.

Minutes later the couple arrived at a cute little bakery that was obviously a hot spot at night as it was pretty packed. "I stopped by here last time I was in town and I thought you might like it."

She smiled. "It's so cute and it smells delicious." She said as they walked inside. She went off to find them a table while Randy ordered for them. When he came back, he had a black coffee and a chocolate cupcake for himself and a cappuccino and a red velvet cupcake for Chloe.

"Those are your favorites if I remember right." Randy said as he sat them in front of her.

"You absolutely remembered right," She said as she took a sip of the cappuccino, sighing aloud at how good it tasted. "So how's Lindsey? I wish I was able to see her when we were home this week."

"She is good, she missed you but she understood why you weren't around after I explained to her that you were upset with me." She nodded. "But my parents are taking her to Disney World for the next couple of days so she should pretty excited."

"She is definitely going to have an amazing time. Has she ever been before?"

Randy nodded. "Yeah, my family went a few years ago and I brought her, she was pretty young though so she couldn't ride all the rides she wanted to. She'll have a lot more fun this time."

She nodded. "I gotta say, I've never been to Disney World, I went to Disneyland once when I was a kid, but I imagine that it is definitely not the same."

"No it's not and we're going to have to change that real soon." He said with a wink, promising to take her to Disney some time.

She looked down at her uneaten cupcake, suddenly feeling unsure. "Speaking of parents though, I was thinking it might be a good idea for you to meet my parents." She said before finally facing the music and looking him in the eye. "I mean, if you don't want to, I completely understand but they've been asking about you and-"

Randy cut her off by reaching out to touch his hand to hers. "Chlo, I would love to meet your parents."

She beamed with relief. "Really?"

He grinned back. "Of course. Don't you remember when we first started seeing each other, I told you I wouldn't mind meeting them. That hasn't changed."

She let out a breath. "Ok, good. They are going to be so excited to meet you."

"Well I'm happy to meet them, can't wait."

A/N: So so sorry about not updating! It's been a crazy week and i've only just now found some time to put this chapter up. So four things...

1. Don't worry! I know lately i've been focusing more on the peripheral characters like Rachel and Jess but I want them to be a big part of this story too. Don't worry though, Chloe and Randy are always my focus for this story.

2. I know many of you are wondering and have no fear, Lindsey and Sam will both be back in a couple chapters.

3. Thank you for all your wonderful feedback, I reread all your reviews and it made me want to update this faster than I probably would have been able to.

4. Cody Rhodes is a babe. (Even with that questionable nose ring.)

:)!