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A/N: A HUGE thank you to everyone who read and reviewed, I love you all! Well, I'm back with another update and I hope you all like it. You finally meet Ted's girl and drama ensues. Here comes the crazy. Enough babbling, go and read. Enjoy & review!
"I can't believe we're here." John muttered, pushing his glass of water around. "You couldn't have lied and gotten us out of this."
For the billionth time that night, Evie sighed. Smoothing her hands over her jeans, she turned her eyes on John. She sent a weak smile his way and shook her head. Truthfully, she didn't want to be there as much as he did. But, the timing was off and she couldn't come up with a good excuse fast enough.
"I'm sorry, babe." Evie laced her hand with his. "I've been putting this off for days. Apparently, his girlfriend has been on the road with him for a few days and they've both been waiting to have this dinner with us. Besides, it's better to do this now and get it out of the way. We probably won't have to do this again for a while."
John tightened his grip on her hand. "I still don't want to be here and I know you don't either. I just want us to be alone."
"I do too. But, like I said, we won't have to do this too often."
"We will. You and Ted are close, we'll be doing this a lot." He pointed out. Of course, he didn't like it one bit, but he was doing it for Evie and that was all that mattered.
Evie looked at him apologetically. She, herself knew that this would be happening often. All she hoped was that John wouldn't catch on so fast. Sadly, she should have known he would. The only reason why she didn't want to mention it was because she knew how he felt about Ted and her spending time with him.
"The night will go by fast." She promised. "If it doesn't, we'll have a code phrase for when we should leave."
"What would that be?"
She chewed on her lip as she tried to think of something that wasn't so obvious. When nothing came to mind, she scrapped the whole idea of a code phrase and decided that a simple gesture would be the best way to go. It wasn't obvious and the other couple wouldn't even know they were doing it.
"I can't think of anything." Evie laughed. "Instead, when one of us is ready to go, we'll squeeze each other's hands under the table."
John smiled and squeezed her hand signaling that he wanted to go right then. His smile disappeared when Evie shook her head and said they had to stay. John pouted, hoping to get his way.
"The night will be over before you know it and soon we'll be alone." She whispered.
John smirked, nuzzling his face into her neck. "I want to be alone with you now. Babe, you don't even know what I want to do to you tonight."
"Mmm, I can't wait." She muttered, getting excited.
"Then let's go."
Before either one of them could say anything else, someone cleared their throat, bringing the engaged couple out of their world. John pulled away and looked up to see Ted standing there, looking uncomfortable.
"Am I interrupting anything?"
"S-s-sit down" Evie stuttered, trying to find her voice. "Where's your date?"
"She had to run to the bathroom." Ted remained standing. "She'll be right out."
He was nervous. Tonight would be the night that everyone would finally meet the woman he was seeing. What made everything worse was that he knew what he was doing was wrong, but it had to be done. He knew that he would hurting Evie in the process, but if it brought her back to him then it would be worth it.
"Hey honey."
Evie's eyes darted to the woman coming up behind Ted. Her breath got short and her eyes nearly bugged out of her head. Suddenly, she didn't feel so good anymore. He couldn't be doing this. He wasn't seeing her again. Of all the people he could be seeing, it was her. Didn't he have any respect for himself or even for what they had? It was high school all over again. Kristen had somehow managed to worm her way into Ted's life once again.
"Hey Evie!" Kristen greeted cheerfully when she saw her cousin. "I didn't know we would be having dinner with you tonight. Teddy, left that part out."
"Wait a second, you guys all know each other?" John questioned, confused.
Her eyes stayed on Ted. She knew that the anger and confusion shined in them and she didn't care. "Yes, we all know each other. Kristen is my cousin."
John only nodded his head. He was about ready to squeeze Evie's hand, but before he could, she quickly invited them to sit down. It was apparent to him that she wanted to go through with the evening. Sighing, John hated how stubborn she was being. She was putting herself through unnecessary torture.
Meanwhile, Ted never took his eyes of her. He could feel Kristen burning a whole in him, but he didn't care. The whole point of this dinner was to see Evie's first reaction to him being with Kristen. When he saw the anger and confusion in her eyes, he knew he had her. Evie still had feelings for him and that made him feel great.
"So, how did you start seeing each other?" John asked, trying to avoid the tension.
Kristen locked her eyes on the woman sitting across from her and smiled. Removing her gaze from her cousin, she looked at the man sitting next to Evie. "Well, Ted and I have been on and off for the longest time. Actually, we started seeing each other after some cheerleader broke up with him." She said, remembering the excuse Ted had given her. "After that, we got closer and we've been like that ever since."
Evie shot a glance in Ted's direction. She was beyond annoyed with him. What annoyed her even more was that he was refusing to meet her gaze. It was then that she realized what he was doing. Confirming a thought, she started to formulate a plan in her head. Fine, he wanted to play a game, then they would.
"I take it she found somebody better then." Evie smirked.
John watched Evie from the corner of her eye and he realized than that she was still upset about past events. The fact that this dinner was taking place right now made her even more bitter. Blowing out a deep breath, he squeezed Evie's hand. They needed to talk and it couldn't be avoided. He frowned when he saw that she ignored the gesture.
"To be honest, I don't know what happened to her after we broke up. She left shortly after that and I haven't seen her since." Ted replied, his eyes scanning the menu.
"Well, anyway, how long have you been together?" Kristen asked, trying to refocus attention on herself. "Evie's my cousin, but we haven't talked much recently because she's just been so busy."
Ted and Evie exchanged a quick glance, before looking away from each other. They all knew the real reasons for why things weren't the greatest between the cousins, but neither said anything.
"I'm just glad that you've been doing well since the miscarriage." She announced, hoping to stir up some trouble. Evie had always been the favorite one between the two and now she was going to make her pay. First by coming between the friendship of her and Ted. Then, by ruining the relationship that she had with John. "I've been so worried about you."
He nearly spit his water out and stared at his fiance. Miscarriage? There had to be some mistake. She would have told him about it. In fact, she would have told him she was pregnant. But, she never did. Placing his glass on the table, he got up and left the table.
Never in her life had she wanted to beat up someone outside of the ring. It took all of her energy not to reach across the table and repeatedly beat her head into the table. Grabbing her things, Evie got up and left, hoping to find John.
"That went well." Kristen said, sitting back in her seat.
However, Ted felt like things were only going to get worse. Common sense told him to stop everything right then and there. But, when he saw the way she reacted when she first saw Kristen, he decided he had to keep things up. Besides, Kristen might even be the idiot to break the engaged couple up. Smiling, he wrapped his arm around her shoulder.
"It went very well."
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When Evie got outside, she saw John pacing back and forth. He was clenching and unclenching his fists at his sides. From where she was standing, she could see the vein in his neck standing out. His breathing was heavy and his face was getting red. Chewing on her lower lip, she made the the gutsy, but stupid decision to get a little closer to him.
"John."
"Stop right there." He held his hand up.
"Let me explain."
"Get in the fucking car!" He snapped.
Evie said nothing as she got in the car and put her seat belt on. She nearly jumped out of her skin when he slammed the driver's side door shut and started the engine. Before she knew it, they were on the way to their hotel. A loud silence between them the whole way there.
When they reached their hotel room, John pushed the door open and walked in, pulling Evie behind him. Taking her things from her hands, he threw them across the room. Her purse hit the wall with a loud thud before hitting the floor. Her phone and make up falling out in the process.
Scared for herself, Evie sat down on the bed and watched as John stood in place, trying to gather his thoughts. She cowered when he came towards her. To her surprise, he gently pulled her off the bed, but roughly pulled her to him.
"Do you know what I could do to you right now?" He angrily whispered.
Her eyes were wide with fear. "No."
"It's good that you don't." He admitted.
"Can I please explain?" She begged, trying to hold back her tears.
He pulled away from her, shaking his head no. He wasn't ready to hear anything. Just looking at her made him hurt. They had only just got passed a few other things and now this. "I don't want to hear it."
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going to get ready for bed." He replied. "I'm in one bed tonight and you're in the other."
The bathroom door slammed shut and Evie allowed her tears to escape from her eyes. Everything was going well for them after they last made up. Because of Kristen, they had backtracked and she didn't know how fix it. It seemed as if life wouldn't be looking so great after all.
A/N: I leave you here. What did you think?