"Keira darling, when are your things coming from London?" asked Sharman at the table.
"I'd say in about two weeks or so right?" Keira asked Orlando as he returned from the bathroom.
"That sounds right. As soon as they come Keira and I can start moving it to my place-"
"Would you need any assistance?" Rupert asked looking at Keira. She felt Orlando grow tense at her side a little and she really didn't know how to respond. Luckily, her big brother came just in time to save her.
"If you do" said Caleb as he sat down. "I will be more than happy to help."
Keira looked at her brother confused. "But Caleb don't you have to go back to work?"
"Did I forget to tell you all?" Caleb said pretending to have "forgotten." "At the moment I have a case that ironically needs to be handled here in L.A. It turns out that I'm going to need to stay here for the entire more" finished Caleb as he looked Rupert right in the eye.
"Caleb that's marvelous!" Keira said excited that her brother would be staying with her.
"It gets even better" continued Caleb still looking at Rupert. "After this case is finished I get to have my vacation time."
As Keira, Sharman, and Will said how great that was, Orlando grinned at Caleb knowing exactly why he was staying.
Rupert wasn't stupid either though. He knew very well that the only reason Caleb was staying was to keep an eye on him since there was nothing Orlando could do about it. It didn't worry him though because he knew that whatever Caleb tried to do could affect Orlando as well.
"How ironic" said Rupert. "It turns out I will need to be staying here as well."
The table went quiet as soon as Rupert said that. Caleb and Orlando instantly glared at him while the others looked at him confused.
"Rupert" said Orlando trying to sound kind as he addressed Rupert. "Didn't you tell Keira and me that you had an audition in London?"
"Yes I did" said Rupert smirking at him. "But it turns out that the audition was canceled."
"We're sorry to hear that Rupert" said Will feeling sorry for the young boy even though the young boy deserved no one's sympathy.
"Don't be" replied Rupert. "Now I will be able to help Keira, Caleb, and Orlando move her things in" he finished with a grin.
Keira looked towards Orlando for a second and then quickly turned to face him again as she thought she saw him glaring. Orlando noticed in time and quickly changed his expression as to not give Keira a reason to suspect anything.
"That won't be necessary" said Keira just in case she actually saw what she thought she did. "I'm sure that Caleb, Orlando and I can manage-"
"Keira I insist" Rupert said flashing her smile. "Unless Orlando has a problem with it?"
The entire table looked towards Orlando as Rupert asked him that question. As much as Orlando wanted to , he couldn't tell Rupert no in front of everyone without sounding jealous or rude.
"No I don't" Orlando said. "Caleb and I would love to have your help."
Keira gave Orlando a small smile as everyone else went on with the dinner. Everyone seemed happy and fine except one person who noticed that something odd was going on.
"Excuse me for a moment" said Sharman as she stood up. She gave her daughter a look that told her to go with her. Keira listened and followed her mother to the ladies room.
"What is it mother?"
"Oh nothing" said Sharman as she smiled at her youngest child. "I just wanted to know how things were going."
Keira gave her mother a weird look. "In the restroom mother?"
"Why not? Here you and I can talk privately, tell me anything that's bothering you or worrying you."
"But nothing is" said Keira.
Sharman looked at her daughter again. Clearly she noticed that he daughter didn't see what she saw. "Darling, how are Rupert and Orlando getting along?"
"Fine I assume. They had lunch with me earlier today."
"I see" said her mother "and were they friendly, well behaved-"
"Of course. Mother why do you ask?" asked Keira a little worried now. She noticed that her mother seemed rather odd.
"I couldn't help but notice that things seemed a little odd at the table between Orlando and Rupert and even your brother."
"What does Caleb have to do with Orlando and Rupert-"
"Oh I don't know. It might just be your mother being paranoid but I think you should be careful honey. I know you say things are fine but still make sure you that you separate your relationship with both of them."
Keira listened to her mother still not really comprehending anything. "Do you believe that Orlando and Rupert could be in some sort of fight-"
"I'm not saying I believe that but I'm also not saying that I don't believe that."
"If something was off I'm sure Orlando would tell me mom."
"He wouldn't" Sharman said smiling. "He wouldn't because he would want you to be happy without a care in the world. If something were wrong he would secretly try to fix it himself just like your father."
Keira stayed silent as she realized that that did sound like something Orlando would do. As she started to grow worried Sharman started to speak once again. "And he does it not to seem manly and strong, he does it because he loves you."
Keira smiled as he mother touched the side of my face. "No matter what happens that boy will always love you" her mother said.
"Are you sure?" Keira asked smiling a little nervous.
"Of course I am. Why do you ask?"
"I don't know" Keira said as she walked behind her mother to sit on a couch they had in the restroom. "It's just for a while now I've been having this feeling. This feeling that something is going to happen and" she paused as she swallowed and looked at her mother. "and it scares me mom."
Her mother looked at her daughter with sympathy as she walked to sit next to her as Keira continued talking.
"I feel like everything bad happens to us and I feel as if things always happen to keep him and I apart. What you just said, well what you just said just makes me more worried."
"I could be wrong dear-"
"Yes I know but still. I know the first time we broke up it was because of me, that was my choice. But things pop out of nowhere and they seem to put our relationship in danger. I love him and I know that I always will, I feel it. He tells me everyday how much he loves me and he shows it but, I'm just scared that one day he'll wake up and change his mind.
"Sweetie" her mother replied. "He won't. At dinner every time he looked at you he lit up. When someone else from the outside can see the love in a person's eyes, you know that that love is something deep and powerful."
"Just like you and dad huh?"
Sharman smiled. "Yes just like me and your father."
Keira sighed feeling a little bit better. "Thanks mom."
Sharman hugged her daughter as she closed her eyes, praying to God that she was wrong and that nothing was going to hurt her daughter or the man she loves.
"Oh please" thought Sharman "let me be wrong."
But mothers know best don't they?