I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Tara's Point of View-
Alex and I walked out of Chris's room, I shut the door as slow as I could making a small click sound leaving just two to head up to our room.
"So he gets your number and I don't." Alex said.
"He's a special case, I don't see you with a broke leg needing special care."
"I'll try to break my leg in my match today."
"Please don't…" I said as I sipped at my coffee.
"You will stay for my match won't you?"
"Isn't it right after your Q & A?"
"Yeah…"
"Wouldn't it be rude of me to leave you?" I asked as I smirked and didn't want to look over to make eye contact.
"Yeah, it'll be rude but I don't see you being a rude person…"
"Well, I can be rude but I choose not too because I have to be a role model…" I said.
"Role model for who?" Alex asked curiously, 'Oh shit, I forgot he doesn't know…' I thought to myself.
"I met, set example for those at my work since I am sort of the boss and everything…" I said lying to him.
"Oh…" Alex said as the elevator doors opened and he let me climb on first before he stepped on pushing the proper button as I mentally wiped my brow knowing that was a close one. "So, you're a manager of sorts?"
"Manager in training…." I said.
"Of what?"
"Of services."
"What type of services?" Alex asked when the doors opened and he let me climb off first and he climbed off behind me.
"Medical services, not those type of services Alex." I said.
"I wasn't thinking about that, you big pervert." Alex said as he chuckled, he smiled and ran a hand through his hair before he took a sip of his coffee.
"Why did you stay up all night last night?"
"Does it matter why I did what I did? Everything is done for a reason and I honestly can't explain why I did what I did…" Alex said as he would glance over at me.
"You seriously don't like sick people?"
"Seriously…" Alex said.
"Thanks…no one has ever took care of me before besides my mom when I was younger…I can never afford to be sick, I need work…"
"Aw, you're the type of person that never misses a day of work and your there even if you don't need to be…how many days of work have you missed since you got hired?" Alex asked.
"1, but that is not counting the days I took off for this but still sort of working if you count me helping Chris." I said as I sipped my coffee when we approached my room.
"So what, 3 days? Why don't you take more time off?"
"I can't, okay?" I said as I unlocked my door going in and closing the door on his face feeling tears in my eyes not wanting to explain to him why I worked so much. I closed the connecting door locking it because I wanted to be alone. I put my coffee down as I climbed onto my bed opening the small window I had in my room to get some cool air into the room before I brought my knees up to my chest as I called my mom to talk to her, my mom always talked me through these moods and this is why I never date, because I am afraid they judge me or won't understand if I tell them the truth. I loved my son but it take its toll on my dating life, maybe that is why I have been single for the last so many years because I was afraid of finding someone that I was truly attracted to, liked and someone that was good with kids but will hurt my feelings after they find out about Xavier, why don't men never want to date a girl with kids? I thought to myself when I heard the phone clicked, and that meant my mom had picked up.
"Hey sweetie, what's going on?" My mom asked.
"Everything mom…" I said, I honestly don't know why I feel the way I feel when I heard a knock at the connecting door.
"Tara, can we talk? I'm sorry if I made you upset…can we talk?" Alex asked.
"Who is that?" My mom asked.
"No one…there is this guy and I may or may not like…"
"What's wrong with him?"
"Nothing's wrong with him…"
"Come on, you always find that one thing that is wrong with him…" My mom said when Alex knocked on the door again.
"Tara, I'm sorry….I would still love for you to come to the match today…Chris may need some help…." Alex said.
"Nothings wrong with him, that's just it…"
"Then why are you crying?" My mom asked.
"How do you know I was crying?"
"You always cry when you get in this funk when you meet a great guy…what did he say?"
"He was asking me why I didn't take that much time off…."
"Seriously Tara? Don't let these things get to you, not all men are jerks and will leave you because of Xavier, you need to not let this expectation of them leaving you….I think your trying to get mad and get upset over stupid things thinking it will give reasons not to want to date these great guys….for this weekend, you don't have Xavier, I'm not saying lie to them but don't let a good guy go…" My mom said.
"Is that mommy?" I heard Xavier ask in the background.
"Yes sweetie, tell your mommy to have fun and make friends." My mom said handing the phone to my son.
"Hi mommy, have fun and um…make friends!" My son said.
"I will sweetie…are you having fun with grandma?"
"Yes, we are going to camp tonight…"
"Where?"
"In my room and we are going to make s'mores." He said excitedly.
"Sounds good, don't make a mess."
"I won't….love you mommy, I got to go pee!" He said as I heard him hand the phone back and him running away in the background.
"Just have fun, calm down and don't let things get to you….your there to have fun and to meet guys."
"I know mom…it's just hard…"
"You just make it hard, your very attractive and very likeable." My mom said.
"Your supposed to say that…."
"Only because it's true…"
"Okay mom, love you…" I said wiping at my eyes.
"Love you too, suck up those tears and go be with that lucky guy." My mom said hanging up, I just chuckled before I set my phone aside and knew my mom was right. I was upset over nothing, seriously all Alex asked was why I didn't take many days off and nothing about that is bad. 'Why do I always do this? I always over-react and am sensitive about everything people say thinking they are trying to pry at personal information. I mean, why do I care what Alex thinks? He's just some stranger I met today…maybe I care because he's friends with Chris and I care what Chris thinks…no, I don't care what Chris thinks since he's only a customer and I don't need to vouch for myself to him. Alex is just my neighbor for the weekend and we both just want to have a good time, he probably has a girlfriend and he's here to work, not to try to make a love connection.' I thought to myself as I was getting angrier with myself, I leant my head back against the wall looking out the window that I had open drowning in my pity when a knock came to the door.
"Tara, I'm sorry for whatever I said which I still don't know what that was, but would love for you to come with me if you would only open this door…." Alex said, I looked to my clock seeing that it was only noon and was curious why he was leaving early but realized him and Chris will probably go grab some lunch. A few moments passed thinking he was done, but Alex continued "I guess your not opening the door. I hope you have a change of heart, I would still love for you to be out there…" Alex said through the door, I stood up going to the door to open it but he was already gone. 'Shit!' I thought to myself as I then went to where I had put the clothes I had unpacked from my suitcase trying to find a new outfit but realized all I had packed were my sexy clothes because I thought it was a single's cruise. I grabbed the knee length black skirt with a purple spaghetti strap and pulled out the jean jacket to wear over it. I hurriedly took a shower in hopes not to miss too much of his Q & A or match already, I brushed my teeth and blew dry my wet hair drying it enough so I could style it with a few curls and sprayed some hairspray over my hair to keep the curls and waves that were in my hair, it did not matter every time I got my hair wet it made my hair more curly or wavy than it usually is. I applied the small amount of make-up that I usually try to apply everyday, as in small amount I mean eyeliner and that's it. I went out sliding on the pair of tennis shoes that I had brought with me, that was the only pair of shoes I had considered to bring with me and out of the corner of my eye I noticed the dinosaur toy that Xavier had put into my bag.
"Oh Xavier…" I said as I grabbed the toy holding it but I couldn't help the smile that was creeping upon my face. "Do this for Xavier, Alex is great with kids and I think Xavier will love Alex." I said smiling trying to give myself a pep talk as I grabbed my purse and room key heading out of my room checking my phone seeing that it was now 1 PM, and I wanted to take my time to get there. I was taking deep breaths trying to think how to explain my freak out to Alex, I mean if he is anything like Chris he would understand but he isn't just like Chris. I took the long way around so I won't take the chance of running into them, when I found the ring he was helping Chris into the ring and I checked the time and it was 1:30 so it was earlier than planned so I leant against the wall watching the two men in the ring now being handed a microphone and I could tell Alex was searching the crowd.