A/N: Hey Guys! Thank you for all the reviews and favs. I really appreciate it guys. A reviewer suggested something to me in their review and I loved it. I was having a bit of craziness with this chapter and that suggestion worked everything out. I would thank them personally in PM but it was a guest. BUT THANK YOU WHOEVER YOU are, I give you my and thanks. I wanted to know if I'm moving the plot too fast? There are many surprises left but I wanna know if I should slow it down. Oops I'm talking too much, So enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own DP but I do own the new characters that will be introduced and the plot.
~~~~~~~~~~~YeahBoy!~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Derek has a heart? Well I'll be damned."
"Princess what time are you getting back from work today?" Derek asked as I finished eating my bagel after he snatched my cereal.
"I should be back by six, why are you asking?" I question
"Oh because I plan to throw a huge party, It's going to be a total ragger. Everyone is going to ride off in their unicorns and flying pigs afterwards." He responded without looking up from my cereal.
"Oh, I hope you have fun then Derek." I said as I got up from my chair
"Whatever." I heard him say as I walk out of the kitchen and grabbed my bag and started making my way to work. Let's hope work goes better than usually.
~~~~~~~~~~~YeahBoy!~~~~~~~~~~~~
I got to work 5 minutes before my clock in time. I stepped in the "Brad's Palace" and saw that it was semi-full. I walked into the kitchen to see Brad, my boss, and Audrianna the waiter talking.
"Hey Chloe, how was your vacation?" Brad asked excitedly.
Ugh Vacation.
"It was awesome. So awesome I don't want to talk about it." I respond as I clock in, grab my pencil and pad, and grab my waiter's apron.
"What crawled up your pants?" Audrianna asked
"Nothing, I'm just not in the mood for joking around." I say as I walk out of the kitchen. As I walk out, I see Brad give me a weird look.
I walked into the dining area, and I spotted a couple who just came into the restaurant. I walked up to them hoping someone work will distract me from my current slump.
"Hi, welcome to "Brad's Palace" What can I get you?" I say, trying to sound at least a little cheerful
"Well I'll have the Scaloppini." said the man who kept looking at me then scrunching his nose.
"And you ma'am?" I say, hoping both of them would just order already. It is not that hard to look at a menu and pick one food that you like.
"I will have the Linguini with clam sauce." the woman said, not looking up from the menu.
"And for drinks?" I say hoping the man would stop staring at me because I was starting to get freaked out. Like dude, I don't even know you. He isn't even a regular here.
"You look familiar but I can't put my finger on how I know you. Do you act in movies or something?" the man asked me
"U-u-u-h-h No I don't act..or anything." I stuttered
"Really? You look really familiar. I have seen you before but not in person" He says
"Yeah, what would you like for drinks?" I ask as Audrianna stomps out of the kitchen and headed straight for the restaurant TV. remote. Audrianna loved listening to celebrity news, Johnny Depp was her last obsession. She flipped the channel and finally landed on her favorite gossip channel: E! News.
I look away from Audrianna with a shake of my head, and look encouragingly to the customers who were taking too damn long ordering.
"What drink do you have that 0 calories and little to no sugar or sodium?" She asked expectantly
"Water?" I say confused, then I realized that, it would sound rude so I changed my expression to a neutral look. I hate it when people think just ordering a healthy drink will cancel out the amount of fat and calories they are about to stuff down their troughs.
The woman rolled her eyes and nodded in acceptance of my sarcastic suggestion of water. She ke-
Chloe
What the hell? Did I just hear my name?
I look up from writing the orders, at my customers to see both of them staring at me with wide and surprised eyes. I looked around the restaurant to see all eyes on me, every single person was staring at me with the same amount of surprise in the eyes. Then I looked up at the TV. screen and realized that the three pictures of me the press had where on there. They were even blown up, and 3 people were talking about Derek and I, at his match, in front of Joyce Leslie, and the picture I posted via twitter. I stopped breathing for a second, I couldn't take my eyes of the screen.
"Chloe..." Audrianna started "Is that you? Or do you have some evil twin we don't know about?" she continued
I didn't answer her because I didn't know if I should deny it or accept it.
Just accept it and his sexiness. You know you want to.
Then the silence was broken when almost everyone in the restaurant got up and shot beside me, bombarding me with questions and requests.
"Hey can I get a picture with you?"
"Will you sign this for me? My husband is a huge fan of your husband."
"Can I meet your husband?"
"Is he coming here? God I hope he comes here."
I started to take steps back, but I bumped into more people. Ohmigod, this is happening. Again.
"No, please stop. I-I-I h-h-h- n-need t-t-to go. Please." I begged as I tried to find a way out but then I felt someone grab my by the waist and pull me out. I turned around and walked right into Kenneth the bartender. Then I watched Brad take a plate and smash it on the floor. Then the silence that once consumed the room, returned with me panting in fear.
"If any of you ask Chloe for anything again, you will be escorted out of my restaurant by the security. She is a staff member and you will treat her as such." Brad said with more authority than I have ever seen in him. Brad looked at me and signaled that I could leave the restaurant and take a minute to myself. I smiled a thank you to Brad and ran into the kitchen. I sat on the first chair I could get my butt on. As soon as I sat down, I heard Brad, Ken, and Audrianna come into the kitchen. They stood in front of me, I could see their feet. I could see Audrianna's always-perfect nails through her open toe heels, she is the only person who I know who wears heels while waiting on people. I looked at Ken's chucks and remember that cute little conversation we have the other day: he told me about his, according to him, "ridiculous" fear public speaking. ken was nice, cute, and fun once you get past his shyness.
"Chloe, are you okay?" I heard Brad ask as he put his hand on my back
"Yeah I'm fine, that just caught me off guard that's all." I lied
"Off guard? you're telling me you didn't expect people to recognize you after you married a famous person then posted a picture of you guys kissing? That's stupid Chloe." Audrianna said critically.
"Gee Audrianna, you're so mother-flipping supportive. Thanks I appreciate that hate filled critic of my mental capabilities." I retort without looking up from the floor.
"Chloe, didn't your husband warn you about stuff like this?" Brad asked with a worried look on his face
No, the bastard warned me of nothing!
"Yeah he did, I just didn't expect it here. I expected it, like at the mall and stuff not my work." I explain quietly
"Well you can sit here for a few more minutes and then decide if you want to continue waiting or if you want to just work in the kitchen for the rest of the day." Brad said as he walked away with a sympathetic smile.
"Thanks Brad." I say as i finally look up to see Brad and Audrianna walking away from me.
I look at Ken who is looking at the ground nervously, as I say "Thanks for what you did back there. I-I-I-I..don't know what happened. But thanks." I say quietly without looking Ken in the eye.
For some unknown reason, I couldn't look Ken in the eye because I felt guilty of something. But what?
You're an idiot Chloe
If you're so smart why don't you just tell me? I thought questioning that annoying voice in my head
I have chosen to let you suffer.
Ugh.
I spent the rest of the day waiting but with Brad supervision and scrutiny of every customer who spoke to me. No one asked me for an autograph or picture. Although one man did write it on a napkin and handed it to me. So otherwise the rest of the day was pretty quiet and filled with tension because all eyes were on me. When my shift ended, I drove home in a daze. All I wished for was to get to the house, get on my bed and cry myself to sleep and wonder what the hell I have gotten myself into.
~~~~~~~~~~~YeahBoy~~~~~~~~~~
I walked into the house and headed straight for the kitchen, not caring if Derek was home or not. Quite frankly, my life would be easier if he went out more instead of waiting for me to get home so he can harass me with unwanted attention. As I walked into the kitchen I saw Derek and 3 other people in our kitchen. 2 of the 3 other people were kids. Right to next Derek was a red headed woman with really curly hair, talking to him while a little girl with really curly black hair eats ice cream. The other girl was sitting on the other side of Derek, she was writing something on a book. I stopped at the door way, just staring at all of them. The way they sat reminded of the way me and my family used to sit in our living on random nights just playing board game that was before my mom died. The scene almost brought tears to my eyes.
They looked like a family.
Then suddenly Derek looked up from whatever he and the red head had been looking at.
"Chloe..." Derek said monotonously as all eyes turned to look at whomever he was talking to.
" Hi." I responded as I watched the little girl on Derek's lap squirm and attempt to hide by using Derek's jacket to cover her little face.
Derek looked down and chuckled as he tickled her she laughed and let go of the jacket so he picked her up so I could see her face completely. She looked scared, did I look that bad from work? Damn.
Talking to yourself again.
Great, now even the voice in my head is insulting me.
"So You're Chloe." The woman said as she moved towards me "I never thought I'd meet a normal girl crazy enough to like him. Much less marry him." she said as she extended her hand to me.
I laughed a very nervous laugh which I'm sure Derek picked up on because he gave me a weird look, if I wasn't so tired and there wasn't anyone else in the house, I might have just flipped him the finger then walked away like nothing happened.
"Yeah, I am. I'm sorry, am I supposed to know who you are? I'm a really tired, so my brain is only half functioning at the moment ." I say looking for an escape in this already irritating conversation.
The woman chuckled and said "I doubt you know who I am, Derek doesn't seem like the type to share secrets or anything at that fact."
I watched as Derek rolled his eyes, "Anyways, Chloe meet Mary, Mary meet Chloe." He said as he went back to playing with the child on his lap.
"Nice to meet you Mary." I say as I walk farther into the kitchen and take a sit.
"No the pleasure is all mine." Mary said with what I think is really weird voice.
"Yeah I'm sure. Anyways, This " Derek said as he tickled the little girl in front of him "is Iyzo and that's Incy." he added as the girl who I now see is drawing looks up at Derek who just smirks at her. She rolls her eyes at Derek and looks straight at me, she held my gaze for about 6 seconds and went back to whatever or whomever she was drawing.
"Oh" I say quietly "Hi..." I continue as I look away at the door.
"Oh gosh, Derek, we have to go, I still have a boat load of errands to run. We were only supposed to spend 1 hour not 3. So kids say your goodbyes to Derek." she said
"And Chloe" She added quickly
The little girl, Iyzo, started to pout and she clung to Derek while looking at Mary with pleading eyes.
"No, I don't wanna g-g-go y-y-yet M-Mary." Iyzo pleaded
I looked at Derek and he had the same look in his eyes, he didn't want her to leave any more than she wants to go.
"Mary come on please, let us stay. You can run your errands and we can stay here with Derek." Incy said finally speaking up.
"Oh come on kids, you do this every time. I know it gets harder but we don't have a choice." Mary said with a dispassionate voice
"You know she's right Mary." Derek said as he placed his lips on the head of the little girl clinging to him for dear life.
"I know that but we can't risk it Derek. We don't need a repeat of last time. Plus you are going to see them on Saturday." she countered
I watched as Derek pulled his lips away from Iyzo's head and pull away from her so that he could see her sad, pleading face. I watched as Derek whispered something into her ear and I watched a small smile spread across her little face.
Derek said goodbye to his guests and as Incy walked out of the door, she shot me this weird look, I don't know if it that of anger or just hate. Derek came back in as I heard a car drive off.
"Well that was awkward." I say as he walked into the kitchen.
"Yeah well, they aren't good with strangers." He said as he opens the fridge and grabs a bottle of water.
"Speaking of strangers, who are they?" I ask cautiously
"They are...old friends I guess." he answers quietly
I watched his face, and something told me I wasn't going to get a direct answer out of him. I hope those weren't his kids and ex wife or girlfriend because the last thing I need right now is to be known as a family breaker or for some girl to keep giving me death glares.
I got up to leave the kitchen then I remembered the promise I made to Melissa about having them over tonight. I had forgotten to tell Derek. Ugh this should be fun.
"Hey Derek, do you mind if I have some friends over tonight?" I ask without facing him
"Uh...yeah sure. I'm going out with my dad and the family anyways." He answered emotionlessly
Okay that was way too easy. I expected some back talk, or at least 15 minutes worth of teasing that would lead to insults. I turned to look at him, I gave Derek an H to T and he looked fine; he didn't look sick or anything.
"Derek, are you okay?" I ask hoping I'm not falling into a trap he set.
"Why wouldn't I be okay? Was something supposed to happen to me? I guess you haven't given up on your plan to kill me." he said
I rolled my eyes and said "I have a life outside of you Derek Souza." With that I walked out of the kitchen, got my phone out and started texting Melissa, Amber, and Rae that we were good to go for tonight. After I sent the text, I looked through my message feed and saw that Aunt Lauren had sent me out 50 texts messages. I have been ignoring her calls and text messages since our little fight happened. She needed to learn that I can take care of myself and that I don't need her or my dad who I haven't spoken to in almost a month. But I don't blame him, we were never close, he is only there to force monetary support on me when I don't need nor want it.
~~~~~~~~~~YEAHBOY~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I got dressed and started putting out the snacks for when my friends get here. I was pretty excited despite my current situation, I haven't hung out with my friends since all this crap happened. I heard the doorbell ding and I jumped because I had been thinking about how Melissa is going to go ballistic when she get here. I got the house's Ipad that controls the hidden cameras and I switched to front door and just as I see Melissa's face, I immediately put it on the table and run out to the hall that leads the door to open the door.
When I opened the door, I saw Melissa who rushed and hugged me as I open the door wider. As Melissa finally let go of me, I saw her take in the house behind me. She let go of me and started walking inside the house like the house was attracting her like moths to light. Everyone laughed, and as I looked back I saw someone I didn't expect to see. Someone I haven't seen talk too much since I told him I didn't feel the same way. I look at Amber knowing this was probably her doing, she was one of the main people who thought we would be perfect for each other.
"Hey Chlo. Long time." Nate said as he and Amber and Rae walked into the house.
~~~~~~~~~~~YEAHBOY~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Derek POV
I can't believe I let my dad convince me to come to dinner with these idiots. Simon and Tori are arguing. Again.
"Just admit, you're jealous of me that's why you're always copying me."Tori said as she took a sip of her whine
"Just because I order the same food as you Tori doesn't mean anything. And if I wanted to copy someone, you would have to be the last living thing for you to the one." Simon retorted as he forked some broccoli into his mouth
I watched the two idiots go back and forth for 2 minutes.
"Will you two quit bickering? We set up this dinner to talk to Derek, not to play how to act like a second grader." My dad took a sip of his water and turned to face me just as Simon and Tori called a temporary truce. I watched everyone turn to face me. What the hell?
"What are we here to talk to Derek about?" I asked cautiously
4 pairs eyes stare back at me with confusion
"Urnm, Does the name Chloe Souza ring a bell?" Liz said
"Oh" I say
"Yeah Oh, how is she doing anyways?" my dad asks
"She is doing fine. She is at the house doing God knows what to it."
"Well are you two getting along fine? Any problems?"
I looked my dad, and I will admit I'm totally hurt that he assumed there would be problems. I can play nice when I want to, and but Chloe makes it too easy. She walks into it every time but I think she is finally catching on to the fact that I always win.
"No problems with me. I don't know about her, she keeps walking around the house moping." I say as I forked a scallop into my mouth
"Here's an idea dipshit, ask her. "Tori said as if she has been the nicest person to Chloe.
"I'm not going to butt into her business. We aren't best friends just because we temporarily share a house." I hoped that my family will get the fact that me and Chloe are still strangers and the house is big enough that we can avoid each other all day, and she seems to have figured that out.
"Speaking of sharing a house, has she given any hints that she might want more than she came in with when you guys split?"
I looked at my dad a bit shocked since he had been of the biggest advocate about me getting into a serious relationship because according to him I lacked people skills.
"Dad, are you saying that there's a chance that princess Chloe might not be as nice as we think. I thought you said I should get into a relationship, now you are questioning my wife's love for me?" I say with a ridiculous smirk on my face. I watched my dad roll him eyes at me,
"Yeah but I didn't say you should go to Vegas and get drunk." he retorted
Now it was my turn to roll my eyes at him, he was never going to let it go. It was once and I assure you, I have learned my lesson.
"Well I think Chloe is a really nice girl. And she is really pretty." Liz chirped in after being silent the last few minutes
"Well good girls aren't always what they seem." Tori gave me a devious look as she finished her sentence.
"I bet they get along very well. In many places like Derek's enormous bed, the living room, the den, the kitchen." Simon said with a sly look on his face. I sometimes don't understand why Simon must make a sexual reference in every conversation.
I glared at Simon.
"Anyways Derek, just get along with her. You don't have to like her but just don't do anything stupid. Again." My dad looked my straight in the eye when he said and I knew he was serious.
"How is Innocencia and Iyzobella?" My dad asked
"They're fine, I saw them today." I answer as my mind shoots me pictures of Iyzo crying about not wanting to go home.
"I'm glad, the team is still looking for a way Derek, and we haven't given up. Actually the team is looking into two things now, Chloe and the girls. Derek we will find a way I promise, the board can't hold out for too long. They will be mounted with pressure and they will give in soon." My dad said, I knew that it wasn't his fault that the board was being completely absurd and irrational but he felt responsible since he is the head of the Souza legal team.
"Dad, I know so don't worry." I lied, I thoroughly aware of the fact that if a married couple attempted to adopt either Iyzo or Incy, they would be successful.
The rest of the dinner was spent talking about Telco and the new video game we are working on. And Tori made sure to tell us that we need to get her the characters soon so she can start doing the clothing designs for the video games. I will admit to you that Tori is great at what she does, but if you tell her I will denial it till I die. Liz and Tori coordinated very well, they knew what the other was thinking before it was spoken. Simon also made sure to remind me about the executive meeting at Telco HQ this week, great more crap to add to my list of things to do.
As we exited the restaurant Liz came up with the idea about coming home with me to visit Chloe and maybe catch up with her on the latest news about herself. I shot down the idea at first but then caved into Liz and Tori's incessant whining. We said goodbye to our dad who seemed happy to unload Simon, Tori, and Liz on me for the rest of the night. Sometimes, I wonder if they all still have their own homes.
After about a 20 minute drive, we reached and I pulled into the driveway and parked behind a little car that barely took up space in my huge drive way. I'm assumed that it was Chloe's friend's car. I had already told the idiots behind me that Chloe probably still has her friends over so they didn't questions whose car it was.
We walked into the main hall and I could hear laughter and music. The voices were definitely not coming from one person.
"Ohh, Chloe's throwing a party!" Liz said excitedly, I rolled my eyes at the absurdity of her statement. Chloe didn't seem like the party type, she is more of the come-to-a-party-to-read type.
We walked to the small living room and I mentally thanked God that she didn't use the main living room, with the flat screen and as we turned the corner we saw princess Chloe and her friends having a blast at my house. Simon, Tori, Liz, and I just stood there in utter shock, they were all dancing and didn't notice us till Chloe started laughing hysterically and then she looked around then froze like a deer caught in headlights. Her friends stopped dancing and followed her eyes to where we were standing. I look at her friends, a girl with jet black hair with freckles on her nose, the other girl was blonde and short, then I saw the girl I had met when we were in Vegas, and lastly was a guy with a V-neck button up shirt standing in my living room. Who had had his hand around Chloe's shoulder.
"Oh Hey Derek" Chloe squeaked quietly
"Hi Princess" I answer smirking realizing that she somehow made this an embarrassing situation for herself.
"Omigosh! You're Derek Souza" said the blonde
I was tempted to say something along the line of No shit, dipshit or No shit Sherlock but then I decided against since I'm supposed to be getting along with Chloe.
"That's what my birth certificate say." I say as I move across the room.
"Oh urm guys, this is Derek, that's Liz and Tori and that is Simon." Chloe said as she points to each person and they waved a shy wave.
"I'm like a huge fan, I totally can't believe this is happening my brothers are going to freak." The blonde one said, I am not the one to shy away from a fan or a complement but I do tend to shy away from crazy blonde women who is staring at me in a very perverted way and I suddenly felt the need to push Simon into her affections, so she can duke it out with Liz. Bet Simon would love to see that with his perverted old man mind.
"This is Melissa, Amber, Rae and Nate. We used to go to school together." she says quietly, I could tell she was on the verge of going into a stuttering marathon simply because she was thinking too much about how awkward this is. Okay maybe she isn't the only one.
"Nice to meet you guys. Chlo has told us so little about you." the guy Chloe's called Nate said
"Really?" I say, instantly realizing that this was an unforeseen opportunity to serve Chloe her daily dose of what-the fuck-are-you-doing-Derek?
"So what are you guys up to?" Liz asked as she sat down
"We were about to play a game." Amber answered as she took a quick peek at me. I find it extremely creepy that Chloe's friends were ogling me. Her husband.
"Omigosh, you guys should play with us." Melissa half screamed, way too excitedly.
"Uh-I have some things I have to take care, I'm afraid I will not be joining you tonight." I try my hardest not to smile a devilish smile at Chloe, it was truly tempting but I would save that torture for later.
"Oh come on, please just hang out with us tonight, we aren't that bad. Just stay for a few minutes." Chloe's creepy friend purred at me. I looked Chloe and I could see her big blue petrified eyes. She had figured out that I could choose to embarrass right now.
"Urm I will be right back, then maybe I will play." I walked into the little attached to the small living room kitchen and I could feel Chloe on my heel.
"Nice friends you have." I said as I grabbed a bottle of water and turned back around to see Chloe with her hands across her chest.
"I thought you were supposed be at dinner."
"Dinner ends eventually."
"Yeah I guess, Derek can we call a truce tonight? Please?"
Truce my ass, she threatened my house.
"Yeah, why would I do that princess?"
"Oh come on, Derek just be normal for tonight. We're supposed to be married." She pleads as she batters her eyes lashes at me and she made her bottom lip quiver a bit.
What the hell? That only works with trying to pick up a guy at a club. A stupid guy at that. She is trying manipulate me, ha!
"Princess I didn't know you were into manipulation," I say as I shake my head disapprovingly
She sighs and says please about four times more. Then I cave, at least that's what she thinks. I want to see how far princess Chloe is willing to go to attempt to manipulate me.
I walk back out into the living room, and Nate was eying me, again. What the hell is with him?
It seems that my half-sister and soon-to-be sister in-law have made themselves acquainted with Chloe's friends. I looked at Tori and I think she was flirting with Nate. This should be funny.
"Great so we are all playing the game." Liz said excitedly
That girl is up for anything that involves her not sitting still for longer than 10 minutes.
"What game are we playing?" I ask curiously. I have decided that if it was any version truth or dare, I was going up stairs to sleep.
"We are playing Belly Balloon Break." the girl with jet black hair said. I think her name is Amber. Not sure and I really don't care enough to clarify with the princess.
"Okay Chlo, we need balloons, ya have any?" jet black said excitedly. Yes I have nicknamed her jet black.
"Yeah I think so." Chloe said as she obviously tried to hide her nervousness, this girl seriously believes I'm out to get her. Sweet. i watched Chloe bounce her little ass out of the living room and disappear into the main hall way of the house.
"So we need to make teams of two, but there 9 people so someone has to be the timer keeper." Liz chirped excitedly
"I will be time keeper, this is going to be fun to watch." The girl, Rae, said speaking up for the first time since I got home.
"Okay good! Teams people!" The creepy blonde, Melissa ordered
"I call dibs on Chloe!" Nate yelled way too loudly
It would be rude to myself and all the self-professed assholes out there for me not to say anything.
"You're calling dibs on my wife?" I say, trying to keep the laughter bubbling up in my stomach down
"Oh come on dude, you have her during the day..and night, I'm just asking for you to share for tonight that's all." Nate said smiling
No one else picked up the double meaning behind what he just said? No one? Fine, whatever. Your opinion means nothing to me! Nothing!
Like she was cued or something, Chloe bounced her little ass that was clad in way too tight jeans, and a tank top that reveals way more than she probably thinks. I think she is attempting to leave the rest to imagination but the way the jeans and top emphases all the right...wrong... whatever part of her body, you don't need that much of an imagination to guess the rest. I looked over at Nate to see him staring at Chloe, I guess I'm not the only who notices Chloe.
"Okay I got the balloons and the pumper. How many do we need?" She asks as she avoids eye contact with me
"We need about 5 or 6 for each group so blow up as many as you can." Melissa said
"We need teams guys so how about? We do this. Chloe with Nate, Derek with me, Liz and Simon, and Melissa and Tori. We're good? Great" Amber chirped as she helps Chloe make more balloons to be pop. I roll my eyes at her commanding tone, Chloe sure has some nice friends.
Everyone agreed to her selections. Especially Nate, he was downright giddy. And after Chloe and Melissa finished blowing up the balloons, everyone was ready to play the game. We all stood in our respective corners with Rae in the middle with her phone timer and our balloons to our left.
I looked at Chloe and She was laughing hysterical. I have never seen her laugh or smile like that, well I have only known her for about 2 weeks, but still she had a beautiful smile.
"So no hands or any other body parts except your chest. Pop as many balloons as you can with you and your partners chest in 2 minutes. Are you guys ready?" Rae said like a newscaster
Amber eagerly plopped the balloon right in between us and she came way closer than necessary.
"Ready…Set…Go!" Rae started the time.
Then before I could even roll my eyes at the stupid game, Amber grab my shoulders and smashes herself against the balloon between us and pop went the balloon. She bent down to pick up another balloon, and I took a step back so as to avoid her hands on me again. She got back up, yanked my shoulder again, and this time I think she was attempting to push herself against me, like the balloon was the only barrier between us, and she was not going down easy. She repeated this, for the next 2 balloon, I looked over at Chloe and Nate, they were laughing hysterically.
By the time Rae called time, I was on the verge of yanking Amber's arms off me. The girl kept looking at me like I was prey. And it is extremely creepy.
Eventually the sad excuse for a party died out, and the princess's friends decided it was time to go home. They were sure to give everyone hugs, and Amber squeezed the circulation out of my body.
My siblings stayed about half hour afterwards to gossip with Chloe. Sometimes I wonder if Simon was supposed to be a girl but some weird genetic mutation or modification changed him to a boy. During the whole conversation, Simon was sure to make many, many sexual references that he thinks Chloe doesn't get.
Eventually they got bored to and left too. Then it was just Chloe and I in the house. As I was walking up to bed, Chloe came down the stairs and planted her little ass in front of me.
"Urm..move?"
"You can let it out now, I know you've been holding your breath since the game," she says as she puts her hands on her hips. I looked at the princess as she continued to glare at me. My eye caught her chest, then I realized the tank top she was wearing was see through. It wasn't the tank from the "party", it was another with bunnies on it. I weighed out my options; I could tell her and watch her run to her room to change or I could stand her and see things she probably doesn't know I'm seeing.
I choose to watch her run away like a 5 year old girl.
I slowly let a smirk spread over my face and looked at her chest, making sure to make it obvious.
"What the hell are you smirking at?" She said with her hands still on her little hips.
"Chloe, I knew you want me, I didn't know you were willing wear a see through tank top for. It looks very hot on you babe." I say as I step on the stair between us, and attempted put my hand around her waist. She hit my hand away and looked down at her top to realize that I was telling the truth. She screamed and turned around and darted to her room and slammed the door. I laughed so hard that I almost fell down the stairs. I finally make it to my room, change into some pajama pants and collapsed on my bed. I was about to close my eyes when Chloe barged into my room. Again.
I looked at her and she had a pajama top on now.
"What do you want now? Some people like sleeping." I say as I examined the glare she had on her face
"Why do you do that?"
"Why do I do what?" I asked innocently, though I have a pretty good idea of what she is talking about
"Why do you need to tease or embarrass me even when we are the only two in the house?"
"I don't pick on you." I say, as her glare turned a bit murderous
"Okay fine, maybe I do. It's hilarious, your face is always priceless."
"That's stupid, that's like me yanking that pillow and beating you with it and saying I did it because it is funny." She retorted
"I know you would do anything to get a chance to rape me again."
Then suddenly Chloe lunged and grabbed a pillow from my bed as I pushed myself to the other side of the bed thinking she was trying to hit me. I watched as Chloe tested the weight of the pillow in her hand and I laughed.
"What are you gonna do? Hit me?"
"What if I did." She said as she took a step closer to the bed
"Well you wouldn't because well, for lack of a better word, you don't have the balls." I say as the anger in her eyes flared up like fire
Then Chloe ran and jumped on my bed and proceeded to assault me with my pillow. On my bed. In my room. In my house. I let her hit me for what was probably like a minute while she yelled at me and she ended with dipshit. Then I grabbed her hands and flipped her over so that now I was hovering on top of her while both of her hands were now encaged in mine. She squirmed and shaked and attempt to knee me in wrong places. After about 5 minutes of that she stopped and just settled for glaring at me.
"Get off me."
"Why? So you can attack me again?"
"This is sexual assault."
"No what you attempted to do to me the other day was sexual assault. This is purely self-defense."
"Yeah whatever, I'm sure the cops will believe that I, a little girl, tried to rape you an MMA fighter. Who assaults people for a living.
I laugh because she is totally right. That's the terrible about being involved in MMA, everyone believe you're the one who always starts the fight.
"You know Simon had this theory a while ago about angry women. Would you like to hear it?" I say
"No, now get the hell off me."
"The theory was that if a woman is angry for no apparent, she either having mood swings or she is horny." I say making sure I said the last part in her ear. I held both of her hands with my left hand and let my right trail from her shoulder down to her thigh. I start drawing circles close to her inner thigh.
"That's a really stupid theory. She could be pissed that the guy she is supposed to be married to is a complete asshole." She finally says
"Nah I don't think that's it. And I'll prove it to you." I say as I use my right hand to push up the pajama top and she started to whimper and squirm, probably still trying to knee me in the groin. I look at Chloe flat and pale stomach, she needs some sun, and I pressed my lips on her stomach. I pressed little kisses around her bellybutton, and she stopped moving. I moved my lips closer to the waistband of her PJS and I stopped right on the little skin that was exposed before you would have to move the waistband to see what's under. I move off her and look at her shocked face.
I let go of her hands and she jumped of the bed, kicked me on the arm and ran out of my room. I laughed at the sight and I go to sleep knowing, I had won once again.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~YEAH BOY~~~~~~~~~~~
Chloe POV
Derek had started training today and I was glad because after that little stunt he pulled two nights ago, I'm really scared to be alone with him. So him being gone for the next 6 hours is awesome. I thought I would have the rest of the day to myself but I guess nature disagrees. I spent most of the morning finally deciding to answer aunt Lauren, she apologized..ish. But I made sure to tell her that I was not getting a divorce because I love Derek not because we got drunk in Vegas and got married. Telling her that wouldn't help my cause of getting her to know that I can take care of myself. Then around about 2 PM, someone knocked on the door. It was Mary and the kids. I told them that Derek would be home for another 1 hour, but they insisted on waiting. So we went to the kitchen and sat down while I brought out some snacks for them to eat. The older one got up and got her own snack, she didn't care that I was trying to be nice.
"So Chloe, how are things going?" Mary ask, probably trying to ease the awkwardness.
"Urm, everything is great." I say without looking at the kids
The little girl was hiding near Mary, she wouldn't touch the snacks. They were afraid of me. Great.
"So Mary how do you know Derek?" I say hoping to find out more about the asshole
"Well it's a cute story. We all met him when he was doing his community service that he needed for highs school graduation at the orphanage I worked at back then. It's closed down now, all the kids are in the foster system now. As volunteered, I realized he could relate with the orphans, his parents had abandoned him too. But he was lucky that he was adopted earlier that most children are. So we changed him from sanitary work to talking to the kids about being adopted and not giving up hope that one day, someone will love them." Mary said
"That's where he met Incy here. Incy, do you remember the first time you met Derek? You were 9, I think" Mary said as he gestured to the girl giving me the evil eye.
"Yeah, I remember and I also remember him threatening to throw me into the garbage truck if I didn't stop trying to trip him." Incy said as a smile played around her lips.
Mary and I burst into laughter, I laughed because I could totally imagine Derek turning around and saying, "Do that again and you will wake up in a garbage truck."
"What about you?" I say directing my question to the little girl hiding beside Mary
She used her hands to cover her face but I could tell she was peeking through her hands.
"Well Derek met this little cutie when someone left her on the orphanage door step in a battered car sit-
"Wait, I thought that only happened in the movies." I gasp
"Sadly no, it happens quite often. Many people think of it as embarrassing to hand the child to us face to face. So anyways, Derek was visiting from college. His first year, he had just moved into his dorm so he came back to visit Incy. So he told me he walking towards the door and saw some woman put the something down, and hightail it down the street. He walked to the door to find a sleeping baby in the car sit. He brought her inside with him and well the rest is history. Incy and Iyzo have been a part of him since they met. He has been trying to adopt them but the adoption agency wouldn't approve him because he wasn't married and they think that his profession needs him to travel a lot and they don't want him to just stick them with a nanny. But Derek hasn't given up, I don't think he will. " Mary finished, she tried to pull Iyzo in front of her but the girl wouldn't budge.
"Wow" was all I could manage. This was a side of the asshole, I have never seen. I heard a car close and I knew he was home. He walked into the kitchen and looked at everyone.
"Daddy!" Iyzo screamed as she let go of Mary and threw herself at Derek who picked her up and spun her around. Derek smiled at her, in a way I have never seen before. Not the I'm-going-to-ruin-your-morning-smile, not the asshole smile. But this smile was filled with Love and adoration of Incy and Iyzo.
Wait, if he is daddy, what the hell does that make me?
A/N: What did you think? My longest chapter up to date. Is the story line going to fast? I need to know so I can either slow it down or keep going the same way. Love it or hate it? Review! Review! How did I do with Derek's POV? What do you think about Incy and Iyzo? Like 'em? Love 'em?
Character Update:
Innocencia (Incy): Derek's (hopefully soon-to-be) adopted kids
Iyzobella (Iyzo): Derek's (hopefully soon-to-be) adopted kids
Ken: Chloe's cute co-worker
Audrianna: Chloe's pain-in-the-ass co-worker
Brad: Chloe's boss
Amber: Chloe's friend
Melissa: Chloe's friend
Nate: Chloe's old friend who returns after being away for a year and half
Mary: Incy and Iyzo's foster mother
Amber Denison: Derek's ex fling