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Natasha
"Do I really have to do this?" I asked as I watched Lawrence wander around my living room.
"It's not odd for a fiancé to visit his fiancée," he said and stopped walking. "Wait, are you the fiancé and I am the fiancée?"
"It doesn't matter since we're nothing," I said as I made my way to the chair and settled down.
"Not with that attitude you're not," he said with a sigh and took a seat next to me.
He had shown up out of the blue. It was around four in the evening. It was after a half-day at work for me. I had planned to spend the rest of my evening with Ethan like I did each day. But Ethan was occupied, and Ian was handling a case that only he could. I figured I could at least sleep or read a book or something. But Lawrence's presence in my house was frustrating. I couldn't exactly send him away, because I had promised to give him a chance. His advances were not working, however. I was torn between two people.
"Why the long face?" Lawrence asked as he took a few strands of my hair and wrapped them around his finger. His eyes were filled with lust.
"I just can't wait for you to leave," I said as I held his hand and freed my hair. "Do you need anything to eat?"
He was smiling, but as I took his hands off me, a vein popped out at the side of his head. Not my concern, but his hands on even a strand of my hair made me uncomfortable.
"That reminds me…I've been craving your cookies for a long time," he said as he leaned forward.
"Lawrence, respect my personal space," I said softly. "I know this might be your attempt to woo me, but it's just making me uncomfortable."
"When we were kids, you didn't seem to mind the distance, or need personal space," he reminded me.
"I was a kid, and at one point a teenager. We both had hormones going wild. So, of course, I wouldn't have minded you next to me," I said. "Plus you adjusted into your role as a big brother. I didn't even think too much about it."
"I should have just pursued you aggressively when you hit puberty," he said softly. I don't know if it was his intention for me to hear this, but he had just earned himself another reason for me to be leary of him.
"Did you say something?" I asked.
"Oh, it's nothing." He shrugged and leaned back into the chair, smiling at the ceiling. "Could it be that the reason you aren't interested in me might be that you are already involved with someone?"
He stared at me sideways. The discomfort I felt increased. If Lawrence found out about what I was doing with the Sullivan brothers, he'd definitely do something that would cause problems between them. I could only play the ignorance card.
"What are you on about?" I asked.
As I got up from the chair to make my way to the kitchen, I felt his arms circle my waist and his breath on my neck. He pulled me closer, and I could feel his bulge pressing against me.
“I don’t know what is going on with you, but I want you to know that I’ll always be waiting,” he said softly as he pressed himself against me even harder.
I pushed him off, demanding, "Get out."
"Relax, it was a joke," he said as he turned to leave, "but I did mean theI'll always be waitingpart."
He left me alone, not without giving me a proud smirk before closing the door behind him. I felt so weird. I didn't know if I should scream or something.
Did he know?
*****
"This might just be my imagination but you're not really focused today," I said to Ethan.
This was yesterday. We went out for only ice-cream, and I noticed that he had been looking around a lot.
"I don't know, but I think someone's watching us," he said as he turned to focus on me. "Or maybe they're just mesmerized by your beauty and are currently wishing I'll drop dead so they can talk to you."
"Or maybe they're just surprized that the great Ethan Sullivan is hanging out with a woman they have never seen before," I said with a smirk. "That reminds me, won't this be a problem?"
"Not sure," he replied. "But it hasn't caused a stir online yet. Not that you would know if it eventually does cause a stir with that out of date phone of yours."
