Reconnected

by Bethany Daniel

  Chapter 8

  Later that night as I'm reading over some history notes, my phone rings and I smile seeing Liam's name on the screen.

  "Hey there, movie star.” I answer and close my journal.

  "Hey yourself, beautiful...um, what are you and Krista doing tonight?"

  I cock an eyebrow and look over at her. "Uh not much, just studying a little bit, why?"

  "Well, Scott and I thought it would be nice for us to all...go on a double date.” He replies sounding nervous and I let out a laugh.

  "Tonight? Is that really smart?” I ask curiously and start glancing around for clothes that could be considered "Date worthy"

  "We have bodyguards, remember? And where we going, we don't have to worry anyway."

  "And where exactly will we be going? And what should we wear?"

  "A private club, private room for us and any special guests and there'll be a bouncer on top of our own security. As for your clothes...do you have a little black dress?” He asks mischievously.

  I laugh as I walk to my closet and pull out a simple black dress I use for interviews. “Yes, I do and some nice little black heels that go along with it."

  "Mmm, that, definitely that...oh wait a sec,” I can hear his hand muffle the phone and him talking with someone else then hear him talking again. "Scott says to tell Krista to wear something red."

  "Right, ok. Um, when should we be ready exactly?"

  "In an hour...we’ll be in the limo to get you."

  My mouth drops open. "An hour?! Are you crazy? We have to take showers, do our make-up and all that stuff!"

  I hear them both laughing over the line. "Well then you better hurry baby!"

  "Then I have to get off the phone like, now! Bye!” I hang up and turn to a confused looking Krista.

  "Ok, start filling me in on what the heck is going on.” Krista demands with her hands on her hips.

  "We have an hour to get showered, gussied up and all before the guys come in a limo for a double date!"

  "What?! Oh my God! I can't go on a date with Scott Adams looking like this!” She screeches and starts running around the room grabbing hair products and make-up and throwing clothes around the room.

  "Whoa!" I grab a flying skirt and laugh. "Ok, take a breath.” I walk over and put my hands on her shoulders as she takes a deep breath.

  "He says he wants you to wear something red.” I tell her with a smile.

  "Hmm, I believe I have just the thing,” she tells me with a secretive glint in her eyes as she grabs a slinky little strapless red dress out of the closet.

  "I think that'll work.” I nod at her and we both dash around getting ready.

  "So, where are we going?” Krista calls from the bathroom where she's applying the last of her make-up.

  "I don't know the name; Liam just said that it's a private club where we’ll have our own section or something, bouncer and all."

  "Oooh, sounds fancy.” She comes out smiling and spins around...”Do I look ok?"

  "You look great!” I take a quick spin around. "What about me?"

  "Fabulous, sweetie,” We both smile and hook arms and step out into the hall and quickly note Nate standing at the end looking in all directions at once.

  "Good evening, ladies.” He crosses his arms and nods at us. "Your limo is set to be here in 5 minutes. Mr. Adams and Mr. Warren will already be inside. Eric is waiting by the door for you."

  "Thanks, Nate.” I smile at him and we walk the rest of the way towards the door and wave at Eric as we step out into the cool breeze of the night.

  "Are you nervous?” I whisper as I step a little closer to Krista.

  She nods and her eyes widen. "What if this is some kind of fluke? Like if he hangs out with me some more and decides I'm not worth it? And what's going to happen once their done filming, I could be just left behind."

  I frown and squeeze her arm. "Don't think like that. I told you, if he hurts you, I'm going to hurt him."

  She smiles as we see the limo turn the corner.

  "Here we go!” I whisper as the driver comes around the side to open the door and Scott steps out and takes a long look over Krista.

  "Wow,” is all he says and she blushes almost as red as her dress.

  "Hi.” She says softly as he takes her hand and pulls her to his side.

  "You look amazing, Krista."

  "Thank you,” she bites down on her lip and looks at me with a smile on her face.

  "She does....and so does my wife.” Liam interrupts and steps out to pull me to him.

  "Well, thank you.” I smile and put my hand on his cheek. "You look pretty good yourself."

  He gets a big grin and leans down to kiss me as he runs his hands down my sides and comes to rest on my lower back.

  "Alright you lovebirds, get in before we make the bodyguards anxious.” Scott interrupts and I giggle at Liam's glare.

  Once we're all piled into the back of the limo, I catch Krista's attention for a minute and she has a huge grin on her face. Scott better treat her right. I have the same fear as Krista does. What happens when they leave again? They can't have that much more filming to do. What happens to us then? Can we make it work?

  Shaking my head to get out of my thoughts, I turn to Liam and squeeze his hand. "So, tell me about where we're going."

  "It's called The Infinity; it's a really nice place. Private rooms, good for dancing, having a drink and just forgetting everything for a while."

  "Sounds good to me,” I lean over and lay my head on his shoulder and absently listen to Krista chattering away until we pull up to the club.

  "Ok, Nate and Eric are close by, but when we get out of the limo, keep your head down and stay near me so the Pap's don't cause a big scene, ok?” Liam asks.

  I nod and squeeze his hand. "Ok."

  He opens the door and pulls me out and starts walking quickly. I keep my face towards the ground and lean into him until we get inside the door.

  "Everything's good inside, right?” I ask and look up when Krista and Scott rush in.

  "Yep, inside there's no cameras allowed. Come on, our room is this way." Liam tugs me beside him and directs me into a large red and black room with giant couches and an extravagant bar in the middle.

  "Whoa....this is just...wow.” Krista says with a shocked look on her face.

  "I completely agree.” I reply and look around the room. I don't even want to know how much the things in this room cost or the drinks that come out of that bar.

  "Come on ladies....time to have some fun.” Scott says with a grin on his face as he pulls a laughing Krista onto the dance floor to dance to the fast paced music booming through the speakers.

  "Want to dance, Katy?” Liam asks and pulls me tight against him.

  I scrunch up my nose. "You know I'm not much of a dancer."

  He leans down to my ear and whispers, "We could always go back to that corner and just make out....we were always good at that."

  I feel myself blush and shake my head. "Slow down there mister....how about we try to figure out how to dance to this crazy fast music?"

  He gets a happy glint in his eyes and pulls me to the dance floor. Before I know it, we're moving in rhythm together. He's holding onto my hips and we're just about as close as we can get and keeping eye contact the whole time.

  "I really, really love this dress.” Liam murmurs and pulls me up to him tight. As he places kisses down my neck, I close my eyes and sigh softly as the music begins to slow and I place my hands around his neck and pull his lips to mine.

  “I like this.” I whisper as I lay my head onto his chest and wrap my arms around his middle.

  “Me too Katy, I’ve missed this, missed us.”

  I nod swaying with him to the music. “I did too.”