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Here is part 2
Part 2I threw myself down on the bed and kicked off my shoes, he had been trying really hard to be nice to me but I couldn’t let that happen. I was at the stage of thinking that all men were shits and he was a man therefore a shit and letting him take me out would just be setting myself up for a disappointment again. It was all I could do to stop myself crying in front of him. Ever since Elaine had mentioned James yesterday I had been thinking about him and about the fact that had I been prepared to give up my friends, family; my whole life then I could have been somewhere in America right now, sunning myself and shopping and being a little kept woman like he wanted me to be. I couldn’t do that though, even though I loved him, I couldn’t be the kept housewife, it’s not me. That’s why when Rob had assumed he could kiss me like that on stage that I flew off the handle. I had decided that no man would ever control me in any way again. I stood under the shower thinking about Rob, how his eyes glimmered in the light and looked like they could take you right into his soul, how you could see just enough of his tattoos in the shirt that he was wearing and you were left wanting to see more…how his cheeky smirk made my belly flip and made we want to grin back…No I couldn’t go there and I’d be on my way home in another day and then the feelings I had before of any normal fan would be present and life would go on.
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As she had stormed off out the room, something had fallen from her bag and I went to pick it up; it was a small card
Karen Chalmers
Website DesignerAlso on there was her contact details. I slipped it in my pocket where it would be safe and wandered back up to my suite, with a grin on my face and all my thoughts centred around Karen. Even though she had been a bit snappy, bordering on rude, something still pulled me to her and eventually she would agree to let me try and prove to her that I wasn’t that arrogant shit she thought I was.
First thing in the morning I went to reception and used my irresistible charm to find out how long she was staying at the hotel and then booked myself in for another couple of nights. I also managed to find out what room number she was in and that she always came down for breakfast around 9am. So I went to the restaurant and waited; bang on 9am she arrived and sat down at a table over in the corner. I lifted my orange juice and walked over towards the table, as I reached the back of her chair she stood up and pushed it back, the back of the seat colliding very nicely with my nether regions
“I know you think I’m an arrogant bastard” I moaned “but there was no need for that!”
“Oh God I’m so sorry! Why were you lurking at the back of me anyway?!”
“I wasn’t lurking, I was coming over to ask if I could have breakfast with you since I’m on me own”
“Oh, right, well…fair enough then, sit down and I’ll be back in a minute”
I slowly sat down, hoping that all my parts were still in working order and took the liberty of ordering two cooked breakfasts as the waiter had come and Karen hadn’t come back yet. She sat back down at the table and started to look through the menu
“I ordered already, I hope you don’t mind”
“I do as it happens! But since you’ve already ordered I guess I’ll eat it! You ok?” she asked nodding downwards then glancing back down at the table
“Yeah I think my crown jewels are still intact! Maybe you can help me test them sometime?” I grinned only to receive a scowl that would frighten the toughest of men
“Sorry, too far. I promise I’ll behave from now on”
When the breakfast arrived, we slipped into and easier conversation although trying to get information from her was not at all simple. I was asking questions, interested in what she had to say and I was getting nowhere! I thought women were supposed to like that?
“I need to go no, I have a meeting” she said deadpan and left the table without so much as a goodbye or a smile. It was starting to irritate me now but still something about her made me smile, even when I thought about how much of a moody cow she really was!
Later that day, after I had been sat in the bar all afternoon, I saw her coming back into the building. I left it a good 10 minutes and then went up and knocked on her room door
“Rob?” she questioned as I stood leaning against the door frame
“Hiya, I wondered if you maybe wanted to have dinner together tonight, since your company was so scintillating at breakfast?”
“Don’t be a smartass it doesn’t suit you and I’m sorry but no thanks”
“Oh come on, cut me some slack here! I’m trying to be nice to you and you keep chucking it back in my face, look I’m meeting a friend for dinner and I thought since you appear to be on your own you might like some company but it’s fine”
“No wait!” she shouted as I turned to walk away “Ok then I’ll join you for dinner…but only because I’m on my own, like you said, ok?”
“Ok then see you downstairs at 7 then” he winked and walked off down the hallway with a perfect swagger that made his bum look all the more tantalising.
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I could have bloody killed Rob when I got downstairs to the restaurant only to be shown to where he was sitting and find out his friend who he was having dinner with was Mark Owen…Mark freaking Owen, the first love of my life and I still had a soft spot for him now! That cute face and the biggest grin you’ve ever seen was surely enough to melt anyone’s heart
“Hi Karen, this is Mark. He’s joining us for dinner” Rob smiled and I stretched out my hand to shake Mark’s
“Nice to meet you Karen. So Rob tells me you design websites?”
“I do but how…”
“You dropped one of your card’s yesterday”
“Right…”
“Anything we would have seen?”
“Not unless you’re up on websites for kids, I design them for kids TV shows and things like that”
“That must be fun! Right, can I get you a drink?”
Conversation seemed to flow more easily with Mark there, I found it so much easier to talk to him than Rob although maybe that was because he was being friendly towards me with no hidden agenda, Rob on the other hand I was sure was only after one thing. Would giving him that one thing really be so bad? My mind started to wander into all sort of situations and then I was brought back with a bump…
“Karen, Mark said he has to go now”
“Sorry I was miles away then! It was so nice meeting you Mark, you were always my favourite” I smiled and then turned a very nice shade of crimson
“I was everyone’s favourite, how can you not like the cute one” he joked and then kissed me on the cheek before giving Rob a hug and saying that he would hopefully catch up with him soon. Rob sat back down and turned to smile at me
“Don’t you smile at me! How could you not tell me Mark was going to be here?!?”
“I didn’t think, he’s just plain ordinary Mark to me, nothing to make a fuss over”
“Nothing to fuss over?! Bloody helll Rob!” I said making gestures with my hands and at that very moment my right hand collided with Rob’s glass and his drink went flying all over him before I could grab the glass to stop it. Almost immediately a waiter came over to clear up the mess and left again
“I think I’ll go now” I mumbled, gathering my bag and cardigan
“Charming! You spill my drink all over me and then leave without so much as a sorry?”
“Sorry, that good enough for you!” I stormed off and for so many hours that night tossed and turned in my bed, I wasn’t usually so bitchy with people but I was starting to want to try and get closer to him and I couldn’t let that happen so the only way to avoid it was to make him hate me, so far my offness with him hadn’t put him off in the slightest and I started to wonder how much longer he would be around.
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Again I waited in the restaurant for her and again she appears bang on 9am, this time she had to pass me to get to the table in the corner
“Morning” I said, pushing the chair out at the other side of the table
“Morning, excuse me but that chair is in my way!”
“No it’s not cos you’re gonna sit in it”
“I don’t think so, my table is over there”
“Well you either sit in this chair or I come and sit with you anyway” I looked her straight in the eye and waited for her reply
“You’re really starting to piss me off you know!” she answered as she threw herself down in the seat
“No I’m not, I know why you’re like this with me…”
“Like what?”
“You know, acting like you couldn’t care less and don’t want to know me when really you do want me but don’t want to admit it”
“Pffftttt, I’m glad we got that joke out the way before I started eating, I could have choked to death!”
“Fine, if you wont admit to it then I’ll drop it for the moment”
“Good”
“Alright then”
“Ok then” she nodded at me sternly before calling the waiter over to order her breakfast, leaving me to order for myself. We ate in silence, I kept glancing up at her and every time I did she was glancing at me too and then quickly looked away when she realised. With breakfast almost a non event I decided to go to the hotel gym for a while and think about my next move. It was empty and I had a pick of the machines, so I stepped on to the running machine and started to jog away to the music channel that was playing on the TV above the machine…
It's up in my heart when it skips a beat (skips a beat)
Can't feel no pavement right under my feet (under my feet)
Up in my lonely room
When I'm dreaming of you (wah oooo)
Oh what can I do…The song spoke volumes to him and it was pleasantly interrupted by Karen walking through the door and stepping on the running machine that sat a couple down from his. He glanced round as she put her Ipod on and started running, not being able to resist looking at the way her body moved in sync with the machine.
“You’re a pig, you know that?” she questioned not looking round and still running at a steady pace
“What?”
“A pig, didn’t your mother ever teach you that it’s not polite to stare”
“No I don’t have a mother, I’m a poor orphan and I need someone to look after me” I pouted and looked at her with puppy eyes
“Well I’m sure you have plenty of cash, go hire someone” she hadn’t even flinched or looked round
“So are you gonna keep running then and not even look at me when you’re talking to me because I would say that’s as rude as me staring at you” the noise of the machine died down and Karen stepped off and came and stood right next to me, staring me straight in the face
“This better? Carry on then…”
“You really need to go get a personality transplant you know, if you smiled more and were a bit more personable…”
“Excuse me but don’t you tell me what I should or shouldn’t do…there it is again; arrogance!” within seconds all her stuff was in her bag and she was heading for the door
“Ok look I’m sorry but I’m trying to get to know you and be nice and you’re not even giving me a chance! What do I need to do for you to give me some time?”
“I don’t have time to give you!” I watched as her ass disappeared through the door and chided myself for being more and more turned on by her every time she was rude to me, and besides she looked cute when she was angry. I could tell she wanted me and clearly I was gonna have to be more forward if I wanted to get anywhere.
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Later that night afternoon I was catching up with a friend. Mary happened to be in the area and was coming to the hotel for lunch and a drink.
“Mary!!” I grinned and gave her a hug as she came to sit down
“Sorry I’m late but I got a bit lost! Anyway how are you? What’s been going on?”
“Oh I’m good apart from that fact that Robbie bloody Williams keeps pestering me”
“Sorry…say that again…” her eyes were as wide as saucers as she almost choked on her drink
“Robbie, he’s staying here and…actually I suppose I better start by telling you what happened at the concert…” Every so often she let out an “oh my God” or “are you an idiot?!?”
“Yeah so that’s it and the last two days he’s been pestering me like nobody’s business and well it’s annoying me…”
“No it’s not”
“What do you mean?”
“You’re not annoyed by him, you’re turned on! I can tell by the look on your face when you were telling me things. So what’s stopping you?”
“Apart from the fact that he’s an arrogant pig?” I rolled my eyes and took a sip of my drink
“And now the real reason” she said doing her I know you’re lying face
“All men are bastards, and he’ll be no different! James was enough to almost turn me to lesbianism” she looked at me and we both burst out laughing
“Oh crap!” she said nodding her head in the direction behind me “Your pest has entered the building”
“Oh God, can’t I get a minutes peace?”
“Shh he’s coming over” Mary was getting more and more excited, Robbie was her life. She had been a fan for such a long time, although she had never met him and that was mainly because she didn’t want to risk the illusion she had of him being shattered.
“Afternoon ladies” he grinned and winked at Mary, as I groaned and leaned back in my seat. “I just came to let you know that I’m leaving tomorrow so I’ll be out of your hair for good”
“Oh…ok then” she said surprised that he was leaving
“Right so I wont say it was nice meeting you because you slapped me on stage, pushed a chair into my nuts, spilt my drink all over me and have been generally unpleasant but it’s certainly been an experience!” with that he turned and walked away leaving both of us open mouthed and speechless for a minute or two
“How rude of him to say that!” Mary said shocked
“Not really, he’s right! I’ve been completely and utterly bitchy to him so I suppose his opinion is fair enough” I shrugged my shoulders and let out a sigh
“Yeah but still, he’s leaving tomorrow! Are you gonna do something about that?”
“Like what, go and declare my undying love for him” I looked at Mary and rolled my eyes
“Well yeah if that’s how you feel then you should” her head nodded so much that I thought it might fall of any minute
“I don’t”
“Ok maybe you don’t, but you do like him!”
“Isn’t it time you were going?”
“Don’t change the subject! Look if you want my advice then don’t let past experiences stop you from getting to know him. It’s obvious he likes you, that’s why he told you he’s leaving tomorrow so that you’ll realise before then that you like him and do something about it”
“That sneaky little…”
“Anyway I need to go now, so good luck and keep me updated with any progress” she winked and gave me a hug before leaving.
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