He Called Me Princess. Disaster Engagement Series Book 3 Lynn Smith

Episode 14

The next day I asked everyone over for a barbecue I wanted to announce our engagement to them all together before I was pictured wearing my ring. I bought lots of bottles of champagne to celebrate. Stacey was bringing her new boyfriend with her he had a hipster name I can’t remember. The big man said he didn’t care that they would be there. When her new boyfriend introduced himself to Fran he said “I think your an amazing musician but I think your music is too commercialized” Fran seen red and grabbed him by the neck “listen you little skinny prestigious prick I’ll break your legs if you mention my music again” the poor bloke pretended to be kidding then excused himself saying he had to be somewhere and I never saw him again. I knew Fran wasn’t that protective of our music it wasn’t everyone’s taste he was more protective of the big man and the fact that what’s his name was dating Stacey. We carried on with the barbecue and the drinks were flowing. Then once we had finished eating Tommy said “well it’s good that we are all together because we wanted to let you all know that I asked Lydia to marry me and she said yes” he turned to me and I held up my hand to show the ring. Stacey let out a huge scream and Chris was the first one on his feet to congratulate us. Carmela came over and hugged Tommy and looked at my ring “my god it’s huge” she didn’t look happy and I wondered why she was being like that. Then her face broke into a smile “so let’s talk weddings” I hadn’t even thought that far ahead I was still trying to process he engagement. Then Stacey screeched “we should look at dresses” Fran and the big man were both quiet but all this wasn’t exactly their scene. They shook Tommy’s hand the big man said “your a lucky boy Tommy” and gave me a hug. Fran was smiling at me like he didn’t know what was happening. Then said “forget about dresses where are we going for the stag do” I was glad everyone was happy for us. The big man said “let’s make this a proper celebration” and opened a bottle of champagne from the table and shook it up and sprayed it over everyone but I didn’t care I was happy and my friends were happy for me and that was all that mattered.

The next day Tommy and I woke up on the sofa in my living room. I was ill because the amount we had all drank. All I could remember was me and the big man doing a dance routine from when we were kids and all of us in the pool in our cloths. I could also remember going into my bathroom and Stacey and the big man were having s*x. I remember laughing and sliding down the wall as Stacey was telling me to get out and the big man was laughing too. Then he asked me to join in and Stacey wasn’t pleased. Even Fran had been pissed I remember him saying to Tommy “you better look after her mate” over and over. When I woke up Tommy looked just as rough as me. “God you scots can drink, what’s the wedding going to be like” I wished everyone would stop going on about the wedding. The thought actually scared me but I wasn’t going to say that to Tommy, not in his fragile state. We got up and had a shower and my housekeeper was outside clearing up the mess from the party. There was patio furniture in the pool and I couldn’t remember how it got there. Vinnie helped her with the furniture and once she was finished she left talking to herself in Spanish I could tell she wasn’t happy. Tommy wasn’t happy either he was quiet as he sat at the kitchen table sipping his tea. When I asked him what was wrong he said that the big man had pissed him off. “Why? what did he say baby?” I asked “just that you were this happy when you got engaged to that dickhead Stefan and that you changed your mind a few days later” I could tell this was really playing on his mind. “Tommy I told you before Stefan asked me to marry him when I was really drunk and I couldn’t remember saying yes and that I tried to end it with him right away and he tried to slit his wrists it wasn’t exactly romantic” he thought about it for a minute then said “he also said that you are still married to Fran” I had totally forgot about that. “That is true but again I was drunk and it was just a stupid joke, you were there, i wasn’t exactly pleased when I released what we had done” he gave me a little smile “that’s true princess, Its just that this is the first and only time I’m going to be engaged or married I just wish it was the first time for you too” he looked really sorry for himself. “This is the first time and last time for me too. I wasn’t in love with Stefan....or Fran” I said with a disgusted look on my face. I managed to get a laugh out of him. Then I said “I forgot I was married, so that means you’ve been my bit on the side all this time” I straddled him and he gave me a filthy smile, “and here I thought you were a good girl” he said and slapped my arse. He lifted me up onto the kitchen table and kissed my cleavage. He kissed all the way up my neck and along my jaw. He slowly stroked my legs all the way up to my inner thigh, then he put his hand up my dress and into my knickers, he firmly started to rub my c**t I threw my head back in ecstasy, his touch was so overwhelming, he pulled his shorts down to his knees and pulled my knickers to one side. I was clawing at his bare back as he roughly entered me. I was still sitting up as he drove his enormous c**k into me. He grabbed my knee and brought it up to my shoulder as he quickened his relentless pace. “I bet your old fiancé didn’t f**k your like this did he princess?” He whispered into my ear. He picked me up off the table without any effort, he had both hands on my arse as he carried on on driving his huge d**k deep inside me. I had one leg wrapped around his waist and one leg practically over his shoulder. Then I heard a voice from the kitchen door “alright gorgeous I’ve just woke up in your spare bedroom have you seen Carmela” it was Chris he was rubbing his face and he looked hung over then he looked at us both and screamed “oh my god, put her down you two are disgusting I feel sick, I don’t want to see this” he covered his eyes. Tommy and I froze. Then Chris said “where’s my mrs” then a voice came from the patio doors it was Carmela “I’m here” she said sheepishly we all turned to look at her “I woke up in the pool house” she was just staring at me and Tommy in shook. “How long have you been there?” I asked her. “About ten minutes” she said with a smile and she looked hot and bothered, “Can you two piss off” I said and Tommy let out a huge laugh Carmela tiptoed by us and they both left. I could hear Chris saying “ for god sake Carm she’s like my little sister that was disgusting” then she said “I thought it was hot, why don’t we have s*x in the kitchen anymore Chris?” I looked at Tommy he was grinning and he said “let’s go up to bed princess before any more of your mates show up”

We went to bed and finished what we had started, before we had been rudely interrupted by Chris and Carmela. Afterwards Tommy and I were wrapped around each other kissing and we stared talking about the night before. “Did I tell you I walked in on the big man and Stacey shagging?” I asked, He started to laugh “f*****g hell what happened to her boyfriend?” I forgot Tommy wasn’t there when Fran went nuts at the poor guy. “Oh that’s right Fran threatened to kick the s**t out of him because he said something about the band” he smiled and shook his head “typical Fran he’s a little hot head” I was stroking Tommy’s rock hard chest I wanted him again already. “yeah he’s a hothead, but I think it was more to do with the fact that he was there with Stacey not what he said about the band” he gave me a confused look “why? the big man doesn’t give a s**t” “Frans protective of all of us, he probably thought the big man would be upset about seeing her with her new boyfriend” he nodded his head in agreement “that’s true he is protective, last week I seen him scream into a guys face at the pub because he thought he had looked at Chris the wrong way” I was glad that Tommy could see that Fran was protective of all of us and not just me, then a thought entered my head “do you think Fran was jealous of Stacey’s new boyfriend?” I asked, Tommy looked at me like I was nuts “No! why do you ask that?” He said with a confused look on his face. “it’s just that a few years ago before I met you, Fran admitted that he liked Stacey, in fact he said he was in love with her” Tommy sat up in bed and looked at me in disbelief “wait hang on, but Fran doesn’t even like her” he said “I think he does. I think he really likes her and just pretends to hate her” “wow so what exactly happened? does Stacey know all this?” “Are you kidding she loves drama she would be milking it big time if she knew” “so your telling me Fran sat you down and said I’m in love with Stacey?” “No don’t be silly! Do you remember my flat in London above the big man, and he was having a house warming party” Tommy interrupted me “Yeah I went to that, Stefan was really drunk and passed out and you left before I got there. I was gutted, one of the boys from the football team said you were the sexiest girl he’d ever seen in real life” Tommy had a million stories like this “Tommy I love your stories about how we nearly met but just missed each other, you are so cute” he gave me his boyish grin and I wanted to jump on him again “Anyway I went up stairs onto the balcony in my bedroom and I heard Fran and the big man down stairs arguing. Fran was saying ‘I’m going to kill you for moving in here to be close to her, stay away from her” I said in my best Fran impersonation. “I love her big man I’m going to kill you for moving in here” And what did the big man say” he asked with a funny look on his face as if he was trying to hold in a laugh “he said ‘i love her too, Franco, alright I did move in here to be close to her but I don’t care what you say I love her’ then he said he was going to split up her and her boyfriend up by making him jealous or something” Tommy still looked confused “right” he said and nodded his head. “Now that I think about it she didn’t have a boyfriend, I wonder what that meant, and they said they had an agreement to both stay away from her for the sake of the band....which is weird because Fran had only met her twice that’s pretty quick to fall in love with someone and write up an agreement” he was smiling as I was talking and nodding along then he asked “princess why would Fran be jealous of him moving into your flats but be in love with Stacey?” I started to get annoyed by his questioning me like he didn’t believe me “Stacey was staying with me at the time, but she wasn’t there when he bought the place now that I think about it” Tommy just kept smiling “then what happened” “Chris caught me listening and I asked if it was Stacey they were talking about and he said no and that I was naive whatever that means. He was just trying to cover for them. Then the next day I asked them about it and told them I’d heard everything and they shouldn’t argue over a girl and they looked so upset I felt really bad, but they agreed to a truce then I told them I wouldn’t tell Stacey and they were so relieved” Tommy just shook his head “I bet they were princess” I wondered what he meant by that “but then a few weeks later Stacey was in my flat and Fran didn’t recognize her and then after that the big man thought her name was Tracey so they couldn’t have been that serious about her” Tommy burst out laughing “you should listen to yourself princess” he was really starting to piss me off “what does that mean?” I asked “Isn’t it obvious, they weren’t talking about Stacey they were talking about you” here we go, why was everybody obsessed with thinking that there was something between me and Fran or me and the big man “no they weren’t” I snapped “of course they were talking about being in love with you, but both of them having an agreement for the sake of the band not to act on it.” I was starting to feel my blood boil, this conversation reminded me too much of the stuff Stefan used to say and I didn’t like it. “Shut up they weren’t in love with me” Tommy rolled his eyes “The big man buying that flat to be close to you must have sent Fran mental. And I’m not surprised the big man had a plan to split you and Stefan up by making him jealous look how that turned out” my head was spinning I thought I was going to throw up “if what your saying is true then that means that it’s the big mans fault that Stefan tried to kill me, is that what your saying?” I was so upset I was shaking “No of course not Stefan was an animal, it’s no ones fault but his” Tommy took my face in his hands and kissed me. I looked at him with a tear in my eye, “they were talking about Stacey weren’t they Tommy?” I asked he gently tucked my hair behind my ear and kissed me again “of course they were princess they were talking about Stacey, let’s forget all about it”

A few weeks passed and Tommy and I had released a statement to the press to say that we were engaged. We were on the cover of every magazines. People were desperate to see my engagement ring, so there was lots of close up shots of my hand. Although the photos didn’t do it justice. We were both asked to do interviews by glossy magazines but I decided against it. Although fans were coming out and saying that they were happy I had moved on from my engagement from Stefan, there was still some people writing pretty hurtful stuff online asking when Tommy was going to go missing. I just wanted it all to remain private just between us. Tommy’s family were over the moon and we agreed to fly over to London for a proper celebration when he had finished filming his latest movie in LA. When I called the dragon to tell her we were engaged she wasn’t happy, she thought the fact that Tommy hadn’t thought to ask my dads permission was a huge sign of disrespect. “Tell your wee boyfriend I’ll see him soon and I expect him to show a bit more respect in future” Tommy was shitting himself, but I thought it was hilarious. Tommy has been spending a lot of time with Fran which I loved. It meant the world to me that they are getting on so well. One Sunday morning Tommy went for a game of golf with the boys. I took the opportunity to work on the album. But it was a lovely day and after a few hours I decided to sit by the pool and relax for a while. I put on my bikini and put on my head phones listening to some music. Tommy and the boys arrived back after their game. Fran and the big man came outside and sat with me as Tommy went straight upstairs to have a shower and get changed. I chatted to the boys for a while. They were telling me about the game and we were having our usual banter. The big man was telling me about some bimbo he was seeing. He said she was a total i***t, I felt terrible for the poor girl. He was telling us a few stories about just how gullible she was when Tommy came outside “Alright princess, what’s so funny?” he asked then his expression changed all of a sudden he had a face like thunder. Fran and the big man must have sensed his bad mood and said they had to go. The big man came over and kissed me on the cheek “see you tonight” he said but I was confused we didn’t have any plans “what are you talking about?” I asked thinking I must have forgot about some arrangement to meet up “I mean I’ll see you in my dreams Gorgeous” he said with a wink. Then Fran gave me a kiss “I’ll call round tomorrow gorgeous I need to have a look at the Tracks you’ve been working on” “sorry I’m going out tomorrow for lunch with the girls, Carmela has organised for us to go to a wedding dress shop to try on some dresses” he looked disappointed “ok have a nice time and I will see you soon” as they both left they said goodbye to Tommy but he just nodded at them and stood with his hands in his pockets. When I knew the boys were totally out of earshot I asked him if he was ok. He shook his head “what do you think? Your sitting out here with those two in just a bikini, are you having a laugh” I looked down at my bikini “why what’s wrong with it” I asked “I don’t want those two staring at your t**s that’s what’s wrong” “don’t be daft I’ve been on holiday with them a million times, they’ve seen me in a bikini before” “I don’t want those two calling you gorgeous all the time either all that bullshit has to stop” he was beginning to sound just like Stefan. “Chris and Carm call me that, do you have a problem with them too?” “They don’t say it the way they do” “how do they say it?” “Don’t act daft Lydia, he’s winking at you saying see you in my dreams, it’s a f*****g piss take. I’ve had to listen to him all day go on about your perfect arse, all I’m saying is in future if they come round here I want you to cover yourself up. Your engaged to me it’s about time you started acting like it” “ok Tommy” “and another thing he’s talking about some big night out he got planned with your ex Mick, I’m telling you right now you ain’t going” “he hasn’t asked me to go” “he said he’s going to book you all onto a boat and your not going, do you hear me” “ok” he was still fuming “but as for them calling me Gorgeous you will have to tell them all because it’s nothing to do with me” “nothing to do with you! I could hear you down here giggling like a f*****g school girl at everything he says” “Tommy don’t shout at me”. “are you saying I can’t laugh anymore either” “he’s been winding me up all day going on about his mate Mick and about his Lydia tattoo” “what’s Michaels tattoo got to do with anything?” “I was talking about the big mans tattoo, so what this arsehole Mick has your name on him too” I had forgot about the big mans tattoo “yeah” “f*****g hell im sick of the s**t I need to put up with with you” “what does that mean?” “I’m sorry I didn’t mean that he’s just a f*****g wind up that’s all” “he doesn’t mean to annoy you, he’s just like that” “stop defending him” “ok Tommy” “that’s it I want you to get rid of that tattoo I mean it, im going no where with you as long as you have that thing on you, I’m going to the gym” when he came home that night he was quiet he didn’t mention the argument and I just kept out of his way. The next day he got up early to travel through to the city to work. He said that he wouldn’t be home that night that he would book into a hotel because he had to work late and didn’t want to travel home to have to get up early again to travel back. In the matter of a couple of weeks he had went from not being able to sleep without me to booking into a hotel. I felt hurt and abandoned, I couldn’t believe he was acting like that. I had never felt so unloved by him before. I started to worry that all the things the big man had told me about loving the chase and not wanting me once he had me were true. I tried to put it to the back of my mind and that day I went out to look at dresses with Carmela and Stacey. Carmela had arranged for us to go to an exclusive bridle wear boutique, it was a beautiful place filled with every kind of wedding dress you could imagine, but I was worried sick about how Tommy had been acting towards me. As the shop girl was showing me the new line of dresses my stomach was in my throat and I couldn’t shake my mood. Stacey was so excited she was downing the free champagne and trying on vails. I went into the private room with Carmela and the shop girl, they had picked a lace mermaid dress for me and it was exquisite, I tried it on and Carmela was gushing about how beautiful I looked but she could tell I wasn’t myself so she asked the girl to give us a moment alone when she left Carmela said “gorgeous what’s wrong you look miserable” “nothing I just had a kind of argument with Tommy” “what about? and don’t say nothing tell me the truth” “he’s not happy with the boys seeing me in a bikini yesterday and he said I need to start acting as if I’m engaged, he said I need to get rid of my Michael tattoo and that he doesn’t want me to go to some night out with the big man and Michael. Which I haven’t been invited to anyway. He was really cold to me Carm, but the worst part is the big man said he would be like this as soon as he had me, that he likes to chase women and once he has them he loses interest and I’m worried that’s what’s happening” “wow” she said then took a deep breath “Tommy is a nice guy Gorgeous a really nice guy but you two have just got engaged you should be excited about today and most importantly you should feel loved” she was right, but I didn’t want to admit how down I actually felt. “I’m just over thinking things I know he loves me but I just have this horrible feeling that I can’t shake” i couldn’t put my finger on why I felt like this and if I was honest I felt strange trying on dresses, I wasn’t sure that I was ready for such a big step. “if you have doubts now Lydia you need to be honest and speak to him, because it will only get worse” i thought talking to your friends about your feelings was supposed to make you feel better not worse and I did love Tommy I just had a feeling in the pit of my stomach that this wasn’t my fairy tail ending, but I loved him and that had to mean something “I don’t have doubts about how I feel about him, I have doubts about how he feels about me” she gently stroked the soft lace on the wedding dress “that’s worse gorgeous, you look so beautiful but so sad. You need to speak to him” I couldn’t think of anything worse “he said he’s staying at a hotel for work tonight, I can’t call him I’m scared of what he’s going to say” she just shook her head “well you know what I’m going to say” she said with her hands on her hips “dump him and give Fran a chance” she said with a giggle “don’t start all that Carm, we’re just friends” “you are more than friends, I know about the time you admitted your feelings to Chris” I could feel my face burn red with embarrassment “then you know that he didn’t feel that way about me. Anyway that was years ago Carmela, a lot has happened since then. Tell me Chris didn’t tell Fran or the big man about that day” “of course not, if he would have told Fran you would be standing here trying on dresses for your wedding to him” all that felt like a life time ago, I was glad that I hadn’t pursued anything with Fran because he was my best friend. Boyfriends come and go but friends are for forever and we have a bond like nobody else in my life. “It’s not like that with him” she looked deflated “it was worth a try, I just know if you you were engaged to him you would feel like the most loved girl in the world” if it was Fran I was engaged too he would be here in a flash if he thought I was unhappy, he would never let me walk around with the weight of the world on my shoulders. He would never have left me the way Tommy had or the way Michael had in the past he would move heaven and earth for me to be happy. But we were only friends, and that’s all it would ever be. I looked at myself in the mirror standing in a beautiful gown in a beautiful room and I felt worthless, who could ever love me I’m damaged goods. “Fran doesn’t look at me like that” I said. Fran thinks I’m damaged goods was all I could think over and over “ok gorgeous but all I’m going to say is this isn’t right” I shrugged my shoulders “I know, but what can I do Carmela” she shook her head and smiled “no I mean this dress isn’t right I’m going to find you something else to try on, but just think about what I said, you need to speak to Tommy” she got up and gave me a hug and wondered outside to find the shop girl. I was alone looking at myself she was right I looked miserable I had tears in my eyes I shouldn’t be feeling like this. I ran my hands across the lace