He Called Me Kid. Disaster Engagement Series, Book 4. Lynn Smith

Episode 3

…Lydia was stunning from head to toe. Her hair was long and over one shoulder and she was wearing a really short silver dress that hung on her perfect t**s, she didn’t see us but she looked as if she was floating on air, she batted her eye lashes and bit her full pout as she looked around the party. I looked at Tommy and he was practically drooling over her. She stopped on the stairs and bent over to fix her shoe strap and I could nearly see down her dress. She stood up straight and fixed her dress and she looked incredible. Her smooth brown legs had always turned me on. I used to sit next to her and try and brush the back of my hand against her skin and pretend it was just an accident. But the truth was touching her perfect skin sent a bolt of electricity through me like nothing else. When she got to the bottom step she looked over at me and she let out a little scream of excitement and ran towards me. I was on cloud nine that she was happy to see me, she jumped into my arms “Francis I’ve missed you sunshine” she said and kissed my cheek. I lifted her up as I cuddled her she felt amazing. I could feel her soft skin as I brushed my hand against her bare back. She let out a giggle as I put her down. She looked deep into my eyes and said “Francis you look so handsome” I felt like her big beautiful eyes penetrated my soul. I could actually feel myself starting to blush. I was just standing there holding her and smiling like a lunatic and I knew I had to pull it together, I couldn’t stand there in front of Tommy and the big man like a love struck teenager, they would never let me live it down. But I wanted to grab her and take her away from the party and have her all to myself. Then she looked at Tommy. He looked pale it was like he’d seen a ghost. “Hi Tommy” she said with a huge smile and hugged him. “Hi” was all he could say. He looked her up and down “you look beautiful” he said “thanks honey” she beamed “what’s wrong? you both look really nervous?” She said looking at me and then back to Tommy “Nothing. where’s John I’d like to meet him” I said “he’s not here, he has a meeting, if he was here you would be the first one to know about it” she said running her hand through my hair “what does that mean Gorgeous” I asked “you’ll see when you met him” she said with a sexy smile. Stacey came over and handed her a glass of wine “here’s your drink Lyds,” and she hugged her “it’s so nice to have you back but I wish John was here” she said. I forgot Stacey and Carmela had met him a few times over the years and they both thought he was amazing, Lydia rolled her eyes “that’s all everybody ever says when he’s not with me! ‘where is he? ‘Where’s John?’ It’s like I’m a huge disappointment” she said throwing her hands up in the air “you know what I mean” said Stacey and Lydia nodded her head. What did she mean? Carmela came over “I’m going to head home and let Chris come to the party, our nanny is sick” she kissed Lydia then kissed Stacey “oh that’s a shame honey but promise me you will come to my house tomorrow for a barbecue, Johns bought you special wine from Italy you said you liked” Carmela clutched her chest like she was really touched he had remembered “he’s so sweet, I wouldn’t miss it, to tell you the truth I would stay here longer, but Johns not here so what’s the point” she said with a giggle “I promise he will be there tomorrow” said Lydia. What was everyone’s obsession with this guy John. Tommy looked totally uncomfortable, I felt bad for him, here everybody was going on about her boyfriend right in front of him and I couldn’t help but be annoyed too. “so what is it with your boyfriend that everybody wishes he was here” I asked. Carmela rubbed my arm, she knew how I felt about Lydia and that I would be jealous of John “He’s just really funny” said Carmela and kissed my cheek “see you tomorrow Fran, look after Chris for me” she said and made her way outside. She totally ignored the fact that Tommy was standing with us. She had never really liked him and then when she thought he had cheated on Lydia she despised him. A guy came over dressed in black wearing dark glasses “Miss Knight I have your jacket” he put a jacket over her shoulders, he must be one of her new security “thanks Danny” she said “Miss Knight there’s a man over there that wants to speak to you his name is Jose” he pointed at a famous designer I recognized from a fashion event I had went to with Joanna. Lydia looked panicked “I don’t want to speak to that guy he’s a total creep, all he does at stare at my t**s and he keeps asking me out. Keep him away from me please” he nodded his head “yes Miss Knight. Sir Steel has organized a surprise for you later” Lydia and this guy Danny started to uncontrollably laugh “Danny seriously I don’t care what it is, do not let anyone or anything in here, knowing him it will be something mental” Danny was still laughing “I’m sorry miss knight I don’t have a choice, I just wanted to give you a heads up” she was still laughing “I’m going to kill him if it’s embarrassing” “it will be” said Danny. “He asked me to film it and send it to him” she turned to us “He drives me nuts and he’s not even here. He does stuff like this to me all the time” Stacey was killing herself laughing “what like?” asked Tommy “last year he put cling film over the toilet seat and I peed on it then I slipped on my own pee, the best part was we were on our way to a wedding and I fell on the floor in my beautiful new dress and broke my two fingers, they haven’t been right since, i was going to kill him, but it was funny. Then last week he decided to hide under our bed in New York and I thought he was out. He must have stayed there for about an hour before I put the light out and he jumped out on me, I was livid” I was confused as Stacey laughed uncontrollably, he just looked like a big scary billionaire to me. “he doesn’t look the type to like a practical joke” I said before I could stop myself “oh because he’s Sir John Steel, businessman of the year, no he’s actually an over grown teenager, I wonder what he’s going to do to me tonight? he’s such a bully” she said with a scared look on her face looking around the room. “Let’s forget about my impending doom, where’s Joanna? I can’t wait to meet her” this was it I was going to have to introduce them, I was just glad Joanna wasn’t too drunk yet. “she’s outside with Lilly” said Tommy. I could tell he was annoyed about how everyone apparently thought her new boyfriend was basically the best guy they had ever met, that’s why he was throwing it out there that he had a girlfriend too. “Oh Lilly? is that your girlfriend?” She asked “but I thought Lillie’s made you sneeze?” she said with a smile and he laughed, it was the first time I had seen him relax a little since he had got there. “that’s what I always say” he said with a chuckle “let’s go outside gorgeous and meet the girls” Tommy and I went out first” Lilly stood up when she seen Lydia she looked totally intimidated she was looking at Tommy then straight back to Lydia. “Lydia this is Lilly” said Tommy “Hi” she said in a little timid voice but Lydia gave her a huge smile, and grabbed Lilly for a hug “Lilly you are so beautiful, Tommy how did you manage to get a girlfriend this beautiful?” Lilly blushed “thanks Lydia I can’t believe I’m meeting you, your songs are amazing I listen to your album constantly” Lydia gave her another huge smile “thanks honey, what is it that you do Lilly? You must be a model” Lilly blushed “Yeah I model for catwalk shows I only work a few months a year but I enjoy it” “that’s amazing” beamed Lydia and I could tell that she wasn’t being fake she actually liked her. Lilly was shy and didn’t say much but she was a nice girl. Then Joanna stood up and practically pushed poor Lilly out of her way. “Hi, I’m Joanna” she said in an obnoxious voice. “You’ve probably heard all about me” Lydia didn’t hug her “it’s nice to meet you Joanna” she said “I’ve heard a lot about you Lydia, in fact Franny always talks about you and the band all the time.” Lydias head spun around to me “FRANNY” she said and started to laugh and I couldn’t blame her. “What’s so funny?” Snapped Joanna “I’m sorry, but Franny, I love it” she slapped my back as she giggled “big man get FRANNY another drink” she shouted as the big man came out to see us. The big man was pissing himself and put his arm around her waist “Franny isn’t drinking Gorgeous” she looked confused for a second then went straight back to making fun of me “come on Franny have a drink” although I was annoyed they were taking the piss out of me, I was more annoyed at Joanne because I had told her a million times not to call me that. “shut up you two” I said with a smile as they both carried on laughing “fancy a smoke gorgeous?” Asked the big man and she gave him a petted lip “no a I’m not allowed to smoke anymore, it was starting to affect my voice. But if you have a smoke can you blow it directly into my face” she closed her eyes and made a s*x moan that made my d**k twitch “the smell gets me through the dark emptiness of not smoking” I looked at Tommy and he was unashamedly staring at her t**s. Joanna didn’t look happy, I knew she would be jealous of Gorgeous. Lydia was perfect and she was a b***h so it made sense that they wouldn’t get on. “So Joanna where are you from?” “I’m a New Yorker but I came out here to LA to study fashion design ten years ago and decided to stay” that’s what I loved about Lydia she could talk to anyone about anything “who do you design for?” she asked “I was a buyer for a department store chain but I’m in between jobs at the moment” Joanna had lost her job just before I had met her and as far as I could see she wasn’t desperate to find another one any time soon. Her parents were well off so they kept her in a life style she was accustomed too. But I got the impression on more than one occasion that she was looking for me to step in and look after her which wasn’t going to happen. Our relationship was a joke, and I couldn’t see a future with her. For one thing she depended on alcohol and insisted that she didn’t have a problem. She would either fall down drunk or cry or pick a fight with me or flirt with guys. I would always try to end things after she drank too much but the next day she would be upset and apologetic and she reminded me of my mum. She was sad and an alcoholic and I found it hard to walk away from her because of that. Also I needed a girlfriend so I didn’t look like a total loser in front of Lydia. Tonight she was drinking cocktails and I just wondered what she was going to do next. “There’s that designer Jose. Do you know him?” Lydia asked “I’ve been to a few of his shows, he’s very talented” said Joanna “he’s a bit of a creep but I should introduce you to him” Joanna smiled which was rare “I would love that” she said but I knew Joanna was getting drunker by the minute and I didn’t want her to embarrass me in front Lydia “maybe later Gorgeous” I said and Joanna gave me a dirty look, then Lydia started to scream and jumped behind the big man “what the f**k” he shouted, there was a man walking towards her dressed as a clown. Lydia was terrified of clowns her body guard Danny had his phone up and was filming her as the clown danced towards her “John said you would like to meet me” he said in a scary voice. She was screaming and loads of people at the party were laughing at her she started to run away but the clown started to chase her. She ran into a corner and the clown came towards her she was covering her eyes I thought she was crying but she was letting out playful screams as the clown pretended to tickle her. Then she punched him in the balls, the clown dropped to his knees and she looked around then she spotted Danny was filming with his phone, she looked right into the camera, “John! I’m going to kill you for this when I get home” everybody was laughing and Danny went over and helped the clown to his feet and into the house. She cuddled into the big man for a bit of comfort and pressed her face onto his chest and he was loving it. He had a smug look on his face he always had when she was close to him “I’m sorry about that Joanna what were you saying?” she said dusting herself off. Joanna looked shocked and Stacey came out of the house laughing “was that John that set you up? he’s hilarious” “he knows how much I hate clowns so he constantly dresses up as them and hides all over the house jumping out of cupboards to scare me, he’s such an i***t. Well he won’t be laughing when I blue ball him for this” we were all laughing except for Tommy. He didn’t look impressed “what does that mean?” asked Tommy “are you going to punch him in the nuts too” he said with a laugh “no I withhold s*x until his balls are blue for payback and he hates it” Tommys face dropped he looked devastated that she had mentioned s*x with John “I hope Tommy doesn’t do stuff like that to you Lilly” “no he doesn’t thank god” Every time Lilly spoke it was like a whisper. “John sounds funny, I would love to meet him” said Lilly. “Oh you should come to my house tomorrow for a barbecue” I thought it was nice of Lydia to include Lilly, after all she was her ex boyfriends new girlfriend but clearly Lydia was totally over all that had happened with Tommy even if he wasn’t. “I would love that” said Lilly “can we make it Tommy?” She asked “Yeah if thats ok with Lydia” “of course the more the merrier, Joanna I hope you can make it too” Joanna looked her up and down “yes alright but I hope this John man doesn’t run around dressed in a clown outfit he sounds so adolescent” Stacey and Lydia looked at each other and laughed then Stacey said “you won’t say that when you meet him Joanna he’s an Adonis” “oh right” she said “and a charmer” said Lydia. “Well I look forward to meeting him” a few hours passed and Gorgeous worked her way around the party saying hello to friends she hadn’t seen in a while. I stood in the corner clutching my non alcoholic beer like a loser watching her every move. She was beautiful and I couldn’t take my eyes off her. Every now and then she would wave over at me or make stupid faces when no one else was looking and it reminded me of when we were kids. As usual Joanna ended up really drunk and she picked a fight with a girl that had the same sunglasses as her. She accused the girl of stealing them but when Stacey pointed out that Joanna had her sunglasses on top of her head she started to cry in front of everyone. That was my que to get the two of us out of there before it really kicked off. I took Joanna by the elbow and told her we were leaving. I got all the way through the kitchen out through the house and out to the car before I noticed Lydia was behind me “is everything ok Fran?” She asked. Although I was livid with Joanna I stoped in my tracks and put on a fake smile “yeah everything is fine a girl just upset her, I’m going to take her home” Lydia looked at Joanna “are you ok Joanna?” she asked gently. But by now Joanna was wasted and her hair was stuck to her tears. Lydia looked at me as if she was asking what the hell I was doing with her. And if she would have asked me I would have told her the truth that I had no idea why I put up with her bullshit. “Take care getting home guys, call me tomorrow Fran. And don’t forget about the barbecue” she said stepping away from us. She knew what I was like and that I was trying to stay calm but I was about to explode so I didn’t blame her for backing off “Yeah I will call you tomorrow Gorgeous” I said desperate to get Joanna away from her before she did anything else to embarrass me. “Stop calling her gorgeous” snapped Joanna “she’s not even that pretty” Lydia just looked at me and giggled, I closed my eyes and shook my head and said “well I think she’s f*****g beautiful” Lydia gave me a wink and went back to the party without another word. I took Joanna home to her apartment and put her to bed. She was drunk and rambling on about something but I couldn’t make her out. I sat at the edge of her bed with my head in my hands thinking about this f*****g barbecue and how I could get out of it. I was dreading meeting this guy John. After all he was the prick that stole my Lydia’s heart.