Hey, here's the next installment. A bit longer as requested. I've played a lot with where I wanted this story to go and I hope you guys like where it's going. Please remember that I'm new to this so it can get rough at times. And please try not to take the timeline of things to seriously just try to roll with it because I haven't quit mastered timelines yet. Also this isn't the end in case you get worried! Feedback is much loved! βSugarDay
~April~
When I made the move a month and a half ago I arrived to a good job and a completely unlivable apartment. Thankfully Brian lived in the area and offered me his spare room till I fixed up the apartment or found a new place.
There had never been anything romantic between me and Brian but I always had the slight feeling that he wished there was. He finally gave up hope when I went away for college and met Mark. 'Uhg Mark!' I can never get him off my mind it seems, especially now.
Any way I guess that's how I got myself into this uncomfortable position. Turns out Brain hadn't completely given up hope. I'm such an idiot, how did I not see the signs? He refused to come to mine and Mark's wedding for goodness sake!
So here I am in Brian's bed snuggled up in his arms. When I had went into hysterics last night and started crying, I must have cried until I passed out from exhaustion. It's a bit forward of Brain to bring me to his bed. And when I look up to see he's not asleep but staring down at me with a combination of hope and lust I tense up.
This is so awkward for me. What am I suppose to do? Brian has always just been my best friend, almost like a brother. This is bad, really bad.
~Mark~
I broke down and hired a private investigator to find April. I had to head back home but that didn't mean I was going to give up looking, I'd just have someone else do the work for me. As the weeks are stretching on the urgency to find her has just grown more and more for me.
I thought I was angry when she left but nothing compared to the rage I felt when the divorce papers came in the mail. There's not a chance in hell I would ever sign them.
I shake my head at how foolish April is acting. Everything she does just strengthens my resolve, when I get her back I'll tear down every wall ever put up between us. I'll make her see what we mean to each other and make sure she never leaves again.
My phone rings on my desk. "Mark Brown's office."
"Yes, Hello Mr. Brown. It's Larry." Finally the private investigator.
"Hello, Larry. I hope you have good news for me."
"I've got news alright but I don't think your going to like it much Mr. Brown."
"Did you find her?!?"
"Yes sir."
"And???"
"She's living with a man near her childhood town."
"Fax me everything you have, NOW!" I slammed the phone down. The fax machine started to make its annoying noises across the room. I hardly noticed, my face felt hot and my fists where white knuckled.
I threw the closest thing to me across the room, it just happened to be a framed picture of April, the glass broke and it fell to the floor in pieces. Like my heart, shattered pieces on the floor.
The fax machine was finally done and I stormed over to it. On the very top was a picture of her with Brian. That put me on edge I knew all about her "Best Friend" and I didn't like him at all.
She always said they never had anything past friendship but the few times I had met the guy he had that look in his eye, like I stole something from him.
I was on the third page when it was written there clear as day that Brian was who April was living with. I wanted to break something all over again. 'This fucking punk! Does he really think he's just going to steal my wife from me?' He had another thing coming before I would let that happen.
I come across a picture of them hugging on his front door step and knew that I'm going after blood. An image of my April arched naked under Brian as he pounds into her forms I'm my head and I can't shake it off.
I swear if they have slept together I'll break every bone in Brian's body. 'She's mine and only mine, she knows that god damn it!'
I start to pack up everything I'll need in my office, knowing that I won't be back for awhile. And make a quick call to my travel agent to book the next flight.
I speed home to pack for my trip. The last thing I grab is April's engagement ring and wedding band off the table where she left them.
I walk out to the door to my car with a smirk on my face knowing that I'm only hours away from getting April back.
~April~
I try to get up from the bed but Brian tightens his arms around me.
"Brian, let me get up."
He snuggles his face into my hair which makes me tense more. "Mmm, No."
"Brain, seriously! This isn't funny I need to get up."
"Damn it, April. Why can't you ever just let things happen between us? Huh? Were such a good fit together, we have been since childhood."
"I still love my husband, Brian. You know that! And how can you say these things after what I found out last night?"
"You're soon to be ex-husband. And we can raise the baby together." He rubs my flat stomach with a happy look on his face. Like I'll just agree with him!
"It's Mark's baby! Are you crazy? Brian, there's nothing more than friendship between us. You know that!"
He pulls me closer to him and moves like he's going in for a kiss. "April, April, April. There could be more if you would just let there be. You know I'm in love with you."
I look at him astonished for a second but when he comes closer hoping for a kiss, I slap him and struggle out of his arms and off the bed.
"WHAT THE HELL, APRIL?"
He's so loud and looks so angry I shrink away in fear.
"Brian you need to stop with your delusions. I'm not going to be with you! Whether I'm with Mark or not. You're my friend that's all! And I'm absolutely not going to have you raise another mans child with me and pretend they're your own. What are you even thinking?"
He looks at me with determination in his eyes.
"I'm thinking that I love you and you were always supposed to be with me. You just never let me have my chance and married that asshole Mark instead. And now we finally have a chance to be together, I don't care that you're pregnant with his baby. I can look past it just so I can have you. You need support now anyway with a baby on the way. And there's no way I'm letting you go back to fucking Mark, he probably already has other women in his bed anyway."
My face when totally blank, I was at a loss for words. I turned around and walked to the spare bedroom. I grabbed everything I had with me and started shoving it into my suitcase.
I heard Brian come into the room behind me. He grabbed my hands to stop me from packing. "Don't touch me, Brian."
"April, You can't leave."