Everly’s POV

When I let my talk with Chris go through my mind, I came to only one solution. I had to make a decision about my next steps, and even if I had found my closure, even if just partly because Chris was acting like a pussy, I knew I had to make a final move and decide what to do.

I barely wanted closure anymore because I honestly didn’t want to hear his pathetic, entitled reason for leaving me.

But to my surprise, I realized I still wanted to see him.
Rather, I wanted him to see me with Brian.
I couldn’t wait for him to.

I couldn’t wait for him to see how I dress up for Brian, how I wanted to touch him in public – how I now had heat and passion in my eyes that Chris had never elicited from me before.

I was dying to show him how different I was now that I felt like I was enjoying life instead of just trying to prove to myself that I was. As furious and emotional as I was, I was also damned ready for tomorrow, I could feel the anticipation in my bones.

I was already prepared to enjoy the wedding festivities with Brian. But now I was ready to have fun with our act in a way I hadn’t before.

I could really get used to this, Brian came by early the next morning to pick me up. I didn’t really talk to him about the call, it didn’t matter anyway, did it? Not really…

Brian was being the gentleman, I normally never thought he could be, but honestly I had to rewind that thought. I sadly had never paid too much attention to his ways before, as I maybe should have. Normally I always pointed out his flaws, now I was finally open to seeing the whole package, the whole deal and man what was behind the rock star and year long, kept on distance friend of mine.

“Where are we meeting the rest of the guys?” I asked when Brian started the engine to bring us to the airport.

“Matt and Val meet us at the airport in about 20 minutes, and the rest took an earlier or will take a later flight than us. We will meet up with them at the spa hotel, why?” Brian looked at me from the side, his sunglasses on his nose, hiding his eyes.

“Just curious” I shrugged and looked back on the road. “Are you afraid of being alone with me, or what? I thought you got used to having me around by now?” That sexy little smirk came over Brian thin lips and I grinned as well, patting his knee with my left hand.

“I am not afraid of you, but I need to know when the real acting needs to begin again… with Matt and Val we are safe anyway” I said and with that sentence the small smile fell from Brian’s lips and his hands grab the steering wheel a little tighter.

I frown not really getting why he would react this strongly to the words I said “Is something wrong?” I asked but Brian stays silent, staring at the road his face unreadable, just as he is on stage, Syn Gates mode was on and I didn’t stand a chance to look through it, if he wouldn’t let me.

We entered the plane and sat together with Val and Matt in the back of the plane. The flight wouldn’t take long, and gladly Brian was behaving normal again and we got into talking with Val and Matt easily.

“Are you nervous?” Val whispered next to me and I smiled at her. “I am fine, really.”
As if listening in on my and Val small exchange Brian leaned forward a smile on his face, he waved to the stewardess and who seemed to know what he want without even coming closer, when she came back she handed us drinks and I frowned at the glass with prickling content.

“Birthday toast?” Brian asked me with a smile and touched his glass to mine.
I made a face of surprise “Oh. Sure”
He laughed in a way that made his brown eyes crinkle. “How do you forget your won birthday?”

I looked away and saw Matt and Val in a deep conversation, whispering to each other so I looked back at Brian with a shrug. “Well, its been a bit o a roller coaster lately,” I excused myself, though I knew the real reason.

My birthday was the twenty eight. That was well after the wedding and thank to the uncertainty in my unique circumstances with Brian, I had no interest in thinking about what life would be like after the wedding.

Once upon a time, I lived to think about the future with him, I wanted nothing but live in the now. I wasn’t sure what that said about us as a couple or a fake couple, but I didn’t care to find out.

“Well.” Reaching into his jacket, Brian pulled out a little box with a white bow on it. Nestled under his arm, I looked curiously up at him.

“What is that?”

“A birthday gift”

“Why?”

“Because what kind of boyfriend would I be if I didn’t buy you a birthday gift?” Brian smirked, handing it to me.

“But before you open it, I want to hear what you want for your birthday. Just to see if I came anywhere close with what I bought you.”

Running my finger over the satin ribbon, I smiled. “I’m positive you didn’t get me what I wanted.”
Brian laughed “Little fucking harsh, but what makes you say that?”

“Because I didn’t want anything. I genuinely hadn’t thought about it. But if I did, I would want something that wouldn’t fit in this box,” I said, making Brian look at me curiously and making me smile because he really seemed interested and I was even more confused how fast my heart was beating now, at the thought that Brian was so thoughtful of thinking about my birthday, and making preparations for it as well.

Brian’s POV

I think either Eve hadn’t realized what she said in the car, or it hadn’t effect her the way it did me. I had been a little on edge, because we hadn’t seen her those last couple of days and nights, as much as I wanted to, and then I was mostly pretty much beat from the late night working in the studio, knowing we would be leaving for the wedding soon.

And when Eve’s words hit home, ‘but I need to know when the real acting needs to begin again… with Matt and Val we are safe anyway’

Was it really still just acting for her, because acting had long stopped for me. I wanted her, and wanted her as mine. Her words had stung but I tried to swallow it down, I knew it was Eve’s birthday today and I really didn’t want to break a fight out about where we were standing right now, when we haven’t even arrived at the airport yet, afraid she might let me down completely.

I knew she must be worried about the whole thing, while I was just confident. I had the most beautiful, passionate and funniest woman by my side to show off, while Chris was trying to come back at me? At her… for whatever he thought we had done wrong to him… Is still had no idea, what this was coming from, but we would be finding out pretty soon, wouldn’t we?!

While we were on the plane I watched Eve for a while, and then I patted my inner pocket of my leather jacket, making sure the small box was still in place. I thought it was the right time now, to reveal I wasn’t the inattentive asshole most people thought I was, or was I?!

I always wrote or visited Eve on her birthday, if she had realized it or not, I don’t even know. But I knew I haven’t missed a single one, since Chris had first introduced her to our group of friends.

“Well.” Reaching into my jacket, I pulled out the little box and saw the curious look that Eve was giving me.

“What is that?”

“A birthday gift”

“Why?”

“Because what kind of boyfriend would I be if I didn’t buy you a birthday gift?” I smirked, handing it to Eve’s eager hands.

“But before you open it, I want to hear what you want for your birthday. Just to see if I came anywhere close with what I bought you.”

Eve’s smile when she held the box in her hands was almost enough for the trouble I went through thinking of a fitting gift for her.

“I’m positive you didn’t get me what I wanted.” Her evil smile made me laugh out loud.
“Little fucking harsh, but what makes you say that?”

“Because I didn’t want anything. I genuinely hadn’t thought about it. But if I did, I would want something that wouldn’t fit in this box,”
I looked at her curiously “What’s that?!” I asked and waited for her answer to come.

Eve let her head sink to my shoulder sighing, she was silent for a moment and I thought she maybe wouldn’t answer at all, but I held still anyway, having her this way, this intimate and close, I didn’t dare move away.

“Honestly,” She finally started “I am not used to things being as eventful as they have lately, so I just want a second to myself,” She laughed “I know I am not working right now but it is still been a bit dramatic for me to feel like I am on vacation. There been Chris dickhead friends, and Chris himself yesterday, so definitely a lot going on. I haven’t recognized my own head lately, so peace and quiet would be easily the best birthday gift.”

I nodded “I see. That has to be the most depressing birthday wish I have heard in my life, but to each their own.” I grinned at the face she made, while a tidbit of information had stuck, she had talked to Chris… yesterday? What did her ex, my friend, or not… wanted to tell her? Had he heard about us-

“Shut up.” She gave my chest a shove distracting my thoughts “I mean… If I could really have anything, it would be an island of my own where it was just me for a day – me, a comfy couch and a giant palm tree over it. And a shelf of all the books I have started but haven’t had the time to finish and a bottle of wine.”

“Now we are talking. Bit of weird fucking island, but we are getting somewhere” I had to grin at her idea of a perfect day, maybe a little disappointed at the fact that, I wasn’t in it, but I could also understand her need of having some time for herself, especially after jumping right from Chris, into something unknown and wild with me, where we were still right at the beginning, when it felt like we had been in this for a long time, but haven’t realized it before…

“Can I open my gift now?” She interrupted my thoughts again and sat up a little straighter “Of course.”
She sat up as well, and pulled the ribbon of the box, then she slowly lifted the lid and a huge smile spread over her face and she almost laughed out loud, I could see it on her face.

“Brian, you are an asshole – you know that, right?”
“I do but I don’t mind when you tell me. I’m for some reason into it.” I grinned at her and she rolled her eyes “Yeah, we established the weird fact that angry woman turn you on.”

“I think you know that you turn me on regardless of what you do,” I said, and I saw how Eve fought with her smile.

“Want to try it on for me?” I asked and she lifted the black lace panties out of the small box and closed her eyes with another laugh “I cannot believe you did this…” She shook her head and I grinned “What? When I visited you in the beginning you weren’t wearing much more than panties, and I wanted you having some from me… here” I turned the panties around and showed her the back. Eve gasped seeing the words written all over the backside in bold letters:

‘Property of Brian’.

Notes

Soooo as almost promised...
Here is the chapter before the weekend :P

Two Chapter in one week!

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