CHAPTER 7 – HURRIED WORDS
~ THE NEXT
MORNING – LITTRELL HOUSEHOLD, KENTUCKY~
Taymar rose
early to the calls of the two boys beside her. She sighed
quietly and reached to pick Kaleb up from his cot.
“Tay?”
Brian inquired knocking on the door.
The door
slowly opened as he stepped into the room. Taymar,
practically ignoring his presence placed Kaleb on the changing
table the stench of his full nappies permeating in the air.
“Did
you sleep well?” Brian questioned picking a wide awake Eli
up from his crib
“Fine”
Taymar replied softly
“Honey
I really think we need to talk” Brian sighed, the thoughts
Kevin had placed in his head fuming around – was she having
an affair?
“Daddy,
Mommy, Thomas is trying to flush my teddy down the toilet”
Briar squealed running into the room
Taymar
secured the clean nappy onto Kaleb.
“I’ll
get it” Brian smiled awkwardly as he handed Eli to Taymar
~ THE CIRCUS
~
“Are
you Alexander James McLean?” a tall heafty man in a pure
black suite inquired
“Ah
yeah” AJ replied, slightly intimidated
Two mean
came from behind picking AJ up and hauling him quickly into the
back of the waiting limosine. No one seemed to notice
– that or they didn’t care, as the car sped off.
~ 10 MINUTES
LATER ~
AJ was lead
into the hotel room completely blindfolded. As the doors
closed heavily behind him, the blindfold was taken off.
“Don’t
you just hate all this procedure?” A voice purred to the
side of him
He looked
around to see a tall brunette standing in one of the doors ways,
an almost see-through shawl covering her tight black outfit.
Her 15 inch heels patted along the stained wooden floors, covered
in parts with extravagant oriental rugs.
“Wow”
AJ muttered looking around the room in ore
“Leave
us” Kayteline announced looking around at the black suited
bodyguards
“The
SS, who needs em?” she laughed as the hurriedly left the
room
“You’re
the –“
“The
first lady, bingo”
“So
what have I done?”
“Nothing”
Kayteline purred licking her lips “yet”
~ ORLANDO
FLORIDA ~
“You
look good Lance, sexy, sexy man” Lance purred eyeing himself
closely in the full length mirror.
He strutted
around the small apartment room in a floral poodle skirt and
matching cardigan. The heels of his buckled black high
heels tapped in rhythm across the uncarpeted floor as he sulked
around the room, his looked topped off with a blond wig.
“Yo
Lance you in there?” JC called through the door as he
scratched his head hurriedly, the fleas dropping from his head
rapidly
“I wish
you’d stop scratching man, it’s gross” Joey
muttered from the run down couch, a tub of very berry ice cream
in his hands and dripping from his mouth.
“So dat
be gross man” JC cussed starting on his itchy back
“Hey
Chris man, what-ch-a doin?” Joey inquired shoving another
spoon full of ice cream into his mouth
“Nothing”
Chris announced slamming down his black laptop
“Yo
dude, don’t go mental” JC laughed sulking around the
back of Chris
“Get
outta my face man” Chris hissed
“Oh
poor baby” JC mocked fluffing Chris’ unwashed hair
“I mean
it” JC screamed bolting upright from the chair sending it
and JC flying backwards.
~ LATER ON
THAT AFTERNOON - KENTUCKY ~
Kevin and
Brian sat out on the decking, a beer in their hands, as Thomas
played around the grassed area in front of them and Felicity
pushed her dolls pram back and forth Kaleb and Eli were down for
their nap and Taymar had taken Briar to get her hair cut.
“So she
still wont give it to you” Kevin laughed sipping back on the
beer in his hand
“I wish
you wouldn’t put it like, we just haven’t sorted things
out yet, that’s all just a rough patch” Brian replied
sighing loudly
“Yeah,
sure cousin whatever. And your sure you’re not gay? Or
she’s not you know, a butch”
“For
god sakes Kevin, don’t be stupid, I am not gay and my wife
is not a lesbian” Brian snapped
“Fine,
just checking. Then you two just need to get away, go book
a ticket somewhere now and tell her tonight simple”
“Simple?
Ha yeah right” Brian thought to himself.
But Kevin
was right, that was his only option, because if he didn’t
get some soon he was going to become a sniveling wreck. Brian
pulled himself up from the chair, but not before a sudden thought
hit him.
“What
about the kids we cant just leave them” Brian sighed sitting
back down
“I'm
here, I could take some time off work, I’ll babysit them”
Brian burst
out laughing.
“I'm
sorry, that’s just *hahahaha* a funny *hahahaha* thought, I
mean are your serious? *hahahahaha*”
“Actually
Brian I was serious, anyway your parents just live down the road”
“Tay
would never ever go for it”
“Don’t
let her have the chance to argue. Book the ticket now,
leave tonight”
“You’re
right, I'm gonna do that” Brian announced standing back up
and darting inside.
~ AT THE SAME
TIME ~
Meghan had
been called in for another photo shoot on some swimmer or
something, for some sort of billboard, she hadn’t really
been paying much attention – she had other things on her
mind. Her eyes skimmed across the ground as she marched
full speed ahead. In her haste she rammed straight into
someone.
“OhMiGod
sorry” she mumbled all in one breath
She looked up
to see a dark haired guy staring down at her, she’d never
seen him before.
“That’s
okay” he smiled, his semi-crossed eyes focusing on her
“Yeah
well, I should get going” she smiled moving to the side of
him
“Meghan”
he shouted as she began to walk away
She spun
around, shocked that he knew her name.
“Yes?”
“It’s
me Chris” he winked
“Um, I'm
sorry have we met?”
“Yes, at
the church, my names Chris, from the Barber Shop Quartet”
Meghan thought
for a while, then remembered the funny looking guys that all
looked the same and had popped into the church on a number of
occasions.
“Oh right
Chris, hi” she replied
“So how
are you?”
“Um, I'm
fine, but very late, so I really should get going”
“When can
we go out?”
“Huh?”
“For
dinner or something”
“Um, I’ll
call you” she smiled before racing off
Chris smiled
at himself for a while before he realized she didn’t have
his phone number – she couldn’t ring, and nor – he
thought – did she intend to.
~ AT THE SAME
TIME ~
“Well, it’s
been like fun, you know?” BJ smiled as she waved back at
Cindy and Nick
“Sorry to
see you leave” Cindy smiled, extactic she was leaving
“Bye sis,
I’ll see you later” Nick called, trying to catch a
glimpse of himself in the airport windows
“Thank
god she’s left” Cindy muttered to herself as BJ
disappeared down the boarding tunnel
“Did you
say something Cindy?” Nick inquired
“Uh Nope,
lets go home” Cindy responded
“Yeah
uhuh, okay” Nick replied, fixing his hair quickly