Exchanging Favors Chapter 2 _, my name is! – He yelled back. _Hi! I’m. _Don’t you wanna talk in a quite place? _I would love too, I can’t take this anymore. Both left the club and finallysaw the guys face. _WOW! _Wow, or I’m horrible or you saw a ghost. – He said smiling. _No, you’re very handsome and doesn’t look like a farm boy. _Thank you!? How older are you? _19 and you? _I’m, you aren’t from here, are you? _No, I’m from Kentucky, USA. _You said you needed a job, right? _Yeah, because I don’t wanna go back home. _Bad memories? _Family fight, now my money is coming to an end and I don’t have a place to live. _Marry me! – He said serious. _What did you say? – The girl asked scared. _It’s a deal, you’ll have a place to live and I will be free from the girls who only want my money. Everybody will be happy. _I didn’t get it… _It’s gonna be a fake marriage, we can stay marriage for a year sleeping in different bedrooms just to the others think that we are married, got it? You’ll have a year to get a job and won’t have to pay the rent. _God I hope I won’t regret this, but I accept! _So tonight you’ll pick your things and move in to my house. _Wait! Why are you running from the girls who want your money? _I’m famous around here, I was from a band called Blue but now I sing alone. Is that a problem? _No, but now I got it, are you sure you wanna marry me, a girl that you don’t even know? _If you are really interested, in a month we get married and in a month I will know you better. Now can you pick your things? _you are really sure about this? I have nothing to loose but now you, you are famous as you said and you can get any girl you want. Why a rebel without a case that doesn’t even have a place to stay? _Listen, I need this and you’re the right person, we can spend the rest of the night awake talking about us. Can we go pick your things now please? _And your family? They will want to know about me, won’t they? _I’ll tell them that we know each other for a long time and that our relationship was a secret because of the photographers. _Ok, let’s go pick my things at the motel. On that nightandtalked all night long about all the details of their fake marriage and their fake love story, the only physical contact that they would have was demonstrations of love and tenderness in the parties and on the streets only to the people and the photographers to know and the only person who would know all the truth was ’s best friend. On the next morningwas the first to wake up and she did the breakfast and waited forto wake up, and around 11am he woke up and saw his breakfast table ready. _Wow if this is what I got for having a wife at home I should’ve thought about this before. _Don‘t get use to it. ‘Cause my function here is being your wife to the others not for you. And I made the breakfast for us because I don’t like to eat alone. That’s all! _I was just joking with you; my housemaid always makes my breakfast… _Don’t you think she will notice it? _No, she only gets here at 7am, so at 6am you can go to my bedroom. _Cool, can I use your phone? _You don’t need to ask, this is your house now. _I’ll call my older brother, I wanna tell him about the marriage. _Just don’t forget to lie, I’ll go take a shower and I’ll be right back, ok sweetie? _Fine honey…did I ever say that this nicknames are cheesy? _Yeah; all night long. –said going up the stairs. was felling weird about getting married with someone that she met last night, but in her situation that’s was the only good alternative that she had. The girl took the phone and called her parents’ house, for two times her father picked up the phone but she hung up and on the third her brother picked up. _Hello? _Hi, it’s me. _Sis I’m missing you so much! Where are you living? I wanna see you and want that too. _I’m very far from you guys, mom orare in the farm. _is in your bedroom and mommy went out with a friend. Daddy doesn’t talk about you and he took off all your pictures that we had in the house and your bedroom now is an office to. _HeyI’m missing you too, and also the house but can you call ? It’s very quick! _Okay…and! _What? _I love you…phone for you! – The boy yelled dropping the phone on the couch. A few seconds later… _Hi! _How could you possible know that it was me? _Looking at’s face and’s eyes. _Sorry for doing this with you, but I needed to tell you something. _Talk, are you ready to come back home? _No, I’m going to get married I want to see you and the whole family here with me and that you get in the church with me as I know dad will not be here. _You will get married? With who? _With a guy that I met when I got here in London. _London, you’re living in London? _Yeah and we’ll get married next month and will be important to me if you, mom and the boys appeared in this important moment of my life. _you don’t look like a happy bride, why? _When you got here I’ll tell you everything. Give a kiss on everybody for me and tell them that I’m missing them a lot. In two weeks I’ll call you again. _wait… To Be Continued...