Chapter 9 Truths Exposed

Chapter 9 Truths Exposed
Keith picked up his phone and called her in her office. “Hello.” Elizabeth answered.

“I need to see you in my office.” Keith said huskily.

Elizabeth did not pick up on Keith’s nuance and responded “OK I’ll be right there.”

Keith was disappointed that Elizabeth did not understand what he was doing. He however took great pleasure in knowing that he would let her know as soon as she got there.

His daydreaming was interrupted by Grace yelling and a man’s voice arguing with her. He looked up and saw that Grace was trying to stop Paul from going into his office to no avail.

“Oh what the hell?” Keith asked himself.

“He got up and told Grace it was OK and to just go back to her desk. He then walked back into his office and Paul followed, Keith sat down at his desk.

“What the hell are you doing here?” he demanded.

Paul reached into his pocket and pulled out a small piece of paper, and he handed it to Keith. Keith took it and looked down at it; it was a check for one point five million dollars.

“What is this?” Keith asked.

“I made a huge mistake, and I am giving you your money back.” answered Paul.

“Even if I took the money back, you wouldn’t get Elizabeth back.” Keith then handed the check back to Paul, then added irked “And stop hanging out across the street from Elizabeth’s place.”

“I do not want the money anymore, and you do not know I couldn’t get her back. Paul replied, then defended himself “I do not hang out across the street.”

“She is with me now. and she does not want you. She barely wanted you when she had you” Keith said smugly.

“Oh yea, you are that great huh?” Paul asked amused.

“Yea.” Keith said matter-of-factly. “And I saw you outside her place twice now; if I see you outside there again I am going to have to take care of the problem. You can go now.”

“I am not going anywhere.” Paul snapped back.

Keith chortled “Look she barely wanted you when she had you, she sure as hell does not want you now. I paid you to leave so leave.”

“I made a mistake, I know that now. If I could do it over again I would not take that cheque. You just floated a million dollars in my face knowing that it would be tempting and barely gave me a chance to think about it.” answered Paul.

Keith snorted “Really? Huh, because I am being offered one point five million dollars for Elizabeth now and I am not taking it.”

“You already have it.” retorted Paul.

Keith responded with “Yea, but if I did not, I still would not take it.”

Paul was getting a little uncomfortable and started fidgeting. He moved his weight from his right foot over to his left foot, which adjusted how he was standing. With Paul moving Keith could now see through his slightly open door into the main office, he saw Elizabeth standing there looking shocked and angry. He jumped off of his seat onto his feet, as Elizabeth turned around to walk away. Paul had followed Keith’s glance and saw Elizabeth as she was leaving, he reacted quickly and ran after her.

Elizabeth went into her office slamming the door behind her. She went over to her desk and sat in her chair. She put her hands on her knees then bent over to hold her head in them. She started breathing really heavily she could not believe what she had just heard. She only caught the end of the conversation but knew she had heard enough.

Elizabeth sat there with her head in her hands; it was not long before she heard a light tapping at the door. She sat up quickly and looked at the door. She was grateful the door was not clear so that whoever was on the other side could not see her at this particular moment. She had decided not to answer the door. She hoped that whoever was at the door would just go away. Elizabeth was disappointed when the light tapping did not stop. Elizabeth was determined in her stubbornness and refused to open the door.

“Elizabeth, please let me in so I can explain.” Paul interjected.

“Go away.” Elizabeth said scornfully.

Paul turned the doorknob, opened the door, and entered her office anyway, he looked around it was smaller than he had imagined. “Hey, I never saw your office before. It is nice.”

Elizabeth looked directly at him and said “I don’t care. I meant it before go away.”

“No, not until I explain.” responded Paul.

At that moment Keith came in to her office too, he closed the door behind him.

“Are you serious?” Elizabeth asked annoyed. “I need both of you to just leave. Right now.”

Keith looked at her with his puppy dog eyes and said “Elizabeth I know you’re mad but I am not sorry. I wanted you and there was nothing I would not do to be with you.”

“Leave Keith.” Elizabeth demanded.

Keith’s heart sank, it took him a few seconds to regain his composure, but when he did he stood tall and walked out of her office. It was just Elizabeth and Paul in Elizabeth’s office, Paul took Keith’s cue and closed the door when Keith was gone.

“Thank you. I am glad that you see him for who he is.” said Paul.

“Who’s that?” asked Elizabeth.

“An asshole.” responded Paul.

Elizabeth retorted “Really cause I asked him to leave once and he is gone I have asked you to leave twice and you are still here.”

“Are you serious, you are going to act like he is a good guy?” Paul asked surprised.

“Maybe he is not but, he is better than you.” answered Elizabeth.

“He paid one point five million dollars to have your boyfriend break up with you.” Paul stated in a matter of fact way.

“That you took.” Elizabeth came back with.

“Yea you’re right, and I have regretted it since I watched you literally walk out of my life. I came here to give it back. I do not want the money, I want you back, I love you.” confessed Paul.

“It’s too late. I don’t love you. I am not even sure if I ever did love you. I started liking Keith when I was with you, how can a person start liking someone while in love with someone else” Elizabeth admitted.

Paul was disheartened by Elizabeth’s confession. He silently and solemnly turned around opened the door and walked out. Elizabeth felt horrible it was not her intention to hurt him, but she knew she had to be honest with him so that he knew that there was no chance.

Once Paul had left Elizabeth went to Keith’s office, the door was open and she saw him sitting at his desk looking down reading something. She walked into his office she assumed that she was more silent than she realized she was since Keith evidently did not take note that she had entered the room. She cleared her throat to get his attention, to angry to say actual words to him.

Keith looked up, saw Elizabeth, then got up and walked past her and closed the door.

“What are you doing?” Elizabeth asked.

Keith answered “I don’t know what is going to happen but I know I do not want anyone else to see or hear us.”

Elizabeth snorted then said “OK.”

Keith just stood there staring at her “Are you expecting something from me?” Elizabeth asked trying to break his stare.

“So are you and Paul back together now?” asked Keith genuinely frightened that she took Paul back and was there to break up with him.

Elizabeth laughed, and then Keith asked “This is funny to you?”

“A little, you look so scared.” Elizabeth laughed.

“I am scared I went through a lot to finally get you. I don’t want to lose you I just got you.” Keith answered.

“Yea a million and a half dollars.” Elizabeth quipped.

“So, what happened? Are you and Paul.” Keith was saying, when Elizabeth cut him off. “I am not getting back together with Paul.”

“OK so what did you two need to talk about alone in your office?” asked Keith.

Elizabeth laughed “I just did that to get to you.”

Keith shrugged “Well you did.”

“Don’t worry, I just spent those couple of minutes telling him that I would not get back together with him, and that I do not love him.” reassured Elizabeth.

“Really.” Keith crowed.

“Really, I don’t want him, I want you. I do not know how to take what you did. On the one hand it is a huge compliment on the other it implies that I am a hooker, so I do not know how I should be feeling, but I know I definitely got anger in there.” explained Elizabeth.

“It is just the one hand, nothing but a compliment.” Keith walked over to her and took her hand and brought it to his face. She caressed his face for a second then pulled it back and slapped him as hard as she could.

“Shit!” Keith busted out shocked that she had just done that, still he was impressed that she had it in her.

“OK now I feel better.” said Elizabeth. Curious she asked “Did you call me into your office because Paul was here and you wanted me to hear that?”

Keith was rubbing his cheek where she had slapped him, when he responded “No that was just poor timing. Glad that you feel better cause I do not.”

“Good.” Elizabeth smirked. “So what are you reading?”

Keith was confused then remembered that he was looking down at the notes on his desk when she came in “Oh, I wasn’t actually reading.”

“Oh OK. So why did you call me in here earlier?” Elizabeth asked thinking there was still some work to do.

Keith answered her by bending down and kissing her, Elizabeth kissed him back and moaned “Oh”.

Keith the whispered “I missed you.”

Keith went over to his windows and closed the blinds down. Elizabeth walked over to him grabbed his hand and guided him over to his desk. At his desk she pushed him down onto his chair. She sat at the edge of his desk put her foot up on his leg, and pulled down her underwear from under her skirt remembering a fantasy Keith had told her about. She then got off the desk and turned around. Keith pulled a condom out of his wallet and unzipped his pants then pulled them down and let them and his boxers fall to his ankles. He put the condom on and bent Elizabeth over his desk, then he put himself inside of her.

Elizabeth loved the feeling of Keith and was moaning in pleasure, Keith reminded Elizabeth to be quiet. Although he loved that he was the reason she was unable to contain her moans of pleasure. Elizabeth tried to stifle her pleasure but was having a difficult time. Keith pulled her up so that she was standing in front of him and covered her mouth with his hand to stifle her screams. Elizabeth giggled at her desperate move to keep her quiet. Elizabeth quickly built up to climax and erupted, Keith continued riding her until his own peak.

Keith took his hand from Elizabeth’s mouth, and brought it down to cup her breast, and held her tightly against him.

Elizabeth was finally getting her own car, she was sick of having to rely on public transportation, cabs, or her boyfriend to get around. Lately She felt like she was neglecting her friendship with Davina, so she brought her along to the dealership to help her pick her new car.

Elizabeth wanted to get to the dealership at ten o’clock, so she made sure to tell Davina to meet up her at nine o’clock. Elizabeth got there at ten after ten and was surprised when she saw Davina already standing there.

“Hey” Elizabeth called out.

“Hey? I have been here for half an hour, where have you been?” Davina asked irritated.

Elizabeth smirked; Davina asked “What?”

Elizabeth explained “Sorry it is just funny that you are annoyed that I am late when you are always late.” Davina still looked confused “I told you nine thinking that you would not show up until after ten.”

“Ah you lied to me thinking I would show up late.” said Davina.

“Well technically you were late, but it doesn’t matter.” replied Elizabeth.

“OK let’s just go shop for cars then. Do you know what you want or what you are looking for.” asked Davina.

“Nope, and nope.” laughed Elizabeth.

“Alright let’s go!” replied Davina sarcastically.

They went into the car lot of the dealership, started walking around and looked at cars, Elizabeth had no idea what she was doing, she knew nothing about cars nor had she ever bought one. She did not know what to look for, how to know which would be best in case of an accident or, which car would be best on gas. She knew Davina knew nothing about cars either, so she would be no help. They just walked around aimlessly, pointing out the ones they thought were the prettiest.

Davina was getting bored she did not care to do one thing for an extended period of time, unless it was shopping for herself.

So she started a conversation “So, how is it going with you and Keith?”

Elizabeth beamed “It is going great.”

“Oh yea that is so great. So how long are you going to make him wait?” Davina asked slyly.

Elizabeth blushed “I didn’t.”

“Oh wow? Really why not?” Davina wondered aloud.

Elizabeth admitted “Because I didn’t want to wait, not with him. Besides it is not like I just met him I have known him for months now.” Then Elizabeth added “I probably could of done it when I first met him though.”

Davina amused laughed. “Well good I am happy for you, you needed to get laid.”

“I won’t stop getting laid; we can’t keep our hands to ourselves. Just talking about it is making me want to go to his place.” Elizabeth commented.

“Wow really?” Davina asked surprised.

“Yea, but aside from that I do want to move slowly in all other aspects of the relationship.” said Elizabeth.

“You have to get over your fear, you can jump in. Just make sure he is the right guy to do so with. Not everyone is going to be like Eric.” Davina said trying to quiet Elizabeth’s fears.

“I know, yea, you are right. But to be fair I was right not to jump in with Paul.” responded Elizabeth.

“Yes you were.” confirmed Davina. “What does that tell you, you have good instincts?”

They walked past a black dodge charger, and Elizabeth immediately fell in love with it. “This is it, this is my new car.” Elizabeth exclaimed.

“OK good car buying, we have no idea what we are doing or if this is a good car to buy or not but let’s get a dealer.” joked Davina.

Still, Davina went and got a dealer to show Elizabeth the car, because she knew Elizabeth well enough to know that she decided on something that was it. Elizabeth and the dealer hammered out the details of the deal, and Elizabeth signed all the paperwork. Once all the paperwork was signed, Elizabeth was disappointed to learn that she had to wait to get insurance before she could drive the car off the lot. But she was still excited that she bought her first car.

After they had completed the transaction Davina took Elizabeth out to lunch to celebrate. They went to a nice French restaurant that was near the dealership. Elizabeth had not eaten a lot of French food, Davina loved to make her try new things. Elizabeth used to hate it she always feared that she would not like anything she was newly introduced to. Now she loved it because it offered variety into her life, and she found herself enjoying the different and new things Davina introduced her to.

Davina ordered so many things that Elizabeth would have never thought to order. She ordered escargots, pigeon, mutton, and quail. Elizabeth was disappointed as she found that she was not enjoying any of it. Elizabeth tried to enjoy it but she could not, it just did not taste good to her. However Davina ordered macaroons and crème brulee for dessert and she loved that.

After lunch Davina had signed up for a circus class she begged Elizabeth to go with her. Elizabeth did not want to go because she knew she would not be any good doing circus tricks. Davina was relentless so Elizabeth reluctantly agreed to go. The class taught mostly to do aerial tricks on an aerial hoop, juggling, riding a tiny tricycle, and they were shown some clown gags. Elizabeth ended up having a good time; she never grasped anything she was taught though. Davina however mastered it all so well. Elizabeth almost believed that Davina was in the circus.

They finished with the class when Davina asked “So what are you doing now?”

“I have to get ready to go out with Keith.” Elizabeth responded “What are you doing?”

“Nothing.” answered Davina.

“Hey you should come with us.” said Elizabeth.

“Oh no. But, thank you, I don’t want to be a third wheel.” Davina answered.

“No I meant with that guy you are dating.” said Elizabeth.

“Oh yea, I stopped dating him.” Davina noted.

“Oh seriously why? what happened?” Elizabeth asked as a caring friend asks.

Davina answered “He was boring, and I was bored with him. There is this guy Darren I am into but I don’t think he is into me.”

“Really? Do you have his number?” Elizabeth asked devilishly.

“No.” Davina lied.

Elizabeth knew she was lying so she grabbed her purse from her. She fished around in her purse while Davina tried fruitlessly to get her purse back from Elizabeth. Elizabeth found Davina’s phone. Davina grabbed her purse back but Elizabeth had already had her phone in her hand. Elizabeth searched her contacts list and found Darren’s number then called him.

Darren answered, Elizabeth said hello then introduced herself to him. She explained to him that she was Davina’s friend then asked if he would not mind going on a double date with them. Darren had enthusiastically agreed. Elizabeth hung up the phone then told Davina about their conversation. She told her that Darren wanted to go out with them and was especially excited to be going out with Davina.

Davina was angry at Elizabeth “Why did you do that?”

“Why didn’t you, I am surprised at your lack of self-esteem. You normally just go after what you want.” said Elizabeth.

“I go after what I want if I know I will get it.” explained Davina.

“Oh, I did not know that, but obviously you can have him since he wants to go out with you. So I did not do a bad thing, but I am sorry.” Elizabeth conceded.

“Your right, thank you.” Davina realized excitedly “And I accept your apology. Now let’s go I have to shower after that class and before dinner.” Davina responded.

“Yea, I have to shower too.” answered Elizabeth.

Davina drove Elizabeth home. A couple of hours later Keith came to pick Elizabeth up, he got there fifteen minutes early so, Elizabeth was still busy getting ready. Elizabeth ran to the door and quickly let him in then ran back to the bathroom. Keith of course took the opportunity to follow her and join her in the bathroom where he took full advantage of her nudity.

He started kissing her shoulder and whispered “I love these shoulders, I love your body.” Elizabeth moaned, Keith kissed her neck, and then he said “I love you.”

Elizabeth surprised, stood rigid, then turned around to face him and she asked quietly “What?”

Keith looked pleased and repeated “I love you.”

After Elizabeth heard it again she just stood there, still like a statue. Keith was starting to worry about her.

“You don’t have to say it back I just wanted to say it to you.” He bent down and pecked her on the lips, then turned and walked away.

After Keith left Elizabeth was still stuck like stone. She did she had a million thoughts going through her mind. She tried to just get ready and ignore her thoughts but they were too prevalent in her mind, so she got ready through them.

Elizabeth was done with her hair and make-up she was just getting her dress on, when Keith came into her room and interrupted her solitude when he said questioningly “Hey your friend is here.”

“Oh yea shoot I forgot to tell you I invited her and the guy she likes to dinner with us.” Elizabeth stated, and then asked “Is that alright?”

“Yea.” Keith answered solemnly.

“Sorry I didn’t think you’d have a problem with it.” said Elizabeth.

“I don’t” replied Keith.

“Are you sure cause it seems like you do.” Elizabeth observed.

“That’s not my problem.” Keith mumbled.

Elizabeth felt hurt knowing that Keith meant that she was his problem. She was going to ask him to help her with her zipper since he was there but, now she did not want to bother him. He left the room, closed the door behind him, and then Elizabeth embarrassingly struggled to get her zipper up by herself.

She was in her room for ten minutes trying to pull her zipper up; she gave up and fell back onto her bed. Davina came in just then; she saw Elizabeth lying down on her bed then questioned “What are you doing?”

“Giving up.” responded Elizabeth.

“What?” Davina asked.

“I cannot get the zipper on the back of my dress to go up to secure the dress on my body, so I am giving up.” Elizabeth told Davina.

“Oh, get up I’ll help you pull up your zipper.” Davina offered. Elizabeth got up and turned around, Davina pulled her zipper up. Davina asked “Why didn’t you ask one of us to come and help you?”

“Well I think Keith is mad at me right now and I didn’t think to ask you. Thank you, now I will just get my shoes on and we can go. Is Darren here?” Elizabeth inquired.

“No he is going to meet us at the restaurant.” Davina informed Elizabeth.

Elizabeth started to walk out of her room, when Davina stopped Elizabeth

“Wait why do you think Keith is mad at you? And is that going to cause a problem tonight? Cause I know this is selfish, but it’s the first time I am going out with Darren and I do not want there to be, you know, drama” Davina inquired.

“There is no drama, he is just upset because he told me he loves me and I stood there still and said nothing. He said I didn’t have to say it back but I think that he did want me too, otherwise I am sure we would be fine.” explained Elizabeth.

“Hmm, well maybe he just psyched himself up and said he didn’t care if you said it but really he did want you too. When you didn’t say it back it upset him more than he thought it would. How he feels about you not saying it back to him doesn’t matter, what does matter is whether you do or do not you love him. Do you?” Davina asked.

Davina was trying to soothe things over because she wanted the night to be perfect, but mostly she was being there emotionally for her friend. Elizabeth knew this, and she loved that she had such a good friend in Davina.

Elizabeth thought about it carefully and replied “I don’t know, I am definitely moving toward that.”

“Can I tell you what I think?” asked Davina.

“Of course.” Elizabeth told her, surprised she had to ask.

“OK, well I think that you do love him. I mean, like you started liking him when you were dating someone else, who you had no problem saying I love you too. I think you are just too scared to be in love for real because of Eric, but I don’t think you have to be scared with Keith. If you keep letting your past hold you back then you’ll never be able to move forward. Now I am not saying you have to tell him you love him just don’t be scared too if you do.” Davina expressed to Elizabeth.

Elizabeth hugged Davina and said “Thank you and I don’t think I was in love with Paul. I just convinced myself that I did I was because I was feeling guilty about my feelings for Keith.”

“Yea, I never thought you loved him.” Davina laughed. “Even when you told me you did.”

“Really, how did you figure that out?” asked Elizabeth.

Davina laughed again” Because you followed it up with ‘I want to tear my bosses clothes off.’ That kind of made it obvious, well, to me anyway.”

“Oh yea I guess there were some obvious signs.” Elizabeth confessed, relieved to admit that to Davina.

They walked out into the living room, Elizabeth saw Keith sitting on her couch, and he was so present and handsome. She loved how confident he always was it made him that much more appealing. She smiled at him, he had turned when he heard the sound of the door opening, he saw the girls coming through and stood up, ready to leave.

Elizabeth realized that she should introduce them “Davina this is Keith, Keith this is Davina.”

“Yea we met.” Keith said.

“Oh yea that makes sense.” Elizabeth realized out loud.

“OK so let’s go.” said Keith.

He walked to the door, opened it and held it open for Elizabeth and Davina to walk through. Elizabeth turned to lock the door when Keith through and closed it behind him. Keith walked right past her and went downstairs. Elizabeth looked at Davina who looked concerned at Keith’s passive aggressive manner toward Elizabeth. Elizabeth mouthed ‘sorry’ to her. Davina shook her head as if to gesture that she did not blame her.

They silently went downstairs and met up with Keith in his car. The silence continued on the drive to the restaurant, with every passing second Elizabeth could feel the tension mounting.

They finally arrived at the restaurant, Darren was already there waiting for them. It was not long before they were seated; Keith used his persuasion to change the reservation from two to four. They sat down, Keith and Elizabeth sat beside each other, although Elizabeth felt as though Keith was not happy about it.

Davina and Darren sat next to each other across from Elizabeth and Keith. The waiter brought them their menus then asked if they wanted anything to drink. Elizabeth decided to order a martini having a feeling that she would need a lot alcohol for this particular outing.

Everyone was silent, Keith because he was mad at Elizabeth, Elizabeth because she knew Keith was mad at her, and Davina because she knew they were fighting. Elizabeth was feeling bad because she wanted Davina and Darren to talk to each other but she and Keith were making it too uncomfortable for them. So she reached under the table and grabbed Keith’s hand to hold it as a sign of truce. Keith took his hand away slowly.

Elizabeth was quite stubborn, she wanted things to go back to normal, and she really did not like the feeling of knowing that Keith was mad at her. Since Keith would not allow her to hold his hand she brought her hand to his leg and caressed his thigh. He took her hand in his, Elizabeth felt a sigh of relief, until he let go of her hand and let it drop. Elizabeth turned to him

“OK can we talk in private?” She got up said “excuse me” to Davina and Darren, and walked over to the bar area.

Keith slowly and reluctantly got up from his chair and followed Elizabeth; he was annoyed at her but did love to be behind her watching her walk. He reached her where she was standing in the bar area.

“What?” Keith asked.

“You are treating me like crap, and it’s not fair.” Elizabeth complained.

“I’m sorry.” Keith said half-heartedly “Now can we go back? I am starving.”

“No we can’t go back; nothing was solved here with your fake apology. You said that I did not have to say it back but the way you are acting I feel like I did have to say it back. And it’s not fair. You caught me off guard I didn’t have a chance to respond before you left the room.” complained Elizabeth.

“Yea, I know and I don’t want to feel like this but it hurt when you said nothing back. You just stared at me blankly like you felt nothing.” explained Keith.

“No, that’s not what it was I was just shocked.” Elizabeth took a deep breath in then admitted “I want to know for sure that I love you before I say it.”

“Because you didn’t love Paul and you told him you did.” Elizabeth gave him a questioning look “I heard you and Davina talking.

“Oh, well yea. Sorry.” Elizabeth returned. “Are you mad about what you heard?”

“I am annoyed that you are always talking about him.” Keith informed her.

“I am not always talking about him, it was just this one time and it was about how I didn’t love him. It was about how I liked you while I was with him. If it makes you feel better I promise I will never talk about him again. I don’t want you to think that I am thinking about him at all because I am not, I only have you on my mind all the time.” Keith smiled at her, she giggled and tapped her head “Like seriously I cannot get you to leave my head, I love you.” Elizabeth accidentally blurted out “Oh!” She said surprised.

Keith smirked, and then kissed her; he pulled away from the kiss and said “I love you too.”

Elizabeth smiled at him, he grabbed her hand and they went back to the table. Davina saw Elizabeth and Keith walking back hand in hand, and smiling. She breathed a sigh of relief knowing that the rest of the evening would go much better. They did in fact have a great time, so much so, that they decided to go out dancing after dinner. They were able to find a dance club close by.

At the dance club Keith and Elizabeth never left the dance floor, Elizabeth was amazed at how good of a dancer Keith was. They drank and danced until the club closed. Davina and Darren went to an after-hours club, but Elizabeth and Keith decided to go back to his place. They were tired and they just wanted to be alone.

They got to Keith’s place made love then went to sleep. The next day Elizabeth was awoken by the sun shining through onto her. She got up quietly and showered in the bathroom off of the guest room as to not wake Keith. After getting dressed Elizabeth went to the kitchen and looked around for something to make for breakfast, as she wanted to have breakfast ready for Keith when he woke up.

Since she did not cook she was looking for something easy to do but, all she could find was bread. So she toasted it spread some jam on it, and then brought it to him in bed. She went to her side of the bed, sat down, and then gently shook Keith to wake him. Elizabeth’s shaking slowly woke Keith up; when he opened his eyes Elizabeth waved the plate in front of him.

She told him “I made you breakfast.”

Keith sat up and took the plate from Elizabeth’s hand. He looked down and saw the toast he looked around the room for more food and he saw nothing else.

“So you don’t cook huh?” Keith asked.

“What are you talking about I can toast anything, warm any frozen food amazingly, and I make a great homemade Raman noodle soup.” joked Elizabeth.

“So you don’t cook.” reiterated Keith.

Elizabeth snickered “Well if that is not cooking then no.”

“That is not cooking.” Keith confirmed mockingly.

“Ah, OK.” Elizabeth mocked back “Sorry. Is that a deal breaker?” asked Elizabeth.

Keith smiled at her, then said “Of course not.”

Elizabeth kissed his cheek then said “Good, I’m glad. Besides you are an amazing chef so I do not need to know how to cook.”

“Thank you very much.” Keith responded.

Keith proceeded to eat the toast that Elizabeth had made for him.

“Yea you can’t toast things.” Keith told her.

“Really.” Elizabeth laughed “I am sorry.”

Keith laughed amused at her “Hey why don’t I take a shower then we can go out for breakfast.” Keith offered.

“OK, I will throw this away, and clean up the dishes while you shower.” Elizabeth responded slightly offended that he didn’t even pretend to enjoy it.

After Keith’s shower, he and Elizabeth went to a diner for breakfast. They ordered then received their food. Keith picked up a piece of toast and held it up displaying it to Elizabeth to show her what toast should look like. Elizabeth gave Keith a sardonic smile un-amused.

They were having a great conversation that Elizabeth soon made about her new car

“I don’t know all the specs or whatever but it is a nice car.” Elizabeth told Keith when he asked her about it.

“Well, that is what counts in the end.” Keith joked.

Elizabeth cooed “Yea it is.”

“So how are you paying for it? Have you been saving up money or something?” asked Keith.

“No I had to finance it.” Elizabeth answered.

Keith did not like hearing that, he did not want her owing money to the dealership, so he said “Let me buy it for you.”

This irked Elizabeth; she snapped at him “No. You will not buy my car for me.”

“Why are you mad?” Keith asked clueless. “If I offered anyone else to buy a car for them they would be happy, and most likely take me up on it.”

“Wow you have no idea.” said Elizabeth.

“I do not want to live off of you; I want to work for what I have. If you wanted somebody who just wanted you for your money you should have found yourself a nice little gold digger.” Elizabeth justified herself.

Keith laughed at her comments “OK, fine. Buy it yourself.”

“Thank you.” Elizabeth replied.