The Pretend To Be Agreement

Chapter Thirteen

Grace

"So Will, why didn't you tell me you had a girlfriend?" Asks Jordan, one of Will's friend's that he's known since childhood.

Will shifts uncomfortably on the couch beside me, but laughs. "I thought you already know. Seeing as we were all over E-News and magazines."

Jordan nods, smiling. "Yeah, I heard about it. But I thought they were just rumors."

Well, they're not just rumors. It's more like a big fat lie.

"Well, I never saw the day William Reed would settle down and find himself a girlfriend. What happened to the bachelor that I knew and loved?" Jordan asks, raising a curious eyebrow at the two of us.

I suddenly felt a pang of hurt at the mention of Will being a bachelor. It wasn't like any of this was real, but that didn't deny that I was now the poster girl of goody-two-shoes and I'm supposedly dating a billionaire who has a past with women.

Suddenly, without any type of warning, Will shrugs but slings his arm around my waist and pulls me close to his side.

"Grace happened."

I blush at his words and wave him off. "I did nothing."

"You sure? Because, I've known him since I was five, and ever since he was sixteen, girl's were always his thing. Going through one after the other. Real playboy this one." Jordan tells me, and it's like he wants me to throw up on him.

My stomach twists and turns, and I could vile running up the back of my throat. Trying to hold back a frown, I instead give him a nervous smile. Jordan looked at me, and it felt like he was looking directly into my soul. He scared me. This scared me. I guess Will caught on to me discomfort because he squeezes a little tighter onto my waist in reassurance, and I send him a thankful smile.

Coughing in his hand, Jordan asks me, "Grace, what exactly do you do for a living?"

I give him an odd look but answer anyway. "I'm a photographer."

"Anything in particular?"

I shake my head. "Lots of stuff."

"Stuff? Why do you just say stuff?"

"Because there's too many things on the list of stuff that I take pictures of. Why do you care so much?"

"I don't. I'm just curious."

Curious my ass!

Leaning over to Will I whisper in his ear, "I don't feel very welcomed right now. So I'm just going to take a shower."

All he does is nod, letting go of my waist and I stand up, not even bothering to say goodbye to Jordan as I make way for the stairs.

***

After taking a warm, relaxing shower I get dressed in a pair of loose leggings and a white shirt I had randomly picked out of the closet. I regret the decision of ever wanting to go swimming. It's the middle of October for Christ's sakes!

It gotten a lot colder as the day disappeared and the evening fell into place. The sun was shining from outside, the horizon of the sky a beautiful gold, red, white, and blue. Sunsets were my favorite thing to watch as a kid, as I didn't have anything very valuable at that age. I never actually did for that matter. Everyone in my family was dead or dying in a hospital bed, living there off of donations from anonymous donators.

My family was never really there, you could say. Their bodies may have been down on the ground, but their presence seemed to be somewhere else. Like up in the sky for instance.The sunset was a simple pleasure that life had to offer - very few of the things that could make me smile when I'm feeling low.