Jude’s P. O. V:
“Good morning” said Natasha sleepily as she woke and entered the kitchen. I was making coffee for the both of us, mom and dad hadn’t returned yet.
“Morning, how are you feeling now?”
“Better” she said wincing as she sat down.
“Well breakfast is almost ready. You eat it quickly and then take your medicines.”
“Ok mom”
“Hey! I am trying to look out for you here”
“I know and I love it!”
I grinned at her and my grin only got bigger when the doorbell rang.
“Surprise!” yelled Wade and Sean as they came in. Natasha squealed and jumped up from her chair and “Wade! Sean!” she ran and hugged both of them.
“Can’t” said Wade panting.
“Breathe” completed Sean.
“Sorry! AAAAaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh! I am so happy to see you guys! You both had become so busy!” she said pouting.
“Sorry Tasha but I didn’t know you were ill till today morning”
“Yep” said Sean.
“Oh never mind! Are you guys going to stay? Please?”
Both of them pretended to think it over and yelled “Yes!”
“Oh yay!” I smiled as I saw the three of them exchange news excitedly. I went back to the kitchen and got Natasha her unfinished breakfast. Both Wade and Sean looked at me funnily.
Natasha finished her breakfast and took her medicines. I then joined them in the living room.
“So guys Stephanie called last night”
“What did she say?” asked Sean scrunching up his nose in distaste.
“Well he didn’t answer” said Natasha smiling.
“Ha! Good on you” said Wade enthusiastically.
“So we bought something for you Natasha” said Sean taking out a paper bag. Natasha looked in and yelled, “Aaaaah candies!”
“Don’t eat any sour ones” I said and again Wade and Sean looked at me in a funny way.
“What? She has a sore throat!”
“Oh I see” said Sean smiling. I wanted to punch the smile off his face.
“So you guys mind sitting here with Natasha while I finish up a concall with my office?”
“Go ahead”
“Alright I will be in my room don’t make any noise please”
“Yes mom!” said all three of them, I scowled at them and left. I went into my room and started the call with my office people.
“Pete?”
“Yes sir?”
“Hey I asked you to call me Jude”
“Er yes Jude?”
“So what’s the update? Everything going as planned?”
“Yes sir we have everything ready just waiting for your word on it”
“Great what is completed so far?”
“Sir we finished designing he parking lot and the ground level, we have just started on the first level”
“Good, fax the plans to me and let me see what you guys have done tehn I shall send my approval”
“Oh alright sir. And sir how long will you be out of office?”
I smiled and said, “As long as my fiancé isn’t well” I heard discreet murmurs of lucky girl from the women in the team and smiled, if only they knew how lucky I was!
“So that’s it team fax the plans and let me see what you have done”
“Oh sir” they chorused.
“Over and out” I said and hung up. I switched on the fax machine and took out the prints and went to work on them.
Natasha burst inside the room. “Jude! Hey are you busy?”
“Kinda, what’s up?”
“Well we are watching TV and we wondered if you would like to join us?”
“You guys go ahead I will be here for a while and hey if you feel hungry Mrs. Bowers made some food so go ahead and eat”
“Ok” she said and closed the door. I got to work and made a few changes. Some measurements had to be changed and some dimensions had to be changed. Overall the team had done a good job but there were some changes that were essential.
I spent a good five hours working on the project and then when my stomach grumbled I decided it was time for a break. I called Pete to tell him I was faxing the changes to him and then went out to gets something to eat.
I grabbed a chicken sandwich and walked into the living room to see Natasha and Sean bawling their eyes out while Wade rolled his eyes at them.
“What happened?” I asked perplexed.
“They’re watching Grey’s Anatomy” said Wade in a bored voice.
“Er sso?”
“D-d-Denny died!” bawled Sean.
“Who?”
“Izzy’s fiancé?”
I looked at them in shock. “Are you guys serious?”
“Wh-what?” asked Natasha as Sean patted her shoulder.
I sat down on the couch and started laughing. Natasha smacked me on my head.
“Ow!”
“Don’t laugh its really sad how he died!”
“Ok but he is alive right?”
“huh?”
“Whoever is playing this Denny character is alive. He just died in the show for the love of God!”
“You are so insensitive” said Sean and Natasha nodded in agreement.
“And you are idiots” said Wade. He got all the cushions thrown at him for his effort.
“Lets watch something more cheerful” I said.
“Two and a half men!” yelled Wade.
“Hell yeah!”
“No way” said Sean, “they depict men as insensitive jerks in that show!”
“Well not really isn’t Alan sensitive?”
“He is an idiot” snorted Sean.
“Well I don’t know Sean, he kinda reminds me of you” I said and laughed as Sean looked horrified.
“No way!” he exclaimed as Natasha giggled.
Well needless to say we did watch Two and a half men and laughed all the while. Well we laughed more at Sean’s remarks rather than the show itself.
The day passed rather quickly, I called my mom to check when they would be coming and they said that it would take them another day. They spoke to Natasha and asked her how she was feeling. They spoke for sometime and then she hung up.
Natasha stood up and stretched.
“I feel better already! Thank you guys for coming over!”
“You’re welcome but we have better news for you, we are staying over!”
“Seriously?”
“Yep”
“That’s great guys” I said. It was always fun hanging out with my brothers and Natasha.
“What do we do for dinner?” asked Natasha.
“Pizza?” asked Sean.
“Frankie?” asked Wade.
“Steak?” I asked.
“Oh wow” said Natasha “that is a lot of variety!”
“What do you want to eat Nats?”
“Um I don’t know you guys call for whatever I will eat a little of everything.”
After a lot of debate we called for pizza, Sean wouldn’t stop whining if we called for something else. Natasha felt like taking a shower and freshening up. The three of us ordered food and settled down to discuss something important.
“Guys Stephanie hasn’t stopped calling me! She keeps calling or sending a text message, what do I do?” I asked desperately.
“What have you decided?” asked Wade.
“What do you mean?”
“Natasha or Stephanie?”
“What? Of course Natasha!”
“Well then what’s your problem? Tell Stephanie straight up, it ain’t working” said Wade.
“Yeah but what do I tell her?”
“Oh” said Sean raising a finger like a student does when he has to answer a question, “You could say that Stephanie I really tried to try and make it work but the fact is you are a slutty bitch who is interested only in herself and a good for nothing gold digging hag! It took me time to figure that out but I did now and well what I am really trying to say is it ain’t working. Whew” he said wiping his brow, “glad I got that off my chest!”
Wade and I stared at him, Sean thought it was not right to abuse but right now he used a lot of swear words in one go. He was really annoyed with Stephanie! Well that had to be an understatement!
Wade and I laughed and I said, “I can’t say that!”
“Why not?” he asked raising an eyebrow.
“Well its too rude”
“Oh while we are on Stephanie” said Wade, “you should know the true reason she left Nick wasn’t because he cheated on her, it was because his parents have dis owned him because he couldn’t get his act together.”
“What!”
“Yeah”
“How do you guys know that?”
“Well he met Natasha at the mall the other day”
“When?” I asked clenching my fist, “Why did Natasha go to meet him alone?”
“She didn’t he just happened to be there, it seems he looked really sorry”
“Yeah I bet he was” I spat out.
“Jude give him a break” said Sean, “look I know what he did was very very wrong but look at where he is today, he needs a friend”
“Yeah well Sean karma is a bitch, it bites you in the ass”
“I guess but talk to him atleast once, dating Stephanie was punishment enough for him!”
“Whatever” I said not wanting to talk about it anymore.
The bell rang and I jumped up, “I guess the pizza is here guys”
I opened the door and I was shocked to find Stephanie standing there.
“What are you doing here?”
“You haven’t been answering my calls nor have you been replying to my messages!”
“I have been busy”
“Yeah with Natasha?” she sneered.
“None of your business” said Sean popping up by my side.
“Now if you don’t mind leave you are dirtying our doorstep” said Wade popping up by mother side.
If looks could kill all three of us would be dead by now.
“Well leave Stephanie”
“No I won’t!”
“What do you mean you won’t?”
“What’s happening?” said Natasha stepping into the room with a towel wrapped around her hair.
“I don’t want her to get upset” I said to Wade and Sean, they both nodded and before Stephanie could open her mouth Wade put a hand over her mouth and pushed her out and stepped out himself.
“Nothing” said Sean going inside and diverting Natasha’s attention. I tossed a look over my shoulder and stepped out with Wade. He was holding Stephanie while she struggled against him. She glared at me when I lifted her legs and both Wade an I picked her up and walked towards her car.
The keys were inside the car but the door was left unlocked.
“What do you think you are doing?” she yelled livid now as we threw her in her car.
“What do you think we are doing?” asked Wade, “get the hell out of here and don’t come back!”
She threw me a pleading glance and my face softened, “Look Stephanie it isn’t going to work between us.”
“Why not? I thought you loved me?”
“I thought so too but now I only despise you”
“What! Jude you can’t mean that!”
“Stephanie tell me the real reason why you left Nick?”
“What do you mean? I told you he cheated on me”
“Ok that’s it. That was your last chance!”
“What do you mean?”
“I know the truth ok? You left him because he lost his inheritance. God Stephanie! You are unbelievable!”
She gave a mean smile and said, “have you been talking to Nick now? You know better than to trust his lies! I mean he was your best friend and he slept with you girlfriend!”
Wade snorted and said, “Are you forgetting that you were the girlfriend?”
She gave him a scathing look and said, “I wasn’t talking to you”
“You think I care? All I want is for you to get out of my brother’s life and let him have the happiness he deserves!”
“Oh you mean Natasha?” she said snidely.
“Leave Natasha out of this” said Wade and I at the same time.
“You will regret this Jude!”
Wade and I turned around and started walking towards my apartment, she go out of the car and followed us.
“Stay away!” I said and at the same time someone threw their trash out of the window from the upper floor.
“Ewwww” screeched Stephanie, “yuck!” while Wade and I laughed helplessly as we saw left over food and gunk from the sink dripping down her hair. She stomped her foot and was in tears as she stomped off to her car and took off.
The delivery boy came as we neared my door. We paid him for the pizza and entered my home.
“The pizza is here” I said entering the house.
“Finally!” said Natasha.
We all dug in and barely spoke as we ate.
“What took you guys so long?” asked Natasha.
Wade winked at me and said, “We were taking out the garbage” making Sean and me choke on our pizza while Natasha looked on in confusion.