"Give my suitcase" she said.
"If you win you get your suitcase and if you don't we go out again."
"This doesn't count." She began to look around "I don't play pool okay and I don't have times for your little games so give me my suitcase back so I can leave."
"I would love to make your day by giving your suitcase back but I don't have it."
"You know you are so full of laughs and this is a great joke." she said forcing herself to laugh a very fake laugh.
"I'm not joking."
By this time she was really mad and she was the type of person that when she was mad she let it show not caring who was around she yelled at him "What the hell is your problem? What's wrong with you? You didn't tell me this was part of the deal or I would not have come."
Everyone started to look their way and he said "It's just a small fight between me and my wife."
"I would never marry you in a thousand years."
He laughed at her "You go first."
"I'm leaving, goodbye."
"Those documents must not be to important"
She screamed form frustration and threw her bag on the seat and walked over and grabbed a pool stick and she tried her very best at this game and he sat back laughing at her but she couldn't get the pool stick to do what she wanted and she turned to him and yelled "The least you could do is help me"
"You want my help?"
"Forget it, I can do it myself."
He was just about to show her when she dropped the pool stick suddenly and was looking at her finger and he asked concerned "Are you okay?"
"Yeah I think I got a splitter in my finger." she pushed him away "I'll be okay."
"Well we can finish then, let me show you how to play this game."
He stood directly behind her, he helped her learn to hold the pool stick and all the other things you needed to know to play pool and after all of this finally she got something in and was so happy she jumped up and down and through her arms around his neck hugging him as she said "Thank You, but I really didn't need your help."
"If I would not have helped you you would have ended up killing us both."
She laughed pulling away from him and she turned back to the pool table as she said "Well come on, let's finish playing I could learn to love this game."
And that's what they did, they played pool and she mostly beat on him the whole game and in the end she didn't win. Afterwards he walked her to her car and she opened the door and climbed inside not closing the door yet and he kneel down in front of her saying "I'll pick you up at your place."
"I don't think so."
"I'll call you we'll make plans"
"Goodbye Mr.Richardson."
He stood up as she closed her door and let the window down "What about your suitcase?"
"Keep it"
She started her car and let her window back up and sped off. He didn't understand her at all which only made him want her more. Kevin found himself knocking at Howie's door but Debra looking very sleepy answered and he said "I'm sorry too wake you."
"You didn't, the baby did, come in."
He came inside, he always had a small thing for her but now his mind was not on that but on Stephanie as he followed her upstairs "Stephanie is your friend right, you recommended her to us right."
"Yeah"
She turned in to the baby room and he followed her as he finished "Do you know where she lives?"
"She would kill me plus she lives pretty far."
"You guys live far but I still come here.
She was thinking about it but was to sleepy to even argued "You don't know Steph she-"
"Please Debra, I need to talk to her, I won't tell her I got the address from you I promise."
"I don't know"
"She likes me I know she does plus I need to return her suitcase."
She thought about it and if she do him a favor maybe he would do one for her when she heard the front door open and close downstairs she spoke quickly "Okay I'll tell you if you will talk to Howard about us getting married soon, we've been engaged for forever now and I really want to get married soon."
"I don't know what good it will do but I will talk to him I promise."
That's when he walked in the baby room surprised to see Kevin there that late and the room was quiet and she spoke up "I will go and get that for you."
She walked out the room and Howie walked over to check on his daughter and Kevin feeling awkward in the given situation said "She's just getting Steph's address for me"
"I know"
"How'd you know?"
"Let's just say-"
He cut himself off when he saw Debra walk into room and handed him the piece of paper to him as she said "Good luck, you're going to need it dealing with Stephanie"
He nodded his head to thank her then he disappeared out the room and she released a huge frustrated sigh as she walked over to the baby bed "She finally fell asleep."
"You fed her?"
"Yeah"
He sat in the rocking chair and she sat in his lap he felt kind of sorry for her she looked do tired and he asked concerned "Are you okay?"
"Yeah but I am not having you anymore kids sorry I can't go through this again." She stood and him thinking she was serious stood also stood "You can't be serious"
She laughed and walked out the room and he followed hoping she was just kidding.
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Stephanie walked to her door and opened it and saw the tall, dark handsome man at her door and he didn't speak he just scooped her up in his arms and started kissing her passionately then her thoughts were broken by a knock on the door and she was very surprised not expecting anyone there especially that late with it storming out and she ran to the door and opened the door and her jaw dropped when she saw him standing there and she chocked out "What are you doing here?"
"I came here to return your suitcase."
"You came all this way just to return my suitcase."
"Yeah"
She wanted to kill him just for being so nice to her and she knew she didn't deserve it but she said "Please come in." He came in and she closed the door "You are so sweet it's hard to be mean to you."
"You look good."
She had her hair down and had on a very short black gown with thin straps, she quickly grabbed her robe and put it on."Um....I guess I'll show you around since you are here."
"This place is huge"
"Come on"
Her house was so big, she had a living room, dining room, kitchen and den, inside pool and her bedroom was huge amd very impressive to him. It had candles lite and her bed was huge with see-through drapes following over it just like in his dream only her's were light blue. She had a bathroom over to the side and he looked around as she lead him back downstairs a room with a small table with wine set for one and their was a pool table and a piano and as he walked towards it he asked "You play?"
"No, my son can that's why I got it. Can you play?"
"I'll let you be the judge of that."
He sat in front of the piano, she sat up on it and he took the jacket off he had had on tossed it in a nearby chair and she asked "What are you going to play?"
"A little something I wrote, don't ask the name of it cause I don't have one, I'll let you judge how the music sounds."
He played and the music to her was the most beautiful thing she'd ever heard and he was so intimate and very into it and when he was done, he grabbed her hands and stood in front of her he didn't speak at first until she looked up at him "Who broke your heart so badly that you're so scared to give your heart to another who is willing to give their's to you?"
"The father of my son. We were so what you say 'in love' and we were engaged to be married and he says he fell in love with someone.....our babysitter that was only a year ago but I treat you the way I do because you scare me cause those feelings...I promised I wouldn't let anyone else get that close to me to hurt me like that again but you....I have those feelings again only more intense in a different way I can't even explain it."
"Just remember I'm not him." he kissed her on the cheek "I have to go, I'll see you later."
He grabbed his coat and in complete silence she walked him to the door and he opened the day about to go out the door when she grabbed his arm and grabbed the suitcase from the floor and she handed it to him.
"Remember we have to go out again"
"The park 3 o' clock tomorrow evening, don't be late."
"I won't"
"Maybe tomorrow, you'll win your suitcase back, goodnight." he said as he walked out the door and she closed it standing against the door a while thinking about what maybe he had in mind for tomorrow.