Everything Changes (17 page)

  “Apparently someone saw you come to work with me on Saturday”

   “And, I’m your friend a
m I not allowed to go with you now?”

  “You kissed me, remember Cass” I open my eyes. Well shit.

   “Did she tear you a new one?”

   “She was in the middle of doing that when you pulled your little stunt” I laugh softly. “Can we go back to sleep now?” he asks. I nod, then remember he can’t see me.

   “
Yeah” He pulls me close to him and rests his chin on the top of my head. I snuggle my head in the crook of his neck and sigh. This is where I belong I just need to kick a leech out.

Cassie

   “Tyler I don’t give a shit if you don’t want me to go. I’m going and you can’t stop me!” I huff down the phone. The man is testing my patients today! We have been disagreeing about the pole dancing lessons for an hour now.

   “Oh
yes I can! You can’t go anywhere if I pin you to the bed” I narrow my eyes. That’s not fair.

  “You won’t know when I’m going” I smirk. The lesson is actually later on tonight.

   “I’ll just be attached to your hip the whole time. I’m sure you’re not shy if I watch you pee are you? You’ve already threatened to pee on me so…”

   “Have you forgotten that we both have work? So how would know what day I’m going? You never know it might be a late class and you can’t come and get me because you’re at work” I’m basically taunting him now. I hear him growl down the phone.

   “You’re a pain in my arse Cassie! Why do
you want to pole dancing lessons so bad? Are you trying to put me in an early grave?”

   “Why would I put you in an early grave just because I’m doing pole dancing lessons? It’s not like we have men watching us. It’s a lesson Tyler not a club! I’ll probably be surrounded by either middle aged women trying to spice up their sex life or wom
en like me wanting to tone up maybe just couple of them because they actually enjoy it” I roll my eyes and lay on my bed.

   “Cassie I think I would have he
art failure if I knew you were doing it because you look sexy as fuck anyway, you wrapped around a pole…” he clears his throat. “I don’t like it, who is going to see you doing it anyway? Got someone in mind?”

   “You don’t have to like it. It’s my body and you
don’t own it! And this is Ann Summers all over again… can’t I do something for myself? I’m not like the women you have surrounding you trying to impress any male that looks good and give me attention”

   “You. Are. Mine
”, he grates out each word.

   “I didn’t get the mess
age. Last time I checked you were still getting married to your bitch in less than two weeks” he inhales sharply. Maybe that was a low blow but I’m not getting compared to them girls.

   “I don’t give a shit about Georgina and you know I don’t.
And I don’t give a fuck if I’m getting married. You’re still mine!” I squeeze my eyes shut.

   “
So you’re just going to lead me on like a sad fucking puppy because you don’t want anyone else to have me? Well tough fucking shit Tyler your taken and not by me!” and with that I hang up on him. They say sex complicates things… it does! The possessive Tyler has been out more since we slept together a week ago. We argue more now too.

  I hear a soft knock on the door.

   “Cassie it’s me. I just wanted to check to see if you’re ok. I could hear you arguing. You can tell me to mind my own if you want” I hear Melissa say softly. I sigh.

   “
Come in” She opens the door and slips inside and shuts it again. She walks over to me on the bed and sits down on the edge.

   “
So are you ok?”

  I sigh. I don’t know a
m I?

   “I ho
nestly don’t know. Tyler and I slept together a week ago when I was drunk” She nods. I look at her expecting to see judgement in her bright blue eyes but nope, not even pity just understanding. “I shouldn’t have slept with him. He’s getting married in less than two weeks” She nods again.

   “Cassie t
he man wants you and obviously something is keeping him tied to this girl he is marrying. I can see it you’d have to be blind not to see it. The amount of love you and he have for each other” I didn’t think it was that noticeable. “It is” she smiles. How do they do that? I’m not that easy to read! She smiles sadly at me.

   “What were
you arguing about anyway? Remember you can tell me to butt out” I won’t. It’s nice to have a girl to talk to about this.

   “I’m doing pole dancing lessons. Well not yet but I will as of tonight and he doesn’t like it. Then we got in to the fact that
I’m not his and he said I am” she nods.

   “
And I heard the last part. You sort of screamed it out so the whole house heard” I groan, oh shit!

   “
Where are Jack and Justin?”

   “
Sitting on the sofa glaring at nothing” she smiles. Jack has been doing that a lot. He told Tyler not to hurt me. I’m hurting now I thought I was hiding it better other than the loud phone calls.

   “So you’re doing pole dancing lessons? What’s so bad about that? Do you mind if I come with you?” I stare at her then the little bump holding my niece or nephew. She rolls her eyes and laughs. “I won’t be climbing on the pole, I’m not that stupid. Your brother would kill
me… well after the bean is born”

   “Bean
”

   “Y
our brother’s name for the baby I told him once it was about the size of a bean and he has called it that since” she shrugs her shoulders.

   “He doesn’t like it because he thinks I’m going to dance around the pole for any other man that isn’t him. That’s where the
‘mine’
conversation came into it”

  My phone alerts me I have a message.

   Tyler:
I’m sorry babe. You know I didn’t mean it like that. You can go pole dancing lessons x

 
He’s giving me permission? I was going anyway.

   Me:
I was going either way and what did you mean then Tyler? I can never be yours while you’re married and you can’t expect me to.

  He should know he has hurt me so no kiss at the end of the message.

  I look up and see Melissa rubbing her bump subconsciously.

   “You can come with me. We can go for something to eat after if you want?” I smile softly at her. She feels like the big sister I never had.

   “I’ll just be on the side-lines cheering you on and if you fall maybe laugh” I narrow my eyes playfully at her. “Maybe video it so your brothers can have a laugh” she winks. I throw my head back and laugh she laughs with me.

   “
Everything okay now? Considering you two are laughing like hyenas in here” Justin pops his head in my bedroom.

   “
It is. Your girlfriend is coming with me to pole dancing lessons” I see them both stiffen slightly. I take it they aren’t at that stage yet. They don’t correct me so I just shrug it off.

   “What’s Jack doing?”

   “Sitting on the sofa, I had to talk him out of going to see Tyler” I wince inwardly.

   “We’re allowed to argue
” I try and defend myself and him.

   “It was the comment about stringing you along like a sad puppy that done us both Cass. Jack t
old him not to string you along” he shrugs one shoulder. Maybe I should start talking to Tyler either quieter or out of the house. I sigh.

   “We don’t want to see you hurt Cass. You’ve got to understand this wasn’t a good situation when you became ‘friends’ and don’
t say you are just friends. You could basically see your sexual tension, not that me and Jack wants to see it but it was pretty obvious” I move on my bed and cross my legs and start tracing the pattern on the duvet.

 
He sighs and closes the door softly.

   “It’s ok Cassie we will have a good time tonight l
et your hair down” She grins and stands up from the bed. I take notice that she is wearing Justin’s top and jogging bottoms.

   “My stuff do
esn’t fit me anymore, I’ve got to buy some stuff that actually fits me this will have to do till then”

   “We can go out on Wednesday if you want?
To buy you more clothes. I’m off work then” she nods.

   “I’d love that” s
he smiles and turns and walks to the door.

   “Thank you for liking me y
ou could have been a bitch to me saying I’m only trying to trap your brother” A little pink comes on her cheeks and she walks out the door and closes it again.

  I pick my phone up and dial Tyler’s number.

   “I’m sorry!”, he says when he answers. I sigh.

   “
What did you mean then Tyler? How am I yours?”

   “I
can’t explain it Cass, but your mine. I don’t want to lead you on and I’m hopefully not but if I wasn’t with Georgina you know I would be all over you like a rash and not just for sex. I want to castrate any man that looks at you. I’m pretty sure ‘friends’ don’t have them thoughts. I want to shout it from the roof tops that your mine and you always will be”

   “I thought that’s all you want me f
or. Sex” I have a small smile on my face. I don’t know why I said it I know full well he doesn’t just want me for sex.

  He growls
“Cassie!” I laugh softly.

   “I was joking p
ull your boxers out your arse!” he sighs.

  The rest of the time we spend talking about a load of crap, I still feel the hurt lingering but I’m guessing I’m never going to get rid of that as long as I’m friends with Tyler.

****

   “Twirl around the pole now! Yes you’ve got it! Its only taken you 5 attempts” Melissa says from the floor, she’s sitting on the floor with her back up against the wall talking me through it. I throw her a glare and practice it again.

   “It’s no
t as easy as it looks preggers” I opt for a different style this time and go around backwards.

   “Oh come off it, they seem to find it
easy enough” she nods towards the bunny boilers in the corner.

   “It’s because it’s probably their jobs!” I say back, she sniggers and puts her focus back on me.

   “Try that one!” I look over at Melissa then the girls in the corner. One of them is hanging upside down sliding down the pole holding on just by her feet.

   “No chance!” I’ll stick with the ones I know thank you very much, and the ones that won’t possibly break my neck.

   “The ones your doing are boring, you need to act sexy” she informs me while stuffing her face with Pringles right sexy.

   “
I’m not doing an audition I’m learning it’s not like anyone will see me doing this” I curl my leg around the pole and swing around. She claps her hands when I don’t fall. I narrow my eyes. I can see me and her being quite good friends.

  The instructor announces we ha
ve to do the cool off session that’s basically rolling around on the floor looking like a beached whale.

  I collect my bag and put the jogging bottoms back on and pull Melissa off the floor when she realised she was stuck. I suggested rolling over and getting up on all fours to do it but I got glared at.

   “So where are we eating?” I ask once we’ve get in the car. She starts the car and then turns to look at me.

   “So
mewhere with brownies I need brownies like yesterday” I shake my head and direct her to somewhere to eat.

   “You’ve jus
t polished off a whole tube of Pringles and chocolate fingers. How can you still be hungry?” she grins and rubs her bump. Anybody would think she is having twins. She already has a sizable bump. But she informed me it’s just the one baby and she is mostly water. The information basically went over my head.

  After we have eaten and
she announces that she is taking some of the brownies back to my place, we climb in the car and drive home. Halfway down the road I can see Tyler’s car parked in my driveway. I groan and look for help from Melissa she grins at me and pulls up beside the car. I see Tyler leaning against the passenger door with his arms crossed and his legs spread slightly apart.

  I climb out and look at Melissa’s retreating back and glare at her.

   “You forgot to lock your car!” she holds her hand up and presses the button to lock it. Fuck sake I forgot that. I hear her laughing then closes the door.

  
“So you went to this class then” I sigh and lean against his car as well. I shiver when I realise I didn’t bring a jacket out. The temperature has dropped a bit since I came out.

   “I did, and if I r
emember rightly you ‘let’ me go” I rub my arms to warm up a little. Tyler sighs and shrugs off his jacket and hands it to me. I pull it on and close my eyes. The warmth and the smell make me smile.

   “What is it with you and smelling my clothes?” he asks with his eyebrow raised. I look at the piercing going through it.

   “Did it hurt?” I ask randomly after staring at it for a couple of minutes.

   “What? My eyebrow h
a! No I’m a man!” he puffs out his chest. I laugh.

   “I bet you cried like a little girl did
n’t you?” he glares at me. I stick my tongue out at him and cry out in surprise when he grabs my tongue between his thumb and forefinger.