Forever Love (Fghter Club 1) (2 page)

Ever since that day Tony and
Alexia had been in touch and spoke everyday weather it be by a
phone call or text, having her back in his life was the best thing
a dad could ask for and his grandchildren were just the icing on
the cake. He was so pleased that Alexia and the children were
moving back to Manchester to be close to him but buried in the back
of his mind was the worry that she might discover what he had been
hiding. Tony had gotten himself into financial straits as the
garage he worked at went through a dry spell, and was in threat of
losing his house. He went in search of help and ended up in the
office of JT, one of the most feared men in Manchester. Not only
for being a loan shark but because he was a notorious cage
fighter.

Tony stood in Alexia’s kitchen
and helped her dish up their tea.

‘
I can’t believe it’s
going to be the twins ninth birthday in March.’

‘
I know, my babies are
growing up so fast it’s scary.’ Alexia said sadly.

‘
Did you manage to get
everything sorted for it?’ Tony asked as he looked back down at the
food he was dishing out.

‘
Yep, it’s all sorted,’
she smiled knowingly at him. ‘I’m so excited, I’m surprised I’ve
kept it to myself.’

Alexia had spoken to her
previous boss whom she had become good friends with and he had
given her the use of his box at Manchester United. She had invited
some of her friends and family along with their children for a
little party and to watch the match.

‘
Cool, should be a great
day,’ He smiled back at her.

3

The next morning Alexia was
woken by a banging on her door and the loud mouth of her good
friend Tracy Shaw.

‘
AAAAALLLLEEEXXXIIIAAAAAAAA,’ Tracy screamed in a very high
pitch that surely to god only a dog could hear, but Tracy didn’t
care. She was bubbly, full of life and an all round caring and
loving person who got on with everyone. She was the life and soul
of the party who liked to make her presence known and would talk to
anyone. At five foot nine, a size ten and curves in all the right
places she really didn’t need to have a big mouth because people
noticed her wherever she went.

Alexia ran downstairs and opened
the door. ‘Hey Tracy, how you doing?’ she said pulling her into a
hug. As they squeezed the life out of each other Alexia looked up
to the sight Sarah Woods running towards them with her daughter
Ellie. As Sarah approached them she threw her arms around both of
them. ‘Group hug,’ she shouted at them. Ellie ran straight passed
in search of the twins. Sarah was the 'funny one' out of the group.
Funny in every sense of the word. Alexia and Tracy often wondered
if the girl had a brain or any common sense at all, but that just
made them love her more.

Sarah held out some flowers and
a card for Alexia. ‘Welcome to your new house.’

‘
Thanks.’ She smiled as
she took the gifts from her. ‘Do you two want to come in a look
around?’

‘
Well.....erm no.....we
thought we’d come here to sit on the drive and admire the outside
of it....what kind of silly question was that? Do we want to come
in a see it, get out the way and let us in.’ Sarah said and laughed
as she walked in.

As they entered the house they
walked in to a long hallway with the stairs in front of them and to
the right there was a door into the front room. They poked their
heads through to have a quick look at the basic square room with a
lovely ornate fireplace as the main feature. At the end of the
hallway was a door to the kitchen. They walked into the open plan
kitchen-dining room and to the left was a door to the utility room.
Alexia then took them upstairs and as they reached the top, the
hallway was an ‘n’ shape. Directly in front of them was the study,
to the right was Amber’s room and right again was Alexia’s master
bedroom followed by Ben’s room, the family bathroom and the spare
bedroom. The whole house had magnolia walls with either oak wood
flooring or cream carpets and Alexia had bought all her furniture
from Oakland and had covered one wall in every room (except Ben’s)
in a nice contemporary floral wallpaper to create a homely
feel.

‘
Wow, it’s beautiful
Alexia.’ Sarah said and Tracy agreed. They went back downstairs to
the kitchen and Alexia put the kettle on.

‘
So what's the plan for
today?’ Tracy asked whilst taking a drink of her tea.

‘
Well I need to go food
shopping, go and get Amber and Ben’s new school uniform, then we
have an appointment with the estate agent to look at some dance
studios.’

Alexia had wanted to own her own
dance company since she finished her dance studies in high school
but life had taken her down a different road. Now she was back in
Manchester with her dad and friends not only did she have the
support but Tracy and Sarah were going to work for her. ‘The kids
don’t want to go so Dad said he would have them and Ellie at his
house.’

‘
Fab,’ Sarah said. “Do you
want to go out tonight? The club that was under threat of closing
has been taken over by some cage fighter or something and some of
the girls said it’s lovely now.”

“
Yeah why not, I’ll tell
dad he’s having the kids tonight as well.” Alexia said. Tracy
jumped excitedly about their day as they got ready.

4

Later that evening Tony had
agreed to have the children so the girls could have a night out so
they went back to Alexia’s to get ready. Alexia wore a Lipsy
cocktail dress which had a black and cream pattern on the top part
and was plain cream on the bottom, giving the effect of it being a
top and skirt, cream shoes and a black leather jacket. Sarah wore a
black bodysuit with a see through piece that goes down the middle
of her chest, leather pants, black ankle boot and a black leather
jacket and Tracy wore high waisted jeans with flowing top that
crossed at the back and black platform shoes.

‘
I was thinking last night
when was the last time you two went out? It must be a good few
years,’ Tracy asked.

‘
Mine was before the
twins,’ Alexia looked at Sarah for her response

‘
Yeah mine was before
Ellie,’ she said.

‘
OMG!! The last time you
two went out was nine years ago? Really? No that can’t be right,’
she said looking confused at them.

‘
It’s true,’ Alexia said
with Sarah nodding in agreement.

‘
Hell girls! Well a lot
has changed since then,’ Tracy replied.

*********

As they walked into the
nightclub, Sarah and Alexia were shocked at some of the sights.
They walked passed a group of girls wearing a strapless mini dress
that just covered their boobs and bottom. ‘Hey!’ Sarah shouted.
‘They forgot to get dressed!’

‘
I was just thinking the
same thing,’ Alexia said. ‘I think we’re far too old to be
here.’

Tracy laughed at them. ‘You two
are really showing your age, chill out and enjoy it, live your
life.’

They walked over to the bar and
sat down on the stools and waited for the bartender to come over,
there were only six of them working and they were run off their
feet. After nearly twenty minutes of waiting one of the guys came
over.

‘
Hi, I’m so sorry you’ve
had quite a wait, what can I get you?’

‘
No please don’t
apologise, we can see you are busy, we’ll have three Smirnoff’s
please....actually bring six and then it keeps us going for a
while.’ Alexia smiled at the bartender as he nodded his head at her
and got their drinks. As Alexia was paying, suddenly there's a
commotion going on behind them. Alexia turned to see as a fight
broke out but didn’t take any notice, she turned back to talk to
Sarah and Tracy.

‘
Kids these days! They
need to be shown a thing or two.’ The bartender laughed with them
but seemed to turn a blind eye to it ‘Does that always
happen?’Alexia asked him.

‘
Only if they’re in debt,’
he shrugged.

‘
In debt?’ She looked at
him confused.

The bartender didn’t respond and
she knew not ask anymore. They sat down with their drinks and took
a few minutes to look around the club. It was just one massive
square room but it had a bar in the shape of a circle in the middle
of it. At one end of the room it had a stage where they DJ was set
up and along all the walls were high tables and stools but apart
from that it was just a dance floor.

‘
Right then Tracy,’ Sarah
said, ‘tell us how this “pulling a man” thing works these
days.’

‘
How would I know?’ Tracy
replied innocently.

‘
Well you were shocked
about the last time we went out and you come in to the office after
a night out with the “I’ve had sex” look.’

‘
I do not!’ Tracy gasped
trying to defend herself, but it didn't work, she couldn't get
anything past the girls. In fact the girls had been really close
but yet respected each others privacy so never questioned each
other about their personal and private lives unless that person
brought it up.

As the night started to liven up
all three of them were getting a lot of attention from the men who
were unfortunately well on the way to being pissed. Some of the
chat up lines had Alexia feeling embarrassed for them.

* Do you believe in love
at first sight, or shall I walk by again?
Oh dear, you really do love yourself, Bog
off!

* I seem to have lost my
number, can I have yours?
Nope! BYE!

* Is it hot in here or is
it just you?
Oh please, I was
saying that at high school.

* Did it hurt when you
fell out of heaven?
If my
mother’s vagina is heaven then yeah....wait....EEEEEWwwwwwww, did I
just put my mother’s vagina and heaven in the same
sentence?......shame on me, time for another drink now I have
mentally scarring images in my head!

* Do you believe in
helping the homeless? Yes....Then take me home.
No thanks, you’re not homeless but you sure
smell like you are.....Geez kids these days fall for that
smell.....shame on them.

Alexia, Tracy and Sarah were now
a little on the tipsy side.....Oh who am I kidding? They were
absolutely rat arsed and therefore care free on the dance floor.
Being dance professionals they stole the floor and soon everyone
had formed a circle around them watching but dancing along as
well.

One drunken man came out of the
crowd and started dancing with Alexia, which she didn’t mind until
he put his hands on her. She pushed them away and he put them back.
After a few moments of repeatedly pushing his hands away she
finally turned round and pushed him. He got really angry and
grabbed her by the throat, she watched as his arm went back and
closed her eyes getting ready for the blow but suddenly she felt
him been jerked away. She opened her eyes and everyone was stood
staring at her, she looked around but couldn’t see the man
anywhere, she then looked at Tracy and Sarah who were oblivious to
the whole thing.

“
What the
fuck?!... What just happened? Where did he go? Not that I care but
he’s just vanished,”
she
thought.

She decided she needed a drink
and a sit down so walked over to the bar to order a shot. As she
waited for her drink she could feel eyes on her, she felt the eyes
of one person....her ex, the twins’ father. She tried to discreetly
look around for him but there was no sign of him. Shivers ran
through her. It must be him. Only he had ever had this effect on
her. Then she saw there was a red light on the camera pointing
straight at her. She got her drink, stared right down the lense and
raised her glass at it. Knowing now that it was him that had
something to do with the man who had tried to hit her, she downed
her drink and then she slammed the glass on the bar and turned to
get the girls to go home.

5

James Taylor sat in his office
monitoring the nightclub as he usually did when he was there. He
was watching the camera at the entrance of the club when he saw two
women he knew, Sarah and Tracy. There was a third woman who had her
back to the camera. He was about to shout for Matt and Sam when the
woman turned round, his heart went into his throat when he realised
that it was Alexia. All the feelings he had for her that he learnt
to push to one side came straight back up to the top and all he
could do was sit and watch her every move. He got really irritated
when he saw three guys approach them and started talking to them
but calmed down when he saw Alexia’s unimpressed face. As the night
went on, they started to get a bit drunk and started to dance more
carefree on the dance floor. James called Sam and Matt to join him
in watching them.

‘
Guys, check this out.
It’s our ex-girlfriends,’ James couldn’t bring himself to say her
name.

‘
Holy shit!’ Matt
said.

‘
Damn, they look smoking
hot too!’ Sam said as the girls suddenly broke into a dance routine
on the dance floor. Their eyes were fixed on them.

One guy fancied his chances with
Alexia and started dancing with her, at first she didn’t seem to
mind but James had his hawk eye on him. A few minutes later Alexia
started to push his hands away but the guy didn’t get the message
and James’ blood started to boil.

‘
Someone needs teaching
some manners,’ he said as he stood up and stormed out with Sam and
Matt after him.