Money Is No Match For Love ch. 15 What's The Worse That Could Happen
by lordoftheringsfan
 
 

      The next morning, TC woke up. "That was a long night," TC said, barely able to get any sleep from the constant noise in the neighborhood outside.

      "Pookey, what's going on? Why do I hear TC Russel's voice?" Rebecca asked as she woke up. TC looked down in shock.

      "What do you think you're doing here?" TC asked. Rebecca turned around and screamed at the sight of seeing TC next to her.

      "I should be asking you the same question!" Rebecca said.

      "What are you doing in my bed?" TC asked.

      "What are you doing in my bed?" Rebecca asked.

      "This is my bed," TC reminded her. Rebecca looked around the room and fell out of the bed in shock when she realized TC was right.

      "Oh my God," Rebecca said, jumping to conclusions.

      "Don't worry, nothing happened," TC said with a laugh.

      "This isn't funny, TC! If we weren't doing anything, then what are we doing in your bed?" Rebecca exclaimed.

      "You don't even remember, do you?" TC said with a smirk. Rebecca started to remember the events of the night before. She remembered hearing a noise, kissing TC, and then hearing more noises outside in the nieghborhood and being too scared to go back to her own room alone, and the embarrassing memory of begging TC if she could hide in his room because of some stupid noises.

     "I'm going back to my own room!" Rebecca said defensively, expecting TC to tease her. They heard the noise of a passing car that was having some car trouble. TC immediately started laughing.

     "Oh, they might not be just noises, TC!" TC said with a laugh.

     "You jerk!" Rebecca said. Rebecca's jaw dropped as she remembered begging TC to let her stay in his room and insisting on sleeping in his bed after telling her the noises were just a cat knocking things over outside.

      "Hey, I'm not the one who made a complete fool out of myself." TC said.

      "You insensitive jerk!" Rebecca said.

      "Oh please, if I was an insensitive jerk, I would have told you to go back to your own room and called you a damn Crane, which is what I'm getting tempted to do." TC said. Rebecca pushed TC onto the bed.

      "Don't bother." Rebecca said.

      "Looks like I don't have to worry about you accidentally kissing me again," TC said.

      "Don't hold your breath." Rebecca said. "Good bye!" Rebecca yelled as she left and slammed the door.

      TC couldn't help but laugh. "Do they have a category in the book of world records for the longest time to stay sane while trapped in an apartment with Rebecca Hotchkiss?" TC asked. "Looks like Julian beat me in that category, just like he beat me at tennis. Oh well, Julian can have that title all to himself because he was never sane to begin with."
 

      Julian woke up beside Eve the next morning.

      "Eve, are you alright?" Julian asked, noticing that Eve was looking sadly at a picture of Simone and Whitney.

      "They all hate me, Julian. My daughters and our son all hate me." Eve said.

      "They don't hate you," Julian tried to assure her. "They're just shocked. They'll come around."

      "Julian, they hate me." Eve said. "The way Whitney and Simone looked at me- the names they called me."

      Julian began to feel guilty as he remembered Rebecca telling him that their marraige was over. She was no Eve, but they had been happy together. "If only I hadn't listened to that tape, Eve's daughters wouldn't hate her, TC wouldn't hate her, and Rebecca wouldn't hate me." Julian thought. Julian remembered the 'what if' vision of seeing his life if he had stood up to Alastair and seeing himself with Eve and TC and Rebecca together. "What if the 'what if' visions were also a round about vision of what can be?" Julian thought, wondering what would happen to Eve, Whitney and Simone if TC and Rebecca ever ended up together. "That's rediculous," Julian said outloud.

"Did you say something, Julian?" Eve asked.

"Nothing," Julian said. Julian felt like he should at least call her and try to get things out in the open, wishing he knew where she was.

Eve was wondering the same thing Julian was. "What if the what if visions come true?" Eve asked. "What will happen to my daughters because of what I've done?"