- Chapter 6
At work, Liz waited for Ricardo to show up to see if he confessed to sleeping with Bella. But around ten o’clock when Ricardo came to work holding hands with Bella it was pretty obvious that the two of them were together.
“Well look who decided to show up for work today,” Liz teased.
“I figured I deserved a late day so I could keep up with your working habits lately.”
“Hi, Bella,” Liz said as she gave Bella a look of approval.
Although Liz wasn’t entirely sure she approved and she knew Harrison wouldn’t approve at all, Liz wasn’t about to say anything to Bella in front of Ricardo.
“Hey Liz, want to catch lunch later? I’m going to go shop for a bit this morning.” Bella said as she squeezed Ricardo’s hand and then kissed him.
Liz stood there as Ricardo and Bella started making out like they were high school kids. She stood there…and stood there…waiting for them to get done.
“Geez guys, that’s enough.”
“Sorry,” Ricardo said as he wiped Bella’s lip gloss off of his lips.
“Yes Bella, let’s do lunch around one o’clock,” Liz said as she rolled her eyes at Ricardo.
Bella took off down the hallway and stopped to turn around and wave at Ricardo. Ricardo waved back like he was possessed or something, waving his hand back and forth well after Bella had disappeared into the elevator.
“Wow, Ricardo. What was that?”
“What?”
“You’re really going after Bella?”
“Is it weird? I’m sorry.”
“No, I don’t care. But she’s a wild one. Do you think you can handle a girl like her? She’s pretty much the opposite of me.” Liz laughed as she sat down to get back to work.
“I don’t know what to say. She’s not really the type of girl I was looking for, but we click and we talked for hours last night.”
“Oh, you talked?” Liz said with a wink.
“Come on. You know what I mean. We really get along. We talked about our dreams and goals. It was one of the best dates of my life.”
“Wow, that’s exciting I guess.”
Liz wanted to tell Ricardo to stay away from Bella, but seeing how much he genuinely liked her it didn’t seem like a good idea. Liz knew how good love could feel and didn’t want to take that feeling away from Ricardo and Bella if that was what was going on between the two of them.
At lunch, Liz sat down and instantly wanted to hear from Bella about what she thought of Ricardo.
“I know, I know, you don’t want me dating Ricardo,” Bella said as she hugged Liz.
“Nah, I don’t care who you date. Just make sure you know what you’re getting into. Ricardo is a work-a-holic. As for girls he’s more into the one night stands than an ongoing dating thing.”
“Yeah, I kind of got that vibe. But I’m not looking for anything serious either right now.”
“Well as long as you go into it with your eyes open. Have fun I guess.” Liz didn’t want to be Bella’s mother.
Even though Liz and Harrison had been dating for a year, Liz worked hard to maintain her friendship with Bella without letting it turn into something weird. Liz couldn’t just butt into Bella’s love life now, it just wouldn’t work. Liz had to just be supportive as Bella’s friend.
“Don’t tell Dad.”
“Oh geez Bella, I can’t start keeping secrets. That’s exactly what I don’t like about what’s going on with your father and me right now.”
“Well don’t lie. But just don’t go out of your way to tell him I’m dating Ricardo. Can you do that at least?”
“Yeah, I’ll just try to avoid the subject.”
“I’m going to stay for a couple weeks. I’ll have to tell Dad something about why I’m here. I’ll just say something about meeting a boy and leave it at that.”
“Oh god, Harrison is going to flip out when he finds out who it is.”
“He knows Ricardo?”
“He met him. He was jealous, thought I might run off with Ricardo.”
“Oh, my gosh, that is so funny.”
“I don’t think he’ll think it is funny,” Liz said as she started eating the bread which had been brought to the table.
The girls sat and enjoyed their lunch and changed the topic from men to shopping. After a solid hour of shoe talk, Liz headed back to work and Bella decided she needed to catch up on some sleep.
When Liz finished off her day of work and headed back to the hotel room it was just as the sun had set. She was exhausted but felt really good about the progress she had made on their project. It would only be a couple more weeks and they would be totally done.
As Liz got to the lobby of the hotel Harrison called over Skype.
“Hi baby,” Liz answered.
“How was work?”
“It was good. Bella and I had a nice long lunch.”
“Is she around?”
“I’m just heading up to the room. I think she’s up there sleeping.”
“You still going to be home around the tenth?” Harrison asked as he flipped through the calendar on his desk.
“Yep, let’s just plan the tenth. I’ll make sure I’m done with my work and home that day.”
“Love it! I can’t wait to see you.”
Liz had just entered the elevator and she started laughing.
“Oh, you want to see me?” Liz said as she lifted up her shirt and flashed her boobs to Harrison over Skype.
“Oh my god. I miss those. Again, again.” Harrison joked.
Liz got off the elevator and started walking down the hallway.
“I’m off the elevator now. It can be that someone might see.”
“Do it anyway.” Harrison urged Liz.
Liz looked behind her and then down the hallway and no one was coming. So she flashed Harrison again. This time leaving her shirt pulled up and moving the camera in close to her nipple, as she stood there and played with it for the camera.
“Happy?” Liz asked.
“Oh yes. I can’t wait to see you at home. I’ve got something for you to play with.”
“Oh, I bet you do. Is it big and hard and likes to be sucked on?”
“Yes.”
Liz got her room key out and opened the door to the hotel room. Bella wasn’t there. Liz whispered to Harrison. Liz panicked for a minute. How on earth would she explain Bella being unavailable again? Bella was going to have to start calling her father on her own, Liz didn’t like being stuck in the middle of this.
“She’s asleep. Do you want me to wake her up?” Liz knew he would say no.
“No, just tell her to call me.”
As they hung up the phone Liz let out a huge sigh of relief.