After endless hours of training, the team decide to go out for a night in town, just to hang loose. Annie is unsure of leaving her children with a sitter, but Gerard coaxes her into it. With the insecurity building up inside of her, she stares at herself long and hard in a Herve Ledger white bandaged dress with long sleeves. The dress itself is short, revealing her tanned olive skin legs, but she adds height with a pair of blue suede Cavalli pumps. She touches the hips, realizing her curves have become emphasized since the twins' births, and she has lost several extra pounds.
Sighing, she looks over to Gerard, who is knotting his tie, and asks subconsciously, "Give me your honest opinion, please."
Gerard glances at her, and eyes the dress from head to toe. She anticipates his casual response, but instead is surprised when he walks over and cups her cheeks gently in the palms of his warm hands. "Siempre ves hermosa, mi amor," he responds in his raspy native tongue. She feels her cheeks brighten with color and he smiles down at her. "We should have left the twins with my mother . . ."
"Why?" she snaps quickly, knitting her brows.
He puckers his lips, conjecturing for a kiss, and when Annie keeps her mouth still, he chuckles at her. "So that we could be alone. So that we could finally get that 'vacation' you wanted."
Although she knows he is correct, she doesn't give him that satisfaction. She doesn't want her children around his mother for too long, not after all the hurtful words she had beseechingly said behind Annie's back. Instead, she shrugs her shoulders and follows her husband out for the limousine they will be sharing with the team and their dates.
She sits beside Miley, Cesc, Xabi and his wife Nagore, and Fernando and his wife Olalla. Directly across, sitting quietly beside Fernando, is Sergio and his date, Marzia. Annie crosses her legs, slipping her hand into Gerard's before turning to Miley and saying quietly, "Has she introduced herself to you?"
Miley nods, an eyebrow slightly raised in hidden suspicion. "She means well."
But Annie doesn't think so. The way Marzia laughs, a seductive and lust-filled laughter that causes a sensual stir in the atmosphere of the limousine, makes Annie ready to rip her hair out. The way she wears Annie's red bandaged skirt with Annie's tight white shirt, all from Maximum, makes Annie lose the only bit of sanity left in her body.
"Are you okay?" Olalla asks once they enter the club Ananda. The memories of the World Cup 2010 celebration party fill Annie's mind, momentarily transporting her back in time to an easier lifestyle. But instead of pouring out all her emotions for the woman who has just recently given birth, Annie nods silently and heads to the bar for a shot of vodka.
"That will go straight to your head."
Annie turns to glance over her shoulder, the vodka's burn settling in her esophagus as Sergio sits next to her, uninvited. "That's what I need," she mutters bleakly, downing an extra shot before eyeing him mysteriously.
"You look different," he says suddenly.
"Why aren't you with your new girlfriend?" The words slip from Annie's lips before she can stop herself. Once they are exposed, she flares her nostrils and exhales a breath through her nose before closing her eyes, anticipating his response.
"I could say the same for you and your husband," he points out sourly. When Annie doesn't respond, Sergio presses further: "You shouldn't be mad anyway. You told me to get out—"
"I'd rather not talk about that . . . t-that kiss, okay?" she shoots back fearlessly, a frown forming on her lips. "I'd rather that stay in the past, where it belongs." But Annie herself doesn't know what she is talking about, for as Sergio gets up to encounter his girlfriend once more, she wants to stop him; she wants to throw her lips over his and tell him to continue from that paused evening in London.
But as Gerard asks her for a dance, holding her body comfortably next to his, she tries hard to erase Sergio from her mind. However, Gerard, noticing with keen eyes the desperation in Annie's eyes, whispers delicately, "Are you alright, hermosa?"
The hidden secrets are building up inside of her. In the middle of the dance floor, the same club in which Gerard proved himself differently and Annie pushed her dreams aside for life, Annie shouts over the loud music just for Gerard to hear: "I kissed Sergio."
And all hell breaks loose.
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32.) Midnight Lullaby.by stashhjonas223 views
ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE ! OHHH LORDD !
BieberJonaslover123 10 months ago
I hope Gerard doesn't overreact because at least Annie told him the truth and that is all that should matter.
LovingProductionsxx 10 months ago
HELLNAH. PLEASE TELL ME THIS DIDN'T JUST HAPPEN.
Mitchix33 10 months ago
Gerard please don't overreact it was a small,simple mistake! Poor Annie,but I'm glad she told him the truth.
holly96er 10 months ago
Dammit. Please, Gerard, be the amazing, understanding man i really want you to be who won't overreact. . . Well, at the same time, i'm kinda mad too. It seems like Annie has feelings for Sergio and I don't like that. :( But at the same time, I feel like, it's just a phase where she wants something else to find out what she needs (GERARD -COUGH-COUGH-) Anyways, I really wish the kiss never happened, but now . . . something's gonna break out... /:
FAILiAM 10 months ago