Page 8 of Infinity

CHAPTER 3

ADAM

Pulling out of the garage, I find a spot to pull over where I’m out of view of the garage, not that Darcy would give a shit. Leaning my head back against the headrest, I close my eyes and sigh loudly. Wow, she’s a force to be reckoned with! I think I may need to work at this one.

Fuck it, she has my number… it’ll only be a matter of time – she won’t be able to resist me! Well I hope anyway.

As a smirk pulls at my mouth from thinking about what I could do with feisty Darcy, I pull my phone from my pocket and text my brother Chris;

C: You at home bro?

I wait for a minute or so but I don’t get an answer, heading that way instead to see if he’s at home. Pulling on the drive of his and Taylor’s house, I see Chris’ car but not Taylors – she must be at work. I ring the doorbell and wait…

Seeing Chris rubbing his eyes as he walks towards the door in just joggers and no t-shirt tells me I woke him up. Fuck!

He gives me a chin lift as he opens the door. “Sup?” Chris asks me through a yawn. He opens the door wide and lets me walk in.

“Sorry I didn’t mean to wake you? I did text first but I thought I’d come anyway and if you weren’t in, I knew Taylor would be?”

“Yeah, but I had to get up anyway Taylor’s had to go into the office for a meeting and I’m on nights this week, last one tonight though. What’s up, did you want a drink?”

“Coffee please, mate.”

Chris nods and prepares the cups and puts the kettle on to make us a drink. I sit down on the sofa and rest my feet on the coffee table.

“Oi, get your feet down! If Taylor walks in and sees ya, she’ll go mental.” I take my feet from the table and sit up on the settee. “Come on then what’s up?” Chris asks as he places the cups on the table.

“Fancy going out this weekend?”

“Adam. You wouldn’t come around here just to ask me that.”

He’s right, he knows I would have messaged him instead. “I need your advice... I’ve met this girl, well, I’ve only met her a couple of times, I want to get to know her better but she’ll barely give me the time of day.” I frown. On seeing my dilemma Chris thinks it’s really funny, then laughs loudly at me.

“You mean to tell me that she hasn’t fallen for your cocky attitude straight away? I like this girl already. Come on then what’s she like?” Narrowing my eyes at him, I begin to tell him.

“She’s a redhead, petite and she’s fucking gorgeous but she’s kind of moody, she’s a mechanic at Ambrose mechanics in town. I tried my normal glowing personality on her and I think she wanted to run me over with my own truck, then I went back there today and she was even moodier.” He looks across at me with raised eyebrows then laughs some more.

“I’m glad you think this is funny!” My voice takes on a higher pitch, “I even tried flirting with her and she said my girlfriend wouldn’t like it. Oh, and you know why that is? She thinks Taylor is my fucking girlfriend because she picked me up from there the other day, so now she won’t even speak to me!”

Laughing loudly again Chris says, “Oh, Ad, you’re an arrogant fucker at times so it’s not surprising is it, just hang in there. I don’t think there’s anyone as difficult as Taylor was.”

“Yeah but that’s different, you were fucking her!” I tell him wide eyed, not seeing how that’s relevant to this case.

The smile that was spread across his face has now turned into a frown. “We were also friends for a while remember, and I never thought of it as fucking her, I always wanted more with Taylor. She just needed to get on the same page as me. Anyway, Taylor was a lot different to what this girl sounds like though. Try being her friend and not try getting into her knickers straight away, that might help – if she sees you genuinely like her, you never know - you might win some brownie points with her. Earn her trust first.”

“Friend. Does that shit really work?” I ask screwing up my nose. Chris shakes his head at me.

“You’re unbelievable, but yeah it works sometimes.”

I drink the rest of my coffee after agreeing with Chris that might be the best plan, changing the subject, we talk about work, I tell him about my new book I’m writing, a suspense thriller.

Talking like this with Chris reminds me of when we were a bit younger, Chris, me and Todd were always close – we hardly ever see Aidan – he’s always working. I hear the key turn in the lock and see Taylor walk in, go straight over to Chris and kiss him.

“You got one of those for me, gorgeous?” Winking at her and she snorts loudly.

“You wish. These are all for my hot boyfriend I’m afraid. How’s your mechanic?”

“Don’t ask, in fact yeah ask him, he’ll fill you in, shit, literally - I’m going, see you later.” Kissing Taylor on the cheek, I make my way out back to my truck and drive home.

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