I got REALLY bored today. I took about 10 minutes between writing essays and short stories for school and made this wallpaper for the story. It's not my best, but I like it.
It's my first fic wallpaper!
And now, because I need to be distracted from writing stupid school things, here's a new chapter!!!
Chapter 3
Sydney walked into her apartment that she shared with her two best friends; Will and Francie. Recently, Francie and Will had begun dating, which hadn’t been awkward for Sydney until she broke up with Danny. Now seeing them together, so much in love, made her feel like her heart was being torn out of her chest. It was horrible. She missed having someone in her life like that, but it wouldn’t happen for a while. Originally, after breaking up with Danny, she had felt okay with it. She thought that she was over it, but she wasn’t.
Maybe she needed a rebound guy; someone who might help her get through this. She couldn’t go straight to some guy and jump into a relationship. Not seeing it until now, her trust in men is now non-existent. She should have realized it before, but she had been hurt that someone could do something like that to her. She had never been in love with Danny; something had been holding her back from him.
Maybe it was the fact that her father had never been around… but she couldn’t really blame him for not being around her, he had loved her mother more than anything in the world. When she died, a part of him went with her. He couldn’t look at her anymore because she reminded him so much of her.
She closed the door behind her and made her way into the kitchen where she heard Francie and Will arguing over something. It turned out that they were arguing over whether or not the tomato sauce needed more chilli powder or not. Francie was force-feeding a spoon of it into Will’s mouth as Sydney walked into the room. They all started laughing at the amusing situation.
“Hey Syd. How was work?” Will asked.
“Not too bad. I met one of Weiss’ friends from back in LA,” Sydney stated with a slight grimace.
“What’s that all about?” Francie asked when she saw Sydney’s reaction.
“He was just a total jackass.”
“What did he do?” Francie asked.
“He just didn’t understand that I couldn’t let him go into the restaurant unescorted or without me knowing that he actually is friends with Weiss. I didn’t want to just let him wander through the place; that could get me fired. And I definitely didn’t want to get fired on my first night.”
“Did he at least apologize?” Will asked.
“Yeah, but it wasn’t really a proper apology. He just said that he was sorry for acting like a jackass and I didn’t accept it. Then he said that we should try to get along for Weiss’ sake. So I agreed to that part. Weiss’ friendship just means too much to me.”
Francie and Will nodded. They set the table and ate their dinner while talking about their days and the news. Will had just begun a new job at the New York Times as their newest and brightest journalist, so there were many things to celebrate.
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“Guys?” Sydney called in the morning when she saw Will and Francie at the table eating breakfast. They turned their heads to see what she wanted. “Weiss wants us all to come over this weekend, that guy that I told you about last night… well Weiss wanted to have a get together to make him feel welcome. Do you want to come?”
“Sure!” Francie answered excitedly.
“Ok, great! I’ll call him and tell him we’ll see him on Sunday night!”
Sydney went to the phone and dialled Weiss’ number, hearing someone other than him answer the phone, “Hello?” the voice asked.
“Hi, this is Sydney. Is Weiss there?”
“Sydney? The hostess from the restaurant?”
“Uh, yeah… why?” she asked hesitantly.
“It’s Michael Vaughn. Look, I really do want to apologize for the way I treated you last night, I was just in a foul mood.”
“Look, it was my first day and I just didn’t want to get in trouble for letting some guy in. We’ve had things like that happen before.”
“Well, you didn’t deserve any of that. I treated the situation horribly.”
“Don’t worry about it,” Sydney said.
“So, why are you calling on this wonderful evening?”
“Well, I wanted to tell Weiss that Francie, Will and I are able to come over on Sunday night.”
“Oh, that sounds great. I’ll tell him,” they paused for an awkward moment of silence.
“Well, I guess I should go. I bet you have something else to do.”
“Actually, I don’t. I don’t have any meetings tomorrow at all.”
“Meetings?” Sydney asked.
“Oh, right. I’m in town for a big merger that’s happening between the law firm that I work with and another one.”
“Oh, that sounds exciting…” Sydney said softly.
“Yeah, no… not really,” Vaughn laughed. “I guess I should let you go…” he paused, “Are you doing anything tomorrow?” he asked nervously.
Sydney blushed over on her end, “Um… I kind of have work.”
Vaughn mentally slapped himself, “Oh, right. Well I guess I’ll see you on Sunday,” he said.
“Well, I don’t work on weekends,” Sydney slipped in quickly.
Vaughn smiled, “Really?” he said happily, “Are you free Saturday?”
“I don’t know. I mean, something could come up,” she said jokingly. “I’d have to know what you would plan for us to do…”
“Well, I haven’t been to New York in about 12 years, so I would have to say… a picnic in Central Park and a trip to the Statue of Liberty.”
Sydney giggled, “You know, after living here for my entire life, I have not been to the statue of liberty.”
“Well, I guess I’ll just have to take you there,” he said.
“I guess you will,” Sydney said.
“When and where pick you up?”
“Do you have a car here?” she asked.
“The firm is lending me one while I’m here.”
“Okay, that’s great then!” she said excitedly before giving him her address, “When do you want to pick me up?” she asked.
“I guess 11:00 would be good, that way we get to the park around noon,” he replied.
“11:00 sounds great!” she said excitedly.
“I’ll see you then,” he said before they hung up.
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Chapter 4
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