Falling Hard

It had gone more then a week since I met the wonderful Eleanor. I had gone out with her and the other models three times last week, once to a lunch and two times to the pub. When the weekend came she forced me to go out with her and her other friends also. They were a really nice group of friends and I adored Eleanor, she is such a kind person. We had a lot of fun together. Eleanor and I had a fast and easy relationship, it felt like we had known each other for a long time. Funny how you meet a person like that and it feels like you've known them your whole life, but in real life it had only been two weeks.

Eleanor had talked a lot about her boyfriend, who she really seemed to love. The way she talked about him, he seemed like a real prince charming. So I was trilled a wednesday when we went out for lunch and she asked me if I wanted to come over for dinner with her and her man. Of course I wanted to meet the man of her life. We decided that I would come over the following saturday and I was a little nervous about it. I decided to dress up a little and put on a simple black dress. It was about seven in the evening when I rang the doorbell. The door opened and inside stood a tall, light brown-haired man in beige pants and a white T-shirt. I froze for a second before I caught myself and smiled, I knew this man. I didn't know-know him, but I knew of him.

“Hi, you must me Sofia.” He extended his hand towards me. “I'm Louis.”

“Hi Louis, so nice to meet you.” I shook his hand while the flutters in my stomach kept going. I was a little chocked.

“Come in.” He opened the door even more for me to come inside. I took off my jacket while Eleanor came towards me.

“Hey you, welcome.” He gave me a hug before taking my jacket from me and hanging it on the hook next to the door.

“Thank you. I love your place.” I looked around the big room that contained both the living room and a huge kitchen area.

“Yeah, we love it here, you should see it in the summer.” Eleanor started showing me around the beautiful apartment. Someone had a real talent for decorating, this place was gorgeous. When we where in the bedroom and I felt pretty sure Louis couldn't hear me from the kitchen, I leaned toward Eleanor.

“Why didn't you tell me who he was?” I asked fully knowing that Louis was a part of a huge music group. I hadn't been living under a rock the past years, even though I wasn't a great concert-goer.

“Sorry, I just don't like barging about it. I want people to like me for who I am not for who my boyfriend is.” She looked down at the floor while talking.

“I understand that and you know I like you for the crazy person you are.” I smiled at her. “But it would have been great to have known before I came here, feeling like an idiot not knowing what to say.” I laugh and she joined in.

“You're right, I'm sorry. I should have told you.” She took my arm and led me out of the room. “But now you know and can get to know my lovely boyfriend.” We came out to the big room where they had laid out a lot of food on the big table beside the cooking island that was the center of the kitchen area. Louis just put the last casserole on the table as we sat down to feast on this wonderful food.

“Would you like some wine?” He asked me as he got the bottle from the counter.

“Yes thank you, that would be great.”

It felt a little weird at the beginning, I had never met a celebrity before and this guy was huge in the music business. But he was sweet and when you didn't think about what he did for a living, he was just a normal person like the rest of us. But this guy was hilarious, I could see why Eleanor liked him. They where perfect for each other, she was a joker herself. Together they where such fun to be with, I hadn't laughed this much in a long time.

“So what do you like to do on your spare time Sofia?” Louis asked as he filled my glass with more wine, this was my third glass and I was beginning to get a little tipsy.

“I like to take photos and read books.” I took a sip of the wine that burned in a good way in my throat. The food had been cleared of the table. It had been a lovely meal, they really knew how to cook. Now we had moved over to the couch and continued our wine drinking and talking.

“Oh, what kind of photos do you take?” He leaned over and grabbed a handful of nuts from the table.

“Mostly nature and urban photography, but back home I also took some of my friends and family as well. I even photographed a wedding once.” I could here that I slurred a little when I talked.

“Wow, thats great. Why don't you work as a photographer then?” He took Eleanor's hand and stroke the back of it. I felt a pang of jealousy, it had been a while since I've been touched by someone I loved. I looked out the window to dispel myself from their love. Even if it was sweet, it was hard to see.

“I was thinking about it a while back, but then life came in between and all of a sudden I moved here. And I don't really think I have a chase of working as a photographer here. I'm too unknown.” I said a little more honest than I though I would. It's probably the wine talking.

“No, I think you could make it.” He said with a smile. “Right honey?” He patted Eleanor on her knee.

“Of course, you can practice on me if you'd like.” She offered sweetly.

“Yeah, sure. Why not!” I laughed a little, not liking to talk about myself to much.

I felt the wine deep in my system and realized that it was time for me to get home and to bed. I thanked them both for a lovely dinner and hugged Eleanor at the door before I left to get a cab. It had been a great evening and I was surprised at how easy it was to talk to those two. They both have some quality that makes you feel comfortable around them. I felt happy as I sat in the car on the way home. This had been one of the best nights since I came here. But now I was tired.

I was happy when I walked to work that monday. I was happier than I'd been in a long while. I felt like this was going to work out. I still had all the bad memories from back home, but I could ignore that more easily here. And thanks to Eleanor I even had a friend.

Mr. Hart was waining on me when I got to work, today we where going to shoot a series of images for a new television show. That would be fun. We packed all the equipment that we would need and he drove his car to the location on a big farm. It was a beautiful area with green meadows around the farm houses. There was a few different places where Mr. Hart wanted the shoots to be, so I walked around and got the places set up so we could start when the actors came.

It was a long day. We had photographed in the barn, on the field and at the house. I was dirty and tired when I got home and decided to have a bath. I even found hay in my hair as I took out my braid. I laughed a little as I started the water in the tub. I put in the bath oil that I had bough before and a smell of lavender and vanilla filled the room. It smell wonderful in there. I walked to the bedroom to get my bathrobe before I got back and into the now full tub. It was wonderfully warm and made my muscles relax. This was really the best thing in this apartment, other than this it really only was an old, worn apartment.

After an hour in the bath I was sitting on the couch wrapped in my bathrobe, drinking tea, when my phone beeps. I've got a text message.

From Eleanor
Hi! We're gonna have a party saturday, you have to come! Will u?

Of course I wanted to go to a party at their house. Sounds fun to meet all their friends, I've only met a few of Eleanor's when I went to the pub with her.

To Eleanor
Hi. I'd love to! Of course I'll come.

The week went slow, I didn't have too much work at the studio. It was the bad thing about what I did, it could be really slow some weeks and more than full time the next. But I tried to see the positive in it, I sat in the park and read a book, took walks and tried a new receipt for bread.

That wednesday I got a text from Jack, which by the way forbid me to call him Mr. Hart, that asked me to work on saturday. I wasn't to trilled about working on a saturday and especially not the one when I was going to a party. But I needed the money and could come later to the party. Eleanor understood when I texted and told her that I'd come later. She was just happy that I would come.

Me and Jack was going to a town nearby for this job and thats why it would take longer then a usual photoshoot, only the drive took about ninety minutes. But it was a fun job, we got to photograph a few local politicians that had a meeting there. So the photoshoot was a bit different from when we take photos of models. It went over time though because we had to wait for the meeting to be over. So when I got home, it was a bit later then I would have thought. I quickly took a shower and threw on a pair of tight black jeans and one of my favorite T-shirts. I didn't have the time or energy to find something nicer to wear. I popped into a cab and made it to their house by eleven.

The party was in full bloom and there was a lot more people there then I thought would fit. Eleanor opened the door and greeted me with a big hug, I could tell she'd had a few cocktails already.

“I'm so glad you're her! You have to come and meet everyone.” She yelled at me over the music that was blowing out of the speakers. I could se people everywhere, they where sitting on the couch, standing in the window, by the table, the kitchen and even the bedroom seemed to be occupied with people talking.

She dragged me to the kitchen area, took a beer out of the fridge and handed it to me. I was happy for the beer, after a long day like this a beer was perfect. Then she started to introduce me to the people who stood there. I had met two of them before, Haylie and Rob. Both of them very nice and gave me a welcoming hug. The others was very kind also but I couldn't keep up with their names. There was to many of them.

It was there, while I was standing in the middle of the crowd in the kitchen looking around the big room to see who was there and if a could recognize anyone, that I saw him. My eyes wander from his sexy crooked smile and a sweet dimple in his left cheek, up to the tousled brown hair. He was hot, no doubt about it, but something else captivated me. All of a sudden the mesmerizing green eyes looked back at me, but for some reason I couldn't look away...

Notes

She finally sees him. What do you think will happen?