บททั้งหมดของ Fixation (Clusterf*ck Series #1): บทที่ 11 - บทที่ 20

It has been three weeks since Callie helped Brody with his frustration. She loves him on a deeper friendship level she knew she'd do anything for him. They've always had that certain kind of relationship, even when there was Hendry between them. Callie knew that they belonged together. She was confident that their friendship will last more than any relationship she'd have. She had understood how both were struggling with one another. She wanted nothing but to be his best friend in his happy place. She knew being with Hendry would make him happy. Callie also knew that marrying Brody will be a whole lot of messy conflicts. She knew that there was no way in hell that her love for her best friend would trump Brody's love for Hendry. And at some stage, she had accepted it. That was also why she kept on getting back and forth to go all the way with her best friend. She wanted him, the man was sexy. Callie had seen glimpses of how the man was blessed below the belt. He was thick and hung. G

It was lunchtime with Vera that made Sloan head out early, leaving his desk and walking to the small restaurant one block away from the office. She was already there when he arrived. Vera said that she had an appointment nearby after lunch. It was why she had called her brother the night before for their lunch date. "Mom told me that she worries about you," Vera asked when the waiter left the table with their order. "Was there even an appointment, or is this your way of butting into my life?" He drinks his glass of water trying to calm himself down. Sloan knows that his family meant well and he needs to keep his cool. "Sloan, you're my only brother. I care about you. Are you seeing someone?" Her eyes locked into his, just like they did when they were kids and she wanted him to tell the truth. Those days it was as simple as how she had made him promise that he wouldn't tell Mom and Dad when he saw her kissing their hot next-door neighbor who Sloan had the biggest crush on growing up.

After the family dinner, Callie's cousin pulled her aside. Callie thought Corrine looked beautiful, she was glowing with happiness for her upcoming nuptials. It really showed how she was really in love with her fiance. That fact was the one thing Callie was not expecting from her cousin. Since they were kids they had been close, though Corrine and Callie knew that every summer they had to part as Callie and her family packed up to go to their lake house while Corrine was stuck with her boring summer activities. Year after year everything was good until one day Callie's dad decided that summers were not enough and he uprooted their lives to climb up the social ladder, moving to join the wealthy. Growing up, Corrine was one of the wild ones. She was the first one to talk to Callie about boys when they were barely legal. They were close, as close as two teenage cousins growing up in the suburbs can be. Like regular teenage girls, they giggled their way through many mischievous weekends

Sloan was hesitant but in the end, his urge to please the man wins. Maybe he shouldn't give in that easily but when he saw how Hendry's face fell the second he concluded that Sloan was keeping the thing between them a secret from Sloan's family, he knew that he had to prove him wrong. Though Sloan knew that it was his decision, he was still nervous about introducing Hendry, his boss, and his lover, to his family. His name alone dripped with wealth that Sloan knew that his mom was going to ask questions and his overprotective sister was going to demand an explanation. Sloan didn't want to put pressure on their first family meet, he thought he'd still have time. He thought the situation would simmer down before the impromptu dinner. "Okay, you need to stop looking so nervous, baby brother." His sister Vera nudged his elbow playfully while her three children were kept busy by her husband in the living room. "I'm not, well maybe a little." Sloan took a deep breath before he continued,

The day started with everything being off with her. She dreaded that she had to go to the silly women's luncheon, but Callie knows that it was what was expected of her from her parents. Now, more than ever because she was going to be married to Brody. She needs to fit with the lifestyle her mom had said, and Callie was pushing herself feeling like she was about to burst from the tension alone. For now, no one knows except for her, and Callie intended to keep it that way. The invitation that her mom had sent weeks ago was under her name, Callie Delaney Cromwell. But that's all that was right about the freaking day. First of all, she woke up late and hurriedly drove across town because she didn't want to come alone to the luncheon where everyone can be so judgemental with the likes of her. Yes, she wasn't born dripping with wealth and no matter how rich her family had become, the fact remains that her family was nouveau riche, new money. Whatever they called her family in soft whispers,