WIP Wednesdays -Dem boyz, Beauty and the Brit (Patreon)

Here's a sneak peek into more Beauty and the Brit to come as promised! ;) It has been edited for some spoilers ;)

Love,

Britt xoxo

Derick helped them bring a few things inside, refusing to just dash off without at least being somewhat useful. “I’ve got to go through the house to the other side anyhow unless I use the side of the house. Either way logically I have to pass the same number of steps more or less and go the direction of your kitchen. Just let me grab a jug or a stack of plates to toss or something!” The girls allowed him to ease his guilt as a result.

Then he hugged them both goodbye and promised to call the next day, which would be his last full day in town before going back to England. Paige felt her heart sink into her stomach at the recollection but her face remained smiling as she said goodbye to him and saw him to the door with Rae.

Once he was gone the two friends spent the next hour and a half unpacking all that had happened to them that day; what they’d been thinking and feeling and how wonderful the night had been.

“I’ve fallen for him and I don’t know what to do Rae,” Paige admitted, “It’s a crush maybe but something inside me pulls me to so much more. He’s just so wonderful and I can’t help myself or my feelings. And tomorrow he goes back to England for God knows how long. I know at this point he’ll keep in touch `coz he’s said so but I… It’s going to be weird and hard for me…”

“You’ll make it through Paige. I have a good feeling. And he’s not gone forever. At minimum he’ll be back for next year’s ‘Gala’!”

“Oh gosh I don’t know if I can wait that long!” she lamented.

Rae attempted to soothe her friend as they both lay on the pillow fort they’d created in Rae’s bedroom. “Paige?”

“Mm?”

“I don’t know if I’m over Nate… Like… at all…” Rae admitted in an almost whisper, afraid and ashamed.

“Really?”

“Mhm. I… Tonight everything I set aside just came rushing back and it brought friends. I feel even more for him now than I ever have before and… and I…”

Paige listened to the uncomfortable silence that followed. “Oh gosh Rae I’m so, so sorry,” Paige whispered as she rolled onto her side to look at her friend.

“Why can’t it be that I just date Hugh, you date Derick and everyone lives happily ever after?”

“Uh well because Hugh’s a misogynistic prick and Derick’s British and...and we haven’t met our fairy godmothers yet?” Paige posed, her voice inflecting at the end.

Rae sighed. “Well mine better goddamn hurry up or she’s getting a mouthful.”

Paige laughed softly, “Yeah.”