Chapter 80 - A Bit Tired

Alice came home tired and fell face first on the bed. She really needed to sleep. Sleeping on the flight was really no good! Just then a loud sound echoed in the silent room and Alice looked down at the offending stomach that had made such a rumbling sound. It seemed to be reminding her that she had not eaten anything since.. she had no idea when! Frowning she tried to think, she was pretty sure that she has eaten something on the flight..

Sigh! Maybe not! She would have to eat something first. As she walked to the kitchen with stooped shoulders, her phone rang. Without looking, she answered, "Hello?" She already knew who could it be and proceeded to scan the empty refrigerator.. She had not re stocked the refrigerator..

"Hey babe. Have you ditched the office yet?"

Smiling she replied with a "mmm" and then followed up, "Yup! And at present I am going on a treasure hunt?"

"Oohh! A treasure hunt, eh? What kind of treasure are you looking for?"

"Food! I forgot to restock the staples and now I have nothing to eat! I might just have to order some take out."

"Ohh! So you have not been taking care of your self? Alice Faye, would you like me to hire a babysitter for you?"

"Shut up, K! I don't need a baby sitter! I was just too busy to eat through the day!"

"Then I will have to arrange a babysitter who knows how to feed little kids.."

In a daze, Alice imagined herself sitting in the conference room with a nanny type looking woman feeding her while the people in their monochrome black suits stared in horror. She giggled at the image even as her stomach rumbled again and complained, "Don't make me laugh, K."

He laughed in that sexy voice of his and Alice forgot for a moment what she had been doing as she straightened up and stood abruptly and almost missed the next question, "So? Why were you so busy that your tortured your stomach so much?"

"It's just the usual day to day thing And you know that I have been away for a while so they are even more excited to receive my 'praises'" She thought back satisfyingly to the 'praise' that she had reigned on the purchasing department head today after his enormous goof up of buying out dated packed food for the store to cut costs! Since he had earned some money from the deal, he needed the rewards and she had made him eat the chips that were beyond their use by date in her office! Let him use the money he had earned to cure his stomach now!

Shaking her head, she continued, "So, did you call me here to ask about my day and nag or did you have something to say?"

"Hmm..."Open the SKY"  show is airing today. For the first episode they have edited the cuts from our last stage just before the accident. It was supposed to be part of the movie but now it is being used for this. And then there will be a few shots from the time when our accident was announced. I wanted to watch it but the others are not in a mood to watch so I wondered of you would accompany me to watch it.."

"Oh." She understood the other boys would not want to look at the clip even as they had agreed to document the process of their recovery. Re watching the process when they were at the highest point to slipping to the lowest point would make them struggle even more.  But K would want to watch. Not because he was unaffected but because he would need to know that the show was coming across as they had intended. 

Grabbing a drink of juice, Alice walked to the couch and opened her laptop as she said,"Hmm..i have time on me. And I was going to watch it anyway! So I will watch it with you."

But when Alice opened the link, she could not help but complain, "Hey! They are charging a bomb to pay per view! Since you want me to accompany you, give me your bank details and I will pay! I am not some rich sugar mama, alright?"

"Of course you are!"

"Adam! I will kill you!"

As Adam's laughter echoed through the line, she heard the internal phone of her apartment go off and went to check, "Madam, did you order take out?"

Just as Alice frowned and was about to answer negatively, Adam said, "Take it. I ordered it for you. This can be our version of Netflix and chill.

Immediately she ordered the guard to bring up the food and took this opportunity to tease," Hey! I am pretty sure that Netflix and chill is some kind of a code word for making out on the couch. That is not what we are going to do, K."

Adam dropped his voice an octave and said teasingly, "Hey we could do that next time. I don't mind!"

She shook her head. She had walked into that trap. "Shut up and let's watch. I will buy it this time round because you ordered me food." And tasty at that, she thought as she gobbled up the food waiting for the show to start.

As the clippings from the concert started to play, Alice could feel the beat once again and thought of the time she had stood there and really experienced it. Soon, though the two were still holding the phone close to their ears, there was no talk and both were watching the videos engrossed. Towards the end as the show panned out and played the news that announced them getting into an accident and the way everyone came together to pray for them. The show ended with Adam announcing the injuries of his brothers. 

As she watched his haggard face and broken expressions, she could feel her throat dry once again and her eyes moistened. She could hear his haggard breathing and knew he was re living that horrifying time. And she knew that millions of their fans would also be crying as they watched this. The lowest point in the lives of SKY. The team had done a good job of editing the show and it was bound to keep SKY in the trends. But, she knew at this moment, he did not want to listen to this. Wiping away her own tears, she teased him, "Hey! Why are you breathing like that? Are you really watching that show or doing something naughty?"

Adam, who had been about to drown in misery, her teasing voice broke the mood. A small smile graced his face as he teased back, "Naughty like what? Like imagining you on the couch under me? I wasn't but now that you have put the thought in my head, I am going to do that!"

Alice felt her mouth fall open and a delicate blush graced her cheeks as once again her vivid imagination supplied the image and she scolded, "Hey! Keep your thoughts out of the gu**er. Something like this is never going to happen!"

"It has already happened!" Adam wanted to say but he didn't say it out loud and instead teased her some more, "Well, that's alright! I can imagine myself under you with your softness pressing me down.."

"Adam Perry!"

"Not that also? Maybe you want me to imagine us on the floor?" 

"Adam Perry! If you don't stop talking now then I will disconnect the call!"

"Hmm.."

When after a few minutes, Adam finally continued to keep quiet, Alice patted her hot cheeks and cleared her throat, "Thank you for not thinking silly things.."

"Who said I was not thinking? I am not just saying them out loud because you threatened me to stop talking."

Alice could feel the steam coming out of her ears as she almost yelled, "Well stop thinking then!"

"Stop thinking what?"

Stop thinking about us on the floor!"

"I wasn't...I was thinking of us against the wall.." 

Alice pressed the red button on the screen and with a small huff buried her face in the cushion! The man was just impossible.."

And then the messages started to ding. She frowned and almost feared opening them and in the end really wished she had not...

"against the table?"

"on the kitchen counter?"

"in the bedroom?"

"in the shower?"

Stabbing at the screen with her finger, Alice typed furiously, "I AM GOING TO BLOCK YOU."

"You mean FU*K?"

Throwing aside her phone, Alice threw away the take out boxes and marched back to the bedroom to sleep thoroughly ignoring the man...

But she could not succeed because K's vivid imagination had supplied lots of fodder to Alice's dream... and she imagined herself and him in all the places he had named... 

The next morning, a panda eyed Alice woke up with murderous intent. She was going to kill him next time! She looked down at her phone and snorted, at least the idiot had some self preservation and had not messaged her again!