Just Cant Turn You Down

5

Micheal sat on the beach with some of his buddies. They had spent a week solid writing, he missed Izzy like mad and worse than that, he couldn't tell his friends how hard it was to be away.

"Dude you're like your boring self times 10, what's going on?" Chris asked sitting beside his friend.

"Just working on the album and stress, tryna get it all worked out" he lied.

"You're in Bora Bora writing songs and your complaining your stressed? Come on" he said pushing Hardy looked up at Chris from over his glasses,

"it's serious shit" Hardy pushed as Chris nodded and leaned in more.

"What's going on?" He asked after a second. Worried about his friend.

"I can't even fucking tell you man I don't know how" he stressed as his head hurt. He felt like Izzy was a dirty secret, he didn't want her to feel that way. He wanted to show her off to the world.

"Just tell me, how bad can it be?" he asked sitting back as Hardy turned to see him.

"I'm seeing Morgan's Sister, and he doesn't know" he spat out as Chris quickly sat up again,

"Dude!"

"Don't, I know, he's gonna fucking flip, and it's getting pretty serious, I told her...I said I loved her last week" he said feeling a ton weight lift from his shoulders.

"Fuck, do you?" He asked him as Hardy looked back in horror.

"Of course I do, I just... Morgan's my best friend, I damn near owe him my career. I never planned for this to happen" he said rubbing his head as he sat back with his friend.

"I'm sure once you talk to him he won't be as bad as you think he will." Chris told him as he rubbed his shoulder.

"You don't see him with Izzy man, it's his baby sister, and it's like it's been months now you know, he needs to know but the more I push Izzy on it the more she pushes me away" he said as Chris shook his head.

"Dude just tell him. What's the worst that could happen" his friend shrugged as the waves from the beach got closer as the tide came in.

"I'll lose em both" he said looking away as the thought killed him inside.

"Nah that's just stress talking, after all you and Morgan have been through you think this is gonna be the thing that breaks you? And if she loves you the same way you love her he'll get over it" Chris said slowly so Hardy heard his words.

"Maybe so, I just hate the thought of losing any one of 'em and at the rate Izzy's moving at he's not gonna know till our fucking wedding day"  he said feeling stressed again.

"Micheal, if there was any guy on the planet that Morgan would ever trust with his sister, it should be you. I can't tell just by the ways you talking about her" he said smiling as Hardy chuckled.

"Thanks Chris" Hardy said as they got up and headed back to the house for supper.

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Izzy sat with her brother on the sofa as they watched an episode of The Bachelor.  She was texting on her phone with Delaney when her phone rang. It was Hardy. She jumped up answering the FaceTime call and turning her phone on silent while she moved to her room.

"Hay! Let me get my folder and I can help you out." She said, that was her signal to Hardy that she was with Morgan.

She skipped to her room, laying on the bed and staining down at Hardy's bright red cheeks. "Damn the suns been nasty to you" she giggled as he smiled.