DJ Got Me Falling In Love

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"Come on El, you are going to be late for school" I yelled at him from the bottom of the stairs.

"I'm coming!" I hear him yell back.

It's been two days since the situation happened between me and Brooke. I vaguely remember the things that happened. I remembered her coming out of the closet area, did she take a peak in the other room? No, she would never do that. I remember leaning on her while I started to cry way harder than I meant to do, I just felt safe. John was just a dickhead that night, whenever he is drunk, he says a lot of inappropriate things and makes fun of my past. I love him, I do, he is a great husband, and never disappoints me, only when he is drunk. He gives me the life that I wanted, I think. I remember Brooke going away to get me something, but everything was a blur from that moment. When I woke up the next morning, I was wearing an oversized shirt with a glass of water next to me with some pills and a letter under it.

Hi Val,

Please take these pills, drink some water, and eat something. You might be wondering how you ended up in that shirt. Yes, I helped you change your clothes, but I didn't do anything inappropriate ;). When I see you next, I'll have a lot of questions about what happened, so be ready for that.

Take care,

Brooke 

I'm not sure if I'm prepared to discuss what happened. I'm afraid she might judge me and call me weak for not taking action. I don't think I'm ready to confront her.

But here I am driving El to school ready to see her, hopefully, it's not her turn to be on the lookout at the door for the children. When I parked my car I was trying to look for her, not to speak to her but to stay away. I had bad luck, she was standing at the door greeting everyone. When I looked up in her eyes, I saw her looking at me. Ah shit. 

"Come on El" I said to Eleonor who is taking so long to get his backpack out of the car. I squat through my legs to be at the same level as El. 

"Do you have everything, my dear?" I asked him and he nodded his head. I opened my arms so he hugged me.

We walked hand in hand to the school door. I saw Brooke smiling at El, while I was checking her clothes out, almost every time I see her she is wearing leggings with a shirt. Of course, it's becoming winter so she was wearing a long coat, but I can still see her leggings under it.

"Hi Eleonor, Mrs Wilmsen" she greets us and I greet her back. I saw her becoming nervous, so I thought that was my cue to leave.

"Wait!" I heard her shout, oh fuck, here it comes, and I rolled my eyes. I turned around so we are standing face to face.

"Yes?" I asked her with a questioning look.

"I know we are not best friends, but I do really care about you, so do you maybe want to go for a drink?" she asked me. Ooeehh smooth Brooke.

"Look Brooke, I know you want to know what happened, but you have to pay then" I said with a grin on my face, she started to smile and nodded.

"Is your number still the same?" She asked me and I nodded. 

"So I see you didn't delete it ehh" I said to her with a smirk, and she rolled her eyes.

"Bye, Mrs. Wilmsen" she said, and I chuckled. I said goodbye and went back to the car.

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"Good morning, Chloe" I said when I stepped into the company. Ugh, every time I see her I just want to fire her, but I know it's not right. She has nothing to do with the situation between me and Brooke. 

When I walked in, I saw John already sitting behind his desk. I have avoided him for the last two days. He looked up from his desk and smiled at me.

"Val, can we talk about what happened?" he said out of nowhere, I let a deep sigh.

"Do we really need to do this now, I would like to get the inventory done" I said to him with annoyance in my voice.

"Yes, because when we are home you just avoid me so there I can't even be in a room with you because you just walk away"

"Yes, I have my reasons" I said.

"Come on Val, you know I didn't mean what I said at the party, you also know what I think about you doing music, I'm just so sorry for the way I said it. I understand that being drunk is totally not a good reason for the way I acted"he said.

 "No it's not, but that doesn't mean that it can't hurt. I don't understand why you always start about me being a DJ. We spoke about it when we got Eleonor, you wanted me to stop because otherwise we would not have time to do the company and take care of him. I gave up my dreams for you and then every time you start to bring it up about how I dreamed about being a DJ, and then you just make fun of my, like you say stupid dreams, in front of people, I really have enough of it." I said, and tears were forming in my eyes. He got off his chair, grabbed me off my chair and put me on his lap.

"I'm so sorry Val, I don't know why I always bring it up when I'm drunk, I think it just bothered me that you almost wanted to take away Eleonor from us by doing an abortion to follow your dreams. I do understand that you wanted to follow your dreams, but it took us so long to get a child. We even wanted a second child, and it still didn't work." he said to me, cupping my face and wiping my tears away. 

"I know you are right, but it was just a hard decision, and it's not nice when you keep making fun of me" I said, he kissed me on my forehead.

"I know, I'll not do it anymore, I promise you" he said and gave me a quick peck on my lips.

I heard my phone ring and grabbed my phone out of my purse.

"Hello, with who am I speaking?" , oh, it was Brooke.

"Uhm yeah I'm free this night, 8 o'clock at Skye bar, yes I can be there, see you then" I said to her.

John asked who it was, and I told him I was going out with Brooke this night.

" You deserve to go out, my dear, enjoy it" he said and came to kiss my lips.

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I don't know why I'm so nervous, I feel like I'm going on a date while I'm just going to drink something with a friend. Okey maybe secretly I want to impress that friend, but I'm just denying it. 

I came out of the shower with a towel wrapped around my body and went in my closet to see what I wanted to wear. I was thinking about something elegant. I was looking for my light purple dress that reaches my ankles and has open shoulders, but everything else is still covered. I put my dress on and applied some mascara and some eyeliner. I didn't want to overdress, so that was the only thing I did for makeup. 

I looked at the time and saw that I had only 15 min left. I asked John to bring me to the bar. I didn't want to drive myself because I would like to drink something.

When we arrived, I didn't see Brooke yet, so I waited in the car.

"Be safe, have fun and if you want to come home just give me a call okey" John said, I kissed him and stepped out of the car. 

It was cold outside, so I hoped she would arrive very fast because I didn't know how long I could stand here in the cold. 

"Hi" I heard behind me and I smiled.

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Hi everyone

I hope you liked it so far, I'm sorry for the short chapter, but I have exams so I can't spend a lot of time on writing and I wanted to make the next chapter good so I will need a little bit more time.

- T x