Just Friends?(BWWM)

I Can't Fight This Feeling

Chapter 2: I Can't Fight This Feeling

(Jasmine POV) 

I woke up from my deep slumber and wished it was a dream. I wished that yesterday I didn't see the man who use to claim my heart and I wished that I didn't have to see him in passing days. Life is a funny thing, how it loops back around to your past mistakes and makes you see your failures and how you have to face him. I left Allan, I stopped our love from growing and I use to think I did it for the right reasons, but two years later I see where I messed up. 

The moment Riley bumped into Caspian in Barcelona and came back engaged I should have made efforts to reconnect with Allan, even if it was just for friendship. Since I didn't us being reunited is an awkward situation, that I am now forced to face. I stared at my blue ceiling and stayed stuck in my thoughts until my phone started buzz loudly forcing me to snap out of it.  I quickly answered the phone with my groggy voice "Hello?" I heard the slick accent of Allan on the other line, "Ah I remember the sound of your morning voice." I could almost picture the smirk he had across his face while saying that but I chose to ignore it instead of defending myself. Allan laughed and continued "We have business to discuss, meet me at Pierre Pierre in 30 minutes and no later." I rolled my eyes and simply said "Okay." 

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I walked into Pierre Pierre's with a simple black blouse and black slacks, my hair was pulled half up and half down. I left the curls barely touching my shoulders while the rest was neatly tucked into a pony. I held my briefcase in my hands and slowly walked over to the reserved table. Allan slowly got up from the table in an all-black suit with a red tie, his hair was slicked backed and he had a neatly trimmed beard. He smiled at me revealing his sultry smile and he slowly touched the middle of my back and pulled me into a hug. My body tensed at the motion of his hands caressing my back, and the smell of his cologne in the nozzle of his neck. I closed my eyes and breathed him in, and before I knew it the smell left me as Allan let me go from his embrace. My eyes quickly opened snapping me back into my senses, I quickly slapped myself mentally and said to myself "Just Business, Just business." 

I sat down quickly across from Allan the waiter attended to us, the handsome young man asked for our drinks and I said "Blueberry Ice Tea please." Allan scrunched his face and said "You always drank weird drinks, anyways I will have a Sweet Ice Tea. Please." The waiter left to place our drink orders and gave us bread to hold us. Allan looked me up and down and said "Still the tense boring Jasmine I see." I rolled my eyes and said rudely "Things change." He smiled at me and said "There's that fire I remember so well, I mean it did slap me across the face for no reason." I smiled at the memory of my hand grazing his face and said "Sorry.Not. Sorry." Allan laughed boldly and said "Tell me something, Jasmine. What happened with Owen? I see you work for him now but when we first parted you said you wanted more?" 

My eyes widened and I gulped loudly at his question, I decided to answer honestly "We are working on it, we go to counseling now, but we are not together." Allan busted up laughing at me, he tried to compose himself, but he couldn't. I waited for him to finish and he finally said "You guys attend counseling and you aren't even together?" I sighed deeply and said "It helps." Allan shook his head and said "You do remember what happened to Caspian after he went to counseling? Oh right! it's the reason we aren't together anymore."  My eyes widened even bigger, this conversation was throwing me in a whirlwind of surprise and I couldn't respond to him quick enough. All I said was "With Owen things are nice and clean." 

Allan raised an eyebrow at me and in one swift moment pulled me close to him and stared deeply at me with his pure hazel eyes and said seductively and softly "I think you would rather have it messy." I licked my lips quickly and glanced down at his, I was caught up, in the moment and my thoughts were jumbled together. I closed my eyes and he said "I bet you dream about the days I held you close to me, the days you laid on my chest hearing my heartbeat with yours. The days when my kiss would consume you whole. The days where you were free and messy." The warm of his breath slowly left as well as his embrace around my arms. My eyes quickly opened to see Allan standing up, he put a notebook on my side of the table and said "But sadly those days are gone, you threw it away. Everything you will need for our first project is all in there.Nice seeing you Miss.Sanders." 

I looked down at the notebook and at Allan's back as he quickly walked away from me, my eyes dilated and I was in utter shock. He made me feel things that I didn't want to ever feel again. I tried to fight the feelings, but I couldn't, he was tearing my down and quickly. 

(The spin-off will now be posted on it's own book, called "Just Business?" It will be under my works if you can't find it. )