A Heart's Wonder

Chapter 5.

Poor Siv. She wouldn't know what was going to hit her when James decided to work his charm on her. It was bad enough that she was already self conscious around him. It didn't and wouldn't help matters if he decided to pump up the heat between their already obvious sexual tension going on between them.

Siv couldn't even concentrate at all on the movie. Flashes of colour dashed in front of her on the screen but her mind was wandering towards a man seated a couple of meters from where she was. It was unnerving and a very uncomfortable feeling and all she wanted was for it to stop.

She tried to concentrate and all of a sudden, the lights came on indicating the end of the movie. She barely paid attention. Soon enough, Louis was bouncing in his seat, fidgeting over and over, wanting to run around in excitement for he loved the movie a lot.

Siv smiled at her son and stood walking towards the aisle, letting her son find room to move in the narrow seating. James moved right after Louis.

Louis, a bottle of excitement, ran on towards the exit making Siv lose her footing. Waiting for the impact, Siv closed her eyes, only to open them again as she felt tingles and she seemed to floating on muscle.

James wasn't prepared to see Siv's eyes so up close. They drew him in and was he happy to dive right in. His left hand on her red locks that felt like silk and his right on a patch of skin that was exposed. She felt extremely perfect pressed to him. Siv could obviously feel the connection between them. So much so that she found herself leaning towards him in yearning.

"Um, thank you." Siv managed to cough out as she untangled herself from his extremely warm embrace. She looked anywhere but him, red staining her cheeks.

" It's no problem." He replies happy to get an even slight reaction. He wished she would at him with those bewitching eyes of hers again.

"Mama! Let's go!" Louis shouted from the exit door where he had been waiting for them. They move together then part to their separate cars. Sivoné hoping to never feel the way she did with James ever again and James hoping the exact opposite.

The next morning, She realised how much as she overslept as she got ready for another stressful day at work and to drop Louis with the day care once again.

"Louis! Are you done?!" Siv yelled as she put on the finishing touches on her makeup. Louis scampers to his mother's room and stands fully dressed although looking like he ran through a tornado.

"Oh, Honey." Siv sighed as she proceeded to straighten his clothes out and Louis stood there smiling innocently. When she was done, she held out her hand for him to take which he gladly accepted.

Siv had dropped him at the day care and sped off to work seeing as she was already late and Paul would have her head on a gold platter. She just knew it. He had a thing for punctuality and he hated it when someone even dare do come late especially if it's a movie he is working on. Regardless of the actor, be it an Oscar or a Golden Globe winner, he didn't care. His set, his rules.

She rushed towards the set like she was running for her life but knowing Paul for over 15 years, she might as well have been.

"Where is the female lead?!! Do you honestly think that I have time for this!!We have a movie to do people! Get me my actress! NOW!!" Paul screamed from the top of his lungs. He needed a coffee. He looked around watching people scurry from place to place. He needed a coffee. A strong black one, he thought rubbing his temples over and over till he caught sight of that unmistakeable red hair.

"Where have you been, Siv? I've got half of LA everywhere looking for you!" Paul all but screeched as he interrogated her. Siv felt and looked guilty as she watched her friend's usually pale skin almost turn strawberry red in anger.

"I'm sorry. I overslept and I had to drop off Louis, but then he wasn't ready fast enough. Then again with the traffic. It just isn't my day at all. I'm sorry. I will try to prevent such late comings in the next future." Siv pleaded with a pout that only seemed to work on berating Paul's anger, which reluctantly for Paul , worked splendidly.

"You know what, just get to wardrobe and makeup before I strangle you." Paul says, trying to hide his obvious smile from Siv as she races to her trailer before Paul really cashed in promise.

"Bernard. I. Love. You. Only you. Why can't you get that through your thick skull." Emily asks with a bittersweet smile as her tears raced down her cheeks. Her hands graced his cheeks feeling his slight stubble.

Bernard looked at her briefly and turned his face away, feeling his heart breaking with every turn of his face.

"I see, you believe those lies and you refuse to hear the truth. Wow, so this is how much I mean to you." Emily says, nodding her head as the tears started pouring like rain and her heart broke into two. She took her coat from the couch and walked to the door then stopped.

"I hope this is what you want. Just know, when I leave I am never coming back. Ever." She said not turning back. She opened the door and left in her small, almost broken down Cadillac and speed off his luxurious home.

Bernard had not moved until he could no longer hear the sound of the engine. He sat on his couch with his head in hands.

"CUT!!!!!!! That was beautiful! Siv baby, those tears were so heart wrenching they almost me burst to tears myself.I knew you were perfect for this role. I just knew it."  Paul sang in Siv's ear. Siv giggled and basked in her eccentric friend's praise.

"So which scene are we doing next?"

James didn't know what to do. It seemed like his addiction took a turn for the worse and now that he had actually felt her presence so close to his. He was waiting desperately for his next fix.

"James, do me a favor and take some of the kids out to the backyard. They're getting fidgety." A voice pulled him from his desperation to see Sivoné.

"Yeah, sure." He yelled back. Looking to kids, James smiled lovingly as he put them in their strollers.

"Alright, lets go look for some treasure." James says in fake enthusiasm, to which the children yell in an ecstatic manner, as he pushed them out the door.

James really hoped he could see his treasure. Desperately hoped.

2 days had passed and he wondered if she would ever consider him as a possible romantic interest. He thought that maybe he should ask her out again.
He didn't even have her number, how did he expect to contact her.
Like the miracle child he is, St. Paul swept in like a hurricane into the day care.

"Darlings. I'm looking for the second most dashing, charismatic and down right perfect person to walk on the planet. Now where is he?"

Soon enough, giggles erupted from Louis as he ran towards his 'uncle'. " Uncle Paul, I'm here!!" He exclaimed cheerfully.
James stepped into the intimate conversation and asked playfully  " So, who's the first?"
St. Paul only smiled and said, "Why, Me of course. In fact, I wanted to know something about you and my dear Siv. How was your outing with her the other night? I presume it went smashingly."
James began to run the back of neck in embarrassment. "Um, well, I guess you could say it was considering everything was for Louis' sake rather than an actual date. Not that there was anything wrong with the fact that Louis was there, heavens no, it's just that I, you know what, the other was great and that's all there is to it."
St. Paul looked at this obvious love stricken man and thought about how to make is quest for his beloved's heart. He looked at James and wrote something down on a sheet of paper he found on the ground with a crayon.
"Here." St. Paul handed him the paper with numbers on it. "Siv's number. Use it well."

Hello readers,

It's Tina. HI!!!

Sorry for the extremely late update. I have been busy with a lot of work like unbelievably a lot of work.

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Tina.