It All Started With A Payback

Nineteen: Payment, Delayed

"You okay?" Louie asked her after giving the back of her hand a kiss. He came to pick her up from the airport after Mark went inside the terminal.

She asked him if she and Mark could just hire a cab and send him off by herself. He agreed on the premise that he would take her home after.

She squeezed his hand in reply. She was filled with gratitude toward the considerate man holding her hand.

Even though his jealousy toward her bestfriend was apparent, he generously gave Mark and her a chance to spend a lot of time together before he left for the States.

For ten days, her boyfriend would just drop by to say hi and bring some food and then he would go. Not only did he give her space, he also bestowed her an immense amount of trust.

A few days before Mark left, they were even able to stay in Ilocos for two nights. Just the two of them.

She knew how hard it must have been for him to let her go there without him and not to call her every hour while she was spending her days with a man he was jealous of.

Those gestures and sacrifices made her love him even more. She owed it to him to focus her undivided attention on him now.

She kissed his cheek, "Yeah, I'm fine."

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"They should just have let that guy from Sons of Anarchy play Grey's role. Movie would have been bearable," Louie muttered before dunking his hand in the bowl of popcorn between them.

Tori repressed a grin, he wasn't exactly ecstatic when she asked him to watch Fifty Shades. But she wanted to know for herself if it was indeed as horrible as the reviews claimed, a little gentle persuasion got him sitting on her couch.

Based on experience, even though some movies got bad reviews, she still somehow found herself enjoying them. She would find out if this was the case with this movie, if only she could get her man to stop acting like a movie critic.

"See," he said a little later gesturing with his hand, "Jax looks better than this guy when he smiles!"

This time Tori couldn't contain her laughter, "And here I was thinking only Mark is gay."

"For starters, Mark ISN'T gay," he held his hand up to fend off her rebuttal.

She crossed her arms on her chest and arched her brows. No matter how hard she tried, she wasn't able to convince him that her bestfriend was only attracted to his own kind.

"No, really!" He continued to argue his first point. "They portray him as this man who's supposed to be oozing with so much sex appeal that innocent girls like Ana would be willing to be his submissive, why then didn't they choose someone who fits the role?"

She grinned at him, "You know what, I think you will find fault with any other actor they choose to play the role." He seemed to think about what she said so she plowed ahead.

"It's actually the character you have a problem with. Successful, smart, sexy as sin, domineering in and out of bed and talented too. You're just jealous and insecure!"

"Me?" He asked, his eyebrows shooting up so high it almost reached his hairline.

"Hot, sexy, not a billionaire but successful in my own right, can't give a thousand orgasms but still awesome in bed, me? Jealous and insecure? No fucking way!"

Tori sighed and rolled her eyes in annoyance, if Louie kept yakking like this it will take them three days to finish the movie.

"If I kiss you now, will you just shut the hell up so we can finish the movie?"