Steffy and Liam (Friends or Lover's)?

Chapter Three

The Next Day

Liam and Hope are hanging out in her bedroom at her mother's home. They are kissing and fooling around on her bed. Things start to get a little hot and heavy and Hope stops their make out session.

Hope: Liam we have to stop.

Liam: Why?

Hope: You know why Liam. I'm not ready to have sex yet.

Liam sighed. He got off a top of Hope and sat up and leaned against her headboard. Hope sat up in her bed and faced Liam.

Hope: Are you mad?

Liam: I'm not mad Hope. 

Liam respected Hope's feelings about wanting to wait to have sex. He liked that Hope had morals and standards of how she wanted to live her life. Liam did not want to pressure Hope into having sex before she was ready. He could wait. Liam didn't think of himself as one of those guys who was all about sex. He knew that there was more to a relationship than just having sex, but he was a man. He'd be lying if he said he did not miss having sex. Especially since it had been almost a year since his last relationship.

Hope: I just don't want to move too fast. I'm the spokesmodel  for a campaign about self respect and morals. Doesn't send a good message to my fans if I'm jumping into bed with you right after we start dating.

Liam: Hope we've been dating three months and I doubt any of your fans would know if we had sex unless we announced it to the press.

Hope: Liam you know what I mean.

Liam: (sighing) I do.

Hope smiles at Liam and kisses him on the cheek. She gets off her bed and goes over to her vanity and sits down to brush her hair and touch up her make up.

Hope: Do you want to stay for dinner?  We should be eating soon.

Liam: Yea, sounds good.

Hope: Great. Oh I forgot to ask you, how did the rest of the party go last night?

Liam: Good. I got to meet a lot of my Dad's business partner's, it was pretty overwhelming.

Hope: I bet.

Liam: All in all the night was a success. I even got some free time at the end of the party. I got to hang out for a little bit with Steffy.

Hope: You hung out with Steffy at the party?

Liam: Yea towards the end of the evening. The party was winding down and I went outside by the pool to get some fresh air. I guess great minds think alike because Steffy was out there as well.

Hope turned around in her chair and looked at Liam.

Hope: (asking nervously) So what did you two do?

Liam: I don't understand the question. What do you mean what did me and Steffy do? We talked.

Hope: That's it? You just talked?

Liam: Yea. Why would you ask that?

Hope got up from her chair and walked over to her bed and sat next to Liam.

Hope: I told you me and Steffy do not have the best relationship. My last boyfriend Oliver, Steffy used to flirt with him relentlessly. She tried to steal him away from me.

Liam: I see.

Hope: There is no love lost between Steffy and my family. Steffy blames my mother and our family for a lot of the problems her family has had.

Liam: Which I don't understand because you guys technically share some of the same family. You two were raised together, right?

Hope: Yea we were. It's just complicated.