King of Nothing

Then (4)

The veiw sitting behind my lawyer was really quite pleasing. Her honey blonde hair was tied back into a slick ponytail. She wore a button down blouse and a womans suit over top of that which is pressed very tightly against her body. Which was a very good thing for me. I enjoyed getting a good look at all her curves and her seemingly symmetrical face. Oh how I wish I could have kissed that face.

I sat there and answered whatever questions the judge and Christoff's lawyer asked, but my main focus was on Liz, my lawyer. I was attracted to her, and I would've liked to think she is attracted to me. I think remeber noticing her checking me out? I don't know. But hey, she must have liked me if she chose to defend me.

Hours passed by but the case got settled quicker than I thought it would be.

"Mr Noah Maverick, I'm so sorry, I'm a failure, I should have done better." Liz said in utter dismay. She was so disappointed in herself. So what, she lost. She was still an amazing person. You can never go through life without losing either, that's not how it works. Life is like a balancing act, so winning and losing should come in equal amounts.

"Don't be sorry, hun. It's no big deal. I can pay it off right now," I said with a soothing voice. Back then, I just want to somehow convince Liz that she is beautiful and is not a failure. I took out my cheque book and write down the huge lump of money I owe Christoff.

Once all the proper information was written on the cheque I ran up to him and screamed, "Take the money and RUN asshole!" And then I shoved the cheque in his jaw dropped mouth back to Liz.

"So, um, where were we?" I asked, trying to sound as calm and nonchalant as I could. I must have looked quite ridiculous.

"I was apologizing for being such a failure." She moaned. She was really quite sad that she failed.

"No worries, sweetie. You did nothing wrong, you did your job." I took the loose strandes of straw coloured hair out of her face and tucked it behind her ear. Her face went the colour of a tomato and I smiled.

"Y-you mean you're not mad? I mean, I'm mad at myself for failing, I always screw things up." She stuttered. I remembered feeling so bad, and wanting to help her and make her feel like everything was going to be okay.

"Of course I'm not mad. How could I ever be mad at you." I smiled, she smiled back.

"Thanks Noah, it truly means a lot." She leaned in and gave me a warm hug. It was legendary.

"So, um, I, I was, I was wondering if you wanted to go out with me, on, on a, on a date sometime... I could show you around town and stuff, since you just came here from heaven." I went for it, and at the time I thought it was going to work.

"Um, what?" She asked in complete astonishment.

"Well you know, I felt that we had a connection, you and I. After all, you did choose to defend me." I shrugged my shoulders to make myself as innocent as possible.

"That wasn't because we had a connection, it was because you paid me half a million dollars to defend you." She said trying to hold back a laugh.

"B-but, come on. Give me a chance!" I shouted at her as she walked away.

Back then I was an embarrassment, I had no dating game whatsoever, heck, I still don't. I was an idiot to think I had a chance for her after I shoved something down my friends throat calling him an asshole, just so I could get the last word in the ongoing battle. Gosh, I was an idiot.

She winks at me and strutted off very sassily. She had a lot of finesse and power, she just didn't realize it. Then she said, "Come back to me when you have a better pick up line, then maybe we can reconsider that date."