In Spite Of Everything

Part 2

The next morning I woke up with a cute smile on my face, because I knew Jared's coming. And I was gonna have some fun. After I've had breakfast I went to the gym for a workout.

I was back home, and went to take a shower. While I was washing my hair I heard the doorbell. Jared was there, and I started smiling and hurried up with shampooing. I was out of the shower, in my clothes, but with a wet hair. I went to the studio drying the hair with a towel. As I walked in I greeted Jared.

"Hi Jared, I thought I heard the doorbell." I say flirtatiously, while drying hair with a towel.

"Hi, Katie. Yeah, it's time for work." he said biting his lower lip. I look incredibly sexy to him with that wet hair, fresh out of the shower.

"Can I help?" I asked looking at Jared passionately.

No, we're fine, just go and blow dry my hair, you're dripping all over the studio", Josh answered.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to ruin your precious studio I'm leaving." I walked away giving Jared THE look.

I was downstairs in the living room, done with my hair, and I heard Josh coming down.

"Hey, Katie, I have to go to the gallery and pick some photos I left there, so I can show them to Jared. Would you mind keeping him company?"

"Not at all. Take your time," Finally, the two of us we were alone.

I walked upstairs and saw Jared looking at Josh's work with admiration.

"Like what you see?" I asked him.

He looked up, licked his lips and bit his lower lip. "You know I do".

I approached the desk and leaned on, standing right next to Jared. I started looking at the pictures as well and asked him which one he preferred.

"I personally love this one", I pointed to a picture and Jared pointed at the same one in which moment our hands touch.

"This one, it's so deep, I like how he focused it. It's closest to what I imagine our cover to be", Jared said not taking his eyes off me, or letting go of my hand, and started coming closer and closer to me.

"Yeah, I know what you mean." I started coming closer as well and by then there was barely an inch between our lips.

Jared and I both leaned and he kissed me softly.

I pulled back and sighed, "My brother is sooo going to kill me"

"What he doesn't know can't hurt him", Jared said and raised his eyebrow.

"True", I answerd, "So, I guess we'll keep this between us, huh?"

"Fine by me", Jared said and grabbed my hips pulling me closer to him. He kissed me passionately, and so intense my heart started racing, my temperature raising and my knees started to tremble.

"I think I'm gonna go make some coffee." I stopped him, as I became highly aroused. I knew Josh was coming back really soon, so I needed to cool down, or he would flip out if he caught the two of us all over each other.

As I walked away, Jared came after me and grabbed me from behind, wrapping his arms around my waist and leaving them on my stomach. He pulled my hair aside, and whispered in my ear.

"Coffee? Right now? Really? Is that what you want?"

I turned to him, and as he thought I was about to kiss him, I said "Yeah. That's exactly what I want." I kissed him right next to the corner of his lips and ran down to the kitchen. We said we were going to play. Well, the game had started. I was making coffee and heard the front door. It was Josh. Thank God, he hadn't come five minutes earlier. I walked upstairs and brought the two of them coffee.

"Here you go", I handed it to Josh.

"Thanks sis".

"Jared, here you go", I handed him over the coffee and looked at him lustfully. He grabbed the mug touching my fingers. I felt electrified, and wanted to kiss him so bad.

"Thanks, Katie.", he answered with the look full of passion. He wanted me, right there and then, I could've felt it.

Josh noticed the way Jared and I were looking at each other and he was not happy with what he saw.

"OK, Katie, we really need to work here. Don't you have something to do?", he was a bit angry. Josh was usually never rude like that and he didn't treat me this way. But apparently he didn't think Jared and I should be looking at each other that way.

"Fine, I'll leave. Jesus, Josh, you could just ask nicely", I walked away angry.

I walked down to the kitchen and sat at the table drinking my coffee alone.

I heard someone coming down the stairs and I thought it was Josh coming to apologize. I turned around and saw Jared leaning against the wall.

"That's not a happy face. Why is my baby girl sad?", he asked and sat next to me.

I gave him the sweetest look and smiled.

"That's more like it. Don't worry, Josh never has to know about anything, and we'll pretend like nothing is happening when we're around him", Jared tried to make me feel better.

"It's easy for you to say. I don't like to hide things from my brother. Wait, you really think we could be together, for real?" I asked uncertainly.

"Sure, why not. I like you, and you like me. "

"Right, but you have to admit there's a certain age difference between us that might not make all this so functional. Plus, if I can't tell my brother than I can't tell my parents or anyone for that matter. How are we supposed to make this work?"

"Trust me, I'm a professional at keeping relationships private.", Jared said and quickly kissed me.

I didn't really like the idea of keeping this relationship to myself. Especially since I felt like this could actually be the right thing. I've never felt so optimistic about a relationship, and something told me this could actually work. It'll need a lot of time and effort but we could do it. Even though Jared was 19 years older than me, and a celebrity, he seemed to really like me, so why not keeping the relationship a secret. It might actually be fun.

Jared walked back to the studio and I was alone in the kitchen. "Could this thing between me and Jared actually work?" - I thought to myself.

"Am I completely crazy for even thinking about it?" - you sip your coffee and smile. "Or maybe I'm just an idiot for having seconds thoughts. What the hell! You only live once, so I'm gonna live it to the fullest. I've never had to keep my relationships secret, but there's a first time for everything." - I was definitely determined to give this relationship a shot.

"This should be fun" - I thought and went to my room.