A Sweet Chase (gxg)

Ten

"Okay, okay. So let me get this straight, you're middle name is Eilleen?"
Harper questioned and just by the ashamed look on Ryn's face, she cracked up even louder.

"I told you, you'd laugh at it,"

"I'm sorry, " Harper dragged, covering her face as she tried to control each snort that was filling their shared space. She didn't want to draw attention to them although many people weren't in the diner but still.

Ryn on the other hand just sat calmly watching her poke fun at her name. The one which she was given after her late nan. God bless her soul.
It didn't suit her she had to admit but for the sake of her late grandmother, she wore it with pride at times.

"Mm, I'm sorry, I swear." Harper apologized again, wiping joyous tears from her eyes.

"It's fine."

"How could they do that to you?"

"My parents? I don't know, I guess they thought it would be a nice thing to name me after my father's mother but it wasn't.
They weren't doing me any justice, I mean Ryna is already sorta fucked up and then to add Eilleen. I was a laughing stock in school is what I'm trying to say.
It's why I use the abbreviation Ryn and I don't ever tell people my middle name."

"So, I'm an exception?" Harper was now calmed with a smirk on her lips, one that really did things to Ryn.

"Yes, maybe," Ryn replied shaking her head trying to rid her mind of the way Harper was laughing at her.

"Why, you trust me?"

"I don't know maybe it's because there's a possibility I won't see you again after this hunt is over. Most of all we're like strangers to each other, anything we say or do with the other won't matter after we've gone our separate ways."

"Wow, Ryn. Here I thought that you and I were friends, but I guess not." Harper feigned hurt but truthfully she was a bit.

She knew that she and the girl would eventually have to part ways and maybe for good, but she never dwelled too much on that. She thought maybe they could stay friends, they did tolerate one another well, however, Ryn thought and felt differently.

"Why would you want to be friends with me?" Ryn questioned.

"You're fun to be around and it wasn't something I was expecting. You're witty and your personality is quite the thing that draws one in maybe I thought we could be friends because we get along fine."

"I see,"

"I see, that's all?" Harper frowned.

"There really isn't much more to say. I'm a very busy woman Harper and I don't have friends. I can't have friends because my job causes me to travel a lot and I'm rarely ever around. Who would want to be friends with someone who would hardly show up to anything?"

"Someone with an understanding of what you do. Someone who understands that we each have our own individual lives to live but it doesn't mean we've completely forgotten about our platonic relationships. So basically someone who's a mature adult should understand." Harper replied and Ryn chuckled. 

"Not everyone thinks that way."

"Yeah well fuck everyone. I don't see why we can't be friends.."

"Ah and that's genuinely what you want, for us just to be friends?" Ryn asked lifting a mug to her head.
She peered over the edge of it and very bluntly gave Harper a wink which caused her to blush.
She turned away and giggled softly to herself before trying to find the right words to say to Ryn.

"Yes, I would like to be your friend after all this passes. I would love to invite you to parties and stuff. I've only ever seen you act professional, so I would enjoy seeing you unwind and relax. Get rid of all this macho exterior and actually have fun."

"You want a lot of things." Ryn chuckled and so did Harper.

"Oh you have no idea," Harper said lifting her coffee cup to her mouth, allowing the hot brew to kiss her lips.

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The diner was starting to get less rush of patrons as the time went by.
Harper and Ryn sat at their table talking and enjoying the night in the old town.
They had both seemed to forget the reason for their paths being crossed and was now transfixed on something much more.

They spoke of being friends along with deep and meaningful topics.
Ryn was interrogating Harper in the hopes of learning her middle name when unexpectedly she caught sight of the last person she was expecting to see at the diner at that point.

In all her magnificent glory, she appeared in the diner, eyes peeled everywhere. Dressed in a very provocative attire that highlighted her curves and bosom, Ryn was lost for words as her eyes stayed on the stunning brunette.

"Do not turn around," she whispered calmly to Harper and immediately she frowned and had tensed.

"What, why not?"

"I can't believe it," Ryn scoffed with arched brows and Harper's eyes widened.

"What the hell is going on?" She stressed and only then did Ryn rip her eyes away from the she-devil to let it linger on Harper.

"It's Therese, she's here and she's alone. I think."

Those words caused Harper to tense even further as they sunk in deep.
She was tempted to turn around, she wanted to see Therese to make sure that it wasn't a joke being pulled by the bounty hunter sitting across from her.

"You're pranking me, there's no way Therese is in this diner." She whispered and Ryn's face grew cold.

"Yes, now be quiet and keep your head down before she notices you,"

Ryn had taken time in scrutinizing the infamous Therese.
She was even more gorgeous in real life than she was in pictures.
She was tall and very curvaceous and those around were quite aware of her beauty, because almost everyone in the diner was staring.

"What is she doing?" Harper asked eagerly on the whim of a whisper.

"She's at the counter."

"Doing what?"

"Apparently she's ordering something."

"Okay. So what are we going to do, are you going to snag her right now?"

"Keep your voice down and no, we can't just do that here. There are too many people around and what if she has a weapon? I can't risk people getting hurt."

"So we're just going to let her go?"

"No, absolutely not. We're going to wait until she leaves and then we'll follow her."

"Okay, okay. But what if she comes this way?"

"Let me worry about that okay as for now just stay put."

Therese didn't hang around for long, she practically spent about ten minutes in the diner before heading out.

"Okay, she's leaving now," Ryn said and Harper rose her head up to study her.
She was excited. Tremendously.
Adrenaline had begun to pump freely through her veins and she felt like sprinting after her sister, but she couldn't.

"Shouldn't we leave now to see her off?"

"Just a sec," Ryn answered, her eyes planted firmly at the exit.
She was averaging the time it would take Therese to be a safe distance away from the building before they could leave.
She was calm about the whole thing but Harper seemed as eager as a child who was promised candy for dinner.

"Alright, let's go," Ryn whispered and they both stood up.
Before Harper could've paid for their meal she pulled out her wallet and threw some cash on the table and was moving away, forcing the redhead to keep up.

"Not fair! Why is that every time we go somewhere to eat you always pay for it? I mean I'm capable of doing it too." Said Harper and Ryn rolled her eyes.

"This isn't the time for that. I need you to be quiet and keep up." Ryn answered sternly but froze.
From being highly sensitive to things she felt Harper stopping dead in her tracks too.

Before they could've made it entirely to the exit/entrance, the door dinged open to reveal the she-devil once again.
This time she had returned with Chad and was caught up in a conversation with him when she froze.
Therese's gaze quickly landed on Harper and her facial expression seemed to turn into stone.