The Unkindness of the Paparazzi

  “I never told you because it wasn’t important.”

  “Not important imagine what I could have done with that information,” he said winking at me.

  “Joshua for heavens sake there is no time for that, she just came out of the hospital. Behave yourself,” Isabel said very irritated with the thought of her brother considering sex in my condition.

  “I...” he started but he gave up.

  I just smiled at him, little did she know that if she hadn’t interrupted us earlier, we would still be in the bathroom making love, and it was me that started with it.

  “There we go, all done,” she said as she put the clip on.

  “Thank you,” I said rubbing my hand over the bandage.

  “My pleasure, please don’t get it wet again okay?” She insisted.

  “I will try not to,” I said smiling at Joshua.

  “Are you going to lay down for a bit or are you coming to join us, we are going to watch a movie that’s on TV in about fifteen minutes?” She asked looking down at her watch.

  I looked over at Joshua he pulled up his shoulders, indicating that it’s up to me.

  “I think we will join you.”

  “Great I am going to get chips come when you ready.”

  “Wait how are things with you and Jack?” I asked.

  “After last night he was really stressed but he promised me a date tomorrow, we are going for dinner and a movie,” she said excited.

  “I am glad.”

  I held out my hand for Joshua’s and we walked out with her as she explained what she was going to wear.

  Chapter 47

  “Are you feeling better?” Liz asked me as we got into the living room.

  “Yes thank you.”

  We sat on one of the sofa’s together he pull my legs over him, I rested my head on his chest.

  Isabel gave us a blanket and a bowl of popcorn.

  The movie started off interestingly but I just couldn’t fight off the sleep any longer.

  I felt myself drifting off only half an hour in. I was listening to Joshua’s heart beat him breathing in and out, that sound made me calm and it made me feel safe.

  I woke up later, the room was dark the TV had been switched off.

  I looked up at Joshua he was asleep. On the sofa opposite us Jack and Isabel were also fast asleep. He was lying on his back and she was lying next to him with her head resting on his chest.

  I thought to myself they must have hit it off in the time I had been sleeping because by the looks of things, they almost looked like they were a couple.

  I rubbed Joshua’s face I didn’t want to whisper his name because I was scared that I would wake up Jack and Isabel.

  He woke up and rubbed his eyes.

  “What is it?” He asked out loud confused.

  I got on top of him and kissed him. I put my hands under his shirt and scratched his chest gently.

  He woke up instantly; he didn’t even notice Isabel and Jack laying on the sofa across us. As I kissed him I felt his hands move over my breasts and over to my back. He pulled me closer to him as I kissed him more passionately.

  I moved my face so he could kiss me in my neck.

  I heard Isabel give a sigh in her sleep.

  I pushed Joshua away and said in a whisper, “let’s go to bed.”

  He started kissing me again, but I pushed him away again and pointed at Jack and Isabel.

  “Okay,” he said.

  I got up and folded the blanket we were sleeping under.

  He walked towards the door. He looked at Jack and Isabel and asked, “what did I miss?”

  “Go, you are going to wake them,” I said in the lowest voice I could manage.

  “Too late,” Jack said.

  “Sorry,” I apologised.

  They got up and also walked to their separate bedrooms. But before I closed our bedroom door I saw Jack sneak off to Isabel’s bedroom, I just smiled and closed the door.

  “Why are you smiling?” Joshua asked when I got into bed.

  “I just saw Jack sneak into your sister’s room.”

  Joshua just shook his head.

  “I want to feel close to you again, I want to feel safe,” I said in a whisper as we laid in the dark.

  He turned to me and kissed me.

  “I will love you forever,” he said in a whisper while he was kissing my neck.

  I could not have imagined what life would be like without him.

  The bed was making such a noise that it felt like even if you had to breathe in that bed that it would make a noise.

  He got up and took our suit cases off the single sofa chair standing in the room. He held his hand out to me.

  I was still in bed looking at him. I took his hand.

  He sat down on the chair and pulled me on top of him. I sat with my legs either side of him. I took off my shirt, with a lot of difficulty my one hand was so weak that I battled to a grip. But then I felt his hands, he clearly couldn’t wait any longer while I battled.

  “I am sorry,” I said.

  He didn’t say anything he just kept on kissing me.

  Chapter 48

  “Good morning pretty girl,” Joshua said the next morning as I opened my eyes.

  “Good morning,” I said groggy.

  For some reason I was dead tired after getting a proper night’s rest.

  “Why are you frowning babe?” He asked imitating me.

  “I am just still so tired.”

  He gave a quick laugh and kissed me on the forehead. He moved closer to me and held me. I turned so he could lay in my back. I fell back asleep.

  When I woke up I saw that the sun was sitting high in the sky it felt like I had slept twenty four hours. He was still lying next to me, but he was awake he was busy reading a magazine. The one we were on the cover of.

  “Morning honey,” I said looking and feeling better than earlier.

  “She’s awake, good morning,” he said slipping back under the covers.

  “I smell coffee?” I said looking over at his mug standing on the bedside table.

  “Yes its mine, you can have some. There is no sugar or milk in,” he explained holding it out for me to take a sip.

  “That’s awful,” I complained.

  “Okay I will go make you a fresh cup,” He said laughing.

  He kissed me quickly on the forehead and left the room.

  “Is she up yet?” I heard Isabel ask.

  “Barely. Leave her to wake up in peace,” he said.

  “Come in Isabel,” I shouted from inside the room.

  “Morning. How are you feeling?”

  “Good, better than earlier when I woke up the first time. And you, did you sleep well?” I asked winking at her.

  I was hinting on last night.

  “I slept like a baby thank you,” she said avoiding the subject.

  “Why are you here Isabel?” I asked seeing that there was obviously something she wanted to tell me.

  “We had sex, we had sex last night!” She said looking as guilty as a teenager doing it in her parent’s house.

  “Wow that was fast.”

  “Say you that got married within fourty eight hours after you started dating my brother,” she hinted.

  “Hey I thought we were over that,” Joshua said when he got back in the room.

  “I don’t think you are going to like this conversation,” I warned.

  “Why what are you girls gossiping about?” He asked when he got back in bed.

  “We were talking about me having sex with Jack last night. I still wanted to go into details, do you want to stick around to hear them?” Isabel asked smiling sarcastically.

  “That’s my queue to leave,” he said kissing me on the cheek as he got out of bed.

  He got out of the room as if someone was chasing him.

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sp; “Ah I still wanted some morning sex before he left,” I said disappointed not realising I actually said it out loud.

  “I am sure you guys can catch up later,” Isabel shot back, looking somewhat irritated at me.

  “How do you do it by the way, this bed makes allot of noise?”

  I just pointed at the floor, the wall and the chair with our suitcases on.

  “You guys have sex a lot,” she said looking surprised.

  I just smiled and pulled up my shoulders.

  “Anyways back to me, I don’t know what to do.”

  “What do you mean you don’t know what to do? I thought you had already done it,” I said sipping my coffee.

  “You are slow in the mornings,” she joked. “I meant to say, what are we now, are we in a relationship?”

  “You had sex Isabel, I think its save to speak to Jack about it.”

  “I guess you are right. Its just I am not even divorced yet. But I couldn’t help myself he is just so sexy and last night when everybody went to bed we pretended to be asleep and after everyone left we did some naughty things under the blanket.”

  She looked pleased.

  “Isabel Scott Duncan. You are a grown woman,” I said shocked “That said, why would you do such things with me and Joshua in the room?”

  “Please Katie don’t pretend to be so high and mighty I saw you and my brother in the kitchen the other morning, there was some heavy petting before breakfast.”

  “You saw that?” I asked chocking on my coffee.

  “Yes and believe me it was weird he is my brother! You guys have no boundaries, giving him a hand job in the kitchen where anyone could just walk in.

  I actually just heard the whispers and you giggling I never realised what really went on there, until I walked in and saw him resting against the cupboard with you standing against him with your hand down his pants, whispering in his ear.”

  I looked down at my mug I couldn’t think of a lie to cover what she saw.

  “Its okay don’t worry I didn’t tell anyone, but the image will haunt me forever,” she assured me.

  “So as I was saying, he was amazing. My ex husband was my first and only till last night. He was so gentle; he even asked me if I was okay while we were doing it. You see I was in a little bit of pain, he is so much bigger than what I am use to.”

  She wanted to continue but I needed it to stop.

  “Isabel I am sorry but its Jack, I can’t listen to this.”

  “Please Katie who else am I going to tell?” She begged.

  I decided to sit and bear it, I didn’t want her to feel that I didn’t care but it was awkward for me. I smiled, nodded and wowed as much as I could.

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  After a while she looked at me and said, “thank you Katie, you are a great listener.”

  I just smiled, because I wasn’t listening at all from right about the time she started going on about him caressing her breasts.

  “Is it safe yet?” I heard Joshua ask.

  “Yes we are done; by the way your wife wants morning sex,” she said winking at me just before she left the room.

  “Morning sex?” Joshua asked as he got on top of me.

  “Wanted, let me say wanted again. I have never felt so creeped out in my life. I had to hear from start to finish how sex is with Jack. It’s disturbing. Did you know they were feeling each other up in the living room last night while we were sleeping opposite them?”

  “You are right, wanted,” he said falling onto his back next to me.

  “I knew that something was going to happen so its probably not that bad,” I said gulping down the rest of my coffee.

  “By the way you woke me up last night, I almost had sex with you in my parents living room. I didn’t even see them laying across from us,” he said smiling.

  “Yes well maybe I should tell you, the other morning in the kitchen when we…” I tried to find the words.

  “Oh that, yes that was sneaky,” he said rubbing my thigh under the blanket.

  “Isabel saw us,” I said before he could get too excited and not bothered about what I was trying to tell him.

  The colour drained from his face.

  “Don’t worry she walked in saw what was happening and walked out,” I tried to reassure him.

  “What did she see?” He asked shocked.

  “Only the start,” I said.

  “Oh well that’s fine. That wasn’t so hard core anyways,” he said as the colour returned to his face, he was laughing.

  “Joshua I was busy giving you a hand job, in your mother’s kitchen and you sister saw me,” I said shocked at his reaction.

  “At least she never saw me picking you up onto the kitchen counter, returning the favour,” he said laughing again.

  I just felt my face go red again. I pulled the covers over my face. He tried to pull the covers off my face, but I held on for dear life. We started playing in bed he tickled me till I eventually gave up and let him see my face.

  “I love you,” he said as he took my hair out my face.

  “You love it when I blush.”

  “That too.”

  Chapter 50

  It was our last day visiting, we spent it having a BBQ. We spoke about Liz and Edward’s plans to sell the house and sailing around the world. They had been meaning to do it since Joshua hit it big in Hollywood; he was the youngest so they wanted to wait till he got settled.

  With Isabel’s divorce they had to postpone their plans to help her get back on her feet. She had decided that she was going to open a flower shop, she had just not decided on the location yet.

  Jack was moving in with us until he could get settled. Joshua was his only client and he was making a fortune off him so he didnt feel the need to stay in LA. He decided he wanted to move to New York with us.

  It was difficult to say goodbye to my new family. They had been good to us and I got use to them. They promised to come visit as soon as our place was set up. Before they went on their big adventure. Edward had been sailing for years but when he came up with the idea to tour the world, he never imagined it would become a reality.

  Chapter 51

  The flight to New York was interesting, Jack spent most of the time talking about Isabel. I could hear in his voice that he was happy but yet he was unsure if she would also decide one day to leave him.

  Both Joshua and I tried our best to reassure him. But I could understand why he felt unsure. I couldn’t imagine what he felt like the day his wife walked out on him.

  “I just want to be half as happy as the two of you,” he said.

  I looked at Joshua and smiled because it was a very rocky ride on the rollercoaster before we got to where we were in our relationship.

  Lately if I got angry at him or tried to ignore him and he thought it wasn’t worth the fight he would just kiss me, and all was forgiven. I did sometimes try to fight him off but he was stronger than me so I just gave in.

  “What would you think about me asking Isabel to marry me, after the divorce of course?” Jack asked Joshua.

  “I wouldn’t mind at all, if she makes you happy and you love her then do it,” Joshua said.

  I was still trying to listen for any details but I was too tired to be bothered. We hardly slept the night before and I was still running around packing ten minutes before we were supposed to be on the plane. With Josh distracting me every couple of minutes it was difficult to keep track. I woke up a couple of minutes later and heard no one was talking anymore. I opened my eyes and saw Jack laying on one of the sofa’s at the back of the plane he was snoring already.

  Joshua was awake he was looking out the window, day dreaming.

  “You are awake?” He asked as I looked up at him.

  “Yes I must have drifted off.”

  I was laying with my head on a pillow with my legs over his lap.
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  “You can sleep, we still have a couple of hours before we get to New York,” he said looking at his watch.

  “Are you not tired?” I asked as I sat up.

  “No not at all,” he said rubbing his face.

  “Then I am sitting up with you. What do you want to do?” I asked as I snuggled in under his arm.

  He didn’t answer, so I looked up at him I thought he might not have heard me. He smiled at me, he put his hand on my face and kissed me softly.

  “Joshua, Jack is sleeping only a couple of feet away.”

  “I just want to kiss you,” he said rubbing my face.

  “I would love that.”

  We laid on the sofa kissing for a while.

  “You people should seriously get a room,” Jack said as he came to sit across from us again.

  I didn’t even hear his snoring stop.

  “Sorry Jack, I can just not get enough of him yet,” I said winking at Joshua.

  “Its fine, it’s the same with me and Isabel,” he said ignoring Joshua’s face.

  Joshua was happy for Jack and Isabel he just didn’t enjoy the stories Jack shared with him about Isabel.

  “I am glad you found each other you make her happy and I can see she changed you. I never knew you were human,” I said to Jack.

  Joshua just started laughing.

  “Sweetheart I am human and she brings out the best in me, in every way.”

  “Enough please my ears are bleeding already,” Joshua said rubbing his face.

  Jack and I could not help laughing at Joshua’s reaction.

  “I have heard some things about you and Katie that I rather didn’t want to know. I always thought of her as this innocent girl, but now I don’t know so much,” Jack said smiling at me.

  “You two are worst than girls sometimes. The gossiping has to stop,” I said looking at Joshua.

  “Don’t look at me, most of what he is referring to is Isabel’s doing,” Joshua tried to defend himself.

  “You should really get laid more often Jack, then our sex life won’t bother you and Isabel so much,” I said.

  “I am working on that believe me. I just can’t perform under pressure,” Jack said disappointed.

  Joshua started laughing.

  “What do you mean?” I asked confused.

  “Every time we wanted to have sex there were people in the house. I have never spent time alone with her.”

  “Shame Jack is shy, who would have known?” I asked sarcastically.

  “I am not like the two of you, besides I do think the two of you have an addiction. I have seen you disappear while we watch movies or at the BBQ. Then you come back and Josh is smiling from ear to ear. Aren’t you worried that someone might catch you, doing it?” Jack asked.