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Post by heroicmuse on Jan 5, 2015 8:05:01 GMT -5
Oy, what happened??? Can't wait to find out more...
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Post by unavitasegreta on Jan 5, 2015 9:10:39 GMT -5
Your cliffhangers are so darn evil!!! Can't wait for more!
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Post by André DiMera on Jan 5, 2015 10:29:06 GMT -5
First off, I love the Melanie C and Bryan Adams song at the very begiining! Second, thanks for the refresher on "Stealing Home". It was nice to have that at the beginning. And third... Wow! That was quick! What does Chloe mean the marriage is over, it seems like it only just happened! I am definitely interested in seeing where this goes, Kpatch! |
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Post by fluffysmom on Jan 5, 2015 10:41:28 GMT -5
Very intriguing beginning to the story. I need to hear more. I like seeing Nicole and Chloe together.
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Post by jc20886 on Jan 5, 2015 11:37:43 GMT -5
What?
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Post by Minako98 on Jan 5, 2015 19:25:29 GMT -5
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Post by Kpatch on Jan 6, 2015 6:19:31 GMT -5
Chapter 2
Stunned, Nicole leaned back in her chair. “What??? You did not just say what I think you said.”
“I did. It’s true Nicole. We’re getting a divorce.”
“You’re joking, right? We’re talking about you and Philip.” Nicole used an imaginary writing instrument to write in the air. “Chloe Lane and Philip Kiriakis, two crazy kids who had their first date when they were sixteen and took sixteen more years to make it to the altar.”
“You can add a postscript to that headline,” Chloe said matter-of-factly. “‘And it took less than a year for it all to fall apart.’” Sighing again, Chloe noted, “I wish it weren’t true, but it is.”
“Let me guess,” Nicole speculated. “It was Kate.”
Chloe shook her head sadly. “No. Kate had nothing to do with it this time.”
Leaning forward with her elbows on the table, Nicole lowered her voice. “Chloe! Then why? What happened?”
“What happened.” Chloe looked up toward the ceiling with watery eyes, then looked back at Nicole. “How much time have you got?”
Nicole checked her cell phone sitting on the table next to her drink and looked at the display. “Three and half hours until my flight.”
“In that case, I’ll give you the short version,” Chloe said, only slightly sarcastically.
“Wait, I think I’m gonna need another drink for this.” Nicole waved a hand in the air and snapped her fingers. “Waitress!”
After the waitress freshened their drink orders, Nicole was ready to hear the rest of the story. “Okay, spill it girlfriend. But keep in mind I’ll believe anything except that Philip is cheating on you.”
Chloe gave Nicole a sideways glance and Nicole dropped her swizzle stick. “No! No no no.” She shook her head vigorously. “I do not believe it. Not Philip.”
Chloe shrugged. “Well, it’s not like he never cheated before.”
“Yeah, but that was when he cheated with you which I totally approved of,” Nicole said like a politician, “because of you guys’s history. But cheating on you?? That’s adiculous,” she slurred, slightly buzzed. “Do you have proof?”
“If you mean DNA samples, no,” she said flatly. Chloe was long over the initial shock and anger of her discovery and well into the acceptance phase. “But I have other proof.”
“You do? O.M.G. Tell me,” Nicole was wide-eyed with anticipation, like a child waiting by an ice cream truck. She reached for the glass jar on the table and shook a handful of cheddar goldfish into her hand. “Wait. Who is she? Do I know her?”
“I don’t think so. It’s someone he works with,” Chloe replied. “She’s in marketing.”
“Marketing, huh? Sounds like she’s the one who’s on the market,” Nicole quipped.
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Post by melly on Jan 6, 2015 7:25:39 GMT -5
Nope. Not buying that he cheated. Nope. Nope. Nope.
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Post by heroicmuse on Jan 6, 2015 7:40:21 GMT -5
Nope. Why do i think Kate (or somebody) is busy making trouble?
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Post by unavitasegreta on Jan 6, 2015 10:17:25 GMT -5
I'm going to need a drink too, Nicole! And some tissues. I love your version of Nicole. It's the REAL Nicole.
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Post by fluffysmom on Jan 6, 2015 12:10:30 GMT -5
Poor Chloe! What are you doing Philip??
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Post by jc20886 on Jan 6, 2015 12:15:13 GMT -5
Philip has waited to long for Chloe he would not do such a stupid thing no no no
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Post by Minako98 on Jan 6, 2015 12:58:26 GMT -5
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Post by gapeach on Jan 7, 2015 6:24:34 GMT -5
Nope. Why do i think Kate (or somebody) is busy making trouble? I totally agree!! Is Vivian anywhere around??? |
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Post by Kpatch on Jan 7, 2015 6:29:33 GMT -5
Chapter 3
“Marketing, huh? Sounds like she’s the one who’s on the market,” Nicole quipped.
“Tell me about it,” Chloe stirred the olive in her cocktail. “She goes on business trips with Philip quite a bit.”
~~Flashback to October 2014~~
Chloe was in the Xerox room at Titan offices running off copies of a PowerPoint presentation for a meeting she was leading that afternoon. In the hall right outside the copier room, she could hear two young women talking.
“So, you and the boss, huh?” one woman said.
“It’s not what you think,” the other woman with a young-sounding voice responded. “Philip - - I mean, Mr. Kiriakis is awesome. He’s not just a pretty face.”
“I see, so he’s helping you, huh?”
“You could say that. Did you know he gets amorous when he drinks?”
“What? Wait. Are you saying…?”
“Oh my gosh!” the younger woman said. She must have been covering her mouth because her voice was momentarily muffled. “I wasn’t supposed to say anything about that to anyone! He made me promise. I could get fired if I tell anyone. Oh Diane,” the young woman said a little melodramatically. “Please, you have to swear to me you won’t say anything.”
“Calm down, Monica. I won’t say anything.”
“Swear it.”
“I swear, okay?”
Chloe stared at the stack of copies piling up on the copier but her mind was no longer on the presentation. She felt sick to her stomach. The room started closing in on her and she felt the beginnings of a seizure coming on. The lipstick on his collar, the business trips, the drinking, the secretive phone calls and emails. It all added up. And now, it was confirmed. She just heard a woman tell a coworker that she was having an affair with Philip.
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Atlanta Airport, January 2015
“That’s disgusting,” Nicole said, munching on some goldfish crackers and talking with her mouth full. “She pretty?”
Chloe rolled her eyes. “Very. And young. According to her personnel file —“
“You looked in her personnel file,” Nicole asked. When Chloe nodded, Nicole leaned her elbow on the back of her chair, raised her glass and winked. “You go girl! You learned from the master!”
“…she’s like 22 going on 23.”
“Ugh. Melanie’s age.” Nicole set her glass down and laid her head on the table for a minute and Chloe wasn’t sure if she passed out, but she kept talking anyway.
“Exactly! I knew Philip had gotten really chummy with her. But I heard her — with my own two ears — I heard her tell another coworker that Philip gets amorous when he’s had a little too much to drink,” Chloe remembered. “And I know firsthand that he does.”
Nicole’s head popped up and Chloe could see Nicole was now drunk. “Oh pshaw. All men are amorous when they’re drunk. Well, except Lucas. He’s just drunk when he’s drunk. Hey, maybe she was talking about a different Philip.”
“Nice try, Nicole,” she said with a sad smile, “but she was talking about my Philip. Well, my soon-to-be ex-Philip.”
Nicole sighed heavily and snuck in another sip. “Have you confronted him about it?”
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