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She nodded as she listened to him, it was less than she thought it would be, and actually pretty affordable. She nodded,"Alright. Sounds good." She replied and then hung up her phone. She tried to settle down and watch some TV, relax and not seem like such a spaz. She was excited to get to know more about the guy who helped her, who supposedly had a pretty widespread, strange reputation for the kind of work he did. However she felt like she was hiring a prostitute, she tried to just quit thinking about it. Finally though he texted her.

She got changed, throwing on a pair of jeans, a tank top, and a blue sweater that fit her rather well, some american eagle brand or something similar it didn't really matter. She threw her hair up into a clip and then snuck out past her step mother who was sitting in the living room on her cell phone while someone gave her a pedicure and foot massage.

She walked down to the park and shoved her hands in her front pockets, she arrived and looked around for a moment before taking a seat on a swing, the chill of the night air nipping at her nose. Finally she heard a skateboard, she smiled and stood up, jogging over to meet him,"Hey, thanks for meeting me here." She said with a bright smile, her blue eyes shining brightly in the lamp lights, her brown hair falling around her face, the rest of it pulled up in a clip. She was cute....maybe not what some would describe as amazingly sexy or super hot, but definitely not ugly, she was pretty. "I was really happy when you decided to help me out again." she said and pulled out her wallet. "I hope its okay I brought the money, I figured I should pay you in advance?" she asked him,"I wasn't sure how you usually take your payments." She said with a small embarrassed laugh as she blushed some lightly.

She smiled and shrugged,"It doesn't matter how you dress or anything, no offense but you're hot enough to gain my step mother's approval, and my dad is never home so don't feel any pressure." She said with a shrug and sat down next to him. She looked out over the park for a moment thinking about what he said about playing their parts, and nodded,"And I guess you're right, we can start meeting up after school and stuff for a week or two, but you need to meet my parents after that, the prom is at the end of next month and I'd like my dad to know I'm going with someone he knows." She said.

She sat back and kicked a rock before looking at him again,"So you this kind of thing like, a lot?" She asked him,"What do you do when you really have feelings for a girl? Or were you just going to deal with that as it came up?" She asked him, Kelsey really always wondered about that kind of thing, its not like most women would be alright with what he did, or what he most likely planned to do for a living. She thought twice about it and suddenly felt like it was a rude question,"Sorry, I guess I'm just a little curious." She said and stood up,"You probably have to get home though so I can just see you tomorrow?"

She made a face when he called her 'princess' although she supposed she understood why he would say something like that. She listened to him, of course he didn't get feelings for clients, but what about if he just met a girl socially one day and gained feelings for her? Kelsey decided not to pry into it anymore though, she felt like she might be getting too personal. To be honest she was hoping to gain some kind of weird friendship out of all this - not any kind of romance or hope for a romance, actually that was the last thing she wanted. Kelsey was pretty sure that if she found herself getting real feelings for him she would feel more lonely than ever.

She nodded as she listened to him, he sounded really nice,"I can get home alright, but it'd be nice if you could pick me up after school tomorrow, it'd be fun to hang out with someone." She said happily,"But hey, the whole boyfriend act thing is only in front of people alright? I don't need any kind of fake mushy stuff when its just us two." She said then stood up and stretched her legs,"I should be getting home though so I'll see you tomorrow after school." She said with a smile and waved before she left.





The next day after school Kelsey walked out of her class,"Alrighty, you're email is programmed into my phone and you have mine. I'll talk to you later about our project." He smiled,"Cool. I look forward to your email." He said with a smile, he was a hansom young man, Ethan was his name. Ethan was a basketball player and a B+ student for the most part. He was pretty charming but he also enjoyed a drink or two with his team mates, something Kelsye stayed away from. Either way she couldn't help but like it when he smiled at her anytime and every time, even if he didn't really know who she was, or care. A few of the basketball players walked by and he left with them, Kelsey gave a small wave and watched them walk away before she left as well.

She walked outside and out of the campus onto the side walk, looking around for Micheal, wondering what time he'd be there. She pulled out her cell phone and checked over a few things before putting it back in her pocket, her hair was pulled up into a pony tail and she was in her school uniform again, which did little for her figure. She wore the knee length skirt and the school sweater over her tie and button up.

She looked up when she heard him and smiled, although she wasn't sure how she felt about him keeping the 'princess' nick name, even if he did mean it in a cute way. She stepped back when he flipped up the skate board and smiled when he caught it, she glanced over her shoulder to catch sight of the girls he made giggle then looked back at him. "Show off." She said with a smile as she raised an eyebrow. She smiled warmly next,"Hey, how are you doing today?" She asked him happily,"I can't believe you actually came to walk me home. That was so nice of you." She said, so far everything Kelsey did or said seemed to be filled with warmth and sincerity, and it was.

Kelsey began to walk back to her home with him,"Do you have any plans this afternoon? I have some video games and I was wondering if you'd want to hang out for a while with me before you went home?" She asked him, actually hoping he'd say yes, maybe it was because of how they met, or because of the strange deal they were currently in, but she had a good feeling about their friendship. She didn't feel like her usual self with Micheal, she felt confident and bright and ready to really open herself up to someone else unlike how she usually felt when she met kids at school, like she was strange and introverted.

Kelsey had to tell herself to calm down and just enjoy his arm around her waist for now, that this was what was supposed to happen, so she didn't mention it and tried to follow her own advice. She smiled brightly when he accepted her invitation,"Cool! Thanks." She continued to walk with him and glanced at him when he asked her if they would be alone. "Hm? Oh, they aren't home. My dad is out of town and my step-mom is out with some of her friends, she won't be home until late. The woman who cleans our house will come over in about an hour, but shes cleaning the downstairs today so she won't bother us." Kelsey said, suddenly aware that it might have been an awkward thing to say. She knew that Micheal didn't have a lot of money, hell she met him in the red light district, but did he live there? Or did he just hang out there....of course who would just hang out there...?

She walked up the front steps and opened the door, there was a long beep and Kelsey turned to the side, entering a code into a security panel, ending the long beep. Right at the foyer were the stairs, which she lead him up and then through the hallway to her room. Her house was pretty large and her step mother had decorated each room herself, however they stepped into Kelsey's room, which was plush, sure, with a queen sized bed in the corner, a small desk with a laptop, and then a small entertainment center with a tv in it and two gaming systems on the floor. Her room wasn't all pink like most girls who could choose the color of their room, it was mostly shades of lavender and blue with a plain, neutral wall color. There was a small love seat on the end of her bed against the wall that gave you a good view of the TV,"Make yourself comfortable." She said as she took off her backpack and sat it on her desk and began to go through it, pulling out some books and a few folders, clearly her homework, she began to organize it on her desk.

Kelsey made a face when he said they gated up their property to keep the crime of the city out, like her family was trying to place themselves on some kind of pedestal. However before she could tell him what her father did he revealed the answer to one of her math problems, she looked at it a moment and worked it out in her head before smiling,"Hey, you're right." she said and took out a pencil and scribbled down the answer. She threw her back pack down on the floor next to her desk and then walked over to the bed and looked at him,"My dad took over the Harding Law Firm when grandpa retired." She explained as she removed her sweater and her tie, unbuttoning the top two buttons of her button up school shirt. The Harding Law Firm had been in business for just over fifty years now and they only took on big clients or big cases, however they were actually reputable for a law firm, no one had ever accused a Harding lawyer of being an ambulance chaser, mud-raker, or a media grabber - well as reputable as a law firm could get.

Good lawyers made a decent amount of money, and not only did her father run the entire firm, but so had his father and his grandfather as well - they were what the upper class referred to as 'old money'. "So you like math?" she asked him then got up and walked over to her systems on the floor,"So what game do you want to play?" she asked him opening up a section on the entertainment systems and pulling out a stack of games before crossing her legs on the floor,"I've got some fighting games, some racing games, and some games with a two player story mode." She looked back at him, raising her eyebrows, wondering which game he'd be interested in and waiting for him to respond.

Kelsey listened, nodding, it seemed like a good lesson for a father to teach his son...in a weird kind of way. But soon he changed the subject and challenged her in the game. She started it up,"You are so on." She countered then looked at the screen, she glanced at him for a moment to answer his second question,"No, not really." She looked back at the TV screen and selected her fighter, completing her answer without looking at him,"Saturdays I usually just veg out and watch TV or something. Sometimes I go to the gym." She shrugged, glancing at him again,"You?" She looked back at the screen, which counted down from 5,"I warn you I have a lot of free time and mad gaming skills." She said, meaning to sound cheesy, the screen hit one, then FIGHT! and Kelsey began hitting buttons, while she seemed to jump around the screen alot, instead of shields or blocking, she did seem to know several combos.


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She thought for a moment, she liked to surf the internet, listen to music, play her keyboard or guitar when the mood hit her, and watch old movies and TV shows. For instance when he was home she and her father would spend time together watch star trek or learning songs together. One of the only artistic things he knew how to do was play guitar and he had some pretty interesting taste in music, it was a subject they got along very well on. But none of that stuff was stuff you could do with someone else really, no one liked old tv shows, and you didn't just play guitar for people unless they wanted to hear it, but it wasn't on display in her room, so how would he even know she played?

Before she had a chance to reply anything she was thinking he mentioned her school again and she made a twisted up face at the thought of it, then finally he asked her if she knew how to swim. Her face lit up,"Yeah! I know how to swim!" She stood up,"What were you thinking?" She asked, opening up her closet door and walking in, she came out holding a bathing suit,"You don't think its too cold outside to swim?" She asked him, hesitantly. It was still pretty warm but it wasn't exactly summer anymore. Thinking of this she was suddenly afraid of where he was going to take her. She trusted him pretty well at this point, he had yet to make fun of her, loot her, or do anything else he'd had the chance to do.....but where in the hell were they going swimming?