Crossroad to Love (Fab Five Series)

chapter 20

When Marianne entered the suite, the lights were out and it appeared that everyone had gone to bed. She put down her purse and went into the small kitchenette to get a drink of water.

As she entered the bedroom she shared with Angie, she saw that the other three were in their pajamas, seated on the bed and apparently having a good old-fashioned ‘Fab Four’ gab fest, or ‘fab fest’ as the guys liked to call it.

“May I join in?” she asked.

“Of course, get into your PJ’s and start talking, girl. You seem in better spirits than you were earlier. Is everything okay now?” Lizzie asked.

Marianne answered her friend as she pulled on a nightshirt and jumped onto the bed.

“Things are better. I have chosen to believe him that nothing happened other than one kiss. He realizes he should have told me about it from the start. It would have saved a lot of heartache and misunderstanding, not to mention bottles of wine. I would say things are good. He may have to take legal action against Jennifer though if she doesn’t stop harassing him. Oh, and the best part is, Jon is taking me to San Antonio next weekend. We are going to relax, stroll the Riverwalk, and get romantic…”

“Honey, it’s so good to see you smiling again. But you have to trust Jon from now on. You know that, don’t you?” Angie asked.

“Yes, I know. By the way, speaking of trust, how did your talk with Michael go?”

Angie was grinning from ear to ear. “We are going to work it out. It was very intense. We spent some heart-wrenching hours talking and crying together, but it’s all out in the open now. I may be inviting you all to a wedding one of these days. We’re planning to remarry, but haven’t decided yet if it will be a private ceremony or not. By the way, he said you and Lizzie paid him a visit. Now why does that not surprise me, the old matchmaking game?”

“You aren’t angry with us, are you?” Marianne asked.

“Of course not, silly. Maybe what you said to him helped. I’m grateful to anyone who’s helped us through this horrible time. He said Jon also gave him advice. He even called my mom. Katy, I’m surprised you didn’t get in on this.”

“I guess I was too tangled up in my own problems this time. I hope I didn’t let you down, Angie,” Katy replied.

“Of course not, you can’t be the one who solves everyone’s problems all the time, you crazy kid.” She and Katy exchanged a look of understanding.

Marianne spoke up, “I invited Jon to have dinner with us tomorrow night. He had wanted to spend some time with all of you while you were in town, so I hope you don’t mind that I asked him. His reason for being here tonight in the first place was to treat us all to dinner. And we all know how that turned out.”

“As long as it’s comfortable for you, we would love to see him again. I really am looking forward to tomorrow night’s dinner now that we all have our problems behind us,” Angie answered her friend cheerily.

Katy thought to herself, Not all of us have their problems worked out, but she kept quiet. She really did not want to think about it tonight.

“And wasn’t that weird, Jon and Michael meeting up in the bar and getting together to drown their sorrows?” Lizzie mentioned.

“Yes, I asked Jon about that. It was strange. Did you get a chance to call Rex back, by the way?”

“Yes, I did. I’m just a little bit nervous about showing him my work tomorrow. I think he’s still in shock that I landed this account without him. He’s probably scared to death to see what I came up with.”

“I think you just took him off guard when you secured that account all on your own. You know how men are.”

“I hope he likes my ideas.”

“Well, the O’Gradys liked them, so surely Rex will go along with it.”

“Speaking of the O’Gradys, Katy, are you ready for your talk with Ryan?”

Well, I guess I am going to have to talk about it anyway. “As ready as I’ll ever be, I suppose. I just need to get it over with and see where we go from there. He may not want to have anything to do with me for a while, if ever. I will just have to accept that and hope he changes his mind.”

“I think it’s time for lights out. We all need to spend tomorrow making ourselves beautiful for tomorrow night. I say we all go for a massage, facial, manicure, pedicure, the whole bit.”

“I think we deserve that.”

“Sounds like heaven to me.”

“I agree.”

And with that thought, they called it a night and Lizzie and Katie went back to their bedroom. Three of them feeling just a little more relieved that their problems might be starting to be behind them and Katy still facing hers.

Tomorrow is another day, as Scarlett O’Hara would say, Katy thought as she drifted off to dreamland.