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Bad Plan

CHAPTER 2

“So let me get this straight, you volunteered me to cook a bbq, two days from now. On my day off, and I should do this why?" She raised an eye brow.

“Because you like throwing bbq's and having people over." I replied recalling the many times we had had people over for dinner.

“Yes, but not people who are used to away higher cooking skill." She sounded annoyed.

“Look, they don't want fancy food. They want just an old fashion backyard bbq's. Where they sit down and just relax like everyone else. Plus I thought you'd be alittle excited getting to meet them all."

“Fine, but your buying everything and being my help. Which means.."

“I cater to you. Deal."

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Friday I went and bought everything, while getting texts from excited people asking what they should bring. Saturday morning was helping prep the food. I was just excited to have everyone come over. Plus waiting to see the look on my twins face when she met Tom.

There was knock, I ran to go get it as my sister was outside grilling.

“Hey kid," ah, that amazing smile. "Brought some beer."

“Nice, and your like an hour early." I smiled, gesturing for him follow. Showed him the quick down stairs tour of the house.

“Utterly gorgeous. I love old houses, they just don't have the same character in homes today." We walked out back, our patio was huge. With a fire pit in the middle, benches built in to the side of the deck. White lights were strung up, to be honest the patio costed us a fortune but it was well worth every penny.

“Completely agree with you, we jumped when it went up for sale. Got it for a steal cause it had so many issues. But, we knew some people."

“Hey Karl. You found the place okay?" My sister asked. "Can be hard to find."

“Yep, can't see looming up from the street since its on the top of hill or anything." He joked back.

“Well, the drive way can be a pain sometimes. Somebody hasn't trimmed the hedges out front."

“Oh my gosh, they arnt that bad."

“Renee, you can't find the mail box." She pointed the flipper at me.

“Fine I'll go cut them back real quick." I hurried off, stopping by the shed to grab the cutters. I was just about done when two more cars pulled up.

“Hey, up that way?" Zoe asked pointing up the drive.

“Yeah, I'll be up in a minute. Karl's already here." She pulled in, Simon and Tom in her car, Chris waved as he followed her, Zach riding shot gun. I felt a wave of anxiety, and steeled myself before trekking up the drive.

I introduced my sister to our guests. Except one, Tom. You see my sister had been giving me grief about this cook out since I told her about it. I devised an evil plan to get back at her. I knew my wonderful dear twin needed more burgers. I was already carrying side dishes so I asked Tom to snag the burgers and take them to her.

I love her I really do, but I knew how much of crush she had on this man. I would never get to do something like this to her again. I watched as he walked out.

“Excuse me, miss, your sister asked me to bring you this." He said walking up beside the unsuspecting woman. I watched as her entire body went rigid, no doubt completely recognizing that British voice. She turned rather slowly, looking at him and blinked hard a couple of times. I watched as her face paled, then slowly turn pink.

“Uh, thank you." She stammered and turned back to the grill. I walked over to the table where all guests were and put the sides down.

“God, you two have a slice of heaven back here." Zoe exclaimed, taking everything in.

“In all seriousness, this is a pretty sweet patio." Chris stated, taking a swig of his beer. "I mean you got the recessed fire pit, some falls with a koi pond in the corner. Beautiful trees surrounding it. You can't even hear the street down there."

“Thanks, Ros and I spend a lot of time out here during the summer and fall." My phone vibrated, I pulled it out. All it said 'I'm killing you after they leave!'

Once the food was done we all sat and chatted, enjoying the evening. Rosalyn having an in depth conversation with Tom and Simon about England. Zach and Zoe were arguing about how certain words were properly pronounced, in Klingon.

“So Renee, you going to tell us about some of your writings?" Chris inquired, sitting on the back railing.

“It's not much." I replied, trying to dismiss it. I felt odd talking about my own work.

“Come on, just tell us about one of them. Karl said you auditioned to get to ready to send them publishers which means you have at least one ready. " this time I flushed up.

“Well, I have one that deals with a young woman who has the ability to do magic in present time and has manage to catch the attention of an angry psychotic Greek deity." I explained the best I could.

“Sounds interesting. What kind of format is written in? First person? Third person?" Chris looked excited.

“It's in first person."

“You said you also wrote some screen plays." Karl asked, a twinkle in his eye. Or maybe it was just the lighting.

“Yes. That ones a little bit harder to describe." To be honest that one made me uncomfortable talking about. I grabbed the dirty dishes and went into the kitchen to catch a break. My anxiety was raising talking about my work. They were my babies and wasn't sure if I was ready for the world to read them.

“Hey, you okay?" Chris had followed me this time. I was not expecting that.

“Yeah, I'm fine. Why?" I looked over my should at him.

“You just made a quick exit when we were asking about your writing, that's all." He walked up behind me, his finger tips just barely touched the back of my arms. I wasn't sure what was going on but it was making me feel very uncomfortable. Not in a bad way but it wasn't something I was used to.

“I'm just not used to talking about it that's all." I turned around, facing him. He gave me a lopsided smile. "If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go back outside."

He stepped to the side and allowed me to pass him. I was shaking lightly, I was not used to being that close to someone. I took a deep breath once outside and rejoined the conversations taking place.

The evening winded down, and everyone was leaving. Zoe hijacked the rest of the potato and macaroni salad. She begged Rosalyn to text her the rescipe, my sister conceded.

“So, kid, I'll see you on set Monday?" Karl asked as I walked him to his rental.

“Of course. Where else would be at 5am?" I smiled back at him.

“Rosalyn, amazing dinner." He remarked climbing in his car. She gave him thumbs up, as i walked back to our front porch.

“He likes you." She stated through her smile as we watched him leave.

“Whatever." We walked back in.

“You just couldn't tell me about Tom?"

“Try working with him, and not being able to tell you because you said no spoilers. And he's a spoiler." I point at her snickering.

“Yeah, still going to kill you for that." She made herself some tea.

“How's next weekend sound? I'm booked full this week." I replied, grabbing some water.

“Busy next weekend. Have your people contact my people."

5am came early, I dragged myself into the make up trailer feeling more tired then normal. It was a cold morning, causing my ankles it hurt painfully. I had fractured them both when I was younger, I dreaded winter every year.

“Morning kid!" Karl sat in the chair next to mine. I glanced over, he held out a coffee.

“You are a life saver." I announced, taking it from him.

“Noticed your sister was shooting you daggers most the evening the other day. What was that about?" He questioned in between sips of his coffee. "Hopefully we weren't a burden to her."

“No, not at all." I chuckled. "She just has the biggest crush on Tom, hence why I had him take the burgers out. I knew I'd never get another opportunity to do that to her again." He laughed hard in reply.

“So you ran with it? Aren't you sneaky, kid?" He laughed again, I chuckled watching him.

“Trust me, she deserves it." I watched as he recomposed himself. "She is my sister and with the teasing she's been putting me through nightly."

“Well, I happen to know he's single." He mused as we walked over to wardrobe.

“Really?" I chuckled as he held the door open. "And what are you implying, kind sir?"

“What I'm implying is we set them up. Cause I heard a little a birdy ranting and raving about your twin."

“Ooo, you have me intrigued." I giggled.

“What am I missing?" Chris popped out from one of the booths in wardrobe. A broad smile shot out when his eyes landed on me. "Morning Renee."

“How we are setting up Rosalyn and Tom." Karl replied getting into the booth.

“Count me in. Sounds like fun." Chris replied crossing his arms over his captains uniform.

“You two are worse then teenage girls." I jested. Going into the other booth.

The day ended with me in the gym, going through yet another fighting scene. Mike wasn't there, his wife had finally had her baby. So I was just going through the moves. Throwing kicks and dodging the invisible air persons punch. I had no idea how long Karl stood leaning up against the wall watching me. His arms crossed, a small smile across his face.

I caught him out of the corner of my eye. I kept going, feeling awkward. I had thrown some other moves that I thought worked and was running it out smoothly to show Mike in hopes of changing the Choreography. It looked cooler then the original choreography. I finally got done running that set and walked back to my starting point to run it again.

“You changed it kid." He pushed himself off the wall.

“Yeah, I thought it'd look better and it runs smoother. Not that I'm a choreographer." I stated as I started throwing punches. He took his shirt off and jogged over to me. He ducked my kick and relieved the invisible mans place.

“I would have to agree it looks better." He said racking my legs out from under me. I fell back and rolled out as he stomped down. It was odd dance, but none the less we moved like dancers. We hit the spot I had changed and I started calling out shots as we sparred.

It ended with him holding me down. Both of us breathing heavy drenched in sweat. I must admit there wasn't any where I'd rather be. Our eyes were locked, and for a breif moment there was complete silence. My heart pounded in my chest. A slow clap startled both of us.

“That was badass you guys." Pine's voice echoed in the room. Karl smiled, he stood puling me up off the ground. "I don't remember that fight scene though."

“Well that's cause she redid it and you should of recognized the first half of it. It's your fight."

“It is?"

“Yeah." I breathed hard trying to regain my breath. "I was working on it. The second half of it felt chunky, like it just didn't flow."

“Actually Chris, you should take a run with her on it." My head snapped over to

Karl. Sure I knew I was going to eventually have to work with Pine but I wasn't ready.

“You're right." He smirked taking slow confident steps to me. "Ready?"

Can I please say no? I thought to myself as I walked back to other end of the mat. Chris walking close behind me. I took a deep breath before I turned around to face him.

I threw the first punch full force, he ducked. And so began this awkward dance. I may have landed a punch or a kick but he didn't let on. When it came to the changed part I started calling out the shots like I had with Karl. It ended just like Karl and I had, me being pinned to the floor by Pine.

He stood quickly and walked back to the starting place.

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