The whole Summer, Casey is on cloud 9. He has a great knack for selling the paintings, they have tones of events and the place is becoming a real buzz around town. One afternoon, he is in his office, when the receptionist comes in and tells him someone wants to talk to him.
He walks out and sees Angela, she walks over and he looks at her, "Do I have to call for security?"
She eyes him, "You look really good Casey, this managing position...definitely where you are meant to be."
He looks at her,"What do you want Angela?"
"I heard about the success of this gallery, your name came up..I had to see for myself. Getting married soon, baby?" She says.
He looks at her, quiet for a second and then answers,"Business for you going down hill?"
"I miss you Casey, as a friend..not just an employee. I am sorry for what I did, I didn't want to lose you. I have important clients asking for you, willing to pay you..a lot of money." She says.
"I'm not interested..." He says, about to walk away but then thinks,curiously. "How much..?" Looking back at her, she smiles, "You could talk your way into 20 grand..."
"I do that now...while keeping my clothes on." He says, she touches his chest,"That's a shame..., you are just filling what she wants you to be."
"No, I'm not..." He fights her, Angela looks at him,"The domestic life will get boring for you, call me whenever that happens." She says, and walks out of the gallery.
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He goes to work out, swims in the gym's pool and keeping his mind on his life. How perfect everything was going, this was not him? Something always screwed up, did he obtain any of this himself? No, his looks got him pretty much anything.
He breaks down and goes to an old dealer, who is surprised to see him and buys a quick solution. He makes it back to his apartment, he was planning to move in with Elissa soon and this was way too fast.
He takes out the drugs, thinking and considering whether or not to take them.
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Casey woke up hours later to a knock on his door, he was passed out on his couch. He stood up and booze bottle fell to the ground. The knocking continued and heard his name being called, it sound like Elissa.
He quickly tossed the empty bottle and looked to his coffee table, which had a baggy of the drugs he had bought. He didn't take them, instead he got shit faced to stop himself. He takes the bag and goes into his bedroom, reaches on top of his closet and puts the baggy in a shoe box.
He fixes his hair a bit and finally opens the door, Elissa stands there looking perfect of course. She eyes him and his appearance, "Did you forget about tonight?"
He looks at her, trying to remember what she's asking "Yeah...I did."
She smiles and walks in, "Dinner with my mother and Mr.Palmer, they have something to tell me apparently."
Casey nods, "Right..no, I'll just go shower really quickly. Kind of just woke up, long night." She eyes him as he walks off into his bedroom, "I can see that....are you okay?"
He has his shirt off by now and taking off his jeans, "I'm fine...why wouldn't I be?"
She nods, he smiles at her and goes up to her,"You get to have fun and pick out what I wear..." He gives her butt a smack and stands before her completely naked, he goes off into his shower and gets cleaned up.
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Moments later, they were in his car and driving to a restaurant where the family had dinner reservations. They entered and looked around, Elissa's mother waved to them and Casey extended his hand for Elissa to lead the way.
They get to the table and he holds out the chair for her, she takes a seat and as does he. Elissa wastes no time and gets right to the point, "Alright, what is the big announcement?"
Her mom extends her left hand and on one of her fingers was a diamond ring. Elissa gawks at it, while her mother shrieks with excitement. Casey looks at it as well, "Congratulations...that's one hell of a rock."
Her mother turned to him and smiled, "Thank you Casey. Well, Elissa, what do you think?"
Elissa finally broke her silence, "As long as you're happy Mom..."
Her mother gets up and hugs her daughter, the girls sit back down shortly.
Casey puts his hand under the table, to reach Elissa's thigh and rubs it showing his support. Her hand lays on top of his. The meals are put down and they all dig in, her mother watches Casey "Next, it will be the two of you getting hitched..."
Almost choking on a bit of his steak, he looks at her mom but Elissa speaks for him,"Mom, we're taking it slow. We're moving in together next month..."
Mr.Palmer looks at Casey,"I hear the gallery is doing quite well, you are great at selling....of course we all knew that."
Casey looks at Palmer, knowing the guy doesn't like him and just nods politely,"It is...I can't thank you enough, I truly enjoy it."
Elissa starts to talk about him some more, about a recent sale and then puts her hand delicately on his cheek. He smiles to her.
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