First Kiss
Call herself naive, but she had never kissed anyone in her life before and that made Joe Brandon the first man to ever kiss her. She didn't know how to kiss correctly but she had learned from the kissing videos of Joe and Julia that she had watched many times that day.
She bit her lip right after Joe withdrew his lips from hers, one of the things that she also learned from the video, and surprisingly it had quite an effect on Joe. "I know you are you, but that kiss..." he paused before continuing, but she interrupted him immediately, "Felt different? Isn't it?"
Joe looked at her in complete shock, his eyes wide and twitching every now and then as if he was saying a silent 'yes'. Anne Marie got up from his lap, deliberately showing a heartbroken face which again made Joe confused. "I know it's going to be a long journey, after all the hell I've been through of course things can never be the same right? I totally understand if you feel I'm an 'alien' or something, you know I won't force you to accept me back or anything. You know what? I can leave right now if you want me to..."
"Stop Jules, what are you trying to say? It doesn't matter okay? We'll be fine," Joe interrupted in a trembling voice, he didn't know why but he was so afraid that the woman who claimed to be Julia in front of him would leave him just like that. What if she really was Julia? Wouldn't he regret it for the rest of his life?
Anne Marie began to sob, not because she felt she failed to kiss Joe the way Julia had kissed her, but because Joe's love for Julia made her feel so guilty.
"Jules ..." Joe pushed his wheelchair closer, but Anne Marie raised one hand, begging him to stop. "I need time, this whole thing feels so suffocating," she said in a choked voice. Without waiting for Joe's answer she walked fast clutching her chest out of the room, she knew from a distance Elena and Albert were watching her.
She walked with heavy steps towards her room, it felt like she had given up, even if Elena decided to end their cooperation, she would be fine. Well, she may have to go to another city, but that's not a problem at all, she could always live anywhere, she is a survivor.
While in the hallway leading to her room she ran into Elena who seemed to have come to meet her on purpose. "Mrs. Brandon?" she said stiffly. "To your room, right now," Elena muttered as she walked quickly ahead of her. Anne Marie bit her lip, "Everything ends here," she muttered quietly.
"I allowed you to have sex with my son once, only once! Do you hear that?" chirped Elena when they were in the room. Anne Marie glared, "Are you kidding me? I've never had sex with anyone in my life! He'll know I'm not Julia!" she said panicked.
Elena glared in surprise, "What? Did you just say you're a virgin?!" she snapped, sounding very upset. "You told me to pretend to be Julia, but you never said that I have to make love to your son!" snapped Anne Marie, crossing her arms over her chest. "Well Joe is handsome and attractive but that doesn't mean I want to fuck him! You think I'm a whore or something?"
"Are you stupid? How could you not think that something like that was possibly happening? I asked you to pretend to be a wife! A wife, for God's sake! Don't you know what married couples do?" shouted Elena vehemently.
"Well, you said your son is in a wheelchair, so I didn't think about that kind of stuff..." Anne Marie squeaked and plopped down on the sofa behind her, working as an actress was apparently much more tiring than being a therapist in a beauty salon.
"I don't care, you have to make my son believe that you are Julia, you have to sleep with him! That's the only way to make him attached to you," Elena looked at Anne Marie intently.
Anne Marie took a deep breath,
"Honestly I don't really need your money, I don't have a problem with living poor, so keep that plan to yourself, I'll cancel this agreement," she said tiredly. Even if she had to sleep on the streets she didn't care, she wouldn't want to fuck with Joe like a prostitute! After all, she was still a virgin, she didn't know how she could give up her virginity in order to appear in front of Joe as a woman who had experience in love.
"No, you can't just walk away! You've signed an agreement! You think this is all a game!" shouted Elena furiously. Anne Marie looked up, and glared at Elena, "Then don't force me to do anything that's not in the contract, unless..."
"Unless what?"
"Unless you're going to triple my pay," she said, taking the opportunity, if she was about to lose her virginity, she'd better do it in a better way.
Elena was silent for a moment before finally snorting in laughter, "Are you crazy? You think you're that valuable?!" she said, looking at Anne Marie with a look of disdain and annoyance. Anne Marie shrugged her shoulders, "It's your call, you better think about it and let me know, remember it's triple not a couple," she repeated carefully, not wanting Elena to mishear her request.
Without waiting for Elena to leave, she got up from the sofa, went to bed, and threw her body on it. She felt like her energy was drained, physically and mentally.
"I didn't choose you wrong, you're just like Julia, greedy and fake!" Elena hissed before stepping out of the room. Anne Marie just shrugged her shoulders, unconcerned. She already got his hands dirty, why not just swim in the puddle at once? As she lay staring at the ceiling above her, suddenly a phone ringing startled her. Hesitantly she picked up the phone and waited for someone to speak on the other end.
"Okay whatever, I'll pay you triple..."
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