Chapter 7

The next morning greeted Bailey with a mess of bed head. Spitting out a strand of hair from his mouth, he attempted to put it into some semblance of order as he sat up. Getting frustrated as his attempts made the tangle of hair on his head worse, he huffed and gave it up as a lost cause He stretched his arms over his head causing the open, oversized button up to fall off one shoulder. Shrugging it back on, he climbed out of bed and went to get ready for the day.

After his shower, he grabbed his favorite pair of black panties and his white pleated skirt, and pulled them up snug on his hips. He smiled as he swished the skirt, loving the feeling on his legs. Grabbing a blue shirt, he tucked it into the skirt, and finished off the rest of his outfit with a cropped, pink sweatshirt. As he slipped his dark grey leg warmers on, he wondered how Harper was doing.

Meanwhile next door, Harper had only just popped out of bed. He panicked when he realized that they would be leaving to meet in the hall in only 15 minutes. Hurriedly stumbling into the bathroom, he took a 7 minute shower and rushed over to his closet. He was in such a rush, he did not bother to keep his towel on. Throwing shirt after shirt onto the floor, Harper cursed at himself over not preparing an outfit the night before.

"Ah ha!" he declared triumphantly as he came across a dark red, button up shirt with black outlined leaves.

He pulled on a pair of dark, brown trousers, deciding to go commando, and slipped on a black undershirt. He pulled the button up on, and tucked it into his pants. Glancing at his watch, he saw he only had 2 minutes to go. Checking his hair in the mirror, he put on his regular earrings and faced toward the door. Placing a hand on the doorknob, he took a deep breath and forced himself to relax so it didn't look like he had rushed. He pulled the door open and stepped into the hallway.

Seeing Bailey come out of his door right after him, his breath caught. Bailey looked so cute in his pink sweatshirt and leg warmers, and that skirt…. Harper swallowed. It really accentuated Bailey's hips and ass, so much so he wanted to squeeze it, but he refrained, knowing that Bailey wanted a nice walking date in the park and not a roll in the sheets.

Smiling up at Harper, Bailey leaned in to give him a quick hug.

"Shall we go?" he asked.

"Let's," Harper agreed, sliding an arm around Bailey's waist, his hand resting on his hip, feeling the smoothness of the skirt under his fingers as they walked down the stairs and out of the building.

Stepping out into the sun, they turned down the side toward the park, not knowing what, or rather who, would be interrupting them that day.

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Lacey woke up that morning knowing that today was the day! The day that she, Lacey Cooper, would get her man, her heart, her one true love, Bailey Silva. She had gotten up early just so she could prepare properly, she had even prepared her outfit days earlier when she had originally heard about the date through the wiretap she had one of her lovers install in Bailey's phone the only time she was able to steal it without him noticing. The other times she had stolen his phone, he had seen her and demanded it back, returning later having acquired a new phone each time. She had to stop after the 8th time. She had lulled him into a false sense of security for a few weeks after that, before she had that one IT nerd guy, who had been bugging her to marry him, install the wiretap and GPS tracking, and was able to return it without Bailey noticing that she had even taken it in the first place.

Smiling at the thought of Bailey and marriage, she got ready for the day, before heading out to the park Bailey and Harper were going to be at.

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Bailey smiled up at Harper as they strolled arm-in-arm into the park, as they both noticed and ignored the woman on the bench with sunglasses trying to hide behind an upside down newspaper. He leaned his head onto Harper's shoulder with a content sigh, shushing Harper when he smiled teasingly yet fondly down at him. The couple continued to walk through the park, both talking softly to each other now.

"When do you think you'll be able to pick up Barque Choy? I'm excited to see him again," Bailey asked Harper softly as they continued along the winding path in the park.

Harper chuckled.

"He's excited to see you too," he answered, "I think I'll be able to pick him up tomorrow, barring any incidents."

Bailey's lips curled into a smile at the thought of seeing Barque Choy again. It was love at first sight between Bailey and the dogue de bordeaux. Barque Choy being Harper's dog helped as well, as Bailey would be able to see him whenever he wanted too, the big, lovable, wrinkly dog that he was. Maybe they could go pick him up together. Bailey voiced this thought aloud.

"I don't see a problem with that," Harper smiled, "In fact, I think he'll be more excited to see you than me," he said, amused and happy at how much in love Bailey and his dog were.

'It will make it easier for me to move him and his stuff in without knowing,' Harper smirked at the thought. By the time Bailey noticed, he would be too entangled in Harper's life for him to leave.

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Lacey seethed behind the newspaper she was using as a disguise, as she watched the sappy love scene happening 20 feet away from her. Her hands clenched tight, crinkling the newspaper and bringing her attention back to it. She threw it down on her lap with a huff, frustrated that she was not the one leaning against Bailey. He looked cute today too, though she would look better in that skirt than him, she would have to confiscate the more feminine pieces of his wardrobe for her own when they got together. 'Yes,' she nodded to herself, focusing back on her task. She let out a muffled shriek when she realized that the love scene she had been observing before she got distracted, had turned into kissing.

Turning away with a huff, she began to sulk. Then she sat up with a smile. If she was able to interrupt them and separate that man from Bailey permanently by keeping his attention on her with elaborate excuses and work, then they would have no chance to develop a relationship.

'Yes,' she decided firmly, 'Then he will be mine and no one else's', she thought, ignoring that fact that if they were on a date and kissing, then they already were in a relationship.

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Smoking a cigarette, Jin Soo looked down at his phone as he got an alert from his brother. Seeing that he was asking for the annoyance on the bench to be removed, he laughed, breathing out the smoke in his mouth. Smirking at his brother's irritation with the woman encroaching on his perceived territory, he dropped his cigarette on the sidewalk and ground his heel on it. Grabbing his jacket through the window of the car he was leaning on, he signaled the three body guards currently on duty to follow him as he walked into the park his brother was on a date in. Seeing the situation, meaning the stalker that had followed his brother on his date, Jin Soo wanted to burst out laughing, but he kept his cool, as he was currently on the clock, and he could laugh in his brother's face later. She was so obviously trying to be inconspicuous, but her attempts were laughable. She was easily the most noticeable person in the park dressed as she was, black clothes, obviously for clubbing, and unpractical, high heel shoes. She barely had any clothes at all, from how short that skirt was and how little a scrap of fabric her shirt was. She looked like a hooker waiting for someone to take her up on the offer she wore.

Smirking as he approached her, he signaled to the guards to stand by. He sat down on the bench next to her, and it took 10 minutes for her to notice anyone was there.

"Hi," he smirked at her, his amusement plain on his face, though what he was amused about she didn't know, nor did she care, she only had a small window of opportunity to barge into Bailey's date and she was going to take it, witnesses or not.

Seeing that she was going to ignore him, and interested in what she was gearing up to do, he did not interfere when she shot forward and tackled Harper to the ground with a screech.

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Harper was only able to see Jin Soo burst out laughing before he was body slammed to the ground. He grunted at the force of the impact and gave a thankful sigh to the bodyguard helping him up as he saw the other two holding Lacey in place, still hearing the wheezing of his brother's laugh as he struggled to catch his breath.

"Harper! Are you ok? Do you need any medical aid? Any injuries?," Bailey shot out his questions one after another as his hands fluttered over Harper, scanning Harper's face for any flinches to where he touched.

Seeing and feeling none, he stepped back and looked at the woman who had tackled Harper as she struggled to escape the grip of the two men holding her. His face pinched when he recognized her as Lacey. Giving a tired sigh, Bailey approached where she was being held off to the side.

"Lacey," he spoke indifferently, face blank, "I see you decided to come to the park as well today. Any chance you decided that when you knew we were going to be here?", he questioned icily.

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Missing the black look on Bailey's face, Lacey smiled brightly.

"Bailey," she exclaimed, "Hi! I just wanted to see you, you know, and maybe hang out sometime," she tried to say flirtily, failing miserably without knowing.

Seeing no change in Bailey's facial expression, she continued.

"You can ask them to let go now," she asked with a smile to Bailey, shooting a dirty look at the men who held her back from embracing her Bailey, "They already ruined everything," she said as she continued to glare up at the bodyguards holding her.

Bailey sighed as he turned away from the spectacle that was Lacey, heading back over to Harper to walk back to the apartment building. She was right about one thing, this date was ruined.

"Bailey! Hey! Where you going?," Lacey hollered as she started to struggle harder when she didn't see him react and the guards gave no inclination of letting her go, "See, he's obviously displeased! This is where you let me go so I can comfort him. Bailey! BAAIIIILLLLEEEYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Harper sighed at the expression on Bailey's face as they entered their hallway. This would set them back, as Bailey would think he ruined the date and Harper wouldn't want him again. Deciding to stop that train of thought before it could get any further, he grabbed Bailey's shoulders and pressed him into the wall next to his door. At Bailey's surprised look, he pressed their lips together, swallowing the short exclamation that left Bailey's lips. Continuing to move their lips together, Harper was satisfied as Bailey relaxed into the kiss. Moving his hands down Bailey's body, he gripped his hips, moving one hand down Bailey's thigh, encouraging him to wrap his leg around him. Grunting when that brought their erections together, he swept his hand from Bailey's thigh up his skirt to squeeze his ass, squeezing harder when he felt the lace and ribbon surprise underneath it, not that it was much of one, Harper knew Bailey liked the feel of the lace and his reaction to it. Groaning at the thought of Bailey wearing lace panties just for him, he forced his tongue into Bailey's mouth, swallowing the whine Bailey let out when he squeezed his ass again, forcing their hips to grind for a short moment.

Releasing Bailey's mouth, he smirked at the dazed expression on his face. Giving him one last, chaste kiss, he patted Bailey's thigh as it fell from his waist and stepped back from caging Bailey against the wall. Smirking again when Bailey had to shake himself from his stupor, he grabbed his hand and escorted him to his door.

"Do you want to come in," Bailey asked shyly, face a brilliant, bright red from the makeout session they had just enjoyed.

"I think that if I do, we might take it fast, and I want to take it slow with you. Is that ok," Harper murmured against Bailey's hand as he raised it to his face, planting a kiss on the back of it.

Blushing even brighter, yet smiling happily, Bailey agreed and said his goodbyes as Harper released his hand and walked back to his door. Seeing him enter his apartment, Bailey turned into his own and closed the door, sliding down it to sit on the floor. Putting his face in his hands, he squealed softly at how gentlemanly and how ungentlemanly Harper was.

Tilting his head against the door, he smiled up at the ceiling, thinking of how excited he was for their next date.