"You just need to keep on stirring the sauce" Dorothy advised as she put on her shoes

"Yes Dorothy" Blaze commented stirring the pot as she demanded

"if you ever think of drinking again can you please take yourselves to the bedroom? Last time you slept on the ground, your young but your back's still ache!" she mentioned recalling last time Connor and Jen came to our house

"We know Dorothy... No couch" I told her

"Only bedroom" Blaze mumbled with a smirk, making me look at him in surprise at his cheekiness. Dorothy laughed at his dirty comment and said her goodbyes, leaving us two alone waiting for our friends to arrive. We agreed on n making dinner at our house with hopes of reminiscing about their past first meeting.

"Dirty comment" I mumbled as I placed the plates over the table near the couches and the games.

"Dirty mind" he fired back with a smirk, I was about to question his cheekiness but the elevator sound reached my ears indicating someone was there. I looked over to the doors, revealing my friend Jeniffer in a blue cetin dress. She looked beautiful but her face looked tired from crying. Connor had really broken her heart.

"Good Night" I smiled welcoming her in

"Hey" she gave a fake smile while i took the coat on her hand "Hello Boss" she said taking her eyes off me and watching Blaze over the kitchen

"Jeniffer" he greeted her with a smile. Lately he has been very smiley.

"You can sit...Connor must be here any minute" I stated

"He said he was already here" Blaze informed us "He send me a text 2 minutes ago"

"Weird" I mumbled stranging Connor's delay.

"We should place the food on the table" Blaze warned me Ït's done"

"I'll help you" I said walking over to the kitchen. I grabbed the beige oven glove and I tried to hold the big pan however I was stopped midway by his soft and veiny hands making me gulp in surprise.

"What are you doing?"

"Taking the food to the table?"I said in a confused tone wondering why was he stopping me

"You're not" he imposed taking the gloves out of my hand making me confused.

"I can do it" I exclaimed

"I know, but I wanna do it for you" he smiled grabbing the pan "Can I?"

"Hum" I hummed nodding a yes with my head shocked by how he could flirt using a pan. I brought the wine and water for the table and by the time our doorbell rang it was unusual. Since we live in the penthouse we normally have visitors coming from the elevator, our private elevator, we allow access from upstairs to downstairs so our guest can come up.

"I'll go get it"I said running to the door and carefully watching from the door fish eye who could possibly be. I quickly opened the door as my eyes landed on a tired and out of breath Connor.

"Oh my god... did you come all this way up through the stairs?"I asked helping him getting in trough the apartment door.

"I just - need some water" he said between breaths, Blaze quickly filled a glass with water and rushed over handing him the cup.

"The elevator was full" he commented making me raise an eyebrow, the elevator was full? That's a big fake excuse, we only have 1 elevator and he is pretty quick since he only makes three stops, the apartment, reception and the garage. The only one filling the elevator was Jenny... wait a minute... Blaze said he was here and he was strangling his delay... and his delay had a name!

I left the two-man and walked to Jenny with a pretty angry and disappointed face "Shame on you" I muttered

"He was the one who didn't want to come up with me " she said shrugging her shoulders

"So you had to be mean?" I questioned

"I just made sure the elevator would take its time to reach downstairs..." she said while eating some fries "I never thought he would take the stairs"

"He would do anything to not get late" I commented looking at him and Blaze.

"His problem..." she said making me elbow her

"Grow up" I mentioned.

"I'm sorry if I can't be all lovey-dovey like you and your husband"

"That's not what I mean"

"I know what you mean but I will not be the grown-up when he keeps acting like a child..." she started making her point of view plausible

"That's not how things get resolved"

"I don't care"

"Just - don't be utterly mean... I think he is way to sensitive" I said watching Connor

"I'll try my best" and she really did... but it wasn't that easy they would argue for every small little thing, to how's the proper way to cut onions to the way the napkin should be placed on the table, and honestly neither Blaze or I were handling the situation their bickering was utterly annoying and we needed to do something about it.

I was now washing the dishes with Blaze while the other two kept fighting. "I can't handle one more second"

"Hm... I prefer them sweet and polite then this" Blaze commented

"What should we do?!"

"We still have the games to play..." he mentioned "but I don't think they should be a team"

"Right... we could play individually" I suggested "or girls versus boys"

"That wouldn't be fare, you and Jenny would win easily "

"Ohh are you afraid of losing?" I commented with a pout making him roll his eyes

"No. I just think you are missing the concept of this dinner" he said making me nod in agreement

"What do you suggest?"

"Changing teams" he said looking at Connor "You stay with Connor and I'll stay with Jennifer"

I raised my eyebrow at his idea "Are you sure about that?"

"Sometimes jealousy is good"

"How so?"

"It makes you realize your feelings" he said smiling and adverting his eyes towards mind "It did to you... remember?" he teased me with a small smirk leaving my cheeks red, I elbowed him in frustration making him chuckle.

"I hope this works" I breathed

"It will" he said confidently. The game was pretty simple we would do differents tasks as teams and the one with more points would win, our first game was mime. Each player would receive a word, first an object then a vet and lastly a celebrity. The others had to guess it, if the member of the same team than the mime guessed first 2 points would be added, if the other team guessed first 3 points would be added.

The first one was Jenny, she took a word while we were sat on the couch waiting for her to proceed her mime.

She kept doing weird gestures around her making us shout different things like hat, hair, headband, hair tie...

"What the hell is that?" I questioned looking at Jenny

"Oh hairdryer" Blaze said

"Correct! Nice one team mate!" she smiled high-fiving Blaze, a tiny acne reached my chest making me shake my head quickly. I need to focus on this game.

"My turn!" I exclaimed taking a card and standing up

Corkscrew

Not easy but that complicated, I can do this. "Ok, Connor eyes on me" I said placing the card down

I lift my hands gesturing the shape of bottle so they understand my action

"Bottle!" Jenny screamed

"Uh wine!" Connor said making me nod a no. I continued trying to mime the corkscrew into the cork on top of my imaginary bottle.

"Champagne... toast!" Jenny throw words

"Cork?" Blaze said making my heart jump in agony. I hated to loose!

"Oh! Oh! I know corkscrew!" Connor shouted making me throw a breath of relief

"Correct!" I exclaimed "Godh I thought he was about to get it right" I said mentioning Blaze

"That was great mime Mrs. Max- I mean Eleonora!"

"Thanks Connor... I'm pretty good at this game"

"I've seen better" Blaze said smirking while taking a snack making me furrow my eyebrows together

"Ok its me again, look at me partner!" Jenny told Blaze his eyes instantly drive to her figure as she was analyzing her word. I think this wasn't the best idea, the plan carried on and Blaze was having quite fun at trying to make Connor jealous, their small talks, sweet smiles and laughs were making me and Connor nauseous so I also stepped in, trying to make Jenny jealous too, but it wasn't that easy due to Connor strict and formal ways.

The night was long and we kept on playing diversed games, till the alchool was making some effect... our current game was beer pong and let me tell you, we were pretty good at it.

"Down! Another one! " I exclaimed giving jumps of joy and hugging Connor. He was more lose, smiling and cheering for his win, we were now one-on-one, one last cup on each side of the table.

"Our turn!" Jennifer shouted grabbing the ping pong ball and aiming for our last cup.

"Focus" Blaze muttered to her "Calmly shoot it, no need to worry just do it calm-" his coaching was interrupted by Jennifer throwing the ball and missing completely making my cheer happily

"Yes!" I exclaimed jumping and clapping my hands while watching their defeated faces but nothing was certain we still needed to get that one cup on their side of the table.

"Oh c'mon!" Jenny shouted revolted

"Our turn..." Connor said handing me the ball

"I told you to do it calmly" Blaze mumbled

"I trust you Eleonora! You got this" Connor supported me. I looked at the cup, I gave a small kiss on the ping pong ball, took a deep breath and I throw it calmly falling right into the middle of the glass.

"AHHHHH!" I screamed happily while Connor hugged me in joy and lift me up

"WE WON!" he shouted letting me go and running in circles through the house "and you didn't! How does it feel boss?" he said looking at Blaze making me gulp in my own saliva. Once those words came out of his mouth we all stood quiet, suddenly room looked darker and everyone was waiting for a reaction.

"I would congratulate you Connor... but you just won the game... you didn't won the girl" Blaze smiled leaving Connor dumbfounded, no one dared to spoke after that line "It was a good game but it's getting late...I have work tomorrow"

"I will clean this" I informed

"I will help you" he said grabbing the glasses and placing them on the sink. Once I was near him by the sink, I tried to talk to him the lowest I could

"What was that for?" I asked him

"For trying to get them out of here the fattest I can" he said looking at the plates over his hands being washed by the running water

"You were a bit aggressive don't you think?" I asked fearful that his comment might have hurt Connor's feelings

"I don't think so, no. Why? Are you afraid I might have hurt Connor's feelings?" he asked drooping the plate into the sink making a loud noise as the plate hit the black steel of the sink.

"Connor is quite sensitive" I mentioned

"Wouldn't you know?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"I mean that tonight surely made you two pretty closer that's why you know so much about him" He said in an angry tone looking at me

"We just played the god damn games"

"Hugs and smiles weren't included" he responded making my heart tighten, what was this? was he really judging me after what he had done with Jennifer, always smiling and making jokes, she even touched his arm to see his muscle when we were playing Jenga.

"Touching muscles and making flirty jokes wasn't either" I commented with ceased eyebrows

"flirty? Huh? Have you been conscious the whole night because you clearly didn't take a good look at yourself" He imposed making me open my mouth in shock an disbelief

"Me? Flirting?" I asked pointing to myself " We were simply behaving as friends that were playing as a team"

"Friends? What definition of friends do you mean?"He asked taking a step closer "Because you also said once that you and I were just friends"

"That's completely different" I imposed getting an inch closer due to my frustration over his comments

"How so?" He questioned moving closer making his breath reach my face

"You're not him - I think that is enough to explain it "  I said fiercely looking at him, our staring contest was stopped by Jennifer

"Uhm- I'm sorry to disturb you guys but we just cleaned everything around here " she said shuffling her hands mentioning the table and the sofa, I looked around and the living room was in fact pretty clean. "We'll getting going now"

"We?" I said while tilting my head

"It was a wonderful night... you were pretty amazing hosts " Connor said dressing his coat "but it's getting late"

"Yeah-" Jenny nodded taking her thin coat

"Very well, safe ride!" Blaze gave a fake smile with no further comment leaving a awkward environment, it was like he was begging them to leave.

"Are you sure you don't want to stay a big longer?" I questioned

"They said they wanted to leave... let them leave" Blaze murmured

"Its fine! It's late" Jennifer commented, she gave me a warm hug and a kiss, Connor joined and they said their goodbyes to both of us while waving their hands and getting in the elevator.

Once the door closed, I felt a breeze of cold brushing against my skin making chills run over my spine leaving an uneasy yet warm feeling in my chest.

As my heart started to pound faster, the lights turned off, only the dim lights over the kitchen aisle were on, leaving the rest of the room dark.

I stranged this reaction, yet I thought that maybe Blazr was already heading upstairs since he seemed so eager to tell them to leave...or maybe he just wanted to continue our fight.

"I would like to know how different, I am" I heard in a sound of a whisper. I turned around catching a small glimpse of his face illuminated by the dim lights of the kitchen aisle.

"Are we really doing this?" I asked rolling my eyes, was he just messing with me? He knew clearly I liked him, like... there's days that I think I have become obsessed with him but I guess that's just a phase, just a small peek of the day, nothing to worry about.

"We are... because I am done of being played around" he said making my heart clench and my eyebrows furrow together

"Played around?"I asked offended

" Isn't that what you are doing? Playing around with me? I am supposed to win you over while you keep hugging another man, smiling and florting with them?" he asked making me gasp at his nonsense

"Is that who you think I am?"

"It really isn't but right now you have nothing to make me say otherwise" he imposed "what are you exactly doing?"

"What do you mean? You were the one thinking making then jealous would be nice" I said quite revolted

"And because of that you proceed on hugging him?" he asked getting closer to me but I walked away in direction of the kitchen to take a glass of water

"I simply hugged him it want like I was flirting with him like you did!"

"I did?"

"With her!" I exclaimed recalling the small moments of Blaze and Jennifer together "You were sticking to her like glue, giving short smiles and that sweet talk! "

"And why would you care?" he asked now in front of me.

"Because I am your wife!" I exclaimed without really thinking about my words, he gave a step closer making me give one backwards.

"Eleonora Maxwell, you're making me go insane" he mumbled while looking deeply into my eyes and getting closer.

I was stopped by the edge of the kitchen counter aisle, making me gulp in hesitation. I had nowhere to go and he kept getting closer, suffocating me.

"Well that's great because you're doing the exact same to me" I commented referring my sensibility for getting jealous over him, I was never like this however Blaze made me crazy, in all kind of ways, good and bad.

"Does that mean I finally won you over?" he asked smirking while analyzing my lips

"It means you make me insane," I said trying to hide my smile as he stopped inches away from me, taking my breath away, the thin air around us couldn't get into my lungs and it was all because of me.

"I will take that as a yes" he muttered in a low tone as if there was more people in that big house, he looked me in the eyes and I hoped he would kill my desire.

My desire...of him.