Karen

Second Chances – Chapter 51 February 5, 2010

“Beth? Are you in there?” Rob said from the other side of the door to Beth’s room.

“Yes, I am,” she replied as she walked over to the door and leaned up against it.

“May I come in?”

“No, Harry wants no one to see me until we start filming again.”

“Like a real wedding…”

“Something like that,” she said as she bit her lip in excitement.

“I’m sure you will blow us all away.”

“The gown is gorgeous. I’m looking at it right now. I can’t believe that I get to wear it.”

“The woman makes the dress.”

“Thank you. I sure hope so. It tested well,” she told him.

Rob shuffled his feet, getting anxious. Quietly, he asked, “Beth, may I please come in? I would like to talk to you.”

“No, Rob. I agree with Harry. Anyway, you’d see the dress. We can talk later tonight.”

“I would like to talk to you now, but it can wait, I guess.” He was very disappointed but knew they had a job to get done and that had to come first when they were on the set. It would have to wait until later that night to see her.

Billy and Paula came down the hall, chatting as they lugged large cases of their supplies for Beth’s hair and makeup. They knocked on her door and she let them in. Rob caught a quick glimpse of Beth in her bathrobe. ‘Oh, what a sight,’ he thought.

“Rob, I have to get started getting ready. I’ll see you in a few hours downstairs. I’ll be the one in the big white dress,” she said once the door was closed again.

“I don’t think I’ll have the problem of finding you. I’ll be waiting for you up front,” he said with his hand on the door as if he was trying to feel her through the door.

“I can hardly wait, Rob. See you there,” she replied and then went to her chair in front of the makeup mirror.

Rob turned and walked down the hallway from her room. He was disappointed she wouldn’t let him in but knew it was for the best for the movie. He was growing nervous with anticipation for the upcoming scene, something that had not happened in a long time.

With some time on his hands, he though he would arrange a special evening for the two of them. He wanted to bear his soul to the most beautiful and amazing woman he had ever met but Rob was scared. He wanted her near to him, to know that she was happy and taken care of. Everything about her excited him, the way she was so strong on the outside but so soft and delicate on the inside, the side that she showed when she was home with her children. And those children, they were going to grow up to be fine adults. Rob was quite taken with them and had even entertained the thoughts what it would be like to help her raise them, together, as a family. That was if she wanted to let him in that close to her.

Ever since she had shared her life back in New Jersey, he began to realize that he wanted to have her in his life, even if it was only in friendship. There was something in the way she kissed him, the way she molded perfectly into his body when he held her that she was at least open to the idea of something more than just friendship with him.

The lingering thoughts of her delicious body pressed up against his when they did their love scenes. He tried his best to conceal his reactions with she come onto the set ready to work those days when the ‘under the sheets’ scenes were filmed. Seeing her climb under the covers, trying to keep some modesty, Rob found refreshing. He had tried his best to be professional and to be a gentleman towards her, when all he really wanted to do was to tell them all to leave so he could truly make love to the woman who lay next to him, under him. But the moment that would always excite him the most was the night he found her alone in the pool. Beth was so beautiful that night, without a scrap of makeup on. It was probably the best she had ever looked to him, lips and cheeks slightly flushed from swimming, skin glistening under the lights from inside the house. Her body was so warm and felt so good to hold her close to him.

Chapter 52