The Cherished Wife by Chweety

Noelle's eyes went wide again. "You're making stuff up, that was... that was just me admiring him!" Noelle had not seen anyone more good-looking than Steven. "However, Mr. Smith, you've got me all wrong. If you keep this up, I might just tell Charles or Steven, I think..." "Alright, alright, I was just kidding!" Sean quickly threw up his hands in surrender. "Can't a guy joke around?" Sean shook his head with a wry smile. "They say it's tough to deal with divas and drama kings."

"What was that?" Noelle acted like she did not catch his drift. "Mr. Smith?"

"Nothing, I was just saying you look really pretty!"

"What's taking you two so long?" Charles spun around to find Noelle and Sean whispering about something, lagging behind.

"Nothing much!" Noelle giggled, catching up quickly. "Mr. Smith just said he's super jealous of us!"

"Is that so?" Charles smirked, shooting a look at Sean, who could only shrug with a wry smile. "Yeah, I'm totally jealous. Even the singles wish they were you."

Steven's destination was right next to Sean's mansion. Noelle and Charles decided to drive together

about Steven during the drive, mostly because Sean had bigged him up so much earlier, especially when Sean stopped mid-sentence

into Mr. Fischer, huh?" Charles finally said after

head quickly. "It's just that Mr. Smith was talking up Steven big time, saying that neither you

Charles raised an eyebrow. "Sounds like you don't quite believe

mean that at all!" Noelle shook her head frantically. "Charles, how could I ever doubt you, right?" She plastered a smile on her face, but inside, her

out to

shook her head and swatted Charles's hand away. "Not at

grinned. "Sean's got a

fall short against Mr. Fischer he's really something else!" It was not a secret or anything to be embarrassed

up to him. Lucky for them, he and Peter were not on Steven's bad