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."

hopped into Sean's car because Steven's destination was right next to Sean's mansion. Noelle and Charles

had bigged him up so much earlier, especially when Sean stopped mid-sentence and

into Mr. Fischer, huh?" Charles finally said after Noelle had rambled on

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

eyebrow. "Sounds like you don't quite

ever doubt you, right?" She plastered

look and burst into laughter, reaching out to tousle her

head and swatted Charles's hand away.

"Sean's

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

and Peter were not on Steven's bad side, or they would be