Friends In Time? [Megan]

[debbie]

15th March, 2009

Debbie couldn't believe it when Brendan told her he was moving to Las Vegas. She had asked him why would he move without any real reason, he had said she would find out and that's when she had read the one off feature about love at first sight. She had asked him if he was crazy, he said maybe, but he knew how his heart felt and that was final. For the first time they had a minor argument over it with Debbie saying she didn't want to leave New York because she had friends there and she was settled.

Brendan soon settled it by saying she could damn well stay in the New York apartment by herself. Of course Debbie hated being apart from her brother and so she said she couldn't do that. Then of course there was the florist shop she ran, Brendan just rolled his eyes told her to find a manager and he'd give her the money to open up a new one if she wanted. Debbie said she didn't need his money she had enough of her own to open a new shop and that's what she did.

She was now settled in Las Vegas, she wasn't living with her brother however, even though he had bought himself a big enough house, she felt she had to learn to have some Independence, and so she bought a smaller house a bit further up the street from him. Of course she visited him as often as she could, but anytime she did visit him, Megan, his girlfriend was never around, so at this point she still hadn't met her.

She wanted to meet her, but Brendan told her she worked a lot, and when she didn't work, of course he wanted to spend quality time with her instead. Debbie understood this, and hoped that one day she would get to meet her. She was just closing up the shop for the day, she always closed earlier on a Thursday, when she bumped into somebody.

Debbie turned to see a young brunette girl, "Oh ma God!" she exclaimed, "Am so terribly sorry fer bumpin' into ya" she said in the same smooth Texan accent her brother had. She really hoped she hadn't hurt the girl, "Sure hope I didn' hurt ya?" she asked as she gave her a weak smile waiting on the girl to speak.

[romz]

Megan was on her way home to Brendan. She was still living in her flat, waiting for Brendan to give the go ahead for her to move in. All her stuff was in boxes and placed neatly into piles around the dinky flat. She was going to miss it. It was her first getaway from her dad. But that wasn't the only worry she had. What if Brendan left her? She'd have no where to go other than back home. And right now, she couldn't cope with that. Meg didn't yet know what the new house was like, Brendan had been pretty secretive of it and she kind of liked it that way. Surprises were always so special to her.

Recently when Brendan got back for New York, he had been a bit quiet, and not his usual lively self. Meg figured it was something to do with Debbie, Brendan's sister. She had moved to Las Vegas with her brother, and although they hadn't met, Meg was usually aware of someone when she met them and she couldn't wait to meet Debbie. If she was half as beautiful as her brother, she would be amazing.

On her way home, Meg stopped off at the bakery, buying some fresh homemade bread and cakes for Brendan. Maybe it would cheer him up a bit. It was so wonderful having someone to come home too, even though he was waiting for her at her flat. As she left, she turned and bumped into someone. A blonde woman who looked vaguely familiar. The bread knocked out of her hand and landed on the floor. Luckily it hadn't been raining, Brendan made sure of that. She smiled and sighed. "Ah well." She bent down and picked up the grocery bag and smiled as the woman seemed to have a similar accent to Brendan. "It's fine, no damage done." She swept her hair behind her ears and grinned at the blonde.

"Do I know you?" Meg asked smiling at her. "It's just you seem awful familiar." She was beautiful; blonde wavy hair, piercing eyes that were greeny/blue. Meg grinned, "Don't think I do know you, but you're sure familiar."

[debbie]

Debbie was so happy to hear that she hadn't hurt the young woman, she'd have felt terrible if she had. "Am real glad yer alrigh' I really ought to watch where am walkin" she said as she rolled her eyes. She turned away from the girl again as she made sure the door was locked, which would have shown off the clear tattoo of the word Princess across the back of her neck. The nickname Brendan gave her.

She turned round again and saw the girl picking up food from the ground. "Sorry abou' tha' can I buy ya some fresh?" Debbie asked, not wanting the bakery items the girl had bought to be ruined.

Debbie looked at her with a raised eyebrow and a grin which would be on par with her brother Brendan's, she didn't have deep set dimples like him however. "No, I can't say I know ya at all, sorry abou' tha' sweetheart" she said with a smile, calling the girl sweetheart, just because she had been in Brendan's company so often, that sometimes the way he spoke rubbed off on her.

She didn't go around giving everybody she met nicknames like her brother, but she would use some of the words he used, simply because the two of them were so close. Well, when they weren't having the silliest of arguments with each other that was. Like when she had complained about moving away from New York.

"Funny though, 'cause I feel like I should know ya too fer some reason, but I jus' can't put ma finger on it" Debbie replied as she continued to look at the brunette and shrugged slightly. Then not wanting to forget her manners, she smiled at the brunette, "Debbie" she said as she held her hand out, "Debbie Harris, pleased to meet ya" and then she waited for the brunette to hopefully introduce herself, maybe Debbie might actually be able to make a new friend in Las Vegas finally.

[romz]

Megan picked up her grocery bag and turned, looking down at the woman's tattoo across her neck. 'Princess' was written in fancy lettering. It was a pretty beautiful tattoo, and yet... Megan recognised something. She couldn't quite place her finger on it yet, but she knew soon, she would figure it out. "That's a hell of a tattoo you have there! I only have this one..." Megan lifted up her wristbands and bracelets to show her elven wrist tatoo working it's way all around her wrist. "I love it." She said smiling. It was strange, Megan was never normally this... comfortable around people.

"Oh don't worry yourself, it seems fine to me." Megan dusted the bag off to show she really didn't mind, it wasn't often you came across someone so sweet in the backstreets of Vegas, usually there was always a troublemaker about.

The woman noted she didn't recognise Megan, to which Megan shrugged lightly sighing. "Guess my memory isn't as good as I thought it was." She smiled, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. Sweetheart. Brendan said it to Meg all the time, that and sweet cheeks, possibly the cutest nickname ever. She smiled just thinking about him. "I think it's cos you remind me of my boyfriend." Megan grinned, obviously so in love and happy she could say 'boyfriend'. It was the happiest she had ever been in her entire life. Nothing could perfect this feeling right now.

"Really? Yeah I have the same feeling." Megan watched her, trying to suss it out. She took the blonde's hand and smiled at Debbie. Then she said it, Debbie Harris. "No shit!" She shouted, grinning so widely it was almost scary. Ah, the hyperactive ways of Megan after drinking red bull. "I'm sorry, but I know you... well I don't know you, but I know who you are!" Megan jumped up and down on the spot excitedly. "You're Brendan Harris' sister right?" She nodded at her own question, knowing in her heart it was true. "I'm Megan! Megan Howlett, his girlfriend!" Megan grinned at her, not realising that Debbie was unaware of the age limit or anything. All that mattered was that she had met the famous sister Brendan talked about.

[debbie]

Debbie grinned when she heard the girl exclaim about her tattoo on the back of her neck, even though at that point she couldn't have seen the smile because her back was turned. However she soon turned around, the smile still on her face. "Thanks sweetheart" she said, "It's my nickname ma brother gave me" she added, and then looked at the tattoo the girl was showing her on her wrist. "Oh tha's well pretty" Debbie exclaimed as she gazed at it for a few seconds. "I can imagine ya love it, I love mine, got a butterfly on ma shoulder too, see" Debbie said as she slipped down the arm of her top to show off the small blue and yellow butterfly.

"Well so long as yer sure" Debbie replied when the girl said that there was no need to buy fresh bakery goods. She wouldn't have minded, not as if she couldn't afford it, instead, she opened the door again, slipped her hand in behind and picked up the nearest freshed bouquet of summer blossom and then locked the door again, and handed them to the girl. "By way of apology" she said and grinned.

Debbie just smiled again when the girl said that she must have been mistaken, "Don' worry about it, am sure everybody has a double out there somewhere" she said with a smile hoping to make the girl feel a bit better about thinking she knew her when she didn't. Although Debbie felt there was something about the girl that she should know her, but couldn't figure out why.

Debbie raised her eyebrow slightly but kept the smile on her face as she tried to piece things together, "I remind ya of yer boyfriend?" Debbie began to wonder if her boyfriend was Brendan then. There couldn't have been too many Southerner's in Nevada and a lot of people had said she and Brendan were very similar in their actions and looks. "I wonder" she muttered, not sure whether the girl would have heard her or not.

After Debbie introduced herself, the girl said 'no shit' in rather loud exclamation and Debbie could only watch with a raised eyebrow and humour trying to figure out why the outburst. She didn't have to wait for long as she heard the next few words out of the girl's mouth. Asking her in a very excited way and jumping if she was Brendan's sister, well not so much asking as saying but wanting Debbie to confirm it.

"Why yeah I am Brendan's sister" she said with a grin, unable to do anything but smile because of the girl's obvious excitement at finding out that information. Even before the girl said who she was, Debbie had already sussed it out, nodding her head before the words were even out of Megan's mouth. "I knew it, the soon as I saw yer obvious excitement at findin' out who I was I knew ya were Megan" Debbie said as she kept watching the girl in her obvious excitement.

It would be good to finally get to know the woman Brendan goes on about so much. "Well it sure is great to meet ya then Megan, d'ya fancy goin' fer a coffee or somethin'?" Debbie asked, wanting to get to know Megan more for herself, the idea of finally making a friend was filling Debbie with such joy.

[romz]

That's when Megan's gut instinct told her it was Debbie. Brendan's younger sister. The younger sister Meg had heard so much about. The sister that in time, Megan hoped would become a dear friend to her. But she was suddenly distracted by the butterfly on Debbie's shoulder, a yellow and blue butterfly. "Oh wow! That's awesome! It's so dinky and detailed." Megan grinned, peering closer at it. The closer she looked, the wider her smiled became.

"Oh I'm sure darlin', honestly, the bakery wrap their things up good, and I'm sure my man won't mind. He loves whatever I bring home." Megan giggled loudly, remembering not so long ago when she brought home two sticky buns because it was all she could afford. He seemed more than over the moon with them. Mind you, their relationship seemed more than amazing at the moment anyway. Nothing had gone wrong; there were no arguments, no disappointments. Just love, fun-filled love and joy. It was perfect. As Meg looked up, she noticed the woman opening the door up from where she just appeared. She was holding a bouquet of flowers; beautiful, summer blossom, scented flowers. "Oh they're stunning! Thank you." Megan couldn't say no, even if she wanted too. They would just go in her neat little kitchen at home, blending in with the terracotta paint.

"Yeah my boyfriend, the sexy Texan." Megan grinned and laughed, so happy she could call Brendan her boyfriend and actually mean it. "You wonder?" Megan lifted her eyebrows, suddenly intrigued. Of course she had the gut feeling this was Debbie, but was still not 100% sure. This was just more confirmation, because the way Debbie's eyebrows lifted whilst she 'wondered' was exactly the same as Brendan did.

"I knew it!" Megan shouted, finally settling down and grinning widely. "Yeah that's me! I'm Megan, the one and only!" Meg grinned further, finding the fact Debbie knew about her already to be quite flattering on Brendan's behalf. Mind you, she had bragged about him to everyone so she hoped he would do the same sometime. But it seemed already he had, and Megan couldn't help but be over the moon about it.

"Coffee sounds great, I know an awesome little place around the corner from my flat, maybe we could meet Mr. Texan himself too?" Megan grinned, finding it hard to stop. The idea that she could be friends with Debbie just made her more excited. And there was no mention of the age difference yet, which just slipped over Megan's head, making it seem almost invisible. "Come on then! We have so much to talk about!" Megan lifted the grocery bag up and rested the bouquet in her arm like a baby.

[debbie]

"Thanks sweetheart" Debbie replied with a smile when the girl commented on her butterfly tattoo. It was dinky and detailed and that's exactly why Debbie just had to get it when she saw it in the tattoo parlour. Debbie loved her tattoos, but she wouldn't rule out another. In fact she always imagined getting her boyfriend's name tattooed onto her, just she hadn't been in a relationship she was sure of yet to do such a thing. She'd only do that when she was certain there was no way they'd split.

"Alrigh' then tha's great to hear" Debbie said when she insisted the bakery goods were fine, and when she said her man loved what ever she brought him, Debbie couldn't help but smile at the girl. "Sounds like a dream, gotta get maself one of them, he got a brother?" she asked with a laugh. She wasn't serious, then again, was she?

Debbie just grinned at the girl when she thanked her for the bouquet of flowers she gave her. It was the least Debbie could do after knocking the bakery goods out of her hands earlier. "Yer welcome sweetheart, no point in ownin' a shop if ya can't give out yer stock when ya want, righ'?" Debbie said as she turned once more to make sure the door and shutter was definitely locked.

Debbie should have realised then, when the girl said her boyfriend was a sexy Texan, but she still didn't quite register it, after all, lots of Texans could have moved to Nevada, right? Of course when the girl confirmed she was indeed Megan, Debbie couldn't help but notice how much younger she looked than her, and that meant she was a good bit younger than Brendan. It would be a little weird to know her brother's girlfriend was actually younger than herself, his sister.

However, Debbie refrained from saying anything, she needed at least one good friend in this place since she moved, she'd approach it later, and besides if she was kind, what did it matter? She knew their parents would have something to say about it, they were sort of old fashioned like that.

Megan seemed eager to go for a coffee which made Debbie smile, and she grinned even more when Megan mentioned meeting Mr Texan himself. "Well ya know wha' Megan?" Debbie asked with a grin, "Let's find tha' out" she said as she flipped open her cell phone and sent Brendan a text saying she'd met Megan and would he like to meet them at the cafe for a drink. "There we go, jus' see wha' he says when he replies" Debbie said.

"Alrigh' can't wait to find out more about ya as well" Debbie said and then she followed Megan to the cafe. Just as they approached it, the sound of a text came in, Debbie opened her phone, and sure enough there was Brendan's reply, a bit excited about the fact Megan had met her, and that he'd be only too delighted to come along.

"Cool, he's gonna come along" Debbie said with a smile, as she opened the cafe door, and held it for Megan.

[ooc: I'll bring Brendan in after my next post with Debbie]