Hit Hard

“Coming!” Charlene called as she ran down the stairs in her robe to open the door for Claude.

“I love your dress.” He said. “Fashion statement?”

“I’m running behind. Sit on the couch.” She said as she turned and ran back up the stairs to put her dress on. She took the robe off, and slid into her slip. She then stepped into her black longsleeve fishtail dress. She put on her diamond earrings and necklace. Then she ran back downstairs to meet Claude. “Have you seen my shoes?” He pointed to her black heels that were laying in the kitchen.

“Are you all ready?” He asked.

“Yeah.” She walked over to Claude. She kissed him quickly. “I didn’t even say hi when you walked in.” Last week, Claude had asked Charlene to be his girlfriend while they were out at dinner. Charlene had said that she would love to.

“I know.” He smiled. “You look beautiful.” He took her hand and lead her out the door, out of the apartment building, and into a waiting car.

“Well, I’m glad you’re excited for this.” Charlene said as they rode together in the back of the car.

“I like raffles and mingling with people.” Claude smiled.

“Mingling?” Charlene laughed. “I thought you thought my job was boring.”

“Well, you have a boring job, but you’re not boring.” He replied. “Maybe these people are also not boring.”

“That might be true,” Charlene replied, “or they’re twice as boring as me, and tonight will be no fun.”

“You are being such a pessimist.” Claude out his arm around her. “This is an opportunity for you to show off how beautiful you are, as well as show off your extremely dapper boyfriend.”

“Hah!” Charlene laughed.
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“You look so amazing tonight.” James said as he leaned up against the bar.

“I know.” Charlene replied sternly.

“Who’s this?” Claude asked as he put a hand on Charlene’s hip.

“Claude, this is my boss, James.” Claude looked up and down at him.

“Its nice to meet you, I’m Claude Giroux.” He stood between James and Charlene and stuck out his hand. “I’m Charlene’s boyfriend.” He put a lot of emphasis on boyfriend.

“Thats nice.” James said in a stuck up kind of way.

“Well, we're going to go look at the silent auction items.” Charlene smiled and took Claude’s hand.

“Have a good evening.” James grinned.

“I don’t like him.” Claude said as he looked down at the tables of items.

“Yeah.” Charlene replied. “You definitely didn’t make it obvious.”

“Hey.” Charlene looked up at Claude. “You’re mine.” He said. “I just want everyone to know.”

“I think I can live with that.” Charlene smiled.

“Good.” Claude wrapped his arm around her.

“Woah.” He looked over to the next table. “Are they auctioning off a Ranger’s jersey? And people are bidding on it?” Charlene smiled.

“You’re kinda in Ranger’s territory.”

“I know.”

“What if we left Rangers territory and went to a territory without hockey.” Charlene said. “Football territory.”

“As enticing as that sounds I thi-”

“My brother’s getting married in Oklahoma.” Charlene smiled. “You can come or find a new girlfriend.”

“When are we leaving?” Claude sighed.

“That’s more like it!” She kissed him.

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