Original Stories Fan Fiction ❯ Sisters and Brothers Trilogy:To Have and To Hold ❯ The Fight and The Plan ( Prologue )

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Claudia Prescott and Michael Sinclair were the best of friends until a terrble incident tore them apart. Now, ten years later, Claudia is working as an Assistant District Attorney. She comes across information that could expose several important political leaders that are involved with known foreign terrorists. Claudia soon becomes a target. Michael is the CIA agent working undercover to expose and eliminate the suspects involved in the conspiracy but soon becomes Claudia�s protector and partner.Now it's a race against time to uncover the truth. Thrust together under dire circumstances; both are fighting for their lives�and a burning passion that threatens to consume them. But will deadly secrets and painful memories of the past bring them closer together or tear them apart?

Disclaimer: This is an original story. All Characters are and situations are ficticious.

AN: Hello everyone! My name's yasha-chan21 and I am a new, up and coming author. I've been playing with the idea of writing a story for a while. Flames are not welcome but constructive criticism is. All I ask is that you please be gentle and not be too mean wit the criticisms and reviews. This Story is Book One of a Three-Book Series. I hope you all will enjoy it.

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Claudia Prescott and Michael Sinclair were the best of friends until a terrible incident tore them apart. Now, ten years later, Claudia is working as an Assistant District Attorney. She comes across information that could expose several important political leaders that are involved with known foreign terrorists. Claudia soon becomes a target. Michael is the CIA agent working undercover to expose and eliminate the suspects involved in the conspiracy but soon becomes Claudia's protector and partner. Now it's a race against time to uncover the truth. Thrust together under dire circumstances; both are fighting for their lives…and a burning passion that threatens to consume them. But will deadly secrets and painful memories of the past bring them closer together or tear them apart?

Disclaimer: This is an original story. All Characters are and situations are fictitious.

AN: Hello everyone! My name's yasha-chan21 and I am a new, up and coming author. I've been playing with the idea of writing a story for a while. Flames are not welcome but constructive criticism is. All I ask is that you please be gentle and not be too mean wit the criticisms and reviews. This Story is Book One of a Three-Book Series. I hope youall will enjoy it.

To Have and To Hold

Durham, North Carolina

August, 1997

It was a beautiful day. The sky was a bright blue. The humidity was down and the park was filled with everyone happily laughing and playing.

“Please?” she said.

“No.”

“Pretty please?”

“I said no.”

Well, almost everyone was happy.

The tall, handsome brown-skinned young man was glaring down at the petite chocolate fireball currently trying to cajole him.

“Pretty please with cherries on top and roses on the border? Please?” she begged him.

“Look, for the last time I said no Claudia. I'm not going to the party with you. You know I hate those kinds of parties.”

“What, house parties? You used to love those kinds of parties Michael. As a matter of fact when we were younger, you used to throw the best parties in the whole school. So why do you suddenly hate house parties all of a sudden?”

“I don't hate house parties. I just don't want to go alright.” he said.

“Oh, C'mon Michael this is the last party before we all go to college in a few weeks. We won't see each other before the holidays so we're trying to spend as much time together as we can. And I know you want to go to this party as much, if not more than I do. So what's the real reason you don't want to go to Paul's party?”

He didn't say anything. Claudia just kept looking at him expectantly. “Well?”

Michael mumbled something unintelligible. “What was that? I didn't quite understand.” Michael mumbled something again, this time a little bit louder.

Claudia was getting frustrated. “Michael for goodness sakes, just say it!”

Now angry Michael yells, “I don't want to go because Nattie Green is going to be there!”

Claudia looked at him incredulously. “Nattie Green? What does Nattie Green being at the party have to do with anything?” She looks at Michael with a confused expression for a few seconds before understanding sinks in. Claudia begins to stare at Michael as if he has suddenly grown two heads.

“Will you stop looking at me like that?!”

Still Claudia continued to look at him with a strange expression.

“What are you looking at? Don't tell me you're finally speechless for the first time since we've known each other.”

This would be a feat in itself, seeing as how she's hasn't shut up since Pre-School.

“Nattie Green?! `Bratty Nattie' Green? The snobbiest girl in our class! Of all the people in the world and in our school you like her?! Why?”

Michael replied, “Because she likes some of the same things I do. Okay, so she's a little stuck-up at first glance but she's pretty nice once you get to know her and I kind of like her… a lot.”

Claudia was in shock. She didn't know what to say. A little pang of hurt went off inside her as she thought about what he said.

“I don't like some of the same things you do? Michael, I'm your best friend! How could you even think that?”

Michael was starting to get frustrated with this conversation.

“I know that Claudia. It's just that I really like Nattie and I don't want to mess up with her. Can you understand now? That's why I don't want to go to Paul's party. I'm afraid I'm gonna say something stupid to her. It's really hard for me to talk to her.” He sighed, dejected.

“I don't understand. You never seem tongue-tied with me. So where does the problem come in?”

“It's easier to talk to you because you are my best friend. I can tell you anything and you know everything there is to know about me. And besides, I don't think of you as a girl.”

Claudia immediately bristled.

“You don't think of me as a girl? Exactly how do you think of me then hmm?”

“I didn't mean that I don't think of you as a girl—”

“What did you mean then if you didn't mean that? It's not a trick question and it's not a difficult answer.”

`It is if the person has a temper like yours and a right hook to match', he thought to himself.

Michael knew that either way he responded his foot would be firmly stuck in his mouth. Oh why did he say that he didn't think of her as a girl?

“I mean that I think of you more as a friend, my best friend in fact. I value our friendship too much to consider dating.”

If Michael thought that answer would appease Claudia's increasingly building temper, he thought wrong.

“Just what kind of girl do you see me as, huh Michael? EXACTLY HOW DO YOU SEE ME?”

Michael, pleadingly, replies “Claudia keep your voice down, you're letting the whole park hear our conversation. And I see you as I said I see you; as my best friend, you know…one of the guys.”

“One of the guys? One of the guys?! ONE OF THE GUYS!!!” Claudia was incensed. So she did what any sensible young lady would do, she got up and walked away from the bench they were sitting on.

Michael watched her go with a frown.

Letting the tears fall, Claudia ran all of the way home. She dried her eyes and her face as best as she could. She didn't want her mother asking a lot of questions and she didn't feel like explaining what happened.

Claudia didn't encounter anyone on her dash to her only sanctuary, her room. She reached for her phone and called her twin sister, Chelsea.

“Hello?”

“Chelsea?”

“Claudia? Hey sis! What's up? How's everybody been? How's Michael—”

“Chelsea, Michael and I had a fight.” Claudia broke in.

“WHAT?! Are you for real? Y'all never fight. What happened?”

Claudia told Chelsea what happened, starting with asking him to go to Paul's party. Chelsea listened to her sister's story with an attentive ear and started to answer her sister when Claudia spoke.

In a small voice she asked, “Chels…do you think that about me?”

Chelsea vowed to herself that she was going to kill Michael the next time she saw him.

“No Claudia! Don't be ridiculous. Remember how many times Mama tried to get us to wear matching dress sets? You couldn't stand wearing a whole bunch of frilly, prissy stuff. You still don't. But there's nothing wrong with being a no-frills kind of girl.”

“Yes, but what do I do Chelsea? According to Michael, most of the guys think of me like that. ”

“Well we're just gonna have to change their opinion then aren't we. Okay Claude, here's what were gonna do…”

The girls proceeded to make plans on what they were going to do for the party on Saturday. Chelsea told Claudia that she was on her way home when Claudia called her.

“Chelsea, how were you able to leave early? Don't you have exams today and tomorrow?”

Chelsea blithely replied, “I finished them early so I was able to leave. Now don't worry about me okay. The focus is going to be on you for the next 24 hours. Michael and the guys are never gonna know what hit 'em!”

At this, Claudia laughed. Chelsea was happy that she got her sister to laugh and ended the conversation. She tapped the phone to her chin for a few minutes before flipping it back open and dialing a number.

“I'm a Whopper, what's ya beef?”

Chelsea grinned. “Mimi, you need to stop watching TV. You're losing brain cells.”

“And helloooo to you too sister dear. What's up?”

“I need your help, where are you now?”

“I'm on my way home; I just got out of band practice. Why?”

“It's time Miranda.”

“Time? Time for what?”

“Time for us to turn Claudia into a woman.”

“Huh?”

“Never mind! I'll explain when I get home, just be there when I get there.”

With that said, Chelsea hung up the phone again with a sigh. Really, she muttered, you would think that with an IQ as high as hers, she would have just a little bit more common sense. But she guessed it was like they said: book sense doesn't make common sense.

On that note Chelsea went back to her planning. She knew that Claudia was in love with Michael, has been for years. She also had a suspicion that Michael was in love with Claudia. He just didn't want to admit it. Whatever Michael said to Claudia must have cut her sister deeply. She knew Claudia put a brave face on it just for her twin. Chelsea decided that she was going to do whatever was necessary to help her sister and give her the much needed confidence she deserves.

Chelsea grinned evilly. She couldn't wait.

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