Stormy wakes up later than usual the next morning and she quickly rushes down stairs to see that her sister wasn't even up yet. That's odd; Tera is normally up at 5.30. I wonder if she is still in bed, ponders Stormy as she walks back up the stairs to her sister's room. Stormy finds Tera curled up in a ball on her bed.

"Tera, time to wake up," as she nudges her. Tera moans and turns herself over in  bed.

"TERA GET UP NOW!" Screams Stormy.

"I'm up. Okay Storm?" Questions Tera sleepily.

"You're not up."

"Yes I am, okay," argues back Tera.

"If you're up, you would be out of bed."

"Look I'm out of bed," as she gradually rolls out of bed.

"Good, why are you in a bitchy mood this morning?"

"I had a terrible sleep," yawns Tera.

"Another nightmare?" Questions Stormy.

"Something like that. I'm going to hop in the shower and get ready for my first day of proper," as she grabs her white blouse and black pencil skirt from her desk.

Stormy begins to leave her sisters room, "Good idea, I better go and get ready as well. Connor will be on my ass if I am late today."

Tera turns on the shower and hops in. She quickly has a fifteen minute shower and then puts on her work outfit. As she picks up her handbag, a note falls out that she doesn't notice is in there and picks it up to read it. The note reads: Tera, you have to be the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. I am so lucky to have met you at work and I hope that we can see if anything will become between us. Love, your secret admirer x. Tera smiles and thinks: this has to be from Oscar.

Tera rushes down stairs to find Stormy making smoothies to go in her work clothes. Stormy's work outfit entails a black t-shirt and a black pencil skirt that she stole from Tera's wardrobe. Luckily Tera has a couple of black pencil skirts in her wardrobe. They used to be their mothers' work skirts and Tera doesn't want to give them away to charity; when she is capable of using them herself.

"Are you making me a smoothie as well?" Asks Tera as she places her bag down on the island bench and bends down to put on her black wedges.

"Of course, this one is already made for you. You can just take it with you and head off to work," as she holds out a smoothie.

Tera grabs the smoothie from her sister and blows her kiss, "Thank you. Love you. See you after work. Enjoy your day at work."

With that Tera puts her handbag on her wrist, snatches up her keys and heads out the door drinking her smoothie.

All she hears as she leaves is, "Have fun babe. Love you too."

As Tera reaches her car, she gets a text message on her blackberry saying: Darling, can you grab me a double shot cappuccino on your way into work. Michael.

Tera sends a quick reply saying: I will go and grab it now boss. T.

She starts up her car and heads off for her first proper day at work. Tera pulls up in the staff car park and quickly dashes across the road to grab Mr. Harvard's coffee. She decides to grab him a blueberry muffin as well.

Tera takes a quick seat and pulls out her blackberry to check her emails. She has one email from Mr. Harvard about today's schedule and that he wants to have lunch together today. Tera grabs Mr. Harvard's coffee and muffin and heads back to the office.

As she walks in the main doors, Oscar is walking towards her on his morning mail round. "Good morning Tera, can you have a drink after work with me tonight?" Asks Oscar, as he comes to a stop in front of her.

Tera grins, "Drinks sound good. Want to pick me up from my apartment at say 7? I will text you the address later."

She pushes past him before he can respond. He just stands there all shocked that she actually says yes this time and doesn't come up with an excuse not to go.

Tera places her bag on her desk in and heads to the adjacent office to her. She knocks on the door and hears, "Come in."

Tera slightly opens the door and checks to make sure that no one is in with Mr. Harvard. He ushers for her to come in.

"Good morning Mr. Harvard, sorry that I am late. Accidentally slept in this morning and then you asked me to get your coffee. It won't happen again, I will make sure I'm half an hour early everyday with your coffee in my hand," rambles Tera, as she places his coffee and muffin on his desk.

"You are cute when you ramble. Is that muffin for me?" Queries Mr. Harvard, as he picks up his coffee.

Tera smiles, "I thought you might like a muffin with your coffee. I hope you aren't allergic to blueberries?"

"No I'm not allergic. You didn't have to get me anything to eat. But it was really sweet of you. You are a really sweet young lady," as he gives her a cheeky smile.

Tera blushes and starts to head out of his office.

"You look good today Miss Montgomery. I like that your skirt is not too long nor too short. My first client will be here soon. Can you just chase up some documents from the courthouse for me?" Asks Mr. Harvard. Tera nods and leaves his office.

She takes a seat at her desk and thinks: what the hell, he just hit on me.

Tera pulls out her phone and texts her sister saying: Hey Storm, how did you deal with guys hitting on you? Do you flirt back or just ignore it.

Tera looks at the list of documents Mr. Harvard requires from the courthouse and decides to give them a quick call to see if she is able to pick them up sometime today.

While Tera is on the phone, Stormy sends her a text back saying: Hey girl, just feel flattered and thank them. Only flirt back if you want something to come from it and be careful. I hope that helps. You must give me all the deets on who is hitting on you.

Tera begins to chases up the documents for her boss. Stormy on the other hand is just walking into work and getting ready to see Connor.

Stormy does a quick check of herself in the window of the store next to the music store. Satisfied that she looks good and has nothing disgusting on her face or in her teeth. She heads into her work, and as she walks in she calls out, "Morning boss."

Connor gets up from underneath the counter and his eyes light up when he sees her. "Morning trouble maker, ready to not destroy anything today," teases Connor.

Stormy laughs, "Very funny aren't you. Can you forget about everything that happened yesterday?"

Connor smiles, "Only if you tell me what actually happened."

Stormy ignores him and walks past him to the storeroom. She places her bag down and heads back out the front. "What do you need me to do first up this morning?" Questions Stormy.

Connor looks at her, "Think you can handle to clean the windows without smashing them"

"Do you think you are a comedian or something? I can handle it," bites back Stormy, as she walks back to cleaners closest.

She shakes her head as she gets the window cleaner bottle out and grabs some paper towel from the bench.

"Look Stormy, all I want to know is what happened yesterday. As it was not normal," as Stormy pushes back past him.

"Just drop it. I'm here to work, not to talk to you. Can we just work?" Yells back Stormy.

Connor stares at her and starts to fix the register up as Stormy begins to clean the front inside windows. "

"Do you just want the inside section done or both outside and inside?" Questions Stormy.

"Both inside and outside."

Stormy nods and heads out of the store. As she starts to spray the window cleaner on the windows, a big gush of wind sends rubbish down the road and on to the window. Stormy looks inside and can see Connor staring at her again. She quickly brushes off the rubbish and continues to clean the window. It doesn't take Stormy long to clean the outside section of the windows.

As Stormy was about to grab the door handle to head back in, she hears a noise behind her but when she turns around there was nothing in sight. Stormy turns the door handle to find it was locked. She knocks on the front window and Connor walks down.

"Why did you lock me out?" Questions Stormy.

"What are you on about? I didn't lock the door," responds Connor as he opens the door. Stormy pushes past him nearly knocking him flat to the ground.

"Are you serious? Tell me what is going on with you now!" Exclaims Connor.

"No, I can't. I'm not allowed too," says Stormy.

"What the hell? How can't you be allowed? Are you an alien from another planet?" Questions Connor.

Stormy slams the window cleaner bottle on to the counter, "Just drop it Connor."

Connor grabs the window cleaner bottle and heads off to the cleaners closest. Stormy follows behind him and grabs her phone from the storeroom.

She sends Tera a quick message saying: I NEED TO TALK TO YOU TONIGHT ABOUT OUR P'S.

"Connor, what else do you want me to do?" as she places her phone back in her bag.

Connor walks into the storeroom, "Well you can take the trash out. The bins are out the back in the alley."

Stormy nods and goes to grab the front bin. Connor follows her and begins to greet a customer. As Stormy grabs the front bin, Connor asks, "After you take the bins out, can you cut up the specials labels that are on the table in the storeroom."

Stormy nods as she heads out the back, she notices the pile of paper that she has to cut up and grabs the storeroom bin.

Stormy pushes open the back door and heads out into the alleyway. She notices a creepy guy standing at the end of the alleyway looking down towards her.

"Hey, what are you doing out here?" Asks Stormy.

The creepy guy disappears and Stormy places the rubbish in the bin. She heads up the alleyway to see if she can find the guy.

She thinks to herself: That guy felt familiar. I feel like I have felt his presence before.

When she can't find him, she heads back inside the music store and takes a seat at the table in the storeroom.

Connor comes into the storeroom, "Just spend the next hour or so until lunch cutting these up. Lunch is 12-1pm. You can finish today at 12.30pm."

"Sounds good to me," responds Stormy, as she picks up the first piece of paper. She reads the specials for the next two weeks and notices a few spelling mistake.

"Hey Connor, did you proof read these before your printed them?" Asks Stormy.

Connor walks back into the storeroom and replies, "What are you on about? I checked them this morning."

"Are you sure? I just found an error," responds Stormy, as she shoves the piece of paper into his face. Connor takes the piece of paper from Stormy and reads the specials aloud.

He shakes his head, "There is no errors on there."

Stormy takes the piece of paper from him and reads it over again.

She realizes that he is right and that she must be imagining the error. It has already been a weird day for her. Starting with the rubbish going all over the front window, the creepy guy in the alleyway and Connor's continuous hammering about wanting to know what is going on with her. Connor waits for her response as he takes a seat at the table.

"Oh I guess you are right. Well you better get back out the front to the customers," says Stormy.

Connor says, "I will after you tell me the truth about what happened yesterday."

"There is nothing to tell. Nothing happened!" Exclaims Stormy.

"Are you serious? You broke my vacuum cleaner, froze my register and had cds flying across the room," responds Connor.

"I think you are delirious. Cds can't fly," responds Stormy as she gets up to grab the broom from the cleaner's closet. Connor follows Stormy into the cleaners closest.

"I am not delirious, I saw the cds fly yesterday. Tell me what happened?" Questions Connor.

"How many times do I have to tell you nothing happened!" Exclaims Stormy, as she turns to face him.

Connor looks at her, "Something did happen and I will get it out of you."

Stormy pushes him up against the wall, "Connor, nothing happened. Accidents like vacuum cleaners and registers freezing happen all the time."

"Then how do you explain the cds?" Questions Connor.

Stormy stares at him and starts to respond, "I think that the cds were already broken and when I accidentally knocked them across the room they broke some more. But you can't prove that."

Connor goes to say something else but Stormy kisses him. She pushes him back up against the wall and kisses him.

She pulls away and smiles. "I'm sorry, I think I should finish now," says Stormy, as she backs away from him.

Connor grabs her by the arm, pulls her back into his arms and kisses her again. Stormy pulls away from him, "I think I should go now before I do anything that I will forget."

"That would probably be for the best, because there is a few things I would like to do with you right now in this closet," replies Connor.

Stormy smiles and leaves the closest. "Can you work Monday afternoon?" Yells Connor.

Stormy turns around and replies, "Monday afternoon sounds great. See you then."

"See you Monday Stormy," responds Connor.

Stormy picks up her bag and leaves the store. As she is walking to her car, she has that sense again that someone is following her and when she turns around there is no one there. Stormy decides to stop into the little restaurant from yesterday and grab some sushi to take home to eat by the pool.

As she finishes ordering; she notices the creepy guy from earlier this morning and when he looks up from his baseball cap, he sees Stormy and quickly leaves. Stormy tries to stop him leaving but her order gets called out and he disappears before she gets a chance to talk to him. Stormy frowns and takes her order from the lovely waitress.

Stormy leaves the little restaurant and starts her journey to her car. Once in her car, she gives Bailey a quick call to see if she is at home. Bailey doesn't answer her phone, Stormy assumes she is already by the pool and starts her venture back to the apartment complex.

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Authors Note:

I don't normally write these but I just wanted to let you all know that the reason I am doing a second update today for Scarred is because I am not going to be able to do another update for a few days while I write the next few chapters. I am nearly finished the whole book.

What do you think of Mr Harvard so far?

Do you like Connor?

Who is the creepy guy?

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