In the cold light of day, Sophie was having second thoughts about last night's events. 'What was I thinking,' she thought to herself as she showered and got ready to face the day, and her mother...and Brandon. 'This can only end badly.'
Still, she knew last night was the most exciting night of her young life. Being taken by a man like that, right under her mother's nose, was thrilling. A large part of Sophie wanted more, wanted Brandon to do everything he promised. She knew the sex would be fantastic. But it was too risky, so she decided to do her best to avoid being alone with him.
To her surprise (and admittedly her disappointment), by the time she came down for breakfast in the morning, Brandon had already left. An early film shoot, her mother said. Jessica was quickly off to the spa and her beauty appointments, leaving Sophie alone with her thoughts again.
'Run now,' she told herself. 'Go home back to your family and forget this ever happened.' But something kept her from making that move; she wasn't sure why, but she couldn't leave yet.
Luckily, Diego arrived with his father to help her take her mind off things. Javier liked that his son and Miss Sophie had hit it off, she was such a nice girl, and so different from her mother. He knew she wouldn't approve of her daughter dating his son, but he also knew they would both be 3,000 miles away in a few months, and nobody can see that far.
Diego and Sophie spent a lot of time together over the next week, finding out they shared a lot of the same interests. Clearly, both were attracted to each other as well. Finally, Diego built up the courage to ask Sophie out to a movie on Friday night. Sophie readily accepted; it would be nice to get out of the house for a night. There was also the added benefit of driving her mother crazy (and though she didn't admit it, deep down she knew it would drive another occupant of the house mad).
As Friday morning came, Sophie casually told her mother her plans. Jessica was sitting with Brandon, both of them preparing for their day of work. They nearly spit their coffee out when hearing what Sophie planned to do that night, but for different reasons.
"Going out with the gardener's son is so beneath you, Sophie," her mother scoffed. "Surely you can't be that desperate!"
"Diego's nice, and the fact that you don't like him tells me I'm doing the right thing," Sophie shot back at her mother.
"He seems nice now, but boys like that only want one thing," Brandon said, eyes boring into Sophie.
"He's not like that, he's a perfect gentleman, unlike some people around here," Sophie said, with meaning (though her mother didn't pick up on this.) "Anyway, you're not my father."
"No, I am most definitely not your father," Brandon said with a smirk.
Once again, Jessica missed the added meaning to those words. She was still incredulous that her daughter would choose to do this. Clearly she was trying to get a rise out of her, and succeeding.
"Brandon and I could introduce you to any number of suitable guys for you to date. Have your fun tonight, but after that I don't want you seeing this boy," Jessica said with finality.
"You can't tell me what to do. I'm an adult now, and it's not like you've cared about me my whole life. Don't try to start now!" Sophie hissed at her mother, storming off to her room.
Jessica sighed in exasperation as her daughter left. "I don't know what to do with her," she said to Brandon. "I have a full day of filming then I just want to come home and sleep. I can't deal with this right now."
"I'll try and talk to her when she comes back tonight," Brandon offered. "Maybe I can try to broker some level of peace between you two."
"That would be great," Jessica replied, kissing him as she got up to get ready for her day. Unbeknownst to her, Brandon wanted to do a lot of things tonight with Sophie, but none of them involved improving her relationship with Jessica.
He realized that a part of Sophie's attraction to him was the fact that she was taking something from her mother. He also knew Jessica would take a sleeping pill when she got home and be dead to the world until morning. Brandon planned to take full advantage of that time to get to know Sophie much better.