Number of Tries

Divorced.
Beth Ares never thought that would be a word that described her. Yes, she was a bit of a bitch, but she knew she would only ever say 'I do' to someone if that could handle it, heck if she got lucky that person would find it endearing. She found that person, her person , Christopher Robert Evans, he found her bitchy-ness cute (she questioned if he was sick at the head) , he accepted and loved everything about her and she to him. He made her laugh the kind where it would make you sound insane when people heard you , the kind where you just giggle a bit, the kind where you shoot the soda you were drinking out of your nostrils and it burned but it didn't matter.

He made her feel like she was more than enough. Now, even though she was a bitch she made sure he knew that she loved him too, in her own way she'd always be there for him when he was sick , tired, or just plain lazy. She always texted him when he was away on a shoot for a movie and she refused (basically trained her eyes not) to sleep when she promised him she would answer his calls. She started to go to Superbowl Sunday with him even though she hated crowds because whenever she saw how he furrowed his eyebrows, nervously fidget with his hands and shout out encouragement to the Patriots there was a spirit in her that wanted to be part of the scene, part of him, it made her want to join him and this made her enjoy those times. She even developed quite an obsession with Tom Brady (but definitely not as much as Chris's ).

And out of all of these she even tried to learn how to cook and failed .

She likes to think she only failed at that part , just the cooking but being divorced to him choose to show that she failed in more ways that one. Did she know about those failures? Hell no. She didn't think she would do anything intentionally without correcting it to lose him, but she did anyways. Beth sighs deeply and shakes her head gently to clear her mind of things before opening her car door and shutting it. She presses the lock button on the thing that comes along with the keys and started to walk towards the restaurant where she agreed to meet with Steven, a coworker of her brother Robert.

She smiles remembering the day she first met him, he was nice , she made her laugh and blush. She liked him maybe not romantically but as a person she did and she didn't find any reason to say no when he asked her out. He was close to her brother(which meant he must be a nice person) and he seemed fun to hang out with, if their meeting was any indication. She beats the doorman to opening the door and she grinned sheepishly at him. "Sorry, I'm kind of late" .The doorman just gives her an amused smile and takes a hold of the door when she enters. She got that a lot from people.

Her eyes scanned the restaurant looking for the dirty blonde locks and gorgeous profile that belonged to Steven. She was not very attracted to blondes, she didn't dislike them though but she was always drawn to brunets until-well until Chris had to go blonde for his role as Steve Rogers. She finally finds Steven fidgeting in his seat and wearing a blue shirt that fits him well with dark washed jeans. Beth starts to walk towards their table when someone decided to get up just when she was about to pass a table. She collides with a strong, hard back making her huff out a breath and almost fall if if it weren't for the same person she bumped into. The culprit quickly took hold of her arms to help her steady, making her breathe out a sigh of relief and look up and damn to anything people considered is in-charge with destiny.

Chris's face comes into her view and focus.
She seems more steady than ever as he pins her down with his stare. "Well this is becoming a habit" he quirks an eyebrow playfully. "You bumped into me the first time", she rolls her eyes but couldn't stop the corners of her lips from lifting up ."So this is a return of the favor?" he teases her and she couldn't stop the bit of laugh that escaped her lips. "An accidental one but yes", she smiles at him and him to her. "I would say you're practically magnetized to me but you're on a date" she leans into him to whisper in a playful tone. He chuckles and shakes his head "I'm not, I'm with Scott" he whispers back, amused at her assumption. Beth quickly look to his table and true to his words, Scott was the person he was with."Playdate then, since you're such kids" she shrugs and turns to the other Evans who was looking at them with a pleasantly surprised look.

"Hey, Scott" she greets him. A face splitting grin on her face, delighted to see the familiar boy that she used to spend almost as much as she did with Chris.

Scott stands up to give her a hug. "You know you didn't have to stand up, now I look like a midget here." She joked when they both pull away from the hug. "The Evans genes what can I say " Scott replies with a smirk and a nonchalant shrug. "That it's a curse" she sticks her tongue out at him making both brothers laugh. "Well I would love to chat guys but a guy who I lured is awaiting me" she tries to excuse herself with a wiggle of her eyebrows, smiling mischievously at both of the brothers. "What is this adult stuff, playdates are more awesome" Chris replies with furrowed eyebrows like he wasn't an adult himself.
Big baby, Beth thinks to herself fondly. "He still wears diapers" Scott stage whispers and grimaces at his brother."I know, I had to change it once" Beth fakes a shudder, going along with the joke. "Okay okay jerks" Chris holds his hands up to stop them from roasting him.

"Nice seeing you, Beth" Chris says, getting over his 'hurt baby feelings'. "You too Chris, we can still hang out you know." she replies, and turns to walk away " We can?" he sarcastically asks though he knows fully well that they can. "Yeah we're divorced not in a fight." she replies only loud enough for the three of them to hear.

She finally gets to where Steven is (without any interruption) and he smiles at her, standing up to greet her with a hug. "Yea, sorry about that just bumped into some friends" she pulls away from the hug and takes the seat opposite to him. "Chris Evans is your friend?" Steven raises his eyebrows in question and surprise. Guess he didn't read the papers a lot. "Um yea, you can say that ", she shifts in her seat and averts her eyes to where the Evans were sitting, chatting with each other with smiles on their faces. She makes eye contact with Scott and he winks at her. She averts her eyes back to Steven "Sorry I was late, I had some things to work on" Beth apologizes and she unconsciously bit her bottom lip, a habit of hers and her having big lips made it hard to miss. Steven quickly glances at her not so subtle action but quickly goes back to her eyes. " It's okay, at least you made it" he replies with a big smile than made Beth blush.

Meanwhile at the Evans' table, Scott shoots Chris a glance that said aren't you gonna do anything?' and Chris runs a hand through his hair in an unsure manner. "Nope, I didn't stop her from doing what she wanted when we were married-of course it wasn't things like dates but we're divorced now, I don't have the right anymore." Chris says to his brother with a hint of sadness in his voice. He loves her still, not in that way anymore but he still didn't like the thought that if she gets closer to someone else she would get farther away from him, she is his best friend after all even before, when they were still together she was his wife and best friend. She's his rock and even though the romantic part of their relationship went crashing down he didn't dare let go of her as a friend. "Why did you guys even get divorced? You were practically the poster of a happy marriage" Scott says curiously before drinking the rest of his juice. " Because we weren't always happy, in a frequency that was too much" Chris sighs tiredly, looking down for a bit and and lifts a hand to scratch the skin between his eyebrows then down to his beard.

Before either of them can say anything Scott's phone starts ringing, it was their sister, Shanna. "Hey" Scott greets his sister on the phone and Chris nonchalantly starts to drink the remaining soda on his glass. "What?!" Scott's urgent tone makes Chris halt his actions and put down his glass. "Okay we will be right there." Scott quickly ends the call and immediately relays the message to Chris. "Miles has a high fever and we need to rush him to the hospital" Scott narrates as he stands up completely forgetting about his unfinished food and Chris does the same quickly picking up his car keys and leaves a hundred dollar bill not waiting for the check.

The brothers speed walk to Chris's car, hastily getting in. Chris starts the car but when they back up one of the wheels moves over what seemed to be a sharp object since they hear and feel the tire deflate. "Fuck " Chris curses and unbuckles his seat belt before stepping out of the car to see that the tire is indeed flat and against them. Scott follows his brother out of the car and sees Chris's annoyed look which he was sure mirrored his. "Don't you have a spare tire?" he asks, frustrated, and walks to the trunk of the car.

" I already used it." Chris shakes his head regretfully stopping his brother from even opening the trunk before he kicks the flat tire in frustration. Scott looks around as he starts to think, his eyes sweep over the restaurant before he does a double take ,suddenly getting an idea so he runs back to the restaurant. "Scott where the fuck are you going?!" Chris yells after his brother but doesn't run after him, he was too stressed. His nephew was having a high fever and his tire chooses today to go flat on him. He paces around thinking of calling a friend to help him but realize that it would take too much time. Scott drags Beth from the restaurant after excusing her from her date that hesitantly let her leave with him.

"What the fuck are you doing Scott?" Beth asks the stressed guy as she is being hauled along with him out of the door, she's confused and worried but also kind of angry for the interruption of her date. "Miles has a high fever. Hospital now. Tire is flat" is all Scott manages to say but hearing their nephew's name and the word hospital, she knew her date getting interrupted was for a good reason. "Do you have a spare tire?" Scott asks her first, maybe he can get her back to her date but sees that Beth already taking out her keys. "Chris!" Beth hollers at the pacing guy by his car looking like he might kill someone who dares to go 7 meters near him. He stops mid step and looks to her in surprise. She just gestures him to follow her as they quickly walk to where her car was. Beth starts the car once everyone was settled in and this time there was no flat tire incident. Beth steps on the gas fiercely, she was extremely worried for her nephew, she may not be married to Chris anymore but she was still completely attached to his family.

She babysat Miles whenever Shanna asked her to , she loved spending time with him and he was somehow like a son to her seeing as throughout her relationship with Chris she didn't get pregnant , maybe that was also a reason they got divorced. "Where are we going?" she asks no one in particular and Chris finally says something "My house" his voice was hard. Beth peers at him through the rear view mirror worriedly, he was probably more worried that she was, he loves that little guy even joked about them adopting him in secret from his sister then. Beth doesn't reply but instead just steps on the gas once again when the traffic light goes green.

The whole car ride was tense and silent. Not even Scot was attempting to break the silence. Once Beth parks in front of the Evans' house Chris practically jumps out of the car and rushes into the house while Beth and Scott stay and wait at the car. "Thanks" Scott sincerely says to her and she tears her eyes from its spaced out condition. "Anytime, you're still family to me" she reassures him and she meant it, the Evans family is still her family, they didn't shun her away when Chris and her were going through divorce, they knew whatever decision Chris and Beth made it was for their relationship only and they supported them through it. She is still close with Chris's siblings and parents this is proven by Shanna inviting Beth to her elder son's birthday last month.

She stared at the Evans house , remembering the times Chris and her spent their time in it every time he had a break from shooting, she never complained even though she had to constantly travel back and forth because she loved spending time here, she loved those times where Chris took her right at his childhood bedroom and she had to stay quiet because they were around some kids but he'd kiss her when she just had to moan out cause he hit just the right spot and she was coming for the 3rd time already, if you still managed to keep quiet by that time she would have saluted you because she never was able to. She shakes her head roughly, trying to get rid of the thoughts rushing to her head when she saw Chris carrying a very pale looking Miles and a hassled looking Shanna right behind him. She immediately starts the engine up again once Shanna and Chris along with Miles get onto the backseat. "Beth" Shanna exclaims surprised and Beth couldn't help but smile at her "Hey Shanna" .

Beth eases off onto the road. "Why is Beth the one driving ?" Shanna pipes up from behind and Scott sighs "Chris's car had a flat tire and Beth just happened to be in the same area " Scott explains seeing as Chris was too occupied with making sure Miles was okay. "Where are mom and dad anyways or anyone in the house really?" Scott asks his sister peering at his sister from his seat. "Mom and Dad are off into a friends party and Carly has to stay with the other kids. Husbands are at work right now" she answers Scott in a reporting manner and Scott just nods along. The hospital was just a good 5 minutes away so they were there in no time. Beth's eyes scan for a parking spot in the the hospital's lot and immediately finds a car easing out of its parking space near the entrance .She parks the car quickly and everybody rushes out and towards the hospital entrance.