Saturday, August 18, 2007

Chapter Twelve: Realizations

Realizations
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Christina said...

Chloe woke up first. She looked over at Johnny and smiled. She was in his arms. They must have fallen asleep. But for how long? She prayed Lisa and Chris weren't home yet. This was going to have to be a secret between her and Johnny. She looked at his sleeping face, and wanted to kiss him again. They had sex two, three times? She couldn't remember. Her head hurt from all the wine. She desperatly wanted to do it again, but she knew if Chris and Lisa weren't home, they would be soon. As she gazed at him, she thought she could care less if Chris liked Adrian. He would move on, just like she had. With that thought she kissed Johnny's lips.

He felt somone kissing him. Who? He suddenly remebered what had just happened. He remembered rolling around with chloe amongst the blankets and pillows on the floor. He opened his eyes, and pulled Chloe tighter, kissing her.

Maybe just one more time, they both thought. They had both come to the realization that this was purely physical. But how amazingly physical it was!

Chris was tired, and just wanted to find everyone and figure out something for lunch. He was tired from walking around town gathering fliers for dance and singing auditions, while looking up publishes and agents. He had a whole stack of fliers and several talent agencies in his notebook. It was all he could do to get his mind of Chloe. He reached for the handle and was about to open the door which would have revealed his two best friends kissing. Insead the door next door opened, and he looked over. Adrian was walking out.
"Hey." She said smiling.
"Hey." He answered.
"What do you have there?" She asked. He told her, and she smiled.
"So you all have a great talent?" She asked.
"Yeah." Chris said.
"And you write?" She asked.
"Yeah." He answered. He felt like an idiot, but she was pretty.
"I was just about to go get some lunch, do you want to come?" She asked.
"Yeah." He said, and she giggled.
"Sorry. You are just so pretty. It makes me lose my train of thought." He told her, surpised at his own boldness. To his relief, she looked flatered.
"Well, lets go get some food, and you can tell me about your novel." She told him. He smiled.
"Sure, let me just put these inside." He said, and opened the door. He set the flyers and his notebook down on the counter, and grabbed the folder that held his novel out of his bag in his room. Fortunatly for everyone, he didn't see the pile of his friends clothes outside Chloe's door. He left with Adrian to get lunch. He stared at her and watched her talk animatedly about her favorite writers, which were a lot of his favorites. As he watched and listened he made a promise to himself. He was done with Chloe. What they had was amazing, and he would always love her. She was after all his first love. But he was going to date Adrian. He didn't care if she was a year and a half older. He was going to date her. He smiled when she looked at him with her sparkling brown eyes and smiled at him.

Lisa couldn't stop laughing with Tucker. He was amazing, she thought. Absolutely amazing! All the stories he had, all the politcal and socail views he had...they were all hers. And his body...his big muscular body. She smiled. They were back in Tuckers room where he played a few songs he wrote on his guitar. He said Adrian was better, but she prefered to play bass and Alex was a drummer. She didn't mention she was a singer because she feared Tucker would make her sing and he would hate it.
But suddenly she could not longer resist, and sang a few notes of the U2 song Tucker had started playing. He stoped and stared at her, and she was embarassed.
"That was beautiful." He said. Lisa shrugged.
"No, really. So fresh and new." He told her. She shook her head no. How could this hot amazing guy be complimenting her? She never got the guys. That was what Chloe was for.
"Do me a favor." He said.
"What?" She asked.
"We have a practice tomorrow with Ziggy, our keyboard player. Come sing for us." He said.
"I can't." She told him.
"I'll buy you dinner if you do." He told her.
"Okay." She said, and smiled. This really was a new start." She thought.

Johnny and Chloe were thoroughly exhausted, and got up hoping no one else was home yet. Chloe paniked real quick when she saw Chris' notebook and some flyers on the counter, but relaxed when she realized that if Chris knew anything, he would have burst into the room yelling. Her and Johnny picked up their clothes and got dressed. Just then, the front door opened and Chris walked in, a huge grin on his face.
"Why are you so happy?" Chloe asked him.
"I just had lunch with Adrian. And she is amazing, we talked about all our favorite authors, musicians, everything!" He said. Chloe was glad and felt a little less guilty about what her and Johnny had just been up to. Then Lisa walked in.
"Guess what!" She shouted.
"What?" Johnny asked her.
"I have an audition for Tuckers band!" She shouted. "It's nothing big yet, but maybe I can get my name out there." She said.

This really is a new start, they all thought.