I woke up to the soft snores of Jaime sleeping next to me. I slowly opened my eyes letting them adjust to the little bit of sunlight seeping through the curtains. I rolled onto my side and looked at Jaime, how peaceful and adorable he looked. Just imagine, what if I woke up to this every morning for the rest of my life, I don’t think I would ever get use to this. I thought to myself while staring, not noticing him stirring.

“Good morning.” His eyes slowly opened and he smiled.
“Good morning, sleepy head.” I leaned forward and kissed his nose making him laugh. I sat up and started pulling the blankets off of me when he pulled me back and I groaned but let him, “Jaime, I have to get up for work and I still have to go back to my apartment.”

“Can’t you just call in sick or something?” he smiled and pulled me close to him. “No, because that would be lying and I can’t lie to Jensen, it is physically impossible.” I laughed a little bit before trying to get up again.
“Then call him and tell him that you’ve been kidnapped and are being held against your will.” He smiled seductively

“Well that would be a lie too.” I smiled back and he looked confused, “How?”

“Because I would be willing. Now let me go, really I have to get up.” I laughed as he finally let me get out of the bed. “Did I ever tell you that I love the way my clothes look on you more than they look on me?” He sat up in the bed, hair all over the place and adorable as ever.
“No, and did I ever tell you how adorable your bed head is?” I smiled and quickly changed into my clothes from the day before, I had washed them last night. “Well, I’m gonna go. Call me later I guess. I’m sorry that I’m not having breakfast with you, it’s just it’s already 9:30 and I’m not even close to being ready.” I gave Jaime a nervous smile

“It’s okay, Hun. I’ll just come over to your place after you’re off, or whenever you’re hanging out with Angelise.” He got up and grabbed my hand and we started walking to the door, Shit! I completely forgot about angelise. When we got to the door Jaime opened it and kissed me, “Bye, Em.”

“Goodbye, Jaime.” I winked and walked outside, “Wait, shit. I forgot I drove you here.” Jaime grabbed his keys off of the table next to the door and started walking out towards his car.

“No, it’s okay Jaime. I’ll just get a cab, plus I like walking.” I smiled widely at him, “Emily, I don’t really like the idea of you walking around San Diego by yourself. It’s dangerous.” He gave me a serious look, way to crush the happy mood Mr. grumpy gills.

“So, it’s no different than Reno, and you were fine with that.” I tried joking around but I guess he took it completely serious and his tone was angry, “I wasn’t fine with that Emily, and I just had no choice.”

I scoffed, “Are you seriously getting upset over this? Really? You were fine two seconds ago when you were all ‘lovey dovey’ and kissing me then I decide I want to walk for a little bit and you get all ‘over protective’ on me. What is going on?”

“I worry about you Emily. I don’t want anything to happen to you, I don’t want to lose you again.” his voice was getting softer but still had a hint of anger in it.
“Well, stop worrying because I wasn’t planning on going anywhere. I’m tired of being in abusive and controlling relationships. That is why I was so happy when I found you; I thought it would finally be different. I don’t want to lose you either but if this is how it’s always going to be then I will leave and you will lose me, and this time it’ll be forever. But for right now I have to get to my apartment so I can go to work, and yes I am going to walk part of the way. You’ll just have to get over it. Bye.”
“Emily, wait. Please ju-”
“I said goodbye.” I turned on my heels and walked away before Jaime could say anything more.

I walked for about twenty minutes before I was able to catch a cab. The cab ride was short in all reality, but it felt like forever. I was thinking about the little spat I had with Jaime and how I didn’t even let him talk after I ranted. I kind of feel bad but I don’t at the same time. I mean, he kind of deserved it but on the other hand he didn’t. He was just looking out for me. Why do I have to be such a bitch all of the time? My thoughts were interrupted by the cab drivers scruffy voice, “That’ll be fourteen fifty six, please.”

“Huh? Oh. Yeah, here. Thanks.” I paid him and flashed a quick smile before getting out and climbing the 3 dreadful flights of steps to my apartment. I was taking my time unlocking the door, when I got inside I threw my keys on the side table and took a deep breath while shutting the door, “Hello? Anybody home?”

“In here!” I heard Charlie yell from her room, I walked in and plopped on her bed, face down. “What’s wrong, Hun?” Charlie was currently getting dressed; she put her tank top on and looked at me, awaiting my answer. “Hello? Are you going to answer me?”
I rolled over and looked at her, “Jaime and I had our first fight thingy today.”

“Oh? What was it about?” she started doing her makeup in her full-length mirror.
“He threw a fit because I wanted to walk part of the way home, it’s like he was being overprotective. Like one second he’s fine then the next he’s throwing a fit because he couldn’t drive me home.”

“Well that’s stupid, you should probably call Jensen and tell him you’re going to be late.” She laughed and gestured to how horrible I looked, “Yeah, I think I’m just going to call in today. I’m not feeling the work thing. I think Jensen will understand.” I half smiled and got up pulling out my phone and dialing Jensen’s number. “Hey, Em. What’s up?” His cheerful voice made me smile.
“Hey, bud. I don’t think I can come in today, I don’t feel good and I don’t want to come to work and possibly have a bug or virus or something.”

“Jaime called me. You don’t need to come in; we’re not going to be busy today. It’s okay; take as much time as you want. Ha well okay not as much as you want because I need you tomorrow.”
“Okay, thanks Jensen. Just if Jaime asks I’m not at my apartment, Okay?” I walked to my room and stopped at the foot of my bed, “Okie dokie artichokie.”

“Okay, thanks again bud, love you, bye.”

“Love you too, bye.” He hung up and I put my phone on my bed, I really didn’t want him to lie to Jaime but I also don’t want Hime to show up at my apartment while Angelise was here. Or at all for that matter, not after all of that.

I sighed and plopped on my bed like I did Charlie’s. “Hey, I’m going to work. Do you want me to pick up anything from the store on the way home?” Charlie stood in my doorway awaiting my reply, “Whiskey.” I said into my pillow, thank god she understood me. “Okay, whiskey it is. Bye Em.”

I groaned into my pillow as a way of saying bye. I really didn’t have energy to do anything today, I just wanted to sleep for a little while longer and then get up and ready to hangout with Angelise. Which reminds me, I need to text her. I grabbed my phone and propped myself up on my elbows and sent her a quick text.

*Hey, so did you still want to hangout today? * I sat and stared at my phone and waited for the response, it took longer than I thought. It took a whole 5 minutes.
*Yeah, sure. I just have some errands to run and then I can. Should we say around… 1:30-2ish? *

*Yeah, sounds great. Umm, just text me when you’re ready and I can pick you up. (: *

*Okie dokie (: *

I put my phone down and laid on my side, so I’ll sleep until noon then I’ll get up and get ready real quick. It shouldn’t take too long, I washed my hair last night, I just have to rinse off. I took the remote to my ipod dock and pressed play before setting it back on my bedside table. The soundtrack of ‘dirty dancing’ softly filling my room, I started to drift off to sleep.

***
I woke up to the sound of my ring tone playing over and over again, “This is not what it is only baby scars, I need your love like a boy needs his mothers side. She’s mine! You stay away from her it’s not her time. ‘Cause baby, I’m the one who haunts her dreams at night, until she’s satisfied. Spent seven years wishing that you’d drop the line, but I carry the thought of you in my mind. Is this what you call a family? Is this wha-”
I picked up the phone and saw that it was angelise, “Hello?”

“Hey! Where are you? I texted you like an hour ago. Heh.”
I sat up in my bed and groggily looked at the time, “SHIT! I am so sorry, I fell asleep and I didn’t hear my alarm go off. I’ll be right there. Wait where are you exactly?” It was almost 1:30

“At the tattoo shop, when you didn’t answer I was going to get your address from Jensen but before I asked him I wanted to try and call you once more.” She laughed at something that Jensen had said. “Okay, well I’ll be there in a minute. Who all is there?”

“Just me, Jensen and a customer.”

“Okay, well I’ll be there soon. Bye.” I was a little too cheerful for just waking up. Well for me being me, it was.
“Okay bye.” Angelise sounded happy, I hung up and looked in my full-length mirror. My hair was a mess, all of my makeup that I had on from last night was smeared and I looked like I had a hang over. Well, I’m already late so I guess I’ll just hurry and change, brush my teeth and hair, and wipe off the makeup. I have no choice but to go natural until I got back. I did just that and quickly drove to the tattoo shop.

When I got inside I already regretted it. I looked around the shop to see angelise, Jensen and the customer who just happened to be Austin carlile.
“Shit.” I mumbled under my breath wishing I could be gone already. Austin looked up and saw me, “Hey.” Did he not recognize me? Well I guess that’s a good thing. “Hi. Umm, angelise. Are you ready?”

“Huh? Oh yeah.” She was sitting behind the counter on her phone. “Okay, well lets go.” I started walking out the door when Jensen called me back, “Hey, Em. Come here.”

I cringed at what he said, shit. I turned and walked towards him and Austin, please don’t recognize me, please don’t recognize me. For the love of god, please don’t recognize me. “Hey, I’m Austin.” He smiled and held out his hand and I shook it, “Hi, I’m Emily.”

“She’s the girl I was telling you about. The one who is dating Jaime.” Jensen was doing the shading on Austin’s tattoo, shit! Did he seriously just say that? Are you kidding me? “Wait, this is the Emily you were talking about? I thought you said I would know her?” Austin looked at me and studied my face.
“I thought you would, I mean she’s mentioned you before. She said she met you the day after she met the boys. Didn’t you Em?” Jensen and Austin looked at me and waited for a reply.
“Uh… Heh… yeah, but it’s fine that you don’t remember me, Austin. I didn’t think you would anyways. Plus I have changed a lot.”

“Yeah, but I think I would be able to at least recognize your face. Describe what you looked like when I met you.”

“Brown wavy hair, no piercings or tattoos and I was 17. We watched PTV set together at the bar in Reno…” I trailed off seeing if he would catch on. He looked deep in thought for a moment then looked at me with wide eyes, “EMILY! Now I remember you! I am so sorry that I pulled a complete blank! How have you been? Why haven’t you called me or anything? You had my number, and how did you and Jaime get together?” Jensen let him stand up for a minute so he could give me a hug.

“Whoa, calm down. One question at a time.” I paused and laughed, “ I’ve been pretty good. But today could be better. And I hadn’t called you or anything because I lost your number, and Jaime and I ran into each other a couple days ago and just ‘got together’ yesterday. Does that satisfy your curiosity?” I was being sarcastic which made him chuckle and look away.

We talked for another ten minutes, exchanged numbers and then angelise and I were on our way. Most of the ride home was silent until angelise spoke up, “so, Austin carlile has the hots for Emily.” She teased me,
“What? He does not. How do you know that?”

She looked at me shocked, “How did you not notice? He was totally flirting with you! He was practically eye fucking you.”
I laughed out of shock, “He was not! You can’t prove it!”

“Oh, but I can.” She pulled out her phone and dialed someone’s number.
“Who are you-”
She held up her finger to tell me to be quiet, “Hey, Austin. Uh huh, it’s angelise. So I was wondering… do you think Emily is cute?” she paused to listen, “No, she’s not with me. She’s putting gas in the car right now. I was just wondering if you liked her or if you’re just a hopeless flirt.” She started laughing, “Okay, Austin. See ya later.” She was grinning from ear to ear when she hung up and looked at me, “See I so told you! He just admitted it!” I looked at her in disbelief, “No! That was so not him, prove that it was him.” She held up her phone and showed me the name, “See, it says Austin Carlile. HA!”

“So, that doesn’t mean anything. It could be one of your friends and you just changed the name.” I said in a matter of fact tone, “No, really it is him. I’ll even call him back and you can see.” She dialed his number again and gave the phone to me, I put it to my ear as it rang, “Hello” it really was Austin, shit! I panicked so I squealed and hung up the phone and threw it at angelise.

“See, I told you it was him!” she was laughing at me, “And why exactly did you squeal and hang up?”

“I don’t know… I panicked. Heh.” I gave her a nervous smile then we both burst out laughing, “I can’t believe you hung up on him! And your squeal was priceless!” angelise’s phone started ringing and it made up both jump, she looked at her phone and screamed, “AH! It’s Austin! What should I do!”

“I don’t know! Answer it!” I had the same facial expression as her.
“But I don’t wanna answer it! He’ll think I’m weird! All because you squealed!” she laughed and stared at her phone that quit ringing.

We both calmed down and I laughed, “Well, I guess we don’t have to worry about that anymore.” My ringtone started going off which made angelise laugh.
“Who is calling? Will you check it for me?” I didn’t want to take my eyes off the road, “yeah, sure.” She paused and her jaw dropped, “OH MY GOD!” she squealed.
“What? Who is it?”

She looked at me and smiled, “Austin!” she answered the call and then threw it at me so I had no choice but to answer, “Hello?” I was trying hard not to laugh.

“Hey! Umm, did angelise call me?”

“No, I don’t think so. Why?” I gave angelise a smile

“Oh, because her name came up on my phone and when I answered someone squealed and then hung up. It sounded kinda like you so I thought you might know something about it.”

“Oh, nope. We’ve been listening to music and driving. So you have a stalker now huh?”

“I guess so. I don’t feel like I’m gonna get murdered tonight or anything. Are you sure it wasn’t you? Because it sounded a lot like you, I don’t know how it did, but it did.”
I quickly handed the phone to angelise because I could no longer contain my laughter.
“Hey, Austin this is angelise now, Emily’s driving while also having a laughing attack, and doesn’t want to risk anything so she handed me the phone, is that alright?” she paused and laughed, “Yeah, okay. I’ll tell her. Well you know where she works, so… Haha okay, bye Austin!” angelise hung up and set my phone in a cup holder.

“Well, what did he say?” I was still smiling

“He said he wanted to have lunch some time and ‘catch up’.” She winked, “Oh gosh, you know that nothing will happen between us. Besides I have Jaime.” My phone went off and I looked, “Speak of the devil.” I groaned and answered, “Hello?”

“Hey, Em. We need to talk.” He sounded sad, well I guess that’s understandable concerning what happened this morning. “Go on.”

“Well, I’m sorry for the way I acted earlier. I know that you’re an adult and can take care of yourself. I was just worried about you. Not everyone in San Diego can be trusted.”

“I know, Jaime. I’m sorry too. I know I could’ve handled that situation differently and acted more like an adult.” There was a moment of silence that Jaime ended up breaking, “Will you forgive me?”

“Jaime, I already have. I did right after I left.” I could feel him smiling through the phone, “Okay. Well did you pick up angelise yet?”

I looked at her; she was playing on her phone. “Yeah, we’re on our way home right now. We should be at my house soon.”

“Oh, well that’s good. I guess I’ll call you later?”

“Yeah, sure.” I smiled

“Okay bye, babe.” His voice was happy now, happier than when he answered it, anyways. “Okay, bye Jaime.” Just before I moved the phone Jaime said something, “Emily?”

“Yeah, Jaime?”

“I love you.”

My smile grew even wider, “I love you too, Jaime.” After that we both hung up and I had the biggest smile the rest of the drive home.

Notes

hey! so i was going to post earlier, but my computer crashed and deleted all of my editing stuff, and i have work in half an hour so i don't have enough time to re-edit the entire chapter. i'm sorry that it's not as good as it could be. /: i ope you guys still like it. i promise the next chapter will be much better! i may say "i love you guys" alot, but i'm not just saying it, i really do. (: i look forward to Saturdays and getting feedback from you guys. (: thanks for sticking with me this far, guys. it means alot.!
<3/Emilio