A Few Favors For Me;;Ella/Johnny;;36

the chapter is switching back and forth again.

Ella

I'm in my room packing the next morning. I look at Stephanie, who's just sitting on the bed staring at nothing. I grab my bag and look at her. "I'll let you know when I land," I tell her as she hugs me. She nods her head and I leave. I yell for a cab and sit hop in. "Where too?" He asks me.


"Vancouver Internation Airport Please."


With that we get on the high way and find ourselves in traffic. I'm looking out the window, wondering if I'm making the biggest mistake of my life. My head begins to hurt, this time, worse than before. I ignore the pain. A single tear rolls down my cheek. Why couldn't I just tell him that I loved him and meant it? I


I feel my phone vibrate. I pull my Droid out and my eyes widen when I see I have a text from Johnny. I open it and gasp. I reread it a few times:


I just tried to find you but I guess you left. Let me say something, don't get on that plane. I said somethings I didn't mean yesterday. I love you Ella, that's what I wanted to tell you. I am a fucken idiot for letting you go like that. I lost you once to Kris, then another time because you claimed you couldn't love me. I'm not willing to lose you for a thrid time because that may be the last time I see or let alone hear from you. Please come back and give it a shot. You leaving now isn't making this situation easy for you or I. If you don't come back I'll understand and move on with my life but just know that I love you and I've always loved you.


At that moment, I knew what the hell i had to do.


"Go back!"
"What?!"
"DO IT!"


The cabbie brings me back to the hotel. I pay the fair, and tell Stephanie not to check out. She meets me outside and grabs my bag. She runs it back in and the comes back out. "Lets do this shit," she tells me. I pull out my phone and text Ally and Christina the following:


I'm back. Did warm ups happen.


They do in five so I suggest you get down here now!


Coming.


Stephanie and I run to the arena, check in, and run to our section. Our seats are behind the glass. We get to our section and she runs down the stairs. I stop. We get there just in time for warm ups. They're all shooting around and talking. I look at the back of the jerseys. I see 87, 19, 7, 2, no 16. "ELLA, COME DOWN HERE!" Ally's yelling. That's when my head turned and I saw the number 16 with the last name TOEWS printed by the shoulder blades. I see Brent motioning to him. He drops his stick and I smile. 


I begin running down the stairs and he's skating to the glass. People are looking and yelling about the commotion Johnny and I are starting, but I ignore it. I stop at the glass and Johnny sprays ice on the glass but immedietly whipes it off with his glove. "Why are you back? Don't you have a flight to catch?" He yells.


"That's not important. I need you to do a favors for me."
"Name them," he yells.
"One, get me a goal."
"I can do that for you."
"Two, play like it's the best game of your life."
"I can definatly do that."
"Three, go out there and kick ass."
"I can do those three for you."
"GO BEFORE YOU GET IN TROUBLE!" I yell.
"Thank you for coming back Ella."
"JOHNNY GO!" I smile.


The game finally starts. We're all on the edge of our seats. Johnny steals the puck and shoots one in. He scores. We all get up, except for Stephanie because she's gotta root for the boyfriend and scream at the top of our lungs. Johnny points his stick at me as I smile. "THAT WAS ALL FOR YOU ELLA!" He shouts at me then skates away. My smile fades though. Ally looks over at me as I rub my head. "You okay?" She yells. 


"I'm fine!" I yell back.


The game goes on and eventually we go into over time due to Zach Parise tying the game. Two minutes into over time begin and Sidney snatches the puck. He shoots it in. Canada wins the golden. We all run out on to the ice, being the girlfriends and all. Johnny's looking for me. I get on the ice and stop. My body's begining to shake, my head hurts, and my vision is going in and out. "Ella, you okay?" Johnny asks me when he gets over to me.


"Johnny..."
"Ella...whats wrong?"
"Johnny...I...I..."


I feel my eyes roll backwards as I fall foward and hit Johnny's chest. The rest went black from there...


Johnny

"Ella! Ella wake up!" 

I'm yelling as I bent down and lie her on my knee. Ella ran on the ice and blacked out like she did two weeks ago, but I knew this time was worse. The whole arena stops cheering as all eyes turn on Ella and I. Brent, Duncs, Patrick, Ally, Stephanie, and Christina are all by me now. Stephanie is checking her pulse. "Guys, I don't know if she's breathing."

"Shit, get the medics!" Brent yells.

"Ella, come on, wake up!" I yell.

"Dude, I know CPR!" Pats yelling.

"She's breathing, but her pulse keeps going in and out. Fuck, this is what happened last time," Ally yelled at us.

The medics come and tell us one of us has to go in the ambulance and that it has to be a family member. We look at Christina and she agrees to go. "Call her family and tell them to get on a flight now. Brent, grab my medal."

"What do you mean, grab your medal?"

"I'm going to change and going to the hospital."

With that, I run to the locker room, quickly shower, throw clothes on and run out of there. I flag down a cab and get it. "Shouldn't you be getting you're medal?" He asks me. I give him this disgusting look.

"That's not important right now--" I stop when my phone vibrates. It's Christina.

Mount Saint Helen Hospital...go now!

"Mount Saint Helen Hospital...step on it!" I tell the cabbie.

I get there, pay the fare, and run in to find Christina pacing back and fourth. She runs over to me and hangs up the phone. "Ella's dad is on his way with Alfonso. Her mom is in Italy but she's trying to get a flight."

"Any news on Ella?"

"She was really dehydrated."

"Oh jesus."

"Guys is she okay?"

Brent, Duncan, Patrick, Stephanie, and Ally make their way in. I don't even think about my medal at this point. Christina tells them that she was dehydrated and that there doing tests on her right now. "Excuse me, is Jon here?" I look up and Sidney Crosby is standing there. Stephanie takes a few steps back and I step forward. "Can I steal you for a minute?" I walk over to him and we walk over to the lobby. "How is your girlfriend?" he asks.

"She's...nevermind. She was really dehydrated. They think she maybe over exhausted."

"I'll keep her in my thoughts."

"Thank you."

"Look...I wasn't the true hero tonight....you where?"

"What?"

"The way you left after Ella was put on a stretcher, damn, that takes guts to do that. They're all calling you the hero of the night. I agree 100% with them."

"That's very kind of you and everyone...thanks."

"I wanted to take the honnor and give this to you."

He then pulls out of his pocket a black box. I open it and there lies my gold medal. I sigh and look at him. "You've always been a good friend Sid...thanks," I say in a hug. We end our hug and he looks over at the doctor talking to everyone. "You should get over there."

"Thanks again Sidney," I say walking over to the doctor. "Well..."

"She was really over exhausted. I want to speak with her father when he gets here."

"Can I see her?" I ask.

"No, not right now, we're still doing tests."

I sit on the chair and close my eyes. Brent sits next to me and pats my back. "It's going to be okay," he tells me. I sigh. This time, I hope it would be okay.

Wrong Shit at the Wrong Time;;Johnny;;35

I meet Ella at the coffee shop...well more like I'm waiting for her. Thoughts are going through my mind as I'm waiting for her. We had sex last night. It changes everything. Now I'm just completely falling for her even more.  She doesn't feel for me though. I wonder if what if I moved on from her, if it would be the same? Or if I should keep fighting for what I want, which is her? 


"Hey, sorry."


I look up and see Ella sitting across the table from me. She's wearing swets and a Notre Dame hoodie and her hair is thrown up into a messy bun. I nod and smile. She looks pretty good for not caring about what to wear for coffee, even if were not drinking it. "It's fine, don't worry."


"Look...about last night..."


She had to bring it up, eh? Well...someone had to bring it up. 


"Yeah...look Ella..."
"Can I say something?"
"Oh...yeah..."
"Look...I don't know if that was a hook up or what not...but...I just..."
"What..."
"I don't know. What were you going to say?"


For the first time since I've known Ella, she looks confused. She doesn't know what to say, but her eyes are saying it all. She's lost. She doesn't feel hurt, she feels lost. And for the first time in my life, so do I. "Ella...I know you don't love me. It's fine, I'm just going to move on with my life."


"What?" Her eyes are widened now. She didn't want to hear that.
"Ella..it's fine, really, I'm gonna hurt, who doesn't hurt. Maybe in the future, we'll be together, but I think it's better for us to stay friends."


Ella's shaking her head now and I see a tear roll down her cheek. This was something she didn't want to hear. She finally looks up at me and runs her hand against the back of her neck. "Jonny...I'm going home tomorrow morning."


"Why?"
"I'm going to stay at my dads for a while. I'm not going to have my phone on. I need to think about things."
"Ella..I'm sorry if that wasn't what you wanted to hear."
"I'll talk to you sometime next week. Good luck tomorrow."


And just like that, she slipped out of my hands...again.


I walk into my room and slam the door. I am such an idiot. The door opens and in walks Brent, Duncs, Ally, Patrick, Stephanie, and Christina. I begin throwing anything I could find, coffee cups, my tooth brush, clothes...even better, I begin to rip a picture of Ella and I. Stephanie comes up to me, grabs the picture and takes my hands. "Jonny, stop it!"


"GET YOUR FUCKEN HANDS OFF OF ME!"
"JOHNNY KNOCK IT OFF!"


I finally give up and embrace Stephanie while crying like a five year old. She's rubbing my back as I cry some more. "Johnny, what the hell happened?" She finally asks me. I tell them everything, about how I'm an idiot for saying the wrong shit, how she cried and walked away, everything. Everyone is dead silent. I hate the silence. Finally, Ally speaks up. "You better win her back before she gets on that airplane."


The next morning rolls around. I rush out of my room after showering and throwing clothes on. I bang on Stephanies door. No answer at first. I bang on it some more. She finally answers. "Hey, whats up?"


"Is Ella here?"
"You litterally just missed her."
"WHAT!?"
"She just left."


I run down the hall and into the elevator. I run into the lobby, look to not see her. I run outside and don't see her. I run my hands through my hair then pull my phone out. I text her something long and important, hoping I'd get her to come back. I go back into the hotel. Game time was in a few hours. I couldn't let Ella effect my playing, but I knew she would. I sighed. I couldn't believe this.


My life and drug was out of my life and this time, it'd probably be for good.

Winter Olympics 2010 No Regrets;;Ella/Johnny;;34

Warning: This chap switches from Ella to Johnny's point of view. Just saying


A few more days go by. Turns out Canada and the US will play eachother for the gold medal on Sunday, which is the closing ceremonies. It's friday now. I'm sitting in my bed in the hotel room. Stephanie and Patrick went out with Christina, Ally, Brent, and Duncan. Nik had to go back early because of practice. I'm laying in bed flipping through the channels on the TV. I'm alittle tired and feeling werid. I don't know what my problem is but I feel like I've been living on Advil the past week. There's a knock on the door. I get off my ass and open it. 


It's Johnny.


"Hey," I smile.


Shit, I'm smiling. What the the hell is this? I usually don't smile when it comes to this man.


"Hey," he begins smiling back. I have the biggest urge to kiss him right now.


What the hell is my fucken problem?


"Whats up?" I ask him.
"It's four in the afternoon, why the hell are you still in you're swets?" He asks me.
"I'm tired."
"Oh, well I was wondering if you wanted to get dinner."
"You know, that sounds like fun, can you wait a few minutes?" I ask him as he sits on the bed.
"Yeah, take your time."


I pull random clothes out of my duffle and walk into the bathroom. I pull the out fit on and notice I'm wearing skinny jeans and a flannel. I throw my bangs into a side french braid and keep my make up to a low. I look at myself in the mirror. I felt/looked horrible but I'm wondering why I even care what I look like infront of Johnny.


Because you love him, dumbass.


I walk out of the bathroom and grab by knit ugg boots and slip them on. Johnny looks up at me and smiles. "You look really nice," he says as I nodd at the door. We're in the elevator and laugh when it doesn't get stuck. We're sitting at the hotel restruant. We both order waters because we're not in the mood for drinking tonight. "How've you been feeling since you passed out the other night?" He asks me.


"Better," I lie through my teeth. I think he knows I'm lying but he's nodding his head.
"Good, you had us all worried," he says. "I mean, Stephanie came banging on my door and the guys were there because they wanted to know about our talk. I --"
"What did you tell them?"
"Everything."
"Oh jesus. Continue."
"Stephanie came in and she looked like a basketcase. It took her a few times to get out of her mouth what the fuck happened. I darted down the hall when she told us. Brent wanted to get the team Doctor and Duncs wanted to get an ambulance. You sure --"
"Can I take you're order?" The waitress asks us.
"I'll have the turkey club, no mayo with fries please."
"I'll have the cobb salad, no bacon," I tell her, considering I'm not in the mood to eat.


Shit this was happening again.


"Ella, you're really going to eat a salad?"
"I'm not that hungry."
"Ella, can you eat something reasonable?"
"Johnny, I'm not that hungry, thanks for worrying though."


He obviously found out more about the breakup before Kris. He nodds his head and takes a sip of water. "What were you saying before the waittress came?" I asked him. He looked at the table and I could tell he was fidgeting with his hands. 


"It's not important, don't worry about it."


We eat our food and sit at the table, talking about anyone and anything. The conversation is going nice and then he brings something else up. "Ella, have you ever truely fallen in love?" Did he really have to ask this? Now that I think about it, I never really did. Antonio was just a stunt to do something against my parents wishes and Kris was just to make Johnny mad. Don't get me wrong, I really did like the two of them when I dated them, but I never really fell inlove.  "No, I have not," I begin as he nodds his head. "Have you?"


"No," he immedietly says as he pays the bill.


We get up and go to the elevator. We walk in and it gets stuck again. I start laughing as he's shaking his head. "You clearly must find this funny that the elevator doesn't like us," he jokes. I nodd my head and then I look at him. I look into those big brown eyes and something came over me. Out of no where my head is inching towards his face, his doing the same. I feel my lips graze his but then he takes me into this deeper kiss. 


The elevator moves and the doors open. We don't stop kissing. He picks me up and I wrap my legs around his waist. We walk to his room and he opened the door. We walk in and he kicks the door, but were still kissing. His back is against the door now, I feel his hands move up and down my leg and he's ubuttoning my flannel. The next thing I know I'm standing there in my jeans, bra and tank. I hear him kick off his shoes as I'm ripping his shirt off. I throw it on the floor as my tank flies next to it. 


Johnny proceeds to pick me back up and my legs are around his waist. The next thing I knew was that he was on top of me, kissing my kneck and unbuttoning my bra. I let out a moan as the bra goes flying. I unbutton his pants and he proceeds to throw them on the floor and do the same for mine. We're under the covers and everything came off. He then proceeds to kiss me and throw a condom on...


Johnny


I wake up the next morning and look around the room. I see clothes all over the floor. I look under the covers to see I am completely naked. Figures. I look over to find Ella soundly sleeping. I smile, atleast she's catching up on some sleep. She turns on her side and her eyes flutter open. She smiles when she sees me then looks under the covers. "Please tell me you had a condom on," she says, covering her chest with a sheet.


"If it makes you feel better, the condom was pink," I laugh.


It's awkward now in the room. She gets up and pulls her clothes on. She walks back over to me and throws her hair up in a pony tail. It's Saturday. "Can we meet around 2 for coffee?" She asks. I nodd. She leaves my room. I hit my head on the bed post and sigh.


I had sex with Ella.


Did I regret it though? Of course not, I really enjoyed it. Then it dawned on me. I was more inlove with that girl than I was before. The thought of her not loving me back was hitting me. I sighed. Maybe I should just move on and forget about it, because it was never going to happen between me and Ella.


Ella


"WHERE THE HELL WHERE YOU LAST NIGHT AND WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU!? YOU LOOK LIKE YOU CAME OUT OF SEX!"


Stephanie yelled at me. I sit on the bed and shake my head. I had sex with Johnny. "Olympics 2010...no regrets," I sigh, throwing my head in my hands. Now I was just confused. One minute I just wanted to be friends with Johnny the next I was having sex with him and now I was just bloody confused, plus I had a bad headache. "Ella, whats wrong?" Stephanie asks, sitting next to me. I sigh. I needed to get out of here.


"Stephanie, I'm going home tomorrow."
"No shit, so am I."
"No, tomorrow morning I'm going."
"What, why?"
"Stephanie, I have to go home."


And with that, the conversation was over.

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Pass Out and Internships;;Ally;;33

"Oh shit were not going through this again!"

I shouted as we all rushed to Ella. Christina, Stephanie, and I all roll Ella over on the floor and check her pulse. "Well, she's still breathing," Stephanie looks up at us. "I'll go get Johnny, in the mean time, try lifting her up on the bed." We watch Stephanie run out of the room and we look back at Ella. She wasn't drunk, she didn't drink alcohol at all today. "Christina, let's be honest, Ella is a little heavier than we are, so how are we going to life her?" I ask.

"I'll grab her feet you grab her arms."

With that, we try lifting her up with no success. It wasn't that Ella was fat, because she wasn't. She was just half muscle, half fat. Now that I'm looking at her, she's been looking thinner than usual. "Christina, has she been eating lately?"

"The last I saw her before this was the airport. Have you noticed anything different?"

"If you call her looking tiny like she did when that douche bag Antonio broke up with her, than yeah."

The door opens and in comes Stephanie, Nik, Johnny, Duncan, Patrick, and Brent. We all look at them and wonder why the hell they all came with when we only asked for Johnny. "They were all in Jons room. Can you guys lift her on the bed?" Johnny picked her up bridal style and set her down. "What the hell happened?" Brent asked.

"She passed out. Stephanie, has she been eating lately?"

"Now that you mention it, she hasn't ate much since Kris and her broke up."

"She hasn't slept either," Johnny tells us.

"Do you want us to get the team doctor?" Brent offers.

"No...I know what's wrong I think," Christina says.

"What do you mean?" The boys ask in unison.

"Exactly what did you two talk about just now?" I ask Johnny.

"We were stuck in the elevator, we were talking about sex and who were our firsts. Antonio was hers. He broke up with her senior year."

"Okay, well, when Antonio broke up with her. She was a complete wreck. She didn't eat, she didn't sleep, she was a hot mess. I remember Stephanie and I were over one time and she said her head hurt then she passed out two seconds later. We had to call an ambulance," I tell everyone.

"What exactly happened then?" Patrick asks us.

"She was over exhausted. Go get me a wet towel Christina."

Christina wets a towel and gives it to me as I'm lighting tapping her head with it in hopes that she'll wake up. Duncan pulls out his phone. "Do you want me to call for an ambulance?" He offers when we hear a groan coming out of Ella. Her eyes open and she looks at her surroundings. "What the hell--"

"You passed out, that's all. We were a little worried," Stephanie tells her.

"Stephanie, stay in Patricks room tonight. Jonny, can you stay in here with her?" I ask.

"Yeah, let me go get some of my stuff," he says walking out of the room.

I proceed to follow Jonny and I grab his arm. He turns and looks at me. "Is she over exhausted?" He asks me. I shrug my shoulders. I don't know if Ella is forming an eating disorder again or not. Oh, while I'm at it, I should tell him about that. "Jonny, I'm glad you and Ella are trying to figure things out, but you need to watch out for her."

"What do you mean?"

"After Antonio broke up with her, she stopped eating. She had to go into a clinic after she left the hospital for over exhaustion. It was bad, I didn't want to see my best friend go through that. She didn't sleep for a good month."

"The patterns coming back?"

"I thought she over came it. Kris was her first relationship since Antonio. Then the limo incident...Johnny, just watch over her the next few days," I plead.

"Ally, you have nothing to worry about, I promise."

I meet Brent in mine and Christina's room. We're sitting on the bed. We don't say anything. "Is she going to be okay?" Brent asks me. I nodd my head but I honestly don't have an answer this time. It wasn't as bad as it was now. "I think she'll be fine, look we need to talk about something." I look at Brent and his facial expression drops. "It's nothing bad."

"Don't scare me like that Ally. What's up?"

"I signed up for an internship in Milan."

"What?"

"Yeah, I get to intern for a bunch of photographers if I get it."

"Ally, that's great. When do you find out if you get it?"

"I have an interview for the next internship when I get home."

"Ally, you better take this interview."

"Oh trust me, I will," I smile.

Brent leans over and kisses my forehead. Nik and Christina come in. We all decide to forget about the incident of tonight and watch a movie. Except I can't focus. All I'm picturing is Ella when she was seventeen and blacking out, her being in the hospital, her having to go to the clinic, as if that weren't bad enough, she had to go through therapy. Then Kris and now this...it was all to much right now. I snuggle up into Brents chest and close my eyes.

That was enough drama for the night.

Elevator Talks About Life;;Ella;;32

I meet up with Johnny at the coffee shop like he asked after the opening ceremonies. I'm sitting at table with water waiting for him. I tap my fingers on the table thinking of what the hell he could possibly want. 


I look up and see him appoarching the table I'm at. I'm telling myself to breathe and that I should prepare for him to bring up my drunken spree. He sits down and smiles at me. "How were the ceremonies?" I ask, trying to avoid the subject of the drunken spree. He flashes that broken smile.


"It was great, one of the four torches weren't working but it was cool because Wayne Gretzky was there. Why didn't you go?" He asks.
"I haven't slept in a month," I admit.
"Oh God Ella..."
"What, it was you're doing."
"How was it my doing?"
"It was both our doing."
"You're always finding someone else to blame."
"No, you just like picking at my flaws."


Johnny shuts his mouth and sighs. I look down at my nails and close my eyes. He's shaking his head. No ones talking. I begin to push my chair and get up but Johnny grabs my arm. "Johnny, please, I'm really tired."


"Ella sit."


I agree and fold my arms across my chest. This is not what I wanted to do right now. I wanted to fall asleep right now the way I did last night, curled into a ball on his chest. I look at him and he's rolling his eyes. "Are you scared that I'm going to hurt you the way Kris did?" He asks. I don't really say anything, because he knows he's right. "Ella, if that's really the case, that's not going to happen."


"How do you know that?"
"I know myself well enough to know I'm not going to cheat on anyone."
"Johnny, I just can't."
"What if we tried this?"
"What, have a two week fling and go from there? No, I want something real."
"I can give you something real."
"Johnny, I don't know."
"Ella, why don't we do this, let's hang out as friends for these two weeks. If you change your mind, then we can go from there."
"And if I don't..."
"Then I'll back off."


I'm acctually listening to what he has to say. I love him, I really do, but maybe hanging out with him as friends these two weeks is probably best. I look and him and nodd my head. "Fine, that works." I tell him.


"Go get some sleep, I have practice tomorrow. I'll walk you up."


We take the elevator up to the fifth floor and the elevator gets stuck.I look at the ceiling. "Oh shit..." i mumble as we both pull out our cell phones. "Do you have service?" I ask him as he clicks his on.


"Nope."
"Shit, neither do I."


I slide down and sit on the floor. Johnny does the same and sits next to me. We don't say anything for a good two minutes. This is fucken awkward. Johnny finally breaks the silence. "Do you remember in fourth grade when we went to the circus?"


"For Allys birthday? Yeah, sadly I remember. I was really mad at that point too."
"Why what did I do now?"
"You told the clown to chase me around on stilts. I had to go to therapy because of that."
"Shit was I that mean too you?"
"Yeah, just a bit."
"Wow..."
"You then threw you're snow cone at me because I took your hat and threw down the toliet."
"Oh you were mean too."
"No, only because you were a jerk."
"I was nine."
"Do you remember when you and Jack teammed up and cloged all the plumbing up in school?"
"Jack and I were the masterminds of fourth grade. What ever happened to that kid?"
"His new best friends are Jack Daniels and a guy named Crack Cocaine."
"Shitttt..."


I'm laughing now as Johnny and I are telling stories from fourth grade and family stories. He tells me about the time him and David took gatorade bottles at a family party and filled them with Vodka. I tell him about the time Christina and I got lost in Wisconsin by accident and didn't know it until two hours after we passed the boarder. We then proceed to talk about our love lifes and personal stuff.




"Are you still a virgin? You don't have to answer?"
"No."
"Johnny who'd you lose it too?"
"I remember when I was seventeen and I was dating this girl named Krista. She went to the sister school for Shattucks. She was really pretty. We dated for a good eight months. It was her idea not mine. It was both a first for us. We did it in her Jeep wrangler."
"Oh thats classy."
"You bet."
"Do you regret it?"
"The only thing I regret about it is that we did it in her jeep. What about you?"
"My first was with a guy named Antonio."
"Oh that's Italian."
"He was Mexican."
"How'd that work out?"
"Mom was pissed, let's just put it at that. Dad didn't want me with him."
"Why not?"
"I don't know, they sensed something I didn't. I stayed with him because I wanted to do something against their wishes. We dated for a good year. It was my junior year of highschool. He was really rich and we were in the pool house."
"The pool house, eh?"
"It's better than a jeep wrangler."
"True. Go on."
"I was not willing to at first, but then I was all like 'Awe what the hell, stick the condom on!' And just like that, we did it, We broke up two months later."
"Did you regret it?"
"Nahh...becaused I realized I did something behind my parents for once in my life...then my mom found the condom in the pool house and the next day I went to gyno."
"Didn't need to to know that."
"You asked."
"I didn't ask about the gyno part but okay, if you say so."


The elevator starts moving again. We walk out and he walks me to my room. We both agree to meet for breakfast tomorrow morning and maybe get coffee later that night. I walk into my room to find Stephanie, Ally, and Christina all there. They look at me. "How'd the talk go?" Christina asks me. I sigh and shrug my shoulders. "I'm going to bed, good night!"


Just like that, I crash out on the floor.

Give Me A Reason;;31;;Stephanie

I meet Patrick at the coffee shop thrity minutes after my talk with Ella. I'm not dressed up, because I'm trying to make this as quick as possible. I missed him, I missed everything about him. I missed him and I, but still doesn't mean I may forgive him for what he did too met. I sit down across from him and take a close look at him.


He really looks miserable.


"Hi," I say.
"Let me start out by saying that I'm sorry for what I did to you Stephanie."
"I understand that you're sorry, and that's fine, but you hurt me. Patrick, I trusted you with my life. Why did you do that?"
"Hear me out okay?"
"Isn't that why I came down here?"


Patricks looking at the table right now then he looks at the water fountain in the hotel. I closes his eyes and I could've sworn a tear rolled down his cheek. He goes back to looking at the table. "If you're not going to talk, I'm going to leave," I say getting up but he grabs my arm. I sit back down.


"I don't know what came over me."
"Oh really? You just felt like doing that?"
"No. I missed you, I really did. It was Kris's idea. I didn't wanna go, believe me, I really didn't wanna go. He dragged me along and got a few drinks in me. I really wasn't thinking. When I woke up the next morning I felt like such a douchebag. Stephanie, please, I'm sorry."
"Give me a reason why you want to be in my life."
"Why I want to be in your life?"
"Yes, why do you want to be in my life?"
"Steph, I love you and what we had. I love that we could just bum around in swets and just laugh and smile about stupid shit. When I saw you with that whiney bitch---"
"That whinney bitch just happens to be really nice."
"Okay, when I saw you with that nice whiney bitch, it made me regret what I did to you. Stephanie, I can promise you that it's not going to happen again."
"Patrick, I can't even trust you anymore."
"You can regain that trust. Just let me redeem myself."


I'm thinking about what he has to say. Part of me doesn't want to take him back but I then think of all we went through. Me trying to acctually get a date with him, all the fun times we've had, the little things he did to make me smile and now this limo issue. Maybe if was a stepping stone in our relationship. 


I lean across the table and plant one on his cheek. I sit back down and he smiles. He then shakes his head. "What's that supposed to mean?" he asks in a low voice. I smile back at him.


"I'm going to give you one more shot at this, so don't make me regret it, alright?" 
"I promise you Stephanie that I'm going to make this up to you," he says as we both get up.


He pulls me into this long hug as I rest my head on his chest. A weight feels like it's been lifted off my chest. I feel Patrick run his fingers through my hair as he tells me he loves me and that this was never going to happen again. I close my eyes and smile.


I'm finally feeling at ease.