"You're just jealous that I kissed Whitney and not you" that thought kept going round in Laurens head. It was true, she was jealous that her cousin joey had kissed her best friend. She knew she shouldn't feel that way, but she did. Anyway enough of them thoughts, she had to carry on getting ready to meet her friends. She was already drunk when she made her way into R she made her way over to her friends table
"Hey girls, we ready to have some fun?" she slurred
"Think you've been having plenty already" Lucy laughed
Lauren went to the bar and ordered herself a drink, joey was working, and she smiled at him as he went to get her drink. She then made her way back to her friends. She was pretty drunk, when joey came over to Lucy; she was going home, so he gave her kiss. Lauren couldn't stop wishing that it was her he was kissing. Lauren continued to dance the night away until she decided she's had enough, and tried to walk her home, she was just outside the club when she heard his voice
"Hey, let me walk you" joey smiled to her. Lauren let him lead the way. They made their way up the stairs to no.5 and Lauren let them in,
"You didn't have to walk me all the way home" she told him
"Uncle Max would kill me if he knew I'd let you come home alone in this state" joey laughed
"Yes and you wouldn't want to upset him now would you" she laughed slumping against the wall
"Lauren, most girls would kill to have a life like yours, why are you just chucking it away" he asked
"I don't know, ive just got a lot on my head" she explained
"Look Lauren, if you don't want me to stay here, then I won't, I'll go" he said looking into her eyes
"You don't wanna do that" she said staring back
"I don't wanna be one of the things you're running away from" he said moving closer
She looked into his eyes and grabbed his coat and pulled him to her, finally his lips were against hers, it started to get deeper, when she felt him pull away
"No lauren, stop it" he said looking into her eyes. She realised what she had done, as she ran up the stairs, not looking back. She lay on her bed unable to sleep; she couldn't believe that she had kissed him. She had been waiting so long to feel his lips against hers. It had felt amazing she thought to herself.
She woke the next day feeling rough, she slipped her dressing gown on and made her way downstairs, as she reached the bottom, joey went to make his way up, they stood staring at each other, it was only when max called joey did lauren snap out of it, and push past him into the kitchen. Max and joey left for work so it was just Tanya and Lauren,
"Lauren you were a mess last night, god knows what might have happened if joey hadn't have walked you home" Tanya shouted
"Mum, please don't shout, my head hurts as it is" Lauren sighed
"What made you wanna drink like that, is it the girls, have you had another argument?" Tanya asked
"Mum if you really wanna know its joey, ok. I just don't want him living here" Lauren stated
"Right, why don't you want him living here?" Tanya asked
"It's just Lucy, aint it. The way joeys treated her and whitney making it awkward about the kiss" Lauren explained.
Later that day Tanya went to see max at the car lot to tell him what his daughter had said this morning,
"So let me get this straight, he's not getting on with her mates, so she wants me to chuck him out?" max questioned
"Look, she and Lucy have been friends for years, if he's upsetting her I want him gone" Tanya stated.
Max called joey into the office and explained about him having to move out, he accepted what max said and went home to pack, where he saw Lauren walk into the living room
"I'm sorry" she simply said
"Sorry for letting your family chuck me out or for not having the guts to tell me yourself" he quizzed
"For the kiss" Lauren said looking away, joey stopped what he was doing; he slowly made his way to where she was standing
"Why do you regret it?" he asked
"You were the one that stopped" she smirked
"Yeah that's cause you was drunk" he moved a strand of hair from her face and continued "and now your sober" he said, before she knew it his lips were on hers again, it was a more passionate kiss, but Lauren pushed him away
"We can't do this" she told him, he leaned in to kiss her again, but she resisted "no, this stops now" she said before walking out of the room leaving joey stunned. After some time thinking to herself she went back downstairs to joey,
"Maybe it aint so wrong" he said
"We're cousin's joey" Lauren simply said
"well you tell me then, you tell me that when we kissed it felt wrong, that you didn't feel what I felt, I wanna be with you" he said, lauren looked at him as the front door opened and max walked in
"Alright, you leaving then?" he asked looking between Lauren and joey
"No he's not leaving" she said
"Make your mind up" max said before walking away.
The next morning Lauren walked into the kitchen where she saw joey sitting alone
"Oh sorry" she said before going to walk away
"Look lauren, we can't do this every time we end up in a room alone together" joey said, they were distracted by the doorbell. Lauren sighed and went to answer it, seeing it was her nan Cora, she made her way into the house not speaking to any, and sat at the table, lauren looked at joey puzzled. Lauren spent the next few days trying to avoid joey, he picked up on it and left her to it, he didn't want to push her.
