Help Me Make It Through The Night
Chapter Two: Fly Away.
After the show, I was talking to Randy as we went out to their cars. "Yeah, I'm really excited! My first finale."
"It'll be great, yo. Look, here's my car. Bye-bye baby girl."
"Bye, Randy!"
"So what are you doin' tonight, K?" Mike asked me as we heard a couple of soprano screams coming from behind us. They ran up to me. "Kara! Kara! Will you sign this?" the girls held out copies of The Kara DioGuardi Songbook.
"Sure! Who should I make it out to?"
"Jessica, Trista, Tessa, & Madilyn!" They were still flipping out.
Ryan walks up to me, "What is this about?"
"Oh, my God!" The girls screamed again.
"What? What's wrong?" I was alarmed.
"The cutest couple ever is standing right in front of us! I'm Tessa, by the way."
"Well, hello Tessa. I'm Kara." I shook her hand. She about passed out. I saw the way Mike looked at Ryan, knowing he coudn't beat him up with a bunch of teenagers around. "Here you go." I said trying to be pleasent while making sure my fiancee didn't beat up my secret crush that no one is allowed to know about because the media would find out and then Mike would find out and if I was lucky I would be in intensive care instead of the GROUND! Sorry had to get that out. "And who is this?" I asked the blond girl.
"I'm Trista." I could tell she was shy.
"Are you shy?"
"Yeah."
"Well don't be. It's just me."
"'Kay." I finished signing everyone's songbooks. They all skipped off laughing. It was just me, Mike and Ryan. The death stare between them was killing me. "Mike, I'll meet you in the car." Mike left. "I talked to Paula about tonight. She said she would pick me up as if we were going to go out and drive me to your place, if that's okay."
"That's perfect. I guess I'll see you then!"
"Yeah!" I skipped over to my own car and jumped in the seat.
"Back to my question, what are you doing tonight?"
"Um, Paula invited me to dinner tonight, so I'm gonna go with her. She said she would pick me up at eight."
"Oh, well, okay."
"Yeah I might not be back for a while, either, so don't like wait for me or anything."
"'Kay."
Later, Mike and I were waiting for Paula to come and 'go to dinner with me', which was all code for take me to Ryan's so he and I can go clubbing. Mike kept moving a little closer to me. He finally took my chin in his hands and kissed me. Hard. I couldn't kiss back. I didn't feel it. I never feel it with him anymore, since I met Ryan. "Mike! Mike! Stop it!" He moved even closer to me and started unzipping the back of my dress. "Mike! I don't want to! Stop!" I reached for my zipper and zipped my dress back up. He pulled off of me. "I hear Paula. If you need me, feel free to not call!" I screamed as I walked out the door. I was really pissed at him. I got in Paula's car and slammed the door behind me.
"What's wrong, Kara?" She asked me.
"Mike just tried to have 'it' with me when I clearly told him not to."
"Some guys do that. They force stuff on women."
"I just really wanna see Ryan. He'll be more understanding than Mike."
"You really like him, don't you?"
"More than yesterday, yes."
"Here we are." She pointed out Ryan as we pulled in the driveway.
"Thanks, Paula." I gave her a quick hug before running to Ryan and leaing into his arms like I haven't seen him years.