Today has been one long day. Sunday's we always shoot the Ford Music Video in the mornings then have the afternoons off to relax and go out into the city. It didn't take us long to get the video shot. Only 30 minutes of rehearsal and about 2 hours of shooting. We were done well before lunch. It seemed like this was one of out easiest shoots so far. We did a group lunch on set then parted to do our different day off activities. Brooke had gotten a copy of her sister's wedding, so she and her husband were going to sit down and watch it at her apartment. Jason and Kristy were going to see a movie. Carly knew our apartment would be empty, so she had planned a little intimate rendezvous with her husband. Plus, I owed her one for being cool about David spending the night on Thursday. David A was going to be rehearsing with his drill sergeant of a father. I think Harvey from Celebrity Fit Club was nicer than Jeff Archuleta. My David was going to be helping to get things ready for his brother and sister-in-law to come in for Tuesday's show. Me…instead of being the good girlfriend and helping David get ready or being a normal person and getting out for the day I decided to spend my WHOLE afternoon at the hair salon. I had said that if I made it through Idol Gives Back that I was going to make a dramatic change and I'm the kind of person who sticks to their word.
So my Sunday afternoon, for 6 hours straight , I sat in a chair at the salon going from a brunette to a blonde. And not just any type of blonde, a BLONDE blonde. The kind of blonde that would make Kristy and Brooke look like they hadn't washed their hair in days. My closest friends at this show, Carly and David, were very excited to see me. In fact, when I told David about the color choice, his statement was, "I've never been with a blonde before" to which I jokingly retorted, "You've hardly been with anyone before." He tried to shoot me an evil glare but that never really seems to work for him. He always ends up look just a little bit goofy. Of course, that's part of why I've fallen in love with him. So, I went to the salon that our hair people recommended that was nice enough to open just for me to start my multi-hour makeover of bleaching, washing, bleaching, washing, toning, washing, toning, washing then cut and style. I swear I had the cleanest head of hair in all of LA. This process took so long that I missed our group dinner. By the time I got back to our apartments, most people had already holed themselves up in their apartments to get to bed early since we had a 6:30am rehearsal time tomorrow. When I walked in my apartment, Carly was curled up on the couch with her husband half watching half sleeping through a movie. She didn't even notice I had walked in but Todd nodded at me and smiled. I nodded back then went into my bedroom to change into some pajamas to get more comfortable.
I kept looking at myself trying to get used to this new look. It had been almost two years since the last time I was blonde and I had never been this blonde before. I couldn't wait to hear what my parents had to say when they would see me on TV Tuesday night. I hated that they couldn't come to see me every week in LA, but I understood. With Mom being a teacher and Dad working for the state there was no way they could afford to take time off, fly from Arkansas to California every week and stay in a hotel. I sometimes think that fact helps me voting wise. The audience feels bad for the poor little Arkansas math teacher that has no one in the audience most weeks to support her. I'd prefer to get votes for my singing, but I'll take everything I can get. Once I had decided it was time to stop being a narcissist and give the mirror a rest I went into the bathroom to take my makeup off and brush my teeth. I knew I wanted to go to bed soon, but I wanted to try to see David before hand. When I walked out of the bathroom I could still hear the TV but Todd and Carly where no where to be seen. I figured that either Carly had woken and was ready for round 2 or 3 or whatever number they might be on by now or Todd was putting her to bed for the night. Although there was no "official" rule against significant others spending the night it was frowned upon. That was part of the reason David and I had to be so careful about spending the night together. We didn't want to get in trouble, but it was hard to be across the hall from each other and not spend every moment together.
Since we had literally ran into each other in the hotel lobby during Hollywood Week there had been an instant connection. I'm not sure I'd say love at first sight but what I did see intrigued me and it was very obvious that it intrigued him too. By top 24 we had our first kiss. By top 12 we were an official couple and before midnight of the night Michael was kicked off to make it be the top 7, we had become lovers. Some of the contestants were happy for us. Some thought we shouldn't be mixing business with pleasure and some didn't really care one way or the other. We just knew that we had a great story to tell our grandkids about how we met. I quietly shut the door to mine and Carly's apartment and was gently knocking on the door of the apartment that contained my David, Jason and the newest roommate David Archuleta. I could hear a guitar playing softly inside then stop and was greeting by Jason.
He smiled at me and said, "Archie's already in bed and David just went to bed like 10 minutes ago."
I thanked him then very quietly opened the door to my David's room. He had his headphones on and looked to already be asleep. He had the comforter pushed to the foot of the bed and the sheet hit him at about mid-chest. He had no shirt on and his bleeding heart tattoo was rising and falling with every breath he took in. He had both hands behind his head and he had a small smile currently placed on his angelic face. When he slept he looked so sweet and innocent. Less like a 25 year old man that had had a rough couple of weeks and more like a teenage who would wake up in the morning full of life and ready to go. I knew his brother coming up would be a good thing for him.
I quietly crept across the room towards the bed, gently lifted the sheet and as delicately as possible slid in next to him resting my head on his left arm right at his AC tattoo as I laid my left hand on his chest. He didn't wake, but shifted accordingly to the new body in the bed with him. I snuggled up and breathed his scent in. I always found it funny that his nickname from the fans was Cookie and he did actually have a sweet but musky scent to him that made him smell faintly of ginger snaps. I let out a little sigh as his arm that I was resting my head on moved from under his head to around my shoulder. I gave him a soft kiss on his cheek, not planning on spending much time here with him so we both could get out sleep, but once he let out a soft moan and pulled me closer, I couldn't force myself to move. I kept kissing his cheek and his neck with the softest of kisses as my hand that now lay on his more heaving chest lightly ran across this bare flesh. To be a dark headed boy, he had very little chest hair and what he had was a very light brown. With a little bit of sun it would turn a soft blonde and you wouldn't be able to see it at all.
I'm not sure when he took his headphone off, since I was caught up in the sensuousness of the situation but I was aware when my hand had gotten low enough to find the only piece of clothing he had on. I was very glad my man was a boxer's guy. Without thinking I went from snuggling up next to him with a wandering hand to halfway down the bed unbuttoning his boxers. I have never been a big fan of what I was about to do before. Your past always seems to haunt you, but I'd always been told that when you were with the right person you would do the things you normally wouldn't and enjoy them for once. I never saw him open his eyes, but I did feel him move my hair for me and I could hear him go from soft moaning to seductively talking to me. I knew this was one of those things that he wouldn't be able to sleep through, for too long anyway. I was tender and he kept his voice low so no one in the bedrooms nearby would hear. As open as we were about being together, we didn't want everyone to know everything. I could tell he was getting close by the lifting of his hips, the tightening of this stomach muscles and the slight unintentional tug on the handful he had of my hair. When his moment had passed, his entire body relaxed as he pulled me up to lay next to him. He tucked me in his side as he gave me a soft kiss.
"I like the hair…not that I can see it." He smiled and kissed the tip of my nose.
"Thanks. I wanted to surprise you."
David chuckled. "You defiantly did. Not that I'm complaining, but what brought that on?"
I blushed as I buried my face in his shoulder. "I don't know. It just felt right."
He smiled as he took his index finger to move some hair out of my face. "Damn right it did." I blushed again as he kissed my forehead. "Stay here with me tonight. I don't want you to go."
I propped myself up on my right elbow to look at him in the face. "You sure? I don't want to upset anyone."
He reached up and tucked some hair behind my ear. "No one will be upset. And if they are, they can talk to me about it. Now come here." He reached up to pull me back down beside him. "I sleep so much better with you by my side." He kissed me on the forehead again then pulled the sheet up over us. I nestled in his arm and as I began to relax my breathing began to match his. I heard him softly began to snore as I drifted off to sleep.
