Song - Make you love me
Artist - Kaci Brown


9

"You stink now." Barbie stepped inside Ted's room. He still had noodle all over him.

"And whose fault is that?" Ted laughed. "Besides, you're not too rosy smelling either."

"Is it lines like that that helped you pull Tara?" Barbie laughed. After she said it, she saw his smile leave his face. The mood of the room drop to frosty in a second.

"Do you want to use the shower first or shall I?" He changed the subject.

"I'll go in. I don't have any other clothes though."

"My pants might be a bit big. Will boxers and a shirt do?"

"That's cool."

- - -

Barbie felt the warm water of the shower splash over her, waking her up from her giddy state. As she stepped out of the shower, there was a tap on the door.

"I've left you some clothes outside the door." Ted said.

"Thank you." Barbie called back, whipping an arm round the door and taking the shirt.

- - -

"Thanks again." Barbie smiled as she walked outside the room, whilst drying off her hair. The shirt was soft on her bare skin and the boxers were baggy, but comfortable. "For the clothes and the shower and stuff."

"I'd better go shower too." Ted replied. "You can help yourself to the fridge, or you can watch TV or..."

"Cool." Barbie pulled a bottle of water out of the mini-fridge, settled down onto one of the beds and began channel hopping on the TV.

The shower had helped her sober up, and she was beginning to wonder what she was going to tell Ted. She had brought him chicken soup at 2am, fell about laughing outside his room and spilt the soup over both herself and him. She also felt bad for the hotel cleaning staff.

She found herself contemplating leaving the room and possibly ignoring him for as long as she could. She wasn't one to get embarrassed easily; you couldn't be if you did a weekly strip show on national television, however this was humiliating. She gave herself a hug, wrapping the large sleeves of Ted's shirt around her. She didn't really know a lot about how Ted smelt, but it was like cologne, and smelt similar to his car.

- - -

"Are you all de-chickened now?" Barbie cracked a smile as Ted came out of the bathroom, once again shirtless in another pair of sweatpants. His pyjamas, she guessed.

"I don't know why you're laughing, you're the one that fell over and caused the whole incident." He laughed, sitting on the edge of the bed. "I was just the victim of bad timing."

"Wrong place, wrong time." Barbie commented.

"Just curious, why were you laughing hysterically outside my room at 2am holding a bowl of chicken soup?"

"It was a cup actually, not a bowl." Barbie replied. "And to be honest, I'm not really sure. I was out at The Sloane Bar with Cody and some other people, and Cody told me you were ill..."

"So you brought me chicken soup?"

"Pretty much." Barbie felt like a dick, a very big dick. "Then I realised how stupid I looked bringing you chicken soup at 2 in the morning, and I leaned against the door, and then you opened it up. If you hadn't opened the door, we'd both have avoiding a soup shower and you'd have a bowl of chicken noodle to chill out with, so when you think about it, it was really all your fault."

"I thought it was a cup." He imitated. "And, how the hell can you turn this on me?"

"Ted, I'm joking." She smiled. "Besides, the soup smelt a little weird anyway."

"Perhaps its best I didn't eat it."

- - -

"You know what I'm curious about?" Barbie began. "Are you really ill, or is it just an excuse to get out of coming out? And if it is, why wouldn't you want to come out? It was fun."

Ted sat quietly.

"What? Has something happened?"

"You want to know something?" Ted asked.

"Don't change the subject."

"I'm very shy." He smiled.

"Shy?" Barbie repeated. "You're not shy, however you do have a tenancy to be very rude..."

"How am I rude?"

"You always ignore me backstage. You act like I'm invisible or something, and I'm always nice to you, and don't even get me started on that whole Tara incident..."

"What was I supposed to do?" Ted sighed. "She's a tough bitch, and she wouldn't stop even if I told her too, and what do you mean, I ignore you? We went out for a meal in Florida together..."

"...with my sister and your brother." Barbie sighed. "It was more like we were chaperoning them."

"Listen Barbie, I'm not looking to get into an argument..."

"When did I ever ask for one?"

"You're starting a confrontation for no reason!"

"I'm not starting..."

Barbie's sentence was cut off by Ted hauling her up by her wrist and pushing his lips down onto hers.


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