AN:erm, not sure what to say really, heres another chapter. Thanks you soo much for the reviews guys and all the alerts and favourites, its amazing, really. This is mostly Lily Roxy stuff but I need it to be, kinda…
Posted: 16/4/12
The Road To Vegas: Part One
"This is what she left you?" Sam asked gesturing to the seemingly harmless box.
When Roxy looked at the box on the coffee table in front of her and thought of the way Sam easily dismissed it, she realised It had a kind of Pandora theme to it. The power of the words inside could cause so much harm. Okay so maybe she was being a little dramatic
"Yes and that was nearly a month ago. I've read every message so many times. I even put them in order of when she wrote them. I saw how her mood and emotions changed… usually in relation to my relationship status" she bowed her head in self disappointment
Sam and Ashleigh started looking through the notes. Lily had given it to Roxy and Roxy felt it was okay now to share it. She wanted, no, needed her friends opinions and that would be easier if they could read those words"
As the two woman read them their expressions would change from smiles to concern back to smiles. Sometimes they looked heart broken
"This is so incredibly…" Ashleigh finished with a sigh instead of a word
"I agree" her girlfriend said, although to what she was agreeing, Roxy wasn't sure "These are so sweet and heart breaking… but on the other hand, aren't you a bit worried, this is a little creepy"
"It's not like she's stalking me. It's not locks of my hair and photos of my sleeping" she mused out loud "They're just words... meaningful... deep... from the heart... emotional words"
"So what are you thinking now?"
"I- I have to find her... I need to talk to her. I need to hear her say these things for real, so I know it's real" She abruptly stood up and mindlessly moved around the apartment
"She's written you like over 200 messages here, though, shouldn't that show you it's real enough" Ashleigh questioned
"237" Roxy corrected in a monotone voice, she slipped her sneakers on that lived by the front door. They were normally next to Lily's but hers had been missing along with their owner, just another reminder that her best friend was missing
"Excuse me?" Sam asked
"She wrote 237 messages" she clarified "237 things she wanted to tell me and promise me" she suddenly looked tearful "but I want to hear her say one of those things" she walked over to the box again, flipped the lid open and shuffled the pieces of paper round trying to find one "I want to hear her say this one" She showed Sam and Ashleigh
Just 3 simple words across the slip of paper:
I Love You
"She's written this one, on 14 separate occasions. And I'm trying to imagine hearing her say it… but I can't, so I want to find her"
"You don't even know where she is" Sam pointed out
"I'll search for her, maybe the coffee place where we met, our usual hang out spots. I mean I check them all the time… I don't know" she let out a heavy sigh "Maybe this time she'll be at one of them"
"Start at her friends place; James" Both Sam and Roxy looked at Ashleigh surprised "I talked to him the other day when we bumped into each other. He asked how you were" she explained to Roxy "He then mentioned that Lily was staying with him… don't tell either of them I told you though. He made me promise not to tell anyone"
Roxy tackled her friend in a hug and kissed her on the cheek "Thank you" she grabbed her keys and her coat and was halfway out the door when she yelled "wish me luck"
"Good luck" they yelled back in unison before the door was slammed shut
"Sam?" Ashleigh asked her girlfriend "Why are we wishing her good luck"
"I think" Sam paused taking her attention off the door and to the blonde "she's going to get her girl"…
"Rach are you still reading that book?" Santana drew attention to the front passenger lost in another world
"Yes, I'm nearing the end though"
"You haven't finished it yet?" Santana sounded surprised but she was far from it really. She really thought that by the end of the book Rachel might get it, or at least ask about how Quinn came up with it by now.
"No, why do you want to borrow it"
"No I finished it the other day"
Rachel swiftly turned in her seat to glare at the Latina "How is that possible, you've had the book less time than me"
"I must be a faster reader"
"We read it together didn't we San?" Brittany joined in
"Yeah Britt and I read it together, and we still read it quicker than you"
Rachel huffed "Maybe you were just reading, I'm absorbing the story" she pretended she didn't hear the Latina scoff in the back seat "So I'm the only one who hasn't read the ending yet?" she now asked
If Rachel was really absorbing the story how was she missing the not so subtle similarities in the characters
"Looks like it" Santana shrugged "Do you want to know what happens?"
"No!" she yelled making everyone in the car jump "Don't you dare, I want to read it for myself. Now shush I'm reading" she snapped returning her attention to the open page.
Quinn had kept quiet she didn't like being on edge, she either wanted Rachel to see I or to know Rachel would never see the truth, it was too painful waiting for one inevitable thing to happen. Sometimes she wanted the moment to come, and the rejection to come with it, and other times she was just too scared, she wanted to lock that book up and never look at it again.
…"Roxy? What-" the young brunette man sighed "Ashleigh told you?"
Roxy just nodded "I need to see her, like really, really need to see her"
"She's not in at the moment" She could tell he was telling the truth
"Can you tell me when she'll be back"
"A couple of hours yet, she doesn't hang around for very long. She'd teaching that art class down at the college"
Roxy smiled to herself, she knew teaching could be a good idea for her friend, she had away with people, no matter what she was always patient with them. Then it hit Roxy again, just how patient her friend had been with her, it made her own heart ache
"I have to see her" Roxy tried to keep the tears back and her voice calm
"Don't hurt her" he said softly "She's lost without you"
"I-" she stopped and calmed her breathing "I'm lost without her too" she bit her lip at the admission…
…
The group of four were stopping for the first night since Florida on the way to Vegas. They seemed be having more fun with the quality time together when travelling from place to place than when they were actually at the intended destinations, so for this last leg bit before their final destination they were going to relax, let loose, and still have some fun. Santana told them they should use this time to prepare for the wild night she wanted them to have in Vegas.
So they were stopped at their latest motel, it was simple and as accommodating as the others they'd stayed at.
The four were currently gathered in Brittany and Santana's room. Brittany was laying on the floor, Santana was lounged across their double bed, Quinn sat on the chair in the corner and Rachel was sat against the side of the bed opposite Brittany, her mind and nose buried in a certain book.
Quinn chewed her lip anxiously as she watched Rachel. She could see the girl was coming to the end of the story. And right now she was regretting letting any of them know about the book. Lily had the box, Quinn had the book, and their emotions and feelings were pretty much the same.
…Roxy found her; she peered through the glass of the door to the class room and their stood Lily. The adult's art class, at the community college, was all focused on sketching. Not painting as Roxy had imagined. She took a breath and tapped on the glass
Lily's head snapped immediately to the door and her semi happy expression dropped to worry. She excused her class before rushing to the door. Roxy took a few steps back but never took her eyes off the door. She watched Lily yank the door open and make sure it was shut behind her before she spoke
"What are you doing here?" she mumbled unable to make eye contact
"I had to see you, it's been a month Lily. You never even came back for any of your clothes"
"I might have when you were out how would you have known?"
" I know because I checked your room. Every day I got home from work I hoped you'd be in there"
"I was giving you some time and space" she excused
"I thought for an afternoon, a couple of days, or a week at the most. But you left me there with those words"
"I know" she said shamefully "I shouldn't have written those things"
"Why not, they're wonderful thing Lily, the most wonderful words I've ever read but-"
"But you just want to be friends, I get it" she snapped, meeting Roxy's eyes with a beg "That's all I want too, I just want things to go back to the way they were"
"But that's not what I want" Roxy said weakly making Lily cry
"So I messed everything up"
She furrowed her brow, how could Lily be working this backwards in her head "No, no you didn't mess it up, the only one who messed anything up was me" Roxy admitted, taking steps closer to Lily, eliminating the gap between them in the long corridor
Lily's erratic panicked breathing and tears all calmed as she tried to take in just what Roxy was saying
"I messed up Lily, I was looking in the wrong places. I'm sorry"
"I'm the one supposed to be apologizing, for everything, for putting you in this situation"
"Don't be sorry" she reached out and tentatively cupped the blonde woman's cheek "Don't ever be sorry for writing such things, for feeling such things" she wiped a stray tear away gently with her thumb "Is it really all true?"
"Every word" she exhaled the words as she relaxed into Roxy's hand
"I want you to say it" Roxy asked more than demanded
She opened her eyelids so her emerald ones could meet the chocolate orbs of the brunette and with soft gentle sincerity uttered "I love you"
The smile that grew on Roxy's face could have lit the darkest of room; in fact her sparkling eyes alone could have done that. Her hand slipped from the taller woman's cheek to the back of her neck and she tugged her closer. Their lips crashed together for what Roxy could only describe as an earth shattering kiss. Nothing had felt as perfect as this, as perfect as Lily's lips moving against her own. Her eyes had drifted shut milliseconds after the first contact, so she was doing this all by feel; she felt Lily's arms slip round her, their bodies pulled flush together and everything just felt … perfect
Rachel was bought back to the real world when her friends started obnoxiously laughing around her. Having missed the punch line and not prepared to ask them to explain, because it was rarely funny anymore after, whatever it was, had been explained, Rachel just smiled at them.
"Quinn?" She asked, keeping the book in mind
"Yeah Rach" The pink/blonde haired girl asked as the laughter in the room faded.
"I was wondering… how did you come up with everything for your book?"
"What do you mean?" her face dropped
"How did you know how to write all this? You must have had some sort of feelings at some point. What was it?" She asked so innocently. She wasn't sure what she'd done wrong when she saw Quinn's face go pale while Santana burst out laughing. She looked to Brittany who watched worried
"What's so funny?" Rachel asked suddenly unsure of herself
Santana subsided her laughter "Rachel; are you that oblivious to Quinn's book?"
"Santana, don't" Quinn all but whispered, getting the other three girls attention. Tearful fear settled on her features.
Okay, so I've moved this on even faster than I planned when I re-planned the story a few hours ago. This chapter just kind of happened, sorry about the mess and the shortness... and perhaps crapness :/
So any guesses as to what's going to happen next? :/
Thanks Gleek1990