Bill's eyes fluttered open in the dreary morning light. Taking a deep breath in and slowly letting it out, he smiled when he noticed Leah snuggled up to him, sleeping. Gently stroking her cheek with the back of his hand, he thought to himself, "These are the kind of days I love the most." He loved when he got to spend quiet little moments with Leah; no makeup, no cameras, no other people. Just the two of them.

Peacefully she slept beside him; unknowingly being adored by Bill. Her sweet breath tickled his face as she breathed in and out, deep in sleep.

Bill gazed at her for a few quiet minutes. He loved the way her hair fell around her face while she slept; unkempt and disheveled. He loved that he could be himself around her, while he put on a mask of perfection with everyone else. And he loved the fact that Leah felt the exact same way as he did.

Gingerly placing a gentle kiss on her forehead, Bill snuggled closer to her. He decided to let her sleep in; the last couple of days had been so stressful for the two of them, what with all the commotion of all the press conferences and photoshoots and public appearances and video shoots they had going on. They could use a day of rest.

Closing his eyes, Bill sighed in contentment. With his angel blissfully sleeping in his arms, he smiled as he thought, "Life just doesn't get much better than this."

He let his thoughts wander until he slowly let himself start to fall back asleep.

The gentle rain pattered on the roof in the early morning fog; lulling him further and further into dreamland. Giving Leah one last peck on the cheek, Bill drifted to sleep, a smile permanently spread across his face.

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Colden paced back and forth in his hotel room. He woke up with a bad feeling that morning, and the dreary weather was NOT making it better. He glanced at the clock on the wall for what seemed like the hundredth time.

"Don't worry; she said that she'd talk to you in the morning."

It's already 10 o'clock.

"Maybe she just slept in."

Maybe she's just ignoring you.

"But she said she would call."

She obviously said that to get you to leave her alone.

"She told me she still wanted to be friends!"

Things will never be the same between you two. You know that. She knows that. Even Kaulitz knows that, and he's trying to keep it that way!

"No! She said she would call, so she will!"

She's going to blow you off again.

"She'll call. And besides, even if she doesn't, I'll still see her later today."

She doesn't want to see you! The whole reason she even came here was to get away from you!

"No, no, no! She wasn't trying to get away from me! She had business to take care of."

That was obviously a cover up. There's no way she'd be here for as long as she has been JUST to attend to business. She needed a vacation from you. She cares more about that Kaulitz creep that she ever did about you.

"That's not true…"

Of course it is. Why do you think she didn't ask YOU to come, but Stevie and that other fag tagged right along? She's obviously avoiding you.

"She would never do that to me…"

She has been doing it for the past year and a half now, buddy.

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The four guys stood in the rain with their jaws practically on the ground as the girls giggled in delight.

"We're going to race quads?" Gustav enthusiastically exclaimed.

"In the rain?" Georg burst with excitement.

The three girls smiled at each other. "Well," started Stevie. "We know you guys haven't ridden in forever…"

"So we figured, why not?" Maria finished with a smile.

Bill and Tom shot each other mischievous looks and shouted "Race ya!"

They bolted towards the quads and hopped on, shortly followed by the G's. Soon they were off and zooming past the girls; laughing and hollering in delight.

Leah smiled at Stevie and Maria. "Told you they'd love it!"

"I just hope they don't die!" giggled Stevie. "It's pretty slick out there!"

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"That's it, I'm going over there."

Colden grabbed the keys to his rental car and took off towards the parking lot of the hotel.

"I can't believe she hasn't called yet!"

Told you she's ignoring you.

"She is NOT! She probably just…forgot or something!"

Not likely. She just can't be bothered by the likes of you, anymore.

Colden reached his rental car and climbed in, starting the ignition. "She can't just ignore me for the rest of her life! I have to make her listen to me."

Go and tell her whose boss!

"Better yet; I'll show her whose boss."

XXXX

After a few hours of quad racing, the guys decided to take a break. It had stopped raining, and it was already past lunchtime.

Hopping off his quad, Tom raced up to Stevie, sweeping her off her feet, the two of them laughing like little kids.

"Stevie, you're the best!" he smiled and set her down gently. "This was exactly what we needed to blow off some steam."

"Don't look at me!" giggled Stevie and gave him a quick kiss. "This was all Leah's idea!"

Bill tickled Leah's ribs and stealthily avoided her swing at his head. "So you're the mastermind behind all of this, huh?" He grabbed her waist from behind and swung her around, planting a kiss on her cheek.

"Well, I can't take ALL the credit!" smiled Leah as she turned around and wrapped her arms around Bill's neck. "The girls and I all brainstormed together. It was a team effort, really." She flashed a smile at Maria, who was shrieking and hiding behind Gustav as Georg playfully attempted to splash her with an extremely large mud puddle. "Georgie, what are you doing?" Leah laughed.

"I don't know," Gustav interjected. "But I have a feeling that somebody's about to get covered in…"

A wave of muddy water suddenly splashed all over him, covering him from head to toe. "…mud."

Tom's eyes grew wide with amusement. "Oh…..you've done it now, Georgie!" A devilish grin spread across his face.

Smirking, Georg rolled his eyes. "He doesn't have the guts to…"

He was suddenly tackled by a hysterically laughing Gustav; the two of them playfully wrestling in the mud.

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Mumbling to himself, Colden's temper rose as he neared the racing site where Leah had told him (before she left for the trip) she and the gang would be.

"She probably forgot I was even coming!"

She's too busy having fun without you.

"It's past one o'clock, and she hasn't so much as even called me yet! What's the matter with her?"

She's deliberately trying to keep you out of her life. She doesn't want you in it.

"She promised me she'd talk to me today!"

Surprise, surprise. Another promise broken.

He pulled up to the site and parked the car. Scanning the track, he spotted the gang goofing off and rolling around in the mud; completely oblivious to the fact that he was even there.

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By that time, everyone had been pulled into the mud-slinging war, and they were all covered from head to toe in the stuff.

Lying on the ground next to Tom, Bill laughed, "Hey guys! Doesn't this remind you of that photoshoot we had a couple of years ago? The one with the mud?"

"Yeah, it does!" replied Georg, who was a few feet away, making mud-angels with Maria, Stevie and Leah.

Gustav sat up and attempted to wipe some of the mud from his face and smirked. "Except THIS time, we had a lot more fun!" A chorus of laughter rang in the air as Gustav glanced down the track and spotted a man leaning against a car. Straining his eyes to see the man's face, he recognized him. "Colden? Is that Colden?"

Everyone bolted upright and snapped their heads in the direction of the car.

"Oh crap," Leah whispered as she scooted closer to Bill. "I forgot about Colden."

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