Chapter 54

For the rest of the day Randy refused to speak to anyone, he did as he was asked without a word. Joanne took pity on him and ended his torture as John was getting ready to leave.

"I cant stand that grumpy face any longer" Jo said as Randy slammed cups onto the kitchen counter.

"Yeah neither can I" Bex added, she was sat at the table with Jo while John packed his bags.

Randy said nothing, he continued to make the coffee he had been asked to make.

"Ah come on Rand" Jo pleaded

Randy walked over and not so carefully placed the cups in front of the girls and awaited his next task with a look of annoyance on his face, he'd been allowed to dress normally after he fell in the pool but had to endure hours of them laughing about it. It was fair to say by this point that he had enough and could happily kill them all, apart from Bex, sure she'd spent most of the day laughing at him but she hadn't given him any tasks at all.

"Ok you've had enough" Jo gave in as she looked at Randy sulking above her "It's over your free to go"

Glaring at Joanne, Randy took a seat next to Bex and muttered "At last"

"He speaks!" Bex announced, smiling at Joanne.

"Really? I was beginning to think he'd forgotten how to talk" Joanne teased.

Casting another glare in Joanne's direction he flipped her off as John walked in. Joanne smiled sweetly at Randy before saying to John "we've ended his suffering"

Smirking John sat at the other side of Bex and pulled his chair as near to her as he could get.

"So are you talking to us now dude?"

"No" Randy muttered

"You just did!" John laughed as Randy flipped him off too.

"Leave him be" Bex whispered to John with a smile on her face.

"Thank you Bex!" Randy spoke his first audible words in hours.

"Your welcome" Bex replied before leaning over gingerly and hugging Randy.

Randy hugged her back and he instantly felt better. She made him feel better, there was just something about her. The feelings he had pushed away for the past two days started to rise to the surface again, but then he caught the look on Johns face and pushed them back down as he pulled away from Bex.

Joanne raised her eyebrows as she looked between John and Randy, she wasn't quite sure what the look was that John gave Randy but she could see the tension radiating between them. Joanne found it ironic that Becki was sat in between them, she had no idea of what she was in the middle of!

"John, You packed everything?" Jo broke the silence

"Huh? Oh yeah just got a few things to finish off, Randy you wanna give me a hand" John said, kissing Bex on the temple before standing up.

Randy knew it wasn't a question, sighing he stood up "Sure" he replied before following John out of the kitchen.

Randy followed John to the room he shared with Bex quietly, he was pretty sure that when they reached the room John would have already packed everything. Sure enough as he walked into the room behind John he realised he was right. John turned around to say something but Randy cut him off.

"Look man I know you've got me up here to read me the riot act again but you really don't have too"

"Who said I was gonna do that?" John shrugged even though that's exactly what he had intended on doing.

Randy just gave him a look that said 'yeah right'

"Ok fine! Just remember what I said Randy" John warned.

"Dude I don't wanna fight with you again but seriously you have nothing to be jealous of" If he kept saying it maybe eventually Randy would convince John and himself!

John wasn't convinced but he didn't want to spend all his time thinking about it. All he wanted to do right now was be with Bex.

"Ok" he sighed "Sorry about yesterday"

"No problem" Randy shrugged "I'm sorry too"

John and Randy spent a few more minutes talking and everything seemed good between them again. John headed back to the kitchen and Bex while Randy joined Matt, Jeff and Mark in the living room.

"Bex, are you ok? You look a little pale?" Jo asked as John walked in, hearing her words he rushed straight over to Becki's side.

"She's right! Are you ok baby?"

Bex smiled slightly, her head had been pounding for most of the day but she'd tried to ignore it and now her ribs had started to hurt more too. Bex wanted to think she was healing quicker than she actually was and had been ignoring the pain she was in.

"Yeah, I'm fine it's just a headache"

"Maybe you should lie down" Jo suggested, Bex really didn't look well.

"Good idea, I'll take ya" John carefully picked her up and Bex instantly rested her head against his shoulder, she felt exhausted.

"So you gonna tell me what's wrong?" John asked as he gently placed Bex on the bed and sat beside her.

"My heads been hurting for most of the day and my ribs have started hurting more today" Bex sighed

"Why didn't you tell me?" John stood up and walked over to the other side of the bed and located her painkillers.

"I thought it would go away. I guess I just wanna think I'm getting better quicker than I am" she replied as John came back to her. He knelt in front of her and handed her a glass of water and two pills.

"Take these"

"Thanks" Bex took the tablets and handed John the empty glass back.

"You are getting better Bex" John said as he studied her face, the bruising was very faint on her face now and the swelling around her nose had pretty much disappeared.

"You just cant rush it" he added

"I know"

John ran his hand along her cheek, god how he loved her! He'd do anything for her, he only wished there was a way to take her pain away.

"What?" she asked as he stared at her, his fingers lingering on her cheek.

"Just thinking how beautiful you are"

"Ugh! Your blind!"

John smiled "Nah I'm not, unless you count being blinded by your beauty!"

"That was too smooth for a thug!" Bex chuckled

"Just don't tell anyone I said that" he replied with a smile.

Becki checked her watch "Don't you need to leave now?"

"Yeah but I'll just catch the red eye"

"John you…" He cut her off by placing his finger on her lips.

"It's no big deal baby, I'll make sure your okay and then I'll leave"

Bex didn't have the energy to argue "Okay" she sighed

"Come here" John pulled her into a hug "I love you" he whispered in her ear.

"Love you too"

John helped Bex change, he'd given her one of his jerseys to sleep in and was now laying beside her playing with her hair.

"Feeling any better?" he asked softly

"Hmmm" Bex replied, John playing with her hair was making her feel sleepy.

John continued to stroke her hair and watched her as she fell asleep in front of him. Checking his watch, he had an hour before he had to leave if he wanted to catch the flight. Deciding he didn't want to move until then he curled up beside Bex and wrapped his arms around her as she slept.

Around fifty minutes later Randy appeared in the doorway. He'd come to check on Bex thinking that John had already left.

"What you still doing here? Haven't you missed your flight?" he whispered when he found John holding a peacefully sleeping Becki in his arms.

"She wasn't feeling well so I'm catching the red eye" John whispered back as he checked his watch and sighed.

Time for him to go, he carefully moved away from the sleeping form beside him and stood up. Grabbing his bags he took one last look at Becki before leaving the room, followed by Randy.

"So when you back?" Randy asked as John dumped his bags at the door and headed to the kitchen to grab a bottle of water.

"Um…three days?" John wasn't quite sure "Damn I need Bex back on that laptop"

Randy laughed "Give it her back then"

"Its still at her house, we forgot it with the house being trashed"

"Oh, well maybe Matt or Jeff could go get it, I'm sure Bex would love to have it back" Randy replied with a smirk.

John laughed "Yeah she would, I'll ask Jo to sort it out"

With that he headed to the door yet again followed by Randy.

"Don't worry everything will be fine" Randy said as John hesitated picking up his bags, he was thinking he should go and check on Bex once more.

"Maybe I should…"

"She'll be fine" Randy cut him off.

"Okay, Okay I'm out" John replied

"Want me to drive you?"

"Sure"

Randy drove John to the airport, he'd started to regret offering as John spent the entire time instructing him to call if anything at all happened with Bex. He was also under instruction to make sure Bex called him if she had a nightmare. She hadn't had any while John was there so John said he didn't care what time it was, he wanted her to call him as he thought it might help her. Randy knew there was no chance Bex would do it but he ensured John he would make sure.

"Thanks" John said as Randy pulled up in front of the terminal

"No problem"

"Oh and Randy?"

Rolling his eyes Randy replied "Yeah?"

John turned serious "About Bex, remember what I said! I don't wanna be coming back to more drama"

Randy nodded and drove away once John had grabbed his bags. John watched him leave before heading into the terminal. He hoped he wouldn't be coming back to anymore drama, he'd like things to get back to normal.

Little did he know what he'd find when he returned.