A/n: It's 4am. My ex won't stop calling and he's threatening to come down and break down my door, unless I talk to him. I'm tired and I'm scared and I'm supposed to be at a party tomorrow!
Aloooooooha America England and whatever other countries great people are reading this, the eighth chapter of Diamond In The Rough. This is Diamond Clarke herself speaking. So sit tight, read the fic, and by all means review. (And please don't hate me)
Chapter 8:
'We have ways of making you talk Mr Bond... Please pick up? I love you,' It was easily the seventieth text message Diamond had sent in the week. Logan refused to answer her calls, or reply to her text messages. When she got the 'message received' report and then the 'message deleted' report, she knew he'd read it, but not acknowledged it. She couldn't cry anymore. She'd cried more over the past week than she had ever done in her life. And she'd had plenty of reason to cry in her career.
"Y'ok sweetheart?" Asked Linzee gingerly. A post-natal pop-diva was not the easiest thing to deal with.
"No..." Said post-natal pop-diva replied.
"He still not talking?"
"No! Linz, he hates me!" Diamond cried. Her crying sparked off Angel's wailing, which made Diamond cry harder.
"Oh don't worry babe, he's just... scared." Linzee said reassuringly. Diamond shook her head.
"He hates me."
"Stop it!" Linzee ordered. Diamond threw a stuffed toy into Angel's crib to shut her up. The youngest of the two, Angel, was the one who cried most, but could usually be silenced with something cuddly. Midnight cried less, but was harder to please.
"Make me." She hissed.
"Pack your bags." Linzee said sternly.
"What!" Diamond couldn't believe Linzee was throwing her out! Living in Miami with Linzee had been so fun. She was an old friend, former child star but now retired.
"I said pack your bags... I can't stand seeing you like this..." Linzee said simply. "I called your travel agent. You are headed BACK to Malibu!" She produced the plane tickets. Diamond's eyes widened.
"But but... the girls... they... they don't have passports." She stuttered,
"They do now." Linzee produced two small red leather wallets, enclosed in which were the twins passports.
"OH MY GOD!" Diamond screamed hugging Linzee really tightly. "Linzee you rock!"
"I know, I know!" Linzee laughed. "Pack your bags because your flight leaves at 8am." Diamond flew around the room throwing clothes and essentials into bags.
"Malibu here I come!"
Chase, Zoey and Nicole were sat in the lounge watching TV. Nicole giggled as Drake pencilled in Josh's half-missing moustache. Zoey had her head on Chase's shoulder. She was exhausted, having been up all night trying to talk Logan out of his depressive mood. Since Diamond Clarke's millionth comeback (Or so it seemed) He had barely spoken to anyone, except to say Diamond was a total slut and that he hated her. Which... all in all wasn't very nice. But nobody seemed to care about how nice he was being, infact Michael said he'd have a few choice words for Diamond if he saw her. Zoey had Chase's arm around her waist. He kissed her forehead lightly.
"You ok?" He asked her softly.
"Yeah." She yawned. "A little tired." She cuddled into him. He smiled. He loved her a great deal and just to be sat on the couch with her resting on him... it felt so right.
"You want to sleep?" He asked her.
"No... If I sleep now I'll be awake all night again."
"Well..." Chase smiled. "That's what I was hoping for." She punched him playfully. He stared into her eyes. She smiled innocently. He leaned down and kissed her sweetly.
"You two are gonna make me sick." Nicole said, throwing popcorn at them. They didn't seem to even notice.
"I love you..." Chase whispered.
"I love you too." She assured him.
"How much?" He questioned, placing a hand at either side of her head and leaning right over her.
"If every finger was a billion?" She ticked off all the fingers on her left hand. Then her right. Then she pulled a face. "I ran outta fingers." Nicole made wretching noises. Zoey rolled her eyes.
"Cute..." He kissed her nose playfully. She giggled. He kissed her neck and she only pushed him off as he started to get a little indecent infront of Nicole. He sat on the floor looking very offended, he pouted cutely.
"Hopeless..." Said Nicole, going to refill the popcorn bowl a few feet away. Chase took Zoey's hand and kissed her fingers. She smiled.
Diamond walked in with Midnight and Angel in the buggy. Nicole had her back to her, busying herself with the microwave. Chase was making eyes at Zoey and Zoey had her back to the door. Diamond stayed quiet.
"Marry me." Chase whispered, kissing her hand again. Zoey laughed.
"Chase don't be stupid..." She giggled trying to pull him up.
"I'm being serious." He swore, taking a ring box out of his pocket. Zoey's eyes widened as she saw the size of the...
"DIAMOND!" Screamed Nicole suddenly. Diamond hushed her and stared at Zoey and Chase. Thankful for the interuption, Zoey jumped to her feet and hurried to Diamond, who was staring dumbstruck at Chase, sat staring at the ring in confusion. As if blaming the ring for Diamond's entrance.
"Thanks." Zoey whispered hugging her.
"Yeah great timing Diamond." Chase said sarcastically.
"Sorry!" She apologised. "How was I to know you were going to propose the second I walked in the door?"
"In all fairness, nobody knew I was going to propose..." Chase said standing up.
"Nicole!" Diamond said suddenly. "I love your bangs," She squealed. "Come out here and show me..." Diamond ushered Nicole out of the door, she went to take the twins in thier double-stroller but decided against it, getting them into the room had been hard enough as it was. Instead she left the twins where they were, they would be no trouble. Diamond pressed her ear against the door.
"Shh..." She ordered as Nicole opened her mouth to speak about her bangs.
"Um... well that was awkward..." Chase mumbled, rubbing his neck. Zoey nodded and determinedly avoided his eye. Chase took her hands and sat her on the chair arm. "I suppose I should do this properly..." He said, sinking back down to his knee and took out the ring again. "Zoey Brooks you have made me the happiest guy on Earth... hell the universe. I promise you there's not a single martian out there happier than you make me. But I digress. The point is Zoey I love you and want to spend the rest of my life proving it. I want to wake up beside you every morning and feel proud to call you my wife Zo..."
Zoey stopped breathing.
"I want to see you walk down the aisle, and me lose my breath and look like a total prat, because once again I realise how beautiful you are. And how lucky I am. So, what do you say... will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?" There was a long pause. Every breath felt like a hurricane and every heart beat Chase could feel was an earthquake. The seconds turned into over a minute and Chase began to panic so he nervously said "Jump in any time here Zo..."
"Stop it." She ordered. He looked confused.
"Zoey I..."
"Chase I... I can't marry you." Zoey said shaking her head. Her eyes were welling up and seeing the distressed look on her boyfriend's face Zoey could take no more. She stood up pushed him away and ran out. Diamond panicked.
"Nicole, you take Chase I'll take Zoey!" Diamond had only given birth five months ago, but thanks to a private personal trainer, she already had her figure back. She hadn't run in a long time though. It was starting to rain and the thunder was heavy. All of it made running harder and harder on the two. Diamond screamed.
"ZOEY!" But Zoey kept on running.
Nicole slid into the room.
"She said no..." Chase whispered in slight shock.
"Chase I... oh my god..." Nicole had suddenly noticed the two young girls sat gurgling in the twin buggy.
"Where's SHE run off to!" Chase asked staring at the twins. Midnight gave a disgruntled squeak, suddenly realising she had been abandoned. Her sister followed suit a few seconds later.
"Oh shush shush... Don't cry please..." Nicole wasn't good with babies. She bent down and picked one up. "I know their names but which one's which?" Chase sighed. Although he had Zoey on his mind, he picked up the remaining twin.
"Ok, well, they don't have name tags... so we're gonna have to guess." He grabbed a pen.
"You can't draw on babies!" Nicole protested in shock/
"I wasn't planning to." Chase scrawled a 'C' on one section of the pram and an 'N' on the other. "So we know which side we took them from, incase that's how Diamond tells them apart."
"I'll take her to my room, you take her to yours, you need a break." Chase said nothing.
Lola walked in. Her eyes widened as she stared at the little girl in Nicole's arms.
"Gimme!" She said taking her. "She's so pretty! Who is she? Hello!"
"She's one of Diamond Clarke's... not sure which one." Lola stared into her idol's daughter's eyes. It wasn't fair. This little baby was going to have everything from Day 1, fame fortune and glamor, and she had worked hard for 17 years for nothing.
"Whatta ya think, anyone reckon I can pull the doting mother act?" She asked hugging Midnight close as though she was her daughter.Midnight raised her tiny fingers and yanked the streak of green hair. Lola screeched and handed her back to Nicole. "I can do doting, but I draw the line at INSANE mother! Ouch!" Chase just rolled his eyes.
He carried the small child (Angel) to his room and put her on the floor where she crawled around pulling on wires and everything else she could find.
"I can't believe she said no..." He mumbled. Angel sat up and stared at him. He recognised the eyes right away. He couldn't help but think she looked a little like Logan. Yet Logan insisted it was impossible. Maybe in her advanced state of depression and missing Logan she's gone for a two day fling with some boy who looked like her true love? "I'm sorry I shouldn't vent to you... I just... I love her ya know..."
"Ada." Angel said, noddingas though she understood, although it was obvious she hadn't the foggiest what Chase was rambling on about.
"I don't suppose you know what love is. I'll bet your mommy's always working... and your daddy's M.I.A..." Chase leaned across and stroked a curl out of her face. Her eyes widened. Then she yawned widely. Chase laughed. "Tell you what, you can have my bed," He picked her up and carried her over to his bed, placing her down gently. Everyone had always said Chase had a maternal instinct about him, and he was good at it. He stroked her cheek as she yawned cutely.He tugged the covers half way over her and she fell asleep right away.
She slept for over an hour until Chase's phone rang. At the sudden noise she woke up and began screaming.
"Shh, shh... yeah... ok shh," He soothed her, picking her up and bobbing her on his knee. She continued to scream. He grabbed his cell and answered it. "Hello?"
"Chase! Please tell me she's back at PCA!" Diamond yelled.
"No..."
"I lost her! It's getting dark out! And the weather's attrocious!" Diamond had to scream over the thunder. Chase looked out and saw a flash of lightning. He knew Zoey hated storms. "And now I'M lost!"
"Calm down, stay put I'm coming out to look for you." He hung up on her and wondered what to do with Angel. He couldn't take her out in this weather, she'd get incredibly sick. The door opened. The worst possible person walked in, but Chase had no better option.
"Logan, I gotta run. Can you babysit for me?" He begged.
"Babysit?" Logan queried. He looked like he had just come in from the storm himself, he was soaking wet and his hair was almost straight with the weight of the water.
"She's no trouble honest. My girlfriend's run off in this weather, and the search party sent out to look for her is now lost... and I gotta find them both before they get hurt." Chase grabbed his jacket, gave Angel a vague wave and hurried off, leaving Logan staring in confusion at the baby that appeared to have materialised from nowhere.
"Hi, I'm Logan, who're you?" He said grabbing a towel to dry his hair.
"Ajuwl." She sang doing a tipple over right off the end of the bed. She hit her head very hard and promptly burst into tears. Logan sank to his knees.
"She'sNO trouble." Logan repeated sarcastically, hugging the baby soothingly. As previously mentioned anything cuddly silenced Angel. She put her pudgy arms around the soaking wet Logan and stopped crying cuddling her tiny self against his chest.
"Chase! Help! We can't get her to stop... Logan!" Nicole hurried into the room gabbling as usual but stopped upon seeing Logan on the floor with Angel in his arms.
"Logan?" Lola asked in disbelief.
"What's going on?" Logan demanded. Angel gave a squeak of delight at seeing her sister, yet it did not stop Midnight screaming loudly.
"She won't stop crying!" Nicole cried.
"You're girls... play mommies and figure it out!" Logan said. Truthfully he had no idea what to do with a screaming baby.
"Sexist!" Lola huffed.
"Pig!" Nicole pouted.
"Ok, was there not a bag or something, with bottles? Diapers, that sorta stuff!" Logan said picking Angel up. He stood up and looked Lola in the eye. Lola bit her lip. She knew this look. He was searching her. He wanted to know where they'd come from.
"Possibly on the stroller." Nicole said leading the party downstairs. Logan very quietly said.
"They're hers aren't they?" Lola sighed. Logan didn't need any more confirmation. He knew. He didn't hold it against the kids though. Infact, he managed to get Midnight to stop crying, all she'd wanted was feeding, and Angel not long afterwards.
Chase walked in dripping wet. The lightning created a very tense atmosphere and his black hair hung infront of his green eyes hiding any possible hints at the whereabouts of the girls.
"Did you find them?" Nicole asked apprehensively.
"No... I'm gonna get changed then call the coast guard. The reception on our cell phones died in the storm so I lost contact all together." Chase was obviously upset that he hadn't managed to track down the girls. He walked heavily, weighed down with guilt and water, up the stairs.
"Worried?" Nicole asked the room eventually.
"Oooh, worried I can work with worried." Lola pulled a worried face. "Does this look worried?"
"Drama aside! We have two teenage girls lost in a storm. One very depressed girl who turned down her boyfriend's proposal and one mother of two!" Nicole cried.
"Zoey can take care of herself, it's Diamond you gotta worry about." Logan said, shaking the glitter filled rattle at Angel, who made a very sudden grab for it and began chewing the handle, despite the fact that it was still attached to Logan's hand.
"Why?" Lola asked.
"Little Miss Hollywood out on the streets?" Logan laughed. "She wouldn't last five minutes."
"Logan!" Nicole said incredulously. How he could take something like this so lightly was beyond her.
"Actually, Little Miss Hollywood is fine." Diamond said irately, she and Zoey stood in the doorway, sopping wet and frozen solid.
"Oh my god you're ok!" Nicole ran up and hugged Zoey. Lola likewise. Diamond shivvered, standing to one side and ignoring the fact that Zoey had a lot of attention and she didn't. She hadn't expected the warmest welcome.
"It's like zero degrees out there!" She said sneezing. "Zoey can I change into something of yours half my stuff's in Miami, and the other's in suitcases in my room."
"Sure," Zoey whispered in response to Diamond then she turned to Nicole and Lola and very softly said "Chase hates me."
"No he doesn't!"
"He's just spent two hours in that weather looking for you Zo!" Diamond said in shock. "If that's not love then I don't know what it is." Diamond walked towards the stairs.
"It's insanity that's what." Logan said. "Why'd you come back?"
"Oh so you're talking to me?" Diamond asked hopefully.
"Why'd you come back?" He repeated icily. "There's nothing for you here."
"Yes there is... there's you." Diamond said with a small smile.
"Me! What makes you think I want you?" He demanded, turning around so he was facing her over the back of the couch.
"The fact you said you loved me."
"I did! Before I knew who you were really!"
"YOU KNEW PERFECTLY WELL I WAS DIAMOND CLARKE!" Diamond had never yelled infront of the girls like that before, and it was scaring them. Midnight burst into tears and Angel screamed. Diamond looked alarmed."I'm sorry shh... shh... mommy won't yell anymore I promise." She sank to her knees beside her daughters and gave them both reassuring smiles.
"I fell in love with Dana Cruz! I barely met Diamond Clarke."
"It was Diamond you slept with." Diamond said trying to keep calm.
"Yeah but that's before I knew she was everything she was cracked up to be!" Chase walked in the room, now clad in dry clothes and his face lit up at seeing Zoey. Alive, and well, but looking very miserable.
"Pardon?" Diamond asked.
"She's the hollywood diva everyone said she was.Nothing but a pretty face on a magazine cover..."
"I am not just a pretty face." Diamond said, shocked that he was saying that. "I am so much more than that."
"You're nothing. Diamond Clarke is nothing. Dana was my world. Diamond... is just a nobody."
"Diamond Clarke is the mother of your children so..." Diamond tried very hard not to raise her voice and frighten her daughters but she half wanted to strangle Logan.
"Don't pull that shit on me!" Nobody had yet sworn infront of the girls.
"Excuse me!"
"You heard me, if you're gonna pull the 'you're a daddy' stunt you could at least learn to add up! Do the math Clarke." It annoyed her that he kept calling her by her last name. "The girls were conceived a month before I even MET Diamond Clarke."
"No they..."
"Yes they were... Clarke you're a slut." The word stung. It really hurt her. They say the first cut is the deepest, but Diamond had been cut before. It had never hurt this bad. Just one word.
"I'll have you KNOW Logan Reese..." She stood up very suddenly, her eyes alight with anger.
"I don't wanna hear it!" He stormed off leaving Diamond shocked and tearful.
"He's right..." She whispered softly. She collapsed to her knees on the floor between her daughters.
"We know..." Chase said gently, sitting beside her. "There's nothing wrong with admitting it. It wasn't even like it was while you were with him... so technically..."
"Shut up Chase it's not THAT he was right about." Diamond growled, stroking Midnight's hair sweetly. "The girls ARE his... but he's right about me being a slut... I should never have slept with him."
"Diamond they can't be his." Lola said gingerly, she didn't want to tell off her idol.
"Well they are!" Diamond was getting frustrated with everyone talking to her at once. She was frustrated because she was soaking wet and couldn't cuddle her daughters like she really wanted to.
"They're 5 months old, right." Zoey asked.
"Right."
"Then they're not Logan's because if they were they'd only be four months old. So get your story straight." Zoey was a little snappish. Chase shook his head. He could guess she was pretty mad.
"No Zoey. You don't know anything about me."
"I know enough to know Logan's RIGHT about you."
"Maybe he is! I'm Hollywood, I hurt people! I NEVER meant to hurt Logan, I didn't mean to hurt Midnight or Angel... and if I hurt you guys then sor-ree but I assure you it hurt me more." Diamond stared at Angel who was determinedly trying to fit her foot in her mouth. They both had their daddy's eyes.
"Oh did it?" Zoey sounded very skeptical.
"You think it didn't hurt me! Leaving behind everything I loved, leaving it all in Malibu! Coming back to say happy birthday and having to leave again a week later. Saying my goodbyes to Logan in a highly inappropriate manner... finding out, three months after I left him that I was carrying his kid!" Diamond drew herself up to full height to intimidate Zoey.
"But it WASN'T his kid, they're NOT his, so quit being the bitch and get lost! Logan doesn't need you dragging him into your sick little world!"
SLAP.
"Don't you DARE imply that I'm some twisted hooker. If it weren't for Logan I'd be a virgin, so I know 100 percent that he's the girls' dad. And as for dragging him into my 'sick little world'... You were the one who dragged me out of hiding Zoey Brooks. You Nicole and Lola... worried about me screwing Drake Bell? Ha." Zoey looked appalled that Diamond Clarke had hit her.
"I'm confused." Said Chase, placing his hands on Zoey's shoulders to stop her hitting back. "So they..." Zoey shrugged Chase off angrily.
"Yeah... they were born a month early." Diamond sank to her knees and despite the fact that she was sopping wet, pulled Angel onto her lap. She hung her head, leaning her chin on Angel's head. She kissed the infant's many curls. Lola picked up Midnight who writhed and kicked.
"What happened?" Asked Nicole.
"I was in a car crash..." Diamond refused to look at them. "I was 8 months pregnant, I'd passed my driving test and I was going shopping for stuff in mothercare when I got a stomach twinge. It was just one of them kicking... at that time I didn't even know I was having twins. It was an automatic rsponse, the baby kicked I put my hand on my tummy... you can't do that when you're driving. I careered off the road and into a ditch..." Diamond was crying heavily.
"Oh my god..."
"I started to bleed and I was like 'oh my god oh my god I just killed my baby' so I got rushed into hospital and... they told me I'd dislodged the placenta and that I was in labour." Diamond kissed Angel's curls again. "I convinced myself it was karma 'This is what you get for not telling him you were pregnant, Diamond' I kept thinking that my baby was gonna die and it's daddy wouldn't even know it existed."
"Diamond..." Chase sank beside Diamond and slid his arms around her. He always had been the one to comfort someone in time of stress.
"Healthy baby girl. They told me. Healthy baby girl. A little small, but a fighter. Midnight... then I started getting really bad stomach pains and I was screaming. I thought that Karma had spared my daughter... afterall she wasn't to blame for me being a 'slut' was she... I thought I was the one going to die. S'only fair."
"Don't talk like that." Nicole said. Diamond leaned her head against Chase's chest.
"My last thought was of Logan... so don't you EVER say I didn't love him." Diamond hissed at Zoey. "I passed out. And I thought I was well and truly dead. I'd thought... payback time Diamond. You ran away got yourself involved with a great guy... then left. And now that poor little baby... tiny thing." Diamond took her arm out and pointed at her wrist then pointed at her elbow to indicate how small Midnight actually was when she was first born. "Was gonna be all alone in the world. Nobody knew who I was... how were they to know I was Diamond Clarke? How were they to know her daddy was Logan Reese?"
"I..." Started Zoey. She didn't finish.
"The Logan Reese." Diamond rolled her eyes and glared at the stairs viciously. "Almighty Logan Bloody Reese. The guy I'd fallen in love with and would never see again, would never know his daughter. She'd be adopted by a strangerand it would be my fault." Chase rubbed Diamond's arm gently.
"Sorry Diamond."
"Then I woke up." She laughed offhandedly. "I asked about the baby... and they told me they were fine. Two healthy little girls." Diamond smiled at her youngest daughter who smiled back.She kissed her cheek softly.
"Mamha." She muttered. Diamond let her go and she crawled over to the couch, reaching up for her sister. Lola picked her up and handed Midnight to Nicole. Diamond laughed as Angel figured out her sister's obsession with Lola's green streak of hair and began pulling on it aswell.
"Sorry they're a bit of a handful..."
"How did you cope like that for so long?"
"Like what?"
"Single mom... no cash. I mean you couldn't exactly access Diamond's credit account while you were in hiding." Diamond pulled away from Chase, finally finished with her crying.
"Well there's where the Drake Bell thing comes into play. He helped me out for a while, got me back on my feet. Then I went to stay with my friend Beth in San Diego... up until I was 7 months pregnant. And I gave birth in Miami after staying with my friend Linzee so it's been a pretty hectic year."
"I'm sorry." Zoey said. "I came off as a total bitch..."
"Can we lay off the curse words, they're starting to talk." Diamond said avoiding Zoey's eye.
"Sorry... I'm a little stressed out today..." Zoey apologised. "I shouldn't have said... what I said."
"It's ok I guess." Diamond shrugged.
"So how long you here for?"
"As long as it takes for daddy dearest up there to forgive me for not telling him I was pregnant, for not telling him he had two daughters, for being stupid enough to sleep with him as a goodbye anyway. I'm only here for a week... max." There was a long pause then Chase asked.
"Do you regret it?"
"What?"
"Sleeping with Logan, do you regret it?" Diamond paused. She looked down at herself, then at her two daughters who were conversing in babytalk, as five month olds do.
"No." She smiled. "I love Logan, I love the twins. Simple as. The circumstances could've been a little better but..."
"Then never say sorry. If you meant it," Chase said. He glanced at Zoey. "I'm not apologising for screwing up the proposal today." Zoey bit her lip.
"Well, I'm not apologising for saying no." She whispered.
The tension was thick.
"I'm gonna go get changed." Diamond said eventually. Zoey nodded.
"Me too." The two girls climbed the stairs and went to 101 in silence. Zoey lent Diamond some clothes, seeing as her stuff was in suitcases in her room. Diamond hesitated.
"Why'd you say no to Chase?"
"I love him!" Zoey blurted. "I'm madly in love with him and if I scream it from the rooftops it won't be enough to apologise. I just... I'm 17! You don't get married at 17."
"You could have a long engagement?" Suggested Diamond.
"When did love become so difficult!"
"Honey if I knew that I'd buy a time machine and destroy that moment, but... I think you and Chase would make for a GREAT wedding picture."
"I think you and Logan would." Zoey countered.
"Yeah well there's a slight difference." Diamond said listening to the Saucy Monky CD playing in the background. "As in Chase loves you... Logan HATES my 'hollywood' guts."
"No he doesn't, he's just mad."
"Same with Chase."
The two padded out onto the landing. Logan was there. Diamond caught his eye. For a long while there was silence. Zoey bit her lip.
"Um..."
"Hi." Was all Diamond could say. She felt like Dana Cruz again. Hopelessly in love with a boy who wanted nothing to do with her. He turned his back on her and walked into Quinn's room.
"He'll come round." Zoey promised. Diamond shrugged. She had a limited time to fix things.
"They fell asleep." Lola cooed over the tiny girls. Diamond grinned.
"Bang on the clock." She said glancing at her watch. "They always go to bed at 11pm on the dot..."
"Man it's late!" Nicole said in shock. Diamond shrugged.
"Should see when I have to record, they sometimes keep me singing til 1am!" She flopped onto the couch. Her cell phone began it's tone of 'S.O.S' a song she herself was due to release. She was too lazy to bother answering it. Instead she opened one eye blearily and looked at it as if willing it to shut up. Lola picked it up.
"Lola Camacho speaking." She answered in her most professional voice. "How may I direct your call?"
"Put DC on now!"
"Yo, you go by the name of DC?" Lola teased. Diamond groaned and took the phone.
"Speaking... hey Chez... s'up?" The voice on the other end of the line was panicked. "What! They can't do that! They can do that? Oh god! You mean I... but I... I'm in... Red eye? Ok ok! I'll set off now. I can't believe they could do that to us! Ugh... I'm gonna kill him." Diamond hung up.
"What's going on?"
"There's been a screw up at the studio, and I gotta go to LA or I stand to loose like $30,000." Diamond sighed. The life of a star was complicated.
"What! You can't!" Zoey cried.
"I think she can." Chase said.
"Will you two stop fighting!" Lola screeched.
"But what about all that stuff you said about fixing things with Logan?" Zoey asked in slight shock.
"On hiatus." Diamond shrugged. "I gotta be on the red eye... so..."
"No... if you leave I don't think you'll come back." Zoey whispered.
"She's right... the only reason you came back was Logan and he hates you." Nicole gave the slightest twitch. She was a little upset.
"I'll come back..." Diamond promised.
"I don't believe you." Lola said, close to tears.
Diamond hesitated.
"I'll only be gone for likethree weeks." She promised.
"Then it's your tour though." Lola quipped.
"Yeah then it's your tour, you're not gonna come back." Zoey was close to hysterics.
"Ok, ok... I don't have time to argue. Zoey, how'd you like to become a mom for a few weeks?"
"Huh?"
"I'll leave the girls here. It's perfect. Logan hates me, he's got nothing against the girls... I'll leave them here for three weeks with you guys. Then I have to come back, to pick them up."
"I'm not sure." Chase said. "Three girls in charge of two kids?"
"You too."
"I don't think Zoey wants me anywhere near her right now." Chase mumbled.
"Can you PLEASE set aside this whole 'She's not ready for marriage' thing... please? It'd be good for them. They don't get the upheaval for another flight and jetlag and stuff, they get to know their dad... please?"
Chase hesitated and looked at Zoey.
"You're uh... not ready for marriage but... ready for kids?" Zoey glanced at Angel and Midnight. Then she nodded. She hugged Diamond tightly.
"We'll see you in three weeks." Diamond smiled and kissed Zoey's cheek.
"Thank you. You've given my girls the chance to know the guy I love... something I can't because he doesn't want me anywhere near him. Thank you."
Logan glanced out of the window as a dark clad figure climbed into a taxi. She threw her bags in and climbed in after them. She said she loved him, and then ran away again. It seemed that whenever the going got tough Diamond Clarke got going. He knew he was better off without her. But seeing her, seeing her two children to another man itwas absolutelyheart breaking. It really hurt and her being gone could be a blessing.
"Logan..." Chase said gingerly.
"What?"
"Diamond's gone..."
"Where to?"
"Um LA I think..." He shrugged.
"Good. I'm glad. I hate her." Logan growled.
"Do you hate Angel and Midnight?" Chase asked cautiously.
"I suppose I should. They're not mine. They belong to a woman I can't stand. But... no. They're kids." Logan sat on his bed. "I can't hate them."
"Glad to hear it. We have two new roommates..." Logan's eyes widened. Just when he thought Diamond Clarke was low, she went and surprised him. Abandoning her daughters?
A/n: I think either the next chapter or the last chapter will be the last one. I have it all planned... PLEASE review.