"Ash its ready for you babe."

"Aww… thank you. Your food is still down the stairs in the microwave if you're hungry Drake."

"Are you sure you don't want me to stay with you."

I heard my phone ringing in the other room.

"Umm… give me a second Drake let me get that."

I ran back into the room grabbing my skirt off of the floor and grabbing my cell phone out of my back pocket.

--------------------------------------Phone Convo----------------------------------

Me- Hello, who's this?

Other end- Its Johnny.

A sad voice answered on the other end.

Me- Hey Johnny.

"Ash is everything okay"

Drake asked poking his head out of the bathroom. I nodded my head in compliance.

Johnny- Can I talk to you?

Me- sure.

Johnny-I'm sorry Ashlee I didn't mean what I said.

Me- Johnny this really isn't the time, I…

Johnny- Please just listen to me Ashlee I'm sorry, I'm sorry for everything I said and everything I did. Can you please forgive me?

Me- Johnny I love you and when you love a person you don't have to forgive them because when they mess up and do something stupid you know in your heart that they did it for good reasons. So let's just act like the phone conversation earlier just didn't happen.

Johnny- Really Ashlee? Just like that your not gonna hold it against me?

Me- No Johnny, I'm fine, were fine.

Johnny- Look Ashlee I'm coming down next week and I promise I'm not gonna bother you until then but you know if you ever need me you can call me.

Me- I know Johnny. Okay I love you I'll talk to you later

Johnny- I love you too. Bye.

"So you love him?"

Drake asked walking out of the bathroom in his boxers looking so defenseless.

"Drake he's like my brother and he's lucky he is because if any other guy would have said the stuff he said to me earlier I wouldn't even have given them the light of day."

"Are you sure that's all it is?"

"Would I be here with you if it wasn't sure?"

"I guess not."

"Drake lets not get ahead of ourselves. I mean I like you a lot but we hardly know each other and in all seriousness I don't want to fall head over heels and get hurt because the truth is I'm only here for two weeks and then I go back to Jersey and usually people who are dating 50 states away don't work out."

I mean it; I meant every word I said I didn't want to fall in love with him and have to go home the next day. I looked up at Drake and saw the look on his face, it was blank I couldn't tell if he was mad or hurt it looked like he was just empty.

"I understand and we'll do things your way but I just want you to know that I would never hurt you like Johnny did."

"Drake you don't know anything about that."

"Lets me guess he cheated on you and left you all alone and it's so obvious the worst part for you was you being left alone."

"What do you mean?"

I said out of frustration he was acting like he knew me and he didn't, Drake Bell did not know me and I didn't know him.

"That's why you guys still need each other, that's why when you couldn't fall asleep you ran to Josh, you need to be liked, you cant be alone ."

"What's wrong with being liked?"

I started crying surprisingly I knew all of this about myself before but I didn't know it was so obvious.

Drake rushed over to me and put his arms around me.

"Shhh…Ash I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you cry."

He rubbed his hands up and down my back and shushing me trying to sooth me.

I back out of Drakes arms and wiped my tears that were running down the side of my face with his robe.

"I'm just gonna take a shower okay?"

He looked at me concerned.

"Ashlee I'm so sorry I didn't mean…"

I stopped him before he could say another word.

"The truth hurts right? Look it's getting a little weird and complicated and this whole thing was supposed to be fun and carefree. I think I'm just gonna stay at the hotel tonight."

"Ash I really like you that's why I asked you to come home with me I wanted to get to know you better I didn't think this was just a fling."

His face dropped like I had broken his most valuable possession.

"We really messed up I think."

I said as I started grabbing my things that were scattered across his bedroom floor and quickly putting them on. I took my clothes off the bureau and put them back in my suitcase. I reached for the door knob but Drake intercepted my hand.

"Please Ashlee don't go like this."

Drake pulled me close and dropped my suitcase on the floor. He pulled me in for a hug. It wasn't an ordinary hug, this hug made me feel good inside and I knew that he wanted me there I was just mad and scared and I guess I just wanted to run away and stay far away so things don't get to real for me.

"I'm so sorry baby."

Drake whispered in my ear.

"I'm sorry too."

"Are we okay? I just want us to be okay, we can do this like you want if its just for the two weeks or how ever long we last then that's it I'll be okay with it. And if you want to stay at the hotel then Ill take you there myself, but I would really like you to stay here I would just feel better knowing that your safe."

He backed up looking me in the eyes.

"I'm sorry too… I'm okay … We're okay… I'll stay here, lets just have a good time, you know?"

"Yeah that sounds good."

Drake kissed me on my forehead and patted my hair.

"Come on I got the shower already for you. I'm just going to go down and grab something to eat."

"Your milk shakes probably already melted"

Drake was sitting on the bed pulling on his pants he looked up at me and laughed. I couldn't help my self I started laughing too.

I walked into the shower letting out a sigh of relief when I heard the bedroom door open and shut.

I had a lot of things to think about and at that point I didn't want to think about any of them so I wasn't. I wasn't going to over analyze every little thing that happened or what was said, I was just going to relax and enjoy myself.