A/N: I am soooo sorry I didn't update! I've had online classes to do and they have to be done by August 1st if I want to stay at my school so I've been working like crazy to get them done. Right know I'm having a Celtic music addiction (weird huh?) after, sadly, watching the Disney movie The Luck of the Irish with my sister. It was pretty good compared with other Disney movies, but that's not saying a whole lot. Anyway, I promise you'll hear more about Nick and Miley and Kevin and Lauren (who happens to be based off my exbestfriend so I'm having fun with that one). Like always, please review ;)
Stella sighed as she heard Joe's ringtone play out from within her purse. She'd liked Joe since they were in the ninth grade but never figured out a way to tell him. It always seemed he had a girl hanging on him. Just when she would think he was free, she'd see him together with yet another girl.
"Hello?" Stella answered, expecting Joe but hearing Nick instead.
"Is Joe with you?" the youngest of the band asked.
"No, why. And why do you have his phone?"
"Joe caught Mindy cheating on him and after he was home for a few minutes, he stormed out of the house on foot. He didn't take his phone, his wallet, or his keys. The only thing he took was his iPod. I thought maybe he ran to your apartment."
"I'm actually at the mall picking up the custom shoes you guys ordered for the tour. I'm about to leave so I'll check at my place and call you back."
"Thanks Stella."
"Anytime. Bye."
"Bye."
Stella quickly signed for the shoes and carried them out to her car. When she got to her apartment she went in to find Joe curled up on her couch sleeping with his iPod still playing. She put down the shoes and sat down on the couch replacing the pillow with her lap, removing the headphones from his ears and turning off the iPod. She silently stroked the side of his face and neck before pulling out her phone and texting Nick to tell him she had found Joe.
I found him at my place asleep.
OK. U want me 2 pick him up?
No, he's sleepin.
KK
Stella went back to stroke his face with her index finger knowing how hard it was to find out someone was cheating on you. Stella fell asleep sitting on the couch with her hand on Joe's arm.
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Joe awoke feeling a hand on his arm. He slowly turned his head trying to remember how he had fallen asleep on Stella's couch…in her lap. Seeing his iPod and lack of phone, he remembered his angry jog to Stella's apartment after the Mindy…incident. But he didn't recall falling asleep in her lap or her even being home for that matter when he arrived. He turned his head so he could see her face noticing she was asleep but the motion woke her. She looked down at him and smiled.
"When did you get home?" Joe asked.
"About an hour ago," Stella replied looking at her watch.
"Really? I slept that long?"
"Yeah."
Both were quiet for a minute.
"Nick called me and told me about Mindy," Stella said trying to break the silence.
"I can't believe she would do that to me," Joe said looking at the ceiling.
"I can't either." She replied genuinely upset for her friend.
Again they were silent.
"Can I sleep on your couch tonight?" Joe asked, "I really don't want to go back home to the pictures of us right now."
"Sure," Stella answered happy to help, "let me just order a pizza or something."
"Ooooh, I want mushrooms, onions, green peppers, and bacon on mine!" Joe exclaimed.
"And you think girls eat weird stuff?" Stella laughed.
