Chapter 8 – Under the Moonlight

Kari POV:

There Tom was; I could barely make out the shape of his face. He was walking towards me and I held out my hands. Somehow, Tom walked straight past me as if I wasn't even there. I turned around and saw him embracing some girl, and they walked off.

I woke up and found myself in Tom's arms. What a crazy dream that was!

Everyone was sleeping. Taylor, Julia, and Jaymie were on the couches while Bill, Gustav, and Georg were on the floor. Their arms and legs were all sprawled out; it looked funny. Tom and I were also on the floor. My back was to him. I looked up and saw the clock. It was 7:04 a.m. Oh crap! Just now, I realized that we spent the night over at their place! We have to go back.

I gently removed Tom's arm from me and I started to get up. Suddenly, his arm tightened and held me there. O-kay. What am I supposed to do now?

"You're up." He whispered. That scared the heck out of me, and I let out a shrill.

"Shh! They're going to wake up!" He said while covering my mouth. I nodded then he let go.

"I need to go back to our room. I didn't know that I fell asleep here. Sorry."

"Can't you stay a bit longer?" He asked. I wanted to, but I didn't plan on talking with my morning breath.

"Maybe we can hang out again later or something…" I said as I started to get up. Tom let go of me and stood up too. I walked over to where Julia, Jaymie, and Taylor were and nudged them. "Hey guys. Wake up!" Jaymie woke up first.

"Where are we?" She said sleepily.

"At Tom's place. Help me wake Taylor and Julia up. We need to go back to our room."

"Alright."

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Tom POV:

Last night was really something. We stayed up until about twelve o'clock in the morning playing games then watching scary movies. Kari was scared, and lucky for me, I got to cuddle with her. Bill and Taylor were the least scared; they were laughing the whole time about how fake the special effects looked. Georg was so scared that he hid behind the covers and stayed uber close to Gustav. Julia and Jaymie were really into the movie and they didn't pay any attention to anyone else. Before I knew it, all the girls, Bill, and Georg were asleep. I think Gustav was too, but I didn't recall.

Kari and I were finally going out on a real date tomorrow afternoon. I asked her out to lunch.

"You really like her don't you?" Bill asked me this morning.

"I think so." I replied.

A Couple Days Later…

Kari POV:

These days have gone by so fast. Tom and I were closer than we had been before. We had another date tonight and I was getting ready. Julia was helping me pick out which dress to wear since I didn't wear them much.

"Here. Wear this one. It's one of my favorites." Julia suggested.

I took the dress and said, "Thanks, Julia." I went into the bathroom and tried it on. This dress was amazingly pretty. It was spaghetti strapped, and had an electric blue color. The bottom of the dress was laced and hung around my knees. I tried on some black high heels which made me look two inches taller. The taller, the better. I was only five feet, four, and that was short for me.

When I finished, I stepped outside to find Tom sitting on the couch. He turned around and smiled. I still wasn't used to that.

"Hey, you ready?" Tom walked over, grabbed my hand, and kissed it. I felt myself blushing. "You look beautiful tonight."

"I'm going to join Taylor and Jaymie at your suite. See you guys later." Julia said, sensing that we needed privacy.

"Thanks again. Bye." I said as she left.

"You know, this seems like a dream to me." I said.

"A dream?" Tom asked.

"Yeah. I mean, coming to Germany, bumping into Tokio Hotel, meeting you. It's just so unbelievable. And now I'm going to hang with you, Tom Kauiltz of Tokio Hotel, the guy I thought I was never going to actually see up close."

He chuckled and lowered his head down to mine. "Well here I am. Up close." I couldn't help, but smile. Tom stared at my lips and I knew what was going to happen next.

His hands wrapped around me, one pulling my waist to bring me closer to him, and the other supporting the small of my back. He leaned forward as I closed my eyes. Our lips met and we continued kissing until I was out of breath. His lips traced my jaw down to my shoulders. He suddenly carried me like how a groom would pick up his bride, and started walking towards the bed. He laid me down and was on top of me in a second. I didn't expect this. Tom's mouth was on mine again and he began removing my dress strap.

No! I can't do this. It was hard to resist, but I managed to move my hands in front of Tom's chest and push him away.

"No, Tom. I can't." He looked at me for a second, and then started to lean down to kiss me again. "Tom! Please stop. I don't want to." Tom heard the urgent plea in my voice, and gave up. He fell back on the bed beside me and I heard him breathe heavily.

"Why?" He asked questioningly.

"I―I'm not…ready." I answered unwillingly.

I pulled up my strap as he got up, sighed then said, "Okay. But we still have a date. C'mon."

I followed Tom to his car. He was silent the whole way, and I wondered if he was offended that I rejected him. Was I the first to?

It was too quiet in the car so I started conversation. "Um, Tom. Are you…mad?"

"No, of course not…would you mind if I asked you some questions, though?"

"Questions? It depends on what it is."

"I was just curious. How many ex's do you have, Kari?"

That was one of the questions that I hoped he never thought of asking me. The answer is, zero, nada, zip! How embarrassing. "Oh, you know, I've had um…tw―three ex's."

"Really? What were their names?" Oh crap.

"Uh, Phil, Bob, and um Tye." Out of all the possible names, I couldn't even manage to come up with the good ones! Tom looked at me suspiciously. I felt guilty about lying so… "Okay, okay! I don't have any ex's. You're my um, first um…"

"Boyfriend." He finished.

I looked at my hands. "I guess." I said in a small voice, though inside I felt elated.

Finally, we arrived at a restaurant. Tom came over and opened my door for me and took my hand. He led me into the restaurant. We were greeted by a guy who started to talk to Tom casually in German. I only picked up the words: 'Hallo' (hello), 'Wilkommen' (welcome), and 'mein freunde' (my friend). The guy looked at me and then looked back at Tom saying something else in German. I sensed they were talking about me.

"Kari, this is my good friend, Arron. His family owns this restaurant." Tom introduced.

Arron held out his hand and I shook it. He was about five centimeters shorter than Tom with almond colored hair. He was handsome, and seemed like a friendly guy.

"Hallo there. Nice to, ah, meet chu." His accent was a lot heavier than Tom's.

I smiled at him and said, "It's nice to meet you too." He grinned and then led Tom and me to a private table somewhere in the back. It was pretty nice here.

Arron said something to Tom, smiled at me, and then left. "What did he say?" I asked Tom.

"He said that he has to leave, but a waiter will take our orders soon."

"Oh, okay."

In a moment, the waiter came. He stared at me then asked, "What would you guys like to order?" He didn't have an accent like Arron. I was able to understand it better. It seemed like he was directing the question to me, only. This waiter looked pretty cute; I bet he had a lot of girlfriends though.

"Um, I think I'll just get the chicken soup."

"I'll get the pasta." Tom said. He sounded annoyed for some reason.

"Anything else?" the waiter asked.

"Two Dr. Pepper's." Tom replied. He learned that Dr. Pepper was my favorite drink.

"I'll be back with your food."

I noticed from the corner of my eye two girls looking over at Tom and me and quietly talking. They kept glancing over at us and then talking again. One of them had short blonde hair, and the other had blonde hair too, but with pink highlights.

"Tom. I need to use the restroom. I'll be right back." I said.

"Alright."

I didn't know where the bathroom was and people were looking at me like I was an idiot. I kept walking, but someone tapped on my shoulder and made me jump. It was the waiter guy.

"Do you need help?"

"Help? Uh, can you tell me where the restroom is?"

He laughed. "It's over there."

"Thank you." He looked awfully familiar. I remembered those green eyes from somewhere.

"Hey, don't mind me asking, but aren't you Julia's friend?"

"Yeah. You know Julia?"

"She was one of my best friends. I think I saw you when I visited her in the U.S. two or three years ago."

"Oh yeah! I remember you too. What was your name again? Sorry. I forgot."

"I'm Philip. And you're…Kari, right?" I was surprised he still remembered my name.

"Yes, I'm Kari."

"I didn't know you're dating Tom Kaulitz." Philip said. I almost asked how he knew Tom, but I remembered that Tom's in Tokio Hotel. Duh, a lot of people know them here in Germany.

"Ah, well we're just hanging out." I knew that if I started telling people that Tom and I were dating, there would be rumors so I kept it to myself.

"I thought you needed to use the bathroom." Tom said from behind me. He kept his eyes on Philip though.

"I was, but I bumped into Philip. He's Julia's friend." I explained.

"Hey man." Philip said while offering a hand.

Tom ignored him and said, "Well hurry up. I'm hungry." Then he went back to our table.

"I'm sorry! He gets grouchy when he's hungry." I said to Philip.

"You should go. Maybe I can visit you guys sometime, while you're still in town. I'll call Julia."

"Okay." I continued to the bathroom.

Tom POV:

That stupid waiter was trying to flirt with Kari. Why am I feeling so overprotective? Damn, I can't believe that I'd be rejected and still want to be with her.

I think that blonde chick and her friend are checking me out. They keep looking over here. Just for fun, I licked my lip ring to see what their reactions would be. I could tell, they were going to come over here. Sheisse! I was right! They were coming! Kari is going to get the wrong idea.

"Hey there sexy." The first girl said.

I glanced up at her. She was smiling seductively. "Hey girls." I said casually.

"You're Tom Kaulitz right?" The other one said.

"Want to come back to our place tonight?"

I smiled. Girls followed me everywhere I went. "Well you see…" BAM! Kari appeared and poured a pitcher of water on the two girls.

"Oops! It slipped." She said sarcastically. I almost started cracking up, but held it in. Kari glared at me with evil eyes then turned around and stomped off toward the exit. I got up and took one last look at the blonde chicks. They were taken by surprise and looked completely scary; their eyes were covered with black. It was pretty funny though.

I found Kari outside, just walking straight. I knew that she didn't know her way around this town and didn't have a ride.

"Kari!" I called out. She ignored me. "Kari! C'mon! Let's get in the car!"

Kari continued to ignore me so I ran and caught up to her.

"What's wrong?" I didn't know exactly why she was mad.

"What do you mean, what's wrong?" She finally said. "What's wrong is that you almost accepted that offer to go to their place tonight!"

"No I wasn't! I was about to decline in a polite manner before you came and dumped the water on them."

"Don't try to lie! I heard the whole thing." She began mimicking the conversation. "'Oh my gosh! You're Tom Kaulitz!' 'Come over to our place!"

"But I didn't say yes."

"You were about to!" She retaliated.

"You're overreacting. Did you hear me say yes? Or anything close to that?"

"…Whatever." She seemed to know that I was right.

I wrapped my arms around her and hugged her. "My little Kari, getting jealous of me. How cute."

Kari looked at me with a sly smile. "And my little Tom, getting jealous of me talking to Julia's friend. Aww. How adorable."

I rolled my eyes and hugged her tighter.

Kari POV:

How I wish this night would last forever like this. Me in Tom's arms. This was a perfect time to kiss; under the moonlight. I looked up at Tom again and smiled. He seemed to have read my mind because he leaned down and lightly kissed me.

"Let's go back to the hotel. I'll make you my famous pasta!" Tom said. That made me laugh.

"Let's see if you can really cook." I challenged.

"You know what? I bet I can cook it better than you." He said back.

"Sure, sure. Okay hurry up. Let's go. I'm hungry!"