"Zach." I managed. I blinked, forgetting the broken glass lying around my feet and my phone. "What're you doing here?"
"I came to see you. I wasn't planning on coming, but I was in town so I figured I'd drop by." He explained. He hadn't changed one bit. His hair was a bit unkempt and a hint of stubble was growing around his chin, but otherwise he looked fine.
"Wow." I laughed uneasily. "I really didn't expect this." My lips were dry. What was I supposed to say? What was I supposed to do? I'd left him in his most vulnerable time to do what I'd wanted, without a clue that we'd meet again in the future. "Well, how've you been? Any… progress?" I said, referring to his amnesia.
"I remember everything." He said, folding his arms, leaning back against the wall.
I swallowed a lump in my throat. "That's good. When did you remember?"
His eyes didn't leave mine once. "The night you left."
I averted my gaze. "Oh… Bad timing huh?"
"Massive understatement." He said. "So how has the life of fame been treating you?"
"Oh, it's great." I said, sticking my hands into my jeans pockets. "Really great." How awkward.
Right when I thought it couldn't get any worse Seth's hand snaked around my waist and his lips pressed against my neck. "Hey."
Zach's jaw tightened and I bit my lip. "Uh, Seth this is Zach, an old friend of mine, Zach… this is Seth. My boyfriend."
Zach nodded slowly, assessing the situation.
Seth, completely unaware of the tension, said. "Well, cool. We could all have dinner some time. How 'bout tonight?"
"Uh, I don't think that's such a good idea." I protested. "Zach's not staying for long, he just came by to say hi. Speaking of, can I meet you later?" I probed Seth's eyes but I didn't find any hurt. He would give me my time. "Just let us catch up."
He smiled at me and gave me a quick kiss on the lips that I didn't respond to eagerly. "Sure. I'll be in the hotel. You've got the room key right?"
"Yeah." I squeezed his hand. "I'll call you."
He game me one last peck then said to Zach. "Don't keep her out too late. Rockstars need their sleep too. But, you'd know all about that wouldn't you?"
"He knows about us." I said. "I don't know how, but he knows."
He laughed.
I scowled at him. The amount of frowning I was doing lately was sure to give me thousands of wrinkles. "What?"
"Of course he knows. Celebrities always make sure to get a background check on who they're dealing with. We've got lots of connections you know." He said.
I looked down at my feet. "So I guess that means you're still doing the DEATH DIEmundz."
"Yeah…" He trailed off, looking into the distance as we walked around the park. Thunder rolled in the distance. A storm was coming. "We maintain a low profile though, don't do as many concerts."
I nodded. "Well, that's good."
Silence followed. Except for thunder and traffic there was no sound. Everything was quiet.
I broke the silence. "I missed you, you know."
"You had an odd way of showing it." He noted.
"Look, I didn't know you'd remembered. I would've come back but Grant never told me." I argued. No, we couldn't do this. We couldn't fight, not now. Now we had to talk. I took a deep breath and calmed myself. "I thought about you everyday and wondered whether this was all worth it. I wrote a song about us."
"Yeah." He laughed. "'Rose Petals', right?"
I smiled. "That's the one. It was one of my first songs so it kind of sucked."
"Nah." He shook his head. "It was fine. Very… accurate… The music video got to me though."
I bit my lip. Seth had been in the music video as my love interest. "Nothing was going on then. We were just friends at the time." Rain started coming down. Not softly, but hard. We were both soaked in seconds. My makeup was probably going to get all runny and gross, but at least it washed away the spray in my hair.
"But now you're not…" He added.
I sighed. "No. Now we're not."
He stopped and so did I. "Look, Cammie, I'm not going to lie and say that I'm happy if you're happy, because the reason I came was to get you back."
"Zach-"
"Let me finish." He interrupted. "I want you, Cammie. I've wanted you for three years. Everyday I waited for you to call and say that you were coming back. Every damn day. But I never got the call, so I tried to forget you. I was scared, Cammie. I was scared of trying to find you only to be let down. I want you to leave Seth."
I looked at him past my wet eyelashes. "Zach, I can't. I was done with you the day you told me to forget about you and to leave. Every freaking day after that that's all I heard in my head, the words you said to me. So I did that, Zach. I forgot you. I stopped thinking about you and focused on myself. I have a life now. I can't throw that away just because you want me to-" He didn't even let me finish my sentence when his lips came crashing down on mine and everything I wanted to say vanished.
My fingers went to his hair automatically, pulling his head closer to mine. I opened my mouth wider underneath his, eager to deepen the kiss. We breathed deeply, pushing and pulling, unaware of the consequences because all we needed was eachother.
Thunder cracked and rain poured when we jerked apart. "Tell me you feel that with Seth." Zach said loudly over the noise, still holding me.
"You know I can't." I replied, then grabbed him again and pulled him towards me. We were interrupted though by more lightning. We glanced up at the night sky. I looked back at him. "Where are you staying?"
Ten minutes later we were crashing through the door to his hotel room, ripping eachother's clothes off. Our wet jackets slapped down to the floor and my wet blouse came off as well as his shirt. Somehow I managed to get my strappy heels off without tearing my mouth away from his. The lights fritzed out but we didn't need them. Rain pounded on the window as the last of our clothes came off and there was nothing left to hide.
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Just Tonight- The Pretty Reckless
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