Ellie leads you out of yet another shop, carrying yet another bag of various items. You've so far only bought one thing and that was a pair of dark blue denim jeans like Ryan's. Ellie has bought two pairs of shoes, a dress, a jacket, cardigan and two tops.
You go into a small boutique, most of the stuff inside the shop is girly and you're not really into girly but you look anyway, as you're looking through a rack of clothing Ellie starts a conversation.
"So, Veronica, what do you think of the boys?"
You remember back to last night when you all got back to the apartment. They were all pretty drunk and loud and Nathan and Daniel couldn't stop singing, they were dancing with you and yelling and Ryan was stumbling towards his room.
"They're pretty full on, but fun to be around."
"Yeah, hard to get used to if you're not used to being around people like them. I mean Nathan is like such a party boy, he's pretty much out every night of the week with a different girl at a different party. He's a big drinker and just between me, you and the boys he does a little drugs."
She picks up a black singlet top and admires it, making faces and studying it.
"Oh and Daniel, he's so sweet but when he's with the boys he can be so infuriating. He tends to get afraid of commitment and throws people away when they get too close. Lucky for me Nathan and Ryan have been there to coach him along."
"So what's the story with Ryan then?" You ask casually.
"Ryan, hmm, Ryan. Well I suppose he's a bit on the outer. He hasn't known the boys for as long as us girls, he's a newie to the bunch. I don't even know how they met or why they became friends because neither Danny nor Nathan have the same interests as Ryan. Ryan is quiet, keeps to himself a lot, goes to bed relatively early during the week but stays up really late during the weekend. There's not much else I can tell you, besides that he's so cute." She giggles and puts the singlet back.
You pick up short grey sweater dress and look at it closely. It's not something you'd usually wear possibly because of the length of it but this is a new beginning, a new Veronica, so why not?
"I think I might try this on." You tell Ellie.
"Go for it, I'll be over here looking at the t-shirts."
You make your way to the change rooms and quickly change into the dress. It looks amazing on you if you don't say so yourself. It shows how thin you are and also makes your legs look ten times longer. If you accessorised it with a black belt just under your chest and a pair of strappy heels you could be a completely different person.
Once you have the dress off again and back on it's hanger you check the price tag for the first time. Yeah, you won't be buying that dress anytime soon.
"What was wrong with it?" Ellie asks with her hands full of t-shirts.
"Nothing."
"Then why aren't you getting it?"
"It's too expensive." You admit shyly.
She looks at the price tag and then smiles.
"It's only $400."
"I don't have a spare $400 like you, Ellie." You laugh.
"Let me foot the bill then. Consider it my 'welcome to Australia' gift."
"You don't have to do that."
"I don't, but I will."
Ellie places her 4 t-shirts and your dress on the counter and pays for it with her credit card. You both walk out of there with smiles on your faces and something new to wear.
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You get home from shopping with Ellie and find Danny asleep on the sofa, Nathan sitting at the bench reading a magazine and Ryan no where in sight.
"Hey." You say, placing your bags down.
"Hey."
"Where's Ryan?" You ask.
"In his room. Probably jerking off." Nathan answers without looking up from his magazine.
You roll your eyes and knock on Ryan's door twice. He tells you to come in, you find him sitting on his bed with his guitar.
"Hey, how was shopping with Ellie?" He asks.
"Great. I bought new jeans and Ellie bought me a new dress."
"Had fun then?"
"Yep."
He strums on the strings and then places the guitar against the wall and smiles at you.
"Why don't you show me what they look like on you?" He asks.
"Um, okay."
You grab the bags from the front door and go into your room to try on the new jeans first. Once you're done you parade into Ryan's room and do a turn and then walk out, noticing he has a smile on his lips. Next you put your grey sweater dress on and parade into Ryan's room again.
"What do you think?" You say, twirling and stopping in front of him.
"Wow. You look amazing, Veronica." He compliments.
"Thank you." You reply blushing.
"It suits your body, you look…wow."
You blush and as you're about to sit down you hear your phone ring. Logan is the first person that comes to mind and you can bet that's who it'll be. You walk to your bedroom and pick your cell up and shake your head when you see it's Logan. Answer it? No, you can't. You should. But you won't. Or will you? Should you? Why should you?
New beginnings. New you. New life. New friends. Old Logan.
Love of your life Logan.
"Hello?" You say quickly picking up the phone and mentally kicking yourself.
"Veronica! Oh thank god, Veronica. I thought something had happened, I was so worried. Are you okay? You're not hurt are you?"
"I'm fine Logan."
"Good. Great. That's great. I was so worried baby. I don't want anything like what I was thinking to happen to you ever, I don't know what I would do."
"Okay."
"Something wrong?"
You close your bedroom door and sit on your bed sighing.
"There is something wrong isn't there? Who's hurt you? Where are you?"
"Logan." You sigh.
"What?"
"We're over, remember? Over."
"I thought you were angry. We can't be over, Veronica. I love you."
Your lips trembles as you start to cry and let it out.
"It's over. I can't see you anymore, or talk to you. It's hard Logan."
"It's hard because you love me. We're in love, Veronica. The real deal, the love where no matter what you can't stop."
"That's just it." You pause and wonder if you should say what you are planning to say next. You really don't want to hurt Logan as much as you're going to but it's the only way you know how to get him to leave you alone. "I don't love you anymore. It's hard because I care for you Logan, but not like you want me to. That's hard. It's hard to hurt you."
In your mind you can imagine Logan sitting in his hotel room on the sofa, his hand running through his hair and that sad puppy look in his eyes. He's probably hunched over, tears welling up and ready to kick a hole in the wall or punch someone.
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be."
He hangs up suddenly, you throw the closest object to you, which happens to be a shoe.
It hurts. It hurts to know that Logan is probably sitting in his hotel room crying because you broke his heart. It hurts because you know he's going to get drunk tonight and call over some Neptune slut to fuck with no strings attached. It hurts because you still love Logan and he loves you.
"Veronica? Are you okay?" Ryan asks through the door.
You don't reply, you sob and cry and scream into your pillow.
"Veronica? Can I come in?"
"Please, just go away."
"You don't mean that. Come on, Veronica. Let me help."
When you don't give Ryan an answer he opens the door and finds you with your head in a pillow lying on your stomach crying. He sits at the end and places his hand on your back trying to soothe you.
"It's okay. New beginning remember?"
"I c…c…can't." You choke.
"You can."
"Im…impos…possible."
"Let me take you out tonight. We'll talk and get to know each other and forget all about Logan."
"I don't feel like it."
"Please, Veronica? I promise we'll have fun."
"No."
He brushes your hair back and looks at your face buried in the pillow.
"You can wear your new dress."
You pull your head up and look into Ryan's brown eyes. He means well, so you should get up and let him take you out. Plus if you don't go out you'll go crazy laying here thinking of Logan and what he's doing right now.
"Okay."
"Great. I'll let you shower and get all dolled up whilst I get changed."
Ryan leaves your room and you think that maybe this will finally be your new beginning.
---
Ryan and you line up as you wait to enter a club. There's hundreds of people behind you and about a hundred in front of you. Every girl there is dressed in a short skirt of dress with boots and tons of make-up and for once you don't feel out of place.
Someone shoves you and you trip and fall into Ryan, the guy who had shoved you moves in front of you with a girl and they start casually chatting like they hadn't just pushed in front of you and Ryan.
"They just pushed in." You sigh. "Typical."
Ryan taps the guy on the shoulder. "Hey mate, you pushed in front of me and my girl, would you mind stepping back?"
"Nah we didn't, must've been someone else." The guy turns back around and goes back to fondling his girl.
"No, it was you and her. Now if you don't mind, can you step back and resume where you were standing before you pushed in."
"Buddy, it wasn't us."
"Look we can do this the easy way or the hard way. I warn you, the hard way involves you getting your ass kicked."
"You want a go do you? Because I'm ready to kick some skinny bitches ass."
Ryan laughs and punches the guy. His girl squeals and steps back as the two guys punch on in the line. You watch from behind as Ryan beats the shit out of the other guy.
Two security guards turn up and pull the boys apart as they kick and fight.
"Oi, cut it out, cut it out!" The security guards yells.
You stand back as Ryan gets thrown out of the line whilst the other guy gets pushed back in line with a bloody lip and black eye. You run over to Ryan and get down on your knees to tend to him.
"Oh my god, are you okay?"
He laughs and throws his head back. "Yeah fine. Fucking dick. Sorry about getting thrown out of the line, we could go somewhere else if you like?"
"How about somewhere less crowded?" You ask, helping Ryan up even though the people standing behind you can probably see your panties.
Ryan puts his arm around you and directs you down the street. "I have the perfect place." He says.
---
Half an hour later you arrive at a pub, there is no line to get in and no security guards at the door. Ryan opens the door for you and immediately you here live music.
"Where are we?" You ask.
He just smiles and leads you in, the guy standing at the bar gives him a nod as you both walk by.
"This is where my band and I used to play." He says, admiring the band on stage right now.
You see a few people on the floor watching and a few more sort of dancing but the majority of the people are sitting at tables or the bar drinking and talking.
"You were in a band."
"Yeah, we split up after Trav moved to W.A. But we used to play here a lot, there would always be people here, whether they were dancing or singing along or just drinking. It didn't matter, playing on stage in front of people is the best feeling in the world.
"I bet." You reply.
"Actually, there's a photo somewhere here of us…" Ryan looks around the walls and spots the one he's looking for. By the bar there's a framed picture of a band on stage playing music. "That's us. There's me, Trav, Peter and Ollie."
"You're the guitarist I'm guessing?" You say.
"Yeah, the one of the right."
"That's pretty cool."
"Want a drink?" He asks, gesturing for the bartender to come over.
"Yeah, I guess so, beer will do though." You tell him, sitting on the bar stool.
Ryan orders you both a beer and sits beside you. The bartender comes over and places your beers down in front of you and Ryan and starts talking to Ryan.
"Heard from Trav lately?" Ryan asks, taking a swig of his beer.
"Last night actually, mate. He was telling me about some chick he met. Told me to say hey to you and the other guys from him. Says he might come over in a few months for a holiday."
"Maybe we can play a gig here when he comes over. For old times sake."
"Yeah, I got customers, should go. Talk to you later Ry."
"Tell Trav I said hey." Ryan yells out as he raises his beer to his mouth.
You take another gulp of yours.
"That's Trav's older brother, he owns this pub, that's probably why we got so many gigs here."
You smile and continue to drink.
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At 2 am you and Ryan finally leave the pub and head for home. It's a long time before you actually make it to the apartment and a few minutes before Ryan actually manages to open the door with his key. You both drunkenly enter the apartment and turn on the lights.
"Shhh." You giggle, gesturing to the boys' rooms.
"Nathan's out, Danny's at Ellie's." Ryan says, placing his keys on the bench and collapsing on the sofa.
You make it over to the sofa clumsily and collapse on top of Ryan, your head resting against his chest.
"I had a good time." You tell him, closing your eyes.
"Mmm, me too." He mumbles.
"Thank you." You say, crawling up to his face and kissing him. "For." You kiss him again. "Making me." And again. "Forget."
Ryan's hands fumble to the back of your head where he plays with your hair. He kisses you, holding on to you as you straddle him to get comfortable.
"You're welcome." He manages between a feisty kiss.
His tongue slips into your mouth, his hands move to your back, yours to his chest for balance. You can feel his lip ring as you kiss him and feel your dress ride up.
Your hands go to the hem of his shirt and you pull it up and eventually over his head clumsily and then moving back to kiss him. His mouth tastes like beer but he's so good to kiss.
Ryan's hands venture down to your hips where your dress is no longer as it has risen up around your waist. He pushes your hips down against his and moves you against him. The friction you cause between his hips and yours makes your panties wet and no doubt him a little hard.
You moan into his mouth as you start to feel his erection through his pants and hitting that spot. He captures your moan in his mouth and pulls your dress off of you, breaking the kiss for a second and no more.
He lays there in his black jeans and you on top of him in a white bra and black panties.
"Jeans." He says simply, out of breath as he returns to kiss you.
You don't want to break the contact between both your hips but you want his jeans off, so your hand travels between both of you and sets his belt buckle free and then the button and then the zip. His jeans undone, he swiftly manages to get them off his hips and down to his knees where he kicks the rest off and on to the floor, leaving him in a pair of red boxer briefs.
His pushes his hips into the air to meet yours and then slams your hips down on to his. He groans into your neck as you kiss his ear.
Ryan manages to unclasp your bra and have it on the floor in five seconds flat, leaving your top half bare. You don't care that you're practically naked with a guy you've known for two days. All you care about right now is getting fucked.
You move his hands from your back to your breasts where he tweaks and plays with your nipples, still making friction with your hips, trying desperately to relieve himself and you.
"More." You moan.
"More." He agrees.
He takes the waist band of your black panties and pulls them down and off your feet, throwing them half way across the room. Then he takes his own waist band and pulls then down to his knees where he wriggles to get them off and on the floor. He sits up, leaning against the arm of the sofa, with you still on his lap above his hard cock, ready to go.
"Condom." He says, looking into your beautiful eyes.
"Condom." You nod, looking into his deep brown eyes.
Ryan reaches for his pants and into his wallet where he reveals a foil package. He quickly unveils the condom and wastes no time putting it on himself.
You kiss him once again as he places his hands on your hips softly. He guides you down on to his erection slowly. You both moan into each other's mouths as he feels the inside of your hot, wet cunt and as you feel his big, hard cock inside of you.
You move atop his cock, riding him like you've ridden Logan so many times.
"Veronica." He groans, throwing his head back.
You place your head on his shoulder, feeling the beads of sweat build on his shoulder as you move against each other. Your breasts rub against his chest, your ass against his thighs. Up and down, up and down, a familiar rhythm for you.
Your hands swing around the back of his neck as you hold on to him, his head against yours, smelling the sweetness of your hair.
"Fuck." He moans again, fastening the pace.
Both of you feel your releases coming soon. Your body trembles with delight as you feel that familiar high oncoming. His hands wrap around you quickly, he kisses your neck and then throws his head back, pushing your hips down and holding you there.
"Fuck, Veronica." He groans, his cum filling you.
As it fills you, you feel your climax rumble your body. You bite into his shoulder and try to stifle your moans as you tremble.
"Let go, Veronica." He whispers.
Your head whips up and you look into Ryan's eyes through clouded judgement, being drunk and all.
"Ryan, fuck, Ryan." You moan.
His body goes limp as does yours, your head collapsing against his chest with him still inside you.
"Veronica…Veronica." He gently shoves.
He moves his body down on the couch so he's laying properly and then manoeuvres both your bodies so you're still on top of him with your head on his chest but so he's not inside you. He grabs the blanket that sits at the end of the sofa and pulls it over the both of you. To drunk to get up and put you in your bed and too drunk to dress himself and you. You're already falling into slumber on top of him.
You're going to Enjoy Australia.
Update, update, update! Yes, I know, so soon but don't you love that? So I decided to add another update because I got alot of reviews already for this and already had this chapter written and thought why not? So here you are, another chapter.
Now in answer to some of your reviews;
vmfan387: It totally wasn't my intention to break them up, seriously but what I had in store certainly wasn't as great as what I have been writing.
Black Dahlia 13: Yes! Hope for Veronica and Logan that's what you all want! Lol. I'm not a total lunatic I have intentions of bringing L and V back together some time in he near future but yes, Ryan! My original character who I've decided will play a big part in the next few chapters. So look out for him.
LoVefan4ever: Keep up the hope! L and V will be together soon.