Chapter 18

It was Monday, it seemed as though the rest of the weekend was a blur. Loren sat, bored, in class, tapping her pen to make the seconds go by faster. She hummed songs in her head and wrote down lyrics. Graduation was a month away.

'Maybe that's when Eddie and I will sleep together. After graduation. Wait, I don't think I can wait that long. What's holding me back?'

She slouched in her chair in desperation, Mel gave her a look. Loren looked at the clock; 20 minutes till she got to go home. She almost had no homework now, which was good because now she can focus on music. She just wants to leave her high school life behind and start a new one with Eddie. She never felt like a teenager, she always felt as if she grew up to fast after her dad left.

After what felt like 3 hours, the final bell finally rang. She stood up and Melissa jumped in front of her, "What's up?"

"Nothing, you?"

"No, I meant- you were making strange faces for the last hour."

Loren walked to her locker, "I just don't know what's holding me back."

Mel was silent for a moment, "Is it this whole Cam thing?"

"I hadn't even thought of that" Loren said closing her locker.

"It would make sense. You never really asked Cam why he cheated. You never got closure."

"So what are you saying, should I talk to him?"

"Yeah, I think you need to talk to him so that you can move on."

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Eddie was sitting at his piano writing songs about Loren, which put a smile on his face. There was a knock at the door.

"Who is it?" Eddie called lazily.

"It's Chloe Carter" Ian called in a high pitched voice.

Eddie got up and opened the door, "Haven't you had enough of me ye-"

He opened the door to see Ian standing next to Chloe. "Hi." she said.

"Sorry, she gave me $100" Ian said walking in.

Eddie rolled his eyes."I just want to talk about Grease" She said.

"What?" Eddie said blocking the door.

"I need you to do me a favor."

"I owe you nothing."

"Please, Eddie you do this movie and I'll leave you alone."

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because then I have to spend 6 or more months with you and I don't want to spend 6 seconds with you."

"Fine, ruin my life."

"With pleasure." Eddie said closing the door. He turned to see Ian reading his lyric sheets. "And you"

"Sorry dude, I take all the money I get."

"Whatever, I don't care. She's gotta take a hint sometime."

"But she won't"

"I know, she will probably interrupt Loren and mine's wedding day."

"Who's wedding day?"

"Shut it."

"You're serious about this girl?"

"I feel… myself when I'm with her. It's like she's the one I've been waiting my whole life for."

"Why can't you just play the field like me?"

"Because I don't want an STD."

"Touché" Ian smiled. "You two do it yet."

"We talked about it. She's not ready."

"She's just hung up over her ex."

"And HOW would you know that."

"Mel told me."

"Oh, Mel told you."

"Shut it, mate"

"Just watch it; she's like a little sister now. Plus she has a boyfriend."

"I don't care."

"But she does."

"We're talking about you here, Eddie."

Eddie laughed, "Okay, okay."

"Do you have some romantic thing planed, knowing you, you'll buy 15 million rose pedals and scented candles with champagne."

"I have something planned, when she's ready."

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Loren walked into the café and saw Cam eating fries and doing his homework. She walked over to his table, "Can I sit."

He looked up and was confused for a quick moment before straitening his back and saying, "Of course!"

He was smiling; she was not, "I only wanted to sit because I need closure."

"What?"

"I need to know what led to you sleep with Adriana the first time."

Cam looked into Loren's eyes but she looked away, "We had just gotten in a fight over my idiotic jealousy over Eddie. You had just written your first song together and I felt so left out. I felt as if I were losing you to him slowly. Adriana came up to me because she saw how much I was upset and told me how alone she felt now that Phil's gone. We didn't sleep together t first, we talked, and one day we kissed and it led to more and…"

Lorne nodded, "Do you love her?"

"I don't know."

"What led you to do it more than once?"

"I feel like I can say anything with her. Not that I couldn't do that with you, she just… I don't know."

"Cam, that's… nothing"

"I know! You don't know how frustrated and angry I am at myself for what I did. I loved you but for some reason she was the one I wanted to talk about everything to."

"I understand." And she did. Though she had Cam and Mel she loved talking to Eddie about her day. She loved to call him at the end of the night for song ideas based off of the day she had. He was the one she could be herself with.

"Tate! Get to work!" Loren's boss called.

Loren stood up, "Thank you."

"For what"

"The closure." Loren walked into the back to get ready when she came out Cam was gone. She smiled to herself; she was ready to move on.

Review please. Don't know when 19 will be up-depends on my school work.