Another chp! Enjoy!

Chapter 14

Cassidy's POV

I ran… I ran like I've never ran in my entire life! How could she keep something like that from me? I knew something was up but never expected a fiancé, a hot fiancé, to just appear at my doorstep. What the hell is she thinking doing whatever she's doing with William? She's cheating on Ryan! I reach her door and was about to just burst in, but stopped. I surely didn't want to see what they were doing. God knows I didn't need to see a sweaty William with Estefania on top… again! That day was the day my eyes and ears lost their virginity. So, I decided to knock instead. No answer. I knocked again… and again… and again. "GO AWAY" I heard Estefania yelled.

"I NEED TO TALK TO YOU" I screamed back, making sure it wasn't loud enough for Ryan to hear it.

"CAN'T YOU COME BACK LATER? WE'RE KINDA BUSY HERE" I hear William's voice this time. I close my eyes, praying that Ryan hadn't heard him. I knew that either I had to walk away or enter the room… which option 2 was something I really, really, didn't want to do. So I kept knocking.

Estefania's POV

"Why isn't she going away?" William mutters on my neck, where he's busy leaving small love bites.

"I don't know. GO AWAY" I scream again, letting out a small moan because William kept finding all those spots that made me produce those sounds. We were shirtless and so ready to take another item off. His hand traveled down my stomach, unbuttoning my jeans while I was devouring his mouth.

"I'LL GO AWAY, OK?" I hear Cassidy say from the other side of the door. I think she's just messing with us. "BUT JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I'LL BE DOWNSTAIRS WITH MY FRIEND RYAN…" At the mention of that name I stopped, William still fighting to unbutton all the, well, buttons, from my jeans. eave it to me to wear button-up jeans today. OF ALL THE DAYS, IT HAD TO BE TODAY! He was getting frustrated, I could tell by the little groans that were coming from his mouth… but I wasn't listening to that. I was listening to Cassidy. "THAT CAME ALL THE WAY FROM NEW YORK TO SEE ME"

"I think I better go see what's wrong with her" I say, pushing William off me, and searching for my shirt.

"What? Come on, Nia. Now? She's probably just busting our chops" He says trying to pull me to him again, but I bent at the exact moment for him to miss and fall off the bed. He lets out a little whine but I just turn.

"This could be serious. I'll be right back" I say to him, putting my shirt on and walking out my door to see Cassidy standing there with a nervous look. "Where is he?" I say as I drag her to the top of the stairs… away from my room and William's ears.

"You're engaged? When were you planning on telling me that, uh? Were you planning on inviting me to your wedding? I mean, seriously, Nia…"

"Hey" I interrupt her. "Stay on topic, please?" I look at her and she shuts her mouth. "Where is he?"

"In the living room" She says while I took a deep breath and tried to fix my hair. William has grabby hands. "What are you gonna do?"

"You go entertain William. Tell him I went out, it was an emergency. No… that's bad. Tell him… Gabe kidnapped me. That's more Gabe" I think hard for a moment before shaking my head. "Tell him whatever you want or come up with. I'll take Ryan to the kitchen and you make sure William leaves. Ok?" I look at her with pleading eyes. She nods and heads to the room. I take one last deep breath and walk down the stairs to see Ryan staring at all the pictures. "Hey" I say and he turned around.

"Hey. I've been calling you and you never answered" He says coming up and hugging me.

"Don't let him smell William on me. Please, don't let him smell William on me" I kept repeating in my head.

"I missed you" He says stealing a small kiss from my lips. It took me a moment to react. It's the same old story when Ryan kisses me… he steals my breath away. I can't help it… he leaves me breathless.

"I missed you too" I say after regaining some composure. "Come on, lets go to the kitchen" I say, grabbing his hand and leading him to the kitchen. I hear my door open and close the same moment we enter the kitchen, which means, William will be coming down. I was concentrating so hard on being quiet that I didn't even noticed when Ryan walked into the living room again, saying he forgot his phone. The moment I walked out, I saw William turning and staring at Ryan. Then his eyes found mine, and he smiled, closing the door and walking toward us.

"Hey" He said. "Cass told me you were kidnapped" He laughed.

"Well, you know Cass… she's crazy" I say, with a nervous laugh. William is getting too close, Cass.

"William…" Cassidy grabs William's arm and pulls him to her. "Let me introduce you to Ryan. Ryan, this is William" They shook hands.

"I already know him. His band opened for us last year" William responds. "Haven't seen you in a while, man. How are you?"

"I'm fine. Working, you know. Right now we're on a break from tour so I decided to pay my lady a visit" He said. Immediately William turns to look at Cassidy before returning his gaze at Ryan.

"Are you Cassidy's boy…" His question was interrupted by Gabe bursting through the door, panting and almost breaking a sweat. The small amount of color that his face had drained as he took the setting. There I was, standing between William and Ryan.

"Gabe" I say walking to him and bending down, pretending to see if he was okay. "Tell me you didn't have anything to do with RK being here?" I muttered. He gave me a guilty smile and I rolled my eyes.

"You never answered. I kept calling you. Didn't Christie told you I called a couple of days ago?"

"No. And who the hell is Christie?"

"Your sister" He says.

"Is everything ok there?" William asks.

"Yeah, everything is fine. We're just doing a breathing exercise I learned in yoga" I say, laughing nervously and bending down again. "Cass never told me you called"

"Well, I did and I had no clue were you lived and it took me 2 days to locate Pete so he could give me the address. Apparently, I'm too late" He says. I sigh. "We better roll with it. I'll take care of Ryan and you make William go, ok?" I nod, pretending to stand straight again, but Gabe pulled me down again. "And, please, Nia… cover that hickey below your ear. Ryan is not blind" I push him and fix my short hair the best I can to cover the bruise. We stand straight and walk toward the group of people awkwardly staring at us. "Hey, Ryan" Gabe said, walking to Ryan.

"Hey. What's up, man?" Ryan said, giving Gabe those manly one-arm hug. They quickly started talking and reminiscing about how Ryan's band opened 2 shows for Cobra Starship to a very uninterested Cassidy. She was doing it for me though. She's a great sister. I started to drag William into the kitchen, making an excuse about him helping me out with some drinks when the phone rang. Cassidy excused herself to go pick up and that made William walk over to the boys and start talking about his time with Ryan when they toured together and how he was really digging his CD and how small the world was, blah, blah, blah. He even made a joke of liking HCR CD it more than 'Hot Mess' and how Hot Chelle Rae had taken the spot of Cobra Starship in his playlist. They all laughed and continued their small chit-chat, completely forgetting about me. Could something worse happen right now? Finishing that thought, I watch Cassidy walk to me, looking like she just saw a ghost... a very ugly ghost.

"Cass, are you ok?" I ask, drawing the attention from the boys. She grabs her bag and hands me mine, with her car keys. "Cass?" I tried again. She turned to look at me... almost crying.

"It was mom… he's asking for you. He wants to talk to you. I think..." She swallows hard before continuing. "I think its time for us to say goodbye" She says walking out of the room. I turn around to look at the guys, looking at me almost scared. This meant I was finally going to see him… one last time before Ken died.

Soundtrack:

Yellowcard – Space travel; Keeper

The Cab – One of those nights (Feat. Brendon Urie & Patrick Stump)

The Matches – AM tilts

Plain White T's – Sunlight

Gym Class Heroes – 7 weeks (Feat. William Beckett)

The Myriad – A clean shot

Hot Chelle Rae – Bleed

The Academy Is… - His girl Friday

The Used – All that I've got

The All-American Rejects – Breakin'

We the Kings – Bring out your best

Goo Goo Dolls – Here is gone

Panic! At the Disco – Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off (Acoustic)

Bayside – Carry on

Tokio Hotel – Monsoon

Brand New – The quiet things that no one ever knows

Donato & Estefano – Mi Dios & mi cruz (Translation: My God & my Burden)

The Fray – Never say never

Escape the Fate – Harder than you know