ERIN

I put my shoes on and Chris came in the room behind the nurse who had a wheel chair and I looked at her.

"I'm not getting in that I wanna walk out" I said

"You can't walk out just get in the wheel chair" Maya said

"Chris I don't want to" I said and he walked to me and rest his arms on my shoulders, kissed my forehead and smiled.

"Come on get on my back and I'll carry you out of here" he said turning around and kneeling down and I slowly got on his back and He started spinning around in circles and I couldn't help but to start giggling the whole time. While everyone laugh but my Mom.

"Chris, Chris be careful" my Mom said

"I'm going to throw up but I like it" I giggled and he finally stopped. And we left the room and walked down the hall all the way to the elevator and we all got on the whole crew, my besties, my Mom and Pat.

"Hey you wanted me on you so you could feel my pussy on your back?" I asked and every gasped and then broke in to laugher and my Mom popped my arm.

"ERIN" my Mom said

"What? Oh yall check this out I wanna rob a bank I mean go balls out and if I kill the guard or someone I don't care cause what they going to do give me life in prison. Shit give it to me I'll be dead in 2 years and 10 months and 3 weeks and 4 days" I said and the elevator was dead silent but for me giggling.

"Erin that's not funny" Keeis said

"Hey being sick I learned this you gotta learn to laugh you can't sit around and crying all the time, I do that enough every fucking night when I lay alone in my bed" I said and wrap my arms around Chris more when I felt him squeeze my thighs I guess letting me know he understand. We finally got to the ground floor and went towards the door there was a crowd of fans there and paparazzi.

"Damn" Sarynn said

"Oh God Chris I don't want my picture taken been able to hide me for a month I don't want my picture taken" I said shifting on his back.

"Stop moving before you make me drop you I got you just put your head down keep it down and they won't see your face" he said and I pulled down my hate and buried my face in the crook of his neck and wrapped my arms around him tighter and I started to pull on the front of his shirt and I felt him kiss my hand.

"Edith yall can go out first and then we'll come out last that way yall can get to yall cars without them blocking yall" he said and that's what everyone did, soon we was out the door and the fans was going crazy and the paparazzi was going bananas taking pictures of us and yelling questions.

"Chris, Chris who is she?" Paparazzi asked

"Chris who is she? Is she a new girlfriend?" Paparazzi asked

"Miss please lift your head so we can see you? Who are you?" Paparazzi asked and Pat and Alex Chris's other bodyguard walked us to Chris's car and he unlocked the door and gently put me down and opened the door and I got in and covered my face and laid my head in my lap to keep them from taking my picture I've been hiding my face for a month now I don't want to be a part of their lies and news. I mainly didn't want people to think Chris was with a cancer patient and that I was here as a pawn to make him look good in the media. Chris ran around the driver side and opened the door and was getting in the weird way he gets in his cars I was peeking at him and I giggled.

"Chris, Chris man please who is she? She's been around you a lot?" Paparazzi asked and Chris looked at them.

"Yall chill please leave her alone" he says and close the door and started up the car and drove off. He looked at me and smiled. "Your pretty flexible huh?"

"Yes I was a cheer leader in high school" I said "Can I sit up now?"

"Yes my bad yes it's clear for you to sit up" he said and I sat up and put on my seat belt.

"Question?" I said

"Answer!" he said and laughed

"Why do you get in the car like that?" I asked

"Like what?" he said

"You get in head, shoulders chest stomach legs then feet then you adjust yourself, I watched it over and over on tumblr you get in so wrong" I laughed and he cut his eye at me and looked back at the rode.

"Well how the hell am I to get in the car miss car ma'am" he said smiling at me.

"It's foot, leg, butt, stomach, chest. Arms then head and last your other foot that's how normal people get in the car well normal size people get in the car" I said and the look on his face when we got to a red light made me bust out laughing.

"Fuck you baby" he laugh shoving me in my face. And I just laughed harder. After calming down I was looking out the window. And then I felt like I was being watch and looked over at Chris and he was staring at me.

CHRIS

I love hearing her laugh. I kept looking at her and then the rode and then her again I love looking at her face when she laughs or smiles.

"What are you looking at?'' she asked making a face at me.

"At you of course wondering why is your head so big, like a sucker" I said and she looked at me crazy and I broke out into a hard laugher at her face "That's what you get for making fun of how I get in the car"

"Big baby" she giggled after about a 30 or 35 minute drive I pulled up to her house and parked and we both got out and I walked her to her door. "I don't think my Mom will be here tonight her and my sister was taking about going somewhere with one of my aunts so I'll be home alone" she said I knew it wasn't a signal for me to ask to stay or nothing.

"You going to be okay alone?" I asked

"You ask that every time and I always tell you yes" she says

"Yea okay well I'm going to let you go and get some rest, call me when you get done resting cause I'm just chilling tonight" I said and she smiled and nodded.

"You better go before someone sees you and then you'll be trapped here" she said and I smiled and we hugged real quick and I watched her walk into her house and close the door and I stood there for a second nigga why didn't you kiss you. We been knowing each other for a month and we never kissed on the lips not once I mean I don't know what it is about her but I don't wanna rush anything with her We're friends and I don't wanna rush anything with her but I wanna know how she feels.

^KNOCK,KNOCK^the door reopened and Erin stepped out I grabbed her and pulled her to me, She giggled as I placed one hand on the small of her back and the other on her head and she leaned up to me and I leaned down to her and I slowly pulled her head closer to mine. Our noses touched for a moment, before we readjusted. Her hair was tickling my face as she moved her lips closer to mine. She leaned up more and our lips connected. A spark of electric passion buzzed around my lips I AM so in love with her. Eventually we stopped kissing and I look at her and we both smile at each other.

"I'm sorry I'm sorry I wanted to do that for the longest just didn't know if you want to kiss me ba—" I said but was cut off by Erin kissing me again. She wrapped her arms around my neck and I pulled her closer and we shared our first kiss on her porch. I'm so in to her that I didn't notice the first to flashes but the third one made me break the kiss and look behind me and there was the paparazzi.

"Oh God Chris" she said wrapping her arms around my waist and I felt her pulling on my sweater.

"It's okay just stay still they can't see your face, go in and I'll get out of here and they'll follow me." I said looking back at her.

"No I wanna go with you if that's okay?" she asked and I smile at her.

"It's more than okay" I said and backed up and pulled off my sweat while she went in and grabbed her purse and came back out she put on my sweater that she was swimming in and pulled the hood over her face and she locked her door and I took her hand and we walked to the car and I let her in first and closed the door and I went around and got in the car and drove off.

MIJO

I was at my condo with Sarynn we was in my room we had sat and talked about her classes. She had told me about her art history test, about how the professor had considered her exam essay exemplary and read it aloud to the class. I had smiled at that. Then I had invited her to lie on my bed and nap. She remembered feeling me curl up behind her on the bed, remembered closing her eyes and feeling safer with me than she had in a long time. Perhaps ever.

I was just behind her and she wasn't talking to me because we just got into a stupid argument. She felt the bed sink a bit as I sat down and took a drag from my cigarette.

Was it best just to ignore me, stop taking my calls and running like a fool to me every time I snapped my fingers? Yea right not Sarynn If she'd learned anything over the short time together is it was that I was impervious to avoidance tactics. I'd surely chase her down, make her acknowledge me.

"I've been thinking," I said, startling her from her thoughts, "that I need you to be here with me."

Sarynn blinked and held her breath. When I didn't continue, she rolled over to face me and looked inquiringly up at me.

"I'm here now," she said quietly.

"Yeah," I said, not looking at her. "But I want you here all the time." I squinted and took another drag.

"What are—what are you saying?" Her stomach was all but quaking.

"What, do you not want to live with me?" I asked and looked at my cigarette with undue concentration.

"I'm—I mean, I'm just—" she said

"Just tell me if you don't want to." I said

"No, Mijo, that's not what I'm saying." She laid her hand on mine.

"The place is big enough. The second bedroom's full of shit right now, but we can make it into an office for you." I said

"Do you have a desk?" She was smiling impishly now.

"I'll fucking make you a desk." I smiled back at her. She could have wept; instead, she laughed.

"I don't know what my mother—" she said but was cut off.

"I don't give a shit about your mother. You make your own decisions." I fussed She bit her lip. It was all too much to take in. She'd have to tell her mother and Gaby about Seth. They'd hate her, at least for a time. She'd essentially be losing her family.

"I need time to figure it out, Barry." She squeezed his hand. "Is that okay?"

"Yeah." I said and tapped a bit of ash into a tray on the night table. "Yeah,". I looked calm, unreadable. "Live with me." I stroked her hair with unutterable tenderness.

"On one condition" She said and smiled.

"What's that?" I asked

"No more smoking in the house" she said and climb on top of me and I hugged her tight and she took my Newport and put it out "Now go wash your face and your hand, brush that smell out your mouth" I smiled at her and kissed her anyway feeling her trying to get out of my arms.

CHRIS

"You need pajamas?" I asked

"Yes please" she said smiling

"Can I be your pajamas, wear me" I said and lay on her gently and she giggles and I run my fingers thru her hair softly trying not to pull out any hair and kiss her neck, then all around her jawline, her cheek and I stick my tongue out and licked her lips slowly and she smiled.

"Oookay pajamas please" she asked blinking a lot and all I could do was smile at her as I helped her sit up and I went to my closet and I got out a white t-shirt and a pair of black basketball shorts and I walked to her and handed her the clothes and she just smiled and went into the bathroom and pushed the door up not closing it all the way I watched her slide down her shorts and take them off and fold them and then she took off her shirt and I notice the tattoos on her side and I walked away from the door cause if I stood there any longer I would want her more than I do now. A few minutes later she came out with my shorts on and just her bra and the t-shirt in her hand putting it on the chair and she walked to the front of the bed and looked at.

"Chris I don't wanna die" she said and she turned and looked at me and I went to her and pulled her to me and hugged me tight. She was so beautiful.

I leaned down and pecked her lips softly. I leaned in to kiss her again and she rose her head slightly to meet me half hands found their way around my neck as I let my hands roam around her waist line and sides. She moaned slightly into the kiss as our tongues started to massage each other's. Her soft moans were turning me on more and more. I started to pull down her shorts and she stopped me.

"We can't." She said softly.

"Why not?" I asked

"Because I'm a virgin" she said and I knew she wasn't lying because her hands were still, and that turned me on more that she was untouched.

"It's ok" I said and moved back from her just to kick my shoes off and I saw he face I wasn't mad at her not at all. "Hey I want to sleep with you" she looked up at me and I looked down at her smiling. "I don't mean have sex, I mean sleep together under my covers and blankets, in my bed with your hand on my chest and your arm around me with the window cracked so it's chilly and we have to cuddle No sex, just sleep that's all" she smile at the thought and shake her head yes.

"Okay" she said and I went to the bathroom closing the door and I exhaled man.

ERIN

I climb into bed getting under the covers Chris came out the bathroom and cut the lights off and got in the bed next to me and I moved closer to him and put I'm hand and my head on his chest and he wrapped his arms around me this felt so good and I swear he could hear my thought cause he held me tight.

"This does feel good tho" he said Did I say what I said out loud and I looked up at him and he kissed me on my nose and bit his bottom lip and just smiled and closed his eye

"Yea" I simply replied we laid there in silence and in the dark for about 15 minutes

"Are you sleeping?" he asked

"Nope wide awake" I said running my hand across his stomach.

"Are you going out tonight?" I asked

"Once you are asleep, I will." He said

"But what if I stay up all night?" I teased.

"Then I will too," he smiled back at me and I loved to see such light in his eyes.

"What if I pretend to fall asleep?" I asked

"I will know," he smirked.

"How?" I asked

"You snore." He chuckled

"I do not!" I laughed.

"Perhaps you are right," he nuzzled his nose to my throat. "But it is quite adorable how you snuffle in your sleep and breathe out my name..."

"I do not snuffle," I giggled as his lips found my ear. Ever since that first kiss today Chris been getting bolder with his kisses but I could tell my ass was still in the friend zone.

"My little snuffler..." he nibbled on my earlobe and I couldn't help arching myself against him.