Knocking on the front door hadn't even crossed my mind, after all I had a key for emergency use and in my mind this constituted as just that.

After hanging up the phone with Jai, I walked back in to the main area of my dressing room to find it empty, any trace that Liz had just been there gone. My stomach wrenched with guilt and sadness and I felt a hole in the space of my heart that my best friend usually filled. Best friend. That word seemed weird to me, considering what had just happened, I liked it, but that wasn't what confused me, her leaving was the source of any confusion in my mind.

I had never thought of Liz as anything more than my best friend until recently, she hadn't been around, no late night phone calls, random texts or surprise visits, instead I was left feeling hurt and heartbroken, more so than any guy had ever left me feeling once they were gone.

I dug around in the bottom of my purse, retrieving the key and unlocked the front door to her house and followed the path to her room, in 5 years, I had only ever been here one time but the sound of Liz's favourite sad song coming from the top of the stairs told me the way better than any number of times coming here ever would have. It had been almost a week since she left my dressing room and I was hoping to find her still in LA once I had finished shooting, but our multiple takes, thanks to my head not being clear took us well in to the morning and by the time I left the lot, Liz was already on a plane back to New York and that meant I'd have to wait.

I finally had a few days off and I called my brother Frankie and asked him to pick me up at the terminal at JFK airport that night, of course he obliged, he'd do anything for me and I loved that about him most. He knew something was off, I wasn't my usual self, but he didn't question me.

I burst through the bedroom door to find Liz sitting on her bed, music loud and filling the spaces around her. Her head snapped up and her pen fell from her hand when she saw me standing in the doorway and she quickly shut her music off and opened her mouth to say something that I didn't care to much to hear, so I cut her off and I think we were both surprised by my anger.

"How dare you!" I screamed and she looked at me like she was looking at a ghost. "You fuck me and leave, like I'm nothing. Is that what I am to you now? I thought we were best friends!" My voice cracked and I could feel hot tears pouring from my eyes, but I didn't bother to wipe them, why shouldn't she see what she was doing to me.

"I should hate you, you know that!" I continued and she slowly picked herself up off the bed and stepped towards me. "Don't, don't you dare come near me," she stopped in her tracks and looked at the ground, she knew she was wrong and I could see the tears now falling from her own eyes but I couldn't stop myself from yelling at her more. "What kind of person does that to someone? You just show up after what felt like forever and then you felt guilty? Is that it? You felt guilty that I caught you trying to sneak around without having to look at me?"

"No!"

Her scream was louder than anything my small body could ever produce and the two of us stood there staring at one another, crying and scared to make a move, I could see the guilt and the apologies in her eyes and I couldn't stop myself from closing the gap between us.

My voice was calm now as I cupped her cheek with my hand and used my thumb to wipe the moisture from her cheek. "Liz, what is going on with you," it wasn't really a question, it was a statement of my notice that things were changing. I lifted myself on to my tip toes and softly and slowly pressed my lips to hers and I could feel her freeze beneath me for a moment until she followed my lead our lips moving together.

I traced her lower lip with my tongue, asking for permission she granted and together our tongues danced. She pulled back first, panting heavily and I could feel her breath against mine. "Liz," I whispered as I stared into blue orbs that I had found myself dreaming about since I last saw her.

"You're with Jai, we can't do this, we shouldn't have before, I'm sorry, I didn't think it would go that far I thought," she was crying harder now and her whole body shook as she backed up and sat at the edge of her bed.

"You thought you'd kiss me and I'd freak out and let you leave." I finished her sentence and she nodded, her head buried in her hands, so I continued. "I'd never let you leave, I need you." I placed myself on the floor between her legs and gently removed her hands from her face, pressing my lips to the back of each hand as I held them tight in mine.

"Jai is nothing when compared to you." My words were honest, he never would compare to the woman in front of me, Liz was my world, I just hadn't seen it before. "We broke up," my voice was soft and there was no regret laced through them and she looked up at me and I swear I could see the hint of a smile on her face. "I could never love anyone the way I love you, I'm sorry it took all of this for me to see that."

Liz continued to stare at me, unsure if I was trying to hurt her the way she had hurt me or if what I was saying was true.

I removed my hands from hers and placed them on her shoulders, gently pushing her back on to the bed. I stood up and undressed myself, taking note that she was watching my every move, her eyes not leaving my body. I placing myself over top of her, my thighs on either side of her hips, straddling her as my hand worked to unbutton the shirt she was wearing. I smirked when I saw she wasn't wearing a bra and I lowered myself to her chest, leaving tiny wet kisses between her breast, before taking one nipple in my mouth and swirling my tongue around the quickly hardening nub. I switched to the other breast and repeated my process before sitting up and pulling her up with me, just enough to remove her shirt and then lay her back down.

She was beautiful, naked and exposed in front of me as I worked to slide off her jeans. I bent down and kissed her, this time with more force, want and need to taste her, her vanilla lip gloss now engraved in my mind. I traced the contours of her hips and inner thighs and teased her opening with the tips of my fingers, until she was begging for me.

"Please Ari," she mumbled against my mouth and I obliged, pushing two fingers in to her steaming centre, her hips buckling beneath me. I used my thumb to stroke her clit, and she gasped against my mouth. I kissed down her jawline to her neck and shoulders, coming back to her chest as I took one of her perfectly pink nipples in my mouth once more.

I could hear her begging me for more so I began to grind my hips against hers, my pelvis hitting my hand and thrusting my fingers deeper into her, she was getting wetting and I was becoming more satisfied and comfortable with her. I curled and uncurled my fingers inside of her and my thumbed drew circles on her clit, her back arching and a pleasurable moan coming from within her.

I moved down her body, leaving open mouth kisses on every inch of her skin as I went. Slowly I removed my fingers and I could hear her growl in dissatisfaction. I laughed to myself and stuck out my tongue dragging it roughly across her wet mound and I could feel her starting to shake, I pushed my tongue to the centre, now void of my fingers and continued to use my thumb to assault her clit, the way she had done mine, my tongue working fast inside of her.

My name never sounded so good coming out in uneven moans and pleasurable screams until I felt her walls tighten around my tongue and her body went slack. I pulled myself up and onto the empty space of the bed beside her and she turned to face me, her eyes glassed over and a full blown smile on her face.

"Wow," she whispered and I leaned in for another soft kiss before tangling my legs with hers and curling into her side, her arms circling me protectively. I reached to the foot of the bed and pulled the blanket up over us and we both stayed in silence until exhaustion washed over us and I knew one thing for sure, without having to ask, neither of us would be gone in the morning.

As you can see I wrote this chapter from Ariana's POV

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