I've been doing a lot of planning on this story, and I know EXACTLY how the rest of it's going to go. There will be 18 chapters, meaning there will be 6 chapters left (including this one)
SONG - TO LOVE AGAIN
ARTIST - ALESHA DIXON
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13
'To Love Again'
"What do you mean; you don't have any other rooms available?"
Barbie was riled up after the elevator incident. It was more than obvious her relationship with Cody was over, and therefore she did not want to share a room with him.
"You're seriously telling me there are absolutely zero rooms available?"
"What with the weather being so terrible, planes have been cancelled, and people need places to stay for the night." The receptionist explained. "I'm sorry."
"It's fine." Barbie sighed, leaving her spare key on the reception desk.
"Do you have anywhere to stay?"
"I'm sure I'll find somewhere."
Barbie began walking up the corridors, towards the stairs; no way was she taking the elevator again.
How, in one afternoon, could everything change so drastically? She'd lost her boyfriend, and possibly her best friend. This was a weird situation.
- - -
She continued contemplating, until she arrived outside Mickie's hotel room and knocked on the door.
No answer.
Where would Mickie be, at nine pm, in the middle of a thunderstorm?
Barbie then realised that she knew.
So instead, she tried the alternative.
"Hey, can I stay here tonight?"
"Come in." Ted replied.
- - -
"I'm really sorry about this." Barbie said, pulling a spare bed sheet out of the cupboard, and setting it up on the sofa.
"You don't have to do that." Ted said, taking the sheet of her. "I'll take the sofa."
"No way, it's your room."
Ted sighed. "Listen, we'll just both take the bed. Sharing a bed's pretty mundane compared to some of the stuff we've done."
"I guess." Barbie smiled, sitting back on the bed.
"So, can I ask you something?" Ted sat down next to her; however there was a fair bit of distance between the pair.
"Go for it."
"You never answered Mickie's question."
"That's not a question." Barbie corrected. "That's a statement."
"So what's the answer?"
Barbie was caught off guard. She wasn't sure what her answer was.
"B?"
"I... I don't know." Barbie said quietly.
"You 'don't know?'" Ted queried. "Love isn't a maybe thing. You know when you love someone."
"Isn't that off the Hills?" Barbie smirked.
"Rachel watches it a lot." Ted explained. "But that's beside the point. Like I said, you know when you love someone."
"Well maybe I don't, okay?" Barbie raised her voice. "Maybe I don't know. I'm so sick of things being so complicated between us."
"You think I enjoy this?"
"Why is it everytime something seems to be going well between us, something goes and fucks it up?"
Barbie was pissed off, and venting to the one person she probably shouldn't have been.
"What happens when we get back to the States? We just pretend this never happened?"
"I don't know." Ted replied, moving in closer to Barbie and wrapping an arm around her shoulders.
Barbie rested her head on his chest. "Neither do I."
- - -
The pair had been sat in silence for about ten minutes, until Ted eventually had to say what he was thinking.
"It's not going to happen, is it?" Ted said quietly.
"I don't think so." Barbie shook her head, and closed her eyes.
"So where do we go from here?"
Ted's question wasn't answered, as Barbie had fallen asleep in his arms.
- - -
The next morning, Barbie struggled to open her eyes, not wanting to come to the realisation of what had happened the previous night.
The truth was, she hadn't fallen asleep when Ted thought she had.
All she was doing was closing her eyes tightly so Ted wouldn't see her cry.
Barbie opened her eyes slowly at looked at the room around her, until her eyes eventually hit the empty spot on the bed next to her.
"It's not going to happen, is it?"
Barbie couldn't hold back the tears anymore.