AN: I'm so sorry for the big silence, but it were really busy times for me at school at now at my internship. I finished another chapter for this story and I really want to share it with you. I really hope you like it. It's written solely in Eddie's POV.
Ryan, the director, told us everything about the script for the video. I walk into the club full with beautiful girls. The girls approach me, but I'm not interested in them. I'm only interested in the new contest girl, which is Loren. It wouldn't have been awkward if her boyfriend weren't here looking at us. Okay, maybe it would. I won't have to pretend that I'm into her, because I am. I think she will have to.
It was time for rehearsals. The music starts and I playback with my own voice. The first lady approaches me. I look at her, we flirt a little and I keep walking. The second girl doesn't approach me, but I approach her. We dance around each other and she is batting her eyelashes. I walk away from her, as soon as I see Loren coming in. I walk towards Loren and I grab her hand to pull her close to me. We dance to my music and I take her on stage, not stopping our dancing. For a couple of minutes it's just Loren and me.
Just for one second I glance over at Cam. He gives me a death glare and I see him walking towards us. He grabs Loren by her arm and he pulls her outside. The music stops. What the heck just happened? Ian and Melissa look up from each other, when they hear the music stop. They both look at me with questioning looks. I have to see what is wrong. I walk to the entrance and I see Loren and Cam outside engaged in a deep conversation.
"Cam, it's just a video," Loren says. "It's pretending." Cam is still holding Loren's arm, but she takes her arm from his grip. She lets out a sigh and looks into Cam's eyes while she tilts her head to the right.
"Just tell me one thing," says Cam. He turns away from Loren, but then turns to her again. He grabs her by the shoulders with his hands softly, to make her look at him. "Do you have feelings for Eddie?" That is a question I want answered too, but not now. This isn't the time or the place for them to be having this kind of conversation, but I'm not getting involved. I'll just stand here and keep on eavesdropping.
I can see Loren looking at her toes, thinking about her answer to Cam's question. She turns her head up to look at Cam. "I honestly don't know," Loren says. She seems uncertain about that. I know Cam sees the hesitation too, because he gets angrier than he already was.
I watch as Cam lets go of Loren's shoulders. "Do you love me," Cam asks with a little voice, which I don't even recognize. Tears are settling in his eyes and in Loren's too. You can see that he loves Loren with everything in him.
"I like you," Loren answered. "But, no, it's not love… yet," Loren admits. "Love will come Cam." Loren is trying to convince Cam and herself. Cam raises his eyebrows and turns around to walk away angrily. Loren tries to grab his arm, but he yanks it away before she can catch him and he keeps on walking. "Cam, wait." Loren tries to say with a broken voice. She starts to sob. I run towards Loren to turn her around and take her in my arms. She puts her head in the crook between my shoulder and neck and starts sobbing louder. I try to comfort her by stroking her hair and just holding her in my arms.
After ten minutes Loren stops with the sobbing. She puts her head up to look at me and says: "Thank you… for being here." I can see a little smile on her face and that makes me happy. I love seeing her smile. "I'm sorry to ask this, but can we shoot this video tomorrow? I have to think about what just happened and I can't put my mind at this." Loren lets out a sigh.
I wish I could comfort her some more to make her feel better. Maybe there is a way to do that. We would have to move the shooting until tomorrow. "I will tell the director I'm not feeling well and ask him if we can do it tomorrow… under one condition though," I say with a smile. I want to take her and her friend to lunch and maybe Ian can come too.
She takes a step backwards which means she isn't in my arms anymore. "What is that condition," she asks with risen eyebrows. She looks confused.
"Well," I begin. "I want you and Melissa to come with me and Ian to have some lunch. Just to put your mind of things for a while and to have fun." I surely hope she is going to say yes, otherwise I won't see her until tomorrow. And I want to be a good friend. Show her that I'm someone she can come to, when there is something wrong. Besides, I would really love to see her beautiful smile again.
I can see she is uncertain about my idea. She is thinking about it, until she looks at me and gives me a little smile. "I think that can be managed Mr. Duran," she says with a sassy tone. I can't contain my happiness and a broad smile appears on my face. "What's that? Someone seems happy," Loren says and she turns around to go get Melissa. I follow her. Before I go to Ian to inform him about the plans, I search for Ryan. I see him talking with Jake and my dad.
"Ryan, can we reschedule the shoot till tomorrow," I say to Ryan. He gives me a confused look as to say 'What's wrong'. "I'm not feeling so well, Chloe stuff," I explain to him. He is reluctant at first, but gives in. I give my dad a hug to say goodbye. It's nice to see him happy for once.
I walk towards the girls and Ian. Loren and Melissa both have a big smile on their faces. "So, Ian." I give him a pat on his back. "Care to join the ladies and me to Rumor for lunch," I ask my best bud. "We have a lot of catching up to do and I could use your help to entertain the ladies," I say while pointing at Loren and Melissa. We all laugh and Ian is more than willing to come with us. We leave MK and we all take our own cars to drive to Rumor. Ian, Melissa and Loren are all following me.
When we get to Rumor, we sit at my regular table. The waiter gives us all a menu and the girls look at it as it's written in a foreign language. I order the lasagna for Melissa, Loren and me and Ian orders crab. I love the lasagna the most here, because it's close to how my mom used to make it. "What did you just order for us? For all we know it could be some kind of poison," Melissa says with a straight face.
"You two will have to wait and see and in the meantime have to trust me," I say. We all laugh. We get to talk about everything, nothing important, until Ian brings up the topic Chloe. The last topic I want to talk about right now, especially in front of Melissa and Loren. But I answer his questions, because he deserves an explanation.
"What happened with Chloe," Ian asks, straight to the point as always. I can feel Loren and Melissa's gaze on me. They want to know what happened too of course. No one, except Chloe, Tyler, my dad and me, knows what happened exactly. They only know what appeared in the gossip magazines, but that's not the truth.
"First of all, she lied about everything you can imagine. And then when I went to her place to break-up, I found her on her couch with no one other than Tyler Rorke," I reply with a sad smile. My mind flutters back to the worst moment of my life, well second worst. Just thinking about it makes me sick. Nobody says anything, because really there is nothing to say. The sound of a ringing phone interrupts the silence. Loren fumbles into her pocket to get her phone out.
She excuses herself, turns around in her chair and answers her phone. "I'm so glad you are calling. Can we meet up to talk," Loren asks into her phone as soft as possible. Ian and Melissa start a conversation, but I'm too focused on Loren's phone conversation. I'm pretty sure it's Cam who is calling. "Okay, meet me at the Café in five," is the last thing she says before hanging up her phone. She turns back to us. "I'm so sorry guys, but I have to go. Thank you for the almost lunch, Eddie. I will see you tomorrow," Loren says to me, while getting up from her chair.
"But, wait Lo. You are my ride," Melissa says. "How am I getting home now?" Loren looks at her and you can see she totally forgot about that.
"I can drop you of at your house," Ian offers. "No problem." Loren smiles at him gratefully and grabs her purse. She looks at me before she leaves and gives me a thankful smile, leaving me sad. I hoped it was over between her and Cam, but that doesn't seem like the case anymore. The three of us finish dinner and when we are done, Ian takes Melissa home and I go back to my penthouse.
At my penthouse, I sit on my small piano bench and I let my fingers flow over the keys. I have an idea for a song. I begin to play the piano and as I get into the perfect melody, I start to sing the words from lyrics that have been stuck in my head since I found out about Cam being Loren's boyfriend at MK today.
"That should be me – Justin Bieber"
Everybody's laughing in my mind
Rumors spreading 'bout this other guy
Do you do what you did when you
Did with me?
Does he love you the way I can?
Did you forget all the plans
That you made with me?
'cause baby I didn't
That should be me
Holdin' your hand
That should be me
Makin' you laugh
That should be me
This is so sad
That should be me
That should be me
That should be me
Feelin' your kiss
That should be me
Buyin' you gifts
This is so wrong,
I can't go on,
Till you believe that
That should be me
That should be me
You said you needed a little time
For my mistakes
It's funny how you use that time
To have me replaced
But did you think that I wouldn't see you out at the movies
What you doin' to me
You're takin' him where we used to go
Now if you're tryin' to break my heart
It's working 'cause you know that
[Chorus:]
That should be me
Holdin' your hand
That should be me
Makin' you laugh
That should be me
This is so sad
That should be me
That should be me
That should be me
Feelin' your kiss
That should be me
Buyin' you gifts
This is so wrong,
I can't go on,
Till you believe that
That should be me
I need to know, should I fight for love or disarm
It's getting harder to shield
This pain in my heart
[Chorus:]
That should be me
Holdin' your hand
That should be me
Makin' you laugh
That should be me
This is so sad
That should be me
That should be me
That should be me
Feelin' your kiss
That should be me
Buyin' you gifts
This is so wrong,
I can't go on,
Till you believe that
That should be me
Holding your hand
That should be me
The one making you laugh, oh baby
That should be me
That should be me giving you flowers
That should be me
Talking for hours
That should be me,
That should be me
That should be me
Never should've let you go
I never should've let you go
That should be me
Never should've let you go
That should be me
Never should've let you go
I never should've let you go
That should be me
If only there was a way to make Loren mine. No, I have to stop thinking like this, because I'm not going to break-up their relationship. That wouldn't be fair to her and Cam. If only I know now, what I'll know in the future.
AN: I really hope you guys like this chapture. Please let me know in the reviews. I will try to fix a new chapter this week and get it online before weekend starts.
LOVE, C.