Speak Low If You Speak Love

Zoë woke up the next morning with a slight hangover and a body beside her. She opened her eyes and smiled when she saw the messy black hair of the person beside her. She closed her eyes again as she moved closer to him and fell back asleep. As she moved closer he pulled her tighter to him not bothering to open his eyes. He was the first to wake two hours later. Only because he heard voices. As he lay there hoping that Matt would go away he heard Paige’s voice and that of her annoying mothering and finally opened his eyes. He looked at the black curtains on the window and the blue sheers that were beneath. He turned his head to see who was beside him and he closed his eyes hoping that he was seeing things. He reopened them and muttered a slight curse under his breath as he moved from the bed. He of course hit the nightstand and muttered a curse under his breath only somewhat louder this time. He watched as her eyes fluttered open and saw the confusion at seeing him in her room first thing in the morning. Obviously he wasn’t who she was expecting.

“Chloe…Sophie…Josey…” Zack was stuttering over her name trying to remember. He knew he knew it but he got interrupted in the thought process.

“Try Zoë…” His head snapped up and Zoë’s head turned and she slowly sat up in bed pulling the covers up with her. Her blonde hair was a mess and she was looking everywhere but at the people in the room. She finally glanced at her cousin and noticed that she had a raised eyebrow and it was aimed at the man she had spent the night with. Zack muttered a curse once more under his breath and grabbed the jeans that were laying on the floor. He pulled them on and Matt shook his head as Zack walked from the room knowing from the look on his friends face he was a dead man.

Brian was opening his eyes the next morning and when he felt the brunette beside him move he rolled so that he was facing her and holding her in his arms. She opened her eyes a smile already on her face. She looked into his brown eyes and saw the same feelings in his eyes for her that had been there since high school. Brian placed a kiss to her lips as she rose to sit on his stomach. She leaned down and gently kissed him. He murmured her name as she pulled back. She smiled down at him and he glanced at her left hand which was resting on his chest. He moved so that she didn’t fall from where she was sitting, and so that he was sitting so she was now in his lap. He took her left hand in his and ran his other hand over the ring he had placed there the night before. She looked at him as his eyes met hers. He leaned in and kissed her gently.

“I love you Destinee Allure Rodriquez”

“I love you too Brian Elwin Haner Jr.” She replied back and placed a kiss to his lips. When they moved apart he smiled again.

“I’m so glad I finally got the guts to ask you to marry me…”

“You’re not the only one.” Destinee said glancing at the ring she had found three years prior and wonder the worst ever since about it.

“What’s that supposed to mean baby?”

“It’s just we’ve been together for a while and…”

“In other words you found the ring sometime in the last three years.” There was laughter in his eyes and she rolled hers and got a grin on her face. She teased him with a tender kiss and slowly moved from his lap.

“Nope, get your pretty little ass back here…” he said grabbing her hand. He pulled her back onto the bed and smirked as he moved his hands up her sides and then back down to run one over her hip and pull her closer to him. She smirked back and kissed him, this time there was a hunger in her kiss that neither of them denied.

“I DON’T FUCKING CARE JACOBY, DEVYN IS NOT STAYING WITH YOU WHILE YOUR HOME THIS SUMMER!” Heather yelled at her ex.

“I don’t see why she can’t, the whole point of me being home this summer and not on tour was so I could spend it with her. We already agreed to this.”

“And I said no, she’s going with me this summer when I go to my moms.”

“Heather… do not go back on your word with me.”

“Why the hell do you care Jacoby?”

“She’s my daughter too.”

“And she’s going to Michigan with me this summer to see my family.”

“Fine, if this is how you wanna play, I’ll play.” and Jacoby walked from the room, from the house not looking back not even to acknowledge Devyn because he’d be too tempted to take her with him. And he wasn’t going to get her if Heather accused him of kidnapping the child.

Zoë was sitting on her bed crying her eyes out as she got ready to head to the restaurant. She could hear her aunt’s yelling at Paige from down the hall. Her grandmother had passed that morning soon after the drama of waking up with Zack in her room, after he had spent the night in her bed. This was turning out to be the worst day in the history of bad days.