Red Lips, Finger Tips.

chapter 11

"Wake up sleeping beauty we're here" Ronnie lightly shook me.
"What time is it?" I yawned.
"About 3.30am"
"Ugh, you could have left me asleep" I moaned sitting up.
"Why, when there's a hotel for us to stay in?"
"Okay, someone lets us out I want bed" I shouted.
The doors opened, Max held his hand out to help me stand but Ronnie took hold of it and winked at him. I laughed at Max's tired,
unamused face however he pulled Ronnie up and smacked his ass when he got out. He held it out again for me, I accepted he pulled
me up too quick and I landed on him knocking him to the floor of the car park. I looked down trying to look into his green eyes
but they were covered by his brown hair, I rolled off laughing.
"Sorry" he mumbled sitting up.
"She's not as big as Ronnie don't use so much force" Monte laughed closing the doors, then running after Ronnie and Robert who
were already in the hotel checking in.
"It's fine dude" I laughed even harder.
"Why aren't you threanting to kill me?" he turened around to look at me laughing on the floor.
"I honestly don't care anymore" I laughed pulling him back down so he was laying next to me, he has a hurt expression on his
beautiful pale face. "I said that wrong it's not that I don't care, if I did say anything it wouldn't matter we're not together"
He didn't say anything just turned on to his side so he was facing me.
"Plus, I'm not ready for that yet" I mumbled turning away from his gaze.
He gently pulled me around, he slowly moved my hair from my face and half smiled. Within a slpit second he had place his lips
on mine, his lip ring clashed off mine, he put his hands under my head to deepen the kiss, I put my through his hair as his tounge
slowly slid into my mouth. He was clearly in control but it didn't scare me, I smiled into the kiss making him to the same. The kiss
broke but we lent our heads together.
"I'll wait for when you are, even if I have to wait for you to go out with Craig for a while" he whispered with his lips lightly
brushing mine as he did so.
"When and if I do, you're getting tested before hand" I laughed in his face, literally.
"Ooo burn" he said standing up. "C'mon up you look like a tramp"
"I am one" I laughed.
"Was" he corrected.
"No helping me?" I said sarcastially getting up.
"Nope, I think you can do it better yourself" he smiled awkwardly.
"C'mon, sleep is needed"

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*beep, beep*

Craig:
We need to talk.

Not the best way to start the day. I rolled over in the big white bed I had to myself and checked the time, 11.30am. I picked the
phone back up and replied to him.

Butterfly:
Yeah, sure. Where you at?

Craig:
You're in the same hotel meet me at
the bar, please.

Butterfly:
How did you know I was in the same
hotel?

Craig:
I saw the haggard ass van you guys
have.

I threw the phone on the chair in the corner of the room, he's clearly pissed off and now pissing me off. I got up and grabbed
my clothes from my bag, black high wasted skinny jeans and a black lace long sleaved top I put the shoes on the old lady had
given me and sat down in front of the dresser. I put the usual eye make up on buy today felt like a purple lipstick day not red,
it clashed with my lime green nails and bits of my hair. Instead of staightening my hair I grabbed a bunch of hair grips and ramdonly
pinned bits of it up so it looked like I had a birds nest on my head, the full fringe I had cut in had grown too long so I pushed it to
the side. I picked up the pen and paper that were left for you to write your own hotel review but worte.

GONE TO SEE CRAIG,
RING IF YOU NEED ME
XO

I left it on the dresser grabbed my phone and ran down the stairs, I only had to run down one flight of stairs and I was in the
hotel lobby. Some people gave me weird looks probaly because you can see my bra throuh my lace top, I felt like I was in
Pretty Woman or something, I walked past them with a little smile and opened the door to the bar. Craig was sat by himself
at a table in the face corner of the polished white room. It only made me stand out more, sometimes it sucks to wear all black.
I walked over to him and sat down across from him. I halfed smiled.
"Hey"
"Yeah, hey" he mumbled.
"So what?"
"Why did you think you could talk to Charlotte?" sighed moving forward.
"Who?"
"My ex" he spat.
"Whoa, look ask Robert and Monte about that one. They blind folded me and dragged me to talk to her on the way here
yesterday. Ask her yourself and I didn't get chance to talk to her Max dragged me away" I warned with attituded leaning
back in my chair.
"Max, he would wouldn't he? So you didn't have to know the truth"
"Leave him out of this. What am I here for?"
"It was so I could shout at you for going behind my back but before all that crap it was to give you this" he said picking up
a silver present bag and passing it to me. I opened to see a grey fur, I pulled it out and it was a vintage fur coat
from my favourite shop. I was speechless.
"I bought it two weeks ago"
"Wait, I knew I smelt something familiar when I went there, it was you in the beanie and Katherine said she thought she
saw you, you were with..."
"My daughter" he nodded. "She picked it for you, the most expensive thing in the shop as it would be but Katherine gave
me a discount" he rambled on.
"You could have told me you know, I wouldn't have minded. God, I'm an idiot jumping to conclusions" I sighed putting the
coat back in the bag.
"You don't mind?" he asked smiling.
"Not at all, everybody has baggage, not saying a child is baggage" I giggled, biting my lip.
"What's yours?" he chuckled.
"Where to start?" I sighed, looking down.
"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to" he said leaning across the table holding my hand.
"I've never told anybody face to face, the last time I said it out loud I cried and ran away" I fake laughed, he squeezed my hand.
"Don't treat me differently, please"
"Never, butterfly" hearing those words made me well up but I kept the tears in.
"I'm a runaway, I was homeless for 2 years until Ronnie and Max kind of made me stay with them" I smiled looking up to
look at Craig. "I ran away because my Mom's boyfriend used to abuse me" I said looking into his big brown eyes, I could see
them fill with pitty but then they changed it looked like he was hurt for me, he shook his head and I squeezed his hand to
as if to say it's all good.
"I don't know what to say" he shook his head again.
"Nothing, leave it it's in the past. Nothing can change the past, it happened the future can get be better, right?" I half smiled.
"Will you be in my future?"
"Of course" I giggled rolling my eyes.
"No, I mean as my girlfriend?" he asked awkwardly.
I got butterflies in my stomach but they soon died.
"Craig, please don't take this the wrong way. I'm not ready" I sighed, I lent forward and kissed his his lips lightly.
He put his hands through my hair and deepend the kiss. We pulled away and laughed.
"You're smooth girl"
"I know" I winked. "You have purple lips" I said throwing a napkin at him, he shook his head laughing still.
"We should go get our boys ready and head to the venue" he nodded getting up, I did the same and picked up the gift he had
gave me. "Hey, Katie I can wait you know" he said pulling me into a hug.
"Thanks for understaning" I mumbled into his chest.
"But for now no more arguing and you can meet my daughter when she comes to stay with me next, as a friend. She'll
love you and I'm sure Charlotte wouldn't mind. She actually said you we're lovely"
I pulled my head back at looked up at him with raised eyebrows.
"So you did talk to her?"
"Maybe a little" he blushed. "I didn't know how else to start a conversation with you otherwise"
"It's fine" I laughed.
"But yeah, Charlotte said she would be okay with it"
"Sure" I smiled walking away from him.
"You and Max aren't together, right?" he shouted after me.
"Right" I shouted back.