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We made our way back through the city...Stopping every so often for I don't even know what...It had to be like 4 am by the time we reached the block with the hotel... Lia was complaining she was starving. She told the guys to wait outside while we ran into this 24hr convenience store thing... I was still so fucked up too; I didn't even argue I just followed her into the store. There was no one in there. And I mean no one... I guess everyone had already gone home or where ever they were going for the night...

Were going down the aisles and Lia's loading my arms up with all this crap she's not really gonna eat. So I'm ditching it as we go along...

"Oooh Oreos!" She says handing them to me. "Cheesy doodles- yum!" She says piling two bags into my arms.

"Li- you can eat all this crap." I say putting the Oreos down. She just ignores me and keeps walking. We were passing the frozen cabinet thing and she stops and presses her face to it. "No no Lia." I say like she's three years old. "I don't have enough money for all this crap." I tell her.

She spins around. "You can put all that back if you buy me some of that chunky monkey ice-cream." She says pleading with me. I make a face. I hate bananas...

"Whatever Lia, can we just go." I say as she pulls two containers out. "Hey you said one!" I yell. She grabs the containers and pulls them close to her chest as I reach for one to put back.

"Do NOT make me make a scene." She says threateningly. I laugh a little.

"Can we go?" I say and Lia nods happily. As she steps away form the freezer wall I see the whipped cream cans and I grab one. "I need this." I say as she watches me grab one.

"For breakfast?" She says nodding.

"Fuck no!" I tell her. I mean I guess Lia figured I was getting it so she could put it on her eggs in the morning... I would never eat that crap...I can't even stand watching her eat it... I make a face at her.

"Then for what?" She says nervously pulling the ice cream closer to her.

"I'm not gonna eat your ice-cream!" I laugh and she sighs. "I uh... didn't bring anything to sleep in so..." I say shaking the can in the air a little...

Lia's face dropped. "You're sick, you know." She says laughing a little.

"Aw come on." I laugh as we walk towards the counter.

"No I mean there's dirty, and then there's kinky, and then there's you!" She says shaking her head a little.

"What's that suppose to mean?" I laugh as Lia stops walking. She takes a step back and grabs a box of condoms and holds them up.

"Do you need them?" She says and I look at her blankly. "Did you bring any?" She says a little louder and I continue to just look at her stupidly. "I mean you are using them right?" She says taking a step towards me. I look down at my feet. "Are you fucking nuts!"? She practically screams at me.

"Lia it's not that..I..." I just didn't know what to say to her...I mean I don't know why we never used anything.. we just never did....

"You're gonna end up like your mom." She says stomping towards the counter. "How could you be so fucking stupid." She says tossing the stuff on it. "Like stupid...all the time!" She says frowning at me. The guy is ringing our stuff up now. He looked no older than we were... He was staring at Lia as she continued to curse under her breath.

"It's gotta a suck working on New Years huh?" I say as he totals out our sale. He shrugged a little and held out his hand. I pull out a few bills. "Wait I have the change." I tell him digging through my purse.

"It's 28 cents." Lia sighs.

"I have it." I say pulling out a few pennies.

"You have 28 pennies!" Lia laughs a little. What the fuck now she's happy again? And she says I have mood swings?

"I do." I say. "And I'm glad to see you're happy again." I tease.

"Oh I'm still pissed at you." She says sticking her tongue at me a little. "But not as pissed as he is." She says pointing to the cashier guy.

"Why would he be?" I say pulling out a few more pennies.

"Cause you're fucking drunk counting out pennies at like 3 am on New Years Eve!" She laughs again. I look at the guy and he kinda nods.

"It's day now actually." He says.

"Oh... look I found a dime!" I say pulling it out and putting it on the counter. "well then why are you pissed at me?" I say to Lia as I try to count the change I laid out on the counter.

"Uh lets start with the obvious." She laughs.

"You still need 8 more cents." The guy said sighing a little.

"Oh" I tell him and open my purse again. I look over at Lia and nod for her to continue.

"Okay so." She says turning to the guy at the counter..."Let me ask you, if you think I should be pissed or not. okay?" she says and he just looked at her. "I have been waiting how long... how long now Elle to kiss Bob on New Years Eve?" She says waving her hands around.

"I guess since uh Monday when I invited you." I said pulling out a nickel and placing it on the counter proudly.

"3 more." The guys say tapping his finger on the counter slightly.

"Bitch." Lia mumbles. I laugh a little. She turns back to the guy. "Okay so the clocks counting down and where oh where has my little Bob gone?" She says very seriously. Damn she so fucked up... the guy shakes his head... he doesn't know... "He's kissing her." She says pointing to me like I'm diseased...

"It wasn't like that!" I protest.

"No it was!" Lia argues. "You had Bob and I had to kiss Gerard." She says shaking her head a little.

"You kissed Gerard." I said to her totally shocked. She smiled a little.

"Well yeah." She says obviously enjoying this...

"When?" I say a little outraged.

"At midnight Elle... that's what you do..." She laughs a little.

"You kissed my boyfriend!" I say loudly. The guy behind the counter is just staring at us not saying anything...

"You MARRIED mine." She yells back.

"But I didn't kiss him." I protest.

"Elle what the fuck do they say at the end... fucking shake the brides hand?" She laughs.

"I didn't kiss him like THAT!" I say shaking my head at her.

"Well like how?" She says.

"Like this." I say and I lean over and give her a quick peck on the lips like Bob did to me...

"Oh." She says a little shocked.

"Well how'd you kiss Gerard?" I asked her.

"Ummm, it was more like this." She says pulling me towards her and pressing her lips against mine... Hard.... At the last minute she ran her tongue along my lips and pushed it into my mouth slightly.

"You stuck your tongue in his mouth!" I say to her as she pulls away.

"No!" She insists.

"Well you just stuck it in mine." I say looking over at the cashier guy. He was grinning... a lot... "Didn't she?" I ask.

"I didn't" She insists.

"Well try again then." I say pulling her towards me. She pressed her lips to mine again, not as hard this time and opened her mouth slightly and touched my lip softly with her tongue.

"What the fuck are you guys doing!" Bobs voice calls out and Lia steps back. Gerard and Bob were like 5 feet away from us. I just looked at Gerard blankly.

"I told you'd she'd kiss everyone before the nights over!" Lia laughs and Gerard frowns as he steps towards me.

"Hey did you kiss Lia?!" I say punching his chest lightly.

"What?" He says looking at her.

"At midnight?" I say punching him again. "did.you.kiss.her?"

"I guess." He mumbles.

"Well show me." I say pushing him towards her.

"What?!" He laughs a little.

"I want to see what kind of kiss it was." I say pushing him towards her again.

"I don't think so Elle." Bob says frowning a little.

"Well then here, tell me which one it was more like." I say and Gerard makes a face at me. "Like this." I say kissing Lia hard and forcing my tongue into her mouth before I pull back. "Or was it like this." I say grabbing her again and kissing her not as hard. "Well???" I say as Lia pulls away and wipes her mouth a little.

"I don't fucking know." Gerard laughs a little.

"I'd like to see the choices again." The guy behind the counter laughs. Gerard glares at him.

"Who the fuck are you?" He says roughly.

"Oh I owe him 2 cents still." I say opening my purse.

"Actually its 3" The guys says leaning forward and smiling a little creepy at me now.

Bob slams a quarter down on the counter. "Keep the change." He growls at him and grabs Lia's arm and pulls her outside...

"I think he's pissed that she kissed you." I say to Gerard as we walk out. Lia and Bob are walking ahead of us and they seem to be arguing again... So much for Bobs plan of having a no bullshit relationship with her... I tried to tell him.. that's just not her...

"What the fuck did you buy anyway?" Gerard says looking into the bag. "banana?" He laughs. "I thought you don't like banana?"

"Just the whipped cream is mine" I say taking the bag from him as we get into the elevator. Lia and Bob were already inside it... kissing... That had to be the shortest fight ever... I mean it lasted like a minute and a half.... I rolled my eyes at them as we rode the elevator up in silence... Gerard opened the door to the room and I handed Lia her bag taking the whipped cream from it as I went into the bedroom...

"You're just gonna eat whipped cream." Gerard laughs as he shuts the door.

"Oh its not for eating". I tease as he locks the door. He looks over his shoulder at me and raises one eyebrow a little and gives me half a smile as I climb up on to the bed.

"Well it is...but uh, I'm not gonna be the one eating it." I say shaking the can a little as he comes towards me..."YOU are."


I wake up the next morning alone in the bed... I can hear the shower running. The bedroom door is still locked so I figure it must be Gerard in there. My head is throbbing... Like pounding throbbing... There's an open bottle of aspirin on the nightstand... They were in my purse, but I guess Gerard woke up feeling just as shitty as I do... I swallow a few and lay back down putting the pillow over my head... It was kinda sticky... Actually the whole bed was sticky... Fuck... I hear the bathroom door opening.

"You up?" I hear Gerard's voice say.

I pull the pillow from my face and look over at him. "Holy shit!" I yell out jumping up out of the bed. "What did you do to your hair!" I say running my hands through it. It was shorter... Not too short but short enough that it didn't hang in his eyes anymore.

"I just got tired of it being all greasy and shit.." He said kissing my cheek a little as I tugged on it a little.

"I like it." I said smiling a little, pulling myself closer to him...

"Hey you're all sticky." He said stepping back a little. I frowned. "Go take a shower you'll feel better." He said pushing me towards the bathroom.

I moaned a little, but did what he said... I looked down at the fake gold metal ring on my finger. For a second I had no clue what it was..."Gerard!" I yelled panicking a little. It all came flooding back to me as he appeared in the doorway.

"What's the matter?" He gasped a little. I held my hand up in the air and pointed to the ring. "what?" He repeated.

"Karma fucked me again." I said trying to pull the ring off my finger...It was a little too small and it was stuck...

"Let me see." He said tugging on it a little. I cried out in pain. "I'm sorry baby." He said kissing my cheek as I started to sob a little. "I didn't hurt you that much did I?" Gerard said wiping the tears on my cheeks.

"No this is what I get for stopping Bills divorce..." I sniffle a little as Gerard twists the ring around a little.

"What?" He laughs a little.

"Don't you get it!" I say as he tugs it again. "Karma came back and knocked me on my ass!" I was laughing and sobbing all at the same time. "Now I have to get a divorce!"

Gerard smiles. "It wasn't karma Elle." He says sliding the ring off my finger now. "I was the Bacardi 151." He laughs kissing my hand. He rubbed his thumb along the green mark that was left on my finger and sighed a little.

"How come it wasn't you?" I said softly.

"What?" He whispered back without looking up.

"I wish it would've been you last night." I said and he looked up at me and bit down on his lip slightly. He was going to say something but Lia started pounding on the bedroom door. He let go of my hand and left me alone in the bathroom.

"I just needed my bag." I hear Lia say as she comes in. I turn on the hair dryer and start blow drying my hair... Gerard never came back in the bathroom... I finished drying my hair and put on a little make-up. I could faintly hear the TV on in the living room area. And it sounded like Bob and Lia were arguing about how exactly the couch bed closes back up.

I step out into the bedroom to grab a pair of shoes and Gerard is sitting on the floor, leaning against the wall with a strange expression on his face. The wall safe is open above his head and he's holding a pink piece of paper between his finger tips. The pink envelope is laying at his feet.

"Karma." He laughs a little nervously... He was obviously upset at what the letter said.

"What?" I say frozen a few feet away from him.

"Karma... you know...5-2-7-6-2..."He says folding the paper in half and sliding it back into the envelope. I cant believe he figured that out...

"What does it say?" I say softly.

"You were right." He said getting up grabbing the envelope tighter now. I took a step towards him and reached for the envelope...

"It can't be that bad." I said trying to take it from him. He didn't let go. He just looked at me with a sad look in his eye..."Gerard you know what it says now ... now you either tell me or let me see." I say firmly tugging on the envelope in his hand again. He let it go and took a step back...

"Yeah but now I wish I didn't know..."