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“You alright honey?” I hear Bob say and I roll over a little and look at him. What the hell was he doing here? “Here Gerard said you needed this.” He tells me holding a calculator out and I shook my head no at it.

“Naw not anymore.” I tell him and he tosses it on to the nightstand.

“Mmm what's the matter Elle?” He says and I shrug.

“Nothing. Everything. You know the usual.” I say and he nods. “mmm what are you dong here?” I ask and he kinda shrugged.

“Oh wait before I forget, I got you something.” He says smiling a little at me and I couldn’t help but smile back as he pulled a chocolate bar from his pocket.

“Aw Bob.” I cooed at him as I tore it open… “Thank you so much!” I tell him and he didn’t say anything. Just watched me it eat it. It was a Hershey bar. And it was kinda mushy. I guess cause Bob’s so warm it kinda melted in his pocket a little. I licked my fingertips as I broke the pieces off to eat it, trying to contain the mess the best I could but it was no use… I was getting chocolate everywhere… All over Gerard's bed…”Aw shit.” I mumbled looking at the mess…

“You know, I was talking to Gerard upstairs Elle.” He says and I shrug. I guess he knew what happened last night too then…

“I wish you would’ve stayed with me Bob.” I tell him and he kinda looked me over in the bed a little.

“What?” He says like maybe he didn’t hear right.

“I said I wished I was with you last night and not Frankie. I mean where did you even go when you left me?” I ask him sitting up on the bed and he just kinda looked at me like maybe we weren’t having the same conversation…

“I went to watch Lia at work.” He says and then he smiled a little. “Well not watch Lia, you know what I mean.” He says and I nod a little. So that’s why Mikey made a big deal about him staying, cause he had to go ‘watch’ Lia…I didn’t realize he was still shadowing her… I mean I should've realized it… He did say as long as she went there he was gonna be there too. And I don’t know why but that thought seemed to piss me off.

“So what are you guys getting back together now?” I say a little bitterly diverting my eyes from his. They were no good for each other. It was obvious…

“Uh no.” He laughs and I look back at him.

“No?” I repeat back and he shakes his head a little.

“Why would you even think that?” He laughs.

“I dunno.” I shrug. “You guys just seem close lately.” I tell him and he just looked at me.

“Well I've been driving her around a lot you know.” He says and I make a face.

“No. No I don’t know.” I tell him roughly and he frowned a little. I hated being left out and I didn’t know what the fuck he was talking about…

“You know since she lost her license.” He tells me and I shake my head a little in disagreement.

“No she didn’t.” I tell him and he smiled.

“Uh yeah she did Elle.” He insists as I pouted… “Remember the accident?” He says and I continued to look at him like I just didn’t believe him… “They took her license for that, her car too.” He says and I gasped a little.

“They cant do that!” I say a little outraged and he kinda shrugged.

“Sure they can.” He tells me. “I mean her parents took her car back when she moved out.” He tells me and I frown. She never told me that… “And the state took her license cause of the accident.” He says and I shake my head a little.

“Yeah but Gerard was driving too. Nothing happened to him, he still has a license doesn’t he?” I ask Bob and he frowned at me.

“That’s cause Gerard wasn’t fucked up Elle. Lia was.” He says plainly.

“How would they even know that!” I exclaim.

“Uh they took her blood at the hospital.” He tells me and I frown. “Elle I'm telling you she was all sorts a fucked up she could’ve killed you.” He says a little angrily…

“Bob don’t start okay. You were there, you could’ve stopped her from driving, any of us could have. It’s not fair to put all the blame on her...” I tell him and he kinda made a face at me.

“Elle how the fuck do you defend everyone huh?” He says and I cross my arms on my chest a little defensively as I look up at him.

“Aw that’s just how she is.” I hear Gerard say and I look over as he came down the steps. I didn’t even hear him coming down… “She fucking defends everyone.” He says tossing the bags onto the floor by the bed…

“I do not.” I protest.

“Elle don’t even say it’s not true cause-.” Gerard starts to say and stops mid-sentence and just kinda looked at me. “Did you give her fucking chocolate?” He says looking over at Bob.

“What?” I gasp a little as he stepped towards me. I could see him looking at his sheets so I tried to cover it with the blanket and he laughed.

“Elle come on now.” He says and I smiled.

“How do you know I even had chocolate?” I say and he smiled back at me.

“Cause its on your nose.” He laughs as he wipes it off of me. “What a fucking mess you made too!” He says pulling the blanket back and I look down remorsefully. “Thanks a lot Bob.” He laughs and Bob didn’t say anything.

“How do you know he gave it to me hmm?” I ask and Gerard smirks.

“Cause you got no pockets Elle.” He tells me and I frown… “Now you can change the fucking sheets.” He says and I look at him like yeah right. “Well I don’t know about you but I'm not gonna sleep in chocolate.” He teases me.

“I'm not either.” I exclaim. “You know I'm not sleeping here, right Gerard.” I tell him and he frowned a little.

“Where the fuck you think you're gonna sleep then?” He says and he glances over at Bob. Bob kinda shrugged like he didn’t know what I was talking about and Gerard turned his eyes back on to me.

“I got a hotel room.” I tell him and he shakes his head no. “It wasn’t a question Gerard.” I say and he smirked a little at me… That’s usually what he tells me… “I'm telling you I got a room and I'm gonna go stay in it.” I say firmly.

“By yourself.” He says like the words themselves outraged him.

“Uh yeah.” I say and I go to get up off the bed and he pushed me back down.

“No you sit.” He says and I frowned.

“Gerard.” I argue and I go to stand up again.

“Sit the fuck down Elle. I'm not done talking to you.” He tells me and I make a face at him.

“Well I am.” I say roughly and he stepped in front of me so I couldn’t get up.

“You think you're gonna fucking stay there by yourself, you’re crazy.” He says kinda loudly to me…. Bob looked like he was gonna say something to him about his tone but I shook my head a little at him like please don’t… Gerard noticed and glanced over at him. “You fucking tell him what happened?” He says and I frown confused.

“What do you mean what happened? Nothing happened.” I say and Gerard widens his eyes a little.

“At the diner with the cheesecake.” He says and I sigh. Fucking Frankie…

“Frankie’s got a big mouth.” I mumble.

“Yeah you’d be surprised at the shit that comes out of him when you got your knee pressed to his throat.” Gerard laughs and I frown.

“What the hell you talking about?” Bob asks and I shrug.

“It was the same fucking guy from Pauls house right Elle?” Gerard says and I shrug again. “He sent the cheesecake right? He was fucking watching you wasn’t he?” He demands and I just looked at him.

“Gerard I honestly don’t know.” I tell him and he scoffed a little. “Really. I didn’t see anyone. And I told Frankie we should just leave and we did.” I tell him and he sighed a little.

“So that guy was at the diner?” Bob asks and I shrug.

“I don’t know who it was Bob.” I say and Gerard shook his head a little… “Really Gerard. It’s not a big deal okay. It was probably just a misunderstanding.” I say shrugging a little and he turned his eyes back on to me.

“A misunderstanding?” He scoffs at me. “Elle fucking wake up huh.” He says harshly to me and I frown. It’s usually at this point that Ray steps in and tells him to chill… But Rays not here, so Gerard just carried on…

“Just stop. you're making a big fucking deal out of nothing.” I tell him, throwing my hands up in the air and he laughs.

“You think this is nothing.” He says and I press my lips together a little. “Seriously Elle, tell me.” He says talking down to me now…

“I think that it’s just a misunderstanding.” I say trying to rationalize it away. “I mean maybe some guy saw I was upset and thought some cheesecake would make me feel better.” I say and he smirked a little. “I don’t think he meant any harm in. I just don’t know why you always assume the worst.” I tell him and he laughed sharply.

“And you think the world is made of fucking rainbows and chocolate bars.” He says and I frown.

“No, but I think everybody deserves a chance.” I say and he looked at me like I was nuts… “That’s what my mom always said Gerard.” I told him lowering my voice down.

“Yeah and look what good it did her.” He says and I gasped a little.

“What?” I say totally taken a back. I mean there's no way he’s gonna talk shit about my mother is there?

“Elle, your mother.” He started to say and bit his tongue a little.

“What about my mother?” I demand and he didn’t answer me…

“Elle lets just talk about the fucking guy that broke into Pauls alright?” He says and I shrug and look over at Bob. He was just standing there not saying anything…”He fucking followed you to the diner, you know that right?” He says and I shake my head no.

“No, I don’t know that that was him.” I say and Gerard shook his head a little.

“Naw Elle. It was him.” He says firmly and I shrug again not convinced. “And I willing to bet he’s responsible for your flat tires too.” He says and I make a face.

“Come on now Gerard, why would he do that?” I say like it’s the most ridiculous thing I ever heard. “He said he wasn’t gonna hurt me…” I say and Gerard started to get loud… Well. Louder…

“Oh well, then if that’s what he said then lets not worry about it hmmm.” He says and I frown…

“I'm just saying that I have no reason not to trust him.” I say softly and that was it… He completely lost it.

“How could you fucking say that!” He yells at me. “I don’t believe you're gonna stand here and defend him!” He says totally outraged with me…

“I'm not defending him. I'm just saying.” I try to say but he talks over me.

“You're just saying give him a chance right?” He says and I nod. “Cause what the fuck, he went through all the trouble to break into Pauls, cause he wanted to ‘talk’ to you, so you at least owe him that courtesy right.” He says sarcasm dripping from his tongue…I kinda nodded at him and he flipped out. “Are you that fucking stupid Elle!” He kinda screamed at me. “Really? Are you?” He carried on and I just lost it… tears just poured from my eyes as he yelled at me.

“Dude.” Bob tells him and kinda grabbed his arm a little and pulled him back from me.

“No Bob stay out of this.” I tell him as I stood up… Bob just kinda frowned at me but didn’t say anything. “Yeah I guess I am stupid Gerard.” I say reaching over and picking my bag up off the floor. “I'm stupid for thinking that this was ever gonna work out…” I tell him as I turn around and take a step towards the stairs.

“You walking out on me?” I hear Gerard's voice and I pause at the bottom of the steps…

“You're damn right I am…”