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Sure as shit the waitress came marching over to our table with the check in her hand and I didn’t even hear what she saying, I was too busy staring at my pie. Gerard kinda tugged me to get up but I was resistant… I didn’t want to leave it there… I just stared at it longingly as Bob tried to say something back to the waitress but she just wasn’t hearing it. He stood up and tossed some money on the table and kinda stormed out as Gerard tried to help me up out of the booth.

As I pulled my coat up onto me I took a quick glance back at the table and frowned at Bobs money on it. I mean what the fuck? He paid for the aquarium admission and now he's paying for lunch too? Would’ve been like a date –except for the fact Gerard was here…

I think Gerard thought I was frowning at my pie still cause he kinda looked at it and then at me and then back at it, and as the waitress reached to take the dishes he reached around her and grabbed the pie plate – the fork too.

“We’re taking this.” He says and as he took a step back from the table the woman just looked at him like she didn't know what to say. “Come on.” He nudges me to go towards the door so I do.

“You can’t take that.” She yells out after him and I think I saw him flip her off out of the corner of my eye.

“Fucking paid for it.” He replied as he pushed me outside.

“Gerard!” I kinda gasped at him as he hurried me down the steps. Bob was already in the car waiting for us, and the woman was at the door kinda yelling something at him. Gerard kinda quickly forced me in the car and Bob took off without even asking why… I mean it wasn’t the first time they did something stupid like that and had to take off in a hurry.

“Fuck Gerard! Why did you do that?” I tell him as we drove off, I was trying so hard not to laugh but I couldn’t help it. Bob sorta glanced over like what the hell was he holding.

“My baby wanted her pie.” Gerard says and then he turned and winked at me and I giggled a little.

“Yeah but she's gonna call the cops Gerard.” I tell him and he made a face at me. “She is!” I exclaimed. “I mean you stole that!” I tell him and he shook his head in disagreement.

“Naw Elle we paid for it.” He says and I laughed once more.

“Yeah but you stole the dish…. and the fork!” I added and now he laughed. “She's gonna call the cops.” I tell him once more and he smiled as he spun around in his seat.

“Naw maybe she’d just take down the license plate or something.” He says and I widened my eyes at him a little.

“Gerard its Bobs plate!” I exclaimed and he seemed to just smile wider at that.

“Yeah I know.” He says scrunched my face at him to try to show him I was angry but I just couldn’t… Not when he was sitting there with that boyish grin on his face –plus he was still holding my pie… I leant forward in the seat and licked my bottom lip a little as I looked over at it. I guess Bob was watching me in the rearview mirror or some shit cause as I went to reach for it he stopped me.

“Whoa!” He cried out blocking me from taking the dish from Gerard. “You're not eating that in here.” He tells me and I gave him the most pathetic look I could muster. I mean it was easy. I wanted that pie so badly… “Naw don't even fucking try it.” Bob sorta chuckled thwarting my pouting efforts so I turned them on to Gerard.

“Aw, I’ll feed it to you baby, come here.” He says turning around in his seat even more so and slowly fed it to me. Bob didn’t say anything and even with Gerard ‘feeding’ it to me. I still managed to get some on my nose…

“You could drop us at my house man.” He says to Bob as we drove.

“No Gerard we have to go to the hotel.” I tell him and he sorta frowned and didn’t say anything. “I just have to get my stuff -we can stay wherever you want.” I tell him quickly. I mean I didn’t want him to think I was going against him. I mean I told him I stay where he wanted me too and that I'd do what he wanted me too and I meant it. I really did.

“We can get my car from my house and go back Elle.” He says and I scoffed in disagreement.

“That’s fucking stupid, we’re closer to the hotel then your house.” I tell him and he exhaled slighted annoyed.

“Yeah but I'm sure Bob doesn’t want to drive us around all day.” He says but I think he meant ‘he’ didn’t want Bob driving us around, not the other way around.

“Its no problem.” Bob says and I nodded in agreement.

“It wont take long. I just gotta grab my bag.” I tell him and Gerard sorta made a face at me.

“You have to pack a bag first.” He points out and I rolled my eyes a little.

“Well I wanted to pack a bag last night, but you wouldn’t let me, you wanted to do something else.” I tease him and he grinned. He was just too easy sometimes… I mean I could always avoid a fight with him like that. Sexual innuendos… It was his weakness and it wasn’t beneath me to exploit it…

We got to the hotel and Bob kinda parked pretty close to the door. I kinda got the feeling that like he wasn’t gonna come in, like he was just gonna wait for us down there. But it was cold out, and I know I said a minute but I was kidding. I mean I was slow, everyone knows that.

“Come on Bobby.” I nudged him. “I’ll show you my room.” I teased him and he reluctantly followed us in…

I was chatting to Bobby about something, I don't even know what, I think we were debating the types of pie fillings available in the 1900’s or some shit as we followed Gerard down the long hallway. He got to the door and he just paused. I mean he had the key in his hand but he was just standing there. I kinda just peeked around him to see what the problem was.

“Holy shit.” I gasped. “Did you leave the door open?” I asked him and he looked at me with the same kinda look I had.

“I was gonna ask you that.” He says and I pressed my lips together a little as we looked at the door. I mean it wasn’t wide open. It was shut, but it wasn’t latched, so it was open a crack. Like if you had walked out and expected the door to slam shut behind you but it didn’t quite catch…

“Mmm housekeeping?” I suggested and he looked down the hall. It was clean. I mean there was no obvious signs that housekeeping came through.

“Did you hang that tag on the door?” He says to me and I shook my head a little.

“I can’t remember.” I tell him truthfully. I mean I was so worried this morning about him and Bobby that I just didn’t know… I wasn’t really paying attention when we left.

“What's the big deal?” Bob asked sounding a little confused.

“Uh Will called last night.” I tell him softly and he widened his eyes at me.

“Here?!” He cried out and I nodded. “Why the fuck didn’t you tell me this Elle?” He says and I shrugged.

“I forgot?” I offered and he frowned as he pulled me behind him slightly and reached over and pushed the rooms’ door open.

I kinda peeked around him and didn’t see anything inside. I mean the bed was made which means that housekeeping did come, but I guess Gerard wasn’t taking any chances cause he stepped in first and immediately went over and opened the bathroom door and looked around.

“Housekeeping?” I asked once again and he shrugged like he supposed so. I mean there really wasn’t any other explanation.

“You know what lets just get the fuck out of here.” He says and I nodded in agreement. I mean I had a real uneasy feeling building up inside me now… “Just take everything Elle.” He says waving his hand slightly. “We ain’t fucking stay here anymore.” He says and I didn’t argue back. I mean it was probably housekeeping that left the door open and that was fucked up…

“Should I call and complain?” I asked Gerard and he shrugged as he lit a cigarette up. I didn’t have anything valuable but it was just the point of it…

“Just pack your shit.” He sorta grumbled at me and I frowned. I mean I know he was upset, I was upset too, but I don't get why it was okay for him to stand there and fucking grumble and pout about it and I was suppose to pack? Like he wanted it done, but he wasn’t gonna help… Made me feel like it was my fault. And it kinda was…

Fuck, what am I saying 'kinda was' for? It was totally my fault… Everything that was happening was my fault…

“Here I’ll help you honey.” Bob says softly as he knelt on the floor next to me. I was kinda sniffling back my tears as I emptied the drawers back into my backpack.

“Thanks Bobby.” I replied wiping my eyes and I heard Gerard sigh a little.

“Come here Elle.” He calls me over and I slowly got up and went towards him.

I was so afraid he was gonna yell at me. Tell me I wasn’t packing fast enough, or maybe yell at me that he told me not to unpack all that shit but I did it anyway… I really didn’t know, but I was expecting it to be bad, so when he pulled me in his arms and kissed the top of my head I was at a total loss for words.

“You okay?” He asks me softly and I wrapped my arms around his waist and pulled myself against him tightly.

“Mm-hmm.” I sighed a little into his chest. It felt so good being in his arms. Like nothing else mattered and it really didn’t… not to me at least….

I was gonna tell him how much I loved him, how much I needed him, how he was the only thing that mattered to me but I didn’t get a chance cause there was this sudden buzzing sensation running through my body…

“What the fuck Gerard?” I tell him instead. “Are you fucking vibrating?” I ask him and he sorta looked a little confused for a second, but then he pulled this pager out if his pocket and clicked a button or something and it stopped. “You have a pager?” I asked him in disbelief and he tried to shove it back in his pocket but I snatched it from him.

“Sure Elle.” Bob chimes in from across the room. “Don't you know, all dealers do.” He says and Gerard shot him a nasty look as he tried to take it back from me.

“Well let’s see who it is shall we?” I tell him and he looked down a little remorsefully.

“I'm getting rid of it Elle.” He says weakly and I shrugged as I pressed the buttons trying to figure out how to work it.

“Its Jay.” I announced and Gerard looked at me like I was kidding. “Joey –Jay, whatever.” I tell him and he shrugged like he didn’t care. “Well call him back.” I tell him nodding towards the phone. I mean I knew Jay, he wasn’t gonna give up so easily…Gerard kinda made a face but went over to the phone and started punching in the numbers. I stood there watching him. I was close enough that I could hear it ringing. Gerard kinda glanced over at Bob and smirked as he waited for Jay to answer.

“You doing okay over there Bryar?” He says with this sorta taunting undertone and I looked over and Bob was at the last drawer, the one that I had put all my underwear and shit in. He was holding up this purple lacey tank top thing, but the way he was holding it, was like maybe he was trying to figure out what it was.

“Oh its part of a set.” I tell him as I went back over towards the dresser. I took it from him and held it up against me to show him how it goes. He just looked up at me 'modeling' it for him and didn’t say anything…Like not a single word, he just stared at me almost like I was speaking another language.. “See?” I insist and he nodded. Gerard kinda smirked a little and I think he was gonna say something but Jay must’ve answered the phone.

“Oh hey man what's up?” He says turning his back to us slightly and I looked over curiously at him…

I mean I wasn’t eavesdropping… okay maybe I was, but not really. I mean he knew I was here. He knew I was listening… I think Bob was too cause he stood up and went by the window and lit a cigarette up… Either that or he was just tired of playing with my underwear. I started emptying the rest of the drawer myself now as I listened to Gerard's conversation…

“Naw we’re still at the hotel.” He tells him and then a pause. “Aw man, no I'm not really interested.” He says and I exhaled a little relieved. Jay must’ve been asking him to get in on somekinda deal and he told him no… just like he promised he would… “I’ll ask him but I doubt it.” Gerard then says and I smiled a little to myself. He was asking him about Teddy. I just knew it… Jay had always wanted to meet Teddy, so fucking badly too! And me and Lia always gave him the run around and now Gerard was doing it too… He mumbled a few more things and then hung up.

When he looked back over at me I had all the shit from the drawer spread out on the floor in front of me now and I was beginning to panic…

“Elle what the fuck are you doing?” He sorta grumbled at me and I couldn’t blame him. I mean I was now frantically dumping all the shit Bob had just packed up back on to the floor.

“Gerard the other part of this.” I tell him waving the purple-laced top in the air, “The underwear part, it’s gone.” I tell him and he frowned as he looked over the pile of clothes.

“You sure?” He says and I felt my eyes welling up with tears.

“Yeah I'm sure…”