Chapter ninety:

After everyone had gone to bed, Jenna climbed out of a hot bath and slipped into a tight tank top and a pair of loose pajama pants.
Becky was sleeping in Zac’s room, as she did every night, and Jenna didn’t feel like sleeping alone. Not knowing her boyfriend was just down the hall.

She padded down the hall in her bare feet and stopped outside of Luke’s room.

His door was open, and he was folding a pair of jeans over a hanger to put away in the closet.

Jenna knocked on the door gently.

He looked up at her with a smile.

“Can I come in?” She asked.

“Of course you can.” He put the hanger in the closet and closed the door. “I’m just finishing my unpacking.”

“Okay, good.” Jenna crossed the room and jumped onto the double bed, sitting cross-legged in the middle.

Luke smiled and stretched out across the bed on his side.

“Luke? Can I ask you something?” She asked after a few moments of silence.

“Of course, love. Ask me anything.” He placed his hand on her knee.

“Why are you here? I mean… You showed up so suddenly, and when I asked you to stay… before… you said you had to work… I mean, I’m just wondering…”

Luke smiled. “That’s okay... I came because I missed you… And I was sitting at home missing you, and thinking about how much I missed you and feeling completely miserable, and Taylor called me. He said you were really missing me, and he offered to pay for my flight. So I jumped at the chance.”

“Taylor? He did that?”

“Yeah, it shocked me too… but you know what? It’s worth it… I’m just glad to be with you.”
Jen smiled. “I’m glad you came…Can I, uh, stay in here with you tonight?”

“Of course you can.” He smiled. “I want to spend every second with you.”

“Good. Because you’re stuck with me.” She leaned forward and kissed him.

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Becky was sitting next to Zac as she completed a word search in a magazine she had purchased at the store with Christy. Zac sat up in bed next to her, watching a dirt-bike race on TV.

Becky yawned and put aside the magazine and her pencil.

She slipped across the bed under the blankets and wrapped her arms around Zac’s body, resting her head on his shoulder.

“Tired, babe?”

“Kind of. You?”

“Not really, actually. But I’ll turn the TV off if it bothers you.”

“No, it’s alright. The TV doesn’t bother me. I’m sure right now I could sleep through a bomb if I had to.”

He laughed. “Really? But you’re usually such a light sleeper. You wake me up every time I start to snore and tell me to roll over.”

“That’s because your snoring shakes the house.”

He laughed. “Would you be shocked if I told you that I’ve heard that before?”

“Nope.” She laughed.

Zac clicked off the television and tossed the remote across the room, where it landed on a chair.

“Zac? What are we doing tomorrow?”

“I have to go to the studio for a bit. I doubt highly that it’ll be a full day… all this studio time is starting to cost a lot, and we’re really only using the time for material for the next album.”

“Oh… I thought maybe we could do something… you know? Just us…”

He smiled. “I know.”

“And when the tour starts, you’re going to be busy, and tired, and we’ll all be stuck on the bus. We’d be together, but not alone together… I mean, I’m not complaining or anything. I just thought we could take a day… a day together.”

Zac wrapped his arms tightly around her. “I know. How about tomorrow night? We could make plans… I don’t know what we’ll do, but we can go out on a date…”

Becky smiled. “Really? I’d love that.”

“Okay. I’ll take you out, if you can think of something to do.”

She laughed. “Sounds like a plan.”

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