Chapter 8: Don't Go

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I shook my head as I watched a girl I didn't know stare back at me from the mirror. Josh had taken me to a huge store called Forever 21 and I was standing looking at myself in the mirror outside the dressing room with Josh standing close behind me. I was wearing my black tank top covered by a off-white completely lace shirt with gold buttons, leather shorts and wedged heals that had laces.

"I don't think so." I told Josh biting my lip unsure. I had to admit I looked good, but not the kind of good I wanted people seeing me in.

"Come on!" Josh moaned, "you look fantastic." I could tell Josh did not know what he had signed up for when he offered to take me clothes shopping we had been out all day, had gone to fifteen different stores and I had gotten a different outfit from each store, against my will I might add, Josh was insisting on buying me things and I felt so awful.

I had a short peach colored sundress with and open back that was quite gorgeous matched with golden sparkly flats that had the cutest little bows. I got a black flowing tank top with white buttons matched with skinny jeans and grey stilettos, and if you think I can walk in them you are wrong. I will be up for days practicing walking in them. And along with all that I got many other outfits and shoes I couldn't walk in.

"It's just not me, and you already got me so many other outfits I don't really need any more." I reasoned with him.

"Ok, go change back then we'll go home" he smiled, I returned the smile and grabbed him in a strangling hug.

"Thank you for today I really do appreciate it more than you know."

"You're welcome, now go change." Josh hugged me back and ruffled my hair making me squeak and hurry to flatten it again. He laughed as I turned and went back into the dressing room and changed back into my normal clothes.

About a minute later I stumbled out of the dressing room shoving my shoe back on. I looked up once I had got it on to find Josh wasn't there anymore.

"Josh?" I called for him not seeing where he went. I sighed heavily and hung up the clothes I had tried on before I walked out of the dressing rooms and began to look around for Josh, at first I had no luck but after a few minutes I found him or he found me.

"Time to go" I heard a husky voice echo in my ear as I felt warm breath on my neck. I shrieked out in terror and tried to run without looking behind me but two hands wrapped around my waist and lifted me, then carrying me over his shoulder the mysterious man took me away out of Forever 21.

I pounded on the mans back with my fists and screamed for Josh as I was carried out of the store. I was about to scream again when I turned and saw the mans wrist, I could just see the part of his wrist on the side of the palm of his hand and it had a tattoo, one I had seen before, it was very curious, there was a straight line and on top of that were two short lines and one that connected them that looked like a 'c' on it's side and it was surrounded by four stars. I knew I had seen this before and I knew where too.

"Josh!" I gasped out in relief, I was hoisted gently back over his shoulder and placed on the ground with care. "How could you do that!" I yelled.

"Woah are you ok? It was a joke." Josh explained looking worried as he saw the tears in my eyes. I was so terrified when I thought I was actually being kidnapped I had begun to cry.

"I've never been so scared in my life!" I scolded Josh starring into his eyes that were an odd mix between the color green and brown I could never figure out whether or not they were considered straight green or brown.

"Oh my God Char I didn't mean to scare you at all I'm so sorry!" He pleaded using the nickname he had made up for me. It was a little weird but I guess nicknames were part of people's names so it worked and I kind of liked it. I had a small debate with myself earlier wondering if it would be fitting to call him Jo, seeing as that is part of his name, but I decided not to because I realized it was really stupid.

Suddenly I was cut out of my thoughts when Josh hugged me, I hugged him back burying my head in his neck, I was immediately assaulted with the smell of his Ed Hardy cologne.

"It's ok." I assured him "but if you ever do that again I will hurt you." I threatened him giggling slightly. Josh laughed and let go of me.

"Do you want to go get lunch or dinner at this point?" He asked me.

"Yes!" I exclaimed my stomach growling at the thought of food, I was so hungry. "Where do you want to go?"

"I don't know, let's go see." Josh said mysteriously walking to his car. We had originally come on his motorcycle but we had so many bags he had to go home and get his car. It was a dark blue Porsche that was such a dark blue it looked almost black. Josh opened the back door and threw a small bag from Forever 21 in the back that I hadn't noticed before during all the madness, that Josh felt the need to cause.

"What is that?" I asked pointing to the bag and raising my eyebrows at Josh.

"I got you a present." He said winking and getting in the car. I sighed getting in the car next to him.

"Thank you." I said sincerely smiling.

"No problem." He replied turning on the car and speeding out of L.A.

***

"Where are we?" I asked through laughter as we drove through the woods somewhere far north of L.A.

"I don't know but I know we'll find some where to eat at some point." He told me laughing as I was. We drove for another ten or fifteen minutes before we drove up to a gas station. "I told you we'd find something." Josh told me very matter-of-a-factly.

"So this is your idea of going out to eat? Gas station convenient stores in the middle of no where." I asked amusement dripping from my tone.

"Not usually, but your a lot more tolerant than a lot of people I know."

"Yes, and I used to think that was a good thing." I said looking over the store suspiciously as Josh got out of the car and put on the hat and shades that he was wearing when I had met him. I got out of the car and crossed to walk behind him as we entered the store. Josh got us sodas, some weird sandwiches that may or may not be edible and gas for the drive home.

When Josh and I got back in the car we realized it was almost ten o'clock.

"Wow, it's pretty late." I commented opening my soda and starring menacingly at the mysterious sandwich.

"Yeah, we should probably get home." Josh said starting the car and driving away from the gas station. I leaned back in the soft seats of his car quickly drifting off to sleep.

***

"Charlotte hey Char wake up." I heard Josh's soothing voice interrupt my sleeping.

"What?" I moaned shoving my hands out in front of me pushing on Josh's chest making his loud laugh ring out through the small car. "What!" I yelled sitting up slightly, Josh's laughter scaring me and waking me up a little more but only to the point where I will remember this tomorrow.

"Hey it's almost mid-night and we are still a kind of far away from home do you mind if we stop at a hotel for the night."

"I don't care, I just want to go to sleep." I groaned.

"Ok." Josh laughed before I felt him leave my side and almost as soon as he was gone he was on my other side opening the car door lifting me bridal style and carrying me into a building that I'm assuming was the hotel. I wrapped my arms around Josh's neck and cuddled into his warmth. I heard Josh talking to someone before I was in an elevator and then a room. Josh laid me down on a bed and covered me with a blanket. I then felt him begin to leave me and go to his bed, but I grabbed his hand quickly.

"Don't... Go." I mumbled slipping into sleep seconds later but remembering the feeling of Josh laying down next to me.

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