Borrowed Time

Chapter 131

Falling asleep during Esme's rehearsals was becoming a sort of common occurrence, which when Juliette really sat down and thought about it was possibly the most ironic thing in the entire world. Esme's music was loud, the rehearsals were loud, there was tons of conversation on top of it and goofing around that resulted in random microphone taps and things like that... and yet Juliette had never been calmer.

She'd fully drifted off to sleep with her head on Shelby's lap, and she honestly wasn't sure how long she was out before she felt a gentle nudge. Why? Let me sleep... If you knew how tired I am you'd know that it is a crime to wake me up right now.

"Jules..." Juliette jolted back to consciousness and opened her eyes, looking up to see Shelby looking down at her with an amused, adoring sort of smile... She wasn't sure that she loved that, but what was she going to do to stop it, right? "Babe, how tired are you?" She asked, sounding amused. Juliette let out a sigh and stretched, feeling a pleasant burn through her joints... She'd asked Esme to make sure that she was sore yesterday and God had they delivered...

They'd also zapped all the energy out of her body, so today had felt like she was moving through mud.

"Very." She yawned, giving Shelby a serious look. Her exhaustion had almost landed her in detention like... Six? Seven times today, and it was hardly even her fault. She'd done her best to stay awake, but sometimes it felt like it was physically impossible. "I fell asleep like six times during school today, it's not surprising that I'm dozing off now." She said, which made Shelby furrow her brows with concern.

"Why are you tired?" Juliette smirked, raising an eyebrow as Shelby grimaced at her, shaking her head as she shifted around uncomfortably. "I'm already regretting asking." She mumbled, and Juliette cleared her throat, the smile on her face only growing as she thought back to the night before, how she'd trembled, screamed, how rough Esme had been with her...

God, it'd been such a good way to reconnect... But she still wanted more, and that was a problem... She didn't want to push Esme, no matter how good the sex was. She wanted them to know that they were wanted for so much more than that by her.

"Esme and I had... A lot of fun last night." Juliette murmured, unable to fight the smile on her face as she looked over to where Esme was talking with Emma about something, absentmindedly drumming their hand on their bass as they did... There was something that was just so beautiful about seeing them in their element like this, it made her want to get on her back all over again...

God, get a grip... You're in public... Kind of...

"What kind of fun?" Shelby asked, and Juliette gave her a serious look. There was no reason to play stupid, she knew that Shelby knew exactly what she was talking about, she was just doing her best to be polite and respectful... But they were best friends, being polite and respectful had gone out the window a very long time ago.

"Shelby." She said, making sure that her voice came out deadpan. It seemed to dawn on Shelby then as she nodded. Oh. Okay, so maybe you didn't know about that, my bad... Honestly, Juliette found that humorous - normally Shelby caught onto social situations very well, and here she was struggling with one.

Ha.

"Ah. Right." She ran her fingers through Juliette's hair, looking at her adoringly... It was something special to her when Shelby did that, it always made Juliette feel about ten times more important than she had before. It'd always been like that. "Was it good?" She asked, and Juliette nodded instantly.

It had never once been bad with Esme, but she did like confirming that it was good, that was also something that she needed to do more frequently.