A Rock & Roll Romance

Chapter Fifty One

Meg's eyes widened as she looked at Johnny who smirked and rubbed his chin nervously. He tipped his head as if to ask what she was going to do and eventually she sighed and grabbed her robe from the end of the bed, donned it and headed for the door. She rushed through the bedroom door completely forgetting about the hot mug of coffee on the floor and kicked it across the landing. Luckily it bounced off the bannisters opposite and circled around before stilling surrounded by a brown puddle. "Well done clumsy!" Poppy smirked as Meg slammed the door shut behind her. "You. Downstairs. Now." Meg said as she rushed down the stairs into the kitchen and onto her knees digging around in the cupboard under the sink for cleaning supplies. Poppy stood to the side in cute pyjamas twirling a strand of hair between her fingers smiling proudly. "Well.." "Well what?" Meg said standing with rubber gloves in her hand, a bottle of cleaning product and a scrubbing brush. "You didn't answer my question." "Your question?" Meg tried to play coy as they both headed back upstairs. Poppy was behind her like a shadow. "Yes my question. Does Johnny want a coffee?" As they reached the soiled spot on the landing, Meg took a deep breath, and slowly turned to face her sister. There was no sense in hiding it now, it was very obvious that Poppy knew her secret. "Yeah I'm sure he does. Black." She said quietly. Poppy beamed before doing a little dance on the spot, and Meg's eyebrows furrowed before she got down on her hands and knees and began attempting to clean the mess. She was scrubbing hard when Poppy finally sat beside her, "Soooooo...you're official? You and Johnny Depp?" "Poppy..." Meg said warningly. "Oh please let me be a girl for just a minute.... We don't always need to be uptight you know. You're allowed to let your hair down occasionally." "Yes Johnny and I are a thing. Yes it's official we are seeing each other but that's it, there's no labels." Meg resumed scrubbing the carpet and spraying the product onto the stain. Thankfully it was lifting quite easily. "Oh my god..." Poppy said excitedly as if she was Janice from Friends. "This is soooooo cool." "Poppy." Meg said again looking at her baby sister. "What?" The younger replied. "You need to go make that coffee don't you?" "Oh yeah right.. umm ok. Black you said? And I assume you want another baring in mind you just drop kicked yours across the landing?" "If it's not too much trouble then yes please." Meg said as the girls both stood. "I'm happy for you Megs, I really am." The younger squeezed her sister in a hug for a few seconds before running back down the stairs. Meg sighed before entering her bedroom, Johnny was pulling on his jeans and tucking his shirt into them. "Is all ok doll?" "Yeah, it appears Pops knows about us, I'm not sure how yet I was too busy getting coffee out the carpet." She giggled. He approached and kissed her head, "Well that's ok isn't it? With her living with you, it was never going to stay top secret forever was it?" He said reassuringly. "I guess not. Anyway, she's making you coffee downstairs." "Ha... the Goddard girls know me well don't they? I can't believe I'm awake this early... I'm gonna need that cup of Joe." Meg smiled kissing him passionately before pulling back. "Let's face the music." She whispered taking his hand and leading him out the room.

The couple entered the kitchen like teenagers caught doing something they shouldn't. "Good Morning." Poppy said brightly. "Good Morning Poppy" Johnny said with a smile. "I'm sorry for waking you." She said sheepishly. "Are you?" Meg asked sarcastically. "Maybe not..." Poppy said coyly taking a sip from her mug, she pushed the two other mugs over to the pair. "Thank you." Johnny said before removing his cigarette tin from his back pocket. "So are we going to talk about you invading my privacy?" Meg asked after taking a sip of coffee. "Invading your privacy? How could I? You two are so obvious!" Poppy giggled and Johnny couldn't help but smirk. "Excuse me?" Meg said confused. "You've been sneaking him in for weeks now. Surely you didn't think I was that blonde??" Poppy exclaimed, and Meg's eyebrows raised as Johnny failed to hide a chuckle baring in mind Poppy's locks were actually bleached blonde. "Umm you knew?" "Course I knew... last night though I wanted to clarify it was who I thought it was. For a while as you know I thought you were fucking Travis." "Oh Poppy.." Meg said almost disgusted. "No... sorry to disappoint. It's me." Johnny added licking his cigarette. "Would you two excuse me?" He said heading to the back door unlocking it and heading outside. Meg thought it was odd baring in mind they were in Johnny's house and he had often smoked inside. The girls watched him light up and pace around. "I have to give it to ya sis. He's hot." Meg sighed. "Yeah... he is." She said quietly. "So tell me everything!!!" "No.. later." Meg compromised. "Just promise me you won't tell anyone. Not until we are ready." Poppy nodded "but what about Alice and Sheryl?" "What about them?" Johnny asked re entering the kitchen and grabbing his mug before putting an arm around Meg. "They fly in on Friday for your birthday, do they not know?" "Course they fucking don't!" Meg said sipping her drink and rolling her eyes at her sister. "You've got to tell them..." "I don't have to do anything Pops." "You really do. Sheryl is almost as obsessed with me about finding out about the new man in your life... she will dig until she gets answers, you know what she's like" Meg went to speak when Johnny turned to look at her tenderly. "Look.. doll, I think your sister is right. We should tell them. They deserve to know, I'm a big boy, I'll face the consequences of my actions." "Alright Captain Jack.." Poppy said jumping up onto a bar stall. After getting two confused looks Poppy added "you know Will Turner in the first film, if the hangman earns two pairs of boots...." She said gesturing with her hands elaborately.... "And anyway.. what consequences? Sheryl and Alice love Meg as if she was her own." "Yeah but he's my band mate and a good friend, that goes against all guy code." "Nahh Uncle Alice will be fine. He was only saying the other week to me and Sheryl he wants what's best for Meg and clearly you're it, I've never seen her as happy as the last month or two." Poppy said smiling.