Drive Me Crazy

Vegas Wedding

First thing the next morning Howie drove down to Millie's house. He knocked on the door nervously, Mr. Nunez's car was in the driveway. The door swung open and Millie jumped into his arms

"Oh Howie!"

"Hey..." his stomach fluttered when he saw her father in his red uniform leaning against the kitchen door frame. "Um...morning Mr. Nunez." he took her hand as she pulled him into the house.

"Mornin...Howie. I hope you're here with good intentions." Millie's dad raised a brow.

"DAD!!"

Howie squeezed her hand "It's ok, I know I've been a real Jackass. I just want you to know that I never intended on hurting Millie in the first place." he turned to look at her "I'm here with very good intentions. I promise!"

He furrowed his eyebrows "Better be...gotta go." He kissed Millie on the forehead and headed out to his car.

"I'm so sorry about my dad." she blushed.

Taking her hands in his, he smiled widely "It's ok, I deserved that, he's just being a dad. So...what made you so upset last night?" he pulled her onto his lap.

Her eyes quickly welled up, "It's Elijah, his stupid mother came back for him. That's just not fair Howie, she left him in the first place, she shouldn't be able to get him back." a couple of tears ran down her cheeks.

He wiped them off with the side of his hand "Millie..." he let out a sigh, he knew that what he was going to tell her, would only make her more angry. "Don't you think the woman deserves a second chance? Maybe she was scared...being alone at a time like that can make people do really dumb things. Weren't you scared?"

She nodded, the memory, punched her in the stomach "That's not the same, I was scared, but I would have never. Wait HOWIE, are you on my side or hers?" she stood up and hugged herself. "I can't believe you're giving this woman the benefit of a doubt. I mean...she left him to die...she didn't even want to hold him..." she huffed and stormed to her room.

Howie stormed after her "Millie you're being childish and I'm not taking sides, I know how you feel. I was with him too, for the last couple of weeks. But he has a mother..."

She swung around "But I wanted to be his...mother...I think I'm going to be sick." She covered her mouth and ran towards the bathroom.

He let out a frustrated sigh and took a seat on her bed. A couple of minutes later a pale looking Mille entered the room, he could tell she had been crying. It broke his heart to see her in so much pain, but there really wasn't much he could do to make it better.

"I'm sorry...I haven't been feeling so well..." she let out a sigh as she took a seat next to him "I asked for a couple of days off..."

He hugged her shoulder "That's good, maybe you just need a break. Some time to rest, you look really tired Millie."

She tried to let out a giggle "Howie, I always look sick..." she shrugged "Psh...actually, I'm always sick. Enough about me. How did it go with AJ? Did you guys talk?" she waited anxiously, fiddling with her fingers.

Howie smiled "Yeah, I mean it's not the same, but I guess we will work on it. He's gonna work on the album, while we are on tour."

When he said the word, she realized that the tour was resuming soon. She was really happy that the twosome had made up, and would hopefully soon, be back to being best friends. Although, the thought of Howie leaving on tour only made her sadder. "Yeah, I had forgotten about that."

There was a loud and persistent knock on the door, Howie and Millie looked at each other with concern as they walked out of the room, down the hall and towards the door. Howie cautiously opened and smiled at the gleaming person standing in front of him.