In The Crowd - B.E.

Chapter Fourty-Three - Billie

"Hold on. I can't keep up," Y/n says from behind me. I'm holding the door to our suite open.

"Just leave a few things there, and I'll grab them," she puts down a couple of bags and walks into the room. "Hold the door," I said and went to grab the bags she left. "So, what do you think of the room?"

"I love it," she says with a smile on her face.

"Good because this is where we're staying for two weeks," I remind her.

"I gonna shower and then try to sleep if I can," I nod and watch as she grabs clothes and then goes into the bathroom. I move all of our bags to one corner of the bedroom. Y/n's phone starts ringing, so I answer it.

"Hello?"

"Billie?"

"Gia, did you need something?"

"I was calling to talk to Y/n,"

"Oh, she's busy right now,"

"Oh, am I interrupting something?" She says in a concerned and flirty tone. I laugh.

"Oh, God no! She's just in the shower,"

"Mhm, okay. I know you guys probably just landed, but I wanted to see how she's doing. I know she hated planes,"

"Yeah, she slept most of the flight, so,"

"That's good. Anyway, I'm gonna let you go, and I'll try not to bother you guys too much," she laughs. We say bye and end the call just as Y/n walks out of the bathroom.

"Who was that?" She asks.

"Gia. She was calling to talk to you,"

"About what?"

"She just asked how you were on the flight here," she nods and grabs her phone.

"Gia!" Y/n says, looking at her phone.

"How was the flight?" Gia asks Y/n. They started talking, so I got up, left the bedroom, and into the small living room. I turned on the TV and started going through the channels.

After about half an hour, the door to the bedroom opens, and Y/n walks out with a blanket. She smiles at me and sits next to me, putting the blanket over us and getting comfortable on my side.

"Sorry, I didn't think it would take so long," she mumbles.

"It's okay. You don't need to apologize," I reassure her.

"You didn't have to leave the room," I shrugged.

"I just thought I should leave you to talk to your friend," I look at her, and her eyes are closed. "Tired?"

"No," she says and looks up at me. "But it's late here, so I need to sleep."

"Well, you can take the first few days to adjust your sleeping schedule, that's fine. I'm going to do that, too." She sighs.

"I know, I just want to sleep," she says.

"Well, try to sleep if that's what you want," I tell her, and I start playing with her hair.

At around midnight, she wakes up. She looks at me with a confused look on her face, and she starts looking around.

"Why are you still awake?" She asks.

"Not really tired, to be honest," she sat up and rested her head on my shoulder. "You okay?"

"Yeah," she mumbles. "I'm gonna go lay down in the bed," I nod, and she leaves.
I reach back into my pocket and pull the small box out again. I'm so scared.

I quickly put it back into my bag and went into the bedroom. I change and then climb into bed next to Y/n. She cuddles into my side, and we both go to sleep.

-

"What would you like to do on our first day here?" I ask Y/n as we're getting around for the day.

"I'm not sure. There's so much we could do but don't know what to do first," she says. 

"Well, how about we go get some breakfast and we can talk about it more then," she nods and continues getting around. I admire her as she's putting on makeup. 

"What are you looking at?" I smile.

"I'm just admiring you," I tell her. "I've never seen you this girly before."

"What? Do you not like it?"

"No. No, that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm just used to you dressing more boyish I guess. This is a nice change,"  I say, going over to her.

"Are you saying I should dress like this more?" 

"You do whatever you'd like, baby," I say and kiss her. 

-

"So, hows it going?" Claudia asks me.

"It's good. We've only been here a few days and we've found plenty of activities to do," 

"Ew," I roll my eyes.

"Not that! Well... maybe kind of that," I laugh. 

"Gross. Where is Y/n anyway?"

"She's at the pool right now. I just came up to the suite to grab a towel for her and then you called,"

"Okay, well, I'll let you go but first I have one question,"

"What's that?"

"Have you decided on what you're gonna do?"

"I'm still trying to figure it ou but I think I've have idea now,"

"Are you gonna tell me or what?"

"No, you'll here about it when Y/n talks about it to you. That is only if this goes right,"

"Oh, it's gonna go right. Trust me,"

"I hope so. I just love her so much. I don't know what I would do without her," she smiles.

"Well, you better get going before she notices how long you're taking," I nod and end the call and make my way back down to the pool. 

"Hi, baby," I say. She looks up at me. She's still in the water of course.

"What took you so long?"

"Claudia called me. I figured I should see what she wanted before she starts blowing up my phone," she laughs.

"You know, people are talking about us being here. I've been seeing posts and stuff about it,"

"I honestly thought that would be known after our first day here. We've been here for three days now," 

"Me, too," she says and gets out of the pool, grabbing the towel. "Let's go. My hair feels horrible and I'm hungry," I laugh. "What are you laughing at?"

"Nothing. Come on. I don't need you getting mad at me because you're hangry,"

"I do not get hangry," I give her a look and she smiles. "Okay, maybe I do a little bit but you don't need to say that outloud."