Cupcakes

Chapter 8

After we finished eating it was a little past one, thus leaving us with a seven hour time gap before we had to be at the show. I'm not exactly sure what to do because I know Paige won't want to be out in public with a black eye. Plus that is probably going to raise a lot of questions and I think it will all just overwhelm her. And I don't want her to have some sort of meltdown. Anyway John and Nikki left not long after breakfast they had to do Total Diva filming. So it left me and Paige to fend off boredom by ourselves.

"What do you want to do? We have roughly seven hours before we have to be at the show." I asked her. I just finished cleaning up the aftermath of breakfast. And she's just standing by the window looking out it. But she didn't move so I guess she didn't hear me so I walked over to her. "Paige di-"

"Ahh no don't touch me!" She screamed flinching and turned to look at me. "Oh sorry Aj you scared me. Don't sneak up on me like that." That made my heart break a little bit. He really messed her up if she gets scared of the littlest things like that. Especially since her first reaction was to yell not to touch her. This is so sad. So I just moved in closer to her and hugged her.

"I'll never hurt you like he did Pai I promise I won't. I don't like what he's done to you." I spoke looking into her eyes. "You used to be so carefree and happy, and he broke you. I wish I could snap my fingers and take away all the pain he caused us both." I spoke honestly looking at her.

"I wish you could too, but this is my fault I should have listened to you the first time. You were right he doesn't deserve me." She murmured hugging me back. I want to get cocky and let out a big fat I told you so, but my compassionate side won't let me do it. "But yet somehow through it all I still love him." Well that killed my mood, but since we're on the subject of Corey "loving" someone I might as well just tell her the truth. So with that I let her go and led her back to the bed and sat her down.

"Umm Paige." I spoke softly.

"Yeah?"

"I have to tell you something very important that I unfortunately have known for a while. I would have told you about it as soon as I found out... it's just I didn't know how to tell you." She gave me this weird look.

"Well I don't understand why it would be so hard to tell me. You're my best friend Aj and we tell each other everything. I'm sure it can't be any worse than what happened this morning." She murmured the last part, but then it reminded me that she never told me how she got that black eye. Fuck him cheating I want to know what happened.

"Speaking of this morning what happened? I mean what happened that made him do that to you?" She let out a sigh and looked down at her hands. "I know it's hard for you to think about but if anyone I deserve to know how this happened."

"Well after you ran off last night I was really angry. I was mad at you for canceling our plans, and I was mad at myself for letting my emotions get the best of me. And so you know I don't exactly handle my anger very well so I went and found Corey and demanded we went back to the hotel. But he doesn't always like it when I get loud with him in front of his friends so that's how this happened. Honestly I don't know why he got so mad because he was only talking to Charlotte." She murmured lifting up her right sleeve to reveal a light bruise that looked like someone gripped her up. So I just did what my mom always did when I had a booboo and I kissed it.

"Kisses make it better." I lightly grinned getting her to grin.

"It feels better now thank you." She then kissed me on the cheek. "So then after he scolded me I just started crying and then he held me. That was all it took for him to decide to just take me back to the hotel. I really enjoyed that because on the way back he took me to get ice cream and the whole time he was being a big teddy bear, he held me and gave me kisse all over. He even held my hand the whole time we were in the shop." Of course it's the classic I made you cry and so now I feel bad. "Then from there we went back to the hotel. I really liked this part because we just snuggled and watched tv. It's not very often that I can get him to cuddle with me when its not after we finished sexy time. Unfortunately this only lasted for a hour and a half before he decided he wanted to go out and party with Bo and Sami. I didn't want him to go but he got dressed anyway. Despite my continual pleas for him to stay he just ignored me."