Ugly Love

Chapter 4 Drool

After Babi left Max standing alone in the kitchen, she went back into the living room, unable to sleep. She listened to the unravel snores, he friend breathed out, until she finally woke up.

It was 8:30, when she did so and was very happy to see Babi still on the couch, this time sitting up.

"Hey" she mumbled, rubbing her eyes with her hands.

"Wow, Sleeping Beauty finally decides to grace me with your presence, huh?" Babi teased, looking down at her.

Tempest rolled her eyes and softly smacked her arm.

"I was tired" she mumbled, crossing her arms infront of her cheats. Pouting, as if she had just been scolded at, for doing something she shouldn't have.

Babi chuckled and shook her head.

"It's all good, babe. But can you move, you kinda drooled on my ankle" Babi smiled, looking down at her arm, which was still placed over her lower leg.

Temp's eyes widened and then she cover her mouth.

"Is it on my face?" She whispered, the way she would, when she saw a cute boy walking down the halls of her crowded school.

"You're face?" Babi laughed "what about my leg?" She smiled, looking at Tempest's hazel orbs.

"Shut up" Tempest said, jumping up at her feet, still covering her mouth.

She ran off to the bathroom, returning minutes later.

"Have you seen my dad? He needs to take us to the hospital" Tempest asked, looking up at Babi.

Babi stiffened, thinking about her momentary point of weakness and shook her head. She thought that to him, it was a mistake, but not to her, she loved it. Every single moment.

"B? Babi?" Tempest asked l, looking over at Babi was deep in thought.

"Sorry" Babi chuckled nervously "uh...no, I haven't seen him" she looked down at her hands and slouched her shoulders.

Tempest frowned we eyebrows and nodded we head.

"He's probably just in his room" she explained, suddenly feeling slightly uncomfortable:

Both friends sat in silence, feeling odd about the tense vibe between them, that was both strange and unheard of. Baby loved Tempest and she never...never lied to her about anything. To Babi, Tempest was like a sister, but temps father was not like Babi's father, not at all. She didn't seem him as a father figure. She never had and never would.

Babi didn't really know what she saw Max as, but it certainly wasn't a father. He was special to her...that much she knew.

"You know what?" Babi hopped up in her feet and smiled bright. "I'm alright and I really don't need to go to the hospital. I should just go home. Mom's probably waiting on me" Babi said, trying to sound as convincing as she had in her head. She stretched her arms up in the air, trying to subtly show Tempest that she was perfectly fine.

"Absolutely not!" Tempest shouted, resting her small and perfectly manicured hands over her small waist. "You can't go back to her! She hurt you and had the audacity to take money from my dad after kicking you out and still feels like she has the right to call herself your mother! How could she do that?" Tempest asked, raising her voice.

Babi shook her head and then she registered the words, Temp had spit out, in anger and frustration

Tempest went on and on about Samantha being a horrible mother, but Babi wasn't paying attention. She was stuck on the single sentence: "...she had the audacity to take money from my dad..."