PERMANENT - Leonardo DiCaprio

Chapter 37 - Official Secret

Monday 10.46am

I stirred in the bed, turning over to lie on my other side, sighing in comfort unintentionally. Though comfortable as I was, I couldn't ignore the growing headache that was gnawing away at me, preventing me from drifting back to sleep.

I opened my eyes only a sliver to let my eyes adjust to the light, but the curtains were drawn anyway, so it didn't take long for me to see the room clearly. It was the hotel I had been staying in, yes, but the layout and the random unfamiliar clothes that were strewn around the place told me this wasn't my room. No, this was not my room.

"Oh, hey, didn't wake you did I?" Leo softly said as he entered the room gently. I hadn't even heard him open the door. Frankly, I didn't remember even getting to the hotel last night after the party.

I shook my head, pushing myself up to a sitting position, surrounded by a sea of fluffy white pillows. Leo walked over to the giant window, which overlooked the London skyline, and opened them, letting the sun pour in. It was cold outside, but the November chill outside seemed far away from the comforts of Leo's bed.

"Oh here," he said suddenly, realising the cup in his hand. "Thought you might want this. Didn't know what kind of state you'd be in when you woke up." He passed me the cup of water, and I took a sip. It was refreshing for my parched throat after last night's heavy drinking, so I smiled up at him, humming with satisfaction.

"Well I'm just fine," I purred to him, smile not leaving my face, and our eyes never breaking contact.

"Oh yeah?" He beamed down at me teasingly, bending and placing his knee on the bed, then proceeding to crawl onto the bed, hovering over me as I shrunk back down into the pillows, lying on my back.

I nodded coyly, and he leaned down, capturing my lips with his, his floppy blonde hair hanging down, tickling my face as we kissed. He parted his mouth a little more, in hopes of deepening the kiss, but I started giggling, raising the glass of water I was still holding, higher, as to not spill it over the both of us.

"Leo," I shrieked, as a bit of water spilled over the top, splashing down onto the pillows. Without his lips leaving mine, he took the glass out of my hand, and blindly reached for the bedside table, setting it down with a loud clunk as his hand returned back to the bed so he could support himself on top of me.

"Hey! Open up!" A repeated knock came at the door, accompanied by Jason's voice. Of course it was Jason - he was always coming round at the most inconvenient of times.

"Just a sec!" Leo shouted as he broke off the kiss and looked back at the door to project his voice, before turning back and resuming the kiss with a grin.

"Man open up! Come on!" Jase continued with a whine, "I gotta talk to you, urgently!" The cheery tone in his voice indicated it wasn't as urgent as he made it out to be - not a bad emergency anyway.

"Yeah we'll be out in a minute! Just meet me in the lobby in 5, alright?" He groaned in irritation and rolled his eyes, and raised his voice to shout, his face semi-serious, then looked back at me as I pouted at him jokingly.

He turned back, yelling again "No give me like 10- no 20 minutes-" I hit him on the chest playfully as he chuckled. "Go," I whispered. The footsteps faded away, signalling that Jason had left.

"Alright, but this isn't over, you got it?" He pointed to me in a jokingly threatening way as he sat up and got off the bed.

"Listen we....we shouldn't tell the others yet, right?" He asked, the humorous tone in his voice replaced by a serious one, but cheerful none the less, as he fiddled with something on the table, his back turned to me.

"Well....we never actually talked about what this was...." I trailed off, peeling the cosy sheets off of me and crawling over to the edge of the bed, swinging my legs down until they touched the floor.

Leo turned to me and his eyes perked up as he walked back to the bed, crouching down to my level, as I was still sat down.

"Nel," he said confidently, then stopped and sighed. "Penelope," he started again, ever so formally. "Will you do me the honour of being my beautiful girlfriend?" I but my lip, looking at him in awe. If a year ago, anyone would have told me that Leonardo DiCaprio would be sitting here, asking me to date him, I would've laughed in their face and told myself to keep dreaming.

"Of course," I whispered, and he grinned, grabbing my face in both his hands, and kissing me again, standing up as he did so, so that he was bending over me, so hard that I thought my back would snap in half.

"Alright, I'm off." He finally said as he stood, heading for the door as he grabbed his jacket.

"Oh, Leo," I called out, making him spin round to glance back at me.
"We didn't actually, you know, do anything last night, right?" I motioned at my lack of clothing, as I was only wearing the gorgeous black lace panties and a bra that I had worn to the premiere and after party last night, and lying in Leo's bed.

He caught on and smiled smugly "Not yet, sweetcheeks," he pulled a cigarette out of his pocket and put it in his mouth, giving me a wink before opening the door and leaving.

//

'TITANIC'S TITANIC BOX-OFFICE SUCCESS'

Last night marked the star-studded London premiere of James Cameron's eagerly awaited 'Titanic', attracting colossal masses of crowds in theatres since its release. Titanic is now the biggest November opener of all time, with final studio figures for the opening weekend at $28.6million, a full million dollars above the initial estimate.

'Titanic's' main star-crossed lovers, rebellious debutante Rose DeWitt Bukater (Penelope Nava) and her forbidden love affair with Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) were all charm on the red carpet as they posed for photos, a picture of Jack and Rose all over again as they stood arm in arm, laughing and joking together, their close bond undeniable.

And no doubt, the stars were celebrating the success of the film, living it up until the early hours of the morning at the exclusive after party, hosting a whole range of drool-worthy famous faces from actors such as Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts, and singers Justin Timberlake and Destiny's Child.

As for the film, DiCaprio plays Jack, a free-spirited young artist who's so suddenly won a ticket on the voyage in a card game that he hops onboard with just minutes to spare. It doesn't take long before DiCaprio (understandably) starts salivating over the heavenly Nava, and a Romeo and Juliet-type love story ensues. Except that Juliet is a rich dame with ritzy cross-Atlantic digs. Romeo is down below with the riffraff, but he's cute as a shiny new dime and his hair hangs in his eyes when he draws pictures. Doncha just want 'em to kiss?

Billy read the article out loud as we sat in the hotel restaurant (me, Billy, Jason and Kathy) and I laughed to myself the whole way through.

"Doncha just want 'em to kiss?" Jason mocked the article, shaking his head and laughing. "I think we've seen enough of that in the film." I threw one of my cheetos at him as he dodged it.

"Well I don't know, but I'm pretty sure Leo had someone back at his room this morning, you know what I mean?" Jason wiggled his eyebrows. My eyes widened slightly, but I played it off. "I'm gonna uhhh...I'll go get a drink." I stood up quickly and straigtened my clothes out. 

"What, don't wanna hear about Leo's escapades, huh?" Jase taunted. "No, haha," I laughed, almost too nervously, and hurried away from them, smiling to myself.