Legendary Lovers

Chapter 8: Stuck

I stood up from my seat to hug her. 

"What are you doing here?" I asked her. 

"Oh, just getting away from the house for a little while. What about you? I wouldn't expect to see Katy Perry at a bar like this." She smiled and sat down on the bar chair next to me.

I turned on my chair and positioned my body so that I could see her better. "I'm just a normal person too you know." I joked while lightly punching her arm.

"Sure, whatever." She shot back playfully while smirking. I feigned annoyance but couldn't keep myself from giggling.

"So how are things with you. Are you still doing your journalism thing?" I asked her taking a sip from my drink.

Kelsey smiled and shook her head, "No, I kind of gave up on that."

"No way!" I gasped, "but you were amazing at it."

Kelsey laughed softly, "We both knew that you were the one that would reach your dreams Katy, not me."

Kesley reached over and grabbed my hands in hers, making my palms tingle from her touch. "And now look at you, Mrs. World Famous Pop Star."

I giggled quietly and looked up from our hands, my face instantly softened when I saw the tears in her eyes. "Don't cry Kelsey." I murmured in such a tiny voice I could barely hear it myself.

She looked up into my eyes, searching for something, I didn't quite know what. 

"You broke my heart, Katy."

I shook my head in disbelief, "You're the one that left me." I told her in complete honesty.

She sighed and look back into my eyes again, "But that's because I couldn't see you getting treated like that. It was crushing you, and me too. We both knew you were going to get dropped by another record label. We had no money, we couldn't afford our apartments, and you cared about me so much, you put our relationship in frony of your dream. So I figured, if I left, you would have a chance at achieving something great. So I did, it killed me to put you through that pain Katy, it broke my heart. But you reached your dreams so I guess my plan worked."

I sighed, what she said made sense, "But I missed you so much Kelsey, I needed you."

"I'm here now though, right?" She added and tucked a fallen piece of my hair behind my ear. We were closer than I thought and before I knew it my lips were on hers and the feelings I felt when I was younger all came flooding back to me. I never stopped loving her and probably never will. 

"I'm sorry." I said once our lips parted. All thoughts of John left my mind when I kissed Kelsey. I knew it was wrong but at that moment it didn't feel like it. 

"No, it's okay." Kelsey said wiping the tears off her face.

"Do you want to get out of here? Maybe we could go to your house or something?" I asked her. Something told me that I shouldn't go to her house. That I should just go back to John's house and wait for him but I didn't listen to it. I was lost in a daze. It didn't help that I was slightly drunk either.

"Umm, sure." Kelsey said smiling at me.

I left the bartender a tip and Kelsey and I left the bar, went to her car, and headed to her house. 

We pulled up into her driveway and went inside her house. 

Kelsey grabbed my hand and lead me into the living room. "Take a seat on the couch. I'll make us some tea." she said smiling and walked into the kitchen.

I got up from her couch and looked around at the pictures she had framed on her bookshelf. There was one of me and her, we were around 22, I was smiling wide dressed in a colourful romper with a guitar in hand. My other arm was wrapped around her waist and held her body close to mine. Her arms were loosely slung around my neck and she was kissing my cheek, it was after one of the small performances I would have done in an open mic bar, restaurant or café.

I smiled at the photo and continued to look at the others, they were all simple pictures, there was another one of us hand in hand that Shannon had taken at her birthday party, but the rest were just of family or friends. There was one photo that caught my eye, it looked to not even be a year old of Kelsey and a tall blonde skinny girl. Kelsey was holding a dozen flowers and the girl was smiling down at her, holding her close. In the bottom right hand corner written in black ink was "happy birthday babe."

This girl was obviously Kelsey's girlfriend, and for some reason that made me feel jealous. Jealous that some random girl got Kelsey and not me.

Kelsey came back into the living room with two cups in her hand. She put them on the coffee table in front of the couch and walked over to me, "what you looking at?" She asked noticing me staring at a photo.

I jumped and quickly put the photo down, "nothing." I breathed out.

"Don't worry Kate, we only dated for 4 months. She wasn't you so we called it quits. I don't even know why I still have that." Kelsey picked up the photo and scrunched it up, "come and sit, I made your favourite." She smiled and led me back to the couch.

"I've really missed you Kels, like a lot." I sighed.

Kelsey smiled, "And you don't think it didn't kill me to watch you and Russell, knowing that he broke your heart. I see your face everywhere and it reminds me everyday of everything I walked away from." Kelsey picked up her tea and chugged it in one go. "I thought I would never see you again."

This time it was Kelsey who kissed me and I eagerly kissed back. Her familiar lips still burning hot from the tea. I pulled her body closer to me and deepened the kiss, her hands tangled in my hair and mine running up and down her back. I tried not to think of John when kissing Kelsey felt so right.

I only wrote like 99.927% of this. The bestie CandyfornianKaty wrote the majority of it. I guess you could call her my co-writer now. Lol anyway. Sorry these chapters are so ridiculously short but I'm trying my best.