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7

I gulp, how does she know that Hunter is here? Or that I'm here? Does she know I'm here with Chris?
"Majora, is something wrong?" I snap my attention back to Chris as my hands shake, I nod my head, unable to show Chris the text. "Let me see." I don't protest as he takes my cellphone, after reading it he shakes his head. "What are you going to do?" I sigh and recollect myself, letting the towel around me fall to the floor and grab my dress. stepping into it with ease. "I'm going with you to this concert, what else?" I move into the dress and then slip on my platform heels before Chris grabs my hand. "Majora..." I lock eyes with him ad my lips starts to quiver again. "This grudge is not going on any longer if I can help it."

Chris takes me to the hotel lobby, hand in hand as we search for Hunter. "Chris, I-I don't want to leave." He does not anwser, but keeps his head down before trying Hunter's phone again on my own phone. "Hey. Hunter, I don't know
where you are but you need to meet us near the fromt doors of the lobby." With that Chris hangs up and drags me towards the front doors as I get another text, Chris glances at my phone. "Your mother wants you." He hands the phone back to me.

You need to anwser me, Majora!

I take in a breath when we stop to tell her with shakey hands to meet
Hunter and I by the fromt doors of the lobby. A minute later Hunter, Gia, and his friends are jogging up to Chris and I. "What's going on?" Hunter's face shows concern.
"M-mom...How'd she know we were here, did you tell her?" I ask and Hunter shakes his head rapidly. "No! Of course not!" That's when Hunter thinks for a moment before groaning and rubbing his temples. I feel anger begin pooling inside me once more with my brother. "What?" I say through gritted teeth and fists clenching. "Shït, I forgot all about the credit cards I've used to get something to eat here she must have looked at my statement back at home..."

I order myself to remain calm, he didn't mean to it's just a mistake, I can not be mad with him over it. I exhale before smiling and patting his shoulder. "Hey, it's okay, accidents happen. We'll fix this, buddy." I rub his shoulder and he gived me a weak smile. The moment is quickly ruined when I see our Mother marching towards us with my Father in tow. "Hunter Meyers!" Hunter jumps at her shrill voice before whirling around and putting on his sweet face. "Hey, Mom! What are you two doing here? Man, how crazy, this day is full of fun surprises!"

Our mother huffs and grabs Hunter's wrist with force, he is taken aback by our Mother's harsh grip. "Hey! Don't touch him like that!" I snap, grabbing my little brother and hugging him close to me out of her reach. My dad sits back in the background with his hands in his pockets, letting us resolve this by ourselves as usual.
"And you! I haven't seen you in two years and when I do you are hanging out with these...With these..." She's fuming, but I can never keep my mouth shut.
"People who are better than you?" I hiss at her as I feel Hunter cling to me like he use to when he was just a little middle school and cried about our parents yelling at him or over his bad grades...And when he was in high school and got his heartbroke by Jacey Thomas whem he caught her with his friend Carson in the football locker room. How he would cry and rant about how he hated them both, he would start calling me in the middle of the night when I stayed with Ashley for a while. Begging to let him come over so he could cry about the same situation that happened a year ago anytime she would try to interact with him.

And when I feel his arms hug me tightly and trembling in fear of what our Mother might say or do, my own anger turns to protection for him as I had done several years ago. "You do not talk to Hunter the way you do me! He's never done anything wrong! Do you have any idea what your words may do to him? He's not as okay with it as me, and I will not allow you to cast him out like you did me!" That's when our Mother sighs before folding her hands with a forcing smile. "I want you both back down here with bags packed by tomorrow, we can resolve this on the flight home." With that, she turns on her heels and storms away, leaving our Dad standing there with a worried expression. "She only cares and worries about you, kiddos." He tells me and then follows his wife. I shake my head as tears threaten to spill, I hug Hunter strongly and kiss the top of his head. "I won't let her get rid of you the way she did me..."
•••
The concert went smoothly and Chris decided to take my brother and I to eat one more time before we went back to the hotel.
"Are you really going to have to leave?" Gia asks with a sad tone to her voice with her hand on my own hand. "Yeah...I think I do, Gi..." She sighs and frowns before pulling me into a hug, I wrap my arms around her. Gia pulls away, sniffling.
"Call and text us?"
"Of course." I rub her arm, giving her the best reassuring smile I can. "You need to get some sleep." Gia sighs before tucking a strand of hair behind her ear.

"You're right, make sure to see me one last time before you leave in the morning." I nod and watch her retreat to her room to shower and get ready for bed, after a minute a knock at the door sounds. I stand up and walk to the door, looking out the peephole to see Chris. I don't know if I can even speak to him right now. I inhale and then exhale, unlocking the door and opening it.
"Um, hi." I say to him with a small smile. "Hey, is there anything I can do to make you feel better or try to get you to say to your mom so you'll stay with all of us?"

I know I shouldn't be mad at Chris, I shouldn't be mad at anyone. Yet after everything that's happened I can't help but let the truth fall from my mouth of how I feel.
"Look, no offense, Chris...But I can't do this. I can't keep kissing you or holding your hand or even think about doing something that I may regret or even a little kiss without feeling completely guilty. I'm sorry, but I don't want this relationship with you and it would really help if I could just be alone with my thoughts for a while, please." I go to shut the door, but Chris stops the door.

"And I can't keep going on with the fact that you act like we never happened!" That made me shut up and look at the floor. I guess it's true, anytime anyone tries to bring up our past relationship I quickly brush it off, I never meant to do that...But I guess I've been doing it all along.
"I'm sorry." My voice cracks as I cry for the second time today, it's not a delicate cry either, it's an ugly cry. The cry you let out when the guy you thought loved you hurt you so bad or when that anxiety attack sneaks up on you in the dark of your room while you stare at the ceiling wondering what have you done so wrong.
"No, don't cry, Majora. Come on, stop it." Chris takes me in his arms as my sobs rack my body and the tears pour down my cheeks and smear my makeup.

I'm an awful person, I blew off my family, I blew off Channing, and now I'm start to blow off Chris like I did our relastionship two years ago.
I've been selfish and thinking of myself, and now it's all crashing down on me. The only thing I can do is to keep apologizing to Chris in between hiccups.
"Shh, hey, stop it." Chris manages to calm me down and wipe my tears away, smiling down on me and holding my face in his hands.
"It's all going to be alright."
And in the heat of the moment, I do what my head and heart agrees on after so long.
I kiss the man I've been living with for two years.