Hollywood Heights! Leddie must go on

chapter 9

Loren adjusted her goggles as she tried to concentrate on her biology lab final. The smell of the formaldehyde was starting to get to her. She knew she'd have to take a shower the minute she got back to Eddie's; the smell tended to linger in her hair and clothes.

"This is absolutely disgusting," Mel whispered as she poked at the minx lying on the lab table with a pencil. "Sorry little minx. I hope your fur went to a fabulous coat."
"How can you say that?" Loren whispered back. "I just want to finish this and get it over with."

Loren looked up and saw Cam goofing around with his lab partner obviously making jokes as they were trying really hard to control their laughter. Loren knew she was going to miss this. The days of being a carefree teenager were long behind her. This Biology final was one the last things she would do as a high school student. Whether she liked it or not, she was growing up very fast, in more ways than one.

"Do you think I'm doing the right thing?" Loren asked Mel.

"No, actually, you're dissecting that all wrong," Mel said as she took the scalpel from her.

"Not this," Loren said as she wrinkled her nose. "I mean everything else. My career, the album, the tour, Eddie."

"How else would you do it?" Mel asked. "You're not questioning your relationship with Eddie, are you?"

"Of course not," Loren said. She looked up at the teacher who was oblivious to what the students were doing.

"Things are only getting better. As a matter of fact . . ." Loren started to say with a huge grin.

Mel's face exploded with a smile, and she started to cover her mouth with her gloved hand until she realized how disgusting that would be. Loren and Mel both giggled uncontrollably. It was a good thing this final was with a partner, because there was no way Loren could get through a whole class without telling Mel what had happened this weekend.

"Oh my God, I'm so happy for you," Mel said as she hugged Loren. Again, the ick factor got to them.

"Okay, please tell me it was good, please, please, please," Mel said.

"Absolutely," Loren smiled. "It was like nothing I could have imagined. He was so sweet and sexy," Loren said as she wrinkled her nose.

"OMG, OMG, I'm dying over here!" Mel said. "Did it happen in Malibu? Was the house unreal? How do you feel?"

"Um, yes, yes, and great," Loren said. She sobered a bit and said, "It's kinda scary though."

"Why do you say that?" Mel asked.

"It's like I don't feel complete without him. I've never felt this way. I mean, can one person mean that much to you? I know what it's like to think I lost him, and I don't know if I could ever go through that again."

"Lo, you won't have to. Eddie would never leave you."

"I mean, I know that, but still it's a scary thought. Part of me is still in awe that he loves me so much."

"Of course he does," Mel said. "It's obvious by the way he looks at you. I feel sorry for this stalker guy if Eddie ever gets a hold of him."

"Yeah," Loren said as she looked in the back of the class. There was a guard dressed as a student sitting by himself at a table in the back of the room pretending to read a book. The principal had allowed him to shadow Loren while she was at school. Thankfully this was the only class she had to be at today.

"Are you still freaked out by it?" Mel asked.

"A little, but I don't want Eddie to know how freaked out I am. He would just worry more, and he doesn't need that."