Once In a Lifetime

Chapter 8

~your perspective~

In the hotel, I wake up to Colby poking me and saying "someones at the door." So I open the door to find Elton saying in a high pitched voice "room cleaning."

"Sorry, come back later we don't need it right now." I say politely. Elton walks in and says in a masculine way,

"Its room cleaning bitch."

"Hi. Elton. Sam's down at breakfast and Colby's still asleep."

"I'm not asleep." Colby yell across the room.

"Yeah I saw Sam down there. He said he would be coming up right about now."

"Okay, great. We can start picking up I guess." I said cleaning up spilled water around the sink in the kitchen area.

"Who stole all the f---ing shampoo? Colby?" Elton yells from the bathroom.

"I gotta keep my hair luscious and flowing, man." Colby says petting his hair.

I laugh along with everyone else.

Sam comes walking in and says the same, "Room service" and in the same voice.

"Yeah, yeah. We've heard it once before." Colby says getting up. He then takes off his boot to shower.

Elton walks out of the bathroom as Colby limps into take a shower. Of course he walks in with a tiny bottle of stolen shampoo that had on the night stand.

"Hey guys,"I say holding up the ice bucket every hotel gives you, "How about we fill this up with ice and water and dump it on Colby?"

"I'm in." Sam raised his hand along with Elton.

"I'll get the ice from the ice machine from down the hall." Elton walks out the door with the bucket.

"Okay, Sam. This was all a set up on Elton. I brought four packs of silly string in my purse 'cus who knows when you need it. Two for you and two for me. When he comes in the door, we're gonna spray him. Especially his beard. His beard is his prize possession."

"Sounds like a plan!" Sam said grabbing the cans.

Colby had gotten out of the shower and puts his boot back on just in time. He took one of my cans to help. Elton walked in and BOOM he got hit. Silly string went everywhere. Elton screamed and slightly laughed.

"_____, if it wasn't for you almost getting a concussion, you'd be dead."

And as soon as he said that, Colby took the bucket and dumped it on me. The coldness surprised me.

"HEY. That was meant for Elton to dump on you." I replied getting the ice cubes out of my shirt. Great. My shirts wet and I didn't pack any extra clothes because I didn't have enough time to think ahead yesterday.

"Well, my shirt's soaked. I didn't bring anything with because of such short notice. Let's hope whatever is in the house has calmed down so we can live in peace."

"Everyone else is at the house now. Kat said we could stay at her place. I stayed at Amanda's though." Elton said

"Okay, great. I need to get home to change. Please." I said getting my stuff.

"Fine, lets go."

"I'll ride with Elton." Sam called out as we walked out the door. The room was a mess. As it always was when they stayed at hotel rooms.

We checked out and headed to our cars. Elton had parked closer to the exit so he arrived home sooner. Colby and I got caught in L.A. traffic. Now I'm just sitting here in a soaked shirt. Colby somehow manages to get his sweatshirt from God knows where and hands it to me.

"Thanks...I guess. Where did you even get this." I slip it on over my shirt.

"I think I left it in the back from yesterday. I don't know really..." Colby smiles at me.

"That's nice..." I sarcastically say.

"Oh yay. We are finally moving along." Colby cheers.

Fifteen minutes later, we make it home. I go to find Jax still green as ever matching Sam.

Sam notices me staring at Jax's coloring, "Oh it should come out in three weeks."

"Yeah? Well that what you said about Circa. She still has a slight tint to her and its been four months. Luckily for me, that means however long it lasts on my poor pup, its gonna last on you..." I smile at Sam.

"Ah shit. I guess so. Looks like you're getting baths as often as I will, Jax." Sam talks to Jax surprisingly more than I do.

"haha. Only if you're doing the work." I call from the game room.

Corey is playing his usual Rocket League. He asks if I wanna join in and of course I do knowing that he doesn't know I'm on the leader board now.

"You can't give me pity points, Corey. You'll regret it."

"I'll regret nothing, _____." After that I score and beat him by three points.

"What did I will happen, Corey." I said taunting him.

"Shut up." Corey turns the T.V. off. Katrina and Devyn walk in.

"Hey, _____. We were going to get Starbucks and then go to the mall. You wanna join us?" Devyn asks from the doorway

"Why not. I beat Corey. He didn't even know my own strength."

Kat bursts out laughing.

"I'm gonna go hang out with Colby upstairs," Corey says stomping up the stairs.

"Fine by me," I call out walking out the

Kat said she would drive. Her car is a lot nicer than mine. I mean, any car could. Even Colby's. Surprising I know. I climb into the back and offer Devyn the passenger seat. We then head out to town for the day. We ended up coming home around 10:45.

When we got back I went straight to bed. Not to my room, but to Colby's room. Around 11:30, Colby came to his room and went to bed. It was the happiest moment of my life.

"I love you. Goodnight." I said before dosing off.

I fell asleep to his sweet and soft voice saying "Love you too, babe."

I took in every single word he said to me that night and I kept it. In my heart.