✔️| 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡

Chapter 45.

"A bar?" I ask, looking around the busy interior.

"Yep!" Toni smiles and walks towards the bar. When she asked me to hang out, I didn't think she would take to the Whyte Wyrm. "I thought this might take your mind of Sweet Pea." My heart stings at the mention of Sweet Pea.

"Please don't speak of him," I say and take a seat beside Toni on one of the stools.

Suddenly, she slides me a shot, taking one for herself. "Cheers," she says as she holds her shot up to me with a smile. I look at my own, maybe this won't be such a bad idea. I ignore the voice in my head telling me not to do it and clink my glass with Toni's. I quickly swallow the liquid without overthinking it and it burns my throat as it goes down, but I find myself wanting to do more. I lose count of how many shots Toni and I have taken after the fourth one.

"You know, I'm so glad we came here tonight," I say to Toni with a drunk giggle. I haven't felt this relaxed since my fight with Sweet Pea.

"Don't tell anyone this, but I've wanted to date you before you were with... you know who" Toni admits and I look at her shocked. "But I saw how much snakey pants cared for you and let him have you."

"Oh my god, what if I call him and tell him that?" I say and reach in my jacket pocket to pull out my phone.

"Karisma, no! Don't!" Toni laughs.

"Too late, I still have his number on speed dial!" I'm so wasted that that sentence doesn't even process in my mind. "It's ringing" I whisper and point to my phone that is pressed up against my ear.

"Hello?" Sweet Pea answers. Hearing his voice sends a wave of shock through my body. He actually picked up the phone. I find my drunken self not being able to say anything back.

"Say something, Karisma!" Toni whispers as he nudges me out of my trance.

"Hello?" Sweet Pea says again.

"Hi, this is Karisma Jones and I wanted to tell you, Sweet Pea, that-" I totally forget what I was going to tell him. "What was I going to tell him again?" I ask Toni and she shrugs as she slams down her shot glass on the wooden counter.

"Karisma?" Sweet Pea questions.

"Yes?"

"Where the hell are you?"

Why is he so serious?

"Relax, I'm at the Whyte Wyrm with my date," I say, not realising I just called Toni my date.

"Your date?" I ignore the pain in his voice.

"Yep! Guess what her name is!" I say and laugh.

"Karisma, I'm coming over there," Sweet Pea says.

"You could do with some shots yourself, Sweets. They're really good and I don't feel the pain anymore" I say.

"Pain? What pain? Are you hurt?"

"No silly! I mean the pain in my heart." At this point, I have no control over what I'm saying. Complete silence is the only thing I hear from the other end of the call.

"I'll be right there," Sweet Pea says then hangs up.

"What did he say?" Toni asks.

"He hung up on me! He's so rude but so hot" I say.

"I'm not rude. Let's dance" Toni replies and grabs my hand. She drags me to the part of the bar where people are dancing or bobbing their heads to the loud music that is blaring through the speakers.

As I dance, I lose sight of Toni and feel warm hands on my waist. I gasp and turn around to see some teenage Serpent trying to grind on me. "Uh, I need to go to the bathroom," I say and stumble away from the dance floor.

"Karisma" I hear a familiar voice call and I stop walking. I look around the bar and see Sweet Pea walking towards me.

Why the hell is he here?

Suddenly, I trip over something and stumble forwards. His hand immediately grab my waist and his other arm wraps around me, keeping me upright.

"I'm fine," I say and push him off me, which didn't do much apart from making me stumble backwards while he stood in the same spot.

"You're drunk," he says.

"Yeah, no shit," I say and sit down on the nearest bar stool.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Someone yells and I look behind Sweet Pea to see the boy from before glaring daggers at him.

"She's going home. You know, you're a real piece of shit. I saw you trying to grind on her" Sweet Pea says with an angry tone.

"I'll take her home since you two aren't dating anymore," the boy says.

"We're still dating, we're just going through a rough patch right now so piss off. I've got it from here" Sweet Pea spits. He lifts me off the stool and puts his hand on my lower back as he leads me out of the bar. "Let's go outside," he says. I lean against the wall of the bar as we stand outside and look up at him.

"Why are you here?" I ask.

"Karisma, I-"

"I shouldn't be missing you. You should be missing me" I say, cutting him off.

"Who said I ain't?" Sweet Pea says, making my heart skip a beat. He takes a step closer to me and I gulp, nervous about what he might do. "Let's get you home," he says. Sweet Pea carries me bridal style into his trailer and I rest my head on his chest.

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So this is what he meant by getting me home. I feel the coolness of his bedsheets and immediately snuggle up in the sheets. I open my eyes and see him walking towards the door. "Where are you going?" I ask.

"I, uh, thought if sleep on the couch" he answers and looks down.

"Why aren't you sleeping here?" I ask, pouting slightly.

"I didn't think you would want me to," Sweet Pea says. "Do you want me to?" I nod and Sweet Pea walks around to the other side of the bed. He changes so he's shirtless and I look away to stop myself from getting flustered. He climbs into bed and I roll over to see him already facing me, his face inches from mine.

"Listen I want to apologise, Karisma" he pleads.

"I'm listening," I say. Sweet Pea takes a deep breath and I sit up.

"Karisma, I'm so sorry for what I said, I shouldn't have called you clingy. You've been so patient with me. You're not clingy in the slightest and I don't deserve you" Sweet Pea says as he looks at me with guilt.

"Go on," I say as a small smile forms on my lips.

The truth is I'm not even mad at Sweet Pea anymore, he was just having a bad day and I got on his bad side. I can tell he really regrets yelling at me. I just want to see him beg a little bit more.

"Please come back to me? I can't sleep knowing that you are hurt, especially since I caused it" Sweet Pea says. "Please, I'll do anything" he begs.

"Ok, I know what you can do for me," I say. A smile forms on Sweet Pea's lips and I straddle his waist. He sits up and grabs my waist. I wrap my arms around his neck and kiss him.

"I love you, I promise I will never yell at you again unless it's for any other reason that's not in an angry way" Sweet Pea says.

"I love you too" I reply.

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