Fire meet gasoline (Skeet Ulrich)

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Hello sunshines, hope you'll like it. Xxx

"Once again, thank you so much," I said louder as she was in the kitchen and I sat under the blanket in living room. 

"Once again, my pleasure to have you here, beauty. Let me see the scratch," Ashleigh turned my face and examined my left cheek, "it must hurt, right? Aaaw, my poor baby," I felt warm napkin going up and down my neck, probably wiping away dried blood. 

"It's kind of burning," I admitted. 

"Sure it is, but what happened? Can you tell me, or is it a secret?" she poured some disinfectant into wounds and I yelled at the pain. 

I told her. I mean, I didn't tell her about those guys and fake pregnancy, but I told her that I confessed to Corin my feelings for Skeet and she got mad, obviously, and kicked me out. 

"And Skeet ... what about him?" Ashleigh raised right eyebrow. 

"He's in Peru now," I took a sip of tea. 

"I know, but does he know? Does he love you?" 

"He does," I nodded with smile. Just a thought of him could make me smile, always. 

"Yaaas, girl," she shouted with broad smile," I am so happy for you, that's amazing!"

"Yes, it is, but ... I'm so scared, Ash," I admitted.

"Scared of what? Of him?"

"No, no," I laughed a little, "how's it gonna be at home. I mean, if we get together, well ... Corin is my cousin and how her family will react and all the stuff, you know? My dad and her dad are brothers, they are really close, so it's kind of fucked up."

"Oh, baby, that's very unpleasant situation, but you two will get through it, I'm sure. Skeet is a good guy, he'll work it out," she sat in arm chair opposite me. 

"Would you tell me about him? I mean, you know him longer than me ... What is he like," I asked. 

"Honestly? You won a jackpot, girl. I think Vanessa could tell you more, because they know each other longer, but he's very good man. The older cast, like our fake parents, they knew each other, but when we got to meet him, Vics ... We all were drooling, let me tell you. Like, we know him, from movies only, but we were all like 'wtf, we need to calm our hormones now', cause we met him the day he and Cole were filming the scene when Jughead's leaving drive-in and he had that serpent leather jacket on, chains ... You still haven't seen it?" she asked surprisedly when she saw my expression. 

"I'm sorry, there wasn't time, but I will someday, I promise," I laughed and she joined me," but I really like the part about leather jacket, continue please."

"Haha, well, he's good guy and everybody truly like him on set. And he's such a good father, like he's always calling his kids when he's not at home and when he's free, he goes to L.A., even if it's only for two days, so ... Yes, he's really cool," she said. 

"And ... what do you think of that age-gap, is it really that disturbing?" I peeped. 

"To be honest with you, it's a lot, but ... there's love, so don't think about it. Let people think what they want and you do you. If you love him and he makes you happy, that's all that matters, right?"

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On set in Peru, there were some technical problems, so Skeet came to Vancouver in the middle of March. My cheek mended in that time. Nobody knew ... except KJ. He was furious when he found out about how Corin kicked me out, of course I didn't tell him about the fake baby situation, but now he knew about Skeet and he wanted me to come and live with him, which, of course, was inappropriate,  because he got girlfriend, so I declined and reassured him, I'm ok. I was going to events as hostess once again and was saving up money from the beginning. I didn't count on that Corin would give me my money back. I was tired of it, but it wouldn't be for forever, I comforted myself.