Too Fast For Love

Chapter 19: Mine

A few days have passed since the bonfire/camp out we had on the beach. Every time I tried closing my eyes to sleep, Nikki's face showed up. I couldn't get his gorgeous face out of my mind. It was driving me crazy. I didn't really want to go back down that path with him again.

"You up" I heard knock at my bedroom door followed by a voice.

"Come in" I said pulling my covers so my naked body wouldn't be revealed to whoever was going to walk in. It was Jake. He had a cup of coffee for me in his hand.

"Here you go, Kitty" he said handing me the cup and taking a seat at the end of my bed.

"Well aren't you being sweet today" I replied taking a sip. The chilling taste of peppermint filled my mouth and down my throat. I felt like I was in heaven.

"Just felt like spending some time with my best friend today" he said ruffling my already messy bed head. I smiled at him and he smiled back.

"Here, sit" I said patting the bed next to me. He nodded and moved next to me. "You mind passing me that shirt right there so I can cover up properly" I asked kind of laughing.

"Yeah of course" he said picking up my oversized KISS shirt. I quickly slipped it on without trying to flash him anything, but I mean c'mon. It wouldn't be the first time he's seen me.

We sat back and continued to watch whatever was playing on MTV at the moment. Before I knew it, he was now laying down and completely knocked out. I decided to get up to put on some underwear and head to the kitchen. It was around 12pm now so I decided to open up a bottle of beer and cooked myself something to eat. It was honestly nice living on my own. I felt free and had no one else to worry about. Plus, living fairly close to the beach over in Venice was way more peaceful than the Sunset Strip. Then I heard a knock at my front door. I didn't usually get people coming to see me unless it was my mom or if I had called someone before to come over. I got up and slipped on a pair of clean shorts from the pile of clean clothes I needed to fold. I looked through the peep hole on the door to see a somewhat familiar face. I couldn't quite put my finger on who it was, but I decided to open it anyways.

"Where the fuck is he" the woman said pushing her way into my apartment.

"Uhm excuse me. Who are you and what are you talking about" I asked grabbing her by the shoulder before she could invade the rest of my place. She then backhanded me across the face.

"Oh don't place dumb, you stupid skank" she said. I cupped my hand on my now warm cheek. "Where the fuck is my Nikki" she finished asking, with one hand on her hip. Then it clicked in my head. This was the Vanity.

"I don't know. I haven't even seen him, nor do I even talk to him. Why out of all places would he be here? And how the hell did you find where I live" I asked angrily.

"It doesn't matter how I found out. What matters is why the fuck you thought it was okay to go anywhere near my Nikki" she said shoving the folded magazine at me into my chest.

"If I were you, I'd be smart enough to stay the fuck away from me and my fiancé, capiche" she finished saying before storming out the door and slamming it behind her. Fiancé?? Why wasn't I aware of any of this? I then took a seat on my couch and opened it up. That's when I saw what the first page was.

Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx and former fiancé, Kat Lee Graves back together again?? Have things ended for Vanity?

The headline was followed by pictures underneath of the bonfire/campout we had not even a week ago. How the fuck did someone even capture all of this?

"Is everything alright" Jake asked making his way over to me quickly. I looked up at him and shook my head. "Holy shit, your face" he raised his voice higher seeing the bruise form by my eye and the bright redness on my cheek.