✦ ✧ ✩ Curtain Call ✦ ✧ ✩ - Charlie Gillespie

Chapter 36

The world went black when I closed my eyes and finally let my lips melt into his, letting go of my unyielding stubbornness as his mouth parted mine more and more intensely as he felt me give in. It almost hurt, in the most beautiful way. As if I was deprived of the most wonderful things of life until this moment and someone finally decided to set me free. The earth beneath us trembled as he let go off me. Every single one of my instincts screamed to push him back in. His eyes scanned mine waiting for an answer as I was silently staring back at him with a painful stinging feeling on the edges of my mouth. It was as if it didn't know what to do when his lips weren't on mine.

I snapped out of it when he trailed his fingers down my leg where the slit of my dress was and I came to the realization we were still standing in the middle of the restaurant. I looked up at him and without saying a word grabbed his hand and walked with him towards the door. As we were running out with the biggest smiles on our faces I could hear Matthew loudly punch the table making the glasses on top of it crash into each other making an ear-piercing sound. My heart skipped a beat.

"I'm so done with that" I mumbled, looking down at mine and Charlie's hands, that were clung together and refused to let go of the other. We started running faster towards the driver and jumped in the car.

"Is Matthew coming?" He asked as we closed the doors of the car.

"No he is not" Charlie replied, gently resting his hand on my thigh and smirking as the driver started the car.

When we got to the house we ran inside and made our way to my room. We ran into Esmée who let out a little giggle as I winked at her and Charlie furrowed his eyebrows.

The minute we got in Charlie pulled me in again and my body just complied as if it was created for this moment since the day my feet touched the ground for the first time.

"I'll stop if this is too much" he said, kissing my neck making his way down towards my collarbone.

"Don't" I simply replied and let my body press against his as his grasp became tighter.

We laid in my bed next to each other, our faces always inches away, scared of bursting our little bubble if we ever came apart again.

"What are you doing here?" I finally let out, moving a piece of hair away from his face and letting rest there for a second.

"I couldn't wait for you to come back" he replied smiling "I needed to talk to you"

"What about...?" I hesitantly asked, scared that the answer would ruin the moment.

"She was cheating on me" he replied and crooked his mouth a little.

I felt my stomach sink and the bubble burst as I sat down straight in the bed using the sheets to cover myself.

"Eri i'ts ok" he said, trailing his fingers down my spine "I'm ok. I'm the best I've ever been"

"Are you here because you're heartbroken and looking for shelter?" I asked, still looking to the front, giving him my back and biting the inside of my cheeks.

"I went to her because I was heartbroken" he said, and sat next to me, kissing my shoulder "I'm sorry" he finally muttered.

I turned to him and gave him a quick peck on the lips.

"I'm just going to go with it for now" I said, smiling as he smiled back at me.

"I brought you something" he said, reaching to his bag that was brought in by the driver after he dropped us off after we both gave him our best puppy eyes. He took my dad's jacket out of his bag and my notebook.

He walked to me and put the big jacket on top of my shoulders.

"I thought you might need it out here, if you were feeling homesick or something."

I took the collar of the jacket and hugged my body with it. It still smelled earthy from all the trips and like my dad's cologne.

"I miss him a lot" I said, letting out a big breath.

"You should go visit him then" He replied, kissing my forehead, "And of course, your notebook" he said, putting it in my hands." I might've read something..." He sentenced, looking guilty. I saw the last pages had little chords written all around it.

"Did you write music for this?" I said, running my fingers through everything I wrote for him.

"Are you mad?"

"No, I'm not, at all" I said, and felt my chest flutter as a little smile escaped my mouth.

"Ah! Look at your eyes. You really are in love with me" he said, laughing and throwing himself on top of me making me drop my notebook.

"God you are insufferable" I said, letting him wrap his arms around me.

"I am too you know" he said, breaking the little seconds of the most comfortable silence.

We were interrupted by a knock on the door. I quickly threw Charlie's shirt on to open the door.

"Eri, Mr. Carter says he wants to meet you for lunch if it's not a problem. He says it's really important and that you should be excited."

"Of course it's not, I'll be ready in 20 minutes" I replied, smiling at Esmée as I closed the door slowly. I turned to Charlie that was looking at me with the brightest of smiles and started jumping in place.

"This is happening!" I said letting him grab me from the ground and twirl me around.

"Of course it is" he said, finally putting me down "God Eri, I'm so fascinated by you."

"I couldn't have done this without every single one of you" I said, and had a big realization

"Oh god, I HAVE to call Savannah right now, she sent the script. And the girls. And Owen and Jer. Oh my god Charlie this is happening!" I said, throwing myself into his arms again and then running to grab my phone.

He got dressed as I made the call and walked outside to look around the house and go properly meet Esmée. As the girls were not picking up I made my way to the door to follow Charlie but as I got closer I heard two voices in the corridor.

"I won't back off that easily. Look around kid. Look where she is. What have you done with your life? Do you think you are good enough?"

"I'm not going to humor you Matthew now please move"

"I'm not backing down that easily" he replied and let out a chuckle.