Times change...people shouldn't, chapter 7
The 3 teenagers walked into their huge hotel suite with big eyes. "Wow, this is really nice..." Brooke said as she walked further in. It was more like an apartment, than a suite. It had a living room, complete with a big screen tv, sofas, and an x-box, a large kitchen area with a big island, refrigerator, and cabinets, and two bedrooms. One with a king sized bed and one with a queen. "Damn, this is nice.." Joey said rolling the cart in and joining in with the looking around.
"You guys like it?" Mike said from the door. "O hey Uncle Mike." Jakob said looking up from setting up the x-box. "What's up?" Mike walked further into the room and joined Jakob on the couch. "Not much, just dropped by to see how you guys were doing." He nodded over in Joey's direction as he was talking to Jakob to say hello. "Where's Estelle?" Joey asked from his seat on island in the kitchen. Mike got up and walked over to join Joey and Brooke for a while. "She's coming in on a later flight with Frankito tonight....Her, Frankito, and Ramona are going to then take the room next door to you guys, and Me, and Tre are going to crash in your parent's room." Brooke sighed "as long as Ramona isn't in here..I don't really care where she is." Mike chuckled a little bit. He was the only one they told about the incident out of the adults, Joey and the kids had always trusted him with their secrets. "Well, I don't think you guys have to worry to much about her. She'll be with Stella, and she's not going to let her do anything crazy." "Good." Brooke muttered. "Well, I'll leave you kids to unpack. Have fun " Mike said getting up and heading for the door. "C ya Mike " They called out behind him.
*later on that night*
"Brooke come on......" Jakob whined from the doorway of their room. They were all going out to a nice restaurant for dinner tonight, where Estelle and Frankito were going to meet them. "Ok, ok, im coming." Brooke said as she stepped out of her and Joey's room looking really pretty. She had just made her hair a little more blonde for the summer and got and angel cut which made her skin glow, she had on a dark green tube top dress that came up to right in the center of her kneecap. Her hair was pin straight and fell delicately on to her shoulders, and her eyes seemed to be glowing against her dark black eyeliner. " Happy now that you rushed me?" she said balancing while she tried to put her shoes on. "Um..what?..o yea yea sure.." Jakob said looking over body. Just then Joey jogged up to the room to come tell them the car was waiting outside when he saw his brother bugging out over his girlfriend, who had no idea and continued to bend down for her shoes allowing a perfect view down her dress. "Jakob u idiot go downstairs " he said as he shoved him out of the room and toward the elevator. "What? I didn't do anything " Jakob said with a smirk like his father's on his face as he walked off. "Just go.."
Joey said as he shook his head with a small smile and waited for Brooke. "Sorry.." she said looking up from her crouched position on the floor and up to Joey. "It's ok.....come on my mom is going to flip if we get there late and miss Stella and Frank." he said taking her hand and leading her outside.
*at the restaurant*
"Joey, they are going to be here any minute " Adi scolded as she practically yanked him into a seat and ran back to her's. "Adrienne, calm down....please." Billie said leaning back and taking a sip from his beer. "It's not like we have to make some big impression on them." Adi sighed as she realized she might be a bit wound up. "It's just not that often Estelle gets to see Mike, so I would like it if she got to enjoy a nice relaxing time here with all of us ok?" she said taking a breath. "It's my fault Adrienne, I was getting ready." Brooke said taking her seat next to Joey and taking a sip of her water. "Don't worry about it Brooke." Tre said from across the table, Brooke looked up from her menu to smile at him but made eye contact with Ramona instead who was seated next to him. She glared at Brooke and then over to Joey who was staring down at his menu, trying not to look at her. "I'm going to go to the bathroom." Ramona said looking around and getting up. When she got to the other side of the table she dragged her arm along Joey's back, knowing that he couldn't say anything without getting in trouble in front of every one. Brooke rolled her eyes and sat back in her chair.
A few minutes later Estelle and Frankito walked in and joined them. "Hero " Mike said getting up and hugging his daughter tight. "Hey dad." she smiled as she pulled away to greet everyone else at the table. Estelle noticed an empty sea next to Brooke and sat down, "Hi, im Estelle, I don't think we've met before." she smiled as she extended her hand. "Hi, im Brooke..Joey's girlfriend." Estelle's eyes opened wide. "You're Brooke? O my God Joey talks about you all the time, how could I not recognize you? " Brooke smiled and looked over to Joey Talkin about me hun?" He blushed and looked over to Estelle with a smile"Thank you Stella, I can always count on you to keep your mouth shut" he got up and hugged her hello, as they all got settled and ordered their dinner.
*after dinner at an upscale nightclub*
"Hey Frank " Brooke called pushing through the crowd. Frankito turned around from a girl he was talking to and directed his attention to Brooke. "Brooke, what's up?" he said harmlessly wrapping his arm around her waist and pulling her closer to him to listen to her response. She couldn't help but giggle, he was just like Tre, inside and out. "Do you know where Joey and
Stella are?" s
he shouted into his ear over the music. He nodded and pointed to the lounge area across the dance floor. "Thank hun." she said pulling away and making her way over to them.
"Hey Brooke " Estelle said as she moved over on the brightly colored couch her and Joey were seated on. "Hey guys." Brooke said as she gratefully accepted the seat and plopped down. "What are doing?" Stella shrugged, "Just talking....hey Joe, you think you could run over and grab me a drink?" she asked rather off topic. "See now that would require energy, and me having to get up." He said with a smile as he pressed his beer bottle up to his lips. "Pleaseeee" Estelle begged leaning on him. "Fine ...but you owe me Brooke want anything?" he said finally getting up and heading over to the bar. "Nah, im good babe." he nodded and walked off. "Brooke, can I um talk to you?" Estelle said fiddling with her bag on her lap. "Sure, Stella what's up?" Estelle drew a deep breath and looked up at Broke who seemed confused. "Well I was talking with Joey, and he told me everything that's been going on. With Ramona, and Andy and all that, and I think you should know something that he didn't tell you." Brooke seemed confused "What is it?" she said worried "Well, in freshman year my dad had this party thing over my house. We were all having a good time and drinking like crazy, I seriously never thought Joey could drink as much as he did. He even out drank his dad." she said trying to bring some light to the conversation but didn't succeed, and continued "So I don't know one thing lead to another and he...he slept with Ramona, and he didn't um talk to her for a really long time after that. He knew that she liked him and he really didn't care about what he did....... He kinda earned a reputation for basically fucking people and ditching them the next day. Im sorry I just....I just felt like you should know, he said he's been with you for almost a year now. Which to be honest shocked me, he's never waited this long for anyone before...but that can be good. I mean I've also never seen him so happy with anyone before..." Estelle drifted off looking out a small window that overlooked a busy city street as Brooke sat there shocked. "I...don't.....I don't what to say...Why didn't he just tell me about Ramona?" she seemed to be getting really upset so Estelle hugged her "I didn't mean to hurt you I just, I wanted you to know." Brooke pulled away "No, it's ok, thank you for telling me, I just really don't know what to say. I mean I don't want to be with someone who is going to fuck and leave me....I thought I loved him." Estelle felt really bad for bringing this down on her "Hey, im sure he loves you too, like I said I never saw him so happy with anyone else. He talks to everyone about how great you are, and as far as I know he's not pressuring you to sleep with him right?" Brooke shook her head, listening carefully to Stella. "See, so that's a great sign Just talk it out with him, im sure it will be fine." Brooke wiped a small tear from the corner of her eye, being careful not to smudge her makeup in the process, as Joey walked over with drinks. "Brooke are you ok?" he said setting them down on the table and looking at her. "Im fine." she said turning away from him and getting up "On second thought im going to go get that drink, bye guys." Joey sat there with one eyebrow raised, wondering what was wrong, and looked over to Estelle. "What's the matter with Brooke?" he managed to say over the booming music. "This time, im staying out of it." Estelle said as she got up and went to go find the rest of the group, leaving Joey by himself.
The rest of the night went fairly well and at about 1 am the group made their way back to the hotel. Tired, they said their goodnights and went back to their own rooms.
"Brooke wait up, geez." Jakob called from down the hallway with his brother as they tried to catch up with Brooke, who's pace was rather fast and hurried to just get back to their room. "I walk fast...shoot me." she called back as she reached the room and held the door open impatiently for them. When they finally got there Brooke let go of the door causing it to wack against Jakob. "Ouch, Brooke what the hell?" he muttered rubbing his arm and sleepily walking into the room. "Seriously, you've been acting weird all night...What' s wrong?" Joey added closing and locking the door behind him. "Nothing." Brooke sighed pulling her long hair back into a loose ponytail "im just..tired. That's all." she slipped off her high heel shoes and walked into her bedroom to change.
Joey sighed heavily and rubbed the back of his neck and looked over to his brother who was staring at them. "Good luck.." Jakob said sarcastically with a laugh. "Shut up!" Joey said taking a pillow off the couch and tossing it at his brother's head as he slowly made his way to his and Brooke's room and shut the door.
He walked in to find her comfortably curled up on the small couch watching Fall Out Boy and MCR videos while talking on the phone. He looked over to her as she saw him and turned her head back into the phone "Let me call you back Lau?.........yea everything is ok...no.....ok I will...luv ya..bye." she shut her cell and directed her attention back to the tv to avoid Joey's glare. "Brooke, talk to me...What's wrong?" he said walking over and taking a seat next to her. "I told you..nothing." she coldly said still watching the tv. "Brooke!" he said taking the remote and clicking the tv off "you went from hot to cold with me..tell me what's wrong!" he said upset. Brooke finally turned her head to face him and looked deep into his eyes "Why Joe?! Why? Do you tell me everything?....I don't think so..." she got up and walked over to their bed and slipped under the covers with Joey right behind her "What are you talking about?" he said confused. "Think about it Joey, what's something that....wait let me rephrase that....what's SOMEONE that you did and didn't tell me about?!" Brooke said suddenly sitting up and crossing her arms over her chest. Joey's eyes practically popped out of his head "How did you...." Brooke cut him off "Estelle told me.....a girl I have never met before today told me something by boyfriend one year should of told me!" she said getting less angry and more hurt. Joey was speechless, he just sorta looked down with his eyes wide, thinking of something to say back to her. "Babe, im..sorry" was the best he could come up with at the time. "Just leave me alone Joey.." she trailed off as she turned her back to him and buried her face into her pillow.
Joey muttered something and laid flat next to her. He turned to say something a few times but just couldn't find the right words. He decided to take a hot shower and sort a few things out in his mind before he said anything to her.
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Joey opened the door of the bathroom allowing steam to fill the bedroom, he caught Brooke slightly propped up playing with her thumbs in her lap. She noticed Joey come back in the room and she quickly went back to the "sleeping" position she was in before.
Joey smiled to himself as he put on some pajama pants and walked over to Brooke. He slid under the covers and leaned in close to her "I know you're up." he whispered close to her neck. Brooke couldn't help but smile she was still so mad at him and she hated how he could just make her melt and make her fall in love all over again. She rolled over so that she was facing him and they were both on their sides. "Ok, you have my attention." she sighed still trying to look and sound mad. Joey smiled at her and pulled her close. "Im really sorry. I should have told you about Ramona but it was so long ago and she didn't mean anything I swear to God!" "I know she didn't mean anything...that's why you fucked her and left her right?" Brooke snapped at him. "Brooke, I was 14 and really, really, really drunk. The next day I barely even remembered talking to her, let alone sleeping with her." Brooke paused and thought for a minute. "Joey, it was something you did in the past and it's not like I was with you, so I guess I really can't be mad..im just scared now...." Joey had a shocked expression come over him "Scared? Honey of what?" "You....I don't want what happened to Ramona and a whole bunch of other girls to happen to me...." Brooke said looking at him, her eyes meeting his perfectly. "Brooke.....I would never ever....ever hurt you....do you understand me? Never.." He said with the most sincere look on his face. Brooke's heart jumped when he said that and she smiled "Promise?.." she said as she snuggled her head into his neck, brushing her lips against it ever so slightly. "Promise." Joey repeated taking her head and cupping it in his hands as he brought her face close to his and kissed her gently. He pulled away and went to roll over to go to sleep but felt Brooke grab him and bring his body close to her's "tired already?" she smiled as she rolled on top of him and kissed him passionately. He smiled against her warm lips and deepened the kiss by darting his tongue in her mouth. She ran her hands through his dark hair and tugged on it, only arousing him more as he wrapped his hands around her hips and pressed her body on his. He began to leave small love bites on her neck and ran his hands up her shirt right before the door burst open and light shone through the dark room. ...
"You guys like it?" Mike said from the door. "O hey Uncle Mike." Jakob said looking up from setting up the x-box. "What's up?" Mike walked further into the room and joined Jakob on the couch. "Not much, just dropped by to see how you guys were doing." He nodded over in Joey's direction as he was talking to Jakob to say hello. "Where's Estelle?" Joey asked from his seat on island in the kitchen. Mike got up and walked over to join Joey and Brooke for a while. "She's coming in on a later flight with Frankito tonight....Her, Frankito, and Ramona are going to then take the room next door to you guys, and Me, and Tre are going to crash in your parent's room." Brooke sighed "as long as Ramona isn't in here..I don't really care where she is." Mike chuckled a little bit. He was the only one they told about the incident out of the adults, Joey and the kids had always trusted him with their secrets. "Well, I don't think you guys have to worry to much about her. She'll be with Stella, and she's not going to let her do anything crazy." "Good." Brooke muttered. "Well, I'll leave you kids to unpack. Have fun " Mike said getting up and heading for the door. "C ya Mike " They called out behind him.
*later on that night*
"Brooke come on......" Jakob whined from the doorway of their room. They were all going out to a nice restaurant for dinner tonight, where Estelle and Frankito were going to meet them. "Ok, ok, im coming." Brooke said as she stepped out of her and Joey's room looking really pretty. She had just made her hair a little more blonde for the summer and got and angel cut which made her skin glow, she had on a dark green tube top dress that came up to right in the center of her kneecap. Her hair was pin straight and fell delicately on to her shoulders, and her eyes seemed to be glowing against her dark black eyeliner. " Happy now that you rushed me?" she said balancing while she tried to put her shoes on. "Um..what?..o yea yea sure.." Jakob said looking over body. Just then Joey jogged up to the room to come tell them the car was waiting outside when he saw his brother bugging out over his girlfriend, who had no idea and continued to bend down for her shoes allowing a perfect view down her dress. "Jakob u idiot go downstairs " he said as he shoved him out of the room and toward the elevator. "What? I didn't do anything " Jakob said with a smirk like his father's on his face as he walked off. "Just go.."
Joey said as he shook his head with a small smile and waited for Brooke. "Sorry.." she said looking up from her crouched position on the floor and up to Joey. "It's ok.....come on my mom is going to flip if we get there late and miss Stella and Frank." he said taking her hand and leading her outside.
*at the restaurant*
"Joey, they are going to be here any minute " Adi scolded as she practically yanked him into a seat and ran back to her's. "Adrienne, calm down....please." Billie said leaning back and taking a sip from his beer. "It's not like we have to make some big impression on them." Adi sighed as she realized she might be a bit wound up. "It's just not that often Estelle gets to see Mike, so I would like it if she got to enjoy a nice relaxing time here with all of us ok?" she said taking a breath. "It's my fault Adrienne, I was getting ready." Brooke said taking her seat next to Joey and taking a sip of her water. "Don't worry about it Brooke." Tre said from across the table, Brooke looked up from her menu to smile at him but made eye contact with Ramona instead who was seated next to him. She glared at Brooke and then over to Joey who was staring down at his menu, trying not to look at her. "I'm going to go to the bathroom." Ramona said looking around and getting up. When she got to the other side of the table she dragged her arm along Joey's back, knowing that he couldn't say anything without getting in trouble in front of every one. Brooke rolled her eyes and sat back in her chair.
A few minutes later Estelle and Frankito walked in and joined them. "Hero " Mike said getting up and hugging his daughter tight. "Hey dad." she smiled as she pulled away to greet everyone else at the table. Estelle noticed an empty sea next to Brooke and sat down, "Hi, im Estelle, I don't think we've met before." she smiled as she extended her hand. "Hi, im Brooke..Joey's girlfriend." Estelle's eyes opened wide. "You're Brooke? O my God Joey talks about you all the time, how could I not recognize you? " Brooke smiled and looked over to Joey Talkin about me hun?" He blushed and looked over to Estelle with a smile"Thank you Stella, I can always count on you to keep your mouth shut" he got up and hugged her hello, as they all got settled and ordered their dinner.
*after dinner at an upscale nightclub*
"Hey Frank " Brooke called pushing through the crowd. Frankito turned around from a girl he was talking to and directed his attention to Brooke. "Brooke, what's up?" he said harmlessly wrapping his arm around her waist and pulling her closer to him to listen to her response. She couldn't help but giggle, he was just like Tre, inside and out. "Do you know where Joey and
Stella are?" s
he shouted into his ear over the music. He nodded and pointed to the lounge area across the dance floor. "Thank hun." she said pulling away and making her way over to them.
"Hey Brooke " Estelle said as she moved over on the brightly colored couch her and Joey were seated on. "Hey guys." Brooke said as she gratefully accepted the seat and plopped down. "What are doing?" Stella shrugged, "Just talking....hey Joe, you think you could run over and grab me a drink?" she asked rather off topic. "See now that would require energy, and me having to get up." He said with a smile as he pressed his beer bottle up to his lips. "Pleaseeee" Estelle begged leaning on him. "Fine ...but you owe me Brooke want anything?" he said finally getting up and heading over to the bar. "Nah, im good babe." he nodded and walked off. "Brooke, can I um talk to you?" Estelle said fiddling with her bag on her lap. "Sure, Stella what's up?" Estelle drew a deep breath and looked up at Broke who seemed confused. "Well I was talking with Joey, and he told me everything that's been going on. With Ramona, and Andy and all that, and I think you should know something that he didn't tell you." Brooke seemed confused "What is it?" she said worried "Well, in freshman year my dad had this party thing over my house. We were all having a good time and drinking like crazy, I seriously never thought Joey could drink as much as he did. He even out drank his dad." she said trying to bring some light to the conversation but didn't succeed, and continued "So I don't know one thing lead to another and he...he slept with Ramona, and he didn't um talk to her for a really long time after that. He knew that she liked him and he really didn't care about what he did....... He kinda earned a reputation for basically fucking people and ditching them the next day. Im sorry I just....I just felt like you should know, he said he's been with you for almost a year now. Which to be honest shocked me, he's never waited this long for anyone before...but that can be good. I mean I've also never seen him so happy with anyone before..." Estelle drifted off looking out a small window that overlooked a busy city street as Brooke sat there shocked. "I...don't.....I don't what to say...Why didn't he just tell me about Ramona?" she seemed to be getting really upset so Estelle hugged her "I didn't mean to hurt you I just, I wanted you to know." Brooke pulled away "No, it's ok, thank you for telling me, I just really don't know what to say. I mean I don't want to be with someone who is going to fuck and leave me....I thought I loved him." Estelle felt really bad for bringing this down on her "Hey, im sure he loves you too, like I said I never saw him so happy with anyone else. He talks to everyone about how great you are, and as far as I know he's not pressuring you to sleep with him right?" Brooke shook her head, listening carefully to Stella. "See, so that's a great sign Just talk it out with him, im sure it will be fine." Brooke wiped a small tear from the corner of her eye, being careful not to smudge her makeup in the process, as Joey walked over with drinks. "Brooke are you ok?" he said setting them down on the table and looking at her. "Im fine." she said turning away from him and getting up "On second thought im going to go get that drink, bye guys." Joey sat there with one eyebrow raised, wondering what was wrong, and looked over to Estelle. "What's the matter with Brooke?" he managed to say over the booming music. "This time, im staying out of it." Estelle said as she got up and went to go find the rest of the group, leaving Joey by himself.
The rest of the night went fairly well and at about 1 am the group made their way back to the hotel. Tired, they said their goodnights and went back to their own rooms.
"Brooke wait up, geez." Jakob called from down the hallway with his brother as they tried to catch up with Brooke, who's pace was rather fast and hurried to just get back to their room. "I walk fast...shoot me." she called back as she reached the room and held the door open impatiently for them. When they finally got there Brooke let go of the door causing it to wack against Jakob. "Ouch, Brooke what the hell?" he muttered rubbing his arm and sleepily walking into the room. "Seriously, you've been acting weird all night...What' s wrong?" Joey added closing and locking the door behind him. "Nothing." Brooke sighed pulling her long hair back into a loose ponytail "im just..tired. That's all." she slipped off her high heel shoes and walked into her bedroom to change.
Joey sighed heavily and rubbed the back of his neck and looked over to his brother who was staring at them. "Good luck.." Jakob said sarcastically with a laugh. "Shut up!" Joey said taking a pillow off the couch and tossing it at his brother's head as he slowly made his way to his and Brooke's room and shut the door.
He walked in to find her comfortably curled up on the small couch watching Fall Out Boy and MCR videos while talking on the phone. He looked over to her as she saw him and turned her head back into the phone "Let me call you back Lau?.........yea everything is ok...no.....ok I will...luv ya..bye." she shut her cell and directed her attention back to the tv to avoid Joey's glare. "Brooke, talk to me...What's wrong?" he said walking over and taking a seat next to her. "I told you..nothing." she coldly said still watching the tv. "Brooke!" he said taking the remote and clicking the tv off "you went from hot to cold with me..tell me what's wrong!" he said upset. Brooke finally turned her head to face him and looked deep into his eyes "Why Joe?! Why? Do you tell me everything?....I don't think so..." she got up and walked over to their bed and slipped under the covers with Joey right behind her "What are you talking about?" he said confused. "Think about it Joey, what's something that....wait let me rephrase that....what's SOMEONE that you did and didn't tell me about?!" Brooke said suddenly sitting up and crossing her arms over her chest. Joey's eyes practically popped out of his head "How did you...." Brooke cut him off "Estelle told me.....a girl I have never met before today told me something by boyfriend one year should of told me!" she said getting less angry and more hurt. Joey was speechless, he just sorta looked down with his eyes wide, thinking of something to say back to her. "Babe, im..sorry" was the best he could come up with at the time. "Just leave me alone Joey.." she trailed off as she turned her back to him and buried her face into her pillow.
Joey muttered something and laid flat next to her. He turned to say something a few times but just couldn't find the right words. He decided to take a hot shower and sort a few things out in his mind before he said anything to her.
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Joey opened the door of the bathroom allowing steam to fill the bedroom, he caught Brooke slightly propped up playing with her thumbs in her lap. She noticed Joey come back in the room and she quickly went back to the "sleeping" position she was in before.
Joey smiled to himself as he put on some pajama pants and walked over to Brooke. He slid under the covers and leaned in close to her "I know you're up." he whispered close to her neck. Brooke couldn't help but smile she was still so mad at him and she hated how he could just make her melt and make her fall in love all over again. She rolled over so that she was facing him and they were both on their sides. "Ok, you have my attention." she sighed still trying to look and sound mad. Joey smiled at her and pulled her close. "Im really sorry. I should have told you about Ramona but it was so long ago and she didn't mean anything I swear to God!" "I know she didn't mean anything...that's why you fucked her and left her right?" Brooke snapped at him. "Brooke, I was 14 and really, really, really drunk. The next day I barely even remembered talking to her, let alone sleeping with her." Brooke paused and thought for a minute. "Joey, it was something you did in the past and it's not like I was with you, so I guess I really can't be mad..im just scared now...." Joey had a shocked expression come over him "Scared? Honey of what?" "You....I don't want what happened to Ramona and a whole bunch of other girls to happen to me...." Brooke said looking at him, her eyes meeting his perfectly. "Brooke.....I would never ever....ever hurt you....do you understand me? Never.." He said with the most sincere look on his face. Brooke's heart jumped when he said that and she smiled "Promise?.." she said as she snuggled her head into his neck, brushing her lips against it ever so slightly. "Promise." Joey repeated taking her head and cupping it in his hands as he brought her face close to his and kissed her gently. He pulled away and went to roll over to go to sleep but felt Brooke grab him and bring his body close to her's "tired already?" she smiled as she rolled on top of him and kissed him passionately. He smiled against her warm lips and deepened the kiss by darting his tongue in her mouth. She ran her hands through his dark hair and tugged on it, only arousing him more as he wrapped his hands around her hips and pressed her body on his. He began to leave small love bites on her neck and ran his hands up her shirt right before the door burst open and light shone through the dark room. ...
