Let Me Kiss You One More Time, chapter 14

I awoke to Mike beside me, a lazy arm slung around my waist, and a pillow over his face. I shook my head gently sighing, and sneaking out of the bed quietly. I found my robe and wrapped it around me making my way into the kitchen. I tapped my chin, whether I should make breakfast, or just go downstairs to the resturant. I decided to just make breakfast.

To my satisfaction, there were eggs in the mini fridge and some coffee mixings. I pulled out a frying pan, and a couple of eggs, flicking on the stove and placing the pan on the stove. I hummed a random tune that had popped into my head. As the oil in the pan began to sizzle, I cracked the eggs, letting the yolk inside of the shells drop into the pan. I cleaned up the egg shells, tossing them into the garbage, and began the coffee. I plugged in the coffee maker and poured the mashed coffee beans into the brewer. I added water and turned on the 'On' switch. I knew something was missing, so i looked into the fridge to see what I could find. I smiled as i saw some butter and bread, grabbing them and placing the bread into the toaster.

Turning slowly on my heel, I grabbed two plates out, some forks and knifes, and two mugs. I flipped the eggs in the pan and took the bread out of the toaster and spreaded butter onto them. I placed an egg on each toast. The coffee light flicked off, indicating it was finished. I grabbed the big cup and poured the dark liquid into the two mugs.

I turned off the stove and unplugged the coffee maker. As i was washing off the pan, i heard some heavy foot steps coming into the kitchen area, and a warm pair of muscular hands find their way around my waist.

"Hey," Mike said lazily resting his chin on my shoulder and closing his eyes.

"Hey, I made breakfast," I said turning around so i was facing him and waving my hand in the direction of the counter.

Mike nodded turning his head to the direction of the food, a smile appearing onto his face.

He scurried over there sitting down and hauling the food in his mouth. I huffed out an annoyed breath and walked over infront of him, eating my breakfast.

"Thank you," Mike mumbled through the load of food in his mouth. I giggled lightly and nodded my head as a response as i ate the toast. Mike finished off, wiping his mouth and chugging the coffee. I was entertained by the sight of him eating. I soon finished off my breakfast placing the dishes in the sink too lazy to wash them off.

I sat myself down on the couch, and closing my eyes. I felt the seat next to me sink in and me getting pulled. Then I felt myself getting laid down gently and someone crawling on top of me. I snapped my eyes opened, seeing blue eyes stare back at me. I noticed mike was laying on top of me, just stareing at my face.

"Um..." I mumbled not sure what was going on.

Mike laughed nussling his head into my shoulder. I felt like a 21 year old, still living young and acting young.

I remembered those days, living free with a young toddler who would compliment on anything you wore, just to get some candy. I sniffled a laugh as Mike gave me light pecks on my neck. I laid there with my hands in his hair messing about. I bit my lip still thinking about the good ol' days. I felt him flip me over, so I was on top of him. I layed my head on his chest and felt this hands go up my shirt cautiously. I pulled his hands away, shaking my head.

"No," I said in a whisper, "Not too fast,"

Mike nodded and gave me a quick kiss on the lips sitting up, with me on his lap. This is all I ever wanted to do. Be in his arms again, just me and him, sitting in quiet and feeling his strong arms around me.

I laid my head back onto his shoulder and just sat there peacefully. After at least five minutes of silence someone barges into the room. I picked my head up and saw Ayleen panting and laughing hard.

She fell onto the floor and rolled around in laughter. I raised an eyebrow. Mike unwrapped his arms around me and lifted me off his lap. I sighed and crossed my arms over my chest looking at Ayleen.

Ayleen's laughter slowly died down but built up again making tears flow out of her eyes.

"M-mom," She sputtered out from her laughter.

"Yes honey?" I asked still watching her for amusment.

"Joeyandjakobwerechasingmearoundand--" She said fast enough so I couldn't understand a word she was saying.

"Hold up," I said raising my hands up in front of me.

"What?" I asked confused. Ayleen sighed. She cleared her throat, and stopped laughing.

"Joey and Jakob were chasing me around," She started sitting down next to me.

"Yeah?" I said urging her to go on.
"Well...when they were chasing me around, Jakob whipped around accidently kissing Joey," Ayleen said and erupting into laughter again.

"Uh-huh," I said smiling and getting up from the couch and left her to laugh.

* * * *

In Joey and Jakob's room, they didn't say a word to each other. They stayed away from each other too.

"What's with you guys?" Billie asked fully dressed coming out of the shower, towel drying his hair.

"Uh-umm...nothing," Jakob said quickly walking away into the kitchen where his mother was.

Billie shook his wet black hair and plunked down beside Joey.

"Care to share?" Billie asked putting a lazy arm around his oldest son.

"No," Joey snapped. Billie pulled his arm away and got up.

"Didn't mean to piss you off," Billie huffed also walking away.

Joey shook his black curly hair in his hands. He moaned annoyingly and flung himself back against the bed. He sighed deeply and closed his eyes.

"Come on Ayleen!!" Jakob giggled chasing Ayleen down the hallway of the hotel.

"NO!" She giggled sprinting as fast as she could. Joey sprinted in front of Jakob catching up to Ayleen. She swirved around and gasped.

"LOOK!" She yelped pointing to the thin air behind him. He whipped around and lip smacked his own brother Jakob. Stunned, he pushed Jakob off him, making his little brother fall to the ground staring at him, hurt and confused.

Ayleen went into fits of laughter. Joey blushed madly and stormed past them. Jakob raced up to him.

"If you, ever tell this to mom and dad I'll hurt you," Joey said in a mean-death tone. Jakob nodded his head madly.

The bright sun shone on the boys pale face, through the curtains that his mother had opened a few minutes ago.

"Time to get up honey," His mom said whipping the sheets off him.

"Five more minutes," He moaned and burried his head deep into the pillow. She placed a hand on her hip and shook her dread lock hair.

"Just like your father," She sighed heading into the kitchen. Joey lifted his head from the pillow and lifted himself off the bed. He scratched his bare chest, grabbing a loose t-shirt and pulling it on. With only a baggy shirt and boxers on. He made he was sleepily into the kitchen were he saw his younger brother, and mom in there. He sat down at the table with a plastic chair. His brother turned away from his attention, stuffing his mouth with food.

"Where's dad?" Joey asked as his mother put some pancakes on his plate.

"I dunno, he wasn't here when I woke up," Adrienne said shrugging and washing off the dishes.

"Oh," Joey sighed and began to eat his pancakes.

A yelp came from the front door of the hotel room. Billie stumbled into the kitchen giggling. Joey put down his fork with a piece of pancake and watched his fathers strange actions. Jakob also stopped and looked at Joey worriedly.

"Oh, it's you," Billie slurred pointing at Joey. Joey sat where he was shocked.

"You-you, fag," Billie slurred once again and walked over to Joey. Joey shook and tried to get out of his dads struggle. Adrienne shrieked with terror and ran to Billie's side.

"Billie!" Adrienne yelped with fear, "You're scaring him," She tugged on his arm for him to let go.

Billie shook his hand away making Adrienne fall back with a hard thud on the ground. Jakob jumped off the chair and hurried to his moms side.

"Jakob go to Mike," Adrienne whimpered shooing him out of the room. Jakob followed his mothers orders, running out of the room.

Adrienne sat on the floor sobbing as her son was being yelled at by her husband. The one she loved. The one she trusted. Who had suddenly turned evil on her and their sons. She looked around for something to save both of them. She grabbed the closest thing to her. The pan. Shakily she grabbed it and stood up, having the pan over her head. She snuck up behind billie and banged the pan on his head making him fall to the ground. Joey sobbed loudly and ran into his mothers arms.

"Come on," Adrienne hushed trying not to cry. They both walked over to Mike's.

Ayleen opened the door to reveal a tear stained face joey and adrienne. She step aside letting them in. They both sat down next to Jakob on the couch. Mike walked into the living room. He stood in shock.

"What happened?" He croaked out. Adrienne sniffled a tear and looked up.

"Billie started to drink again," She said shakily. Mike said nothing but sit down next to her and put a supporting arm around her.

"I'll go over," He said and got up going over to their room.

Billie groaned painfully putting his hand on his head. "Ow," He moaned getting up from the floor.

"Ugh, what happened?" He whispered to himself.

"I'll tell you what happened," Mike said sitting on the couch, pissed off. He stood up coming face to face with Billie.

"You came home drunk, called Joey a fag, threw Adrienne to the ground and scared the living shit outta Jakob!" Mike screamed at him in digust.
Billie hung his head down in shame murming swear words at his stupidity. Sitting himself down on the couch, he stuffed his face in his hands sobbing.

"Man," Mike sighed shaking his head. "You're fucked up."

"I know!" Billie screamed in rage, "I know," He said more calm. Mike sat down beside him and also put his head in his hands.

"First off," Mike said in a whisper, "You gotta apologize,"

Billie nodded whiping away his tears and breathing heavily. Billie walked out of the room heading into where his wife and kids where.

He gently knocked on the door and counted to 5 trying to calm down his breath. I opened the door and let billie in with a glare. He swallowed back the lump in his throat and slowly walked into the living room.

Adrienne sat on the couch with the boys by her side hugging her close, as she calmed them down with soothing words.

"A-Adie honey?" Billie choked out nervously standing there. Adrienne looked up with a disgusted and sad look on her face.

"What do you want Billie Joe?" She spat at him.

"I-I came to say I'm sorry," He said with sorrowness in his eyes. Adrienne's eyes glazed with tears. She shook her head and her children shook with fear.

"No, no Billie. This time you went to far," Adrienne said quietly and she took the boys to their--her room. Billie sighed fusterated and sat down on the couch and sobbed.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck," He screamed loudly geting all the anger out of him. I watched leaning on the door frame from the kitchen. I hung my head in sadness.

"Billie," I squeaked out.

"What?" Billie whispered with a croaky voice.

"Your welcome to stay here," I said with a weak small smile.

"Thank you," Billie said also smiling weakly.

* * * *

"Come on guys, grab your stuff," I said as we hurried into the vans.

"Okay, mom!" Ayleen giggled beside Joey.

"Bye Joey," Ayleen giggled whispering and hurried over to me.

"Have fun?" I said putting our luggage in the back of the van.

"Yea! It was awesome!" Ayleen yelled happily.


We piled into the car sitting quietly as Mike started up my car. Thankfully he did, cause honestly, I just wasn't in the mood for driving. I rested my head on the passengers seat and snoozed off as we started on the road.

Ayleen had gone onto the bus, so it quite quiet in the car. I opened my eyes and gazed out the window, watching as the tree's dashed by and the road lines sprint by. I gave a deep sigh and turned my focus to infront of me, staring blankly at the black bus infront of us.

"What's wrong?" Mike asked still paying attention to the road,

"Huh, what? Oh nothing," I said giving mike a smile ressuring i was okay.

"Alright," He said sighing and fixing his position on the chair.

I watched him fidget in his seat finding a comfortable spot. I shook my head gently.

"Want me to drive?" I asked latching my fingers together.

"Please," He said begging me. I nodded and asked him to pull over on the side of the road. He got out of his seat and ran around the other side of the car, as i walked over to the drivers side. I noticed that the bus had pulled over too, to wait up for us.

I revved up the engine again like once before. In the corner of my eye, I saw Mike tilt his head back and fall asleep. I continued down the road tailing behind Green Day. Soon we stopped at a rest stop near some lake. I parked in a parking spot away from the bus. I shook Mike awake, telling him were at the pit stop. I unbuckled myself and got out of the car stretching, and sprinted up to Adrienne. I bent down to catch my breath and stood up again. I wasn't really the most active adult.

"What's next?" I asked Adrienne who was fixing Joey's shirt.

"Uhm...I think west," Adrienne said thinking and unwrinkling her eldests shirt.

"Cool," I said humming a random tune.

The group and I chatted about, pretty much nothing really. We ate some food, went to the bathroom, and changed our clothes.

"Alright, time to go," The Bus driver named Freddy yelled to us starting up the bus.

"See ya there," Adrienne said hugging me. I nodded jogging back over to my car. Mike wandered over and got into the passengers side.

"Oh, I'm driving?" I asked as he closed his eyes.

He nodded and gave a faint smile. I sighed and got into my car.

We were on the road once again, and were almost to our next destination. This time we were staying in a fancier hotel, and me and my choosed to be in the same room. I thought that we could just talk together, and not being interupted. Ayleen will be with Tre and Joey, and Jakob will be with Adie and Billie. We came up to the hotel, and parked in an empty space.

"Mike," I cooed shaking him.

"What?" He snapped wakeing up.

"We're here," I said coldy getting out of the car. 'Sorry,' I thought to myself. Mike got out of the car and ran up to me panting.

"Sorry," He said facing me.

I shook my head and bowed it.

"It's okay," I whispered. Mike pulled me into a hug and gently kissed my head. Goose bumps ran down my back and arms. I wrapped my arms around him and gently squeezed him.

"Come on," He whispered and let go leading me inside the buidling. I grabbed his hand and walked with him.

"Ugh, why did we have to take the stairs?" I moaned loudly dragging my luggage.

"Because the elevator was packed," Mike smirked walking up the stairs easily with his stuff.

"But we have to take 8 flights of stairs. 8 flights!" I whined dropping my stuff and sitting on the stairs.

"So?" Mike chuckled sitting down beside me.

"So, I'm lazy," I sighed laying my head on the railing.

"Come on, where almost there," Mike said standing up and grabbing his stuff and mine. I rolled my eyes and followed him up the stairs.

We finally got to our room. I sighed in relief and ran for the bed sinking into it and closing my eyes. Mike dropped his stuff and sprang over to the bed also. I felt the space beside me sink in and fidget.

"Rawr," He grawled laughing.

"Hi," I mumbled in the pillow.

"I'm so tired," I said my voice muffled from the pillow.

"Go to sleep, i'll make something when you wake up," Mike said getting off the bed and heading towards the kitchen.

"Okay, thanks," I said sighing not noticing he wasn't there.

"Love you," I quietly said. I lifted my head and noticed he went. I plopped my head down on the pillow and fell asleep.

I awoke to the smell of something good coming into my room. I got out of bed lazily and walked into the kitchen to mike still cooking.

"Watcha cooking?" I asked sitting down at the counter.

"Chili," Mike said stirring the red lumpy liquid in the pot.

"Mmm, smells good," I said sniffing the air.

"Thanks," Mike said giggling like a school girl. I giggled also, but stopped once Mike had put down the chili infront of me.

I grabbed a spoon and put a little in my mouth. It tasted great. For a guy, he was an awesome cook.

"Wow, this is good," I said eating more. Mike sat in front of me, propping his elbows up and gazing at me eating.

"What?" I asked putting down my spoon.

"Nothing," Mike said smiling. "Just looking at your beauty,"

I blushed and shook my head laughing.

"Shut up," I said. Mike laughed and got up from the stool grabbing my finished chili.

"Thanks," I mumbled wiping my lips.

"No problem," He said washing the dishes. I got up and walked over to him watching him peacefully.

He noticed me stareing and turned around pulling me into a hug. I felt stiff, from the surprise hug. Until i wrapped my arms around his neck.

"Mike?" I asked as he pulled me closer.

"Mmhmm?" He mumbled pulling me towards the couch.

"Can I tell you something?" I asked being put down on the couch.

"Yeah, sure," He said gently climbing on top of me. I closed my eyes and thought.

'Okay...you can tell him. He wont freak, it'll be short quick and be over with,' I stopped thinking and opened my eyes.

"Um," I hummed as he nussled his head into my neck.

"What do you have to say?" He mumbled giving me tiny light kisses.

"Um...Iloveyou," I said quickly closing my eyes shut tight.

Way to go you dimwit.

"Huh?" Mike said lifting his head up and looking at me. I opened one eye then the other slowly.

Crap he's looking at me like I'm some kind of freak[i].

"I love you," I said slowly as a lump came into my throat. Mike looked me in the eye and gave a smile.

[i]Creepy.

"I love you too," He said still smiling.

Oh thank god!.

I smiled wide and instantly pulled him into a kiss. He kissed back propping me up on his lap. I wrapped my arms around his neck kissing him deeper. I put my hands on his chest firmly pushing him back onto the couch. I got on top of him and continued to kiss him. His tongue rimmed the inside of my mouth, pleeding to enter. I teased him until he pushed my head and entered. I pulled away from his lips and layed my head on his chest. I nussled my head and wrapped my arms around his stomach.

"I love you," He whispered playing with my hair, twirling it in his fingers.

"I love you too," I mumbled closing my eyes.