Lets just hope it lasts and doesn't end up in tears, chapter 1
It all started one day in the local Starbucks downtown; Milly was just your ordinary twenty five year old woman ordering her café latte while on her way to into work.
"Ummm.....I'll have two tall café lattes and two....tall orange mocha frapuccino's please, Greg!" chirped Milly.
"Comin' right up, babe." replied Greg in his deep husky voice.
Milly was the friendly type; she was friends with a lot of people though never thought of herself as popular. She was always an optimist and was quite the comedian. She was always wearing a big smile on her pretty face.
"There you go. On the house!"
"Greg, are you sure? I don't want to get you in deep shit like last time!"
"Well I only got caught in deep shit last time cause you didn't walk away fast enough when the damn manager came over!" laughed Greg, trying to keep his quiet. "Now go, before I get caught again, bitch!"
"If you insist. Thanks I owe you one!"
"Hell yeah, you do."
Milly gave him a wink and a sexy smile, and turned around with the cardboard tray in her hand. As she walked out briskly through the entrance as to not get caught again, she did her seductive hip- swaying walk, just for Greg's entertainment. Greg watched as she walked away.
"Damn, that girls fine" he grunted, as he turned around to carry on with the coffee bar while images started to flow into his mind.
As Milly stepped outside into the chilly Autumn morning, the sun beaming down, she giggled quietly to herself "It works everytime."
As she started to cross the road with the Starbucks drinks held firmly in her hand, her phone started to ring loudly.
"Yello?"
"Ah, jesus Milly! Where are yoooou? I need my goddamn latte NOW!"
Milly laughed into the phone "Shut the hell up Elle! I'm just getting into my car now. I won't be long."
"Urgh..I'm getting fashion withdrawal- please, hurry up! We need our morning top-ups!"
"Yeah, hurry up bitch!" came a voice shouting from the background. Milly laughed again.
"Just be patient! If you don't quit whining then I may be persuaded to make you PAY for these damn drinks!" she smiled secretly at the other end of the phone line.
"Oh, I love you really, Milly Lilly!"
"Huh, so you should!"
Milly hung up, and opened the door to her blacked out window shiny black SUV and put the drinks holder onto the passenger seat. She chuckled and shook her head "Friends...where would they be without me!"
She turned on the ignition and pulled out of her parking spot and drove to work.
***
"Ah, look who decided to turn up, at last" shouted Elle.
"You mean she finally pulled her British ass out of bed and actually came to work?" smirked Chrissie.
"No way!" joined in Ruby. They all started heckling her.
Milly got out of the car, and took out one of the café lattes while with the other hand holding out the cardboard drinks tray, insinuating she was about to drop it. Her friends shut up immediately.
"You wouldn't dare" glared Elle.
"Wouldn't I?" Milly called back with confidence.
"Hell no, Elle! You're not gonna risk my orange mocha frapuccino again!" said Ruby as she ran over to Milly and snatched the frapuccino from out of the tray, and started hugging and stroking it. Milly smiled while the others sighed.
"Good morning to you all to!" exclaimed Milly as she started to walk up to Elle and Chrissie, with Ruby following behind. The two started to smile.
"We love you really, dude" they chirped in unison. Milly handed them their drinks and walked inside.
After entering the grand gold and black colour schemed building and said good morning to all of her other work colleagues, Milly and her friends walked over to their working desks and got stuck into their work.
Milly was a fashion designer, as were her friends, and they were damn good at what they did. Her and her best friends had all gone to Uni together to study textiles and fashion and they all knew each other way too much, inside and out, like best friends do. They were all fashion designers, and were all punks in their own way. They liked to call their style 'Punk Debutante'; each one of them adored their Bad Gal Benefit black eyeliner and battered black converse, as well as their evening Mary Jane stilettos and gorgeous black gowns.
***
"Blurgh! My lattes cold!" Elle screwed up her face and threw the cup down onto her desk.
"Well, I'm not surprised, dumbass. Its been there since 10 am this morning!" Chrissie replied with sarcasm.
"Ah, guys, I think I'm gonna head home. Its 9.30 and I'm shattered." yawned Milly "see y'all in the morning!" she replied in a Texan accent.
"Oh, goodnight Milly Waterfield" they all replied in a fake British accent. As Milly turned her back she smiled and made her way to her SUV...or her beast of a baby, as she proudly liked to call it.
As she got home she parked the car in her garage and walked up to her front door.
"Fuck! It's bloody freezing!" she said under her breath. As it escaped her mouth it quickly formed swirly smoke in the air from the cold. She walked into her home and slipped off her shoes and coat. She ran up to her large sized bedroom and shut her curtains before stripping down to her bra and knickers. Milly had a toned slim body, and a wonderful womanly figure which all of her slim friends envied.
She walked into her ensuite and brushed her teeth, washed off her make up and moisturised her legs. Afterwards she pulled back the silky bed covers of her king sized bed and snuggled down while turning on the tele.
"Urgh. Late night t.v. is utter shit!"
She flicked though the channels before stopping on MTV. The screen filled with a drop dead gorgeous guys face on it. The one and only, Tré Cool.
Milly let out a loud wolf whistle. "Now that is a man I'd gladly fuck!" She closed her eyes and let out a sigh. She rested back onto her big white soft pillows, and let her imagination get the better of her.
Milly had had previous hot relationships, only a few, though they were quite serious. Her last relationship was about three years ago. They had been going out for two and a half years but he was too demanding (so she says) and he didn't like her spending all that time getting her fashion career started up. She was a very passionate woman...and Tré was her weak spot. She had been a fan of Green Day since she was twelve years of age, and Tré had always been her idol.
***
The next thing Milly knew, she was lying face down onto her tv remote, and the California morning sun was beaming through the gap in the middle of the curtains, frost clinging to the windows panes.
She shivered and threw the remote back onto the bed. Ah crap...time to get up she thought. She jumped out of the bed and turned off the tv. She turned on the shower and ran downstairs to make a quick cup of coffee. Once she had returned from her coffee top- up she stripped naked and got into the nice warm shower. Mmmmmmm...
Her brunette hair still dripping with water she wiped the steam from her ensuite mirrors.
"Morning shexy" she said winking and pouting to herself in the mirror. She applied her smoky black eyeliner and towelled her hair. She dropped her body towel and put on her black bra and black knickers. She followed with her black drainpipes and white t-shirt, which read 'Love Punk Rock' across the front. She loved that top- one of her favourites. The top was that white that it was slightly translucent. You could see her black bra slightly through the material....very schexy indeed. She loved to turn heads with that top. She teamed up her clothes with a fitted black waistcoat and mucky white converse, which had little black stars drawn onto one inner corner of the shoes, just like she had tattooed on her lower back and inside of her left wrist. She had had those shoes since she could remember....her favourite pair, through bad times and good. Once dressed, she thrust open the curtains, made her bed and went downstairs to eat breakfast.
Ring ring....
"Hello?"
"Morning, Milly. I've just called to say that I'm gonna be late for work....me and....Rob, have...uh....'overslept'..."
Milly raised an eyebrow.
"'overslept', eh? Well, please don't forget you have a duty to design and dress the people of America in the best goddamn clothes EVER, okay? I'll tell boss you had trouble with your car."
"Oh, thanks babe! I promise i'll be in by lunch...and I'm buying the next coffees! I owe you one, you're a doll!"
"Yeah, i know" Milly smiled to herself "See ya around 12 then. Bye"
"Bye!"
"Oh, before I go.....give Rob my love!"
"Mhmm....whatever Milly Willy!"
Milly hung up and sat there still for a few minutes, sipping from her second cup of coffee. Urgh, I hate that name....Milly Willy. How dare Elle still call me that name after six fucking years! She sighed and put the dirty crockery into the dishwasher. Shit, 9.15am. I need to get going otherwise I'll be late[i]. She ran upstairs one last time to grab her Vaseline and apply a few dabs to her lips before shoving it into her bag and running down to the front door. Looking out the window, Milly could tell it was bloody cold outside, even though it was still sunny. She picked the post up from off the floor and put it on the nearest coffee table, before checking herself in a mirror one last time and grabbing her car keys and locking the front door.
She parked the car outside Starbucks in the same pace she did every morning, before crossing the road and skipping into the warm Starbucks entrance. [i]mmmmm...the smell of coffee. She walked up to the counter, only to be approached by an older looking waiter than herself.
"Heya Milly" the guy said warmly "what can i get for you?"
"Oh, hey Mark. Where's Greg? He's normally the first one to look for me when I come in...?
"Oh yeah, he's over there, serving someone." Mark smiled to Milly as he held out his arm and pointed over to where Greg was. Milly followed and turned her head. She stopped, eyes wide open, mouth wide open.
"Oh.......my......GOD" she stammered in her cute British accent.
"Yeah. I know! Cool huh? I know Tré comes in here often, but I don't think I've ever been lucky enough to actually see him here."
Milly just stood in silence, her heart pounding. It was Tré. Tré. Tré. She couldn't believe it. He looked even more fuckable when he was standing a matter of centimetres to the side of her.
"Milly? Milly? MILLY?"
"Huh, oh, yeah. Ummm... yeah, the usual. Lattes and fraps, please."
"Sure."
While Mark turned around to get her drinks she tried to act normal, even though Tré Cool was standing beside her.
"Oh, actually Mark, can you make that one latte and two fraps?"
"Huh. ok. I'll just through this one away."
"Sorry! Its just that I just remembered Elle isn't coming into work until later."
As she stood waiting for her drinks, she turned her head slightly and glanced at Tré once again. Woah, he is so goddamn sexy. What do i do? Pretend to ignore him? Pretend he isn't standing that close to me that i can practically smell his cologne? Which is really turning me on, by the way. Maybe ask him for his autograph? Ahh!! So many thoughts raced through her head in a matter of five seconds. As she glanced back again, she noticed him looking at her legs, checking her out, with that Tré Cool knee-quavering grin on his face. As he worked his way up towards her chest, she couldn't help but let a huge grin spread across her own face. He carried on looking at her, before finally looking at her in the eyes. When they met each others glance, Milly instantly went weak at the knees. He winked at her and gave her his handsome smile. She blushed slightly and let out a quiet giggle, but still remembered to keep her cool and smile back with her seductive smile. Tré raised his eyebrows up and down at her before laughing and facing the front again to pay for his purchase. Milly had never felt this good. She felt fucking fantastic!
"Here ya go, one latte and to orange mocha fraps."
"Cheers Mark. See you around." she handed over the cash and picked up the tray of drinks.
Before turning away she took one last glance at Tré, who was once again looking at her with a heart melting grin. She smiled and turned away and made her way over to the sugar and milk stand.
"Hey. I couldn't help but notice you stood right next to me. I had to give you the once over!"
Milly almost shit herself as she turned her head to see Tré right beside her, talking to her.
"Oh, it's ok!" keep cool Milly, just keep cool... "I hope you liked what you saw" she joked, as she blushed slightly and picked up a wooden stirrer.
"Yeah, yeah I did, actually."
Oh my fucking god, is Tré Cool hitting on me?!
Tré cocked an eyebrow and took a sip from his drink, still grinning mischievously. Milly could feel her face getting hotter and hotter. She laughed politely.
"How come I've never seen you in here before?" she tried to reply still keeping her cool.
"Ah, usually I'm not in here so early. I normally come in a bit later."
Speaking of early, Milly looked over at the time on the wall clock. Shit, it's 10am. I better get to work mighty fucking quick.
Tre noticed her looking at the clock.
"Gotta be somewhere?"
"Oh, no. I'm just a bit late for work."
"Hmm. Me too. Well, I was supposed to be meeting Billie about half an hour ago. Ah well."
Milly nodded her head and smiled politely. Then, to all of her amazement, Ruby came striding over to her from what seemed like no where.
"Well well what do we have here? Milly, being late once again, and...." Ruby stopped. And looked at Tre. "Tre? Tre Cool? From Green Day?"
"The one and only" he replied cooly, sticking out his hand to greet her. Milly smiled sweetly at him.
"Oh...my. Uh...Ruby! Ruby Spencer" she stood, gawping with amazement.
"Well, nice to meet you Ruby. I was just talking to your friend...."
"Milly. My names Milly Waterfield."
"Milly.....Milly..." Tre repeated as he smiled at her.
"Wow. Well, uh, can I have...uh...your autograph? I don't mean to sound like a teenie..."
"Sure you can."
Ruby instantly grabbed a tissue from the Starbucks tissue stand and handed it to him, along with a pen. Tre scribbled on it and handed it back to her.
"Here you go. Enjoy it!" Tre smiled kindly at Ruby as she took hold of her signed tissue, staring at it as if it was a chunk of gold. "Thankyou. Thank you so much! I'm a big fan of your music, I love Green Day! Well, love in a platonic way. Well I do love you, but.."
Milly interrupted Ruby, before she made a bigger fool of herself.
"What she means is, we both really enjoy your music and we think what you do is totally awesome. You're an inspiration." Ruby nodded along.
"Thanks. It's nice to hear that we have pleased you...." he winked again at Milly. She let out a giggle. Ruby started to quietly whisper to her.
"Mill, I dont mean to spoil the moment, but, we really have to get going, the boss will kill us if we don't get there soon!"
"I know I know!" she hissed back "Just hang on. Go take these back to work for me. Please. This is Tré Cool! Work can wait!"
Ruby did as she was told, and took the tray of drinks out of Milly's hand before smiling at Tre, thanking him again, and walking out to her car.
Before Milly knew it, Tre was already handing her piece of tissue with a phone number on it.
"Call me, if you like. I'd like to see you again."
"Yeah, sure! I'd like to too. Would you like my number too?
"Uh, yeah. Sure. Thanks."
Milly quickly wrote her phone number on another piece of tissue as Tre watched her, hand shaking with a mixture of nerves and excitement. Se handed it over to him.
"Cool, thanks babe" he chirped.
"No problem. I'll speak to you soon, right?"
"Right...see you soon, Milly."
***
What a month. The best month of Milly's life so far, I'm sure we can say. Imagine yourself going into a Starbucks and buying your drinks, when all within half an hour you have Tré Cool, King of Sex eyeing you up, and giving you his phone number (just thought I'd give you a quick recap).
***
"Sure, I'll pick you up in five. See ya babe."
"Huh. 'babe' " Billie mocked.
"Got a problem with that? PAL?" smirked Tre.
"Yeah, when your using MY phone 'cause your own one has no goddamn credit left on it!"
"You know you love me, Bill." Tre cooed back.
"Meh. Get out of here. Before I shag you." he joked back.
"Guys...please. That's happened once before...please refrain yourselves from doing it again!" pleaded Mike whilst he was tuning his bass.
"Why...'cause your jealous?"
"Tre." Mike glared at him. Billie chuckled.
"Well then. See you tomorrow bitches! I'm about to go get myself a fine young woman, and her names MILLY." and with that, Tre left to go pick up Milly from work. As soon as he had left the studio, Billie Joe and Mike began to talk about him and Milly's relationship.
"Tre really does like Milly, doesn't he?"
"Yeah. From what he's told me, they sound pretty serious. I'm glad for them, y'know?"
"Yeah totally. Lets just hope it lasts and doesn't end up in tears."
"No, I think they're pretty committed to each other. I like seeing him happy."
"Same." Billie looked over at the clock on the wall. "Ah, I think we should call it a night. The wife waits."
"Bye dude."
"Night Mike."
Milly and Tre had been seeing each other for about a month and a half now. Although they hadn't slept together yet, they both felt like their relationship was becoming stronger and stronger as each day went by. Milly loved Tre in every way possible; she loved his crazy and pervy personality. Well, pervy to an extent...a nice pervy. She liked it. His kinkiness, shall we say. He was caring and always up for anything, anytime. His gorgeous blue eyes, sexy reddish brown hair and handsome looks. Just everything.
Tre pulled up outside the large glass metal framed doors, and smiled when he saw Milly appear on the front step. She looked gorgeous; her cute blue eyes, brunette hair and slim figure. He just thought she was perfect...the luckiest man alive.
She waved to him as she approached his SUV, very much like her own vehicle.
"See ya guys!" Milly turned to wave to Chrissie, Elle and Ruby, who were also heading towards their own cars. Tre waved goodbye to them also.
"Yup! Weekend at last! Woohoo! Time to partay!" screamed Ruby, who was a little too hyper at this moment in time. Milly chuckled and got into Tre's car, before kissing him softly.
"I've missed you today" she whispered in his ear.
"Me too. Milly, you're such a good fucking kisser, you know that?"
"Yeah. I do" she kissed him again, only this time, she used tongue.
"Mmmmm" was all Tre could say.
Milly finally stopped kissing him and sat back in her seat, putting her hands infront of the heaters.
"Fuck its cold."
"Damn it girl, you always leave me wanting more!"
"If you drive quickly, you wont have to wait." she hinted, smiling as she looked down at her lap. She placed a hand on Tre's thigh and started to rub it gently. Tre's eyes light up instantly, and started up the ignition straight away.
It was only a twenty-something minute drive to Milly's house. As soon as the couple arrived home, they headed straight to the front door. Tre started to kiss the back of Milly's neck softly as she stood infront of the door, fumbling around in her bag to try and find her house key. She couldn't help but giggle.
"Mmmm, Milly.."
"I can't find my damn keys!"
"No worries, baby. We can always do it right here."
"That's what you'd like, isn't it baby?"
Tre nodded like a five year old. "Yes, mommy."
"Well, I'm afraid I've just found the key..." she pulled out the silver key from her bag "so, that'll have to wait until another time."
"Ah, fine with me" he replied, still kissing her neck and nibbling her ear lobe.
Milly pushed the key into the lock and opened the door. Tre pushed her inside, pushed her up against the back of the door, and locked it. They stood, eyes gazing into each others. Milly started to tug at Tre's coat and dropped it on the floor. Before they knew it, they were heading upstairs towards the bedroom...
Milly layed contently in Tre's arms, breathing heavily.
"I think I love you" Tre said softly.
"I think I love you too."
She sat up and cupped Tre's cheeks as she kissed him passionately, just like she had done only moments before. She followed by pulling back the covers, and got out of bed.
"That's one sexy body you have there, Miss Waterfield."
Milly turned round her head and blew a kiss at Tre, before picking up a pair of his boxers and a plain black t-shirt that he had been wearing earlier that day and put them on.
"Ah, the wonders of Friday nights, eh?" sighed Tre, leaning back onto the headboard of the king sized bed.
"Absolutely." Milly walked back over to Tre in bed, and straddled on top of him.
"It's still surreal that I just had sex with Tré Cool. From Green Day."
Tre smiled proudly "It's still surreal that I just had sex with the most beautiful woman I've ever seen."
Milly felt like crying, her life felt so perfect. She had someone to love...they were in love.
Tre grabbed Milly round the waist and threw her over onto the other side of the bed, and started to tickle her playfully whilst getting on top of her. Milly let out a loud scream.
"Ahh! Tre don't! It's so tickly! Stop it!" Milly tried to plead through bursts of laughter.
Tre just kept on laughing as he watched Milly laugh and scream her head off.
"Seriously! If.....ah! If you don't stop tickling me....then....no..no... mo-re...sex.....for.....hahaha...a month!"
"You wouldn't dare, Milly baby!"
"Oh, I would Tre, believe me!"
Tre stopped tickling her looked at her with a big irresistible grin on his face. Milly stopped herself from snogging his face off, and just layed beneath him, putting on her most serious face, raising her eyebrows.
"You wouldn't..." Tre raised an eyebrow.
"No, I don't think I could, that would just be as much torture for me as it would be for you....but I'd find something."
Tre laughed and kissed her on the forehead before laying down and resting his chin on her stomach. Milly ran her fingers through his hair, and stroked the side of his unshaven cheek. They layed still for a moment, gazing into each others eyes that deeply it felt as though they could read each others thoughts. Tre propped himself up on one elbow, and started to kiss her stomach whilst stroking her smooth thigh. Milly sighed and smiled and continued to gently run her fingers through his hair.
"You're beautiful, Milly."
Milly replied by leaning forward and kissing him full on. She pulled his head in closer. She couldn't remember the last time someone called her beautiful, rather than sexy. She felt so special, and wanted.
Well, things went on from there...
***
The sound of snow fell gently against the window pain, and the smell of Christmas was just around the corner. Tre woke up from the sensation of the cold air. He wondered why he felt so cold, only to realise that he was naked, and laying half on top and half in the bed covers. He smiled as memories from the night before came flooding back into his head. He looked down to find Milly nestled up close to his chest, still sleeping peacefully. Tre couldn't help but watch her. She was graceful when she slept...something he had never really seen before. They had only been going out for approximately two months.
Milly started to stir, and she opened her eyes to a beaming Tre. She smiled back, and shut her eyes again.
"Morning beautiful" he cooed.
"Morning baby."
They both smiled together, as they both knew one another were thinking about the previous night; the first time they had slept together; the best and most meaningful sex they had both ever experienced.
"Can I get you any breakfast?"
"Mmmm...maybe a cup of coffee? That would be great."
"Sure babe."
Tre kissed her softly on the lips before jumping out of bed.
"Fuck! Its so fucking cold."
Milly chuckled. "Nice ass."
Tre smiled as he picked up the boxers and t-shirt of his that Milly had been wearing the night before. He put them on and walked down the hallway and down the stairs, round the corner and into the kitchen. He ran and skidded along the shiny oak floor and got out two coffee mugs from a kitchen cabinet and placed them on the kitchen island. He made the cups of coffee and took them upstairs, where Milly was sat up in bed, and had just put on her underwear. Tre put the coffees down on the bed side table.
"Thanks sweetie."
"No problemo." Tre got back on the bed, and kissed Milly softly on her shoulder.
"So, tell me again why you moved out here to California?"
"Well, when I was sixteen I decided I was done with school. I wanted a career in either music or fashion, and i figured that fashion would probably be the most likely scenario. I was so desperate to get away from England...it bored me to hell. So, i decided i would move away to California and study, so I did."
"So that would explain the American slash British accent, eh?"
"Yeah. I guess it would."
"Pass me another cig, and some more of that sweet wine, mate."
Milly started to laugh at Tre's impression of an Englishman.
"That was pretty good, babe."
"Meh. Y'know, I have my odd talents....like being one of the best fuckin' drummers in the history of punk rock!"
"Totally." Milly chuckled and kissed Tre's cheek.
"How's Billie and Mike, by the way? I forgot to ask last night....I got, side tracked. And the new album?"
"Oh they're fine. They like you, y'know. And the album, it's going awesome. We've basically got it all done. Just the odd editing of a song to do and we're done!"
"That's great hun."
Milly got out of bed.
"Where you going, baby?" Tre asked between taking sips from his hot coffee.
"I was thinking of having a shower..." Milly raised an eyebrow at Tre as his eyes lit up. She too took a sip from her coffee.
"Well, mind if I join you?"
"That was my intention..."
Tre watched as Milly walked over to the door of the ensuite, pass the entrance to the walk in wardrobe. She took off her bra infront of the door way and walked inside. Tre heard the shower turn on, and the steam on the mirrors start to form. He swallowed his mouthful of coffee, went out of the bedroom into the main bathroom down the hallway only to return with a clean white towel. He walked into the ensuite, and he could see the faint skin coloured silhouette of Milly's body through the steamed up shower door. She opened the door slightly, and stuck out her head. She beckoned with her finger to Tre, who was already stark naked and forcing his way into the shower with her.
Milly strode into her walk-in wardrobe, which was full of awesome clothes. She stood still, wrapped in her body towel, picking out her clothes. She decided on a pair of jeans, a black three- quarter length sleeved cotton top with her Alexander McQueen's black and white skull scarf. As she went back into the bathroom, she saw the message 'Milly is my sex mistress' written in the steam up on the mirror, presumably by Tre. She let out a laugh and picked up her black eyeliner and started to scribble it on, using a different mirror. A pair of strong arms and drum-beaten hands wrapped around her waist and pulled her close.
"You liked my message?"
"Sure did."
"Good good."
Tre kissed her cheek before spanking her ass, and walked over to the curtains to draw them back.
"Baby, it's snowing!" shouted Tre.
"How cool! Awesome!"
"Hey I'll call Mike and Billie and Adie and we can all met up and have fun in the snow, and make snowmen and snow angels and do fun snowy stuff!"
Milly finished with her eyeliner and walked over to Tre, laughing.
"Sure we can, sweetie. But first, you've gotta get dressed!"
Tre dropped his towel, crossed his arms and looked down.
"Mind giving me a helping hand with that?"
Milly let out a sigh and giggle.
"I'll do the top half..."
"Okie dokie then."
Milly picked up Tre's black t-shirt and tugged it over his head. His put his arms through and she pulled it down down over his stomach, whilst kissing him on the lips. Milly finished by kissing his neck and leaving him to put on his boxers and pants while she made the bed and took the coffee mugs back downstairs to the kitchen.
"Tre do you want any breakfast?" Milly yelped from the kitchen.
"Um, sure! I'm real hungry!"
Hmm, what should I cook....pancakes!
"Honey, are pancakes ok?"
"Awesome! Cheers babe!"
She figured that was a yes and made her way over to the fridge and got out the milk. She got the rest of the pancake ingredients from out of the cupboards.
"Mmmm smells good." Tre called as he walked down the stairs and into the kitchen. He went over to Milly who was stood at the cooker flipping the pancakes. Milly felt his arms go around her waist and could feel his body against her back. Tre rested his chin on her shoulder.
"What do you want to do today?"
Milly pondered for a moment.
"I don't mind. You said you wanted to meet up with the others? Um...I need to ring Chrissie before I do anything."
"Sure. What for?
"Oh nothing in particular, i just need to talk to her about this invitation I found in the post that must've came the other day.." she nodded over to where the letter was placed, and Tre went over and started to read it.
"Ooh a fashion show. You gonna go?"
"Yeah, that's what I was going to talk to Chrissie about. Its in a couple of days, and I wanted to see if the the others are thinking of going."
"Is this fashion show gonna model you're stuff?"
"Yeah."
"Wow, babe, that's pretty cool. You're gonna become fucking big!"
Milly chuckled and started to serve up the pancakes. Tre put the invite down on the kitchen island and got out the orange juice from the fridge.
"I'm not really focusing on becoming big, I'm focusing on my fashion. That's what's most important to me."
Tre sat at a seat at the island while Milly handed him his breakfast.
"The most important thing to me after you, of course." Tre smiled at her sweetly and Milly kissed his nose lightly. She perched her self up on to the kitchen side and Tre started to tuck into his pancakes.
"If I went, then you'd be coming with me."
"Sure. When exactly is it?"
"I think....uh, yeah. It's a week today."
"Yup.... I'll come.." Tre tried to talk between mouthfuls of food "Where did you learn to cook so good? It tastes like creamy goodness!"
"Ha ha. Well I cooked a lot for the others when we were sharing a place while at Uni. They were all too shit to cook. It was just doughnuts and coffee if they were left responsible for food...though I have no objections towards doughnuts or coffee."
Tre sat back in his chair and patted his stomach happily.
"Thanks for that babe. I feel like playing now!"
"Playing....in what context?"
"Well.." started Tre as he stood up and walked over to Milly, who was still sat up on the side. He stood between her knees and put his hands around her waist "that depends.." Tre winked at her and Milly blushed slightly.
"I would gladly.." she started to say as she softly ran her fingers on the back of his neck, when the phone started to ring. Tre stood back and let Milly pass to fetch the phone, but spanked her ass again as she walked passed him. She picked up the phone and turned around to him and winked. Tre stood back and watched her.
"Hello?"
"Hey Mill it's Chrissie."
"Ah hey dude I was just about to ring you..."
Tre raised an eyebrow at her... "well, I was going to after I had cleared up the house a bit.."
"Right. Yeah. Sure. Tre didn't happen to sleep round last night, did he?"
"Yes, yes he did actually."
At the sound of the word 'he' Tre instantly took more attention as to what they were talking about.
"Anyway, about this fashion show...are Elle and Ruby planning on going too?"
"Yeah. Elle is going with Rob and me and Ruby will go together. You gonna take Tre?"
"Yeah he said he would come with me. I'm looking forward to it- it's gonna be our first official appearance to a formal event together...I can't wait!"
"You're so lucky Milly. You deserve it all."
"Thanks Chris. Well i have to go now 'cause Tre needs to get back to his place and we're planning on going out with Billie and the others. Talk later hun, see ya!"
Milly put the phone down and went over to Tre, who was now clearing up the kitchen.
"That was Chrissie. She was talking about the fashion show on Saturday. They're all going too, and I told her that I was gonna be busy for the rest of the day."
"So that means we have the day to ourselves, with Billie and Mike too?"
"Sure, whatever you want."
"Great! I haven't been able to spend much time with you all together. I love you but I miss the others when I don't see them much."
"I know Tre, I know. You know you can go hang with them anytime you want, I don't want to stop you in doing so. It's been pretty hectic recently, what with your album and my work."
"I know. It's gonna get better soon, babe."
Tre and Milly stood still in each others arms, in a loose romantic hug.
"Tre, what time is it?
"It's.....half ten. I need to go back to mine now and catch up with the guys in the studio. I'll call you later, 'k babe?"
"Sure." Milly nodded enthusiastically.
They walked over to the front door and kiss goodbye...for about five minutes.
"Ok, now I'm going" laughed Tre.
Milly watched as Tre put on his coat and walked out of the door, through the light snow and over to his car. She waved to him as he drove off.
Tre only lived a five minute drive from Milly's house, so they were never too far away. They had been living this close to one another for all this time, and they never even knew it.
Once Tre had gone, Milly lit up the fireplace in the living room and sat down infront of her TV, and started to watch the music channels. It was the same channel that she had been watching in bed a couple of months ago, the night before she met Tre, and there was an interview with Green Day on again. She sat and chuckled at what they had to say, with Tre cracking jokes and sometimes changing the subject to some utter bullshit, but it was good all the same. She couldn't believe that the interview that she was watching had only been filmed a week or two ago. That meant that she was going out with Tre while they had been doing the interview...surreal.
She watched more TV, cleared up her mansion and talked on the phone for the next few hours. She went into her study, and started to work on some new designs. She sat watching the snow falling outside her window for some inspiration, when she suddenly had the idea of designing a bridal dress. The whiteness and purity of the snow made her mind brainstorm on loads of different designs, and she tried to draw them down as quickly and as accurate as she could. It wasn't long before she had twenty or so different bridal designs spread out before her on her study desk. Each one had a punky attribute to it with a black and white colour scheme; one which was a halter neck with black diamanté beading on the trail, and one with a thick black band just under the bust. They were all fantastic and unique. She felt proud of what she had just done; she had done lots of amazing work in her time, but since her Autumn collection had been chosen for the fashion show, she hadn't been designing much more as she had been so busy with making changes and choosing what costumes she wanted to be shown for the show.
She picked up the cordless phone beside her desk and rung up Elle.
Ring ring, ring ring...
She left the phone ringing for a minute, but there was no reply "Hi, this is Elle. You have tried to call me but unfortunately I'm either out or busy at the moment. Please leave a message after the tone and I will try and get back to you. See ya!" Milly sighed and left a message "Hey, Elle its Milly. I just wanted to ring 'cause I have some great new designs! I think this could be big! See ya, bitch!"
She put the phone down and sat still, spinning slowly in her big black chair. She sighed as she rest back her head, thinking about how far she had come in her lifetime. She started to think about her family back in England, reminiscent of her childhood; although she loved them and missed them she didn't ever want to move back. She was happy here, in California, starting a new life with her new love and her ever growing success in the fashion business.
She stopped spinning in her chair when her eyes became fixed on a photo strip tacked on her study wall that had been taken with Tre only a matter of days after they first met. There were five photos; one with them kissing, another with them pulling stupid faces, the third one with them smiling sweetly, the fourth with them looking straight into each others eyes and the last with Milly laughing and Tre looking adoringly at her.
She smiled and sighed as she looked at the photos and remembered that day that she had gone out with him on their first date. Just then she was interrupted by the phone ringing.
"Hello?"
"Hey babe!"
"Hi honey! How are you?"
"I'm fine. I've just got back from working in the studio and right now we're at Billie and Adie's. They asked if you'd like to come round for the evening and have a meal?"
"Yeah sure! If they don't mind. It would be great to see them, I haven't done in about two weeks."
"Ok so I'll be round in five. See ya soon baby."
"'k, bye!"
Milly put the phone down, turned off the study light and ran across to the other side of the house to her bedroom. She quickly changed her jeans to her long drainpipe denim ones and put on her black leather Mary Jane court shoe stilettos, and re-freshed her make up. She was just about to open the front door when Tre pulled up. She put on her coat, grabbed her keys and walked out the doorway and locked it.
Its was about 5.30pm.
Milly walked quickly down the path and round to the passenger side of the car and hopped in.
"Hey babe." Tre put his warm hand on her cheek and kissed her passionately.
"Evening." she replied.
They talked about what they had been up to during the afternoon apart and Milly told Tre about her new designs.
"That's awesome baby. Maybe you'll be wearing one sometime soon?"
Milly's eyes lit up.
"Really?"
"Sure. I've been thinking; I want to marry you. Maybe not now but when everything has settled down.."
"Honey I feel exactly the same way! It sounds crazy, we've only been going out for two months."
"It's not that crazy. We love each other."
And with that, Milly put her hand on Tre's knee, leant over to kiss his neck softly.
"I still haven't forgotten about what you promised me tonight..."
Milly chuckled as she carried on kissing Tre's neck. She could smell his cologne; it was just like what she had smelt that day when they first met in Starbucks.
They arrived at Billie and Adies within four or five minutes. This was about the third or fourth time that Milly had been there. It was a wonderful house- very 'homey' and warm.
They pulled up on the driveway and got out of the car. Tre walked round to Milly and held her hand. She held his hand tightly as they walked up towards the door. Tre gave her a comforting smile which made her feel less nervous- she didn't want to give out the wrong vibes to everyone inside. She didn't want everyone to hate her.
Tre got hold of the door handle and opened the door, walking inside with Milly following behind, still holding his hand. Billie came out from a doorway and went to greet Tre.
"Hey dude!"
"Hey Bill."
Billie looked over to Milly.
"Ah, this is the beautiful Milly!" Billie turned to her with a big smile, kissed her cheek and hugged her.
"Hey Billie Joe."
"You can call me Billie, Billie Joe can be such a drag sometimes."
"Ok then...Billie."
Billie smiled and started to chat to Tre as Mike and Adie entered the room.
"Hiya Milly! It's so good to see you again."
"Adrienne!" Milly and Adie hugged. Tre, Billie and Mike stood back and smiled as they saw Milly and Adie get on happily and begin to talk.
"She's very pretty, Tre."
"I know. On the way over here I said to her about how I'd love to marry her once everything has settled down and we have a place of our own."
"And? What did she say" questioned Mike.
"She said she felt exactly the same way, even though she said it was crazy 'cause we have only been going out for two months."
"Well, that's awesome dude" chirped Billie, patting Tre on the back, before stopping their quiet conversation as Adie approached.
"Well you guys go sit down while I cook dinner. Milly, fancy giving me a hand?" Adie looked back at Milly.
"Sure! No problem."
Tre took Milly's coat before she and Adie headed to the kitchen, and hung it up along with his on a coat stand beside the door.
"Oh, by the way" Milly called back to the guys "Hi, Mike!"
They chuckled.
"Hey Milly. Good to see you!"
Milly poked her head around the corner and smiled at them, before turning back to help with the cooking.
Billie went down to the basement and came back with a load of beer bottles in his hand. Adie and Milly laughed and talked while they cooked while the guys cheered and drank while they watched the t.v.
"Where are the kids?" Milly wondered why it seemed so quiet compared to the last few times she had came around.
"Oh, they're sleeping round at friends houses. There was a kids birthday party and they asked if they could stay round."
"Oh I see."
"So. How are things with you and Tre?" Adie raised an eyebrow at Milly as she changed the subject, slicing a potato.
"Things are, going, great, actually."
"Wow, that's real good to hear. Tre seems so happy. You do too."
"Yeah, I've noticed! My work seems so much easier than it was before. Not that it was hard or anything. But sometimes it can be challenging." Milly explained as she shut the oven door, and leaned back onto the side cabinet.
"Y'know, Billie was telling me earlier how Tre seems to be working surprisingly harder in the studio."
Milly smiled to herself.
"You two are like fucking lovebirds! It's so sweet."
Milly blushed a little, and Adie chuckled.
"Well, I love him. and...I think he loves me too."
Adie walked over to Milly and hugged her. "I'm so happy for you both. Come on, lets give the men their food. They'll get grouchy if they don't get it before long!"
They laughed together as they started to put the food in the dishes and serve it up on the dining room table.
"Ah, food!" the guys came walking into the dining room and put their beer bottles down in their places. Tre walked up to Milly and out his hand around her waist, and kissed her softly on her lips. They whispered into each others ears.
"I love you."
"I love you too."
For the rest of the evening they ate, drank, talked, joked, and had fun. Milly told them about her fashion job and about the upcoming fashion show.
"Oh I've seen you're designs. They're beautiful Milly!"
"Thanks Adie. I know how much you love fashion. Maybe you'd like to join with me to do some designs for my Winter collection?"
"Oh my god, that would be awesome!"
Tre smiled at Billie, they both knew that Milly was gonna fit in well.
"Well, we wouldn't start until after the show. Hey Adie, do you want to come to that too?"
"Milly, are you sure?"
"Of course! Billie?"
"Nah, I'm ok thanks ladies! Me and Mike were gonna go into the studio to work a bit on the album anyway. Tre, you're going, right?"
"Of course I am, I wouldn't miss my baby's night." and with that, he kissed Milly on her forehead.
The evening went so quickly, and soon it was 11.27pm.
They were all sat around the tele. Milly was layed out on one of the couches between Tre's legs, when she let out a yawn.
Tre whispered in her ear.
"Do you wanna go back babe? You tired?"
"Yeah, I sorta am. I've so much fun though." she looked around quickly at the others, in the dark room. She could tell by the television light that they were all focused on what was happening on the screen. She wanted to make sure that they didn't have any eyes on them. She slowly slid her hand down towards Tre's package, which made him squirm due to her unexpected gesture.
"I made a promise, remember?" she whispered into his ear.
"Ofcourse I remember...why wouldn't I? You didn't think I was gonna let you get away with it."
And with that, they both started to sit up.
"I think we're gonna call it a night."
"Is it really almost half past eleven? I thought it was only quarter to ten!"
"Thanks for the wonderful cooking Adie! Again."
"Your welcome Tre. Milly helped as well though. She did most of it!"
"Well, I guess we should be getting off?" Milly said, looking at Tre and giving him a look that said 'come on, I can't wait much longer'
"Yeah. See ya guys."
Everyone said goodbye to one another and waved good night. Milly and Tre walked to the door, put on their coats, said goodbye once again and went out to the car.
It had stopped snowing, though the snow on the ground was a few millimetres thick. The night was cold and still.
Tre opened the door to the car so that Milly could elegantly get in. He ran round the other side of the car and started to pull out of the drive.
"You can feel Christmas is just around the corner."
"Not before your birthday, honey." replied Milly turning on the heaters.
"Yes....my birthday...a time of...blood, sex and booze!"
They both laughed.
"So. My place or yours?"
"Could it be your place again babe? Claudia is at home with her new hubby....I thought I'd leave them to it..y'know."
"Course. Maybe you should quickly drop by to get some clothes and stuff for the morning?"
"Nah. I'll just wear these clothes. I'll go back in the afternoon. Right now I just wanna get to yours."
As soon as the car pulled up on Milly's drive, they walked straight inside.
"Ah it's so nice and warm.."
"I left the heating on so it wasn't to cold when we got back." Milly took off her coat and flung it over the stair banister. Tre did the same.
"Now, lets get you out of these clothes..."
Milly started to run up the stairs, and Tre ran just as fast after her. As they got to the door of her room, Tre caught up with her and threw down on to the bed.
"Did I forget to thank you for that lovely meal you cooked tonight?"
"Yes, I think you did..."
"Oh Tre..."
Milly moaned Tre's name.
"I love you so much Milly."
"I love you more baby!"
That week went relatively quick for Milly and Tre. Milly was working with the fashion show manager on the final developments and Tre was working with Billie and Mike with the rest of the crew at the studio. Their album was to be released on Monday, and today was Saturday. Milly, Chrissie, Ruby and Elle were at Milly's house getting their clothes ready for the show. They were all wearing similar black Dior outfits. Ruby's sister was a top selling make-up artist, and was round at Milly's house doing their make-up and hair.
"Y'know Milly, Mike Dirnt is quite attractive." Ruby blurted out.
"Ruby! We knew it! We always said you liked him but you always denied it."
"Yeah, well..on Wednesday night when I came round and the guys were here I got talking to him and I got to know him more. He's cool...y'know?"
"Well, you know Ruby, Tre and I could always stitch you two up..."
Before Milly could finish, the door bell rang.
"I'll get it it!"
Chrissie ran to the door with half a face full of make-up. It was Adie with the coffees.
"Here you go, ladies. Orange mocha fraps and lattes..."
"Adie, you're a lifesaver!"
"I know."
After about another an hour and a half, just about all of the girls had their hair and make-up done; nothing fancy, just lots of black smoky eyes and red and nude coloured lips.
"Well my job here is done! Have a great time girls, I'll see you at the after party!"
"Bye Merissa!" they all waved in unison as she walked out the door, put her boxes in her car and drove off down the street.
"Right, time for our dresses!"
Everyone made their way to one of the guest bedrooms where all of the dresses were hung up and started to help one another getting into their gowns.
As Milly and Adie were the first ones ready, they decided that they would go downstairs to wait until the others were done.
"Don't be long! We gotta go in fifteen minutes!"
The door bell rung again as Adie walked down the stairs. She went to open the door and found Tre, all dressed up in his matching grey and black suit.
"Evening Adie."
"Hey Tre, come on in."
Tre stepped inside the doorway and walked into the kitchen to get a glass of water. Milly walked down the stairs in her black dress and black chunky heeled stilettos, showing of her tattooed anklet, very much like Tre's. As she approached Tre, he let out a loud wolf whistle.
"Wow, Milly, you're looking hot!"
"Thanks sweetie. You don't look that bad yourself."
They stood there for the next couple of minutes, kissing and giggling.
"Come on lovebirds, time to go now." mocked Adie.
"Elle! Rob is here!" yelled Chrissie, as she saw Robs silver car pull up outside the house. Elle came skipping down the stairs.
"OK, so I'll meet you guys there, front row seats, right?"
"Right." replied Milly.
"OK, see ya!"
Elle briskly walked out the door and got in to the car with Rob, and drove off. A black limo arrived outside in the spot that Rob's car had just been parked.
"Right, is everyone else ready to go?"
"Yep." they all replied in unison.
Ruby came down into the porch, and they all went out the door and made their way into the limo.
Milly sat with Tre's arm around her waist, Adie and Ruby were laughing about something and Chrissie sat twirling one of her golden blonde dreads, much like Adie's.
"Chris, are you ok?" asked Milly concerned with Chrissie's quiet behaviour.
"Yeah yeah I'm fine. I just hope everything goes fine, and I don't fall over in these heels" Chrissie peered down at her black shoes.
"You'll be fine."
***
They eventually arrived at the venue, and the whole night went ever so quickly. Photographers were keen to get pictures of all of them, especially Milly with Tre, and Milly with Adie.
"Milly! Milly! Tre!"
People were shouting out their names, and it felt so surreal to Milly. She and Tre happily posed for the cameras, and when Tre started to kiss Milly softly, the cameras went crazy. Adie's name was also being called, and she posed with Milly in single and group photos with the other girls too. They finally had a group photo all together. They had front row seats, and they had people fuss over them constantly. There were other celebrities there in Hollywood, and Vivienne Westwood came up and started to talk to Milly. Yes, Vivienne Westwood. Tre sat next to her while she was interviewed, his arm around her waist. He was so proud of her, as she was for him. The whole evening was about Milly.
"Baby, I'm so proud of you. I love you." whispered Tre. Hearing those words made Milly realise that maybe she was the luckiest woman in the world.
At the after party, photographers still wanted more pictures and even the camera crew were in on their case.
In an interview, Adrienne and Milly declared that they would be working together for the Winter collection. There was quite a lot of attention on Milly and Tre. When asked in an interview whether they were serious, they said that they were and that they loved one another deeply, and to expect anything in the near future.
"Ummm.....I'll have two tall café lattes and two....tall orange mocha frapuccino's please, Greg!" chirped Milly.
"Comin' right up, babe." replied Greg in his deep husky voice.
Milly was the friendly type; she was friends with a lot of people though never thought of herself as popular. She was always an optimist and was quite the comedian. She was always wearing a big smile on her pretty face.
"There you go. On the house!"
"Greg, are you sure? I don't want to get you in deep shit like last time!"
"Well I only got caught in deep shit last time cause you didn't walk away fast enough when the damn manager came over!" laughed Greg, trying to keep his quiet. "Now go, before I get caught again, bitch!"
"If you insist. Thanks I owe you one!"
"Hell yeah, you do."
Milly gave him a wink and a sexy smile, and turned around with the cardboard tray in her hand. As she walked out briskly through the entrance as to not get caught again, she did her seductive hip- swaying walk, just for Greg's entertainment. Greg watched as she walked away.
"Damn, that girls fine" he grunted, as he turned around to carry on with the coffee bar while images started to flow into his mind.
As Milly stepped outside into the chilly Autumn morning, the sun beaming down, she giggled quietly to herself "It works everytime."
As she started to cross the road with the Starbucks drinks held firmly in her hand, her phone started to ring loudly.
"Yello?"
"Ah, jesus Milly! Where are yoooou? I need my goddamn latte NOW!"
Milly laughed into the phone "Shut the hell up Elle! I'm just getting into my car now. I won't be long."
"Urgh..I'm getting fashion withdrawal- please, hurry up! We need our morning top-ups!"
"Yeah, hurry up bitch!" came a voice shouting from the background. Milly laughed again.
"Just be patient! If you don't quit whining then I may be persuaded to make you PAY for these damn drinks!" she smiled secretly at the other end of the phone line.
"Oh, I love you really, Milly Lilly!"
"Huh, so you should!"
Milly hung up, and opened the door to her blacked out window shiny black SUV and put the drinks holder onto the passenger seat. She chuckled and shook her head "Friends...where would they be without me!"
She turned on the ignition and pulled out of her parking spot and drove to work.
***
"Ah, look who decided to turn up, at last" shouted Elle.
"You mean she finally pulled her British ass out of bed and actually came to work?" smirked Chrissie.
"No way!" joined in Ruby. They all started heckling her.
Milly got out of the car, and took out one of the café lattes while with the other hand holding out the cardboard drinks tray, insinuating she was about to drop it. Her friends shut up immediately.
"You wouldn't dare" glared Elle.
"Wouldn't I?" Milly called back with confidence.
"Hell no, Elle! You're not gonna risk my orange mocha frapuccino again!" said Ruby as she ran over to Milly and snatched the frapuccino from out of the tray, and started hugging and stroking it. Milly smiled while the others sighed.
"Good morning to you all to!" exclaimed Milly as she started to walk up to Elle and Chrissie, with Ruby following behind. The two started to smile.
"We love you really, dude" they chirped in unison. Milly handed them their drinks and walked inside.
After entering the grand gold and black colour schemed building and said good morning to all of her other work colleagues, Milly and her friends walked over to their working desks and got stuck into their work.
Milly was a fashion designer, as were her friends, and they were damn good at what they did. Her and her best friends had all gone to Uni together to study textiles and fashion and they all knew each other way too much, inside and out, like best friends do. They were all fashion designers, and were all punks in their own way. They liked to call their style 'Punk Debutante'; each one of them adored their Bad Gal Benefit black eyeliner and battered black converse, as well as their evening Mary Jane stilettos and gorgeous black gowns.
***
"Blurgh! My lattes cold!" Elle screwed up her face and threw the cup down onto her desk.
"Well, I'm not surprised, dumbass. Its been there since 10 am this morning!" Chrissie replied with sarcasm.
"Ah, guys, I think I'm gonna head home. Its 9.30 and I'm shattered." yawned Milly "see y'all in the morning!" she replied in a Texan accent.
"Oh, goodnight Milly Waterfield" they all replied in a fake British accent. As Milly turned her back she smiled and made her way to her SUV...or her beast of a baby, as she proudly liked to call it.
As she got home she parked the car in her garage and walked up to her front door.
"Fuck! It's bloody freezing!" she said under her breath. As it escaped her mouth it quickly formed swirly smoke in the air from the cold. She walked into her home and slipped off her shoes and coat. She ran up to her large sized bedroom and shut her curtains before stripping down to her bra and knickers. Milly had a toned slim body, and a wonderful womanly figure which all of her slim friends envied.
She walked into her ensuite and brushed her teeth, washed off her make up and moisturised her legs. Afterwards she pulled back the silky bed covers of her king sized bed and snuggled down while turning on the tele.
"Urgh. Late night t.v. is utter shit!"
She flicked though the channels before stopping on MTV. The screen filled with a drop dead gorgeous guys face on it. The one and only, Tré Cool.
Milly let out a loud wolf whistle. "Now that is a man I'd gladly fuck!" She closed her eyes and let out a sigh. She rested back onto her big white soft pillows, and let her imagination get the better of her.
Milly had had previous hot relationships, only a few, though they were quite serious. Her last relationship was about three years ago. They had been going out for two and a half years but he was too demanding (so she says) and he didn't like her spending all that time getting her fashion career started up. She was a very passionate woman...and Tré was her weak spot. She had been a fan of Green Day since she was twelve years of age, and Tré had always been her idol.
***
The next thing Milly knew, she was lying face down onto her tv remote, and the California morning sun was beaming through the gap in the middle of the curtains, frost clinging to the windows panes.
She shivered and threw the remote back onto the bed. Ah crap...time to get up she thought. She jumped out of the bed and turned off the tv. She turned on the shower and ran downstairs to make a quick cup of coffee. Once she had returned from her coffee top- up she stripped naked and got into the nice warm shower. Mmmmmmm...
Her brunette hair still dripping with water she wiped the steam from her ensuite mirrors.
"Morning shexy" she said winking and pouting to herself in the mirror. She applied her smoky black eyeliner and towelled her hair. She dropped her body towel and put on her black bra and black knickers. She followed with her black drainpipes and white t-shirt, which read 'Love Punk Rock' across the front. She loved that top- one of her favourites. The top was that white that it was slightly translucent. You could see her black bra slightly through the material....very schexy indeed. She loved to turn heads with that top. She teamed up her clothes with a fitted black waistcoat and mucky white converse, which had little black stars drawn onto one inner corner of the shoes, just like she had tattooed on her lower back and inside of her left wrist. She had had those shoes since she could remember....her favourite pair, through bad times and good. Once dressed, she thrust open the curtains, made her bed and went downstairs to eat breakfast.
Ring ring....
"Hello?"
"Morning, Milly. I've just called to say that I'm gonna be late for work....me and....Rob, have...uh....'overslept'..."
Milly raised an eyebrow.
"'overslept', eh? Well, please don't forget you have a duty to design and dress the people of America in the best goddamn clothes EVER, okay? I'll tell boss you had trouble with your car."
"Oh, thanks babe! I promise i'll be in by lunch...and I'm buying the next coffees! I owe you one, you're a doll!"
"Yeah, i know" Milly smiled to herself "See ya around 12 then. Bye"
"Bye!"
"Oh, before I go.....give Rob my love!"
"Mhmm....whatever Milly Willy!"
Milly hung up and sat there still for a few minutes, sipping from her second cup of coffee. Urgh, I hate that name....Milly Willy. How dare Elle still call me that name after six fucking years! She sighed and put the dirty crockery into the dishwasher. Shit, 9.15am. I need to get going otherwise I'll be late[i]. She ran upstairs one last time to grab her Vaseline and apply a few dabs to her lips before shoving it into her bag and running down to the front door. Looking out the window, Milly could tell it was bloody cold outside, even though it was still sunny. She picked the post up from off the floor and put it on the nearest coffee table, before checking herself in a mirror one last time and grabbing her car keys and locking the front door.
She parked the car outside Starbucks in the same pace she did every morning, before crossing the road and skipping into the warm Starbucks entrance. [i]mmmmm...the smell of coffee. She walked up to the counter, only to be approached by an older looking waiter than herself.
"Heya Milly" the guy said warmly "what can i get for you?"
"Oh, hey Mark. Where's Greg? He's normally the first one to look for me when I come in...?
"Oh yeah, he's over there, serving someone." Mark smiled to Milly as he held out his arm and pointed over to where Greg was. Milly followed and turned her head. She stopped, eyes wide open, mouth wide open.
"Oh.......my......GOD" she stammered in her cute British accent.
"Yeah. I know! Cool huh? I know Tré comes in here often, but I don't think I've ever been lucky enough to actually see him here."
Milly just stood in silence, her heart pounding. It was Tré. Tré. Tré. She couldn't believe it. He looked even more fuckable when he was standing a matter of centimetres to the side of her.
"Milly? Milly? MILLY?"
"Huh, oh, yeah. Ummm... yeah, the usual. Lattes and fraps, please."
"Sure."
While Mark turned around to get her drinks she tried to act normal, even though Tré Cool was standing beside her.
"Oh, actually Mark, can you make that one latte and two fraps?"
"Huh. ok. I'll just through this one away."
"Sorry! Its just that I just remembered Elle isn't coming into work until later."
As she stood waiting for her drinks, she turned her head slightly and glanced at Tré once again. Woah, he is so goddamn sexy. What do i do? Pretend to ignore him? Pretend he isn't standing that close to me that i can practically smell his cologne? Which is really turning me on, by the way. Maybe ask him for his autograph? Ahh!! So many thoughts raced through her head in a matter of five seconds. As she glanced back again, she noticed him looking at her legs, checking her out, with that Tré Cool knee-quavering grin on his face. As he worked his way up towards her chest, she couldn't help but let a huge grin spread across her own face. He carried on looking at her, before finally looking at her in the eyes. When they met each others glance, Milly instantly went weak at the knees. He winked at her and gave her his handsome smile. She blushed slightly and let out a quiet giggle, but still remembered to keep her cool and smile back with her seductive smile. Tré raised his eyebrows up and down at her before laughing and facing the front again to pay for his purchase. Milly had never felt this good. She felt fucking fantastic!
"Here ya go, one latte and to orange mocha fraps."
"Cheers Mark. See you around." she handed over the cash and picked up the tray of drinks.
Before turning away she took one last glance at Tré, who was once again looking at her with a heart melting grin. She smiled and turned away and made her way over to the sugar and milk stand.
"Hey. I couldn't help but notice you stood right next to me. I had to give you the once over!"
Milly almost shit herself as she turned her head to see Tré right beside her, talking to her.
"Oh, it's ok!" keep cool Milly, just keep cool... "I hope you liked what you saw" she joked, as she blushed slightly and picked up a wooden stirrer.
"Yeah, yeah I did, actually."
Oh my fucking god, is Tré Cool hitting on me?!
Tré cocked an eyebrow and took a sip from his drink, still grinning mischievously. Milly could feel her face getting hotter and hotter. She laughed politely.
"How come I've never seen you in here before?" she tried to reply still keeping her cool.
"Ah, usually I'm not in here so early. I normally come in a bit later."
Speaking of early, Milly looked over at the time on the wall clock. Shit, it's 10am. I better get to work mighty fucking quick.
Tre noticed her looking at the clock.
"Gotta be somewhere?"
"Oh, no. I'm just a bit late for work."
"Hmm. Me too. Well, I was supposed to be meeting Billie about half an hour ago. Ah well."
Milly nodded her head and smiled politely. Then, to all of her amazement, Ruby came striding over to her from what seemed like no where.
"Well well what do we have here? Milly, being late once again, and...." Ruby stopped. And looked at Tre. "Tre? Tre Cool? From Green Day?"
"The one and only" he replied cooly, sticking out his hand to greet her. Milly smiled sweetly at him.
"Oh...my. Uh...Ruby! Ruby Spencer" she stood, gawping with amazement.
"Well, nice to meet you Ruby. I was just talking to your friend...."
"Milly. My names Milly Waterfield."
"Milly.....Milly..." Tre repeated as he smiled at her.
"Wow. Well, uh, can I have...uh...your autograph? I don't mean to sound like a teenie..."
"Sure you can."
Ruby instantly grabbed a tissue from the Starbucks tissue stand and handed it to him, along with a pen. Tre scribbled on it and handed it back to her.
"Here you go. Enjoy it!" Tre smiled kindly at Ruby as she took hold of her signed tissue, staring at it as if it was a chunk of gold. "Thankyou. Thank you so much! I'm a big fan of your music, I love Green Day! Well, love in a platonic way. Well I do love you, but.."
Milly interrupted Ruby, before she made a bigger fool of herself.
"What she means is, we both really enjoy your music and we think what you do is totally awesome. You're an inspiration." Ruby nodded along.
"Thanks. It's nice to hear that we have pleased you...." he winked again at Milly. She let out a giggle. Ruby started to quietly whisper to her.
"Mill, I dont mean to spoil the moment, but, we really have to get going, the boss will kill us if we don't get there soon!"
"I know I know!" she hissed back "Just hang on. Go take these back to work for me. Please. This is Tré Cool! Work can wait!"
Ruby did as she was told, and took the tray of drinks out of Milly's hand before smiling at Tre, thanking him again, and walking out to her car.
Before Milly knew it, Tre was already handing her piece of tissue with a phone number on it.
"Call me, if you like. I'd like to see you again."
"Yeah, sure! I'd like to too. Would you like my number too?
"Uh, yeah. Sure. Thanks."
Milly quickly wrote her phone number on another piece of tissue as Tre watched her, hand shaking with a mixture of nerves and excitement. Se handed it over to him.
"Cool, thanks babe" he chirped.
"No problem. I'll speak to you soon, right?"
"Right...see you soon, Milly."
***
What a month. The best month of Milly's life so far, I'm sure we can say. Imagine yourself going into a Starbucks and buying your drinks, when all within half an hour you have Tré Cool, King of Sex eyeing you up, and giving you his phone number (just thought I'd give you a quick recap).
***
"Sure, I'll pick you up in five. See ya babe."
"Huh. 'babe' " Billie mocked.
"Got a problem with that? PAL?" smirked Tre.
"Yeah, when your using MY phone 'cause your own one has no goddamn credit left on it!"
"You know you love me, Bill." Tre cooed back.
"Meh. Get out of here. Before I shag you." he joked back.
"Guys...please. That's happened once before...please refrain yourselves from doing it again!" pleaded Mike whilst he was tuning his bass.
"Why...'cause your jealous?"
"Tre." Mike glared at him. Billie chuckled.
"Well then. See you tomorrow bitches! I'm about to go get myself a fine young woman, and her names MILLY." and with that, Tre left to go pick up Milly from work. As soon as he had left the studio, Billie Joe and Mike began to talk about him and Milly's relationship.
"Tre really does like Milly, doesn't he?"
"Yeah. From what he's told me, they sound pretty serious. I'm glad for them, y'know?"
"Yeah totally. Lets just hope it lasts and doesn't end up in tears."
"No, I think they're pretty committed to each other. I like seeing him happy."
"Same." Billie looked over at the clock on the wall. "Ah, I think we should call it a night. The wife waits."
"Bye dude."
"Night Mike."
Milly and Tre had been seeing each other for about a month and a half now. Although they hadn't slept together yet, they both felt like their relationship was becoming stronger and stronger as each day went by. Milly loved Tre in every way possible; she loved his crazy and pervy personality. Well, pervy to an extent...a nice pervy. She liked it. His kinkiness, shall we say. He was caring and always up for anything, anytime. His gorgeous blue eyes, sexy reddish brown hair and handsome looks. Just everything.
Tre pulled up outside the large glass metal framed doors, and smiled when he saw Milly appear on the front step. She looked gorgeous; her cute blue eyes, brunette hair and slim figure. He just thought she was perfect...the luckiest man alive.
She waved to him as she approached his SUV, very much like her own vehicle.
"See ya guys!" Milly turned to wave to Chrissie, Elle and Ruby, who were also heading towards their own cars. Tre waved goodbye to them also.
"Yup! Weekend at last! Woohoo! Time to partay!" screamed Ruby, who was a little too hyper at this moment in time. Milly chuckled and got into Tre's car, before kissing him softly.
"I've missed you today" she whispered in his ear.
"Me too. Milly, you're such a good fucking kisser, you know that?"
"Yeah. I do" she kissed him again, only this time, she used tongue.
"Mmmmm" was all Tre could say.
Milly finally stopped kissing him and sat back in her seat, putting her hands infront of the heaters.
"Fuck its cold."
"Damn it girl, you always leave me wanting more!"
"If you drive quickly, you wont have to wait." she hinted, smiling as she looked down at her lap. She placed a hand on Tre's thigh and started to rub it gently. Tre's eyes light up instantly, and started up the ignition straight away.
It was only a twenty-something minute drive to Milly's house. As soon as the couple arrived home, they headed straight to the front door. Tre started to kiss the back of Milly's neck softly as she stood infront of the door, fumbling around in her bag to try and find her house key. She couldn't help but giggle.
"Mmmm, Milly.."
"I can't find my damn keys!"
"No worries, baby. We can always do it right here."
"That's what you'd like, isn't it baby?"
Tre nodded like a five year old. "Yes, mommy."
"Well, I'm afraid I've just found the key..." she pulled out the silver key from her bag "so, that'll have to wait until another time."
"Ah, fine with me" he replied, still kissing her neck and nibbling her ear lobe.
Milly pushed the key into the lock and opened the door. Tre pushed her inside, pushed her up against the back of the door, and locked it. They stood, eyes gazing into each others. Milly started to tug at Tre's coat and dropped it on the floor. Before they knew it, they were heading upstairs towards the bedroom...
Milly layed contently in Tre's arms, breathing heavily.
"I think I love you" Tre said softly.
"I think I love you too."
She sat up and cupped Tre's cheeks as she kissed him passionately, just like she had done only moments before. She followed by pulling back the covers, and got out of bed.
"That's one sexy body you have there, Miss Waterfield."
Milly turned round her head and blew a kiss at Tre, before picking up a pair of his boxers and a plain black t-shirt that he had been wearing earlier that day and put them on.
"Ah, the wonders of Friday nights, eh?" sighed Tre, leaning back onto the headboard of the king sized bed.
"Absolutely." Milly walked back over to Tre in bed, and straddled on top of him.
"It's still surreal that I just had sex with Tré Cool. From Green Day."
Tre smiled proudly "It's still surreal that I just had sex with the most beautiful woman I've ever seen."
Milly felt like crying, her life felt so perfect. She had someone to love...they were in love.
Tre grabbed Milly round the waist and threw her over onto the other side of the bed, and started to tickle her playfully whilst getting on top of her. Milly let out a loud scream.
"Ahh! Tre don't! It's so tickly! Stop it!" Milly tried to plead through bursts of laughter.
Tre just kept on laughing as he watched Milly laugh and scream her head off.
"Seriously! If.....ah! If you don't stop tickling me....then....no..no... mo-re...sex.....for.....hahaha...a month!"
"You wouldn't dare, Milly baby!"
"Oh, I would Tre, believe me!"
Tre stopped tickling her looked at her with a big irresistible grin on his face. Milly stopped herself from snogging his face off, and just layed beneath him, putting on her most serious face, raising her eyebrows.
"You wouldn't..." Tre raised an eyebrow.
"No, I don't think I could, that would just be as much torture for me as it would be for you....but I'd find something."
Tre laughed and kissed her on the forehead before laying down and resting his chin on her stomach. Milly ran her fingers through his hair, and stroked the side of his unshaven cheek. They layed still for a moment, gazing into each others eyes that deeply it felt as though they could read each others thoughts. Tre propped himself up on one elbow, and started to kiss her stomach whilst stroking her smooth thigh. Milly sighed and smiled and continued to gently run her fingers through his hair.
"You're beautiful, Milly."
Milly replied by leaning forward and kissing him full on. She pulled his head in closer. She couldn't remember the last time someone called her beautiful, rather than sexy. She felt so special, and wanted.
Well, things went on from there...
***
The sound of snow fell gently against the window pain, and the smell of Christmas was just around the corner. Tre woke up from the sensation of the cold air. He wondered why he felt so cold, only to realise that he was naked, and laying half on top and half in the bed covers. He smiled as memories from the night before came flooding back into his head. He looked down to find Milly nestled up close to his chest, still sleeping peacefully. Tre couldn't help but watch her. She was graceful when she slept...something he had never really seen before. They had only been going out for approximately two months.
Milly started to stir, and she opened her eyes to a beaming Tre. She smiled back, and shut her eyes again.
"Morning beautiful" he cooed.
"Morning baby."
They both smiled together, as they both knew one another were thinking about the previous night; the first time they had slept together; the best and most meaningful sex they had both ever experienced.
"Can I get you any breakfast?"
"Mmmm...maybe a cup of coffee? That would be great."
"Sure babe."
Tre kissed her softly on the lips before jumping out of bed.
"Fuck! Its so fucking cold."
Milly chuckled. "Nice ass."
Tre smiled as he picked up the boxers and t-shirt of his that Milly had been wearing the night before. He put them on and walked down the hallway and down the stairs, round the corner and into the kitchen. He ran and skidded along the shiny oak floor and got out two coffee mugs from a kitchen cabinet and placed them on the kitchen island. He made the cups of coffee and took them upstairs, where Milly was sat up in bed, and had just put on her underwear. Tre put the coffees down on the bed side table.
"Thanks sweetie."
"No problemo." Tre got back on the bed, and kissed Milly softly on her shoulder.
"So, tell me again why you moved out here to California?"
"Well, when I was sixteen I decided I was done with school. I wanted a career in either music or fashion, and i figured that fashion would probably be the most likely scenario. I was so desperate to get away from England...it bored me to hell. So, i decided i would move away to California and study, so I did."
"So that would explain the American slash British accent, eh?"
"Yeah. I guess it would."
"Pass me another cig, and some more of that sweet wine, mate."
Milly started to laugh at Tre's impression of an Englishman.
"That was pretty good, babe."
"Meh. Y'know, I have my odd talents....like being one of the best fuckin' drummers in the history of punk rock!"
"Totally." Milly chuckled and kissed Tre's cheek.
"How's Billie and Mike, by the way? I forgot to ask last night....I got, side tracked. And the new album?"
"Oh they're fine. They like you, y'know. And the album, it's going awesome. We've basically got it all done. Just the odd editing of a song to do and we're done!"
"That's great hun."
Milly got out of bed.
"Where you going, baby?" Tre asked between taking sips from his hot coffee.
"I was thinking of having a shower..." Milly raised an eyebrow at Tre as his eyes lit up. She too took a sip from her coffee.
"Well, mind if I join you?"
"That was my intention..."
Tre watched as Milly walked over to the door of the ensuite, pass the entrance to the walk in wardrobe. She took off her bra infront of the door way and walked inside. Tre heard the shower turn on, and the steam on the mirrors start to form. He swallowed his mouthful of coffee, went out of the bedroom into the main bathroom down the hallway only to return with a clean white towel. He walked into the ensuite, and he could see the faint skin coloured silhouette of Milly's body through the steamed up shower door. She opened the door slightly, and stuck out her head. She beckoned with her finger to Tre, who was already stark naked and forcing his way into the shower with her.
Milly strode into her walk-in wardrobe, which was full of awesome clothes. She stood still, wrapped in her body towel, picking out her clothes. She decided on a pair of jeans, a black three- quarter length sleeved cotton top with her Alexander McQueen's black and white skull scarf. As she went back into the bathroom, she saw the message 'Milly is my sex mistress' written in the steam up on the mirror, presumably by Tre. She let out a laugh and picked up her black eyeliner and started to scribble it on, using a different mirror. A pair of strong arms and drum-beaten hands wrapped around her waist and pulled her close.
"You liked my message?"
"Sure did."
"Good good."
Tre kissed her cheek before spanking her ass, and walked over to the curtains to draw them back.
"Baby, it's snowing!" shouted Tre.
"How cool! Awesome!"
"Hey I'll call Mike and Billie and Adie and we can all met up and have fun in the snow, and make snowmen and snow angels and do fun snowy stuff!"
Milly finished with her eyeliner and walked over to Tre, laughing.
"Sure we can, sweetie. But first, you've gotta get dressed!"
Tre dropped his towel, crossed his arms and looked down.
"Mind giving me a helping hand with that?"
Milly let out a sigh and giggle.
"I'll do the top half..."
"Okie dokie then."
Milly picked up Tre's black t-shirt and tugged it over his head. His put his arms through and she pulled it down down over his stomach, whilst kissing him on the lips. Milly finished by kissing his neck and leaving him to put on his boxers and pants while she made the bed and took the coffee mugs back downstairs to the kitchen.
"Tre do you want any breakfast?" Milly yelped from the kitchen.
"Um, sure! I'm real hungry!"
Hmm, what should I cook....pancakes!
"Honey, are pancakes ok?"
"Awesome! Cheers babe!"
She figured that was a yes and made her way over to the fridge and got out the milk. She got the rest of the pancake ingredients from out of the cupboards.
"Mmmm smells good." Tre called as he walked down the stairs and into the kitchen. He went over to Milly who was stood at the cooker flipping the pancakes. Milly felt his arms go around her waist and could feel his body against her back. Tre rested his chin on her shoulder.
"What do you want to do today?"
Milly pondered for a moment.
"I don't mind. You said you wanted to meet up with the others? Um...I need to ring Chrissie before I do anything."
"Sure. What for?
"Oh nothing in particular, i just need to talk to her about this invitation I found in the post that must've came the other day.." she nodded over to where the letter was placed, and Tre went over and started to read it.
"Ooh a fashion show. You gonna go?"
"Yeah, that's what I was going to talk to Chrissie about. Its in a couple of days, and I wanted to see if the the others are thinking of going."
"Is this fashion show gonna model you're stuff?"
"Yeah."
"Wow, babe, that's pretty cool. You're gonna become fucking big!"
Milly chuckled and started to serve up the pancakes. Tre put the invite down on the kitchen island and got out the orange juice from the fridge.
"I'm not really focusing on becoming big, I'm focusing on my fashion. That's what's most important to me."
Tre sat at a seat at the island while Milly handed him his breakfast.
"The most important thing to me after you, of course." Tre smiled at her sweetly and Milly kissed his nose lightly. She perched her self up on to the kitchen side and Tre started to tuck into his pancakes.
"If I went, then you'd be coming with me."
"Sure. When exactly is it?"
"I think....uh, yeah. It's a week today."
"Yup.... I'll come.." Tre tried to talk between mouthfuls of food "Where did you learn to cook so good? It tastes like creamy goodness!"
"Ha ha. Well I cooked a lot for the others when we were sharing a place while at Uni. They were all too shit to cook. It was just doughnuts and coffee if they were left responsible for food...though I have no objections towards doughnuts or coffee."
Tre sat back in his chair and patted his stomach happily.
"Thanks for that babe. I feel like playing now!"
"Playing....in what context?"
"Well.." started Tre as he stood up and walked over to Milly, who was still sat up on the side. He stood between her knees and put his hands around her waist "that depends.." Tre winked at her and Milly blushed slightly.
"I would gladly.." she started to say as she softly ran her fingers on the back of his neck, when the phone started to ring. Tre stood back and let Milly pass to fetch the phone, but spanked her ass again as she walked passed him. She picked up the phone and turned around to him and winked. Tre stood back and watched her.
"Hello?"
"Hey Mill it's Chrissie."
"Ah hey dude I was just about to ring you..."
Tre raised an eyebrow at her... "well, I was going to after I had cleared up the house a bit.."
"Right. Yeah. Sure. Tre didn't happen to sleep round last night, did he?"
"Yes, yes he did actually."
At the sound of the word 'he' Tre instantly took more attention as to what they were talking about.
"Anyway, about this fashion show...are Elle and Ruby planning on going too?"
"Yeah. Elle is going with Rob and me and Ruby will go together. You gonna take Tre?"
"Yeah he said he would come with me. I'm looking forward to it- it's gonna be our first official appearance to a formal event together...I can't wait!"
"You're so lucky Milly. You deserve it all."
"Thanks Chris. Well i have to go now 'cause Tre needs to get back to his place and we're planning on going out with Billie and the others. Talk later hun, see ya!"
Milly put the phone down and went over to Tre, who was now clearing up the kitchen.
"That was Chrissie. She was talking about the fashion show on Saturday. They're all going too, and I told her that I was gonna be busy for the rest of the day."
"So that means we have the day to ourselves, with Billie and Mike too?"
"Sure, whatever you want."
"Great! I haven't been able to spend much time with you all together. I love you but I miss the others when I don't see them much."
"I know Tre, I know. You know you can go hang with them anytime you want, I don't want to stop you in doing so. It's been pretty hectic recently, what with your album and my work."
"I know. It's gonna get better soon, babe."
Tre and Milly stood still in each others arms, in a loose romantic hug.
"Tre, what time is it?
"It's.....half ten. I need to go back to mine now and catch up with the guys in the studio. I'll call you later, 'k babe?"
"Sure." Milly nodded enthusiastically.
They walked over to the front door and kiss goodbye...for about five minutes.
"Ok, now I'm going" laughed Tre.
Milly watched as Tre put on his coat and walked out of the door, through the light snow and over to his car. She waved to him as he drove off.
Tre only lived a five minute drive from Milly's house, so they were never too far away. They had been living this close to one another for all this time, and they never even knew it.
Once Tre had gone, Milly lit up the fireplace in the living room and sat down infront of her TV, and started to watch the music channels. It was the same channel that she had been watching in bed a couple of months ago, the night before she met Tre, and there was an interview with Green Day on again. She sat and chuckled at what they had to say, with Tre cracking jokes and sometimes changing the subject to some utter bullshit, but it was good all the same. She couldn't believe that the interview that she was watching had only been filmed a week or two ago. That meant that she was going out with Tre while they had been doing the interview...surreal.
She watched more TV, cleared up her mansion and talked on the phone for the next few hours. She went into her study, and started to work on some new designs. She sat watching the snow falling outside her window for some inspiration, when she suddenly had the idea of designing a bridal dress. The whiteness and purity of the snow made her mind brainstorm on loads of different designs, and she tried to draw them down as quickly and as accurate as she could. It wasn't long before she had twenty or so different bridal designs spread out before her on her study desk. Each one had a punky attribute to it with a black and white colour scheme; one which was a halter neck with black diamanté beading on the trail, and one with a thick black band just under the bust. They were all fantastic and unique. She felt proud of what she had just done; she had done lots of amazing work in her time, but since her Autumn collection had been chosen for the fashion show, she hadn't been designing much more as she had been so busy with making changes and choosing what costumes she wanted to be shown for the show.
She picked up the cordless phone beside her desk and rung up Elle.
Ring ring, ring ring...
She left the phone ringing for a minute, but there was no reply "Hi, this is Elle. You have tried to call me but unfortunately I'm either out or busy at the moment. Please leave a message after the tone and I will try and get back to you. See ya!" Milly sighed and left a message "Hey, Elle its Milly. I just wanted to ring 'cause I have some great new designs! I think this could be big! See ya, bitch!"
She put the phone down and sat still, spinning slowly in her big black chair. She sighed as she rest back her head, thinking about how far she had come in her lifetime. She started to think about her family back in England, reminiscent of her childhood; although she loved them and missed them she didn't ever want to move back. She was happy here, in California, starting a new life with her new love and her ever growing success in the fashion business.
She stopped spinning in her chair when her eyes became fixed on a photo strip tacked on her study wall that had been taken with Tre only a matter of days after they first met. There were five photos; one with them kissing, another with them pulling stupid faces, the third one with them smiling sweetly, the fourth with them looking straight into each others eyes and the last with Milly laughing and Tre looking adoringly at her.
She smiled and sighed as she looked at the photos and remembered that day that she had gone out with him on their first date. Just then she was interrupted by the phone ringing.
"Hello?"
"Hey babe!"
"Hi honey! How are you?"
"I'm fine. I've just got back from working in the studio and right now we're at Billie and Adie's. They asked if you'd like to come round for the evening and have a meal?"
"Yeah sure! If they don't mind. It would be great to see them, I haven't done in about two weeks."
"Ok so I'll be round in five. See ya soon baby."
"'k, bye!"
Milly put the phone down, turned off the study light and ran across to the other side of the house to her bedroom. She quickly changed her jeans to her long drainpipe denim ones and put on her black leather Mary Jane court shoe stilettos, and re-freshed her make up. She was just about to open the front door when Tre pulled up. She put on her coat, grabbed her keys and walked out the doorway and locked it.
Its was about 5.30pm.
Milly walked quickly down the path and round to the passenger side of the car and hopped in.
"Hey babe." Tre put his warm hand on her cheek and kissed her passionately.
"Evening." she replied.
They talked about what they had been up to during the afternoon apart and Milly told Tre about her new designs.
"That's awesome baby. Maybe you'll be wearing one sometime soon?"
Milly's eyes lit up.
"Really?"
"Sure. I've been thinking; I want to marry you. Maybe not now but when everything has settled down.."
"Honey I feel exactly the same way! It sounds crazy, we've only been going out for two months."
"It's not that crazy. We love each other."
And with that, Milly put her hand on Tre's knee, leant over to kiss his neck softly.
"I still haven't forgotten about what you promised me tonight..."
Milly chuckled as she carried on kissing Tre's neck. She could smell his cologne; it was just like what she had smelt that day when they first met in Starbucks.
They arrived at Billie and Adies within four or five minutes. This was about the third or fourth time that Milly had been there. It was a wonderful house- very 'homey' and warm.
They pulled up on the driveway and got out of the car. Tre walked round to Milly and held her hand. She held his hand tightly as they walked up towards the door. Tre gave her a comforting smile which made her feel less nervous- she didn't want to give out the wrong vibes to everyone inside. She didn't want everyone to hate her.
Tre got hold of the door handle and opened the door, walking inside with Milly following behind, still holding his hand. Billie came out from a doorway and went to greet Tre.
"Hey dude!"
"Hey Bill."
Billie looked over to Milly.
"Ah, this is the beautiful Milly!" Billie turned to her with a big smile, kissed her cheek and hugged her.
"Hey Billie Joe."
"You can call me Billie, Billie Joe can be such a drag sometimes."
"Ok then...Billie."
Billie smiled and started to chat to Tre as Mike and Adie entered the room.
"Hiya Milly! It's so good to see you again."
"Adrienne!" Milly and Adie hugged. Tre, Billie and Mike stood back and smiled as they saw Milly and Adie get on happily and begin to talk.
"She's very pretty, Tre."
"I know. On the way over here I said to her about how I'd love to marry her once everything has settled down and we have a place of our own."
"And? What did she say" questioned Mike.
"She said she felt exactly the same way, even though she said it was crazy 'cause we have only been going out for two months."
"Well, that's awesome dude" chirped Billie, patting Tre on the back, before stopping their quiet conversation as Adie approached.
"Well you guys go sit down while I cook dinner. Milly, fancy giving me a hand?" Adie looked back at Milly.
"Sure! No problem."
Tre took Milly's coat before she and Adie headed to the kitchen, and hung it up along with his on a coat stand beside the door.
"Oh, by the way" Milly called back to the guys "Hi, Mike!"
They chuckled.
"Hey Milly. Good to see you!"
Milly poked her head around the corner and smiled at them, before turning back to help with the cooking.
Billie went down to the basement and came back with a load of beer bottles in his hand. Adie and Milly laughed and talked while they cooked while the guys cheered and drank while they watched the t.v.
"Where are the kids?" Milly wondered why it seemed so quiet compared to the last few times she had came around.
"Oh, they're sleeping round at friends houses. There was a kids birthday party and they asked if they could stay round."
"Oh I see."
"So. How are things with you and Tre?" Adie raised an eyebrow at Milly as she changed the subject, slicing a potato.
"Things are, going, great, actually."
"Wow, that's real good to hear. Tre seems so happy. You do too."
"Yeah, I've noticed! My work seems so much easier than it was before. Not that it was hard or anything. But sometimes it can be challenging." Milly explained as she shut the oven door, and leaned back onto the side cabinet.
"Y'know, Billie was telling me earlier how Tre seems to be working surprisingly harder in the studio."
Milly smiled to herself.
"You two are like fucking lovebirds! It's so sweet."
Milly blushed a little, and Adie chuckled.
"Well, I love him. and...I think he loves me too."
Adie walked over to Milly and hugged her. "I'm so happy for you both. Come on, lets give the men their food. They'll get grouchy if they don't get it before long!"
They laughed together as they started to put the food in the dishes and serve it up on the dining room table.
"Ah, food!" the guys came walking into the dining room and put their beer bottles down in their places. Tre walked up to Milly and out his hand around her waist, and kissed her softly on her lips. They whispered into each others ears.
"I love you."
"I love you too."
For the rest of the evening they ate, drank, talked, joked, and had fun. Milly told them about her fashion job and about the upcoming fashion show.
"Oh I've seen you're designs. They're beautiful Milly!"
"Thanks Adie. I know how much you love fashion. Maybe you'd like to join with me to do some designs for my Winter collection?"
"Oh my god, that would be awesome!"
Tre smiled at Billie, they both knew that Milly was gonna fit in well.
"Well, we wouldn't start until after the show. Hey Adie, do you want to come to that too?"
"Milly, are you sure?"
"Of course! Billie?"
"Nah, I'm ok thanks ladies! Me and Mike were gonna go into the studio to work a bit on the album anyway. Tre, you're going, right?"
"Of course I am, I wouldn't miss my baby's night." and with that, he kissed Milly on her forehead.
The evening went so quickly, and soon it was 11.27pm.
They were all sat around the tele. Milly was layed out on one of the couches between Tre's legs, when she let out a yawn.
Tre whispered in her ear.
"Do you wanna go back babe? You tired?"
"Yeah, I sorta am. I've so much fun though." she looked around quickly at the others, in the dark room. She could tell by the television light that they were all focused on what was happening on the screen. She wanted to make sure that they didn't have any eyes on them. She slowly slid her hand down towards Tre's package, which made him squirm due to her unexpected gesture.
"I made a promise, remember?" she whispered into his ear.
"Ofcourse I remember...why wouldn't I? You didn't think I was gonna let you get away with it."
And with that, they both started to sit up.
"I think we're gonna call it a night."
"Is it really almost half past eleven? I thought it was only quarter to ten!"
"Thanks for the wonderful cooking Adie! Again."
"Your welcome Tre. Milly helped as well though. She did most of it!"
"Well, I guess we should be getting off?" Milly said, looking at Tre and giving him a look that said 'come on, I can't wait much longer'
"Yeah. See ya guys."
Everyone said goodbye to one another and waved good night. Milly and Tre walked to the door, put on their coats, said goodbye once again and went out to the car.
It had stopped snowing, though the snow on the ground was a few millimetres thick. The night was cold and still.
Tre opened the door to the car so that Milly could elegantly get in. He ran round the other side of the car and started to pull out of the drive.
"You can feel Christmas is just around the corner."
"Not before your birthday, honey." replied Milly turning on the heaters.
"Yes....my birthday...a time of...blood, sex and booze!"
They both laughed.
"So. My place or yours?"
"Could it be your place again babe? Claudia is at home with her new hubby....I thought I'd leave them to it..y'know."
"Course. Maybe you should quickly drop by to get some clothes and stuff for the morning?"
"Nah. I'll just wear these clothes. I'll go back in the afternoon. Right now I just wanna get to yours."
As soon as the car pulled up on Milly's drive, they walked straight inside.
"Ah it's so nice and warm.."
"I left the heating on so it wasn't to cold when we got back." Milly took off her coat and flung it over the stair banister. Tre did the same.
"Now, lets get you out of these clothes..."
Milly started to run up the stairs, and Tre ran just as fast after her. As they got to the door of her room, Tre caught up with her and threw down on to the bed.
"Did I forget to thank you for that lovely meal you cooked tonight?"
"Yes, I think you did..."
"Oh Tre..."
Milly moaned Tre's name.
"I love you so much Milly."
"I love you more baby!"
That week went relatively quick for Milly and Tre. Milly was working with the fashion show manager on the final developments and Tre was working with Billie and Mike with the rest of the crew at the studio. Their album was to be released on Monday, and today was Saturday. Milly, Chrissie, Ruby and Elle were at Milly's house getting their clothes ready for the show. They were all wearing similar black Dior outfits. Ruby's sister was a top selling make-up artist, and was round at Milly's house doing their make-up and hair.
"Y'know Milly, Mike Dirnt is quite attractive." Ruby blurted out.
"Ruby! We knew it! We always said you liked him but you always denied it."
"Yeah, well..on Wednesday night when I came round and the guys were here I got talking to him and I got to know him more. He's cool...y'know?"
"Well, you know Ruby, Tre and I could always stitch you two up..."
Before Milly could finish, the door bell rang.
"I'll get it it!"
Chrissie ran to the door with half a face full of make-up. It was Adie with the coffees.
"Here you go, ladies. Orange mocha fraps and lattes..."
"Adie, you're a lifesaver!"
"I know."
After about another an hour and a half, just about all of the girls had their hair and make-up done; nothing fancy, just lots of black smoky eyes and red and nude coloured lips.
"Well my job here is done! Have a great time girls, I'll see you at the after party!"
"Bye Merissa!" they all waved in unison as she walked out the door, put her boxes in her car and drove off down the street.
"Right, time for our dresses!"
Everyone made their way to one of the guest bedrooms where all of the dresses were hung up and started to help one another getting into their gowns.
As Milly and Adie were the first ones ready, they decided that they would go downstairs to wait until the others were done.
"Don't be long! We gotta go in fifteen minutes!"
The door bell rung again as Adie walked down the stairs. She went to open the door and found Tre, all dressed up in his matching grey and black suit.
"Evening Adie."
"Hey Tre, come on in."
Tre stepped inside the doorway and walked into the kitchen to get a glass of water. Milly walked down the stairs in her black dress and black chunky heeled stilettos, showing of her tattooed anklet, very much like Tre's. As she approached Tre, he let out a loud wolf whistle.
"Wow, Milly, you're looking hot!"
"Thanks sweetie. You don't look that bad yourself."
They stood there for the next couple of minutes, kissing and giggling.
"Come on lovebirds, time to go now." mocked Adie.
"Elle! Rob is here!" yelled Chrissie, as she saw Robs silver car pull up outside the house. Elle came skipping down the stairs.
"OK, so I'll meet you guys there, front row seats, right?"
"Right." replied Milly.
"OK, see ya!"
Elle briskly walked out the door and got in to the car with Rob, and drove off. A black limo arrived outside in the spot that Rob's car had just been parked.
"Right, is everyone else ready to go?"
"Yep." they all replied in unison.
Ruby came down into the porch, and they all went out the door and made their way into the limo.
Milly sat with Tre's arm around her waist, Adie and Ruby were laughing about something and Chrissie sat twirling one of her golden blonde dreads, much like Adie's.
"Chris, are you ok?" asked Milly concerned with Chrissie's quiet behaviour.
"Yeah yeah I'm fine. I just hope everything goes fine, and I don't fall over in these heels" Chrissie peered down at her black shoes.
"You'll be fine."
***
They eventually arrived at the venue, and the whole night went ever so quickly. Photographers were keen to get pictures of all of them, especially Milly with Tre, and Milly with Adie.
"Milly! Milly! Tre!"
People were shouting out their names, and it felt so surreal to Milly. She and Tre happily posed for the cameras, and when Tre started to kiss Milly softly, the cameras went crazy. Adie's name was also being called, and she posed with Milly in single and group photos with the other girls too. They finally had a group photo all together. They had front row seats, and they had people fuss over them constantly. There were other celebrities there in Hollywood, and Vivienne Westwood came up and started to talk to Milly. Yes, Vivienne Westwood. Tre sat next to her while she was interviewed, his arm around her waist. He was so proud of her, as she was for him. The whole evening was about Milly.
"Baby, I'm so proud of you. I love you." whispered Tre. Hearing those words made Milly realise that maybe she was the luckiest woman in the world.
At the after party, photographers still wanted more pictures and even the camera crew were in on their case.
In an interview, Adrienne and Milly declared that they would be working together for the Winter collection. There was quite a lot of attention on Milly and Tre. When asked in an interview whether they were serious, they said that they were and that they loved one another deeply, and to expect anything in the near future.
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