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"Don't leave me!" he suddenly called out, obviously having a dream.
I laid carefully next to him, stroking his hair until he calmed. I quickly followed him into the best sleep I had experienced in a very long time.
Chapter 20
The next week passed in a blur. I felt like I would have been busy enough due to classes, homework, and cheerleading practice, but the guys also took a lot of my time.
Mason wanted to talk on Facetime every chance he could get, and I struggled to split my time between calls with him, and time split evenly between Beckham and Damon since they didn't seem fond of spending time together.
Beckham had started shooting his movie, and used the excuse that he only was off at night to wrestle most of my evenings away from Damon. When we weren't making out, he helped me begin to learn to adjust to my newly acquired sensitivity to sound.
Out of the three, Beckham was the only one who had gone through something similar, albeit at a much younger age, and so the guys had left it to him to teach me how to handle my new hearing abilities. After a week of training on how to filter sounds, I still had to wear my ear plugs, but my ability to manage the noise had greatly improved.
Damon's patience at not seeing me lasted until around 11:00pm most nights. He would then arrive at my dorm and either pick me up to spend the night with him at his penthouse, or he would spend the night in my dorm room. A big part of me wished that they would both spend the night, but I was confident that the guys were not ready for that by the pained expressions on their faces whenever one of them showed me affection in front of the other.
Lexi arrived at my dorm room at 7:00pm the following Friday, bustling with energy per usual. I smiled at her affectionately when I looked at the bags she was carrying with her. Of course, she had brought five billion outfits for us both to try on.
"Why do you always look so good?" she teased me, as she gave me a huge hug after dropping the bags haphazardly all over my floor.
She obviously didn't expect an answer as she immediately went over to the computer Damon had given me, and was fiddling around on it trying to find some music. I savored the feeling welling up inside of me at that moment. This is what I had always wanted, to just be a regular girl, with regular friends, doing things like getting ready together. Although calling Lexi regular was really selling her short.
So far there wasn't anything regular about her. In the short time I had known her she had proven herself to be a perfect friend. She was always there to stand up for me when Selena and her friends tried to attack me during practice, she brought me my favorite coffee from Leslie's when I had to work late during the week, she was always available to study or just hang out when I needed time away from the situations developing with the guys. In short, she was everything I had dreamed about in a best friend.
I laughed when she started to sing along to Taylor Swift. During our brief time together she had introduced me to all things Taylor Swift, and I loved it. I opened my mouth to start singing, but she quickly clamped her hand over my mouth.
"None of that now," she said laughing. "You don't want me to start liking you as more than a friend, do you? Because trust me, that first night at the club definitely had me thinking with my lady parts when you sang."
She started making kissy faces at me. I couldn't help but laugh, which embarrassingly turned into a snort.
"Did you just snort?" she asked with a shocked look on her face. "I'm pretty sure that's the first time I've seen you do anything that wasn't perfect," she squealed, and then raised her fists in the air. "I'm rubbing off on you. This is the sign of a true friendship," she yelled excitedly.
I threw a throw pillow at her from off my bed and rolled my eyes at her.
We spent the next hour fiddling with our hair, trying on outfits, and singing (or lip-synching in my case) to random songs on the "Girl's Night Out" playlist she had found. After trying on a few outfits which Lexi had promptly vetoed as "not sexy enough," I finally unearthed one top in the pile that I thought she would approve of. It was a navy blue off the shoulder bodysuit that was skintight and showed off every curve in my body. Paired with tight white skinny jeans, it looked sexy, while not being a huge departure from what I would gravitate towards normally. Lexi looked stunning in a strapless black dress, super tall black heels, and her strawberry blonde hair pulled back in a sleek pony tail. I went to grab some flats but she threw the ones I was trying to pick up in the trash before I could get to them.
"Hey!" I cried out, in mock outrage.
"There's no way that you are going to mess up an outfit like that with flats, babe!" she replied. "When are you going to get a clue how hot you are? If you've got it, you need to flaunt it," she said emphatically with her hands on her hips.
I begrudgingly slipped on the navy heels she handed me. She had curled my hair into bigger waves than my natural hair, before putting it into a half up half down style. She had also done a smoky eye on me with light pink lipstick. I was grateful for her help since I had yet to figure out most beauty things seeing as how I hadn't been able to even look at makeup for so many years. Mrs. Anderson's attempts to cut off my hair into chunks hadn't really encouraged me to try new styles with it either. Lexi roused me from the thoughts about my past that I would rather have avoided by tossing a silver clutch at me.
"Do I really need to bring a clutch?" I asked, whining a little bit now.
I actually loved to dress up, but it was fun to give Lexi a hard time.
"Shhh," she griped at me, grabbing my other hand and leading me to the door. "Let's start our night!"
Damon had offered to have Shelton drive us around for the night, but Lexi wouldn't hear of it.
"I don't want him having poor Shelton spy on us all night, and try to cock block us," she explained when I offered the ride.
Surprisingly, Lexi calledherprivate driver to taxi us around for the night. I don't think I was ever going to get used to how well off all the people around me were.
"This is Max, Eva," she explained as a tall, buff man with almond skin, shiny black hair, and gorgeous brown eyes opened the door of an expensive looking black car for us.
He was dressed in a suit and hat and looked every bit the part of a driver that I had seen in some movies, if the driver happened to be a model. Max looked a little shell shocked as Lexi introduced me, so I simply smiled instead of shaking his hand, and quickly got in the car. Even though Max was gorgeous, I had all the admirers I wanted at the moment. Lexi smirked at me as she got in the car after me.
"I can't take you anywhere," she sang at me as Max walked around the front of the car to get in the driver's seat. I blushed. Lexi noticed everything.
