CHAPTER TEN

"been dazed and confused..."

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The next day I woke up with a terrible headache, unable to remember a lot of things from last night but a big sweaty crowd and drinks. I looked next to me and saw Izzy. He had his hand wrapped around me, a thin blanket covering both of us.

Then my eyes widened. I looked under the blanket.

Yep, we're definitely naked.

Suddenly memories from last night filled my mind.

F*ck. We totally did it.

I started panicking.

God, what am I going to do?

Then Izzy woke up. "Juliette?" he asked, super confused. That's when he realised what happened too. He quickly removed his hand from my waist and awkwardly looked at the ceiling.

"So um... We..." Izzy started "Yeah we did." I cut him off.

Awkward silence.

This is quite the situation, innit?

"We were really drunk." I said in hopes that I'd make the situation just a little better. "Exactly" Izzy quickly agreed. "So what now? Do we just... Forget about it?" "I certainly won't forget about it." Izzy joked and winked at me. "Me neither." I flirtatiously said in a joking manner. "Now as much as I'd like to avoid it, we have to talk about... This." I said, and Izzy agreed. "so... Apparently we don't forget about it." Izzy said and I chuckled. "However... We don't talk to anyone about this." Izzy said and I nodded "That includes Kassidy too." Izzy said and I looked at him like he had just murdered my whole family "What?" "I know you girls tell eachother everything but no, not this." he said and I just looked at him, upset."Promise me you won't say anything." "No, I have to tell her!" "Juliette, please!" "Fine, I promise." I gave in "Thank you." Izzy said. "So this was a one time thing right? I mean we were clearly drunk..." I asked "Yeah... Unless you want more." Izzy jokingly said again and I laughed.

I kind of do tho.

I mean whaaat.

"This won't affect our friendship, right?" I nervously asked. "No." Izzy assured me. "Okay well... Um... I better get dressed" "Already? I kind of like this view." Izzy said "Jeffrey Dean Isbell!" I said as I looked at him with a stern look. "Just kidding, just kidding." He said. I got up to get dressed again but he would not take his eyes off of me. I grabbed the blanket and covered my naked body "Stop looking at me." "I'm not." Izzy said, innocently, as he kept on looking at me "Izzy." "Oh common it's not like I haven't seen you like that already, in fact, I f*cked you like that." Izzy stated causing me to blush

He's not wrong.

"Well yeah but I'm not drunk right now and I feel insecure..." I said embarrassed. "Juliette you don't have to-" Izzy started, trying to reassure me that my body was fine.

Yeah he's really cute like that.

"Izzy please." I said, softly, because I knew where this conversation was going.

Truth is, this was a conversation we've had many times. He really hates it when I bring myself down.

"Alright" He said and turned around. I started getting dressed. Suddenly Izzy spoke up and broke the silence "you know what's funny?" "What?" I said focused on getting dressed but still interested in what he has to say. "This is the most I've talked to a girl I slept with the morning after. Not including girlfriends of course". By the time he finished saying that I was completely dressed and chucked at what he said. I spotted his underwear on the ground so I picked it up and threw it at his face "Hey!" Izzy complained and I laughed. "I have to go back to my apartment now. If anyone asks I'll just say I passed out at your apartment alright?" "Add that I took care of you. To make it more believable, of course. " "And make you look like a great guy huh?" "Yeah that too" Izzy replied and fake smiled at me as I rolled my eyes "I honestly wonder how you're going to manage keeping your hands off of me next time you see me after last night" I said "Oh it's going to be easy" Izzy teased and I gave him a challenging look. I walked over to him and looked at him deep in the eyes "Unless I make it... hard" I whispered in his ear. "Make what hard?" He asked nervously. I turned around and walked to the door but before I exited, I said "Oh I think you know." and winked at him. I exited his room and made my way over to the kitchen. I poured him a glass of water and got him a pill because his head was probably in a lot of pain right now. I also made him two fried eggs and Axl another two. I covered Axl's plate and left a little note of top. I got inside Izzy's room again and he looked quite surprised to see me there because he probably thought that I left. I set the disc containing; the glass, pill and food on the counter next to his bed and said "Here. I brought you these to make you feel better". Izzy looked over at the disc and then up at me and smiled brightly "Thank you, princess." "Could you please stop calling me that?" "Nope." Izzy said and I rolled my eyes and half smiled. I put my hand in his cheek and kissed his forehead. "Alright casanova, I'm actually leaving now. Take care." I said, messed up his already messy hair, winked at him and left. I exited his apartment but no matter how hard I tried all I could think about was Izzy.

And how much I'd like to fu-
Ummm nothing.

I walked over to our apartment door and got myself emotionally ready to face reality after this pretty hot night. But I also had to get myself ready to lie to my best friend which was something I hated the idea of. I knocked on the door with a sigh and waited. Few seconds passed and then Kassidy opened the door. She looked like a mess but I bet I did too. That was one hell of a party. "Juliette!" Kassidy exclaimed relieved "Morning sunshine, I'm still alive!" I said and did a jazz hands gesture but Kassidy smacked my head "YOU IDIOT YOU COULD HAVE SAID SOMETHING!" "Goddammit, Kassidy! Don't scream, my head is still pounding from yesterday!" "I'm sorry, come in" Kass said "You were drunk and I thought someone could have taken advantage of you" Kass continued "Nope, none of that fancy stuff for me. I just passed out at Izzy's apartment. I mean Axl's and Izzy's apartment. He wasn't that drunk so he took care of me." "God, Juliette, I hate that I have to ask this but how long has it been since you f*cked somebody?" "Too long..." I lied. I got myself a cup of water and a pill. "Maybe you and Izzy should f*ck" Kass said causing me to choke. Kassidy started laughing hysterically.

That b*tch.

"Are you trying to kill me, woman?" "Who? Me?" Kassidy asked "Ah how I love it when you completely ignore something you don't want to comment on" "What am I supposed to say to that?" "Just admit that you want to f*ck him because you are so sexually attracted to him!"

Indeed I do.

"If I agree will you stop saying that?" "Yes." "Then I totally agree." I said sarcastically and rolled my eyes "I know you are pretending like it's not true but it is." "Well maybe it is! So what?" "Ha! I knew it!" "Now can we PLEASE stop talking about it?" "Now that you admitted how much you wanna f*ck him, yes, we can." Kass smiled "I f*cking hate you sometimes!" I said and rolled my eyes, playfully. I love her but I was done with her shit right now. I had a lot on my mind. It was killing me that I couldn't just tell her and I had to lie to her but I couldn't just break the promise I made to Izzy.

Izzy...

Goddammit, Juliette get it together!

But he's so sweet, cute and hot...

Ugh just stop thinking about him!

Those were my thoughts. For the rest of the whole damn day. He was all I could think about. I was so close to going over there and kissing him just so I could feel his lips against mine again. My not-so-innocent thoughts did not help too. I wanted to stop but I just couldn't. No matter what I did. I tried to distract myself by doing all sorts of activities but nothing.

Kassidy was getting ready for her job and she would spend the night over at Duff's place.

I, on the other hand, didn't have anything to do at this point. I grabbed my guitar and started playing. It always helped me calm down and today was no exception.

"Jaws, I'm leaving!" I heard Kass yell from the living room. "Good luck!!" I yelled back. I went to the bathroom and washed my face. I starred at my reflection on the mirror. I couldn't stand this feeling anymore.

I rushed to my room and changed into matching undies. I just wore the shirt Izzy had given me in the past with no pants and made my way over to the door. I didn't care anymore, this feeling was eating me inside. I had to know If I was the only one that was hungry for more.

I opened the door but what I did not except was shirtless Izzy, already standing there, ready to knock.

"Hello there." I said, looking at him, shocked.
"Hey." Izzy said, looking down at me, his eyes starring deeply into mine.

"Is Kassidy around?" Izzy said as he kept on looking deep into my eyes. "No." I replied, not breaking the eye contact. We were both eye f*cking eachother and we knew it. "Great." Izzy said. He crashed his lips into mine and closed the door behind us. That little kiss soon turned into a heated makeout.

He pinned me on the wall without breaking the kiss. He then proceeded to kiss me behind my ear and then down at my neck, a soft moan escaped from my lips which only made him even more turned on.

Even tho it wasn't long since we last did this I still missed it. His touch drove me crazy and I just could not get enough of it.

"Izzy wait," I said and he did. He looked at me with a hungry gaze, a gaze full of lust. "Are you... drunk or high?" I asked him, softly and he shook his head 'No.' "Are you drunk?" Izzy asked and I replied "No.". We both sighed relieved and picked up from where we left off.

(slightly passionate scene ahead.)

I jumped and wrapped my legs around his waist. His hands rested on my butt, he gave it a squeeze and we both smirked. He leaded us to my bedroom and he threw me on the bed. "You know I find you incredibly hot with that shirt but... it has to go, sweetheart." he seductively whispered in my ear "Well if it bothers you so much, take it off." I whispered in his ear and smirked. He smirked at me and took it off. Since it was off he pretty much could kiss me anywhere he pleased and let me tell you, that's exactly what he did.

I got up from the bed and pushed him on it. I quickly took his pants off and got on top of him, kissing him everywhere. "Wait, the condom is in my pants" Izzy said in between kisses "We won't be needing that just yet, hot stuff." "What do you mean?" He asked, confused and impatient. I smirked at him and took his boxers off, revealing his obvious boner. I run my tongue through his entire length as he gasped a loud "Oh!".

Oh indeed, Stradlin.