Moments later, I sat up and quickly wiped the tears from my eyes. I didn't need to be crying over this, there really was no reason to. For the remainder of the night I stayed up in my room while Brian and Josh looked after Dylan.
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"Hey Brian, can I ask you something?" Josh questioned.
"Yeah sure."
"How is it that you and Sandra never hooked up?"
"I tried, but she was too much in love with you."
"Are you serious?"
"Yeah."
"Okay."
The two of them continued talking and entertaining Dylan.
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Over the course of the next few days, I didn't see Josh much even though he was staying in the room right next to mine. It seemed as if he were avoiding me.
Kevin had come over to give his two cents on the Josh situation and told me that he would approve of whatever decision I made. With that in mind, I had almost decided what I was going to do.
I walked down the hall to Josh's room and he was packing up his suitcase.
"Hi Josh."
"Hey."
He didn't even look up, he kept packing all his belongings into his bag.
"When do you leave?"
"Tomorrow morning at seven."
"Oh."
Silence fell over the room. Josh looked up at me briefly and quickly brought his gaze to the objects in front of him.
"So did you want something?"
"Um...I wanted to talk to you."
"Okay." Josh looked up at me, waiting for me to say something.
"It's about what you asked me earlier this week."
"I'm listening."
I walked over to him, seating myself on the bed.
"This was kinda hard for me to decide since I don't want you to hurt me again."
"Will you just tell me?"
"I'm trying to. Anyway, I've decided that I can be with you but, on one condition."
"Okay, what would that be?"
"I don't want you to hurt me again since we have a child to raise together."
"I promise, I won't do that."
Josh leaned forward and pressed his lips against mine. He slowly pulled away and tucked a loose strand of my hair behind my ear.
"I wish you didn't have to be leaving so soon though. That might be hard for me to deal with, especially since you're becoming this big movie star," I partially teased him.
"Why don't you come with me tomorrow?"
"Josh, I have to work."
"Call in sick."
"I can't. I already took off a lot of time last week."
"Then quit!"
"And do what?"
"I don't know...work for me or something."
"How do you know that'll work for us?"
"I don't know, but I'm willing to try."
"I just don't wanna have to live off of someone else though."
"You won't be. You can come work for the people that have to travel with me...then we could be together all the time."
"Why does that seem to good to be true?"
"Because you're thinking that. Trust me, things will be all good."
"If you say so."
"Good. I'll work things out in the next few days."
I half-smiled, Josh embracing me in a hug.
"Now I have to get some sleep so I'll see ya in the morning, okay sweetie?"
"Okay."
Josh kissed me once more and I exited his room with a bad feeling about the working for him situation.
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