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while she read what I hoped was my saving grace; it was my certificate of completion from the rehab center I had stayed at in L.A.

“You really did it then?” She asked as she stared down at the paper in her hands.

“Yeah, I did. You were all I thought about while I was in there. I screwed up so bad with you Chloe, and I want to make it right; I want to make us right.”

“It’s not that simple Drake, you really hurt me. You let me walk off that bus without even trying to stop me. I’m glad that you got help, but I don’t think I can go through that again.”

“I’m so sorry for what I did Chloe, I promise you that I will never do anything like that again.”

“How can you be sure Drake? You’re just starting out in an industry that is full of drugs and sex. Can you really walk side by side with temptation on a daily basis and not give in? Drugs will be easy to get and women will be lining up for you, worse than they were when we were together. I can’t handle that kind of life. I won’t share you with them.”

“Then come with me, stay by my side every night so that you know you can trust me.” I said.

“What?”

“I said come with me. That’s why I came back Chloe; I want you back and I want you by my side through all of this.”

“You can’t just walk back into my life and expect me to drop everything for you Drake. Even if I did want to give us another chance, I have responsibilities here; school, my part of the rent for this place.”

“So stay here until you’re finished with school for the year. Then you can take online classes and come on tour with us. Thanks to me, we’re still in the studio recording tracks for our first album, and we will be for a few months. We won’t start touring until several months from now.”

“This is insane Drake!” She shouted.

“Please Chloe, I love you. I want to spend every second of my life with you from now until the day I die. I can’t live without you.” I pleaded.

This had gone so much better in my head. While I knew she would be angry, I had hoped that I wouldn’t have to resort to groveling to get her to take me back. But if I had to, I would. I would rather die than spend one more day without her.

“I don’t want to get hurt again Drake,” she whispered, “I can’t take it.”

I grabbed her and pulled her into my arms. She struggled at first, but I held on tight, refusing to let her go. “I will never hurt you again Chloe. Never. Let me prove it to you.”

I pressed my lips to her and kissed her like I was dying, like it was the last kiss we would ever share, because it might just be our last. She might slap me when I let her go and never speak to me again. If she did, I wanted to remember the feel of her lips against mine for the rest of my life.

Despite what she said, her body responded to me instantly as she wrapped her arms around me and kissed me back, showing me just how much she still wanted me.

I groaned as her lips parted and I slipped my tongue inside her mouth, flicking my tongue ring against her tongue in a way that I knew drove her crazy.

She moaned in response, before quickly pulling away. “What are we doing?”

“I’m not sure what you were doing, but I was kissing the woman I love.”

“I love you too Drake, and I do want to be with you. There’s no way that I can deny that now, but if we do this again, we’re going to take it slow and start over. I don’t know how this is going to work with you being so far away though.”

A smile broke out across my face; if I had known all it would take to change her mind was a kiss, I would have done that first.

“We’ll figure it out, we always do.” I said as I kissed her softly, “But I can’t agree to the taking it slow part.”

“Why not?” She asked, confused.

I reached into my pocket and pulled out a small box. “Because the first thing I did when I checked out was stop at the