Limitless (Journey Series) (15 page)

Teddy smirked and leaned forward to
bump fists with Chase. “Well, I figured it was about time and I’m doing it with
the perfect girl for me. Who could ask for anything more? The girls will
probably want me even more now that I’ll be a taken man, but they’re not
getting any of this.” He pointed to himself and I had to resist the urge to
roll my eyes. Of course Teddy would think getting married would make him even
more
attractive.

“So,” Ally clapped her hands and
looped her arm through mine, interrupting the stare down I was giving Teddy. I
was trying to use my Jedi mind tricks on him to see if he was actually serious
about this whole thing or what. Or maybe just get rid of him for good, that
would probably work too.

 “Time for us girls to go get
ready. We’ll see you guys in a bit.” She kissed Teddy on the mouth. Okay, not
true. She attacked Teddy, tongues were everywhere, hands were groping, it was
so gross I had to look away.

Chase grinned and whispered in my
ear, “You want me to do that to you too?” I shoved him in the chest and gave
him a glare. I only liked to attack Chase in private. There was a time and
place for everything.

 Now was not the time for joking. I
needed to have a serious talk with my best friend before she did something she
regretted. Did she really want to end up as the next Kim Kardashian and be
married for only seventy-two days? It would be something if they even made it
that far.

“Okay, Leah. I’m ready, let me have
it. You’ve looked like you wanted to explode the minute you saw the ring on my
finger.” Ally pushed me down on to the bed once we got to the separate suite
and stood in front of me in a defensive stance like I was going to fight her or
something. Maybe she did need me to beat the shit out of her; it might knock
some sense in to that little pretty head of hers.

“Before you start Leah, just let me
say that they do seem good for each other.” Remy twirled a strand of her fire
red around her finger, looking nervously between the two of us. It was like she
was reading my mind, she knew what I wanted to do to Ally right now. Maybe I could
get Remy to help.

“I mean, it is a little fast, but
when you see the way Teddy looks at her, you can just tell. He’s a completely
different person.”

“Thanks Rem that all sounds good,
but what happens when he goes back to his old ways. And what in the hell
happened with you and Tyler? He actually seems okay with all of this. I just
don’t get it. I don’t want you to make one of the biggest mistakes of your life
by jumping into this.”

“Leah, I get it. Really, I do.”
Ally crouched down in front of me and patted my knee. “Tyler and I just weren’t
really clicking. I think we both knew it. We were at a club one night after one
of the guys’ performances. Tyler was kissing me and I really wasn’t in to it,
but I wasn’t struggling or anything.

“Next thing I knew, I was being
ripped out of his arms and pulled into Teddy’s. He said he couldn’t do it
anymore, he couldn’t watch me with some other guy. He could see I wasn’t happy
and it was because I wasn’t with him. He was so sweet about it, Leah, I just
couldn’t say no.”

Sweet, really, Al? Maybe she needed
to spend a little bit more time around Chase to see what sweet really meant,
because Teddy was certainly anything but sweet.

“I was still confused though, I
didn’t want to hurt Tyler and end up tearing the band apart. When Tyler gave me
a nod and shoved me back into Teddy’s direction, I knew we had his blessing. I
think it hurt him a little, but he has such a big heart and he knew that we
weren’t really working out. Can you please be happy for me, Leah? It would mean
so much.” She looked at me pleadingly and I could tell my defenses were
starting to waver.

“Al, I just don’t want him to hurt
you. I know how he can be. I don’t understand the rush, why do you have to get
married now? Can’t you have a long engagement or something?” Maybe then Teddy’s
true self would start to creep through again and Ally could finally wash her
hands clean of him.

“I don’t know, Leah. It just feels
right. And what cheesier way to get married than in Vegas? I think it’s perfect
for me and Teddy.”

I huffed out a breath and pulled
her up, giving her a hug. “Okay, well if this is what you want, I’m all for it.
What about your parents though, Al? They’ll be heartbroken if they miss this.”
They probably wouldn’t be surprised that Ally was getting married. The James’s  knew
how impulsive their daughter could be and always stood behind her with whatever
decisions she made, but I knew they would be disappointed if they didn’t get to
see her get married.

“They know all about it actually.
Really, you and Chase are the last to know about this. I wasn’t sure how you
would react, so I figured I would just lay it all out there once you got here
and I couldn’t tell Chase because I knew he would blab it to you. We figured we
would do a big reception this summer after the guys are done with their tour.”

“Okay, well then, what’s first on
the agenda? Do you need help with anything?” I plastered a smile onto my face.
I was going to make sure this was a memorable weekend, just like Ally had done
for me when I had gotten married. Even if I was totally against it.

“We have everything all set.” Remy
stood up and pulled open the closet, tossing piles of dresses onto the bed,
along with pink feather boas. “Now, we just need to get ready for the party
tonight. Tomorrow will be the big day,” she added in a singsong voice.
Reminding me all too soon of what was to come. Oy Vey. And Chase thought this
was going to be a relaxing weekend?

Chase

“Dude, why didn’t you tell me?” As
soon as the girls left the room, I immediately cornered Teddy. He was my best
friend after all. I knew we weren’t like girls, gossiping about every detail in
our lives, but I thought this would have been sort of important.

Mark smirked and nudged me in the
side with his elbow. “We were all sworn to secrecy. At first, he didn’t want to
bother you with it since you and Leah had so much going on.”

“Exactly,” Teddy added. “And then
Ally threatened to beat the shit out of me if I told you. She figured Leah
wouldn’t come or would try to talk her out of it. That’s why I couldn’t say
anything.”

“I get it, I guess.” I shrugged my
shoulders and kicked off my shoes, looking around the swanky suite that they
had been put up in. They looked to be doing pretty well for themselves. “Is
this the kind of place you guys get put up at in every city?”

“Pretty sick, huh? It just depends,
if we’re in the sticks we just stay on the tour bus, because it’s nicer than
the shitholes they have in the town. If we’re in a big city, we get a place
like this. It’s nice to get off the bus every once in a while.”

“That’s cool, Ted. So, I guess we
can say that you finally took my advice with Ally, huh? It feels pretty good to
be right.” I leaned back against the headboard with a cocky smirk.

I had been telling Teddy for months
to start something up with Ally, besides just a sexual relationship. The two of
them were so much alike, I think they were too stubborn to admit their true
feelings for each other. It kind of reminded me of two other people that were
now getting to a happy place in their marriage.

 It was still a little baffling
though to think that they had just gotten together officially and were now
getting married, but Teddy liked things to move fast, even faster than me. I
had known him since elementary school and knew pretty much everything about the
guy.

“Alright, Chase. I know you’re
waiting for it, so I’ll just come out and say it. You were right all along.
Ally was made for me. She’s just about as crazy as me and we mesh perfectly. I
should have listened to you sooner.”

“Glad to hear I was right. And you
and Tyler are okay? I mean, the bands not going to break up over this or
something, right?” Tyler had disappeared after greeting us in the lobby. I think
he might have felt like the odd man out since most of us had known each other
for so long.

“No, everything’s cool,” Mark
chimed in. “The two of them get along so well, it’s almost eerie. I think Tyler
just realized that he and Al weren’t working out, he just wanted her to be
happy and he saw that’s how she was with Teddy.”

“Yeah, if he wouldn’t have been
cool with it, I still would have taken her away whether he liked it or not. I
couldn’t stand seeing some other guy with my girl, you know what I mean?” I
winced when he said it.

 Of course, no one knew about some
of the issues Leah and I had been working out, so they didn’t know any better.
All I could picture when he said that was Leah’s lips on some faceless guy. I
hoped I never met that Grant douche.

Hearing Leah’s admission at the doctor’s
office about contemplating killing herself had really put things in check for
me though. I needed to move past it and be happy I had my wife back for the
most part. Her head hadn’t been in the right place when it had happened.

I hadn’t seen her as happy as she
was when she saw Ally for a long time and I was glad we had come along. I
would’ve been pissed if I had missed my best friend getting married. It was
kind of fitting that our two best friends were marrying each other. I could
just picture the four of us old and gray, maybe Mark and Remy right beside us
if they ended up working out, reliving the stories of our glory days to our
grandkids.

“Okay guys, we’re meeting the girls
right about now, so let’s get our asses moving.” Teddy never the one to be on
time, pointed at his watch and Mark and I gave each other a look, like ‘what in
the hell is going on here’?

 Teddy swung the door open and we
followed him out to the next suite over. Teddy and Ally had planned a joint
bachelor/ bachelorette party for the night and the wedding would be tomorrow,
it was hard to believe.

I actually felt like someone had
hit me full blown in the chest when I saw Leah. I mean, my wife was always
beautiful, even when she had been mopey and depressed, but she cleaned up even
better and this had Ally’s handiwork all over it.

I gave her a big wink as I scanned
her entire body very slowly and she rolled her eyes at me, her lips curving
into a smile at the same time. She had probably one of the tightest dresses I
had ever seen on, it just made me picture everything underneath the thin
material was clinging to.

Her hair was surprisingly pulled
up, showing off her bare neck and I had to do everything in me not to go over
there and lick it. I could tell by the way she was looking at me with those
gray eyes that she probably wouldn’t mind one bit, but I would save that for
later.

Leah

The night out was something that I
definitely needed. A night with my friends and sexy husband was refreshing,
even though I wasn’t much of a partier. Ally and Teddy took us all to a club
that they had checked out before hand and we danced the night away. I avoided
alcohol like I normally did. That one slip up was all I needed for a real
reality check.

“They really are cute together,
huh?” I nudged Remy with my elbow, who was sitting next to me where we were
both taking a breather at the table. We were watching Teddy and Ally together,
their bodies wrapped around each other, you could barely tell whose body parts
were whose.  I had noticed a change in Teddy in the little time that we had
spent together. He had only had eyes for his wife to be.

 The girls still seemed to follow
Teddy everywhere he went, even though he was clearly with Ally. The Major Hoosiers
had picked up quite a following being on tour. There had even been talks of
them getting their own headlining tour when this one was finished at the start
of the summer. I definitely couldn’t be Ally, even if she continued touring
with Teddy, I couldn’t imagine going from city to city on a tour bus.

“They really are. Trust me, I was a
little nervous when they got together. I thought for sure things would have
ended badly by now. And then Ally filled me in on their plan for when we came
here. I was definitely in shock. I mean, who knows how things between the two
of them we’ll be a year from now. I don’t even know about me and Mark some
days.”

“Well, I guess we’ll just have to
let everything flow its course and be happy for them. That’s all we can do in life,
I guess.” Ally did seem happier than she ever had. Don’t get me wrong, she was
always my perky, bubbly best friend, but ever since I had met her, she had
flitted from guy to guy. As odd as it seemed, maybe her and Teddy really were
meant to be together, and it just took them a little while to figure that out.

My eyes landed on my husband who was
standing at the bar waiting to get drinks with Mark. It was like he felt my
eyes on him, his head instantly whipping around, and giving me a big wink of
one of his green eyes. If Ally and Teddy felt anything for each other like
Chase and I felt, I think they definitely had a shot. I swear my stomach still
did crazy things whenever I saw Chase.

Tonight, he was looking extra good
in a tight fitting V-neck gray T-shirt; you could literally count his abs
through the shirt. His tattoos were peeking out from underneath his shirt,
giving him that bad boy vibe that I had fallen in love with, even though it had
told me to run the other way. I was glad I had finally stopped running.

“Thinking about me?” My lips curved
into a smile when I felt Chase’s warm breath flutter against my neck and he
reached around me to set our drinks on the table. “Always.” I took a sip of my
pop that he had brought over while the rest of the table did shots. I was
definitely happy about going back to my no drinking policy.

“C’mon, let’s dance. I think I need
to be a little closer to you in this dress.” Chase grabbed my hand and spun me
around right in front of the table before leading the way to the dance floor.