Backstage by Mandy Bee (guided reading books TXT) 📕

all that we did! It was so romantic. He had rose petals on the bed, on the floor of the bedroom, and in the bathroom there was a hot bath ready for us. It was amazing, he was amazing.

He made me feel things I didn’t know were real, and then after he held me close and told me how wonderful I was. It was like something out of a Lifetime movie. I lay back down and stretch, I don’t know how long this soreness will last but to be honest I don’t mind it one bit.

I get up and slip on my robe before heading to the kitchen. Justin is at the kitchen table working on his computer when I walk in and immediately he gets up and walks up to me.

“Hey, how you feeling today?” He asked kissing my cheek and giving me a big hug.

“Sore, but a good sore.” I wink at him then head over to the coffee pot.

“Well what do you want to do today? There are some nice shops close by, and there is a private beach about twenty minutes away.” He says going back to the table and typing on his computer.

“I’m not much of a beach person, and shopping got us in trouble once already so maybe we should just stay in.” When I see that his has stopped typing and has closed his eyes I know I have upset him. Crap.

Without opening his eyes he says “Flower what happened back then was not over the shopping, it was over you being my girlfriend. They just used the money angle to try and hurt us.” He sighs “And it worked.” He opens his eyes and looks at me, the hurt in his eyes made me start to tear up.

I turn around before he can see me cry. I take a few deep breathes and try to calm myself down. When he puts a hand on my shoulder I jump. “Shit you scared me!” I almost screamed.

“Sorry.” He whispers. I don’t know if he is sorry for scaring me or for something else. “Please let me take you out for the day. We can stay in all day tomorrow, I promise, but lets go have some fun today.” He starts kissing my neck and his hands start to roam all over my body. I moan as I melt into him.

After having some fun in the bedroom, we finally got ready to go out. We found a lovely seafood place not far from our cabin, I made a mental note to remember that they deliver. If we keep doing what we are doing, then I’m not going to have the energy to cook.

We walked hand in hand down the street, just window shopping really. That was until I saw a beautiful light pink dress in one of the store windows. I bit my lip and pointed to the dress, he just smiled and held the door to the shop open for me. There was a little old lady sitting behind a desk and she smiled when we walked in.

“Hello there, aren’t you two a beautiful couple.” She said in a thick Italian accent as she made her way over to us.

I told her that I would like to try on the dress in the window. She went and pulled one off the wall without even asking my size. Then waved me over to the dressing room. As I’m trying on the dress I can hear Justin and her talking. I can’t make out the words but I hope he isn’t buying me something.

When I looked in the mirror after getting the dress on I felt so pretty. It hugs me in all the right places, and flows at the bottom. It reminds me of the dress I wore to the opera but not as formal. I walk out into the store and Justin is still talking to the lady. Her face lights up when she sees me, this makes Justin turn around and he comes rushing over to me.

“Oh wow! You look amazing.” He kisses my cheek then take my hand and twirls me around in front of him.

“So pretty, so pretty!” The little old lady says clapping her hands as she walks over to us.

“Thank you.” I blush then I turn to Justin “I can’t wait to wear this to the concert. Let me change then if you’re lucky I may drag you shoe shopping.” I giggle as I walk back into the dressing room.

The little old lady yelled at me when I was fighting with Justin over who was going to pay for my dress. I was standing my ground and told him not to push it or he would be sleeping in the guest bedroom tonight. She came over and told me that a woman should never turn down a gift from her gentleman friend. Then said a few words in Italian that I’m sure were swear words. I lost out in the end, but I guess I’ll just have to get use to this. Not that I’ll like it, I’ll just have to get use to it.

Shoe shopping was fun, well for me. I tried on about ten pairs of white sandals. Justin made sure to tell me that I already have four pair of white ones and I told him to shut it. I finally found a pair that have a ribbon that ties up around the leg, they will match my new dress perfectly. To show him that I wasn’t going to fight about who was buying them, I just handed them to him and walked to the check out.

Outside on the street there were some street vendors that sold homemade items. I spotted a shell necklace that I wanted to get Chris, it was a cheesy vacation type necklace but I think he will like it. Then I thought it would be cool to get the whole band the same necklace and have them wear it on stage