The car ride couldn't be any more awkward. No one was talking and the ride seemed to drag on for ages. You would have thought that we were going back to the states with how much we drove. My entire body jumped when Robert leaned in and whispered in my ear. I tried to keep the look of disgust off of my face while he spoke.

"You look like you just sucked on a lemon." Robert informed me. I tried to not cringe and lean in the opposite direction. Relaxing my face turned out to be even more difficult when Robert draped a thick and heavy arm around me. My shoulders were practically cracking from the exertion. How the hell was this considered comfortable? The only thing comfortable was Roberts arm.

Again, he leaned into me to whisper in my ear, "This won't work if you practically have a seizure every time I get close to you." Robert tried to coach me as the ride continued on. I made the mistake of making eye contact with Joshua.

He and Gola were sitting in the seats in front of us and I met his gaze through the reflection of the mirror. He looked absolutely pissed at me. It wasn't even a look of hurt, it was absolute fury. My hands started to get clammy when I realized that maybe the plan wouldn't work. What if Joshua hated me after this?

All of my thoughts evaporated when I saw Gola's blonde head rest on Joshua's shoulder. All rational thought left me as I threw out a huge maniacal laugh the moment that her head made contact with his shoulder. It was loud, awkward, and obviously fake, but it had the exact effect that I had wanted. Gola's head snapped back up and both she and Joshua turned around to stare at me. At that point even the driver was looking at me as if I was mentally challenged through one of the mirrors.

Robert looked completely confused until he caught on to what I had been trying to stop. "You're so funny, Robert!" I turned towards Robert, who had leaned into himself to laugh at my expense

. I continued to laugh crazily, occasionally slapping Robert in the arm for laughing at me. The laughing came to an abrupt stop, leaving both Joshua and Gola really confused.

We finally made it into some sort of fancy restaurant. Thankfully the paparazzi weren't waiting for us the moment that we got out.

 I made the mistake of slapping Roberts arm when he came over to grab my hand again, and Gola saw the action. Her eyes narrowed into perfect little slits, accentuated by her eye liner.  Yup, she was officially on to us.

We ended up sitting on some incredibly high table. Robert and Joshua had no trouble sitting down and even Gola had an advantage with her six inch heels. I was stuck in my pair of flats and about a mile of chair leg to go over.

 I made the effort anyway, but my right foot ended up slipping and I tumbled down for the briefest second. The hand on my waist sent tingles through my body and I just knew that Joshua had leaned in to catch me.

"What are you doing?" He whispered in my ear. I had no time to answer, because at that moment Robert came over and pulled me out of Joshua's arms.

"Whoa there, Beautiful. You haven't even had a drink yet!" Robert joked. I rolled my eyes discretely at his lame ass attempt at being cute and finally situated myself in the seat. I was completely taken back when Gola started to laugh.

Instead of the high pitched fake laugh I had heard before, a really rich laugh escaped her lips. I found the fact that Gola actually found Robert's cheesy joke funny. A waiter shortly came and asked to take our orders.

Even though I had technically been drunk twice in my life, I still didn't have a clue about liquor. What the hell was I supposed to order? The other three people with me had no trouble choosing something from the small menu we had been handed. I totally spaced out, just thinking about how socially challenged I really was when the waiter finally turned to get my order.

"And for you?" The guy asked. He was really tall, even in my high chair I was still making eye contact. I tried not to panic, but I seriously had no clue. What if I ended up mispronouncing a freaking name? Couldn't I just get a smoothie or something?

"Um, I'll just have what he had." I mumbled, pointing in Robert's direction. I couldn't ignore Robert's chuckle and Joshua's wide eyed stare. Had I done something wrong?

The silence dragged on for a while, before Robert sparked up a conversation about modeling. That ended up taking all of Gola's attention. I had to give him props for being an attention grabber and keeping things moving.

 Joshua would occasionally answer a thing or two, but most of the time he would just look around the room with his jaw clenched. The worst part was when he would look at me. He didn't look mad anymore, now he looked thoroughly confused.

The waiter set the drinks out and I couldn't stop staring at the one in front of me. It honest to god looked like straight out pee and the smell wasn't any better. Was I supposed to drink it? It didn't even have any ice in it. The entire table was staring at me, just waiting for me to take a sip. What had Robert Ordered that had Gola and Joshua staring at me as if I was prime time T.V.?

Having that insane need of proving people wrong, I took a big breath and brought the glass cup to my lips. Without thinking twice I chugged almost half of the contents in one swig. The burn that came after was fucking hell.

I coughed awkwardly, making Joshua push his chair out and come closer. I couldn't stop my eyes from burning and the little tears that formed at the corners.

"What the fuck was that?" I accidentally yelled. At the point most of the people at the bar were looking our way. I wanted to crawl under a freaking rock, until I saw Joshua. He was giving me one of his boyish smiles, as if I was the cutest thing ever. Scorching my mouth had definitely been worth it.

"Scotch." Robert chimed in, gulping his own drink. If my face had looked like I sucked on a lemon when Robert got close to me, then it was definitely ten times worse when I had a mouth full of scotch. I looked at Joshua pleadingly until he finally got my message.

"Let's go get you some water." He spoke, grabbing a hold of my hand. Before Gola could speak up and ruin everything, Joshua had already pulled me aside and we walked out of the bar and into the restaurant section. Joshua got a passerby waiter to promise us some water before he turned to stare at me.

"What are you doing with Robert?" Joshua asked. He looked down at me and didn't do anything about his reprimanding tone. I finally got mad at the way he was speaking at me. He could go out for a drink with Gola, but I had to explain myself for being on a fake date with Robert.  Talk about fucking unfair!

"Why is it an issue?" I asked defensively.

"B-B-Because...Because it's not right!" Joshua yelled, throwing his hands up in the air in annoyance.

I started to feel like maybe Joshua wasn't even jealous. Maybe he was just surprised that I was going out with someone just as attractive as him. Maybe it was the scotch and my mixed feelings but I ended up being pissed. I couldn't shake the feeling that he was putting me down and it hurt.

"Why do you care? Surprised that a girl like me can go out with Robert for a drink?" I asked fiercely, standing on my tippy toes to stare at him in the eyes. I had expected him to make things worse by making me feel bad, but instead of snapping back Joshua's face fell.

"Jilly, It's not like that-" Joshua tried to explain. I cut him off with another surge of word vomit.

"Oh! That's right! Guys like you don't do girls like me!" I yelled mockingly, throwing back his words from when he first met me. I hadn't cared when he had first said them to me, but now I realized that those words had always been in the back of my mind.

The reason that I hadn't trusted Joshua's fully was because I never really believed that I was good enough for him. Sure, I was smart and hardworking, but the petty part was that I didn't feel pretty enough. I would always be the girl that the other pretty girls would make fun of. Even the Blonde Bitch from the airport brought it up.

I was drunk and emotional. I wasn't good looking enough to be a hot mess, but I was at least a mess. Joshua didn't look like he knew what to say. He just stood there stunned, which only made me feel worse. I had probably struck a chord and that's why he had nothing to say!

When Robert and Gola finally came out things turned even worse. I just wanted to crawl into my hotel bed and stay there forever. I rolled my eyes when Robert made a lame joke about paying the bill, but even he could tell that there was something wrong.

"I think we should all just call it a night." Robert spoke up, coming to my side. For once I didn't flinch when he took hold of my hand and guided me towards the exit. Even Gola stayed quiet while she followed behind us. Joshua was the last to follow, looking down at the floor deep in thought.

The ride was quiet and awkward, but I didn't care. I cursed the wicked alcohol I had drunk when I started to feel drowsy. I was worse than a little kid, because the swaying of the car and the alcohol in my system made me sleepy and before I knew it I had fallen asleep.

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My eyes snapped open when I felt like I was falling. Instead of flailing through the air down a cliff, I had simply been tossed onto my bed. When I scanned the room I ended up seeing Joshua turning on one of the lamps. I shut my eyes tight, wishing that he could just go away. Sticking my head under a pillow, I mumbled just that. He obviously chose to ignore my pleading and I felt his weight on the opposite side of the mattress.

"Jilly," Joshua called, shaking my shoulder closest to him gently.

"Go. Away." I ordered. My voice was muffled by the pillow.

"Jilly." Joshua called again, not giving up.

I finally huffed loudly before pulling me head out from under. Why couldn't I have been born an ostrich?  No one could judge me then!

"What?" I asked. I wanted to ignore the whole conversation, but I knew that it was coming anyway, even if I didn't feel ready for it.

"What I said before, It was stupid. I want you to know that I didn't mean that, Jilly." Joshua spoke softly.

"Didn't mean what?" I wondered. I knew I was playing dumb, but I did want to hear him explain himself.

"That whole thing about guys like me and girls like you. I didn't mean that Robert couldn't be interested in you, Jilly. Why wouldn't he be?" Joshua told me.

"Quit trying to butter me up." Was the only thing I could say. I still didn't believe him. Our first meeting was still fresh in my mind.

"I'm not!" Joshua chuckled, before continuing, "I'm serious, Lilly. Look, I was planning on cutting things off with Gola tonight and when I saw you with Robert, I just got pissed. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings, but things aren't like that. I care about you, Lilly."

It was still hard for me to fully believe, but a little nudge was trying to tell me that Joshua was being serious. Was I being an idiot for letting myself get all giddy inside?

"Well you had no reason to!" I stated.

"Yes, I - Wait, I didn't?" Joshua wondered.

"No, Robert and I just tagged along on a fake date. It wasn't even real." I finally admitted. I didn't look at Joshua, only stared at a nearby wall.

"But why would you do that?" Joshua asked, now sounding more indignant.

"I don't know!" I said really quick. It took him a while, but I knew the exact moment that Joshua realized why Robert and I had gone on a fake date.

"Were you jealous, Lilly Jilly?" Joshua asked with a growing smile on his face. I started to grab a pillow to slap onto my face, but Joshua quickly grabbed it from my hand and continued to stare at me.

I rolled my eyes, not saying a word.

"Because I was jealous." Joshua continued. I couldn't believe that he would admit something like that, but he just had. All of a sudden admitting that I had been jealous didn't sound so bad.

"Maybe, I was just a little-" I tried to concede, before being overshadowed my Joshua's laugh.

"A-ha! So we were both jealous of each other!" Joshua said like a mathematician who had just found out the answer to a very complicated equation.

I could feel my cheeks getting red, but I simply nodded.

Before I knew it, Joshua's lips were on mine. I didn't push him away, just let the butterflies in my stomach go crazy. When his hand came up to cup my cheek I couldn't stop form smiling. The boy who had annoyed the life out of me had become one of my favorite persons to be around.

"Mmmm, Scotch." Joshua mumbled after he broke our kiss. I giggled before hitting him in the arm.

I let myself snuggle into the crook of his arm and rest my head on his shoulder, before getting comfortable. We didn't even bother with changing.

"Lilly." Joshua called my name from above me.

"Hmm?" I questioned, snuggling even closer to him.

"Get ready to wake up early tomorrow." He said with a smile.

"Why?" I wondered, already groggy with pending sleep.

"I have a surprise." Joshua spoke.

I smiled and before I knew it I was fast asleep. This time I wasn't feeling like the unluckiest girl on earth, just the opposite.

Wrote another chapter! I've decided a few things for the Sugar Babe book (But I can't tell you guys yet!) Just know that it will be a little bit longer then I had initially planned, because I have new Ideas for Liquor lips! Thank you guys for reading, commenting, and voting! It's the best!

Also, I was planning on changing the cover...It would just be temporarily. Don't get alarmed if there's a new cover for Sugar Babe! The current one would definitely be back after a short period of time! The will be new cover is on the side. I had a small voting thing and that one was the most liked aside from people who are used to the current one. There were 2 more candidates, but the one on the right was the one picked. Let me know what you think of it?