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She glanced down at her phone, bit her lip Touching her screen, she tapped it a few times and, she nodded her head

“Sure, thanks,” she said, looking like she would keel over any minute He opened the door for her and let her scoot across the backseat of the car She rattled off her address and he let the guy know they would be going there first, then to his hotel He duuitar case on top Clilanced over at Keira She did not look good Her skin was a nice shade of green The car pulled away frolass of her

“So, are you going to be teaching this summer?” he said, suddenly incredibly aard in the back of the taxi with a sick woer

“Can you pull over, please?” she practically shouted at the driver He cut off two cars and got to the side of the road in record time The second the car came to a stop, she threw open the door and stuck her head out, puking all over the concrete The distinct sound of puke hitting the ground filtered back into the car He reached over and gathered up her long hair to try to keep it out of the way He’d been in enough bars and backstage parties to know that’s the kind of stuff you did for a puking woman After what seemed like a voluminous amount of puke for such a s on the seat He pushed it toward her and she mumbled some thanks, head still outside the car She pulled some napkins out of it and wiped her mouth

“Thanks,” she said, turning back to him

“No worries, we’ve all been there” He gave her a sainst the back of the seat The driver seemed reluctant to pull away in case there was any residual up-chucking

“She’s good, go ahead Let’s get back on the road” He hoped she’d be okay Did she have a rooht?

The driver pulled back into traffic and continued on to the address she’d given earlier Keira rested her head against theand when they pulled up to her apartment complex she was out cold He shook her a few times and her eyes didn’t even flutter

“Keira? We’re at your apartment, Keira,” he brushed her hair back frorumbled, but didn’t even bat an eyelash The aparte and he had no idea which aparto to the rental office? It was probably closed Go through her bag? Making a split decision, he told the driver to turn around and just take him back to the hotel

She stayed completely passed out for the entire drive there He reached out and wrapped his hand around her wrist Her pulse pounded under his fingers Relief washed through him and he pushed one of her curls back from her face She wrinkled her nose, but other than that, didn’t move a muscle He couldn’t help but smile The driver pulled up to the front of the hotel and a doorainst and she nearly tuainst him

“Just get the guitar and bag frouy reached for her She could have fallen out of the car and cracked her head on the ground He wrapped one ars, until she was cradled in his ar her up, he climbed out of the car and walked into the lobby of the hotel Everyone in the lobby froze as the doorood The studio was going to flip their shit if this ended up in the tabloids Formerly heartbroken musician whisks passed out woman up to his hotel room for who knohat on the news at eleven He didn’t really see what other options he had other than dropping her off in the grass outside her apart to abandon her He couldn’t do that to her

It was a testament to the professionalism of the hotel or maybe the shadiness of LA that no one batted an eyelash after their initial look of seeing hih the lobby A bellboy met him at the front desk with a key in his hand and directed him toward a bank of elevators The ride up to the fifteen floor couldn’t have been rip on her Shebecause she smelled just like pepperlanced over his shoulder at the two of them

Eric gently laid Keira on the couch once they got to his roo hi by the door and carried the guitar into the living roo rooms, let alone stayed in one until this tour But they all blended together after a few months on the road

Keira gruood idea A girl like her was a coht want it He brushed the hair back froreen anyrabbed a trashcan and put it in front of her on the floor Taking her shoes off, he crouched down in front of her

“Keira,” he said, shaking her shoulders “Keira, it’s ot sick and I couldn’t take you ho to move you to the bed now, okay?”