A/N- Sorry! I haven't abandoned the story! I promise I have lots of stuff half written and no time to finish them! But anyway. Here's some of my favorite ship… JARREN! Hope you guys enjoy!
Julia was, once again, the last one off the bus. She gave the valet the keys and exited also, dragging her suitcase along. The moment she stepped off the stairs, she was cornered by Darren.
"You're rooming with Joey." She said, continuing to walk past him. He followed and when he was close enough in the lobby he reached out and grabbed her arm, effectively stopping her.
"Julia. Stop." He said alongside the motion.
"You know what Darren? It's been a long drive and I'm tired. I'm not in the mood to talk right now. If you'll excuse me. She pulled away but Darren followed. Julia heard his footsteps behind her and spun around, "Back off. Can you just go to your hotel room and get some sleep? I don't want to fight right now. And I don't want to cause a scene,"
"There's no reason to snap at me." He recoiled, looking like a hurt puppy. Julia ignored him, having made her point.
"Good night." She said softly.
"What is going on? I'm not leaving you alone until you tell me."
"Its none of your business Darren."
"I'm tired of your shit Jules. I'm sick of hearing the same lame excuses." He pulled her into the corner of the lobby, "We're settling this now."
"Dare."
"No. Don't 'Dare' me. And clearly it is my business because I'm the only one who you won't talk to." He whispered
"Darren, don't do this. Please just drop it."
"It hurts Julia. It hurts that you don't trust me anymore. And I can't stand by and do nothing while I lose you. And maybe doing this will make it worse but I can't take it anymore. Please Julia. Tell me what's wrong."
"Did it ever occur to you that I'm trying to protect you?"
What're you talking about?"
"Its me Darren. I fucked up bad this time."
"I don't understand. What happened?"
"I was so stupid. I fell in love with the one guy that I could never have. I fell in love with my best friend. And I kept saying, you know, that it was just a stupid crush. I can't stop thinking about you and I can't breathe when you're around. But you're in love with my roommate and every time I'm around you, all you talk about it her and I can't handle it. But even then, when you completely sideline me, I still love you. I love you Darren Everett Criss."
"Julia. I—uh—I don't know what to say."
"Its okay. I wasn't expecting you to feel the same way but you wanted to know and now you do." She nodded to no one in particular, "I'm gonna go to bed. Good night Darren." Darren seemed too stunned by Julia's confession to say anything else. He let her go and watched as she walked to the elevator and the doors closed.
"Stupid. Stupid. Stupid Darren." He muttered to himself when she was gone. He searched his memory for her room number but nothing came up. He ran to the desk, "I'm looking for a friend."
"Oh yeah. I saw you two across the lobby. What's her name?"
"Julia Albain."
"Room 348. Good luck." Darren raced up both flights of stairs and arrived out of breath at the girls' room. He knocked and light flooded into the room as it was opened. A confused, tired Jaime stood in the doorway. Inside he could see Denise waking up and teary-eyed Julia sitting on a bed.
"Dare? What're you doing here?" He didn't appear to hear her and Jaime could see that he was staring at something inside the room. She followed his gaze until her eyes rested on Julia who was staring back at him, "Oh."
"Can you and Deeds give us some privacy?"
"Ummm… Sure." The girls slid on their shoes and walked past him into the hall.
"Hey Jules." Darren gently closed the door behind him and approached Julia on the bed. He sat down next to her, "I'm sorry."
"For what? I'm the one that should be apologizing."
"For being a blind idiot." Darren began.
"You're not—" Julia interrupted.
"Yes I am. God, what happened to us Jules? We weren't like this before."
"I happened."
"No. It's me. I let this happen."
"You let this happen? Oh what a shame, you let me fall in love with you!" Julia lashed out.
"I didn't mean it like that!"
"You didn't? Do tell what you meant!"
"I let us grow apart Julia. If I had spent more time talking to you these last few years—"
"What? You could have kept me from falling in love?"
"No. I would have seen it."
"And what then Darren? Let me down easy right?"
"We could have avoided this whole thing. I never would've-"
"Let it happen?"
"No. God, Julia just listen to me. I'm trying to make an confession and you're making it really hard. As I was saying, I never would've fallen for Lauren."
"I don't know what you mean."
"Julia Albain. I have had the biggest crush on you since college. Like a humungous, gigantic, head-over-heels, radio outside your house crush. And you just seemed so unattainable. You moved to New York then I moved to LA and we never saw each other and how was I supposed to tell you, 'Hey Julia. I fucked up. I actually love you. So wanna go out sometime even though we live 2 hours away from each other by plane?' I just couldn't bring myself to tell you and mess you up. You had a career and I had a career and I couldn't tie you to me when I wouldn't have even been able to see you everyday. So yes Julia. I wish I could have stopped you from falling in love with me because I'm not good for you. I'm not good for your career. I'm not good for your family. For your friends. I'm not good for myself. I've already ruined Starkid and this trip and us and maybe even Lauren and Joe."
"Darren. Shut up!" Darren stopped midsentence, "Just kiss me already."
"I can do that."
A/N- Well I hope you guys enjoyed that! There's more where that came from don't worry! I'll be sorting everyone out real soon! So review and keep an eye out for the next chapter!