Fake
PART ONE
"Well, don't you just love these kinda things?! I know I do!" squealed in excitement. "Yeah... sure... love it." groaned as she scanned the packed hall for any people she recognised. "? Who exactly are playing here tonight? 'Cos they must be pretty crap seeing as no one we know has bothered to turn up."
"Well erm... think they're name is... Busted? I just thought it would be fun! We haven't had a night out together for ages! Like, as in, just you and me girl!"
"You don't say?" sighed, "Busted? That name's so... well... it seems so commercial... and tame..."
"Oh shut up , just try to enjoy it OK?"
"OK, OK... jease." muttered under her breath as she sunk down in her seat. "Ohhhh no, you don't!" exclaimed firmly, dragging up by her hoody to sit up. "Don't be so rude!" She added before the lights were dimmed and the spotlights on the town hall stage flickered warily on. Very un-showbiz-like. A woman's voice on the mic. sounded squeakily on the speakers, before returning to normal, "H-hello? Testing... Excellent! It works! Phew! Heh heh." sunk down again in her chair and rubbed her forehead in annoyance, it's gonna be a looooooooooong night.
"...local band, Busted!" The woman finished. closed her eyes and folded her arms wearily. Well, here we go... "H-hi... We're umm...
"Busted!" 's eyes snapped open, hey! He sounds pretty cute! She sat up and giggled, "what?" gave her a dirty look and sat there slumped on her chair with her arms folded across her chest moodily. "You! I knew you'd perk up when you heard their voices! You know what I mean, like, to check them out!" She grinned. rolled her eyes and breathed out through her nose loudly. OK, so what if I don't check 'em out smarty-pants. "OK, so... these are our first songs, that we've all written together, so... yeah..." a boy's voice explained through his mic. . Honestly, if they think they're gonna get famous by being as confident as that, think again.
*hour up*
"So! What do you think?!" called to as was silently tapping her heel and head banging in a small rocking motion whilst sitting down. "Meh," she replied simply, "they're OK, never get a record deal though."
"Uhhhh-huh." rolled her eyes before holding her hand to her mouth and whistling as they reached the climax. sat up and looked around the cheering town-hall, some kids from school were stood at the back, they musta come in when they heard their infectious guitars! What a bunch of sheep, honestly. She swivelled her head back round and her eyes widened as she saw the extra exceedingly fitness of the boys singing. PHWOAR!!! They're FIT! "Yeah, so, we're Busted, thank you and goodnight everybody!"
" you Muppet! By the way people, yeah, we have just landed ourselves a major record deal! So, bow down to us, for we are your kings!!!" The -haired boy grinned cheekily under the spotlight. The crowd laughed, the main lights were switched on and the main entrance doors were opened as spectators from the gig piled out into the cold night air. "C'mon kiddo, ready to go?" sighed as she placed her hands on her knees and stood up, waiting for an answer from . "Erm... well, why don't stick around for a while, help these guys to tidy up." smiled innocently. ", , . You were always the polite one of the two of us, come on then." smiled back and started to stack up a row of chairs while she went to speak to a member of the district council who had let out the town-hall for the gig.
In no time at all had finished one side of the hall, wow, someone's getting stronger! She was actually enjoying this, heck knows why! But she didn't exactly find it boring. She started singing softly to herself as she stacked up the last set of chairs in the front row; "...and I don't want the world to see me... 'cos I don't think that they'd understand... when everything's made to be broken... I just want you to know who I am..."
"Iris, by the Goo Goo Dolls?" muttered to himself, "OK, you want me to know who you are? Hi, I'm , who's you then?" A -haired boy asked from behind politely. She gasped softly and turned around, sweeping her hair behind her ears. "," she smiled and he smiled back. "OK, cool. Thanks for helping clear up, we would have had to do it ourselves."
"Oh, don't thank me, thank Miss. Wonderful over there." She pointed over to who was having a bit of trouble lifting her stack of chairs onto the pile at the side, giggled and shook her head. Another member of Busted rushed to 's side to help her and she thanked him gratefully. "Soooo..." said as she brushed her hands together to dust them off before lifting up her own stack of chairs expertly, and carefully placing them onto another stack of chairs at the side of the hall. "Need any help getting your amps and stuff moved into your van or some-" she looked over to see that all their instruments and equipment had already been put away, "Oh." chuckled at this and gave her a slightly cheeky smile. Don't be so smug snapped to him inside her head.
"Yo! ! Get your butt over here!" One of his band mates called him. "Charming," smiled whilst placing her hands on her hips. "Yeah..." he sighed sweetly before smiling at and jogging over to the other side of the hall. smiled to herself and then saw standing around doing nothing. "Yo! ! Get your butt over here!" She called to her, not realising that this was the same thing that 's mate had said. looked over to the boy who had said it before and then realised he pointed at you silently, with a bewildered look on his face. "Charming," he muttered to and - the last of the band members. and looked at each other with a smirk on their faces. just stood there confused for a minute, deeply confused in the matter. "Oi! ! Get your royal buttocks here now dude! Jease!" called impatiently. The boy who shared the same characteristics to stamped his foot with annoyance, "Who the hell does she think she is?!" He stormed across the hall and stood up to pointing his finger in her face, "Hey! You can't just order her around like that! Who do you think you are?! Simon Cowell?!"
"Speak for yaself!" shook her head and looked down to the floor from his gaze, "You make me sick. She's my mate, we can do that. C'mon , time to leave."
"Well err... I'll meet you lay-"
"Now." said firmly to her and gave her a deadly look. She nodded and smiled at and before she followed 's lead.
"What a prat! Who do you think you are?" repeated what he had said in a stupid mocking voice. "I don't even know who the fuck he is! I only know ! He's cute, but he's gay too. They're all gay! No wonder there's three of them." She turned to who was finding difficulty to keep to her pace and waggled her eye-brows in a 'you know what I mean' fashion. "Oh shut up, ." sighed, she wasn't in the mood to get in a fight with . "No! No, I freakin' won't shut up!" She stopped and saw the annoyance on 's poor little face, "OK... maybe I will... my bad, sorry.?" stopped too and turned around to face her, "You know what ?" shook her head, she's mad, when lost her temper, the culprit is for it, big time. "I really enjoyed tonight, oh no, wait, I WOULD have enjoyed tonight! But no, has to go and RUIN the evening as usual! And no, I wasn't gonna take it; I was gonna be the little guy, AS USUAL! No more of that now though, no more of you, goodbye ." gave one last look and walked off into the dark. Whoa. Talk about dramatic. sunk her hands low into her jean pockets and looked down at the floor before stepping off the pavement and sitting on the curb. She heard some voices coming from the town-hall entrance a couple of feet away from her; two little voices and one with a big attitude problem. She looked over to see if she knew who it was.
"Dude! What a prat! You make me sick!" 's 'double' mimicked her in an annoying girly voice. "Calm down, . Whoa." said roughly. "Yeah mate, jus' chill," agreed. threw his hands up in the air and put on a stubborn grimace, tilting his head to the side slightly. "Dudes, you can walk, I, however, am driving." exclaimed foolishly. The others however, had already jumped into the van and begun to drive off. "Oh great! So what now? You expect me to walk?! Well, that's just typical." cursed and set off down the street. He saw a girl sitting on the curb by the side of the road, he didn't recognise her though, even if she was drenched in light from the lamppost behind her. She was looking at him and he was likewise, trying to recognise each other, then it clicked.
"Hey ."
"Hey ." They both greeted in unison. "HUH?!" They both echoed again, "'I'm not?"
"Uh..." They carried on talking in unison before they both abruptly stopped. sat down on the curb next to her and hugged his knees, "Who are you then? If you don't mind me asking? Did you see the gig?"
"That's 'kay, don't worry about it, I'm , yeah I did... didn't quite go as I planned, same back?" enquired. 's facial expression froze as soon as she had said , he decided to play around, ", hey again. Yeah I know, tough break." He looked at her as she lowered her head into her hands, "I don't even know that guy, how can you put up with him? He was mean to James when he called him to go over, I was just calling to me like I usually do, no biggy." He continued to watch her as she ran her hair through her fingers as her head lay in her hands, mesmerised. "Wha? Oh, erm... yeah. I totally understand... where's then?" He asked as he continued to watch. "Your friend, got me into a major fight with her, and now I've lost her forever. When has it in bad for some one, she never forgets it." sighed and then gave a little sniff. He saw a tear softly drip down from her nose and splat soundly onto the road beneath their feet. "Hey, hey, it's OK, shh." He reassured her softly, sitting right up next to her so that their thighs were squashed together, and put an arm around her shoulder, letting her curl into his chest. "Thanks ." She whispered before giving him a quick peck on the lips. She opened her eyes and their gaze met, under the lamp post she could see who he was clearly, and he definitely wasn't , her expression was a look of utter storm...
DERN DERN DEERRRRRRRRNNNNN!!!
PART 2
*Hour Later*
walked into the kitchen grabbing himself a drink, he looked at the clock on the oven; 11:40pm. He came out of the kitchen to see and dishing out their porno mags from their porn box. chuckled as he leant on the wall watching them dive into the mags eagerly, they both turned round quickly with red faces. “Oh, it’s you! Didn’t sound like you! Whoa! That was scary, man!” breathed a sigh of relief as he turned round and delved into the box again. “, quit it now, we all need to talk, remember?” reminded as he plopped his pile of pornography back into the box. sighed and nodded his head, reluctantly heaving his pile into the box again and closing the lid before standing up from his knees, followed. “So… what happened?” asked as he settled himself on the couch. shook his head and slid himself upon the top of the dining table. “Well… that chick…”
Uh oh… and both thought. carried on, “Well she... well it was partly my fault… oh forget it.”
“Nah – oh c’mon mate,” pleaded from his position on the floor. held his head in his hands and rubbed his face. “Mate, it’ll help if you just told us. Maybe then we can see if it can be cleared up.” added. sighed and told them all about his meeting with , “…And then she punched me right in the face and stood up and so I stood up as well and…”
*Flashback to earlier that night*
“, please, hear me out…” groaned as he covered his left eye with his matching hand. “Why did you lie? I hate you! Ugh! I can’t believe I let you touch me! I can’t believe I kissed you! I can’t believe I thought I was actually falling for you! Who do you take me for, huh?! I hate you, I hate you, I HATE you!” yelled into his face. froze, he felt like shit, but he didn’t see any reason to be feeling this way. They stood still for a few moments in silence; all sounds that were heard were from passing cars on the lonely road. “You were falling for me?” asked quietly. She gave him a dirty-look of astonishment, hatred and sarcasm all rolled into one…
Flashback Over
“…and then she kneed me right in the balls and stormed off… silly cow…” He finished with a triumphant nod of his head. He hadn’t told the lads the bit about him asking if she really was falling for him. He couldn’t let them think he was as soppy as the both of them now, could he?
Arriving home ran straight to the bathroom to clean her self up. She had an icy cold shower before locking up her house and turning in for the night. She lived alone. She needed no one, cared for no one, no one but herself, stubborn little cow. Falling into a light, restless slumber she murmured quietly in her sleep; “I hate him. I hate him.” over and over again, repeatedly. It was gonna be a long night, for the both of them.
Next morning woke up in a tangle with her bed sheets. An hour later she was up and ready for whatever the day would bring her. She smiled to herself and then pulled up the blinds in her bedroom; a downpour of rain was waiting on the other side of the window to greet her. Her smile dropped and she remembered the events from last night. “Drat…” She muttered. She decided that time was getting on and so set off for work. She worked in a general music store, you know, the type that sell instruments and music sheets/books, stuff like that, not your local HMV. She worked in the guitar section, she loved working there, and it was her dream to work with music. She sat on her usual stool strumming on an acoustic waiting for a client, I wonder if I’ll see again… he was sooooo sweet… “Helllllloooo?” A voice said from ahead of her. She jumped and fell backwards of the stool. Hearing laughter she quickly got up and straightened her self before placing her guitar on the floor and seating back down. “Hello, how may I help you?” She wasn’t blushing, what happened - happened, it was fate, she was over it now, the thought didn’t dwell in her mind like it does in other people’s minds. She looked up with her piercing eyes and felt her chest beat crazily, whilst melting all at the same time. “Hi again!” A -haired boy smiled cutely in front of her. OK, now she was blushing! “Hey…”
“So? You gonna help me then or what?!” chuckled. “Oh, right, err… yeah. ‘Course.” She replied hesitantly. “I’m looking for a nice Stratocaster; think you could help me on that one?”
“What’s in it for me!” She giggled, wow - this was totally unexpected from her. Oh well, she was a big girl now. laughed, “Pizza at mine?”
“Good enough for me!” giggled. He gave her a kiss on the cheek which made her blush even more, “So, about that guitar?”
came home with a smug grin. “He’s either just had a good snog or he’s managed to get the guitar he was looking for!” laughed as floated into the room. “How about both?” grinned, “I got myself a date!” walked into the room with a tomato ketchup bottle, squirting the contents into his mouth, “Nice one mate! With who?”
“Oh umm…” shifted uncomfortably in his spot, “……”
“?! The chick I got done in by last night?! ?! , ?!” spat in shock. What had just come over him? How could he be angry… and put out about it at the same time? nodded quietly. sighed, “Ah well. I can’t choose your chicks and you can’t pick my fights.”
“That was noble of you, mate.” commented. rolled his eyes and retreated back into the kitchen. I wonder if I’ll see her again? Wait up a second… marched quickly back into the front room, “Where you seeing her then?”
“Tonight. She’s coming over here for pizza. That OK with you? ? Good good.” let out a satisfied sigh and went upstairs to his room before rushing back down again. “My guitar!!!” He squealed, picking it up in its case and dashing back up again. chuckled and carried on flicking through his newest porn magazine. however was frozen. Tonight? Tonight? She’s coming tonight? She’s coming to the ‘Busted boys only, PIZZA NIGHT?!’ Oh… my… Ah shit. Who cares?
*7 O’Clock // Busted residence*
-ding dong- “Guys! She’s here! What am I gonna do?! The line for Pizza Hut’s engaged!” practically shouted as he quickly fiddled with his fly whilst rushing down the stairs. and stood in front of him stunned, then burst out laughing, having to lean on each other to recover. “Dude! It’s only seven, man!” snickered. held up his hands and shoved past them both to get the door. knew how felt though. Really, he did. He was just as nervous as he was. “Heya - hi!” stood there stunned. Facing him was surely not the girl he had seen over the past couple of days… was it? blushed, “Hey .” She smiled casually and he let her in, watching her every move, then checked the guys’ faces. and ’s jaws had dropped; she wasn’t even wearing anything remotely formal! let out a low growl to them as he walked past the lads, guiding into the TV room. “MAN! She’s hot! Wow! Soooo hot!” repeatedly said to . pushed himself out of the trance and shrugged, “Just a skater with a hot body, no big deal,” he grunted. gave a mini punch on the arm, “How can you say that?! NO skater ever looks as good as that in casual wear!” scratched his chin as if he were thinking and then smiled, “You know what? I think she is right up ’s street!” didn’t say anything and instead seemed to enjoy looking at his shuffling feet. nodded to himself and traced the steps that and had just laid down. Sexy little beast, that’s what she is, nice body, a bit shorter than me, and she has the personality of a minotaur! grinned at what he had just thought up and casually strode into the TV room with his hands in his jean pockets. turned her head to look at him, shit. I thought when invited me over for pizza us two would be alone, is that too much to ask for? I can just about put up with that guy over there but, too?! Jesus! “Alright scum?” greeted her with a slight uplift of his head and seated himself next to . “!” hissed. rolled his eyes, annoyed. smirked at him, “Could be better, but please take a shower I can smell you from here.”
“Agh, get off my property you lousy piece of filth, you ain’t welcome here.”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yeah. Shithead.”
“Skank.”
“Frigid.”
“Cun-” jumped up and stood in the space on the floor between them, “Guys! Quit it would ya?! shut up you fat bastard, leave my girlfriend alone.” ’s face went red, he was clearly angered by ’s little outburst, girlfriend? “Girlfriend?” looked up at , misty-eyed. blushed, “figure of speech…”
“Right.” grinned at him and he smiled and sat back down next to her. She turned his head towards her by placing her finger on his cheek and kissed his inviting lips softly. couldn’t take it anymore. He stormed out the room, “Manwhore! Don’t bother ordering pizza for me! I’m going out!”
“Ignore him…he’s an arse…” muttered in between caressing ‘s lips. smiled. slowly got up and backed out the door, as much as he’d like to watch, it wasn’t really his place to be there with them!
“So, when will I see you again?” asked roughly, his eyes focusing on her lips. “I’ll see you when I see you.” She replied, she giggled as he didn’t appear to be listening. “Oh, for crying out loud!” She giggled before she kissed him once more. He licked his lips after the kiss, “Thanks… I needed that…” he grinned. “I know!” giggled. “So I’ll see you...?”
“When I see you!” giggled and walked off into the cold night air. She turned the corner and bumped into a young man, she couldn’t see him clearly in the dark but he was definitely a man because she sure didn’t feel any breasts bang into her! “Whoa, sorry.” He smiled and looked into her eyes, I know those eyes…
smiled, “It’s ‘kay…” she mumbled and they quickly dropped their gaze and walked off in opposite directions.
The next morning she woke up and found her head throbbing, “Wha-?” Her nose was blocked up too and she finally came to a conclusion that she was in no fit state to turn up at work. Which was a shame ‘cos she would really like the money but, meh, what can you do? She made herself up a bowl of cereal: cornflakes, cheerios and some ready-brek powder all mixed together with milk– nice. There was a knock at the door and she slowly stumbled up the hallway to go and get it, “Hello…?” She enquired drowsily. “I was worried about you,” barged himself through the door with a single white rose in his hand, “I went to check up on you at the music depot and they said you hadn’t turned up.” swept her tangled fringe out of her face and smiled at him, “That was sweet of you.”
“I am sweet.” laughed at his remark and sniffed. “So… are you OK? Wait, silly question, you’re sick, how can you be OK? Why are you like this?” pouted. walked him into her small living room and sat down on the sofa, where he sat down on also, next to her. She smiled, “Well, it was quite cold last night and so I guess… well it was my fault, I should have brought a jacket with me or something.”
“Yeah…” was miles away picturing last night; ripped light blue jeans, a dark green strap top and a black woolly hat with her hair loose and down. He looked at her now, not quite the vision of beauty, but she was something special. He some how knew that she would move on from him though, they were both still young. He had a whole career ahead of him, jease, the band… haven’t we got to go up to Universal sometime this afternoon? was looking into his hazy eyes, he was clearly somewhere else at this point, obviously, since his eyes were transfixed on her breasts. “? …? ?!”
“Yeah…”
“My face is up here!”
“Huh? Oh… yeah…” blushed and looked down to his lap. “I’m gonna have to go now babe, we’ve got this meeting with our record company?”
“Oh yeah, I forgot all about your record deal! Ahh! Well, good luck babe.” placed her hand on his and he looked up at her smiling. “I’m really nervous…” He confided in her. She smiled and stroked his cheek, “You’ve already got the deal, be happy and be yourself.”
“Thanks , you’re the best.” kissed her hand, “I don’t want to kiss you properly ‘cos I don’t wanna catch what you got… as much as I want to… heck…” concentrated on her lips, slowly leaning in. “!” She warned sternly and held a finger to his lips, “You are not catching my symptoms, OK?!” nodded reluctantly and stood up and saw himself out, “I will be back later,” he looked at his feet for a few moments and then looked in the eye again, “love you.” smiled, “No you don’t. Now go.” nodded and shut the door behind him. sighed and hugged a pillow, he doesn’t, because I don’t feel that way… but what if he does?
Later that day she was feeling much better, now changed, wearing a baggy dark blue t-shirt which she had tied a knot at the bottom to one side so it looked a bit retro, and a pair of grey, tight jeans. She put on her grey sicpuppy™ hoody and her black quiksilver’s before leaving the house to try and start work. She bumped into someone as she turned round the same corner she had turned last night, “Oops.”
“S’ok!” A boy chuckled and they made eye contact. Uh oh. “Wait, no it isn’t.” smirked and shoved past her. “Cunt!” She yelled behind her and turned around to find him facing her. “Shut up. You’re gonna hurt like hell when you ditch him, get lost, run away so he doesn’t get so attached to you. All he talked about was you at the meeting today. How you were ill, how you are such a great kisser, how sexy you are, how you and him are so alike… how you crushed his feelings when he told you he loved you.” emphasized. Wow… way to make a girl feel bad… She looked up at him, “, he didn’t mean it, it’s early stages yet. Besides, it’s only a bit of fun, he’s got a whole career ahead of him, we’re all only young after all. And anyways, I’ll be out of your hair soon, since I have lost all my friends here.”
“What do you mean by that?” asked, slightly alarmed, thinking more on the lines of suicide. shrugged, “I’m moving.”
“Oh.”
“Yes. Now fuck off, wanker.” turned and walked off to work to earn the remaining money of her shift. couldn’t believe what he was hearing, she would be moving. Her words echoed in his mind. How would feel? OK… like he was thinking about how would be feeling.
“Idiot…” muttered as she walked through the doors to the music depot. she worked at. Poor … I need to talk to him… before gets to him first… “! You’re better then! Hey everybody! The guitar section is now open!” Reg the store manager announced. just nodded pathetically whilst biting hard down on her lip, “Hold that thought Reg. I have to go… not feeling so good… might puke… see you tomorrow!” She ran out and down the street towards the Busted residence.
“Hello…?”
“…” began before looking up from his scuffed VANS to his tear-stained face, “!” She engulfed him in a tight hug and he clung back tightly. “Come in…” he croaked when the hug finished. She followed him into the kitchen. “Can I get you a drink?” He offered, noticing glancing around the house uneasily, “Don’t worry, no one’s in.”
“Oh no, I… yeah…” replied – looking down at her feet. “Well?” interrupted her train of thought. This remark pained her so, and she couldn’t help wincing, his tone of voice sounding harsh. “… I just came to tell you… I mean I… thanks for dropping by this morning and everything but I-”
“Don’t worry about it. I know what you’re gonna say, so maybe it would be best if we just avoided each other from now on and-”
“No, , that’s not what I meant, I was going to say that I was a total and utter pig to you this morning. I just didn’t realise I meant that much to you, I took it for granted. But yeah… there is something else I need to tell you…” glanced up at his face, tears were beginning to well in his eyes and his cute little nose was red like his tear-blotched cheeks. His eyes pierced into hers as he looked quickly at her, “Go on then.” He said harshly. Her eyes welled up and tears were threatening to overflow and be exposed for him to see. “, I… I…”, right about now she would have said that she would be moving house and losing connection with him forever, but she just couldn’t bring herself to do it. “I love you!” She blurted out, tears seeping out and trickling down her reddened cheeks, “I do.” let out a sob and they both embraced each other strongly, for the first time in what felt like ages, but what had only been just five minutes ago. What am I doing? I don’t love him really, do I? No… not really… do I? Oh lord, what am I doing? I have to get out of here… “I love you too, and I am never going to let you go, never.” whispered into her silky, plaited hair. She couldn’t bear it any more and burst into tears in him chest. “Shh, ahh, baby, it’s OK.” comforted her and rubbed her back. “I love… you… too…” it choked her to say this, but she knew he would look after her. She knew that he really did care for her, and in time, she’d grow to love him too. After all, they’d only just met, and she had liked him right from the start, in fact; she had never even wanted this relationship to end at all. She beamed up at him tearfully and gently kissed him on the lips.
It was November now and and had been together for a month. The Busted boys would be leaving to go on a promotional trip around London to be interviewed, filmed, all that sort of PR stuff. “I’m gonna miss you.” mumbled into ’s shoulder. “Yes… you will…” replied sadly before gently pushing him away and giving him a weak smile. “Now go, I’m making you late, look, is swearing at me to let you go in peace, and no, I can’t come with you.” She laughed half-heartedly and smiled and stroked her cheek. “See you this time next week then,” and kissed her on the cheek before driving off in jeep with the Busted boys. “No you won’t…” she sighed and turned around, but not before looking at to find that he was watching her with curiosity, he suddenly mouthed a ‘what’ to her before disappearing around the corner. Shit… he knows what I’m gonna do… I know it…
An hour later she was ready to go, she took one last look at the house and got into the taxi. Her belongings had already been taken to her new place of living my removal trucks, just one mind you – she didn’t have many belongings. Her taxi drove down Oxford Street and she marvelled at how packed the streets of London really were. Turning into the “Dolphin Court” block of flats car park, she immediately spotted which floor her new home was in, Ah, there it is… one… two… three… there’s fifteen floors so I must be… there! Level one! She paid the driver and found the estate agent and the removal men in her new home, it took a few hours to get everything sorted but she had got everything sorted and out of the boxes in no time at all. Like I said, she had few possessions.
A week had gone by and and the others should be home by now, was clutching a photo of her and and hugged it to her chest. Poor , he won’t understand. He’d probably be on his way round to see me now, and the first thing he’d see would be…
A for sale sign? stopped in his tracks with a ‘What I Go To School For’ demo, and then ran up to ’s front door and hammered his fist on the front. He picked up a flyer that was stuck to the front door, showing how much the house was going for and where to make an enquiry. ripped it off and ran back to the Busted residence, “! ! ! Guys! Where are you?!” He ran into the front room where the guys were watching telly. marched in and switched it off, standing in front of the screen. “Hey, man. Whatcha do that for?” asked lazily. passed him the flyer and and read it. “And… you picked this up because…” wondered drearily. “Because he likes the darn house you great spoon!” piped up. “NO! NO, YOU SHITHEADS! IT’S ’S HOUSE!” cried out in exasperation. “Ohhhh… and I care because…” pondered, being slow to clock on. ’s brow was furrowed in concentration, she’s run away… the little cow… she’s moved away… He ran out of the house and down to the Music Depot. speedily.
“Hi, does still work here?” asked breathlessly to Reg, the manager. “No, sorry mate, I can give you her new address though, friend of hers are we?”
“Err yeah… something like that.” replied slowly, Reg raised an eyebrow. “Well, my best mate and her were dating and she did a runner, we hate each other but is so miserable without her so I-”
“Had to try and find her.” Reg nodded, finishing off the sentence. “One question,” Reg asked. “Shoot.”
“How could you ever hate someone like ? I mean, she has her moments but… with a personality like that, how could you ever stay mad at her?”
“We have our differences.”
“Or maybe is it that you are both just too alike?” Reg rounded up.
thought on Reg’s statement long and hard on the tiresome train journey up to North London where ’s new place of living was now allocated. buzzed on the intercom of her apartment number. “Just a minute…” He heard her voice say hastily. “Right, OK, who is it?”
“… just open the god damn door, we need to talk.” ruffled his hair up stressfully, he could feel her confusion on the other end of the mic. “Uh… OK… WAIT! …You wouldn’t happen to be the taxman would you? I told you I’d have the money ready by Tuesday! I swear! Please!”
“Oh, for crying out loud - no. I’m not the poxy taxman. Just let me in.”
“Ah…” The main door’s lock clicked open and he opened it and stepped inside, he laughed at what she had said on the intercom before proceeding to the steps to get to level 1. He pressed the electronic door bell and heard some scampering around on the other side of her door number – number 18. “Just a minute! …Oomph! Ouch…” He smirked at her sounds she was making along with the loud thumps, I bet she’s trying to hide some man she’s picked up off the street for a good shag. “Bloody phone wire… always get tangled… on my foot… GO AWAY! ARGH! Oh… yay!” ’s voice trailed off once more. OK… perhaps not… concluded. The door swung open to reveal with wet hair wearing a black, tight strap-top and a long white towel covering her torso from her waist, down to her bare shower-beaten blotchy, red feet! The corners of ’s mouth twinged nervously. “Oh, it’s you… well… I s’pose you better come in then.” sighed and led him through to the living area. “Want a drink?” She offered, he shook his head in reply and so they both stood in the middle of the room awkwardly. noticed ’s face beginning to turn redder by the minute and he tried not to look at her, she wondered why and then realised his problem. “What’s wrong? I’m not naked under this towel, you know! I do have under wear on! Seeeeeee?” She lowered the side of her towel so he could see the rim of her girls’ boxers. He glanced to see them and then flushed red, but began to calm himself down to his usual rowdy self. “Right, I’m gonna put something on, toilet’s over there, kitchen’s over there, TV remote’s there, and I’m going in there ‘cos it’s my room and I need to change. Be back in a tick.” smiled before skipping off to get some khaki combats on. She wondered back into the living room cautiously to find with his hands dug deep into his pockets looking carefully at a photo of her and . His weight was on one leg whilst the other was stretched out to the side. The picture he saw in front of him was strange, there was a smiley , with grinning behind with his arms wrapped around her. Then there was Charlie with two fingers in his mouth pretending to be sick around the two lovebirds, and there, right in the background, with his face pulling a gurn, and his arms folded moodily across his chest, . ’s eyes flickered back to again and saw something in her eyes, it wasn’t the same happiness had in his, it was like she was hurt in some way, as much as she tried to smile, the pain shot through her face. He winced and blinked a couple of times and turned around to see standing there in the doorway. “…What you lookin’ at there? Hi again…” She muttered. “Yeah… hi…” replied, no eye contact was made.
“I want to know why you’ve come down here, it’s I know it. That’s why you’re here isn’t it? Well?” demanded, sitting across from on the floor, since she needed to go out to buy some new furniture. “?”
“Yeah, it is .” looked up at her for the first time. “Well?”
“Well what?” He snapped. “You tell me.” answered him. “Why did you run away?”
“My old life was full of loose ends, it was too hard to tie them all up. I had to start fresh-”
“You had started a-fresh with . He loved you, he still does.”
“Yes, but for how long? Where will I go when you’re all famous? Who will I depend on? Who will I come home to? Who will always be there for me?” paused and there was a silence, “Exactly. No one. It’s better this way.” sighed, “Are you sure about that?” nodded to comply. “Well then…” slapped his thighs, “There’s nothing more I can do here then.”
“Wait… you gonna tell him?”
“Tell who?”
“Don’t play dumb, you know who. .” said quietly, she had avoided saying, seeing or using the word for the past month. “I guess I’ll have to.” sighed again, got up, and without a word, left.
Since then had forgotten all about that meeting, she was on a roll. She had new friends, a new job and a new lifestyle. Yep, London was such a cool place. She climbed up the staircase and skipped happily to her door wearing her blue woolly hat, black crops, a Blink 182 t-shirt and her usual pair of VANS. She had just been given her pay check, no surprises there for her happy mood. She was about to slide her key-card in when…
“?” She jumped and saw a young man standing just to the side of her door; he was definitely in a fitter state than when she had last seen him. “H-h-hi…” She tripped over her words before unlocking her front door, slipping inside and slamming it shut. “. Please. We need to talk. I just want to know how you are, what you’ve been up to. I just need to know and then I’ll leave you alone.” ’s voice sounded on the other side of the thin panelled door. She opened it slowly, “Promise?” smiled and for some reason she jumped into his arms and hugged him, “It’s so good to see you.”
“Nice to see you, nice.” He chuckled into her soft hair.
“Why did you leave…?” asked uncertainly, sitting next to on the sofa. “Now, this is really hard to make out to you… I know, but… ah… OK… Right well, I know I cut you down to size… and I know I left you wondering if you hadn’t done anything right… But you have been the best boyfriend a girl could ever have, ever.”
“No. I couldn’t have been otherwise we’d still be together. I’m a fake.” concluded gloomily. “No. No you’re not. OK? I just… I was scared of losing you ‘cos of the band and everything. I mean, look at you, they’ve made you a whole new you. When you said that you loved me… I… well I didn’t take it too seriously. I didn’t think you’d take it too seriously… but you obviously did. I just didn’t know whether I was ready for a commitment like that. I do love you though… as a friend. You were great but, we’re too young and this love thing is still one big experiment for all of us.”
“But now I’ve grown. This fear won’t go away, you know. Of what could have been, what may have been, and what still can be. Please .”
“, you’re putting me under pressure…”
“Please, , please.” pleaded with his puppy-dog, watery eyes. “. We’re finished. Ka-poot. Asta la visté baby, and we’re out of here. There’s no way that we’re ever gonna go back, OK? I’m sorry . Maybe, I think that you should just… move on… leave me behind. Me, I was just a fraction of your life. You’ll soon forget. I have to move on; I am not staying here for long anyway-”
“Why?! …Sorry… Where are you going?”
“Well, I have some family up in New York. I used to live there with them, I suppose there’s no harm in picking up where my life finished back there.”
“I see…” he stood up. “Right, well then. I uh… I better go. What we had… what we had was-”
“Beautiful.” finished, smiling. nodded solemnly and kissed her forehead gently, “I’ll miss you. I’ll miss you sooo much.” nodded and he left the building. Out of her life… forever?
PART 5
“! What a lovely surprise! What’s with all the luggage… didn’t things work out for you back in England?” ’s Gran asked whilst broke down into tears and ran into her Gran’s wrinkly, out-stretched arms. “Hush now child, you’ll wake the hounds,” Her Gran hushed her and signalled for ’s cousins to collect her baggage and take them to her old room. The meet and greets would have to wait.
*After dinner // night time*
As sat alone in the wicker rocker on the porch, which over-looked the large back garden, she thought. The sea breeze wisped in a gentle breeze through and past her. The single candle, which had been placed on the ledge of the window on the porch; flickered, and danced with the breeze. She thought about her last few days in the UK. What a mess my life was… what a slut I was to … is the only one that turned my life around… I have a lot to thank him for…
*Flashback to yesterday morning*
slipped the keys to her North London flat through the Busted boys’ letterbox and ran back into her awaiting taxi, which would take her to Heathrow airport.
“The postie’s come!!” yelped excitedly and jumped up from the breakfast bar and ran towards the door. “It’s too early for the post to come…” pondered in mid-bite of his slice of last night’s cold pizza. came back with a heavy envelope with something that clinked inside. “To, my… …?”
“Oh , you shouldn’t have!” laughed. looked up confused and it was then when realised who the letter could be from. He gulped down his spoonful of cereal and dropped the spoon in the bowl, making a splash of milk rocket and splat on ’s tee. Lucky for – M hadn’t yet noticed. took the envelope from and held it in his hands. “Go on then mate, aren’t you going to open it?” asked, he was so impatient. gave him a sarcastic look and ripped the letter open, the keys crashed onto the stone worktop along with a folded piece of paper. took the piece of paper and began to read out loud;
“ ‘To my dearest , I have given you the keys to my flat. Everything in there is yours. Do not try contacting me, I’ll be already miles away when you’ll be reading this. I wish you all the best for the future. don’t be afraid to let your voice be heard, you know what I mean – singing. Remember? You told me how you feel about signing in front of people, but then you sang to me, remember? If you could do it then, and still sounded great, then you will be able to do it again.’ ” blushed and read on, “ ‘, my sunshine, good luck in everything you do. I will miss your cheeky antics! , the letter’s finished now so you can stop reading this allowed to everybody as I am sure you are right this moment.” ” blushed again and put the letter back down onto the breakfast bar. had a cheesy smile on his face, “You sang to her?” shrugged, “What does it matter, she built a lot of confidence in me. And after reading that letter I will definitely sing for the band too, as well as you guys, one day she’ll see us on TV – and be proud of us. Where ever she is in the world.” looked flabbergasted, “That’s the smartest thing I’ve ever heard you say.” grinned and picked up the letter as and discussed what they would do with the new flat. She didn’t even mention me… Was all that ran through ’s head as he studied the note over and over again.
*Flashback Over*
The candle was puffed out by a strong gust of wind which aroused to her senses. She sat there in the pitch black and listened to the crickets sing their song. “, think you’d better come in now. Mum is worried about you.” Her cousin Tim smiled through the half opened back door. got up and smiled, “sure.”
The next couple of months was a breeze. was working in a nearby garden centre and was very happy in New York. Not a day had gone by without her thinking about the lads though, she prayed for them every night. She wasn’t a holy person but she felt it necessary – she even prayed for . Which was weird indeed, for her being enemies with him and everything? She hadn’t even mentioned him in the note she left them… now that was a bit harsh and she had indeed regretted it ever since.
Sitting by the docks she watched the sun set and thought of England and how she missed it. I can’t keep on running away from my problems… She pondered, I wonder how the boys’ careers have been going. I s’pose they have no time to think about me… I doubt they even remember me. I was just a small chapter of their lives, after all. She got up and cycled back home.
PART 6
Having finally finished the song they couldn’t help feeling pleased. “Who’s it s’posed to be about then?” asked, but already knowing the answer. couldn’t be bothered to say a more than one word answer and so he just stated bluntly, “.” They nodded solemnly before they both got up from the couch of ’s old North London flat and retreated to their bedrooms. It’s alright for … He’s got a new girlfriend now… he doesn’t seem to care anymore. And if she was his chick, then why should I be the one sulking? I hated the little cow and she hated me. That was obvious enough. I wonder what she’s doing now… I wonder… I wonder if she remembers me. Anyway… it’s getting late. Turn your stupid brain off your s’posed to be thick. And on that note, got to bed.
*4 months later*
“Yes! Yes I know I have to grow up! Yes mum… yes I know it was stupid of me to run away from my problems… Yes… I know I wouldn’t be anywhere without you… Yes Mum… Yes… NO MUM! Oh my God! No! For the last time Mum - NO! I did not get myself pregnant, OK?! Mum, no, I can’t come to England. Why? Because I’m happy here that’s why. No Mum. You know it’s not ‘cos of that. Oh mum, ahh now c’mon!” slapped her head with the phone that was wired into the wall, “Don’t cry! It’s not you. Mum…
“So you’ll come see me by this Wednesday then, yes? Good good. Now I have to go now love, bye! MWAH!”
“What?! …But - Hello?” looked at the receiver strangely in disbelief and set it down on the wall set. “The sly little bitch…”
“Right, darling. Are you all set to go? Tickets, money, passport - great! See you in a month!” Her aunty waved her off from the car and there she was, , who was now stranded at the airport, with no choice but to leave the country. “Here goes…”
ENGLAND!!!
“!!!” Her mum opened the door and embraced her in a tight hug, almost choking . “Mum… mum…” she croaked, “Too much love… too much!” She was let inside and she and her Mum dragged her bags in. After much talk and several bottles of wine… all consumed by her Mum, since was a non-alcoholic; left and booked into a nearby hotel in the city to spend the night. Newcastle was a busy place and the hotels were all packed, but one managed to squeeze her in, for a huge price. She had no where else to go though, so she agreed to pay the amount and gladly crashed out on her hotel room bed.
Later in the night, well, she thought it was the morning due to her jetlag – she woke up, much to her annoyance. But there was no going back to sleep now, once she was awake, she was awake. She flipped over under the covers to look at the radio clock beside her, “Eleven O’clock? In the night?! Oy-oy-oy…” She groaned and pulled the sheets over her before quickly pulling them away and walking to her room window. There was a massive crowd of screaming girls with banners outside the hotel entrance, Hel-lo? Could I be staying in the same hotel as the one and only McFLY?! She quickly bunged on some clothes and tried to freshen up a little, finally taking the room keys and taking the lift downstairs to the lobby.
She looked in the lift mirror to see if she looked OK, perfect! Well… perfect as she was gonna get. Then a poster caught her attention on the left lift wall… Hello? Isn’t that… ? … – !! What the? They’ve grown up so much! Wow… ’s quite a stunner… She read the header of the poster aloud to herself: “Busted… Live… The Tour… bloody hell.” The lift stopped and the bell pinged to tell her she was on the ground floor. The sliding lift doors slid open and there, for the first time in what had felt like forever; was Busted. Her eyes widened in disbelief and by the looks of things, so did theirs. “I know you…” mumbled to himself, staring at her hard, trying to match a name to her face. on the other hand took her appearance as a setback, “Oh for goodness sake, you want our autographs, right? Well fine, here. Here’s one we signed earlier. Now if you don’t mind we are on the run from love-sick fans and you’re currently blocking our escape route. Well don’t just stand there!” laughed and punched him lightly on the cheek, “, , . My, you have done some growing up!” She nodded at who had seemed to have clocked on but still seemed not fully convinced. “…” She reached a hand out to touch his cheek but quickly withdrew and looked down to her feet. “?” uttered amongst them, smiled at him convincingly, “Hello Dog-breath.”
Out of no where a girl of about fifteen years of age managed to hurtle past security and fling herself directly at , making them both collapse to the floor. The girl began to hurt her physically in a number of different ways, along with remarks like; “Dogbreath?! Don’t call my , dog-breath! You spiteful, little, slut! Go back to the gutter where you came from - rat!” was the first to come to ’s aid, and being the strongly built one, picked up the fan as easily as… well, easy. The girl threw one final punch, landing smack into ’s left eye. groaned and huddled up into a ball while the hotel doctor was immediately rushed over to her side.
*Fifteen minutes later*
The hotel grounds had now been cleared of fans and ’s attacker had been taken to the police. “Can you get up for me?” The doctor asked, stretching her hand out to help up. nodded and pushed herself up, along with the help of who was kneeling behind her, supporting her back. She smiled gratefully at him and he smiled and nodded back with a reassuring wink.
In the end escaped from the incident well, she only had a couple of bad bruises and a black left eye. The Busted boys were gathered around her in her hotel room, they were all lying on her bed staring at her, at how much she had grown up, whilst she was doing exactly the same. She first studied Charlie, he had grown so much taller, but he always looked like he’d grow tall anyway. Now Matt, he hadn’t really changed much - but he had got a lot more good looking. Last but not least, James; he’s been growing his hair, looks very nice. Going back to actually… he’s developed his looks a lot.
“……?” asked her softly since the others had fallen asleep on the bed – or so it seemed. She looked at him and smiled sleepily, “Yes, ?”
“I…” He paused and looked at her wondering whether he should go on or not, she raised her eyebrows and coaxed him on with a slight nodding of her head. “I’ve really, missed… you.” He whispered with a faint smile. Her heart brimmed to the max with joy, this was the happiest she had felt in a long time, “!” She sighed happily, “I’ve missed you too! Including the others.” She smiled at him and laid her hand upon his. They both lay there smiling happily at each other, not noticing watching them through his pair of slits for eyes, , don’t do it. What about your girlfriend? He couldn’t help thinking this, even though he realised the situation seemed to only be in friendly terms anyway. Conversation had started again so he began to listen and stop thinking again.
“Oh, thanks for the flat. I don’t know how to repay you, I mean; it musta cost you a tonne.”
“Listen, it’s cool – don’t worry. Umm… you did know I was only renting it anyway… don’t you?”
“Oh… you were? Maybe the record company bought its full price for us.” screwed up his nose and thought and chuckled. The pair turned their heads in his direction having been shocked since they had reckoned he was fast asleep like ; who was snoring away with his mouth wide open. “How long have you been awake?” asked, slightly confused. just laughed more at the sound of ’s squeaky voice. grinned, “Well?”
“I never fell asleep.” He finally replied when he had cooled down. ’s jaw dropped, “You… you were listening in all this time?” narrowed his mouth into an ‘O’ shape, “Err… well I, no. No.”
“Err… yes… YES!!” fell about giggling, “No, that’s cool. It’s not like we were up to any naughty business or anything.” She laughed and winked at , “Save that ‘til later honey shan’t we.” She tapped the end of his nose with a slender finger and then giggled with who was blushing. “No. No you won’t. I didn’t hear him telling you this so forgive me if he did, but-” glanced over to who was giving him a threatening look, “but he has a new girlfriend now since you left him without warning.”
Her face dropped for a moment but then composed herself, “, it was just a joke.”
“Well, der! I’m not one for killing a party.” and raised their eyebrows at each other and then at him. “OK… I don’t get it?” mumbled to herself, confused. “Yeah… right, I’m off. I don’t like the beds in this hotel; think I’ll sleep on the tour bus tonight. You coming, ?”
“Tourbus? Oh right! The tour! Oh, can I come see!” bounced up and down on the bed, and still was fast asleep. “Yeah sure.” smiled at her, this was the first time that and were actually getting on well, was so confused! “I’ll stay here with … unless you want me to move him?”
“No it’s OK, you guys can kip here for the night if you want. My place is your place.” She smiled and kissed ’s sleeping head before ruffling his hair up and departing the room with , “Bless him!” She giggled as she shut the room door. “What was that for?” asked her. “What was what?” She answered simply as they walked down the corridor. “That kiss? You know, the one you gave ?” She shrugged, “I dunno. He just looked cute sleeping like that.”
“He hasn’t stopped talking about you, you know?”
“Really? Aww, that’s sweet.” She looked at him looking at her with one brow raised, “What? Ohhhhhhh no. NO. No! We’re just friends!!”
“OK… so you’re just friends. What are we then?” He emphasized the ‘we’ part and carried on walking. He was wearing tight-ish jeans and a baggy-ish but well-fitting t-shirt. stopped and watched him as he carried on walking on, realising how well his stylist had done – he looked… devine… “Pardon? I mean, well… huh?” She stuttered, He stopped and slowly span around, looking up to the skies whilst talking and walking backwards. “Weellllll, you know. Last time we saw each other we couldn’t bare to be in the same room. And now, you’ve basically asked to sleep with me on our tour bus. Where do we stand now?” He stopped walking and looked at her. Her face was full of anger, “! How dare you impose such a comment as serious as that one. If you think for one moment that I would, give myself up to you - just like that! Then you are wrong, buddy. In fact I-” clamped a hand to her mouth whilst holding his other up, his index finger over his mouth, “Hush now. You silly cow! , it was a joke.” He chuckled, having imitated what she had said earlier and releasing her mouth, walked off again. He stopped and turned around, “Well? Do you want to see the bus or not?”
PART 7
“OK… well, this is it. Our humble abode!”
“Wow, it reeks.” She replied quickly, scrunching up her face. laughed. “Yeah. No one’s here for the night, they’re all in the hotel. They give me a spare key when I’m planning to stay sober for the night, because I always forget stuff and need to come back on the bus to get them.”
“How about when you’re not sobre?” laughed. “They don’t give me the keys… let’s just say + Booze + tour bus = catastrophe!” He chuckled lightly and turned the lights on, he looked at and her black eye, “Shit… I’m really sorry about your eye, … Really I am.”
“It’s OK, man. Really. Thanks for being there when I woke up and, well, helping me up and stuff.” She smiled at him and he smiled back. They stood there looking into each other’s eyes and bit his lip, focusing in on hers before looking back at her eyes again. He took a step closer to her and agonizingly slowly leaned into her. Oh my god. What am I doing? She quickly gripped his hand and smiled at him, “Are you sure you’ve been off the booze tonight?” She laughed, “C’mon then, are you gonna show me around or are we just gonna stand here all night?” He quickly stepped back and grinned, “Yep. Sorry. Uh… OK, we’ll go upstairs first.” gasped, “There’s an upstairs?!” She squeaked, laughed and led her up the stairs, tightly holding onto her hand, “Careful of the steps, they’re quite steep.” She nodded and looked up from the stairs to look up, but found her self staring at ’s butt, where his jeans had slipped several inches down his derrière from climbing up the stairs and she could see his black boxers. Her gaze was fixed into place, as much as she fought with herself to look away, she just couldn’t. They reached the top and her eyes were still glued to his butt. He turned round to look at her but thankfully she quickly saved herself from being in an awkward position. Still holding onto her hand all the while; he led her around the tour bus.
“This is where we play Connect Four™!” grinned as he plonked himself down on the sofa, sat opposite. “Can we play?” asked, setting the game up. ’s eyes widened, “Uh… K-k-can we what?”
“Connect Four, can we play?” She asked, looking up at him, “What’s up?”
“Oh… OH!” He chuckled to himself, shaking his head slightly, “Nothing. Yeah OK, I’m red.”
“Duuuude.” moaned after the seventeenth game. “What dog-breath?” She grinned at him, “Talking about dog-breath - you have quite a lot of devoted fans out there!”
“Do I!” exclaimed and they laughed. “Anyway, what were you saying?”
“Duuuude.”
“Yeah but what were you gonna say after that, spaz!” rolled her eyes. “Oh right, yeah. This is getting boring.” The young man yawned. smiled at him, “It’s funny how things can change when you lose connection with some one…” she thought out loud. “Huh?” asked her. “I said you look tired.”
“Oh right, yeah. Nah, I’m cool, man.” smiled and looked at her face, “You’re sleepy.”
“No I’m not.”
“Yes you are.”
“I’m faking it.”
“Oh Yeah?”
“Yeah,” resulted. burst out laughing and got up, followed by . “Where are you going?” He asked. “I’d ask the same to you,” She stuck out her tongue, “Nah. I’m going back to my room. I am sleepy, you were right.” looked down at her sharply, “Oh, no. You don’t have to do that. You can sleep here for the night. I’m not trying to bed you or anything! Oh crap… OK now I’ve dug myself a grave.” laughed, “Now you’re the one that’s offering to sleep with each other!” She stuck her tongue out at him, “No I paid for the room so I’ll sleep in the darn room! OK?!” She laughed, “Well, bye then. I don’t expect I’ll see you guys again?”
“Oh, what. So you’re just gonna keep entering and leaving our lives all the time just like that?” replied scornfully. “No it’s just, you guys must be busy. And it’s probably best if you have fewer friends to visit when you get breaks and stuff-”
“Quit with the excuses already.” crossed his arms across his chest. “I just thought-”
“Well you thought wrong.” concluded. “Oh. Fine. Alright. If that’s, how you want to play. Night, .” spun around and advanced to the exit of the bus. “Ah shit…” mumbled to himself and chased after her through the narrow walkway. “,” she turned around, “Wait.” turned to face him with a bored look on her face. “, I didn’t mean it. My temper, it just gets a bit out of hand. Look, I’m s-”
“Yeah, well control it next time.” snapped at him. He scratched the back of his head, he didn’t know what he was doing, but his body still did it. He leant down to her face quickly and pressed his lips hard against hers. The kiss was unexpected from the both of them, yet seemed to take it well. She draped her arms round his neck and deepened the kiss. It seemed like forever before realised what he was doing, he quickly pulled back and pushed her away; breathing hard and leaning on the sink. “I just don’t get you sometimes .” fumed and ran off the tour-bus. “ - you idiot!” He cursed.
PART 8
stormed into her room where was sitting upon the bed with his head in his hands. She ripped off her jacket and threw it on the floor, looked up at her. “!” He cried happily and scooped her up in a hug, she clung back tightly and sighed into his chest. “… What’s…? Wrong?” He asked her as she drew back and he scraped the stray hairs out of her face. “?”
“Yeah?”
“D’you like me?”
“Well yeah, but I-”
“Oh – good. Then maybe we can go out some time then, yeah?” She snapped. “… what’s wrong?” asked as she rubbed the side of her head with his hand. “It’s… nothing… I just haven’t had a lot of sleep that’s all… love you, dude.” She smiled up at him as he did the same. They engulfed each other in a tight hug, “Whatever it is, you can always talk to me about it, OK?” said into her soft hair. She nodded and marched up to them both, tearing them apart, “Oh, I see,” He piped up, “So you didn’t like it when I said I loved you all that time ago. But now you just say it - only aaallllll the time to your friends!”
“!” cried out, tears spilling out over her eyes – her jetlag had caught up with her and she was just too tired to fight it. “!” said sternly, “I’ll take him back to our room.” smiled briskly and guided and himself out of the room.
*Next Morning in the hotel car/coach park*
was standing on the pavement of the taxi stop waiting for a taxi to take her to the airport with her luggage. She felt some one tap on her shoulder, dressed up in a hat and shades, she looked round to him. “I’m sorry about yesterday, I just guess I missed you more than I realised.” blushed. “It’s fine, we were all tired.” grinned and gave him a big hug. “What was that for?”
“Hello and see you around.” She smiled. nodded and gave her a piece of crumpled up paper, “Call me!” He grinned with a cheesy American accent. She nodded and he ran off into the tour-bus where was waving good bye to her, she waved back with a giggle. “…” She looked behind her, tracking the voice – her eyes widened. There, standing in a pair of black trousers and a shirt – looking as gorge as ever may I add - was . “… About that kiss…”
“It was nothing.”
“Right… nothing…” repeated, annoyed. He sighed and walked off onto the tour-bus. sighed and sat down on her suitcase, the tour-bus drove into the taxi stop and stepped out. She smiled up at him weakly. “Where are you heading?” He asked her with his hands in his pockets. “London. Why you ask?”
“We’ve got a concert there tomorrow night in Wembley, we can take you there if you like?”
“Oh… oh, no. Really, there really isn’t any bother - I’ll just take the plane from Manchester.”
“But I want you to come with us.” He smiled and held out his hand to help her get up, she took it graciously and then looked up into the tour-bus to see biting his lip through the window, looking at her; she quickly looked down. came crashing out of the tour-bus, “Are you coming?!” He grinned – he was almost too happy. “Quit it , you look gay.” grinned and tossed him her rucksack while he himself picked up her suit-case and they all clambered onto the coach. sat himself down on a sofa in the TV area, “ must have shown you the bus last-night, right?” looked across at who was ignoring her and pretending he wasn’t listening, “Uh… yyya…” stuffed some sort of biscuit into his mouth, “Great!” laughed as he switched on the XBOX, “Would you be referring to the biscuit or the fact that she’s seen the bus?!”
“Huh?” asked confused, looking up from his biscuits. rolled his eyes and laughed, “! Give you a game, oh buddy, oh pal!” laughed and ran a hand through his hair unawares, “You’re on!”
and hadn’t said a word to each other during the whole four and a half hour journey down to Wembley. Just as everyone was leaving the coach to check that they still had rooms booked in the Hotel Plaza, stayed at the back of the line waiting to go out. was in front of her and when everybody had left the coach and he was just advancing to the door, she grabbed his t-shirt and he turned round, “.” He sighed and the two of them walked to the back of the bus into the TV area. “What did you want?” He sighed again. felt a lump in her throat, us… I can’t believe I am saying this… but I want us, “…To talk things over.”
“There’s nothing to talk over.”
“The kiss…”
“You already said, it meant nothing.”
“I know. It meant nothing like I said but I think we should get things straight between us, if not for us then for the oth-”
“Oh really! It meant nothing did it! Then why did you wrap your arms around me and start pushing it to the extreme!”
“I wasn’t!” looked down at her feet, her voice dropped, “I don’t know what I was doing…”
“Yeah, well.” ran his hand through his hair. “Why did you… why did you kiss me in the first place?” asked, looking up at him again. “I don’t know. I just guess it was a build up of testosterone or something – I dunno.” lied, “C’mon, the others will be wondering where we have got to.”
“No!” cried out. looked into her eyes, “Why not?”
“We haven’t sorted it out yet.”
“What out yet?”
“Us. That’s what.” sank to her knees on the floor, she wanted to tell him how she felt, but the truth is; she didn’t know how she felt. crouched down to her level and kneeled next to her, putting his arm around her. “I don’t know what you want me to do. You have to tell me what’s going on inside that head of yours because I’m not psychic.” He smiled kindly down at her. She looked into his eyes and embraced his torso tightly, tears trickling down her cheeks, “I don’t know what’s going on inside my head.” chuckled softly and kissed her head lightly - making her stomach flip something enormous inside, “Well you’re gonna have to figure it out soon, or it could well be too late.” whispered. She looked up at him, “Wh… wha-d’ya mean?” He smiled down at her and got up, leaving her stranded in the bus.
“So, . Where to now, from here?” smiled as she sat in his room. “I don’t know really… I forgot that you had my flat now…”
“Oh my God – yes! You can still stay there for as long as you like though, I might even stay there tonight.” smiled. “Really?” asked. nodded. “Mind if I go there now then? I just want a good sleep, man!” laughed, “Hang on – I got our manager to write up a triple A pass for you. And you can watch us at the gig tomorrow night from the front row or behind the curtains, what ever.”
“Aww, ! Oh - that’s great! So it’s tomorrow, yeah? Well I’ll see you then!” She gave him a hug and took a taxi down to the flat.
She walked through the door of the flat and dumped her luggage down. She walked into the living area and saw the masses of rubbish strewn about the place, “I don’t need this.” She sobbed and jumped onto the couch face-down. walked into the flat, using his keys; and saw her luggage down. He sighed and walked through the narrow entrance to the living area, “…?” He saw her body lying on the sofa face down and seemed to be trying to get to sleep; he thought it was best that he would leave her alone. He went into his bedroom and got his towel and shower gel before jumping in the shower.
*Fifteen minutes later*
came out of the bathroom with his chest glistening with beads of water and a towel wrapped around his waste carrying his clothes that he had been wearing earlier. He had only walked a few steps from the bathroom when he felt something hard crash down on his head and a deep throbbing take its place. “SHIT!” He cried as he clutched his head, he felt some one take him down to the floor from behind and straddle him. He unscrewed his eyes and looked up at the beauty he saw before him, that had pinned him down to the ground by the shoulders and was glaring into his face. “?” the girl gasped in disbelief. “Yes… hello, .” He groaned and screwed up his eyes at the pain that was forever growing in his head. “Oh my God, I’m so sorry…” she quickly jumped off him and helped him up, “Look… I didn’t know it was you… I thought you were some burglar or something… I am so sorry.” laughed but this resulted in sharp pains that caressed his head, “Ah jease…” He grumbled. “ I’m so sorry… Look, you go and change into something and I’ll go find something cold for your head.” offered apologetically. simply bit onto his lip and nodded whilst limping off - clutching his head as he retreated to his bedroom. watched him and his half-naked body walk away, just the thought, of when she had straddled him, there had only been a thin towel between her and… well - we don’t have to go into details. She thought over it more, Jease… that musta hurt… He had nothing to even protect- OK, shut up you. Get something frozen!
walked back into the living room to find sitting there waiting for him with a pack of frozen chips. He sat down next to her and looked at the chips. “You didn’t have anything better…” She apologised to him and suddenly noted on what he was wearing; a pair of jeans – presumably with boxers underneath, and that was it. She held the pack of chips onto his head, “ever heard of a tee-shhiirrrt?” She smirked. looked at her and she saw the pain in his eyes, they were red and watery and tears were threatening to overflow. “My head hurt when I tried to pull it on…” he muttered as he looked down to his firm chest, his cheeks growing red. “…… I’m really sorry…” He waved a hand at her, “Don’t worry about it,” he croaked, “What was that thing you hit me over the head with, anyway?”
“Umm… it’s probably best if I didn’t tell you.”
“Oh no… . You have to tell me, what was it?”
“Well it was this guitar… I don’t know whose it was… it had four strings though…”
“!! That’s a bass! My bass! Sure, I have guitars, but that’s my bass guitar!” stressed. “I’m sorry… how many times do I have to say that? I’m sorry…” She looked to her lap. He put her arm round her and smiled, “I’m sure I’ll manage – I’ve always got another one, and it’s not like it’s broken is it?” She looked down to her lap, “No, not that I know of.” She lied. “Well then, there’s nothing to worry about is there!” He grinned. “Do you mind if I borrow your shower? I really need a wash…” asked him. He nodded and took the pack of chips from her hand, holding it on by himself. She gathered some stuff together and went in the bathroom.
“!” yelped as she rushed from the bathroom soaking wet with soap suds covering her in patches on her smooth skin, mostly covered by her black towel. came rushing up to her [now with a t-shirt on] and stopped suddenly, looking her over. “! Sp-sp-spi-sp-spiiider…!” squeaked as she pointed to a small house spider crawling on the bathroom tiles. He chuckled and walked into the bathroom, raising his foot up high above it… “NOOOOO! Don’t kill it!” whispered. He laughed and picked it up with a bit of tissue and chucked it out the window. “So much for not killing it.” muttered. smiled at her, “Right then, ,” and laid his hands on her slippery shoulders, which sent little electric sparks down their bodies at the touch. “Did you feel that?” He asked her, wide-eyed. “No.” She lied. He shrugged and carried on, “Anything else you want me to save you from?”
“Save me from yourself! Get your hands off me you rapist!” She giggled and moved a few steps away. “Oh yeah… right… umm, sorry…” He blushed. laughed, “S’ok! I was only joking!” He grinned back at her, “Do you want me to get you some clothes?”
“No you perve! I’ll get them myself!” She laughed as he flushed pinker by the second, “God, man! You keep saying the wrong things!” She giggled and walked towards her bags to take out some clothes. She came back and felt his stare penetrating her from behind, she spun round and looked him in the eye; noticing the lust, need and want. He looked up at her, noticing she was watching him and gulped, “Do you need help with anything else, madam? Like changing into your clothes, perhaps?!” He joked. She smiled and bit her lip before quickly shaking herself out of it, “Dude! Now you’re just doing it on purpose!” She ran inside the bathroom and locked the door. “Yes… yes I am…” whispered cheekily to himself.
PART 10
“Ta-dah!” She slid herself on the wooden floorboards towards the kitchen worktop where was pouring himself a drink… and past the worktop… crashing into a small TV. “Ouch.” She laughed and walked over to him. She was wearing a pair of black combats, a white net top with her hair into a loose scruffy bun and wore a pair of white trainer socks. He smiled and rose his glass down from his lips, “Sorry, do you want some?”
“Uhuh.” She nodded and took his glass and drank from it, finishing off the contents. She burped loudly and gave a satisfactory sigh before giggling. He laughed and put the glass in the sink and walked around the kitchen counter. “So, what do you want to do?” asked as she stood in front of him. He smiled as he took her in, soaking up every detail, “You smell nice…” He smiled dreamily, half aware of what he had said. laughed, “Why, thankyou!” laughed realising what he had said. “Yeah anyway, so I was thinking we could watch a DVD or grab some dinner or-”
“Have a nice, long, romantic walk in the park…” fantasized. “Huh?!” replied immediately. “Sorry!!!” burst out laughing, “It’s just that it fitted in with what you were saying so well! Sorry! I had to say it!”
“Oh right…” chuckled to himself at his stupidity, as if that was gonna happen. “Let’s watch a DVD!” grinned and hunted through the DVD collection. “OK but not scary. I can’t take scary.” cringed. laughed, “Aww! Poor baby!” teased, poking her tongue out at him. He laughed and watched her try to reach for a DVD on the top shelf from behind. It was so cute at how pathetic she seemed at that moment, no matter how high she managed to stretch her hand, it was obvious she wasn’t going to get anywhere. He came up from behind and lifted her up by the waist, she screamed and looked down at him and grinned. She reached up for the DVD and got it, put her down again. “So? What have you chosen?”
“Princess Diaries, eh? Whose is this?!” She grinned. “’s girlfriend’s.” He replied bluntly, “Oh no… … are you really going to make me watch this?” He pouted. She slapped his cheeks lightly, “Indeed I am.” She grinned cheekily.
Five minutes later and they were settled down on the sofa. “Look at us, watching a movie and it’s only four o’clock!” grinned. chuckled, “Yep.” The movie started. “Oh! What a minger!” snorted at ‘Mia’. “Shh!” cut him short. He looked at her and smiled as her expressions changed through the scene. She looked at him, “What?” She muttered, uninterested in what he had to say. “Why are you sitting all the way over there?” He asked inquisitively, longing to touch her. “I move around a lot and fidget, it will annoy you.” She replied; her eyes fixed on the TV screen. “Why don’t we find out?” poked his tongue out at her. “Look… … I don’t wanna trigger anything off between us like before.” sighed and turned to look at him, seeing the lust in his eyes once again. “Don’t worry. There won’t be any naughty business, promise. There isn’t anything to trigger off anyway. We’re just mates. Right?” lied. “Right.” lied. She crawled along the sofa next to him and he put his arm around her, pulling her closer. “!” She cried and drew back, “See? I knew it was a bad idea.” scrunched his eyes shut, he wanted her with him so badly. “?” He opened his eyes to see her kneeling beside him on the sofa, “Honey? You OK? Is it your head? Do you want me to get ice for that?”
“No… it’s not the head. It’s fine. Well actually… maybe it is my head… don’t worry about it anyway.” He smiled and shooed her off. She nodded and they watched the movie. The last scene arrived and they showed the kiss, and quickly glanced at each other slightly uncomfortably and the film finished. put it away and sat next to him on the sofa. He looked out of the window uncomfortably and was unsure what to do next. She was doing the same…
“Dude. It’s not working. What are we going to do?” whispered to in the hallway as he was peeking in on and . cursed under his breath, “Maybe it just wasn’t meant to be. I thought they actually liked each other. They would be so good for each other. They’re exactly the same.”
“Maybe that’s why they’re not meant to be. They’re too alike each other.” contradicted. nodded, “C’mon then. Let’s go pick up our girlfriends or whatever.” shrugged and they both exeunt the flat.
The phone started to ring and so quickly jumped up to get it. “Yeah… you get that…” muttered to herself as she turned around on the couch to watch him get the phone. “Hello? …! Hi! I know, it’s been ages, hasn’t it. Tonight? At yours… Well I…” glanced at who quickly shifted her gaze to the window, pretending that she wasn’t listening. “ I dunno… OK OK!” he chuckled, “Consider it a date!” He emphasized. The d-word hit against ’s defences like a tonne of bricks. hung up the phone and looked at , still with her black-eye. “You never told me you had a girlfriend.” faked a smile to him. “Oh err… she technically isn’t. She was. But I broke it off when she said she wanted to settle down. She still has a thing for me, y’see?” laid it on. “Oh right. Cool. So you’re not gonna be in tonight then?” answered, seeming to be unaffected by anything he had said; much to his dismay. “No.” He replied, “No. I think I might go now. More time to see her and talk and stuff.”
“Oh right. Good for you.” replied simply, flicking through an NME mag. “Yeah. Oh and uh, you can lock the flat up tonight; I doubt I’ll be coming back today - probably sometime tomorrow morning? If that’s OK?” replied, looking at the back of her head whose eyes were pretending to look through a magazine. “Oh OK. That’s cool.” She replied in monotone, “That means I will have the place to myself then, yeah?”
“Uh… yeah…”
“Excellent.” She grinned to herself, “That’s good then. I can…” she took her hair out of the band and ran her hand through her hair seductively, “relax, a little.” gulped, she wasn’t reacting the way he had hoped she would. She raised her leg up so that he could see it over the sofa and slipped her trainer sock off, “That means I can… let go of myself a little.” She slipped her other sock off and stood up and looked at him. “What are you staring at?” She asked, pretending to look a little surprised. “Oh err…” He looked at his hands, “Nothing. I was just wondering if I should change or not.” He looked up at her and saw her gulp lustfully. Oh… so she’s faking it is she… Well… two can play at this game… “What do you think?” He asked . Ellie looked away and shrugged, “You’ve always got plenty of time to change.”
“Yeah but I wanna go see her as soon as possible. I’ve only just realised how much I’ve missed her.” He looked down at his t-shirt again, “You know what?” looked to him as if to say ‘what?’
“I think I will change my t-shirt.” He ripped his shirt off there and then and looked at her, “What are you staring at?” He smirked and walked off towards his room.
“Right,” re-entered the living room thinking that he had the upper-hand of this little game now. He went around the sofa, “What do you - think?!” He squeaked as he saw sprawled out amongst the sofa in a short, black, mini jean skirt and a white net top with her black bra showing through underneath. She looked up at him dressed in his white shirt and tight dark jeans, complimenting his figure beautifully, “Yeah, you look good.” She smiled up at him, acting friendly. “Uh yeah… thanks…” he stuttered, Damn it. Why does she have to look so good and pull all the right strings at the same time. She stood up to face him, “Now rate me. How do I look?”
“Great…” replied, glorified. “Great!” She grinned, “I’m meeting up with this boy I used to know. He’s going to take me out for dinner and to a club.”
“Won’t you get cold?” smirked, finding it hard just to look at her face. shrugged carelessly.
“Oh…great… Well that’s good then. I’m gonna go now so… bye…” waved awkwardly as he departed. She heard the door shut behind him and sighed. She didn’t really have a date… she just wanted to… make him jealous she guessed. She flopped onto the sofa sadly and watched the telly. So that’s what he meant when he told her that it might be too late if she didn’t tell him what she felt. “Down with love.” She sighed.
PART 11
*5 minutes later
“…” crawled towards him on the sofa. He had his head facing the opposite direction from her. She sat on her knees beside him, looking down at her lap as she spoke. “… when you said you weren’t ready for getting back together with … does that mean you’re not interested in having a girlfriend at all?” She waited for a reply but there wasn’t one. She carried on. “Because… … I need to know if I am wasting my time or not. ‘Cos the truth is… I like you. No, I really like you. In fact… I think I may be falling in love with you.” She finished and waited for some sign of recognition. “?” She placed two fingers under his chin and turned his head towards her; his eyes were closed and his lips were slightly parted. “You’re asleep?!” she muttered to herself in annoyance, “Great!” she cursed.
watched as his chest rose and sunk at every breath he took and at how peaceful he looked. She looked at his lips and noticed how suddenly inviting they had become… Just one little peck wouldn’t hurt… She leaned in, cupping ’s sleeping face in her hands and massaged his lips with her own. It was lightly at first but then the urge to press harder took over, she knew she shouldn’t, he was asleep, she couldn’t wake him up no matter what. As much as she fought with herself not to, she felt her body straddle the sleeping and pressed her lips hard against his. Her system felt like an electric power-plant; alarms were ringing in her ears and shocks were jetting through her body. ’s eyes jerked open and his stomach flipped as he realised what was happening. He grabbed hold of ’s hips and pulled her closer to him as he kissed her back just as hard. drew back and let go of his face, “.” She breathed recklessly. His lips were swollen from the kiss and he looked at her face lustfully, “…” he began, his breathing shallow. rubbed her head with her hands and looked at him. tugged at her top, begging her to start again. “No, …” groaned and got up from his lap. She stood in front of him for a moment rubbing her face with her hands before quickly walking back to the room where she had decided to sleep in for the night. “!” called and quickly jumped up from the sofa, running after her. She closed the door in his face as he caught up with her and he stamped his foot on the wooden boards. leaned on the other side of the door and slid down it, her face in her hands.
“…” ’s voice sounded on the other side of the door as he sat against it on the opposite side to herself, “… please…” shook her head violently to herself, NO. No, I will not say anything. What was she doing? She had wanted that moment more than anything, now she had ruined it. What was going on inside that head of hers? No, really. What was wrong with her? She silently crawled over to the bed and got in under the covers to hear walk away from her room, whimpering to himself.
*Next Morning*
woke up with her duvet tucked around her so that she was as snug as a bug in a rug. “Wha…? I don’t remember falling asleep like this…” looked at her bedside table and saw a glass of orange juice next to her with a sheet of notepaper underneath it. She lifted up the juice and gave it a sip before unfolding the notepaper to read:
, she groaned as memories from last night rushed back to her. Never-the-less, she read on; Last night was a mistake, and I’m sorry for taking it too far. I just guess I got caught up in the moment. I probably won’t be here when you wake up because I’m at Wembley rehearsing for tonight with lads – please come watch us rehearse as soon as you can. You’ll probably get lonely here on your own otherwise. Your AAA pass is on the kitchen counter, bring it with you.
love xx
was fuming, “Mistake?!” OK, so she had hoped that today they would have both forgotten about it, and he had practically made it clear that it was forgotten. Yet in a way she had so hoped that that could have been the beginning of a relationship for them. I mean c’mon, we’ve kissed twice now. Well, kissed once on the coach and basically made out on the couch last night. She thought to herself. She finished off the juice and got ready to leave for Wembley arena.
“!” cried happily as he walked over to her with his hands in his pockets. flashed a smile and stood talking to the soundmen with his back turned to her. “Hey ya, guys.” She grinned. She was wearing a black sleeveless shirt and some denim cropped jeans with a pair of O’Neill trainers. turned round to see her and smiled, instantly licking his lips self-consciously. looked at him and they both smiled a distant look. ’s cheeks reddened whilst stood there emotionless, piercing her aura with his penetrating gaze. “Uh… one sec I need to go loo!” quickly laughed with and as she ran off to the ladies’. followed as no one seemed to be taking any notice of him at that present time.
looked up at herself in the wide mirror that was fixed to the wall, her hands clasped heavily to the edge of the basin - her breaths were long and deep. She heard the door sway open and looked to see who was coming. “…” came and stood beside her. “… this is the ladies’. You can’t come in here.”
“No but what if my lady is in here?” looked down from her in the mirror to her in the flesh. She looked up at him and then around her, “Nope. Sorry. ’s not in here.” She rolled her eyes sarcastically. He laughed and laid his hand on hers and they both looked at each other’s reflections in the mirror. slid her hand away from underneath, “Fuck off, !” she laughed nervously, “Your note, it was right. It was a mistake. Now brush off.” She smiled. The way she had said it seemed so truthful that was convinced. His heart broke right there and then, “Forget it.” He scowled and walked out of the ladies’. “Well… that went well.” smiled to herself before groaning and flopping onto the sink worktop.
sat in the front row as she watched them rehearse. was… great. He had the most energy on stage… the best voice… the best clothes… smile, laugh… buttocks – EVERYTHING! To her he was perfect. however, didn’t once look at once, through the rehearsals. Lunch break came and the boys all headed to the canteen, and had their arms around as they walked in front of ; laughing and chatting all the while. watched the happy threesome walk on in front of him, not once looking away from . and the others sat down at a table as walked up to Keith their head cook and watched him making sandwiches as the two of them talked together. “There you go then, - should cheer you up.” Keith smiled and handed him a plate of two ham sandwiches. “Yeah… thanks mate…” glanced at and the others, , who was watching him - quickly looked away. “…Ah look, I’m not hungry. I’ll pass this to one of the others.” took the plate and set it in front of , “Get your gob round that.” He faked a smile to , “I think it’s asleep so you better gobble it up before the sliced pig wakes up.” He emphasized. looked up at him as he stood behind her. He stared at her blankly before walking out with his hands in his pockets. “Ooh… you better do what he says, !” joked - who of course had no idea that there was a secret meaning behind what had just said, “Quick! Before it wakes up!” grinned absently at him, her mind was somewhere else as she looked at where had walked out. “You can have it, . I’m not really hungry; I’ll go keep company.” She looked at and smiled who shrugged and started to tuck in.
walked into Busted’s dressing room, finding sitting on top of a table cross-legged with a Red Bull in his hand as he read the line-up script. He looked up at her, “Ever thought of knocking?” He grinned sarcastically. didn’t understand - he didn’t seem one bit bothered about what had happened earlier. I have to make him see that he cares… because he does. Right? He does. thought hard and walked over to him. She yawned and stretched right in front of him, her t-shirt rising up to her ribs before it slunk down again. “Tired?” he asked taking a sip from his can, unaffected by her efforts to impress. “No.” she replied rowdily and stomped across the room and out of the door. He chuckled to himself and finished the can off.
*That evening an hour before the concert*
entered on the stage to see the McFly and V boys with looking out onto the arena whilst the lights were going through last-minute checks. was giggling flirtatiously with the guys, her black eye was still there, it was turning yellow now as it was fading away but she was just the same girl. “Hey.” Grinned as he walked over to the guys and they all started to talk as was chatting up one of the V guys… “What – so you dance?”
“Yep! We have a lot of pelvic thrusting going on! Ha!” A blonde chuckled as she eyed them all, “Oh…” she smiled seductively, seeing watch her out of the corner of her eye. Just like she had hoped.
What is she doing?! ’s brain piped up, she’s doing this on purpose isn’t she. He walked over to her and grabbed her by the arm off-stage. “Oww! !” hissed as he dragged her to an empty dressing room closing the door behind them, “Can’t you see I’m busy! What are you playing at?!”
“Me?! What am I playing at?!” said and pinned her against the wall, an arm each side of her head, resting on the wall. She tried to duck underneath but he moved his arm lower to stop her. “…” she’d tried to stricken her voice, but it came out as a whimper – not quite what she had in mind. He rubbed his forehead against hers affectionately and her bottom lip quivered, stay strong, girl. Don’t give in! looked into her eyes deviously with his forehead pressed against hers, his arm moved and crept down her back to her hips and held her waist closer to him. shivered as he bit her lip softly, she jammed her eyes shut - no! ! Pull yourself together girl! Don’t let him walk all over you! He then moved his head down to her neck and teased her with the lightest of kisses. “.” She warned softly, not loud as she had hoped but atleast it got the message through. He stopped and pierced his eyes into hers, “What? You want me to stop?” There was no reply from as she tried to fight back with the devil himself as he tempted her with his way and looks about him. shrugged and stood back from her, “OK.” He chuckled, rubbing the back of his head attractively before striding out of the room. ’s jaw dropped – “The bastard!”
stood and watched the boys perform with and ’s girlfriends, all yapping away about how well the show was going. It was ’s solo so and ran off stage and gulped down some ice cool water that the girls handed them. “So,” gulped down his 2nd bottle eagerly, “What do you think? Must be better than last time you saw us perform.” shrugged, “Dunno if I’d rather know who you are or not know who you are, ‘cos really I don’t give a damn. Last time was probably best.” She exclaimed bluntly and remembered what had happened. “… c’mon, you know I was ju-” got cut short as the floor manager hurried him along to change his t-shirt and have a quick sponge down. smirked to herself as he took his t-shirt off and grabbed for the sponge in the bucket of water, dropping it on the floor and bending to pick it up. She strode over to him and took the sponge out of his hands as he tried to reach his back to soak it down, “Here.” She took it and he watched her as she circled round to his back and speedily sponged it down. “Hey… you could go slower you know… no rush.” said slightly softer than how he would speak; seeming a little disappointed. “Yeah…” replied and slowly rubbed the sponge up and down his back, watching his muscles tense up as she sponged over his shoulder and down to his nipple as she stood from behind him. She smirked to herself once again as she could feel every muscle in his body tense up and his heart pummel against his chest. She finished off her sentence, “…I could.” And then unhooked herself from his damp body from behind and chucked the sponge in the bucket, wiping her hands on her jeans and walking off to speak to . watched her in awe, that little… foxy… slut… God, I want her!
“That gig was awesome.”
“Wembley is always awesome.” contradicted .
“Nah, Manchester is pretty good.” butted in. walked onto their tourbus, “Hey – that McFly and V were pretty darn good!”
“Meh. They’re OK.” sulked. “I think V – yeah they’re cool. I could never dance on stage I tell you! Hate to say it, but I think boyband-pop is now dead.” announced and laid an arm across his own chest and hummed the funeral march. choked on his bottle of beer and the pair laughed. “Who cares?!” laughed, “As long as they’re cute they’ll get far!”
“And are they?” replied, in a hump with her. “Hell yeah!” she laughed and and grinned as she walked off the bus to attempt to hitch hike on V or McFly’s tourbus. “Looks aren’t everything.” muttered. “Ooooh! Someone’s jeeealoooous!” laughed with . “Yeah? And what if I am? Like she cares.” replied truthfully, his arms folded against his chest as he sat slumped on the built-in sofa. and exchanged looks in shock. “So… you do like her?” sked and nodded. “Then why didn’t you make a move on her last night when you were watching that film?!” blurted out before sinking in his seat as hit him on the arm. “You guys were spying on us?!” laughed. The others nodded guiltily and shook his head, “Whatever – I don’t care. You were watching at the right time thank god…”
“What d’ya mean?”
“I fell asleep when we were sitting on the sofa after I broke it off with …” blushed and the others snorted. “And the next thing I knew she was making out with me, so I did the same back and she just went cold on me.” sighed, “She’s so confusing. I wish she’d just stop messing me around.” ’s face was pale - She made out with you? And not me… Oh well… Oh look – jammy dodgers… picked up a packet and started munching.
PART 12 - The Finalé! (Ooooh!)
“Aaaaagggghhh!!” shrieked as she bumped into who was also clutching a towel, but around his waist. jumped back in startlement, “?”
“!” she replied back, surprised. “I err… what are you…?”
“I was gonna take a bath…” replied as something made them step closer to each other again. tilted her head up to ’s chin and teased her lips onto his skin, tracing her fingers down his chest. traced his hand down her arms and rested two fingers on the rim of one side of her towel, touching her finger slightly. “I love you.” looked into ’s eyes, his face glazed over – bottom lip hanging low. nodded and slipped her arms around his back, sliding her hands down his towel. bit into the back of her neck affectionately as her towel slid down her body at an alarming rate. They backed into the bathroom, closing the door behind them selves with the lock on. turned her round and rammed her up against the back of the door, staring at the beautiful simplicity which stood before him. “I love you too…” ’s eyes tracked down his torso and ‘downstairs’ as they embraced each other and… well… ya…
opened her eyes to find a peaceful clinging to her naked waist. She couldn’t prevent the enourmous grin that appeared on her face. Everything was perfect now. She wouldn’t give up loving for the world, she loved him. And now they were together. She looked about his room… his… messy room… noticed a screwed up photo on the bedside table, it was of her and when they were together. ’s head was scribbled over though, so only she could be seen. “So you did care for me too…” whispered to herself, smiling. “Yep.” looked down and into ’s shiny, caring eyes. She kissed his nose and hugged him as his hand travelled up and down her back before flipping her over onto her back and straddling her like the night before. “Sorry… It’s just…” felt his cheeks burn, “I need to…” grinned, “I know. I love you.”
Will there be a Series 2? MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-cough! Splutter! Cough! You’ll have to wait and see! ;)