Chapter 63

Lucy’s POV

It’s Friday which means it’s Jack’s birthday. I think I’m more excited than him to be honest, and yesterday he was making fun of me because of it...

I decide to put my hair in a high pony tail and put a lot less make-up on than usual today because tonight, I’m going for a night out with everyone where I’ll be able to do all my make-up and do something decent with my hair then.

To - Jack: HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!!! Hope you have an amazing day, i love you billions xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Moments later – after getting a reply from Jack saying I’m a freak – I get a phone call from Conor.

“Hey, what’s up?” I answer in a cheery voice. I’m so hyper about it being Jack’s birthday. Probably because it’s Friday and we’re going for a night out tonight.

“Hey, can you come over like, now? Jack’s moaning about not having his presents yet” he laughs.

“I am not!” I hear Jack say in the background.

I laugh, “Yeah sure, I’ll be two minutes”

“Thank you babes” he jokes and I just laugh. “See you in a bit”

“Bye” I end the call. It’s a good job I woke up early and didn’t need to wash my hair today. It’s 7:30am so I have plenty of time to go to Conor’s house and still get to school on time.

I go in my wardrobe and pull out the massive Christmas bag full of Jack’s presents. They didn’t have any birthday ones...

I drag it down the stairs and join my Mum in the kitchen.

“I’m going to Jack’s to give him these” I gesture to the huge bag on the floor.

“Oh my god, how are you going to take that round?” she gasps, keeping her eyes locked on the snowman bag.

“Carry it?”

“Do you want a lift? You’ll never be able to carry that on your own”

“Ooo ok then!” I smile. She rolls her eyes and picks up her car keys.

“Your Dad’s probably in the shower so we’ll just go” she nods. I drag the bag outside and put it in the car boot before taking the two minute drive to Conor’s house. “Thanks Mum”

“It’s fine” she smiles, watching me take the bag out of the car boot. Conor soon runs out of the house with no shoes on and takes hold of the heavy bag.

“I’ve got it” he smiles.

“Thanks” I nod. “Bye Mum”

“See you” she smiles, driving off. I follow Conor inside the house and shut the front door behind me. We walk into the living room and I see Jack sat on the big sofa talking to Anna and his Mum.

“Hey!” I smile at everyone and they all reply with a mixture of ‘hey’s and ‘hello’s. I walk over to Jack and give him a massive hug, possibly choking him.

“Get off” he chokes and I start laughing, taking weight off him.

“Happy birthday!” I smile.

“Thank you” he laughs. Conor slides the bag over to him and we watch him open all the different clothes from Anna. “Aw, thank you so much An” he smiles, giving her a massive hug afterwards.

He takes out Conor’s big present and reads the card first before unwrapping it. His face drops and his mouth hangs open, making me laugh.

“Fuck, oh my god, no you didn’t” he gasps, looking at the image of a PS4 on the box. Conor just laughs. “Why did you give it me now!? You know I’ll be dying to use it the whole way through school” he moans.

“What the fuck? You asked me to!” Conor gasps.

“Thank you Conor!” he practically squeals and jumps on Conor, giving him a huge hug. Conor laughs while pushing him off his lap slightly.

“Go and open Lucy’s” Conor moans, pushing Jack on the floor. Jack rolls his eyes before opening my present next – three PS4 games.

“Oh my god!” he says slowly, reading over the front and back of all the games. “I love you!” he screams, pulling my body to his and giving me a huge hug.

“You didn’t say you loved me” Anna pouts.

“Or me” Conor does the same.

“Anna, you know I love you and you’re my favourite. And Conor, I don’t love you” he shrugs and turns his attention back to the games. Conor lets out a huge sigh and Anna fist pumps the air, making me laugh. “Thank you so much Lucy”

“You’re welcome” I smile.

“Thank you Lucy” Jack’s Mum says afterwards.

“It’s fine” I laugh.

-

After school, we all go our separate ways back to our houses. Jack told me that I can come to his house to get ready because he’ll be bored waiting, so I have a quick shower at mine before changing into my joggers and oversized t-shirt and making my way to his house with everything I need for the night in one of my bags.

Before I can even knock on his door, Jack answers with a massive smile on his face.

“Hey!” I cheer, giving him a hug.

“Just go to Conor’s room to get ready. I’ll be up in a minute” he tells me. I nod and start to walk up the stairs to Conor’s room.

I walk in and see Conor shirtless, listening to something through the headphones of his recording studio. I smile to myself and walk over to him. He’s seriously concentrating on whatever he’s listening to and is drumming his fingers on his desk to the beat, pressing and sliding some buttons every now and then. He notices me walking up behind him and jumps slightly before taking off his headphones.

“I didn’t notice you there, sorry” he laughs.

“It’s fine” I shake my head. “What you listening to?”

He doesn’t reply, he just sits me down on his lap and puts the huge headphones on my ears. He presses play, and some soft music starts playing through to me before the most amazing voice I’ve ever heard starts singing along.

“Have you ever been in love Then you know just what I'm talking about It's like when you really know You finally found the person you want And you wanna spend the rest of your life I thought I've been there before But now that I'm sure, I finally found somebody who cares I've given my heart and my soul to her And I just want the whole world to know You're the reason that I breathe I want you to know that If you were to leave, then I couldn't go back My life will be incomplete without you here You're the reason that I breathe Ladies if you got a man Fellas if you got a girl Why don't you tell em that they mean the whole world To you, you, you, you You're the reason that I breathe”

I’m left with my jaw hanging on the floor. That was amazing. I can’t even describe how perfect that was. I’m literally speechless. He laughs and takes the headphones off me.

“Was that you?” I ask, just to confirm.

“Yes” he laughs.

“Oh my god, Conor that was amazing” I gasp. “You need to upload this”

“I’ve not finished yet!” he shakes his head. “I just recorded that last night. I’ll finish it some other time”

“Well it was absolutely perfect. You’re going to be famous one day” I smile and he rolls his eyes.

“Keep dreaming”

“I’m being serious. You’re amazing. Girls will be drooling over you everyday” I start laughing and I can tell he’s trying to hide his smile.

“I’d doubt that, Lucy” he laughs.

“I’m positive about it. Just don’t forget about me when you’re selling out arena’s worldwide” I wink at him and he rolls his eyes.

“Go and get ready” he laughs. I sit down in front of his big mirror and start to do my make-up while Conor continues to work on his cover of ‘Breathe’. Jack walks into the room and throws himself on Conor’s bed behind me.

“How long does it take you to get ready?” he moans.

“About fifteen minutes” I lie.

“Liar! It takes you that long to brush your hair!” he gasps and I start laughing. He sits next to me while I put on my mascara. “Why are you pulling that face?”

I start laughing, “I don’t know. I just do. Stop putting me off”

I continue to apply it to my eyelashes until he nudges me, making it go on the top of my cheek.

“Jack! You’re going to ruin my make-up” I moan, wiping the mess of my cheek with a make-up wipe. I start to put on some liquid eyeliner and he nudges me again. “You’ve got to be joking me” I groan, wiping it off again while he laughs at my black eye.

“Sorry, I’ll stop” he calms down from his laughing fit. I carry on putting on my eyeliner until he nudges one more time.

“Jack! Look what you’ve done!” I shout, pointing to my black eye. He’s smudged it so much that my eye is literally black. Conor turns around and starts laughing with Jack. “Conor, can you tell him to stop?”

“Jack, stop” he says in the most unthreatening tone I’ve ever heard.

“Thanks” I say sarcastically. “Jack, go and play on your PS4 or something” I moan. He walks over to the bed, still in his laughing fit. I eventually wipe off all the black substance around my eye and cover up the patch with some foundation and concealer.

I move onto my hair once I’ve finished all my make-up and literally try every single hairstyle going. This isn’t working out...

“Do you need the straighteners or anything?” Conor asks me as he watches me try and sort my hair.

“Yes please” I nod and he gets up and walks out of the room. I should’ve done it before I came but I completely forgot. I just tied it up in a messy bun and left.

He comes back in the room a few minutes later with some fat purple straighteners in his hand.

“Wow” I gasp, taking them off him. The heating plate alone is the size of my whole hand.

“What?” he frowns.

“They’re huge”

“Well you have no excuse to be slow now, do you?” he winks before walking off to his recording studio in the corner of his room. I’m so glad I got it him. I honestly believe that he will be famous one day. He’s too good to be let down.

I finish straightening it and decide to just put it in a simple ‘half up half down’ hairstyle. I’ve never had it like this before but there’s always a first for everything. It actually looks pretty good...

“Are you done now?” Jack asks excitedly, staring at me through the mirror. He’s been watching me the whole time.

“Yeah, I just need to get dressed” I nod. The knock at the front door interrupts our conversation so Jack walks out to get it. He returns a few minutes later with Alex, Ben and Mike, and by that time, I’ve already changed into my cream lace dress ((picture at the side)).

“You look beautiful, now lets go” Jack pushes me out of the room with Conor.

“Wait, I haven’t painted my nails or put on my shoes” I pout.

“Please tell me you’re joking” he pinches the bridge of his nose and I hesitantly shake my head.

“I’ll stay with you Lucy” Conor smiles down at me.

“Thank you, Conor”

“Well, just so you know. The majority of the group are in the living room waiting for you” Jack starts to walk away.

“Serious?” I gasp and he nods. “I’ll bring my nail varnish downstairs” I tell Conor.

“No don’t. He’s probably lying. Take your time” he smiles at me.

“I’ll just check” I nod, walking out of the room until he puts his hand on my shoulder and stops me.

“Lucy, it’s fine” he laughs. I sigh in defeat and start walking back into Conor’s room. “What colour are you painting them?” he asks, looking through all the colours I brought with me in my make-up bag.

“Are you actually interested?” I raise my eyebrow and he shakes his head. “Well seeing as you asked, you can choose a colour” I offer him, praying he doesn’t choose a stupid colour.

“This one” he hands me the sparkly, burgundy colour.

“Good choice” I nod and he laughs. I put on an undercoat, then the sparkly nail polish and Conor doesn’t take his eyes off them the whole time. “They just need to dry” I break the silence and start wafting my hands around in front of me in an attempt to dry them faster.

“How long will it take?” he asks, genuinely interested.

“About, three minutes” I shrug.

“I have an idea!” he gasps and runs out of the room. I shrug and start blowing air onto my nails until he returns with a hair dryer in his hand. “This will be quicker”

He replaces his laptop charger plug with the hair dryer and places my hands in a suitable position on his lap. He turns on the loud hairdryer and smiles as he attempts to dry them. About 15 seconds later, he turns it off and touches my index fingernail lightly, before turning the hair dryer back on and drying them further. I laugh to myself slightly at his little trance. I think he thinks he’s invented something here...

A couple seconds or so later, he turns the hair dryer off and touches the same fingernail again.

“Done!” he smiles. “Told you it would be quicker”

“I actually think it would be quicker if we just left them but hey, it was fun” I tease him and he rolls his eyes.

“Why doesn’t everyone do that?” he asks while wrapping up the hair dryer chord.

“They probably do” I shrug, touching all of my nails to make sure they’re dry. His face drops slightly. “Only joking” I laugh to make him feel better but his expression stays the same.

“I’m not five” he rolls his eyes.

“Stop acting it then” I tease. He puts the hairdryer on the chair and walks over to me, before picking me up and throwing me on the bed, making me scream and laugh at the same time.

“What did you say?” he comes right up close to my face and hovers over my body. He’s still shirtless so this is very distracting

“Stop acting it then” I repeat myself, smiling widely at Conor’s serious but somehow seductive mood.

“You’re gonna regret saying that” he threatens me, putting one leg at either side of my body and sitting on my belly.

“Am I?” I try to sound like I’m not suffocated with him sat on me.

“Yep, I can sit here forever. You’re quite comfy” he folds his arms over his bare chest.

I sigh dramatically, “Boring”

“What?” he frowns, darting his eyes down at me.

“You’re being boring. I was expecting something a bit more fun off you, Conor” I smirk.

“You want fun?” he raises his eyebrow and I nod. “I guess you’ll have to stay over tonight then” he sighs.

I pretend to think, “I don’t think I can actually”

“What? Why not?”

“Busy” I shrug. He starts to climb off me so I quickly I pull him back down onto me, making our chests touch. I look down at his chest and he starts laughing slightly.

“Well you’ll have to cancel your ‘busy’ plans then won’t you?” he winks before climbing back off me. Fuck, I could’ve stayed like that forever. I start pouting and I cross my arms over my chest. I think I’m the one acting 5 here... “Get up” he laughs, giving me a hand. I stand up and grab my heels off the floor while Conor finds a shirt to wear. I check my final image in the mirror before following Conor downstairs.

“FINALLY!” Jack shouts, clapping his hand when we walk in. The whole of our group are sat there clapping and cheering. This isn’t embarrassing...

Conor sits down on the only free seat in the room, and as I walk past him, he grabs me by the waist and pulls me onto his lap. I hang my legs over his and rest my head on his shoulder as he puts one hand around my waist and the other on my thigh.

“We’ve been having pre-drinks while waiting for you” Olivia moans.

“I can tell” Conor snaps back and I laugh. She rolls her eyes at him and he starts laughing. “Do you want a drink?” he says quietly into my ear.

“I’m comfy” I moan and bury my head deeper into his chest. He starts playing with small strands of my hair as I draw little patterns on the bottom of his chest under the plain grey t-shirt he’s wearing.

Everyone starts to give Jack all of his presents to I turn to face him and watch his reaction to all the presents. He’s got loads of CD’s, new games, snapbacks, Ray-Bans, £200 in total and loads more. I can’t wait for my birthday. Only a whole 9 months to go...

“Right, are we going?” Jack jumps out of his seat after thanking each person billions of times.

“I need to let Anna know” Conor tells me. I nod and slowly get off his lap. He gets up and runs upstairs quickly, so I take his place and start to put my glossy beige, ankle strap heels on. While everyone makes their way outside, I decide to wait for Conor at the bottom of the stairs. I look in the mirror and sort out my hair one last time, just in time for when he runs down. “Where is everyone?”

“They’ve started walking” I nod to the front door.

“And you waited for me?” he smirks.

“Obviously” I laugh and he pulls me in for a hug.

“I love you, you know?”

“Yeah,” I nod “I love you”

“Good” he pulls away and smiles. “Let’s go”

We catch up with the rest of the group down the road and take the small, five or ten minute walk into town. I’ve just noticed that Jack’s wearing the massive ‘birthday boy’ badge that Alex bought him, and start laughing.

“What you laughing at?” Conor nudges me.

“Jack’s badge” I point to Jack.

Conor laughs slightly, “I think I’d get bullied by you all if I wore that”

“Yeah but Jack’s younger” I wink and Conor just shakes his head.