Chapter 42

I wake up wrapped in Conor’s arms and memories from yesterday come flooding through my head. If only I could do it again. I sit up slightly, not wanting to release from Conor’s grip, and take my camera off the side of the table to remind myself of everything we did.

I scroll through so many pictures. I see pictures of me, Jack and Conor being stupid inside a phone box, pictures of us all in the London Eye and stupid ones of us trying to be Big Ben... I don’t know what made us do that. There are ones of us travelling around London and there’s some pictures that I didn’t even realise my Mum took of us. There’s some of me and Conor walking, hugging and ordering drinks in Starbucks. In total, there are 114 pictures, and I still have billions on my phone.

I smile at the camera and grab my phone off the nightstand, so I can see the pictures I took. Except from the 47 selfies me and Conor took, there’s ones of me and Jack in the London Eye and some of us just stood in this street we saw that that I said looked cute. There were 2 lines of trees at the side of the road, and at the end was the London Eye so I made Jack have a picture with me ((picture at the side)).

I took a few pictures with my Mum and made some videos of us just walking. I decided to watch the video I think Jack tripped over in.

We’re walking towards the London Eye. Conor’s walking next to me and Jack and Mum are behind.

“Conor say hi” I say, pointing the camera in his face.

“Fuck off” he puts his hand infront of the lense.

“Someone’s grumpy” I mutter in a weird voice under my breath. I turn around to video Jack. “JACK!” I shout.

“What?” he trips over his own feet. I burst out laughing and hold my stomach, Conor and my Mum doing the same. “You scared the shit out of me” he pouts, and I end the recording.

I start laughing as quietly as I can, muffling the noise with my hand so I don’t wake Conor, although it is 11:30am.

“Mmm” Conor moans but I stay quiet. “What you laughing at?”

“Nothing” I say, knowing he’s probably half asleep. He sits up a little bit and yawns.

“Tell me”

“I was watching one of the videos from yesterday” I laugh and he just smiles.

“Show me one” he nods at my phone so I scroll through them to find the best one. I show him the one where we’re all in the phone box trying to be funny on the phone, and then we start doing stupid poses outside of it which is when my Mum took the picture.

“Oh my god we’re so embarrassing” I laugh when the recording’s ended.

“Speak for yourself!”

“Hey!” I gasp. “Come on I’m starving”

We get out of bed and walk downstairs to an empty house.

“They’re probably still asleep” I say as I’m walking into the kitchen. Conor just nods. I walk past the fridge and see a big note attached to it with a magnet.

Hey Lucyyyy!

Your mum and I have gone to get us all breakfast seeing as you’re both too lazy to get up. We’ll be back in about an hour so I guess we’ll see you then.

Lots and lots of love from jack bbz

by the way, be ready for when we’re home

“What a dick” I scan my eyes over the note again.

“What?”

“Jack wrote this,” I give him the letter “and he said he’ll be back in an hour and to be ready for when he’s home but I don’t even know when they set off!”

Conor reads it and starts laughing.

“Well we might as well get ready now then” he sighs and jumps off the kitchen counter.

Conor’s POV

I walk downstairs while Lucy takes a shower, seeing as I’m already ready for whatever Jack has plans for. I sit on the sofa and watch whatever’s on telly while playing Jack’s new computer game on the laptop. I’m thankful he didn’t take it out while he was playing all night last night.

Around twenty minutes later, I hear Lucy coming out of the shower so I decide to wait 5 minutes before going back upstairs so we can talk again... Until I hear her scream.

I put the laptop on the seat next to me and run upstairs to see what’s going on. I open her bedroom door to see her with a towel wrapped around her body, and she’s pointing to something next to the door. I frown and look to what she’s pointing at, when I see a massive spider literally hovering over her light switch.

“Jesus Christ” I gasp and run over to her. Seriously Conor, man up.

“Conor get it!”

“I-I can’t” I stutter. I remember the last time this happened when Jack and Lucy were watching Paranormal Activity together and I thought something was going on between them two. Ew, I can’t believe I used to think that...

“Fuck sake. Right, well you make sure it doesn’t move while I get ready”

“That’s not fair!”

“Life’s not fair” she snaps and turns on the world’s most annoying hairdryer.

“What if it does move?” I shout over the noise and she just shrugs.

“Tell me”

I roll my eyes and sit on the bed on my phone, glancing over at the hideous thing on the wall.

“It’s moving!” I shout and she screams, drops the hairdryer and moves to the end of the room. I burst out laughing and she just glares at me before getting back into her original place, realising I was joking. If looks could kill, I’d be dead.

She finally finishes doing everything to her hair and puts it in a side plait before getting changed.

“I’ve just realised, we could have just called Jack and asked when he would be back” I tell her as she pulls up her jeans.

“Oh yeah... Well at least if they come home now and we’re not ready, we can just blame it on Jack” she laughs.

“You mean, if you’re not ready” I wink and she rolls her eyes.

About half an hour later, they both finally come home. We’ve been sat in the living room throwing tiny marshmallows into each other’s mouths from each side of the room to entertain ourselves while they’ve been gone.

“Finally” Lucy says my thoughts.

“Sorry, there was traffic” Marie explains.

“Jack, how are we supposed to know what ‘we’ll be back in an hour’ means when we don’t even know when you set off?” I ask him and give him the letter. He scans his eyes over it before putting his hand over his face and shaking his head.

“I’m such an idiot” he laughs.

“We know” Lucy and I say in sync, high fiving each other after our collaboration.

“Well at least you’re ready” Jack says.

“We have been for the past hour!” I exaggerate.

“Jack you’re such an idiot” Lucy’s Mum laughs and I nod in agreement.

“Where have you been anyway?” Lucy asks.

“Well we got us all McDonalds breakfast” Jack hands me and Lucy a bag of food and my eyes light up.

We finish the food in no time and Lucy starts laughing.

“Jack we’ve had this two days in a row now”

“I know” he laughs and shakes his head. I knew I should’ve slept yesterday.

“Where are we going later?” she asks her Mum.

“We’re going to ASDA. I thought you might want to get some pictures developed and get some frames. Plus, I need help with the shopping”

“Okay” Lucy nods. I don’t mind going to ASDA. Not gonna lie, I love spending time with these lot. “Muuuum”

“What do you want?”

“I might’ve spent all my money yesterday” Lucy says in that innocent voice she puts on, making me laugh.

“Oh right” Marie shrugs. I hide my smirk behind the drink I’m holding.

“So can you maybe pay for everything in ASDA?”

“Fine” she sighs and Lucy squeals. Freak...

Lucy’s POV

We get to ASDA and walk past all the Halloween costumes on sale.

“Why does nobody have a party for Halloween?” I ask.

“Someone probably will” Jack shrugs. “There’s at least one every year but the club's better”

“Oh” I simply say and follow my Mum and Conor.

Jack takes the cart off my Mum and I sit at the front of it and he pushes me around. Well, he pushes me into things. We get to choose some food for later that we might eat.

We get to the photo developing place and I plug the camera into a booth.

“Right, choose the best ones” I say and Conor and Jack just start tapping almost every one while I plug my phone into another booth and choose my favourites. I end up getting all of the ones from my camera and Conor and Jack missed out 2 photos from the whole camera that they didn’t like for some reason. Probably because they were extremely burred. “Um... Whatever, just click ok”

They do as I command and we wait around 15 minutes for all the photo’s to come out. My Mum walks over with all the shopping in bags inside the cart and we walk out of the shop. We load all the stuff into the car boot and set off back home.

-

Conor and Jack leave my house at 9pm so I go up to my room and get started with my picture wall. I put a picture of me and Conor (me kissing his cheek) in a frame, and do the same with the one of me and Jack in front of the London Eye and one of me and my Mum. I also frame the one of Conor, Jack and I outside the phone box.

I stick the rest of the pictures on my wall, all 78 of them. Jack and Conor took the rest and so did my Mum. My wall actually looks amazing and I know I’ll never get bored of just staring at them while I’m bored or trying to get to sleep. They’re on the same wall as my fairy light’s too so they look great.