Chapter 75

“I feel like I haven’t seen Jack in ages” I tell Conor. We’ve just woken up and he has his arm around my shoulder in my bed, while he plays with a section of my hair.

“You saw him yesterday” he frowns.

“Yeah, but we barely spend any time with each other anymore” I sigh heavily. This has been on my mind for a while now. I miss the times when Jack would come to mine and we’d have a food fight, or when I’d go to his, eat junk food and we’d scare the shit out of ourselves watching Paranormal Activity.

“Why don’t you spend some time with him then?”

“I want to but I don’t think he will. He’s more into his PS4 than actually doing something active” I joke.

“That’s not true” he shakes his head. “I’ll talk to him when I go home, yeah?” he looks down at me.

“Okay” I nod.

“Anyway, let’s get up. I’m bored” he unwraps his arm from around my shoulder and dangles his legs off the side of the bed. I have the world’s biggest stretch while yawning, before sitting up on the bed.

“What time is it?” I frown.

“Just gone twelve” he laughs dryly. I can’t be bothered doing anything today. I literally just want to stay in bed and watch YouTube videos on my laptop. Speaking of which...

“How’s your YouTube video going?” I ask. He hasn’t spoke about it since he’s put it on.

“I haven’t checked” he shrugs.

“Conor!” I gasp. “You need to be committed if you want to get somewhere in your life. Let’s look at it now”

I get out my laptop as Conor just moans to himself. If I put a video up, I’d be checking how it’s doing every day.

“Has anyone at school said anything?”

“Our group have a few other people said it’s good but there’s not a big deal being made out of it” he frowns. “I’ve not told many people about it”

“Well it is your first video. I’m not lying when I say you’re going to be famous worldwide you know?” I tell him and he rolls his eyes. I get onto the video and see that it has 279 views, 16 comments and 67 likes. Thankfully, it has no dislikes. I think that would put Conor off the whole idea of putting videos on YouTube, especially seeing as it’s his first one. “Conor, that’s amazing! Look at the comments!” I gasp.

Two of the comments were Jack and Alex writing some funny comment which was somewhat supportive, some are from random people at school that I can't remember, and other people from our group have wrote decent comments.

“Anyway, I’m gonna get going now” he rises from the bed and starts to put his jeans on.

“Wait, where’s Eleanor?” I frown. Just on cue, Eleanor stumbles through my bedroom door and falls face first onto my bed. “What the fuck?” I say slowly and Conor bursts out laughing. He’s still shirtless and I can see his stomach tensing up.

Fuck.

He sees me looking when he’s finally calmed down and winks at me, making me blush and look away.

“What did you do?” Conor frowns.

“We had some drinks at Alex’s and I have a fucking hangover” El moans and I chuckle slightly.

“Well did you fuck then?” Conor asks.

“Conor!” I gasp and Eleanor sits up and laughs. She looks so tired. “You look like you’ve been dragged through a bush backwards” I tell her truthfully.

“Oh thanks” she moans.

“Hey, answer my question” Conor pouts.

“Yeah” El nods and my eyes go wide. She’s told me that they ‘did stuff’ in Portsmouth so it doesn’t really surprise me. It’s just the fact that she openly admitted it to Conor.

Conor leans over the bed and high fives El.

“Shouldn’t you be leaving?” I raise my eyebrow at Conor.

“Oh” he sighs. “Bye Eleanor”

“Bye” she groans.

“Love you” I tease him and he rolls his eyes. “Don’t forget to talk to Jack” I shout after him as he walks downstairs.

“I won’t!” he replies before I hear the front door shut.

“I’m going to sleep” Eleanor yawns, crawling under the covers.

“Whatever.  Do you want hot chocolate or food or anything?” I offer.

“Mhmm, yes please” she whispers before I hear her breathing getting heavier. I’m surprised she even made it home without falling to sleep on the road. I jog down the stairs and put the kettle on in the kitchen. I make some soup while making a cup of tea for me and some hot chocolate for El. I swear she’s addicted to that stuff. I grab an apple and carry everything up on a tray.

“El, get up, I got you food” I mumble, placing the heavy tray on the table.

“Mmm” she moans before sitting up slightly.

“Come on, your Mum will kill you if she found out you was drinking this much” I sigh and she groans before sitting up properly. I hand her the soup and her hot chocolate and she immediately starts to dig in.

“Did you have a nice time with Conor then?” she asks and I shrug.

“We had an argument because he told me to stay away from Ben but we just made up after it”

“Oh yeah, Alex was telling me about that” she frowns. “I swear you two can’t go a day without arguing” she laughs.

“Well it just shows we have a stronger relationship” I cross my arms over my chest.

“Sure” she drags out her word and I roll my eyes. “You doing anything today?”

“I don’t think so” I shake my head and she nods.

“We need to go Christmas shopping soon, Lucy. I haven’t got anything for anyone” she panics.

“Same” I gasp. “We’ll go on Friday or something” I suggest and she nods. “Do you know what you’ve got for Christmas?”

“I have no idea. I hope I have a new phone though. This is shit” she holds up her brick phone before dropping it back on the bed. I start laughing. “What about you?”

“I just want loads of clothes. Or a laptop”

“You’re never on your laptop, what do you need one for?” she frowns, finishing the last bit of her soup.

“Conor got a MacBook Pro and it’s literally amazing” I sigh and she gasps.

“Are his family rich or something?”

“I think so, their house is huge but I never like to ask” I laugh and she lets out a heavy sigh.

“I’m getting a shower” she crawls out of bed and stumbles out of the room. I pick up my phone, sit on my bed and decide to try and keep myself entertained while El’s in the shower.

From - Jack: aw do you miss me? ;)

To - Jack: ew, no...

From - Jack: Sure. Conor and Alex are going for a night out tonight so do you fancy coming over. Just me and you?

To - Jack: yeah sure, what time?

From - Jack: 5, we’ll order pizza

To - Jack: woo, okay

Well that’s got me excited. I continue to text random people in the group and scroll through possibly every social networking site going until Eleanor finally comes out of the shower.

“You’ll have to make plans for tonight or something. I’m staying at Jack’s” I tell her and she nods.

“I need to catch up on sleep anyway. We went to sleep at something past six” she frowns, changing into some pyjamas.

“I think I’d die” I tell her.

“I think I am dying” she laughs.

-

It gets to 5pm and I’m just about to leave my house to go to Jack’s.

“If you need anything, just call me, yeah?” I tell Eleanor as I check my final image in the mirror.

“What are you going to do if I need something?” she frowns. “My parents and yours are in the same house as me. I’m hardly going to need you for anything”

“I only offered” I put my hands up in defeat before walking out of my room. “Text me!” I shout but she doesn’t reply.

Dickhead.

I put my earphones in my phone and listen to some music while I walk to Jack’s. I’m not joking when I say it’s about minus 90° out here. If it doesn’t snow this year, I’ll cry. We never get snow in Cheshire but it’s never ever this cold there so now I understand.

I get to Jack’s door and knock three times before I’m greeted by Jack, smiling widely.

“Hey babes” he smiles, pulling me in for a hug.

“You alright?” I ask, walking inside.

“Yeah, are you?”

“I’m good” I laugh, taking off my coat.

“Conor’s in the living room” he nods towards the living room.

“I thought he’s going out” I frown.

“Not at five in the evening, Lucy” he laughs. “They’ll go soon”

“Oh, okay”

“Let’s order food, I’m starving” he moans, leading me to the living room.

“Hey!” I smile at Conor and bend down to give him a hug on the sofa. I do the same with Alex before sitting on the other sofa across the room.

“Lucy, what do you want?” Jack asks, throwing the menu at me.

“Just get me whatever, I can’t decide” I say, throwing it back at him.

“Anything?” he smirks and I nod. “You asked for it”

Wait, what?

“Jack, get us something” Conor speaks up.

“What do you want?”

“Margherita pizza” he says.

“Same” Alex nods while Jack calls the take away. He walks out of the room to take the call. “Where’s Eleanor?” Alex asks and I roll my eyes.

“She’s at home” I laugh and he nods. Conor’s smirking like crazy at me and I start doing the same. “Why?” I manage to ask without laughing.

“Just wondering” he shrugs.

“What happened last night, Alex?” Conor teases him and I start laughing.

“Did she tell you?” Alex gasps.

“Tell us what?” I laugh.

“What we did”

“Yeah, she told us everything. Every single detail” Conor bursts out laughing and Alex moans.

“I know you’re lying”

“Okay, whatever you say” I smirk, just as Jack walks back into the room.

Our pizza comes about an hour later and I still don’t know what Jack’s ordered me. It better be something I like...

“Lucy, this is yours” Jack hands me the hot, square box.

“What is it?” I frown as I open it.

“Just try it” he smiles genuinely. I take a slice and take a huge bit out of it, chewing it for a few seconds until my tongue starts to burn.

“Jack, i fucking hate you” I shout, swallowing the rest of the pizza and running to the kitchen for a drink. I hear Jack laughing his head off in the living room. I wish he knew how much this hurt. My tongue feels like it’s literally on fire.

I grab a glass and fill it with milk as fast as possible. I spilt some on the table but that’s the least of my worries right now. Half the milk spills down my top but I manage to get the rest of it in my mouth. Jack runs into the kitchen, still laughing at my misfortunate.

“I hate you so much” I breathe heavily. “It still burns”

“It’s not that bad!” he laughs.

“You try it then!” I shout. Conor and Alex stroll into the kitchen and just stare at me while I try desperately to get rid of this burning.  I stick my tongue under the tap and they all start laughing again. My tongue feels like it’s cooling down so I pull away from the cold tap and breathe heavily.

“Better?” Jack smirks and I just glare at him.

“I hope you know that we’re swapping pizzas now” I tell him and he gasps.

“That’s not fair!”

“You got me the hottest pizza going, how that fair!?” I frown.

“You can have mine, I’m not too hungry” Conor slides his pizza to me across the kitchen table. He's managed to eat 3 slices already.

“Aw thank you” I smile and he rolls his eyes.

“I’m gonna get changed” Conor jumps off his seat and starts walking upstairs. A few minutes later, he walks back down wearing his black skinny jeans, a red checked shirt with a white t-shirt underneath ((picture at the side)). “Right, are we off?” he asks Alex.

“Yep” he nods, jumping off his seat.

“I’m taking you somewhere tomorrow” Conor comes up behind me and holds my waist. I turn my head to the side to see him and he kisses my lips.

“Where are we going?” I grin.

“It’s a surprise” he smiles, walking away from me.

“Wait!” I shout after him, running over to him and wrapping my arms around his neck. That one kiss he just gave me wasn’t good enough. He holds my waist again and I pull him down to kiss me more passionately.

“Here we go” Jack sighs and Alex laughs. I smile into the kiss and Conor does the same before I pull away.

“Love you”

“Love you” he kisses my forehead before walking out of the door with Alex.

“We have a free house now. What shall we do?” Jack smirks.