Sidemen Stories/One Shots

Simon & I

I sat on the pavement, anger boiling through me. Tears were threatening to fall. My phone started ringing again, I looked at the caller ID. His 14th call. My hands shook with anger, I quickly opened the back of my phone and took out the SIM. I stood up, clenching my fist, and threw it as far as I could. I sat back down, staring at the road.

"Hey, um, are you ok?" I turned around frustrated. I wanted to be alone and now some nosy fucker was trying to talk to me. But then I realised who was talking to me. Simon? Wait, this is Simon Minter right? That guy I've been fantasising about for God knows how long.

I relaxed the frustration from my face and stood up. "Yeah, I'm fine." I looked down at the pavement, Simon Minter was asking me if I was ok, and here I am, looking like a wreck, stood in front of him.

"You sure?" He looked at me questioningly. I nodded. "Well, um, I'm Simon." He held out his hand. "Masuma." I shook his hand and smiled. I knew who he was already, I knew a lot about him and his friends who I've been watching for about 3 years. "Umm, I'm going to take a walk in the park, you wanna come?" Simon seemed nervous as he asked me. "Sure, that would be great." We both smiled at each other before walking off to the park.

We had been walking for about half an hour, Simon knew a lot about me by now and I learnt a bunch of new stuff about him. Behind the camera his life wasn't as free and easy as it seemed. Over half his day was editing and he didn't socialise much apart from the friends he saw everyday in the house and Skyped with.

It was getting dark and we started going back to where we met, outside the Sidemen house where I had been sitting on the pavement. "Do you want me to drop you home?" He asked.

As he did, it suddenly hit me. Tears threatened to fall again. "Hey, are you ok?" Simon had realised. He looked at me worried. "Umm.." My voice started breaking. "Actually, I don't have a home right now." I said before breaking into tears. Simon put his hands on my shoulders. "What do you mean?"

"I broke up with my boyfriend, he was pretty abusive. I used to live with him, but I ran away." I started really crying as I realised how messed up I was at the moment. "The SIM. You threw it because he was calling you?" Simon asked. I nodded. "That guy doesn't deserve you, you are worth so much more. Any one that treats you badly is a dickhead." I looked up to see Simon had tears in his eyes. He pulled me into a hug. "Stay with us. The others will like you. I already do."

We looked at each other, Simon was such a nice guy. He was prepared to give someone he just met a roof over their head. And he liked me?!? I shook my head, "I can get a hotel, I have money. Thank you so much for offering though. You're a really nice guy." I couldn't live in their house, I just met Simon and I was pretty sure I was just being a burden.

Simon seemed disappointed. "Can you come over to our house for a few hours at least?" He asked as he waved over to the house in front of us. "Ok." I looked at him and smiled.

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I was introduced to Vikk and Josh who were in the house when we went there. We chatted and joked around a lot, they were amazing people. After about an hour, Tobi, JJ, Harry and Ethan came over and we decided to have a huge nerf battle. We all got into teams - me, Tobi, Vikk and JJ were one team and Simon, Harry, Ethan and Josh were the other team.

The battle had been going on for about 5 minutes and I was hiding Vikk's room which wasn't actually a very good place to hide considering how small it was. I contemplated to run out of the room or stay before finally deciding to just lock the door.

Just as I went over to the door, it suddenly sped open and I quickly retreated to the back of the room only to be followed by someone shouting and pushed onto me. It took me a while to see who it was because of how fast everything happened. The person turned round and it was Simon. I opened my eyes in horror as I realised he was about to shoot me with his gun, aiming at my head.

For a brief moment he stood there, aiming, before putting the gun down and just smiling at me. I frowned, "Why didn't you shoot me?" He came closer and I had to look up slightly to see his face. "I can't shoot someone I like. Especially when they're as special as you." I looked down, hiding the red sprouting onto my cheeks. "Hey." Simon lifted up my face so I looked at him. He had a cheesy smile on his face. I started feeling butterflies in my stomach, something I hadn't felt in a really long time.

Before I could say anything, his lips pushed onto mine. He put his hands around my waist as I responded to his kiss. Gradually, we broke apart and smiled at each other. He kissed me on the cheek before saying, "You're gonna have to stay here now."