Afraid • l.h

Chapter 4 • "call me Mikey."

"Thanks, that's really nice of you."

"Let's talk about something else and take a walk."

"Yes absolutely. Oh and thank you so much for paying."

We both get up and walk out and round the park near by talking about school, home, friends, funny moments etc and end up staying out until 9, then Michael walked me home.

As we got to the house I hugged Michael and said goodbye. Walking up to the house I saw my mum though the window looking suspicious.

I opened the door and went inside waiting for a few or many questions to come my way.

Sitting down on the sofa my mum walks in with homemade cookies and sits down next to me.

"So..." she began. "Who was that?"

"That was Michael, one of my new friends from school."

"He seems nice." She adds. "Is that who you have been out with since you got home."

"Yes, what's with all the questions mum?" I laugh.

"I'm just interested in your new friends and I've only asked two." I know she is lying not about the two questions bu she always likes to investigate. There I was thinking this phase was over.

"Exactly friends." I say walking out of the living room and going up to my bedroom to find something creative to do.

Once I am upstairs I find myself looking through my Pinterest account to find a picture to draw because I hadn't got any homework having done it all yesterday.

I decided to draw a picture of a old house that I had come across. I started to sketch the outline but not long after I started I got a call from Rosie and I quickly answered her call.

"Tilly?" she spoke in a hurry.

"Yeah, is something wrong?"

"No... I just need to talk to you about something. I'm coming over, what's your address?" I'm a little worried about this.

"16 Rose Bay Avenue." I told her.

"Okay I'll be there in a sec."

I waited nervously as I wanted to know what was so urgent.

A knock at the door sent me running down the stairs and I opened it and welcomed Rosie in.

"Mum this is Rosie. Rosie this is my mum."

"Hey." they both spoke at the same time and we all laughed.

"We are just going upstairs." I told my mum.

When we got up to my room Rosie sat on my bed and just stared round.

"You're so lucky with your room. Was you in the middle of this when I called you?" she said picking up my drawing.

"No..."

"Don't lie to me." she laughed.

"Okay, yeah I was but its fine. I was only doing it because I was bored it's not homework."

"You're so good." she said.

"Thanks but I'm really not. What was so urgent?" I asked.

"Well you know I told you the guys had a band."

"Yeah, which is great, right?"

"Yeah, it's just that their fan base is getting bigger now and I'm scared Ashton might move on or not be the same."

"I'm sure he won't but why didn't you talk to Grace about this. I'm not saying you can't come and talk to me about this stuff but I don't even know Ashton."

"Grace doesn't listen much anyway, she gets so easily distracted." Rosie explains laughing. "Plus I don't want her to think the same about Calum." She says. "You have to meet Ashton when we all meet up next."

"Yeah, I'm sure nothing will change how long have you been dating?" I ask.

"Almost a year." She says as if she has only just remembered.

"Aww that's so cute. And so long for him to suddenly just ditched you."

"Anyways I should be going, it's 10pm and we have school." She says sarcastically in a worried voice.

I walk Rosie out and ask her to text me when she's home. She climbs into her car and drives off which leaves me in the silence of my house. Mum is still working and so I decide to take the time to learn how to use the new tv. Turning it on was easy but trying to connect my phone to it was harder than it seemed and in the end I gave up and watched a random episode of friends that was on.

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The next morning I wake up and do my usual routine.

Once I get to school I grab a coffee, this time an iced one and wait for the others to arrive.

As soon as they arrive they grab a coffee too and we walk to school. Grace has her one earphone in listening to music, Calum is laughing at her singing along, Michael is walking beside me and Rosie is waking the other side of me. Luke is behind and I feel like his eyes are burning into the back of my head so I turn around and smile at him but I only get a small smile back.

What's up with him?

Rosie whispers in my ear "thank you for reassuring me." and Michael looks at me and her strangely.

What's going on?

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