*Jay’s POV*
I step out of the shower and grab the towel off of the floor, I quickly towel dried my hair and wrapped it around my waist. I went back into Lottie’s room, it was empty; she was still in the shower I figured. I began sing Heart Vacancy to myself but I turn around to get dressed but my clothes were gone, they weren’t where Lottie put them last night. I walk out into the hall way. ‘Charlotte?’ I say out aloud. ‘Yeah?’ she calls from down stairs. ‘Where are my clothes?’ I ask. ‘Um, I’ll be one second’ she shouts up. ‘Okay’ I call back. I was confused. However I went back into the bedroom and continued singing as I sat on the edge of her bed. ‘You’re really good’ she says, appearing in the door way. ‘Thanks’ I blush. ‘Here, your clothes’ she hands them to me. ‘They smell clean’ I look at her funny. ‘My mum must have put them in the wash this morning before we were awake. They were in the dryer’ she shrugs. ‘Oh, well tell her I said thank you when you next see her’ I mutter. She still had her towel wrapped around her. ‘I’ll just get my clothes and hair dryer and I’ll let you get ready’ she says awkwardly. ‘No, I’ll go get ready in the bathroom’ I offer, getting up off the bed. She nods. I went into the bathroom to get ready and after making sure she was decent I went back into the bedroom. ‘Here’ I say taking the brush from her hand. ‘I was using that!’ she laughs. ‘I want to brush your hair’ I chuckle. ‘Oh’ I gently brush through her hair; making sure it was no longer tangled. She grabs the hair dryer and starts drying her hair as I just watch her from the bed. It took her about 15 minutes until it was entirely dry. ‘Wanna do yours?’ she winks. ‘Sure’ I laugh. She comes over and starts drying my hair. She’s wearing a plain white cotton 3 quarter sleeved crop top and some high waist dark blue jeans. ‘You look nice’ I say but she doesn’t hear me over the hair dryer. She turns it off ‘There done’ she says running her hand through my curls. ‘I need a hair cut’ I say. ‘I don’t think you do’ she says as I look up at her. ’Why not?’ I ask. ‘You suit it like this. I like it’ she says, looking straight at me. I stand up. ‘You’re small’ I chuckle. ‘I’m not! You’re just tall’ she pushes me. ‘I guess so’ I say. ‘Lottie.. How old are you?’ I ask. ‘I’m 19 nearly 20 why?’ she asks. ‘I was just wondering’ I mutter. ‘what have you got planned for today then?’ she asks. ‘Well I was thinking we could go back to the house so I can get changed and then after that we just do whatever we want to’ I smile. ‘Sure, let me get my bag ready’ she smiles as she reaches under her bed and pulls out a patterned backpack. ‘Cute’ I say; making her giggle. ‘So what am I needing?’ she asks. ‘A spare change of clothes, and a hair brush and then whatever you want’ I say laughing. ‘A spare change of clothes?’ she asks. ‘Just in case we go somewhere or I don’t know just bring some’ I say. She nods. She grabs a pink top and some denim shorts with some tights. She packed everything and we set off to the house.
*Nathans POV*
Just as I was leaving Jay and Lottie were coming up the garden. ‘Hi, bye’ I say, walking past them. ‘Have fun!’ they both call at the same time then they burst out laughing. I shake my head chuckling to myself. I finally meet up with Sinead, kissing her on the cheek and going into the coffee shop. ‘So what do you want?’ I ask her. ‘Tea will do’ she smiles. I order 2 teas and a huge chocolate muffin to share. We find a nice little table to sit at and start chatting. ‘So, what do you do?’ I ask her. ‘Nothing at the moment, I only moved here like a week and half ago’ she tells me. ‘Explains the accent’ I wink; she just shakes her head and chuckles. ‘So after this, do you want to come back to the house and meet the boys properly?’ I ask her. ‘Sure, if you want me to’ she smiles and picks a bit of the muffin of. ‘What?’ she giggles, then I realise I was staring. ‘Nothing, you’re just like really pretty’ I tell her and then laugh as she blushes the colour of a tomato. There’s a ringing from her bag. ‘Sorry’ she says, taking it out of her bag. ‘Hello?’ she answers. ‘Woah, I said I’m sorry okay. I’m not good at goodbyes, a letter was better. I could actually say what I wanted without just crying okay?... I’m sorry... Yeah I know it doesn’t make things better... Yeah sure, whatever bye’ she puts the phone down. ‘My friend back in Ireland. She’s just got my letter’ she mumbles. ‘About?’ I ask. ‘Me, moving away. I didn’t tell them. I wrote letters and sent them off just before I left’ she looks down. ‘Hey, look at me’ I say, reaching over and holding her hand. ‘It’ll be okay’ I tell her; she nods. ‘Thanks Nathan’ she looks up and smiles. ‘Call me Nath’ I smile back. ‘Okay, Thanks Nath’ she laughs. ‘Come on lets go’ I say. We get up and leave, I wrap my arm around her waist as she rests her head on my shoulder and we make our way back to the house.
*Lottie’s POV*
For some reason I felt nervous about going into the house, what where the other boys going to think about me and Jay? We were just friends, for the moment. I wasn’t rushing into anything, every time I seem to do that it all comes crashing down. He opened the door and we stepped into the hallway. ‘Jay?’ Someone calls out. ‘Yeah’ he calls back. ‘Wahey! So you’re back from Lottie’s?’ I think it’s Tom but I’m not sure. ‘Yep’ Jay says. ‘And?’ there’s complete silence. We take off our shoes and go into the living room. ‘And nothing’ Jay says. ‘Lies!’ I was right, it was Tom who was calling out. ‘Not, anyway I’m going to get changed. Be nice okay?’ he warns them. He was leaving me on my own with them. I looked at him in panic. ‘You’ll be fine’ he tells me before I can protest. ‘I’ll be back in a second’ he says, leaving the room. I stand there awkwardly as Siva, Max and Tom look at me. ‘We’re not gonna bite, sit down’ Max laughs. I perch myself on the arm of the sofa. ‘So nothing happened between you and Jay last night?’ Tom asks. I shake my head ‘no’ I say. He starts laughing. ‘I don’t see what's so funny’ I say. ‘Well you wouldn’t, you probably won’t get what I’m laughing at’ he says. ‘I know exactly what you’re laughing at. You’re thinking “He stayed over at a girls house but still didn’t get any” right?’ I said. He shut up laughing. ‘Thought so’ I say; Jay walks back in then. ‘Whoa, what's with the tension in the room’ He laughs. ‘Oh nothing, I just proved Tom wrong’ I tell him. ‘Ooo, has he gone into a tantrum?’ he laughs; causing the rest of us but Tom to laugh. ‘Oh Tom we’re only joking with you’ I laugh. ‘I don’t find it funny’ he snaps crossing his arms. ‘Aww, poor TomTom’ Max says, grabbing his ear. ‘Anyway, come on we’re going out’ Jay smiles at me. ‘Okay’ I say, standing up. ‘Cute socks’ Siva laughs. I look down and see I’m wearing one pink and white striped sock and one black with silver stars on. ‘Oh, it’s lucky to wear odd socks didn’t you know’ I giggle. Jay lets out a loud laugh. ‘Come on’ He shakes his head and leads me out of the room. I stick my arm back in and wave. I shove my shoes on. ‘Byeee’ we call put before we leave. I look over at Jay, top with some sideways writing on and some jeans with some converse. ‘What does your top say?’ I ask. ‘Read it’ he laughs. I turn my head ‘If you turn your head to read this you owe me a blowjob’ I read out loud and then realise and burst out laughing before pushing him into a bush. ‘Very funny’ I say. ‘You sure seemed to think so’ he laughs. I shoulder barge him but it doesn’t do much; in fact it just results in him grabbing my hand and entwining his fingers with mine. I consider pulling my hand away but I don’t see the harm in it so I let him hold it. We carry on walking for a few blocks when I finally break the silence and ask were we’re actually going. ‘I don’t really know’ he laughs. ‘How about there, that place looks cute’ I point to a little tea shop. We walk in and it’s got cushiony seats with cute table clothes. ‘It looks expensive, shall we go somewhere else?’ I ask. ‘No I like it here’ he says. We go over to a table in the corner and wait for someone to come and wait on us. ‘Okay so what you having?’ Jay asks me. ‘I’ll tell him when I order’ I laugh. ‘Well I’m ordering so...’ he says. ‘I’ll just have a tea then please’ I say. A waiter comes over and takes our order and it’s actually not expensive at all. I try giving Jay the money for the tea but he won’t take it. ‘Ugh’ I say; sipping my tea. ‘Aw, you’re cute when you’re mad’ he says. ‘That's so soppy’ I wink. ‘Don’t you like it?’ he asks. ‘Erm, not really’ I laugh. ‘Well then, you’re not cute when you’re mad’ he winks. ‘You’re never cute’ I joke. ‘Oh thanks’ he laughs. ‘I’m joking’ I say. ‘So I’m cute?’ he asks. ‘Yeah, I guess you are’ I say. ‘Well thank you’ he says in a fake posh voice. ‘Idiot’ I laugh. ‘You’re so kind baby’ he laughs too. ‘You love me’ I wink. ‘Hmm’ he says sipping his tea. ‘So what’s after?’ he asks. ‘Well I have a spare pair of clothes so we can go to the beach!’ I say. ‘Really, you want to go to the beach?’ he asks. ‘Sure, why not’ I shrug. ‘Why don’t we go tomorrow?’ he suggests. ‘Ew, that means I have to spend 2 days in a row with you though’ I say, in a disgusted voice. ‘Yeah, sorry baby but you kind of stuck with me now’ he winks. ‘Oh great’ I joke. He pulls his phone out. ‘What are you doing?’ I ask being nosy. ‘Twitter’ he says. ‘Oh you should follow me’ I laugh. I give him my twitter name. ‘Followed’ he smiles. ‘I’m already following you’ I laugh. ‘Stalker’ he winks. ‘Oh yeah, I just can’t help myself’ I say. ‘I’m just so desirable’ he says. ‘I know’ I agree. We look at each other and burst out laughing. ‘Come on, lets go back to the house’ he says. ‘Why?’ I ask. ‘I want to watch a film!’ I say. ‘What film?’ I ask. ‘Erm, Avatar?’ he looks at me for approval. ‘Love that film, come on!’ I say, grabbing his hand and leading him out of the shop.
*Sinead’s POV*
We make it back to the house after about 2 hours as Nathan got sidetracked and we ended up going shopping. Just as we shut the door and get our shoes off, the door opens and Jay and Lottie come through laughing. ‘Hey guys’ Lottie laughs. We go into the living room. We’re all sat in there having a laugh and watching tele. Lottie seems like a completely different person around Jay; which is weird but also kind of cute. Nathan hasn’t let go of my hand all night, we’ve just sat on the sofa and talked and watched an amusing play fight between Lottie and Jay over one of Jay’s bracelets. ‘Is she always this, happy?’ Nathan whispered to me. I shook my head. ‘Is Jay?’ I ask. ‘Definitely not’ he laughs. ‘Oh, must just be them 2 together then’ I laugh. ‘Hey Sinead, come help me make drinks?’ Lottie get’s up. ‘Sure’ I smile, detaching myself from Nathan and going to make drinks. ‘So, you and Nathan... You two are pretty close ay?’ she chuckles. ‘Yeah, I know I really like him’ I smile. ‘Aw, you’re definitely cute together’ she tells me. ‘What about you and Jay? There’s a lot of flirting and banter going on between the two of you’ I laugh. ‘We’re still just friends. I don’t want to rush into anything’ she says. ‘Why not, you obviously like him’ I state-the-obvious. ‘Well he might not like me like that, we never know. I’m not rushing into anything, I’m taking it slowly’ she says; I look at her stupid. ‘You wouldn’t understand’ she says. We finish off making the drinks and head back into the living room with them. ‘So what you girls been talking about in there?’ Max asks. ‘Nothing’ Lottie says. ‘We were talking about you and Lottie actually, Jay’ I say, causing Lottie to nearly choke on her tea. ‘Sinead!’ She snaps. ‘Oh, sorry’ I say, laughing as did the others. ‘We weren’t just talking about that though, were we?’ she smiles ‘you were brought into the conversation too Nathan’ she says to him. ‘Oh I was, was I?’ he raises his eyebrows at me. ‘I hate you Charlotte’ I laugh. ‘Karma’s a bitch’ she laughs. ‘No, you’re a bitch’ I laugh along with her. ‘I can see a cat fight coming on here’ Tom says; making everyone laugh. ‘Nah, we’re just joking’ Lottie says, I nod. ‘Well, it’s getting really late. I should be going’ Lottie stands up, finishing off her coffee. ‘Aw, why?’ Jay says. ‘Because it’s about a mile walk and it’s dark. I’m not staying over’ she says, as he starts to ask. ‘Pfft, fine. I’ll walk you’ he says. ‘No, don’t be silly. I’m going alone or are you coming Sinead?’ she asks. I look at Nathan. ‘Nah, I’m staying.’ I say. ‘Okay, I’ll see you tomorrow Jay’ she kisses his cheek and says bye to the rest of us and leaves.
W/N: The girl at the side is an actress called Phoebe Tonkin and she protrays Sinead :)