Go with it
(Chapter 2)

'What a day!' I thought to myself as I lay looking up at a small crack in the ceiling of Sian's room.

The whole thing was kind of a blur.

First, Sian had abandoned me at the train station because she couldn't get her lazy arse out of bed, and when she finally turned up she had a nice little surprise for me.

All of her housemates thought we were a couple.

Not only that, she had somehow talked me into pretending to be her girlfriend for the weekend. I'm still not quite sure how she managed that one.

I tapped my feet impatiently against the bedspread beneath me. Sian was due back from the shops any second and she had some serious explaining to do.

"Hiya." Sian breezed into the room, a bright smile lighting up her face as she put a carrier bag down on the desk.

"Where have you been?" I asked with annoyance as I sprang up from the bed.

"Calm down Soph!" Sian laughed as she started pulling a few items out of the bag. "I was only gone ten minutes."

I glanced at my watch and winced slightly as I realized she was right.

'Felt longer than that.'

"Yeah well…I thought we were gonna talk?"

"What about?" Sian asked curiously

She can't be serious. I looked at her incredulously.

"Hello?" I waved my hand in front of her face. "About your little, 'this is my Sophie', hoohaa that you sprung on me today!"

"What do you want me to say? I already told you what happened Sophie." Sian said coolly as she carried on unpacking, glancing at me occasionally.

"Where do I start Sian?" I stared at her in amazement. "Er…could it be that I haven't seen you in ages…and then when I get here you throw this huge thing at me…" I gestured between us, my voice rising. "Or could it be that my best friend's just been feeling me up in front of a room full of strangers?"

Sians eyes widened and her fingers tightened around the can of coke she was holding.

"I didn't…I wasn't.." She spluttered suddenly embarrassed.

I raised one eyebrow and put my hands on my hips. "Well I wasn't the one with my hand on your arse Sian!"

I hid a small smile at the stunned expression on Sian's face.

"Just talk to me." I said softly after a few seconds.

She cleared her throat, placed the can on the side and turned to face me fully.

"Ugh!" Sian ran her hands through her hair in frustration. "This whole thing just got sooo out of hand Soph."

"That's what I don't get. What happened?"

"I told ya! Beth just assumed we were together."

"Yeah…I got that bit Sian" I replied slowly, rubbing at the side of my head.

"What I don't get, is why at that point you didn't say…'Oh me and Sophie are just friends'." I mimicked in a high pitched voice and twirled my hair between my fingers as Sian so often did.

Sian leaned over and swatted at me with the magazine she picked up from the desk.

"I don't talk like that!" She grinned at me as I rolled my eyes and defended myself with a pillow from the chair.

"Soph, I wish I had a better explanation for ya. But, I swear it all happened really quickly." Sian said, suddenly serious again.

"I believe you." I sighed, tugging at the edge of the cushion in my hands. "It just came out of nowhere. I was coming to see my best mate, but now as far as everyone else is concerned you're my girlfriend. I mean, what are we supposed to do now…" I dropped the pillow back down on the chair and walked over to the small window overlooking the car park, "…how are we even supposed to behave?"

"Behave?" Sian pulled a face.

"With each other Sian!" I said exasperatedly, throwing my hands out to the sides. "I mean, what kind of couple are we? Are we a touchy feely couple…do we hold hands everywhere we go?"

I started to pace back and forth in front of the window, fidgeting with my hands.

"Or do we save that kind of stuff for when we're alone?" I was starting to babble now, but I couldn't stop it.

"And kissing!" I stopped in my tracks and glanced over at Sian, who looked as confused as I felt.

"Do we kiss?" I asked, resuming my trek in front of the window. "Of course we kiss…that's what couples do…they kiss."

I halted once again. "Not that we're…" I pointed back and forth between me and Sian. "But as far as they're concerned we are…So you know…do we?"

I waited for an answer.

"Sian?" I asked impatiently, when one wasn't forthcoming.

Sian blinked at me. "Sorry, I thought you were still talking to yourself." She gave me a small smile, before tossing the magazine in her hands onto the desk and coming to stand in front of me.

"You don't have to do this you know." She said quietly, her eyes searching mine. "I can go back in there and just tell them all the truth, right now, if you like?"

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. Some best friend I'd be then. Sian had asked me to help her, and I told her that I would. End of story.

I opened my eyes and gave her a playful little shove. "Nah. I said I'd do it, and I will. I just had a little freak out there. Over it now."

Sian shoved me back with a grin. "Thanks Soph."

"And about all that stuff…I don't think we have to change how we behave that much you know." Sian grabbed my hands and laced her fingers through them lightly. "I mean we already hold hands and hug and stuff anyway. Especially when we go out…so it's fine." She shrugged flippantly.

"That was before people assumed that we sleep together as well, Sian!" I drew out her name sarcastically.

Sian used her grip on my hands to spin me around until I was facing the bed with her standing behind me. She propped her chin on my shoulder, placed her hands on my waist and spoke into my ear. "Well, we are going to be sleeping together, Sophie!" She mimicked my tone.

"Unless…you want to sleep on the floor?" I could feel her body pressed up behind me, her breath, warm and fresh against the side of my face, and I felt trapped all of a sudden. It was feeling I had never experienced around Sian before. I'd been close to her hundreds of times before, it was like she said, we touched each other all the time anyway. Why was this suddenly so different?

I clenched my hands into tight fists as I tried desperately to steady my erratic breathing, certain that any second Sian would be able to hear my heart trying to beat it's way out of my chest.

The sudden impulse to bolt from the room was cut short when Sian gave my sides a quick squeeze and pulled away. I turned to see her pick up my bag from beside the door.

"Come on, get dressed Soph" She threw my bag over to me with a smile, oblivious to the surge of emotions that had come over me. "We're going out!" She winked at me cheekily, and pulled open her wardrobe doors.

Leaving me standing holding my bag to my chest, suddenly terrified of what I had gotten myself into.

The End