DISCLAIMER: I don't own Neighbours I make up my own little fan fictions about it :)
Normal POV
Chapter 2
The next day, awoken by Emma's unbearable snoring, Taylah rose from her bed. She checked the clock on her bedside table. 6.00am. 'Too early!' Taylah thought to herself. Taylah lay back in bed and sighed. Yesterday had been a nightmare. After running out on her friends(without them realizing) to cry about the fact that her one true love had another girlfriend, Taylah had hidden out in her room for almost an hour. While it only had felt like ten minutes for Taylah reality had hit and Rachel sent her a worried text. Taylah where the hell are you? Rachel had demanded supposedly annoyed with Taylah. Sorry got important tests. Speak later. Was all Taylah had managed to come up with. Rachel hadn't texted back after that.' No surprise there' Taylah had thought.
At 7.00am Emma's alarm clock went off waking up Emma. Taylah, who was already showered, dressed and ready for the day had Emma all confused as she got up. "What..." Emma sighed, hauling herself from her bed. Taylah just chuckled and continued to apply her eyeliner. " So what was all that last night?" Emma said, hoping for some gossip.
"Oh nothing.." Taylah sighed
"OK so you coming back here crying your eyes out is perfectly normal then?" Emma commented sarcastically. There was a long pause.
"Yes," Taylah muttered, swiftly exiting the room. Usually Taylah being Taylah she would have burst into tears at the thought of Zeke right now but Taylah had a plan. The plan she had been thinking about all night. The plan to win Zeke back and break Sunny and Zeke up. Admittedly the second part of the plan wasn't exactly nice but it was something Taylah needed to do anyway.
An hour or two later Taylah strolled down to the hotel where Zeke, Sunny, Donna, Ringo, Rachel, Declan and India were staying. She breathed deeply then with all the courage she had knocked on the door and painted the biggest fake smile onto her face. "Hey!" Declan said as he opened the door.
"Hey! Um sorry about running out like that last night I had a really important test to study for you see...." Taylah lied, giving a whole apology speech to Declan. When Taylah was finally finished Declan replied. " Um it's fine really. Come in", Declan said fully opening the door so Taylah could step in.
Taylah nervously walked through into the hotel living room where everyone was sitting watching Friends laughing out loud whenever a classic 'Chandler Moment' came on screen. "Hey everyone Taylah's here!" Declan said noticing no one had realized.
"Hi Taylah!" chorused Zeke, Ringo, Rachel and Donna. Taylah noticed Sunny didn't say a word or even dare to look at her. 'Great!' thought Taylah.
Taylah waited ages for Sunny to get out the room so she could make her move on Zeke but Sunny wasn't budging. After what seemed like a million Friends episodes to Taylah, Sunny finally left the room. As she left she glared at Taylah. Taylah tried extremely hard not to make eye contact. Once Taylah was sure Sunny was completely gone Taylah moved up a seat so she could be closer to Zeke. It felt like the perfect time to accuse him of why he was dating again and completely forgetting about how much he and Taylah used to be in love. Used to be. She also felt like it would be the perfect time because Ringo, Declan, Donna and Rachel were away playing air hockey on the balcony and India was asleep in Declan's room. Yes, it was the perfect time Taylah decided.
"Hi", Taylah smiled, striking up conversation.
"Hey!" Zeke replied awkwardly.
" So how are you?" Taylah asked, sensing the awkwardness.
"Um good um...i was wondering..well if it kind of bothered you that me and Sunny were going out because she said she heard you speaking to Rachel about us", Zeke confessed. Speaking to Rachel? What? Was Taylah's first reaction. Taylah looked at Zeke, red with anger.
"I never spoke to Rachel about that!" Taylah truthfully informed him." And no. You and Sunny going out doesn't bother me in the slightest". The last bit was an obvious lie but Taylah was so angry she figured Zeke wouldn't be able to tell.
"Oh well good!" Zeke said cheerfully, to Taylah's disappointment. "So I was also wondering..." Oh god what was this time?Taylah struggled to draw back her tears.
"If we could be friends like we used to be before we started going out?" Zeke asked hopefully.
"Oh...oh yes!" Taylah said trying her best to make it sound like that's what she wanted.
"Good", Zeke smiled. Then he went off to play air hockey with the rest of them. Taylah sat back in her chair. Out of breath and in disbelief.
Later when everyone came back from playing air hockey including Sunny who had joined them (probably so she wouldn't have to join Taylah as she watched Friends which seemed to be the only thing on TV today) they all came back and sat in the living room next to Taylah. Apart from Sunny who sat as far away from her as possible dragging Zeke along with her. " So we're all going to this party tonight at the club down town tonight. You want to come?" Declan asked. Taylah looked at round. She saw Sunny's glare of hatred from the other side of the room.
"Yeah I'll come!" Taylah grinned flashing a small devious smile at Sunny.
"Good!" Declan said.
" OK well I'll see you there!" Taylah said skipping out the door and away back to the school.
Taylah got Emma to cover for her that night. Taylah successfully managed to escape out the school without the teachers noticing and hurry off away down town to the party. When they got there Taylah could see the main theme of the party was obviously alcohol. Taylah had been told the party started at 9.00pm and she could come along anytime after that. It was now 9.30pm and teenagers of all ages were completely drunk already. Taylah was surprised to see one of her friends was completely drunk already. "Zeke!" Taylah shouted from across the other side of the room. She hurried over to Zeke. "Zeke what are you doing?Why are you so drunk?" Taylah asked worryingly.
"Me and Sunny had the massive fight", Zeke said, slurring his words. Taylah couldn't stop a small evil smile from creeping over her face at that moment. "I guess we're kind of broken up", Zeke finished.
" Aw well come upstairs a minute away from all the drink and crazy party people," Taylah said helping Zeke up the stairs.
Just as Zeke and Taylah were halfway up the stairs out of nowhere Sunny turned up. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING WITH HER?!" Sunny screamed from across the room. The whole party even the extremely drunk teenagers went silent. Taylah looked down. She was linked arm and arm with Zeke going upstairs. Yeah, she could certainly see how bad that looked from Sunny's point of view.
Without warning Sunny charged at Taylah. Taylah ran and dodged Sunny. Unfortunately Taylah couldn't run fast enough. Sunny managed to grab her hair and push her onto the ground. "LEAVE ZEKE ALONE!" Sunny yelled and then she stormed out leaving a mass of destruction behind her. After that Taylah got so drunk she didn't know what she'd done, where she'd gone or how she'd got back to the school. All Taylah could remember was Zeke. For some reason Zeke stuck in her head and she was pretty sure it wasn't for the reason that she was madly and truly completely in love with him...it was something else. She just couldn't remember.
So why is it Taylah remembers Zeke so clearly? What's going to happen with the Sunny/Zeke/Taylah love triangle? Will it take a dramatic twist?Most definitely. Find out everything in my next chapter of Zaylah: The Love Story.
Georgina :)