Hey guys. Sorry about the long wait for this chapter but it is longer than the other two so I hope that will compensate.

Please, please, please review after you've read this. I really want to know what people think about it. They willalso motivate me to write quicker next time.

Well, here's the next chapter. Enjoy.

Chapter 3

Tanisha went to school the following two days. She got through it with her head down, ignoring all the snide remarks. Occasionally someone would congratulate her and some teenies from year nine called her a gold digger and a slut. Again she just ignored it. Her friends also helped her get through it, keeping her spirits up.

It got to Saturday and Tanisha woke up happy that she didn't have to go to school. Hopefully by Monday it would have all been forgotten. It was the fourth of November, the day after her sister's birthday. She was having a party in the evening. Their parents were going to stay with relatives for a couple of days so they had the house to themselves.

Tanisha got out of bed and went down the stairs. She heard her mum giving her sister the usual lecture before she left. They were leaving quite early.

"I can't exactly stop you from drinking or anything as you're nineteen now, but if anything happens to your sister, you will be held responsible. Make sure the house doesn't get trashed and make sure it is spotless when I get back, or you won't be allowed a party again." It went on like that with a list of rules and other things.

"Don't worry mum, nothing's gonna happen." Sapphira said.

"Good. So you know the number of your aunt's house and your dad's got his mobile if you need to contact us."

"Come on Pam, we've got to go now." She heard her dad call.

"Just wait a minute." Her mum came into the living room where Tanisha was. "Good you're awake. You better listen to your sister and behave."

"Mum, I'm sixteen not six."

"Make sure you act like it then." She said goodbye to each of her daughters giving them a peck on the cheek and then left.

"Finally, I thought she'd never leave." Sapphira said. "You better not get me into trouble." Tanisha just rolled her eyes. Everyone treated her like a kid.

"What time is everyone gonna be here?" Tanisha asked.

"Well most of the people are gonna be here at eight but Dougie and the guys are coming round earlier to help." Tanisha still hadn't seen Dougie since the previous Sunday when they had been shopping. Hopefully things wouldn't be weird because of the magazine.

She liked his friends. She had met them quite a few times. Harry, Tom and Danny were the other three members of McFly. They were all a couple of years older than him and Dougie would often tell Tanisha stories of how they would pick on him.

Dougie had joined the band a few years earlier when he was fifteen. Tom and Danny, the two front men, had been holding auditions for a drummer and a bassist, so Dougie went along. Sapphira, Tanisha and Jazzie went with him for moral support. He was so nervous when he got there he was sick before he went in. He came out saying how he had mucked it all up when they were asking him questions. Tom and Danny later teased him saying that he had cried.

A couple of weeks later Dougie had gotten the call to say that he had made the band. He was ecstatic but it meant he would be moving away to a house with the rest of the guys. They had also chosen Harry, the drummer. Dougie would still come home every now and then to see his family and other friends but it wasn't like it used to be. Tanisha was happy about the band's success but she still missed him.

"Oh crap, I've gotta get ready for work." Tanisha said realising the time. She quickly ran into the shower. Tanisha worked in WHSmith's on Saturday from 10 until 4:15. She got ready and said a quick goodbye to her sister before running out of the door.

Her day at work was very uneventful with people leaving her till before they could think about where they remembered her from. That was until about ten minutes before her shift was over when Dougie appeared at her till.

There weren't many customers in the shop at the time so there were no queues meaning her and her co-workers were just sitting and watching each person go by. This meant that all their eyes were on Dougie as he walked up to Tanisha's desk. She guessed that they had all read the article, each being too polite to actually say anything to her about it in the day.

"Hey Tanisha." He said smiling.

"Dougie, what are you doing here?" She asked, confused, but still happy.

"Sapphira couldn't be bothered to pick you up so I offered to come instead so you wouldn't have to walk home on your own." There were two customers being served on the till next to them and Dougie and Tanisha heard snippets of their conversation.

"Isn't that the guy from McFly?" One of them whispered. They looked about thirteen.

"Yeah, is that the girl from the picture then?"

"Must be, that model was much better looking than her." They weren't exactly talking quietly and Dougie and Tanisha heard it all. Dougie saw Tanisha's hurt expressions and turned to the two girls.

"Excuse me." They both turned looking star struck. They were obviously teenies.

"Yeah?" One of them managed to say.

"Can you not talk about us like that?" He said in an agitated voice. The other one spoke up.

"We weren't talking about you Dougie…" She giggled when she said his name. "…we were talking about her." She gave Tanisha a dirty look.

"I don't care who you were talking about, just don't do it." He said angrily. Their face went bright red as they walked off in a huff.

"I hate McFly now." Tanisha heard one of the say. Dougie then carried on talking to Tanisha as if nothing had happened, totally unfazed by the two girls.

"So what time do you get off work then?" Tanisha looked at the clock on her till screen.

"In about a minute; I just gotta wait 'til my manager says I can go." Just as she said that her manager walked up to her.

"Make that your last customer, then you can go." He said.

"Oh he's just come to pick me up. He's not a customer."

"You can go then. I'll see you next week." He said with a smile.

"Yeah see you." She said as she signed off her till. Her manager, Neil, looked at Dougie with a confused expression.

"Don't I know you from somewhere?" He asked him.

"Erm, no." Dougie said nervously. "Tanisha, I'll meet you outside, okay?" He said before dashing off.

"He's a bit strange isn't he?" Neil said staring in the direction Dougie had just gone in. "…and fast." Tanisha just laughed and went to get her stuff from the staff room. She was just about to leave when she was stopped by her co-worker, Emma. She didn't really like Emma and Emma didn't like her either.

"How did youget a celebrity boyfriend?" She sneered,

"Dougie's not my boyfriend."

"Whatever, I saw your pictures in the magazine and I saw him here just now, so don't lie."

"I don't have time for this right now. I'm going." She pushed past Emma and walked out of the door. Dougie was stood leaning against the wall outside the shop, his hands in his pockets, staring off into space. Tanisha couldn't help but think about how cute he looked with his vacant expression. He noticed Tanisha and smiled, his whole face lighting up and his eyes becoming tiny and crinkling at the edges.

Dougie led her to an electric blur mini cooper parked in the car park. She gasped when she saw it.

"Tom actually let you borrow his car?"

"Yeah." He laughed. His laugh was cute and childlike.

"Even after what happened last time?"

"Hey I told you, that was an accident and it wasn't my fault." Tanisha just laughed at his defensiveness.

"You should really get your own car now."

"I can't be bothered when I can just use everyone else's." He shrugged.

They got to her house quite quickly and Tanisha changed out of her work clothes to help sort out the house for the party. At about six, Tom, Danny and Harry arrived with a lot of alcohol.

"How many drinks did you guys buy?" Sapphira asked in amazement.

"Enough to make this a great party." Danny said enthusiastically.

"…and enough to make people so drunk that they don't remember we were here." Harry mumbled but loud enough for everyone to hear. Tanisha felt someone walk up behind her.

"She really shouldn't have put them in charge of the alcohol." Dougie said quietly. Tanisha shivered inside as she felt his hot breath on her ear.

At seven everything was set up and the guys went back to Dougie's to get ready. Sapphira and Tanisha went upstairs to change into their party attire. Tanisha was wearing a simple black dress with thin straps. It reached just below the knee and had a pattern with beads and sequins at the top. She also put on a bit of eyeliner and eye shadow to make her eyes stand out. Her sister had put loose curls in her hair so she had clipped a bit of the front back. She looked at herself in the mirror and wondered if Dougie would like it.

Sapphira walked into Tanisha's room wearing a purple dress with navy blue patterns. Her hair was up and she was wearing more make-up that Tanisha.

"You look nice." She said to Tanisha. "Are you trying to impress someone?"

"No!" Tanisha said quickly.

"You said that far too quickly for it not to be true. Just don't do anything stupid."

"Like what? What am I gonna do?" They were interrupted by the doorbell.

"I'll get it." Sapphira said, leaving Tanisha's room. Tanisha heard the voices of people downstairs but didn't want to go there yet so she got her phone to text Fran.

'Hey Fran, U comin 2 da party. Tan x.' She waited a couple of seconds before getting a reply.

'No soz. My bro just rang. His g/f chucked him out. Gotta pick him up. Mite come by l8r. Fran x.' She sighed.

'K but I'm gonna b alone 4 a bit. Hopefully c u l8r. Tan x.' Again Fran's reply was quick. Tanisha was amazed at how quick she could text.

'It's k. U gt D 2 keep u company. G2g now bye. Fran x.' Fran had recently passed her driving test as she was already seventeen. Her two older brothers took advantage of this and got Fran to pick them up at times when they were too drunk to drive or at other times. Tanisha couldn't wait to turn seventeen so she could learn to drive, but she was one of the youngest in her year so she still had ages to wait.

Danny and Dougie were sitting on one of the sofas in the living room talking amongst all the other people Sapphira had invited who were having there own conversations. Dougie wasn't really saying much to Danny and he kept looking around.

"Hey dude, are you looking for someone?" Danny asked him after he looked around again.

"No!" He said a bit too quickly.

"Yes you are. You've been looking around the whole time I've been talking to you. Who is it?" Just then Dougie noticed that Tanisha had come down the stairs and into the landing. He blanked out what Danny was saying to him. She was all dressed up and he couldn't stop staring. Unlike half of the girls in the room, she looked naturally beautiful in her dress rather than leaving nothing to the imagination.

"Dude you're drooling." He heard Danny say which brought him out of his daze. Danny followed his line of vision and saw Tanisha talking to one of Sapphira's friends. "That's who you've been looking for. Dude, you can't go messing with your mate's little sister."

"What? I haven't been messing with anyone, man. I don't even like her like that. She's Sapphira's little sister. I don't even think of her in that way." He rambled on defensively.

"Oh, okay." Danny said sarcastically with a knowing look on his face. Dougie looked back towards the landing to se that Tanisha had gone and couldn't help but look disappointed. Danny noticed this but didn't say anything.

Tanisha had come down from her room and said hi to the few of her sister's friends that she knew. She thought she felt someone staring at her again and as she looked around she saw Dougie, but he seemed to be in deep conversation with Danny. She just shrugged it off and went to get a drink from the kitchen.

She picked a Smirnoff Ice out of the fridge and saw Tom in the kitchen as well. He walked over to her with a beer in his hand and a smile on his face, showing his single dimple on his right cheek. Tom was very easy to talk to and to get along with and Tanisha had grown very fond of him in the times when Dougie would bring him around. Except from Dougie, Tanisha got on most with Tom out of the McFly boys.

"Hey Tanisha, I haven't talked to you properly since we got here. What you been up to?" They got into a conversation of what they'd been doing since they last saw each other. "Guess what. I'm going to the Star Wars convention." Tanisha thought it was cute the way Tom was so excited about this. She also shared Tom's love for Star Wars and often had long conversations on the subject, much to the dislike of the rest of the band.

"Wow, that's so cool. When is it?"

"It's gonna be in February. I think it's around the time of the Easter holidays. Do you want to go too? You can stay with me and Dougie for a couple of days."

"Really? I'll have to ask my mum." Their conversation was interrupted when Tanisha felt someone tap her on the shoulder. She turned around to see a guy she didn't know. She hadn't seen half of the people at the party before and wondered why her sister had invited so many random people.

"Hi, I'm James. Sorry to interrupt, but you live here, right?"

"Yeah." She nodded.

"Could you show me where the toilet is please?" He asked with a smile.

"Er…okay. I'll be back in a minute Tom." She took him to the downstairs toilet but found that it was locked. They heard the sound of retching inside. "I think you better go to the upstairs one instead." She led him up the stairs.

"You're Tanisha, right?" He said talking quite loud to be heard over the music.

"Yeah, that's right. Here's the bathroom." She said pointing when they reached the door. She felt a bit creeped out by him but he seemed pretty normal. She turned to leave but was stopped when he grabbed her wrist. "What are you doing? You're hurting me." He didn't reply but pulled her into a room, which happened to be hers.

"Now I've got you all alone." He said sadistically. "I saw you in that magazine with that boy band guy. I figured you must be pretty easy if he's going out with you. Why else would he go out with a sixteen year old? Why should he get privileges just 'cause he's famous? I want a piece of the action too. He said the last bit perversely looking her up and down.

"Let me go." Tanisha said trying to tug her arm away but he was too strong. He pushed her up against the wall and she felt the pain as her head hit it.

"Come on; show me what you do for him." He breathed into her ear. Tanisha was really struggling now but he just kept pushing her back into the wall. "Stop moving." He pulled a pocket knife out and opened the blade with one hand making her freeze in fear. "There's a good girl, and don't try screaming either. Nobody will hear you anyway." He was right. Over the loud music and chatter downstairs, her voice had no hope at all.

"Please don't hurt me." She pleaded in a quiet voice.

"Then do as I say." With his knifeless hand he started to grope her body, making her cringe.

"The magazine made up the story. There's nothing going on between me and Dougie." She tried but he still didn't stop.

"That's not gonna stop me from having my way with you now that I've got you." He forced his lips onto hers and tried to push his tongue into her mouth. "Stop resisting, it's going to happen anyway." He mumbled against her lips.

Tanisha was now crying silent tears. She didn't want to lose her virginity this way. She wished somebody would wander up the stairs and help her. His hand went from the back of her knee up her thigh, slowly inching under her dress. She tried to move to not allow him access but he just pushed her back into place by showing her the knife again.

Dougie had gotten up a while after seeing Tanisha, wondering why he hadn't seen her since. He was looking for someone he knew to ask about her. He saw Harry first who was sitting with Sapphira.

"Harry, have you seen Tanisha?"

"No I haven't, sorry mate."

"I think I saw her go into the kitchen." Sapphira said.

"Alright, cheers." He went into the kitchen and saw Tom. "Hey Tom, did you see Tanisha?"

"Yeah I was talking to her and some guy asked her to show him where the toilet is. She said she'd be back but I haven't seen her since." Dougie thought that maybe she got bored and went to her room or something. He made his way upstairs and got to her bedroom. He heard someone talking inside and knocked on the door.

"Tanisha?" He called. James heard this and quickly put his hand over her mouth.

"Don't say anything." He whispered. Dougie heard no answer and the talking seemed to stop.

"Tanisha, it's Dougie." Still there was no answer. He wondered if she had left her T.V on or something so he opened the door and went in to find out. He didn't expect to see what he saw. Tanisha was pushed up against the wall by a guy with one hand over her mouth and a knife in the other. She had tears running down her cheeks and fear mixed with relief in her eyes.

"Oh, it's you" the guy sneered.

"Who the fuck are you and what the fuck are you doing, you prick?" He shouted. James sneered.

"I'm doing your girlfriend, arsehole." Dougie grabbed him from the back, pulling him away from Tanisha and onto the floor. James's hand loosened so Dougie kicked the knife away. Dougie jumped on top of him and punched him repeatedly wherever he could reach. James got a few punches in himself but Dougie seemed to be doing more damage.

Tanisha watched as the two guys rolled around in front of her. She was worried because James looked a bit bigger than Dougie but Dougie seemed to have the upper hand. Dougie pulled James up off the floor after getting himself up and pushed him against the door.

"Get out of here, bastard, before I do something that I'll regret later." He opened the door and James fell backwards. He looked like he was going to come back in but reconsidered when he saw the look on Dougie's face. He got up and ran down the stairs and outside, slamming the door behind him.

Dougie looked back into the room and saw Tanisha still standing against the wall with tears rolling down her cheeks. He went over to her and wrapped his arms around her. She buried her head into his chest and sobbed quietly.

"D-dougie, h-he was g-gonna…"She stuttered.

"Shh…it's okay. He's gone now. He's not gonna hurt you anymore." Dougie said, rubbing her back gently and resting his chin on her head.

"I-I tried to… but he h-had a…"

"You don't have to talk about it yet. Calm down a bit first." He continued holding her, whispering soothingly into her ear until she stopped crying. She finally stopped and sniffed, lifting her head off of Dougie's chest. He gave her a tissue from the box on her bedside table to wipe away any stray tears.

"I'm sorry about your t-shirt." She said looking at his now tear soaked t-shirt with black marks from her eyeliner.

"It doesn't matter. Are you okay? Did that bastard hurt you?" He asked, concern showing in his piercing blue eyes.

"He didn't really hurt me much, but what about you? Your lip is bleeding." Dougie touched his lip and looked at the blood on his finger.

"I'll live. Did you see him though? I don't think he'll bother you again." He said smiling. Tanisha felt all her worries disappear because of that smile.

"Thanks for helping me." She said timidly.

"Don't worry about it. You're like a sister to me. I've got to protect you." Tanisha's heart dropped a bit at the fact that he only saw her as a sister, but she knew in reality, Dougie would never think of her in the way that she wanted. Dougie saw something in her eyes but he didn't know what. It was gone so quickly, though, that he could have imagined it.