"Oh no wait! That was you!"
1.30 am
Lauren yawned as she trudged sleepily down the stairs into Ms Troy's kitchen. She glanced at the clock and saw how early it was. She groaned and poured her self a glass of water. Staring out the kitchen window she sipped her water and thought of her first year at Britannia High. She thought of her very first day. She thought of how Danny had beat his dyslexia. She thought of how Jez had almost left. She thought how Lola had almost left, twice. She thought of poor BB's brother. She thought of how Claudine had taken Danny from her. She thought of how she had been diagnosed with Meralgia paraesthetica. She thought of how supportive Danny had been and how he had said that he would always be there to help her though it. These last few thought brought tears to her sleepy eyes. She tried her best not to but before she could stop herself she had collapsed into a heap on the kitchen floor shaking with uncontrollable sobs.
"Huh? What? What time is it" Came a tired voice from the sofa in the living room.
"What the hell!? Who is that!?" Lauren said getting up quickly and flicking on the light. She rushed into the living room to see a startled and sleepy BB sitting up on the sofa. "BB! What the hell are you doing here!?"
"Huh? What? Oh… um… well it was getting late and it was dark so Ms troy said I could stay here for the night instead of walking home in the dark. Jez is here too but he's in Danny's room and Ronnie's in Claudine's. I was gonna stay in yours but we didn't want to wake you up so slept on the sofa."
"Oh. Well… um… cool!" Lauren said laughing awkwardly and sitting down next to him.
"So. What are you doing up so early then Lozza?" BB said freely making Lauren relax as he rubbed his eyes.
"Oh… um… I don't know. I think it's just because I went quiet early."
"Cool. Ok next question, why where you crying?" Lauren suddenly stop smiling but she didn't answer.
"Same reason as yesterday?"
"Same as the day before, same as the day before that!" Lauren said running her hand through her hair and sighing. "How could I have been so stupid BB!? I mean I was telling Ronnie to stay out of it, to not mess everything up! When it was me messing it up all a long!? ARRG!!!! I miss him SO much BB! I… I love him!!"
"I know you do Lozza but he loves Ronnie now. You just… you just have to move on," he looked sympathetically at Lauren as she wiped a tear from under her eye. She turned to BB and looked at him with her wide brown eyes. He looked back at her with his. Putting her glass down she leaned in towards BB. Within a second they where kissing. BB put his arms around Lauren and she did the same. Sinking into the kiss they pulled each other closer.
7 am
"Hey." BB said gently as Lauren opened her eyes and looked up at him. They where both lying on the sofa and Lauren had her head resting on BB chest.
"Morning. What time is it?"
"Seven."
"Oh, we better be getting up then. Can't be late for class." Lauren got up and walked into the kitchen putting a piece of bread into the toaster. But instead of getting up BB just lay looking at Lauren and grinning.
"What?" Lauren said looking back and laughing.
"Nothing." he said getting up from the sofa and leaning on the kitchen counter. "So, let me tell you about this fit girl I kissed last night. Oh no wait! That was you!" Both Lauren and BB collapsed into fits of giggles.
"Hey!!" Came a squeaky voice from the top of the stairs. Lola rushed into the kitchen and flung her arms around Lauren. "I can't believe I'm back I've missed you so much!"
"Whoa! Lola! Haven't we done the "I cant believe I'm back" bit already!?"
"I know!!! But I'm so excited to be back!!!"
Lauren laughed and hugged Lola back. She was glad Lola was back. She even glad Claudine was back! Within ten minutes Danny, Ronnie, Jez and Claudine had come down the stairs and they were all sitting eating their breakfast around the table. Lola could barely contain her excitement about going back to Britannia High and to be honest neither could Lauren. She had really missed that school and the people. She looked next to her at BB who was looking back at her. BB took her hand underneath the table. She looked up and smiled. BB smiled back and for the rest of the day neither of them stopped smiling.
