'You'll only make yourself feel worse about this if you keep reading what the scum are writing about Toby,' he then kissed my temple and pulled me closer gently whilst I cried into his chest. 'Thank you,' I said to him he gave me a confused look when I had said that 'For what?' I gave him a kiss and at first I dint hear it but he repeated himself and said 'For believing that Toby didn't do it.' He looked at me smiled and kissed me back. He said to grab my coat. So I did and then got in his car, he drove me to the Grill and ordered the usual drinks and asked me wanted to eat, he said it was his treat but I wanted to pay, and being the gentleman he is, he wasn't giving in.
After we ate, he drove me home and nobody was home so we just sat downstairs and watched a film with a tub of Ben and Jerry's and cookies. We watched 27 dresses, only because it was the most decent film on TV, after the film finished, Mike cleaned up for me. After he cleaned up he went and ran me a bath, unfortunately he had to leave for practice. I stood in the hallway whilst he was at the door, he gave me a kiss goodbye, and then got into his car. Again, I didn't go inside until he had turned the corner. I locked the door and then got in the bath. I stayed in there for a while. I got a phone call from Spencer asking to meet at Hanna's. I grabbed my car keys and then got in my car. It wouldn't start. I called Aria asking if she could give me a ride. I went over to Aria's and got in the car.
When I got to Hanna's she turned the news on. It was story about Toby. They used a picture of me, him and my dad, and mom before she died. I shed a tear at what they were saying, Toby didn't have a violent bone in his body. Hanna shouted at me saying 'Yeah Nichole, get over it, your brother murdered my best friend.' I ran outside to the back yard. I heard Aria and Spencer shout at her and then they both came outside.
They said that they were sorry and then Hanna came out and gave me a hug and said 'Nichole, I'm so sorry.' They were treating me as if Toby was dead, but he wasn't. Aria told Mike about what happened and he came round, we just sat upstairs on my bed, he sat there with his arms around me.

My parents and Jenna didn't come home, so. Mike asked if he could stay the night, of course I said yes, he went and got changed and I got changed in my room, after we were changed I ordered a Thai takeout and we sat downstairs eating it with a film in the background whilst we talked and laughed. When the film had finished we cleaned up and went upstairs, it was about 9PM so we put some TV on and just sat on the bed, whilst Mike watched TV I grabbed my laptop and went on Facebook to see if Toby had recently been on online, he hadn't. Mike and I went to sleep at about 11PM he held me tightly but gently when I slept, he didn't want anything to happen to me.

**THE NEXT MORNING**

Mike woke me up with some food from 'The Rear-Window Brew.' , he had brought me a coffee and a cronut, I smiled at him as he walked though my bedroom door, he passed me my latte and cronut and I sat there eating it.
After I had eaten Mike went to get changed, I just put on a sweater over my pyjama's, we went downstairs and Mike cleaned up, he had to go at about 1pm because he had a lacrosse game preparation, it was the first game that he had, where his girlfriend on the stands cheering for him. I went to put on my sneakers and some jeans with his varsity jacket which he had given me. He smiled at me as I came down the stairs, I got a call just before he left, Toby had contacted Emily. But not me. I had Mona's party tonight. Ugh. She was calling it 'CAMP MONA' Mike didn't like Mona anymore than I did and he certainly didn't trust her, so he was going to be in the nearby car park.
His game went brilliantly and Rosewood High won. He went out for pizza with the guys when he left, but he gave me a ride to Mona's party before he left. After the meal he was coming straight back, Hanna was uninvited so she was camping out figuring who A was, with Mike. I could trust them both enough not to do anything. Hanna had Shaun anyway.