Christmas came and went and pretty soon it was time for us to take the drive up to Sydney. It was going to take a day, so at 8am on the morning of our departure I awoke to Ally shaking me. "are you planning on getting up soon?" she asked.
"Not really" I groaned, rolling over onto my stomach.
"Will's packing the car and he says if you don't come down in ten minutes he's coming up"
I shoved a pillow over my head to block out the noise. "Because I'm so scared" I said.
I heard Ally scream as she stormed down the stairs and knew she was going straight to Will. I moaned and turned over, not wanting to get up until it was at least lunchtime. I had almost fallen asleep again when Will entered the room laughing.
"So you're not scared are you?" he said and I felt his cold hand on my skin where my pyjama top had ridden up.
He moved his legs to either side of my body and rolled me onto my back so that I had to look at him. The light he'd turned on shone into my eyes. "Get off me!" I squealed
Will scrunched up his face as he rolled off. "Arrgh, go brush your teeth, your breath stinks!"
I covered my mouth as I ran to the bathroom. "I hate you William!"
"Funny," he said putting his hands on my hips while I brushed my teeth. "You have no problem saying you hate me but you can never say you love me." I stared down at the sink. "Why is that Jordan?"
His lips went to my neck and I felt my body stiffen. "I don't know Will."
"You had no problem saying it on our first night together".
I span out of his hold and went into my room to dress. "If you already know why do I have to say it again?"
"Because I would like to be reassured a couple of times" he said.
"I love you" my voice was shaking as I spoke "are you happy now?"
"No, now I feel like I forced you to say it." He looked around the room as he spoke then sighed "Your bag is already downstairs; if you are not with it in five minutes we're leaving without you". And with that he left, slamming the door shut behind him.
I groaned and quickly shoved some shoes on my feet. Will was already in the car when I made it down. "I'm sorry." I said as he turned away from me to face the house.
"I don't understand why you can't say it" he said looking down at his hands.
I took both of them, forcing him to look at me, if only briefly "Will, other then you who was the last person I said 'I love you' to?"
He shrugged but caught my eye "Ash?"
I rolled my eyes "My father, and look how that turned out."
Realisation hit Wills face and he swore under his breath. "I'm so sorry Jordan" he said "I didn't think about that".
I smiled reassuringly, "don't worry about it".
It was at that point that our serious conversation came to a halt. Ally and Liam had bounded, both way to happy for eight-thirty in the morning, into the back seat of the car. "Hey love birds! We're coming with you." Chimed Ally.
Will groaned "go with Kye, please!"
"Kye won't let us, he says he want's alone time with Nathalia. Apparently they haven't seen each other for a while"
"Well what if I want alone time with Jordan?"
Ally laughed at her sibling "Well… alone time for you, and alone time for Kye are two very different things. Alone time for you two involves talking, maybe a little bit of kissing, but that's it. I think Kye intends on pulling the car over to the edge of the road"
I screwed up my face not wanting to think about Kye and Nathalia. "Don't you have a car Ally?"
"Yeh but what's the point in taking three cars and besides if we're in here Will and Liam can take turns to drive. Now lets go or we won't be their by lunchtime."
The car started and we pulled out of the driveway. "Lunchtime?" I asked "how can we get to Sydney by lunchtime?"
Ally laughed "you are so cute, did you really think we where going to Sydney, that was just a cover, so that mum thought we spent our days sight seeing."
I growled "where are we going then?"
"Chelsea, my parent gave me the keys to their beach house there" Liam said.
I reached behind me and hit Ally's leg lightly "You mean I got up this early for nothing!" I squealed.
It was obvious that Will was fighting back laughter and I relaxed, glad that he was back to normal again. "Don't you think Mum and Dad will find out about this?" he asked after a minute.
"Nah, I got us postcards to send back to them, it'll be fine."
Wills sighed disbelievingly and then returned his concentration to the road.
"Your excuse for coming in our car is void then. If we are only going two hours away, you won't need to swap drivers".
Ally's only response to my comment was to shrug and roll her eyes.
It wasn't long before we'd arrived at our destination. "You could have gone faster." Ally yelled at Will.
"If I had have of gone faster we would have been pulled over by the police. Next time, if that happens I'll explain to them that you forced me to speed so that you could be with your boyfriend in private."
Liam came up behind Ally, laughing as her cheeks flushed bright red. "I can see we're all getting along fine. I'm sure we'll last a week cooped up in the same house as each other."
I smiled at him. "Well this house I certainly big enough that we won't even have to see each other".
Liam laughed again. "You should see my grandparent's real house" he said "would you like a tour?"
Liam took both mine and Ally's arms before leading the three of us into the house. The first room we entered was amazing. There was a huge chandelier in the foyer (causing Will to hum the theme tune to the Phantom of the opera in my ear) that was absolutely beautiful. Instead of the usual clear glass crystals hanging from it each piece was made from a different colour. We where staring at it for at least ten minutes before Liam broke our silence with his laughter; "should we go up to the rooms then?" he said leading up a spiral stair case onto the floor with the bedrooms on it. He opened the first door and I had to fight to hold back a squeal. The room was huge about twice the size of Will's room at home. In the centre of it was a bed, a queen-size adorned with soft looking white sheets. Beside this was a sliding glass door leading to a balcony. "You can see the entire ocean" I exclaimed.
Liam laughed at my enthusiasm, "come on Ally, let's go pick our room." He turned back to Will and I "we will meet you for lunch".
I ran over and jumped on the bed "I love this house!!"
Will laughed, amused at my excitement and made his way into the bathroom that was connected to the bedroom. I could here his sharp intake of breath. "Wow this room is bigger then my bedroom."
I laughed and unpacked my bags before changing into my tracksuit pants. I lay back on the bed and pretty soon I felt Will's warm body beside me. "Sleep well" he whispered as we both drifted off.
We slept through lunch and by the time we woke up Liam was ordering dinner. Kye and Nathalia had arrived. "Hey did you have a nice 'sleep'?" Kye asked, winking.
I smiled sweetly "Yeh it was good, how was you're 'drive'?"
Will laughed and put his arm around me, apparently Kye and Nathalia had only gotten back a few minutes before Will and I had woken up.
Liam had ordered us pizza and we all sat in front of the TV to eat. I smiled to myself; Wills family probably loved this, a chance to eat in piece without being asked how your day was. But that was one of the reasons I loved dinner at Will's, it was the only place I could go where people would care about what happened in my day.
