Me and Lauren walked downstairs about half an hour later. Giggling still after what I had done to Claudine. Lola was sat on the sofa scribbling something in her diary. I sat on the sofa opposite and so did Lauren. I looked at her
"You gonna tell them or am I?" I asked. She shrugged.
"Lets do it together." She said with a smile. I smiled back before shouting up the stairs
"Can you all come down for a moment. I have something to tell you." I went back and sat down next to Lauren. Soon there was a rather loud thundering down the stairs. In came Danny, BB, Claudine and Jez. Claudine had red eye's. She looked as if she had been crying. I smiled apologetically at her but she still sat as far away from me as possible.
"We have something to tell you..." Me and Lauren said in unison. That made us collapse into giggles. Everyone else looked at each other and shrugged. As if to indicate 'we-don't-know-anything'.
"Me and Lauren..." I started
"Are..." Lauren continued
"Going out." We finished together.
"We hope that you all won't be mad and won't treat us any differently. But we felt like we should tell you rather than keep it a secret." I said taking Laurens hand and gently squeezing it.
"It's about time to." Said Jez.
"Huh?" We both replied
"We all knew that you liked each other. We were just all waiting for one of you to get up the nerve to ask the other one out. Can I just ask. Did Claudine come bursting in at a bad moment?"
"Yeah." Replied Lauren
"Real bad timing there Claudy." I said patting her shoulder. She flinched away before shooting me a death glare.
"It's Claudine." She said in a low voice
"Ooh stroppy knickers." I replied in a mock posh tone. My mum used to say that to me whenever I sulked. Before anyone knew what was happening me and Claudine were arguing like normal. Claudine thought that no-one had noticed her little secret. But I had. I had saw the flash of jealousy in her eye's when she had walked in on me and Lauren. I had seen the same flash when Lauren had held my hand before. But I had never seen that flash when Lauren was with Danny. So it must of been Lauren she was jealous of. For being with me. Without warning i jerked Claudine up by the shoulder and frog marched her out of the room.
"We'll be right back." I called as I pushed her up the stairs. When we arrived at my room I made sure that she walked in before walking in myself and locking the door behind me.
"So. Are you going to tell me? Or do I have to get you to do this in front of everyone?" I inquired sitting next to her on the bed.
"I..." She trailed off. I placed both of my hands on her shoulders and turned her to face me.
"Claudine Cameron you are a smart beautiful intelligent woman. I'm sure you can get one simple sentance out." I said in a commanding voice. Claudine nodded swallowed before saying in a very small voice
"I love you Niaome Baniske."
