CH/46

Riley POV

Finish our stuff? Not so much of that last night…
As soon as we reached the room we basically fell right onto the bed and were fast asleep in an instant. We hadn't changed into pajamas, actually, Danny hadn't even bothered to take his shoes off.

I felt something shift behind me and turned to find Danny was awake.
"Hello Sleeping Beauty…" , I joked.
"Hello… Snow White…" , he mused.
"Snow White? She had nothing to do with sleeping. She was… in a coma!"
"Yeah well, it's the only Disney movie with a princess I can think of…"
"Princess huh?"
"Yes… Princess."
"Ah well, as long as you treat me like one, I don't care to be called one…"
"And how does one treat a princess?"

"Well…" , I started and I pulled him over.
"Oh, I like where this is going!"
"Me too…" , I said, as I pulled him all the way to the other side of the bed.
"Because where it's going is downstairs, to breakfast and coffee!" , I teased him.

Jazzie POV

I woke up on the couch, a bit confused. When I saw Tom on the other couch, and Harry on a pile of pillows on the floor, thins started to make sense again.

I remembered our middle of the night conversation again, or more like it, Tom's monologue. I remembered the whole story, and I remember being really angry with my brother for not telling me about it himself. I remembered our conversation in the kitchen again. He had had time to tell me then, and if not then, there were loads of opportunities to tell me during the rest of the evening.

It was then that Dougie came down the stairs, closely followed by Chloe, and I felt the sudden urge to shout at him.

CH/47

Dougie POV

We hadn't even reached the bottom of the stairs yet, when Jazzie came running up to me.
"I need to talk to you, immediately…" , she yelled.
She looked at Chloe and flashed her, what I could tell was, a fake smile.
"In private…" , she added.

"What's your problem?" , I asked, but I probably shouldn't have.
"Talk. Now. Kitchen." , she said bitterly.
She turned to Chloe and added a 'just you'.

She dragged me off to the kitchen, and we almost bumped into Danny and Riley.
"Gooood morning! How are you two on this lovely morning?" , he asked.
"Oh I am just great, as you can probably tell by the look on my face?" , Jazzie said.
"Oh please! No sarcasm before 3 in the afternoon please…" , Danny replied.

I grinned at him, Jazzie just let out a little snorting sound.

Chloe POV

"Wow, what was her problem?" , I asked nobody in general.
Tom turned a slight shade of red and Harry sunk deeper into the chair he was in.
It was the same thing my brothers always did when something was wrong.
"Okay, what did you guys do?" , I asked them.
"Well, we may have let a few things slip…" , Harry began.

Although I had a hard time imagining what they were talking about, I was curious.
"Like what things?" , I asked.
"You know, stuff… You, Dougie, the signing maybe…" , he continued.
"And maybe the note-bit…" , Tom almost whispered.

I looked at them, trying to hold it back, but I couldn't.
The moment Tom dared to look up at me, I burst out in laughter.

Danny POV

"Well, I'm glad someone's in a good mood!" , I said as we entered the living room.
All three of them looked up at me. Tom's face looked shocked.
"Or not…" , I added when I saw him.

"So you're not mad?" , Harry asked, to whom I did not know yet.
I thought to Chloe, because she was trying to control herself again.
"Of course not!" , she said as her breathing slowed down. "Why would I be?"

"Yeah, why would she be?" , I asked everyone.
"Oh it's just…" , Chloe began, but she stopped as we heard someone yell in the kitchen.

Tom POV

It was Jazzie, and she was obviously mad with Dougie.
As he heard the sound of her voice, Danny moved closer to the kitchen door.

"You thought you could get away with it, didn't you? Oh it's nothing, I'll tell you later… Well let me just tell you it definitely isn't just 'nothing'! It's something alright! You might want to try and be honest with me about stuff like that! I'm your sister, you can't lie to me about things like that!"
"Jazzie, calm down, what are you talking about?"
"The note, you idiot, and the signing!"

Silence...

"Yeah, don't look shocked, I know all about it. But that doesn't change the fact that you didn't want to tell me!"
"Oh come on, of course I wanted to tell you. It's just…"
"That you'd rather not?"
"Will you let me finish my sentence here? It's just that yesterday wasn't the time, no let me finish, because yesterday our living room was full of hungry and thirsty people, some of them who wanted to get to know you. So don't act like I'm hiding things from you, you know I would never do that. Now I can give you the whole story again, but I understand you already know all about it?"
"Well, yeah but…"
"Now then let's talk about what this is really about, shall we?"

CH/48

Harry POV

"Maybe we shouldn't…" , Danny began.

I felt the same way, like we weren't supposed to hear this, but it was impossible not to. They were screaming so loud, especially Jazzie. Dougie was just trying to calm her down, but you could hear frustration in his voice.

"Yeah maybe we should just…" , Chloe added, but then the screaming started again.

"What this is really about? What it's really about? Oh tell me, what is it about Dougie? Or should I say Doctor Dougie? You don't know anything about me, you're like a stranger, so don't go and psycho-analyze me like this! You don't know anything about my feelings, nor do you understand…"
"Jazzie, please, calm down a bit will you… I said, let's talk about what it's really about and I get it. I know I have been gone for a long time, and I know that was hard on you. It's not that easy staying in contact while we're on tour, you know that. But that doesn't mean I didn't try…"
"Oh that's exactly what it means! You never called me, not even for my birthday!"
"Excuse me? I did, young lady, only you were out with some guy!"
"Well you know about that then? That was just a one week thing, but you knew about it didn't you? That's more than what I can say about you and a certain girl! All this time you're preoccupied by some random girl you saw at a signing, and do I ever hear a word about it? No, of course not, no need for your sister to know what goes on in your life!"

Riley POV

I could see the tears welling up in Chloe's eyes. I walked over and put an arm around her.
"She doesn't mean it like that sweetie…" , I told her.
"She's mad with Dougie, you're just an easier target…"

"Don't you talk to me like that! I've had enough of this Jazzie, you're overreacting and saying things that you'll regret later! You better start apologizing right now!"
"For what? It's the truth isn't it?"
"No it's not, and you know it! And you ask for what you should be apologizing? Well, for starters, you called me a liar, you accused me of hiding things from you, you tell me I don't care about you guys and you called Chloe 'some random girl', that's what for! I do care about you guys, my family is the most important thing to me in the entire world, and you know that's true. I'd rather die than see any of you get hurt. Same goes for Chloe, and if you don't understand, than that's your problem! But don't you ever dare say stuff like that to me again."

Chills were sent down my spine, as silence fell in the kitchen.
I had never heard a guy say stuff like that before.

"Now I'm giving you a chance to apologize, take it or leave it…"

More silence…

"Okay, leave it then… I'm out for breakfast. Not staying in this craphole…"

Silence. Someone opening the door. A yell.

"Doug! Look I'm sorry okay? It's just… I just… it's…"

Turning. Hugging. Crying.

"I just miss you all the time. I miss talking to you, hanging out, watching movies and just being able to do nothing at all for hours straight."
"I miss you too Jaz, all the time. It's all I do."
"And I'm sorry for being horrible to you Chloe. I didn't mean to…"

More hugging, more crying and in the end, laughing.

Loving, that's what it was. A morning full of love.

CH/49

Dougie POV

After our little argument, everything seemed to be alright. The guys came over the day after and they brought Matt too. We visited Katie almost every day, at least Chloe and I did, the others came along every now and then. Katie wasn't doing as good as they had hoped, she had had a little fall back, but she was getting there.

We spent a lot of time with Nigel and Kyle. Matt had taught them how to play bass, but Kyle was more interested in smashing guitars than in actually playing and Nigel seemed to be let down after he found out that Matt's base didn't have flashy lights.

Chloe and I got close and closer, and I couldn't imagine ever being without her again. Meanwhile Riley wasn't really too happy about Danny's ideas on relationships. Danny isn't the guy to be attached to one single person of the opposite sex but Riley is, or at least, pretends to be if I have to believe Chloe.

Chloe POV

I loved hanging out with all of them. It was like finding yourself a new family, even the guys from SOD fit in perfectly. The twins looked like they had never had more fun in their lives, and the doctors said Katie was going to get better, although sometimes I had a hard time believing it. She looked really pale and fragile last time we visited.

Riley and Danny was kind of a weird story, I was never sure if they were a couple or not. They both wanted to be, that's for sure, but Danny seemed to have some trouble sticking with one girl.

Jazzie and Riley spent a lot of time together, talking about boys usually, or make-up. Riley had found herself a new friend, with whom she could discuss things I usually didn't really want to listen to. Also I found that Jazzie started to trust me more and more, and she came to talk to me about serious things, she even seemed to put a lot of thought in my advise. It really meant a lot to me.

Dougie and I spent more time together than I could dream of, and he showed me every single special place around his house. He told me about him as a child, his friends, his family, he asked the same things about me… After about three weeks, yes we decided to stay a little longer than planned, we were getting so close that I couldn't help but smile all day long.

And then that terrible night came…