Chapter 21
Alex POV
"Hope..." I started but he shook his head. "I'm fine!" he shouted, but tears were already pouring down his face. "What's happening down here?! Oh..." Dougie said, then coming down. "What's up? Can I help? I hate seeing any of you guys like this" he sighed, then hugged him. "If it's about that girl, she really wasn't worth it, I've had her type before, you'll be okay, try turn that frown upside down, I won't say things will get better, but I know you'll get stronger" he said then went back upstairs. Hope didn't even make a noise, the tears just continued flowing down his face and it made me feel terrible, it made me want to cry, then suddenly he just stopped. "Need to tidy this up" he said, wiping away his tears and picking up the popcorn scattered across the floor. "Hope, it's fine I'll do it" I said, going to do it. "No, I can do it" he said more ordering and it scared the hell out of me. I nodded but went to help him, between the three of us it only took a few minutes. "Come on, let's go to bed" I said. "I'm just gonna stay up for a while, I'm not tired" he said. "Okay, we'll stay up with you" I said. I didn't want to leave him alone like this, anything could happen. "I just want to be alone right now, okay?!" he shouted. "Okay, sorry, I just wanted to help..." I said. "Look, I know you want to help... It's just, nothing anyone can say will help me at the moment" he said, reminding me of myself, it's exactly how I felt when Liam ran from me. "Okay, we'll be upstairs if you wanna talk" I smiled. "Yeah, thanks for, you know, being here for me" he said. "No problem little bro" I said, ruffling his hair then going upstairs with Liam. "You okay?" he asked, placing his hand in mine. "Yeah, I'm just worried about him" I sighed. "Yeah, me too, but he'll get better" he smiled. "Yeah, but I want him to be okay now because what if he does something stupid before he feels better?" I asked. "That's not very likely, he hasn't done anything like that before" he assured me. But what if he does?
Hope POV
I don't know why I feel so terrible over losing her! She was a terrible person and it wasn't my fault, it was her's, but I couldn't just turn off the feeling, even if I knew she wasn't worth it. I need to show everyone that I've moved on some way or everyone's gonna ask if I'm okay constantly. I actually should be happy that she's not with me anymore! She was controlling and she didn't even like me! She wanted to meet McFly and anything famous, all she cared about was her image. I laid down on the sofa for a while, trying to think of ways to show everyone, but the will to sleep was overtaking...
'I woke up on the sofa and everything was quiet. Woah! I must have been sleeping ages...it's 10 in the morning! I walked upstairs into our room and found Alex awake, but something wasn't right. "What's happened?" I asked warily. "Liam left me for Lisa and it's all your fault!" he glared. I shook my head then turned around to look for my dads, but found a note which read; "Don't bother looking for us, we've had enough of both of your dramatics, goodbye". How could everything go so wrong do quickly? "Argh!" I heard and Alex was running at me with a knife!' I gasped loudly and woke up on the sofa, everything was still dark. I looked at the clock, hm, only an hour... I sighed and fell back onto the sofa, trying to calm myself down.
I went upstairs slowly, terrified of what I might find up there. I opened our bedroom door and Alex and Liam were sitting on the floor just talking. "Hey guys" I said, trying my best to smile. "Hi, feeling any better?" Liam asked, I nodded and threw myself on my bed. "I fell asleep then had a nightmare though" I sighed, there was no point in hiding it, Alex would notice something was up. "What happened?" Alex asked standing up and looking at me with his normal worried face. "Well...come here!" I said, then whispered in his ear. I didn't want Liam to hear, even though he was my best friend I didn't want him to hear what happened and be offended. As soon as I finished Alex hugged me. "I wouldn't ever do that, you're my brother don't forget that" he said and I nodded. "Can I know? Don't you trust me?" Liam asked looking at me sideways and I could tell that he must be a little hurt. "It's not that, it's just... Okay but don't be offended, I don't think any of it about you" I said. "Okay..." he said, trailing off and probably regretting asking now. "Actually, can you Alex? I don't feel like repeating it, I need a drink" I said while getting up. I went to the kitchen and poured myself some milk and drunk it all at once. I went back upstairs to our room again feeling a bit less edgy, as soon as I was through the door I was wrapped in another pair of arms and I sighed. "Guys, I don't want to be mean but I really don't want your sympathy" I said. It sort of angered me to know people felt sorry for me, it made me feel weak when I knew I wasn't, I could look after myself. "Okay..." Liam frowned, he looked like he was going to ask, then thought better of it. "Okay, night guys" I said then climbed into my bed. "Night Hope..." Alex sighed. I didn't mean to make Alex feel bad... I closed my eyes and hoped for a dreamless rest. I'm going to show everyone that I'm over her! I don't need anyone's sympathy...