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When I woke up the next morning I had a strange feeling I'd slept in for something. I looked at the clock on my phone. 9:56am!! I was supposed to meet Zac at ten!! I threw the blankets off myself and sprinted to the door of our room. Sophie and Vanessa were still sleeping. I opened the door and nearly banged into Dougie. He still had small traces of the makeup on his face. He'd obviously washed it off but didn't do a very good job.
'Whoa, Luce, I was just coming to get you, that boy from yesterday is here,' he said. Dougie moved to the side a little bit and I saw who was standing behind him. It was Zac!!!
'Morning Lucie,' he said brightly and I nearly passed out.
'Err, hang on a second, I'll get changed,' I replied feeling self-conscious in my stripy mini-shorts and bright pink singlet top. I quickly closed the door and found my cutest outfit. I glanced in the mirror at my hair and almost gagged. My hair hadn't been taken out of it's ponytail before I went to bed and it was sticking out everywhere. I quickly brushed it, but it wouldn't sit flat, so I put it back into the ponytail. I ran back to put my shoes on and stubbed my toe on my bed. I jumped up and down and swore at the bed, then put thongs on and looked at the purple bruise already forming on my toe.
I grabbed my hand bag and sprinted back downstairs. Zac was sitting talking to Dougie who seemed to be the only one up for once. I slid on the kitchen floor and plonked myself in one of the chairs.
'You okay Luce?' Dougie asked me.
'Yeah,' I panted.
'Out of breath,' I added. I slowly regained my breath.
'Okay, ready to go?' I asked Zac.
'What about your breakfast?' he asked looking concerned.
'I'll be okay,' I replied.
'No, you get something,' he replied.
'I'll wait,' he added.
'I'm not hungry,' I replied.
'Eat something, please,' he replied.
'Fine,' I replied throwing a piece of bread in the toaster. I sat down next to him while I waited for it.
'Finally got your breath back?' Dougie asked. I'd forgotten he was there. I nodded. My toast popped up so I walked over and got it, buttered it and stuck it in my mouth while I walked back over and sat down next to Zac again.
'Plain toast?' he said, looking at me quizzically.
'Yeah, it's how my dad used to have it,' I replied looking at Dougie. He nodded at me, understanding what I wanted.
'Hey, Luce how bout you go see if Sophie and Vanessa are up,' he said quietly.
'Okay,' I replied, silently thanking Dougie for getting me out of another situation to do with my dad. Danny had obviously told him how it happened. I walked up the stairs, my toast in one hand. I got to the door and put my toast in my mouth so I could open the door. They were both already up, lying in their beds talking.
'Hey, morning guys,' I said as I walked in.
'Hey Luce, why you up so early?' Sophie asked.
'Zac,' I replied.
'Oh, so that's why you were going so fast,' Vanessa replied. I nodded.
'Dougie told me to wake you guys up, but my job is obviously already done,' I said sitting on the end of Sophie's bed.
'Yeah, here we'll come down with you,' Vanessa said, getting up and stretching. They followed me downstairs.
'Well done Luce,' Vanessa whispered, looking at Zac in awe.
'Thanks,' I whispered back.
'Zac, these are my friends Vanessa and Sophie,' I said.
'Hi,' he said.
'Hi,' they replied.
'Still haven't eaten that toast?' Dougie said pointing at the half eaten piece in my hand.
'I said before I wasn't hungry,' I replied. 'Can you redo this please Doug?' I asked, holding out my arm. Dougie quickly unwrapped my arm, then rewrapped it, grimacing at the blood on it.
'Thanks Dougs, can we go Zac?' I asked.
'Yeah c'mon,' he replied. I put my half eaten toast in the bin and walked to the door with him.
'Be back at around 11:30 and that's AM,' Dougie called out as we left.
'Sorry about before with the eating thing, I just really don't like it when girls don't eat, and you're thin enough anyway,' he said.
'Thanks, just wasn't in the mood for eating,' I replied.
'Okay, um did I say something wrong before when I asked about the plain toast, cos Dougie seemed like he thought something would happen?' he asked.
'Um, my Dad died a few weeks ago and I'm finding it really difficult to get over it,' I replied.
'Oh, I'm sorry Luce, not many people would be over it in that amount of time,' he replied and gave me hug.
'Its okay, Dougie just didn't want what happened last night to happen again,' I replied.
'Okay, do you feel up to telling me what happened?' he asked putting his arm around my shoulders.
'Here, do you want anything?' he asked, indicating to a cafe.
'Yeah, let's sit there,' I replied.
'Okay, do you want anything?' he repeated, pulling the chair out for me.
'Thank you, um yeah, I'll pay for it though,' I replied.
'No, its okay, I will,' Zac replied.
'Okay, thank you,' I replied.
'What would you like?' he asked, taking his wallet out of his back pocket.
'Hot chocolate,' I replied.
'Okay,' he replied and went and paid for it.
'No coffee?' he asked when he got back.
'No, hate it,' I replied.
'Fair enough,' he said.
'What'd you get?' I asked.
'Cappuccino,' he replied.
'I'm guessing you like coffee, I tried it once and like, nearly threw up,' I said stirring sugar into my hot chocolate which was a lot nicer than toast.
'Yeah, I love coffee,' he replied. 'Do you want to tell me what happened last night and how he died? You sounded really hoarse on the phone, like you had a cold or something,' he said.
'Yeah, well I just got really upset and stuff,' I replied.
'Okay, did anyone talk to you about it?' he asked.
'Yeah, Danny was,' I said, then I told him how he died.
'That's horrible Luce,' he said, hugging me close again.
'How bad is it going to be when you leave,' he said.
'I know, do you want my address and email address?' I asked.
'Yeah, that'd be good,' he replied. I looked through my handbag until I found a pen; it was hard only having one hand.
'Crap,' I said, finally thinking about something I probably should've the day after I did it. My cut was on my right hand. The one I write with.
'What's up?' Zac asked drinking the last bit of his cappuccino.
'I can't write,' I replied, holding up my arm, 'I'll try,' I sighed, getting a napkin and writing my name on it. It looked like "Iocle". 'I can't do it,' I replied.
'Here, tell me it and how to spell it and I'll write it,' Zac said, taking the pen and napkin.
So I told him my address and stuff and then we went for another walk. He slipped his hand carefully into the one without the injuries. I kept asking myself whether this was how love really happened. This was the way it happened in movies. People fall instantly in love. And was I one of the ones lucky enough for that to happen to me. We've only known each other two days and we're already holding hands and hugging. I don't know. Maybe I got lucky. I think that's it. For once in my life I'm lucky.
'Hey Lucie, you still there?' Zac asked, waving his free hand in front of my face.
'Yeah, course I am,' I replied and squeezed his hand. Bad idea.
'Ouch!' I cried, my arm hurting like crazy as I bumped it against him.
'Are you okay?' asked Zac.
'Yeah,' I said through gritted teeth. He took my arm to his mouth and kissed it better. My heart skipped a beat. Two days and this was happening!!! I guess he was just trying to get as much in as he could before I went home, or maybe he just liked to take things quick. With all Vanessa's (many) relationships they never hugged before a week, but I guess it might be different for some people.
'All better now?' he asked.
'Yes, thanks,' I giggled.
'I'm guessing you want to know what I have against skinny girls.' Zac said.
'No, not really, but tell me anyway,' I replied.
'Well, last year I had a girlfriend who was anorexic and bulimic. She hardly ever used to eat when I saw her, she told me she ate when I wasn't there but I didn't believe her, she never ate anything at my house or her house at all, and even on school camp she ate nothing or just an apple once a day at the most. But then there were some days when she'd eat massive amounts of food, then disappear away to the bathroom after she'd finished. That was until I caught her one day sticking her fingers down her throat trying to make herself throw up. She stopped doing that after I found her but it was already too late. She used to get angry and about small things, so I decided not to ask again because she'd bite my head off and we'd end up in massive fights about tiny, tiny things. It was a bad idea to ignore it because I got to see her go from a healthy weight, like you are now, to twenty-eight kilograms. It's not nice to watch someone you thought was the perfect weight and someone you loved and cared about go to a walking skeleton and she's in hospital at the moment, probably not going to last past Christmas,' Zac said.
'I'm sorry,' I said. Zac shrugged and kept walking.
'Did you try talking to her about it when it first started?' I asked.
'Meh, course I did, but our relationship was on the way to ending anyway and she didn't listen,' Zac replied. 'She was stubborn and up herself anyway I don't really care about it anymore, I tried,' he added.
'It's okay Zac,' I said. He shrugged.
'What time is it?' I asked.
'Ummm, eleven o'clock,' he replied taking his phone out of his pocket.
'Okay, half an hour to go, what do you want to do now?' I asked.
'Mate!' Zac suddenly yelled out to a kid walking past. The kid heard him and walked over.
'Hey, who's this? I didn't think girls this hot hung around with you Zac,' he said.
'Lucie, this is my so-called best friend, Nate, this is Lucie, she's from Australia and she's staying with McFly,' Zac replied.
'Hi,' I said quietly.
'Hi, you've got a few injuries there,' Nate said, his eyes travelling from the bruise on my leg and to my arm all bandaged up.
'Yeah, just a couple,' I replied. Even though I was with Zac I had to admit Nate was cute.
'What happened?' he asked.
'Steps and me don't mix,' I replied.
'Okay, sounds fun,' he replied. 'So what're you staying with McFly for?' Nate asked.
'Won a competition at school,' I replied.
'So people know about them in Australia, I didn't think they'd gone worldwide yet,' he asked.
Zac looked at him like he was the biggest loser in the world.
'What? You know that my last girlfriend was obsessed with them, and you do know she even dragged me to one of their concerts,' Nate shrugged.
'I know Nate, you took me too,' Zac said, nodding sarcastically.
'So do people know them in Australia?' Nate asked, elbowing Zac.
'Yeah, me and my friends love them and there's a lot of other people as well,' I replied.
'Okay, are you staying with anyone else as well?'
'Yeah, my two friends as well,' I replied.
'Are they as hot as you?' Nate asked.
'Um, see for yourself,' I mumbled blushing, passing him my phone with pictures of all three of us on it.
'Whoa, who's the blonde one?' he asked, passing my phone back.
'That's Sophie,' I replied.
'Can I have her number?' he asked.
'Don't you want to meet her first?' I asked.
'Yeah, that'd be great,' he replied.
'Okay, I'll get her to come here,' I replied. I opened my phone and dialled her number.
'Hello?' she said when she answered.
'Hey, Soph do you want to meet me at the cafe where we were yesterday?' I asked.
'Yeah, okay, why?'
'There's someone that wants to meet you,' I replied.
'Who?' she asked sounding puzzled.
'A guy called Nate. I showed him a picture of you and he wants to meet you,' I said.
'Okay is he cute?' she asked with interest.
'Yeah,' I replied.
'Okay, I'll be there soon, I'll see if Tom will let me stay for a while,' she replied.
'Okay, see you soon, bye,' I replied.
'Bye,' she replied.
'She'll be here in a few minutes,' I told Nate.
'Cool, can't wait,' he replied. We talked for a bit longer, when someone tapped me on the shoulder. It was Sophie. She looked so pretty as usual. She'd brushed her long, blonde hair until it sat like a blonde shell around her face and she was wearing her favourite outfit.
'Hey, Sophie this is Nate,' I said.
'Hi,' she said softly.
'Hey,' he replied.
'We'll leave you people alone to talk,' Zac said. He took my hand gently again and we started walking again.
'Love at first sight?' Zac asked me.
'Yeah, I think so, like what happened with us,' I replied.
'Yup,' he replied. My phone suddenly beeped. I took it out of my bag and opened it. The message was from Vanessa.
'Tom says u cn stay wth ur friend 4 another ½ hr, cuz dats how long Soph has,' it said.
'K tell him thnx nd b home 12:00,' I wrote back.
'We get another half an hour,' I said to Zac.
'That's great,' he replied.
'So what's Nate like?' I asked Zac.
'Um, he's had a lot of girlfriends, he can be an idiot like most guys but overall he's pretty nice and every girlfriend he's had has said how nice and stuff he was,' Zac replied.
'Okay, sounds good for Sophie,' I said.
'How long have you been friends for?' he asked.
'Five years, what about you and Nate?'
'Um, about two and a half or so,' he replied.
'What do you want to do now?' I asked.
'It's nearly lunch, want to get something?' Zac asked.
'Do you ever stop thinking about food?' I teased. He shook his head.
'So, do you?' he asked.
'Yeah, sounds good, where?'
'How about we just get chips and go to the park to eat them or something?' he suggested.
'Okay.'
So we went and got chips and sat down on a seat.
'I have to go in fifteen minutes,' I said after we had sat down.
'I'm never going to see you again,' he said sadly.
'You never know, I'll definitely come back to London again,' I replied.
'Okay, let's hope we're still in contact then,' he said.
'I think we will be,' I smiled at him. He smiled back.
'See, I do eat,' I said putting a chip into my mouth.
'I see that,' he replied.
'So do you have any brothers or sisters?' I asked him.
'Um, yeah,' he said with his mouth full.
'Okay, how many?' He swallowed his mouthful.
'Three sisters and two brothers,' he mumbled.
'Okay, that's a big family, how old?' I asked.
'I have two twin sisters who are eight, a brother who's ten, another who's eighteen and another sister who is a year and a half I think,' he replied.
'Okay, I only have a sister, who's twenty-one,' I replied.
'Very small,' he said, taking the last chip out of the bag. I still had like, ten to go.
'Come on slowpoke, eat up,' he said playfully.
'Wanna help?' I asked.
'No I wanna see you eat them all,' he replied.
'Fine,' I replied. After about five minutes the chips were all gone. I force-fed Zac a few of them.
'What's the time now?' I asked Zac.
'Err, 11:50,' he replied.
'Aw, I nearly have to go,' I sighed.
'I think we better start walking back,' Zac said sadly. A tear slowly rolled down my cheek.
'It's okay, we'll see each other again,' Zac said, brushing it away for me. I nodded.
We started walking back to the McFly house hand in hand. We finally got to the door. I stopped and looked at him. Another tear rolled down my cheek. No this was stupid. I'd only known this guy a day, yet somehow I'd grown so close to him. He stepped forward and gave me a massive hug, then stopped and kissed me on the lips, his hands tangling round my hair. It had started spitting rain. I awkwardly kissed him back then we gave each other one last hug and he left and I went back inside, shaking the droplets of rain out of my hair. I stood behind the closed door and closed my eyes, remembering the feel of his lips on mine. I longed for at least one more day with him.
'You're back,' I heard someone say. I opened my eyes. Dougie was standing there grinning smugly; he had obviously seen everything.
'Yeah, is Sophie?' I asked.
'Not yet,' he replied, but at the very same moment she walked in the door.
'Hi,' she said.
'Hi,' Dougie and I said.
'Hey, Soph, come with me for a sec,' I said. We walked into the deserted lounge room and sat down on the couch.
'So what'd you think of him?' I asked.
'He's amazing! We're almost perfect for each other!' she exclaimed excitedly.
'That's good,' I replied.
'Thank you so much!' she squealed, giving me a hug that almost knocked me over.
'Okay, I'm glad you're happy, love at first sight for you two,' I replied.
'So'd you and Zac kiss?' she asked.
'Yeah, my first ever kiss,' I replied.
'Is it really? I thought your first was with Chris Matthews in grade one?' she teased.
'Hey, shut up! We never did kiss!' I yelled.
'Yup, sure,' she said laughing.
'Did you and Nate?' I asked.
'Nah, I don't kiss on first dates, even if I'm never going to see them again,' she replied.
'Okay, any hugs?' I asked.
'Couple,' she replied.
'Sounds fun, what did you do?' I asked.
'Cafe, walk, not much, what about you?' Sophie replied.
'Same except we added lunch of chips as well,' I replied.
'Sounds fun too,' Sophie replied.
'I just can't get over how perfect he was for me! He respected me and was such a gentleman, opening doors and stuff for me. We talked about so much and we have lots in common. And to top it all off he's hot!! Is he an angel sent here from heaven?' Sophie exclaimed.
'Is who an angel?' asked Tom sitting down next to me.
'Um, nobody,' she replied.
'Come on, Sophie who were you with?' asked Tom with a cheeky grin.
'Um a guy called Nate Wilson,' she replied.
'And you Luce?' he asked.
'Zac Hemsworth,' I replied.
'Okay, I've never heard of either of them,' Tom replied, looking like he was taking a mental note of their names.
'Oww,' Sophie whined sliding off one of her shoes that she bought when we went shopping.
'What's up?' I asked her.
'Blisters,' she replied. I looked at the back of her heels. The skin was nearly all rubbed red raw.
'Are you okay? They look sore,' Tom asked.
'Yeah, I just won't wear them for a while,' she replied.
'Where's Vanessa?' I asked.
'Up in your room with the rest of the guys I think,' Tom replied.
'Okay,' I replied. 'Coming Sophie?' I asked tapping her lightly on the face to wake her up out of her daydream, probably about Nate.
'I'll come with you too, I just came from there,' Tom said. We walked up the stairs and into our room. Vanessa was sitting on her bed talking with Danny, Dougie and Harry.
'Hey guys, how'd your "dates" go?' Vanessa exclaimed when we walked in.
'Alright I guess,' I replied, winking at Sophie.
'Okay, but why am I the only one that didn't get one?' Vanessa whined.
'Hey, you got the first one out of all of us!' Sophie replied.
'I wouldn't count him,' Vanessa said.
'Well if you hadn't have lied to him you might still have him!' Sophie exclaimed.
'How did you know about that?' Vanessa said quietly.
'Never you mind,' Sophie replied.
'You shouldn't go through people's messages!' Vanessa yelled, her voice getting louder and louder with every word.
'Well if your ringtone wasn't so annoying I wouldn't have!' Sophie shouted back.
'Um, I think we'll go,' Danny said uncomfortably, and me and the rest of McFly all left them to work it out on their own. I quietly shut the door. I heard Vanessa shout something back at Sophie. I quickly caught up to McFly.
'Does that happen very often?' asked Danny.
'Not really,' I replied.
'I think they're tired,' I added.
'I reckon you should be more tired than them, you're always up earliest,' Dougie said.
'And last to fall asleep,' I added.
'They have no excuse then,' Harry said.
'No, they do have an excuse, its weird getting used to different time zones, you should know that,' Tom said.
'I guess so,' Harry said.
'Well we go home tomorrow, so I'll go talk to them cos they'll ruin it,' I said.
There we go :D bit more drama... I wrote Zac and Lucie's romance kinda quickly so thats why they've fallen in love so fast and so much in a kind of fantasy way but what's life without a little fantasy? :D What did you guys think? Thanks