Belle's POV
"Headache?" I asked Lilly, who was seated next to Ellie looking severely hung over.
"Na bro I'm fine," she replied, taking the coffee I offered her.
"Obviously. I wish I had brought the megaphone with me."
"Not the fucking megaphone! I hate that thing," Lilly moaned. At the hostel, I kept a megaphone under the sink in the kitchen for mornings so that I could torment her.
"Cool t-shirt, by the way," she said. I looked down at what I was wearing. It was Shaun's shirt from yesterday.
"I know right," I replied casually.
"Why are you wearing it?" Ellie asked.
"Cause it was on the floor," I said, again trying to sound casual.
"Why was it on the floor?" Lilly grilled.
"Shit," I muttered. I realised they'd caught me as wide smiles spread across both their faces.
"Aww-" Ellie started.
"No! Don't start you two! I know what you're like," I said.
"But we're just happy that you're with someone and you're happy-"
"And you're having sober sex," Lilly added, cutting Ellie off.
"Way to ruin the moment," Ellie commented.
"Hey! Actually! Why aren't we discussing what happened with you last night?" I asked.
"Because nothing happened," she replied sadly.
"Why not?" Ellie asked.
"Well, at first he seemed into it but I think I did something wrong, because he wasn't up for it," she explained.
"I don't think you would have done anything wrong. I mean, we're all seen how he looks at you. He definitely cares about you so maybe he actually cares about you enough to be more than just friends with benefits," I offered.
"No that can't be it," Lilly said, shooting down my idea.
"Cool then."
"No I think she's right," Ellie added.
"No I don't think she is."
"Speak of the devil…" Ellie said as Andy walked into the room.
"Were you talking about me?" Andy asked. "Again?"
"You always seem to enter the room-" I started, but I was distracted by the huge wound Andy was sporting on his collar bone. "Come with me," I said, dragging him towards the bathroom.
"What?" he asked once I had closed the door.
"See that?" I asked, indicating for him to look at himself in the mirror. "When Lilly bit you last night, she broke skin and it looks like it's getting an infection," I stated.
"Fuck, I didn't even know she gave me that," he muttered. "How do you know it's infected?" he asked, fingering the scabbing wound.
"My mum's a nurse. You learn these things," I explained. He sat back down on the edge of the bathtub and I sat opposite him and started to clean the wound.
"So tell me what happened."
Andy shook his head. "She was trying too hard to get into me, but I decided that I didn't really want things to happen like that. When I tried to tell her that I didn't want to sleep with her, she stormed off. I don't want her to be upset because I do care about her, I just don't want to mean nothing to her, if you get what I mean."
"I do, but I thought you were meant to be a slut as well," I joked.
"Not helping."
"Rightio then. Maybe just leave it, pretend nothing's happened and concentrate on getting to know her as a friend. Maybe you two will grow closer and then you can pounce," I suggested.
"I guess I'll try it," Andy replied unenthusiastically. "What happened with you last night?" he asked, looking me up and down.
"What didn't happen with you," I said bluntly.
He nodded. "Fair enough. Does that mean you've told him about what happened between us?"
I stopped applying the dressing and looked at him. "No," I muttered guiltily.
He nodded again. "Are you going to?"
"No," I repeated. "I don't think it would do any good."
"I wouldn't tell him either. I'm pretty sure he'd cut my head off."
"Why?" I asked.
Andy drummed his fingers along the end of the bathtub. "I may have slept with one of his friends. It kind of pissed him off."
"Care to elaborate?" I prompted out of him.
"There was a girl who hung out with us at high school who I was never really close with. When we finished school I didn't keep in touch with her but at some reunion thing we saw each other again. We ended up sleeping with each other and when Shaun saw her leaving the next morning he was really angry. He'd always been really overprotective of her and seeing that we'd slept together made him even angrier. I'm not sure why but it was really weird."
"Was she new to school when she started hanging out with you guys?" I asked.
"Yeah, how did you know?" he asked.
Shit, I thought. Andy was talking about the girl with an eating disorder that Shaun had told me about. But Andy didn't seem to know that.
"Just a guess," I said, right before the door was opened.
"Guys, we figured out how open that room!" Ellie said, before running down the hall.
"Come on," I laughed, heading for my room to get changed. We I returned, everyone had entered the room. I looked inside and saw a bunch of instruments stalked up against that back wall. I drum kit was set up and Ellie was already seated at it. Lilly was busy digging out a keyboard from the back while the guys were trying to get us to perform.
"Just one song!" Bradie begged Ellie.
"Please," Shaun asked, wrapping his arms around my waist.
"I don't know. Maybe."
"Okay!" Lilly piped up from the back. "But I want to sing."
"Really?" Ellie asked. Three of us could sing, but usually Natty and I shared that role. Lilly barely ever sung, unless it was for a reason.
"What song?" I asked.
"'Bootycall' by Ke$ha," she said, deciding on a keyboard. She brought it over and set it up, gesturing for me to get ready to play. Ellie and I exchanged a look. We both knew what had happened last night between Andy and Lilly and we both knew that 'Bootycall' was about meaningless sex with no strings attached. Subtle Lilly.
I set up a mic stand in front of me so I could sing backup while Lilly plugged everything in. When we were ready, I began to play and Lilly kicked in with the first lyrics.
"I like you
Don't want to
Marry you
I really wanna really wanna
Do you
A favor
And let you know
That I really really really really"
Ellie and I played along while Lilly vented her feelings through song. I half watched Andy out of the corner of my eye. If he was upset he wasn't showing it on his face.
By the time we had finished, Andy was looking quite hurt. I can't imagine that it was easy to hear from the girl you love that she only wanted one thing from you.
"So," Lilly said, spinning around to look Andy dead in the eye, grinning her evil grin. "What did you think?"
