Demi's POV

I woke up at 6.45AM and felt Selena's body pressed tightly against mine and her hot breath on my neck. Her arm was wrapped around my waist tightly so I couldn't really move without moving her as well. I needed to get up and start getting ready so that I could be at school for eight, and I knew Selena didn't even consider getting up before eight to be up in time for school at eight thirty.

I lay there for a few minutes, trying to devise a plan to move without waking her up but my efforts came up fruitless. I decided to just move really slowly.

As soon as I moved her arm from my waist she started stirring and her eyes fluttered open shortly after. Whoops.

"Mmm. Morning." She mumbled tiredly as she rolled over and buried her face in the pillow underneath her head.

"Morning." I uttered back to her before shifting so that I was on the edge of the bed.

"Was last night a dream?" She asked into the pillow. It was muffled but I worked out what she said.

"I sure hope not. I didn't mean to wake you but I need to start getting ready." I told her as I sat up. She turned over straight away at my words and stared at me.

"If you're about to change then I am more than glad that you woke me up." She stated quickly with a wink. I smacked her shoulder lightly and got out of the bed.

"I'm going to get changed in the bathroom and shower." I continued, chuckling inside my head.

"If you're showering then I'm definitely glad you woke me up…" She trailed off with her eyebrows raised.

"And you're staying in here where your innocent underage eyes can stay protected." I reminded her.

"No way, we're in my house so you play by my rules." She stated with a pout. I shook my head at her and went to the closet to grab a red checked blouse and black pants. I grabbed some matching plain black underwear as well.

"You're my girlfriend so you follow my rules." I retorted.

"Psh. You win." She said, defeated. I grinned cheekily at her and went into the bathroom to shower and get changed. It took me twenty five minutes before I was out again. I was shocked at what I saw when I went back into the bedroom.

Selena was up and out of bed. From living with her for a month I learnt that she was never awake before eight.

"Oh my Christ. You're awake… and you're not being held at gun point… are you feeling okay?" I joked with her. She was standing in the room holding some clothes from her own closet. I knew that she showered every night so she wouldn't be going for one this morning.

"I'm feeling fine thank you. What can I say? I wanted to be up to give you a good morning kiss as soon as you came back but you, missy, are not obliging with my wishes." She hinted… although she was so unsubtle about it you could barely call it a hint.

"You're so unsubtle. But I love that about you. C'mere." I said with a smile. She headed toward me and I wrapped my arms around her waist. She pecked my lips softly, and again, and again. I smiled as we pulled apart.

"That was more than one…" I stated dumbly. She shrugged and squeezed my arse gently.

"What can I say? You're worth more than what I'm offering." She flirted, again, being incredibly unsubtle.

"Awh. That's sweet. Why don't you go and get ready and since you're up so early I'll make you breakfast?" I offered. It was quarter past seven, forty-five minutes before she usually got up.

"That sounds great. I'll be twenty minutes tops and I'll be completely ready." She said with a grin. I nodded and made my way downstairs into the kitchen. Mandy was sitting there in a white silk dressing-gown and a mug of coffee in her hands.

"Morning." I said cheerfully as I went over to the coffee machine to make two mugs.

"Morning Demi. Sleep well?" She asked me as I put the holder back on the machine. I sat opposite her at the table.

"Yeah thanks. I love that bed. It's honestly the comfiest bed I've ever slept in. Something about last night's sleep made it the best I'd ever had." I told her, just choosing not to mention that the 'thing' that made it so great was her daughter.

"Maybe it was having my little girl spooning you all night, perhaps?" She asked me before taking a sip from her mug. If I had coffee in my mouth I'd have done a spit-take.

"I… uhm… What?" I asked her.

"I came in late last night because your phone was going off really loud and you didn't turn it off. I wouldn't normally come in whilst you're sleeping." She said, slightly embarrassed. She seemed surprisingly calm, where I was crapping myself at being busted so soon.

"I… I don't know what… what to say…" I trailed off, panic clear in my voice.

"Maybe we should get Selena down here and have a little chat." She suggested. She really didn't seem mad so I was taking that as a good sign.

"Yeah, do you want me to go or do you want to go?" I asked her awkwardly.

"You can go." She said. I nodded and got up. Just as I reached the door she called out to me. "And Demi?" I turned around "I'm not mad at you, I just think we need to talk." She said with an awkward smile. I returned the smile, the awkwardness and nodded.

"I'll be back in five." I told her. I went up the stairs with my stomach doing summersaults and went into my room where Selena was changing. I opened the door and saw her changed with her hair in a messy pony-tail. She looked goddamn sexy.

"Your mom knows. I think she's okay with it but she wants to talk to us both." I told her as I pulled her into a hug. She gripped tightly onto my clothes and shook her head against my shoulder.

"Oh my god. What if she kicks us out? Or reports you to the school or the police?" She worried as she pulled away.

"Then we'll deal with it. We haven't done anything, if it comes down to it we can just say last night was a one-off and we'd been drinking. We'll fix it if it goes tits up. I promise. Come on, let's go." I told her comfortingly. I took her hand in mine and lead her down the stairs; desperately trying to act as if I were the brave one, for her.

We went into the kitchen and Mandy smiled at us both weekly as we sat down. She obviously saw our linked hands but seemed unfazed by it.

"I uh… I take it you two are… uhm… dating?" She asked us with a raised eyebrow.

"I… If we were, what would you do?" Selena asked her nervously.

"I want you to answer my question." She told us as she looked into her coffee and stirred it.

"Yes we are." Selena told her firmly. Mandy looked into Selena's eyes and saw that she looked absolutely petrified. She smiled reassuringly at her daughter who smiled back.

"Selena honey, I love you. I always will. If you're dating Demi then I'll deal with it. I don't particularly like it, and it's not because I don't like Demi because I absolutely adore her, it's just because she's your teacher and if this gets out you'll both be in trouble and I'm not willing to watch my daughter have her heart broken." Mandy said with a small smiled aimed at me quickly before she took Selena's hands in her own across the table.

"Thank you mom. What… what are you going to uhm… to do about it?" she asked Mandy cautiously. Mandy closed her eyes for a few moments and took a shaky breath before opening her eyes again and speaking.

"Nothing. Demi, you are still more than welcome to stay here and if it's what you want then I will support you two. I'll treat you as I treated Alyssa and I won't report anything. I see no need to, but I want you to promise me that you will never hurt my daughter. She's my baby and I love her." Mandy told me with another awkward but reassuring smile.

"I will never hurt her intentionally. Thank you so much." I told her genuinely. I was about to get up and hug Mandy when Selena spoke again.

"So you're okay with us mom?" Selena asked Mandy who nodded. "I thought you were convinced me being gay was just a phase when I told you… what's changed?" She asked confusedly.

"You were fourteen when you told me. If it were a phase it would be over by now. Like I promised, I fully support you in whatever you do." She said with a small grin.

"It doesn't seem like it was that long ago." Selena said, surprised.

"Oh crap! I have like fifteen minutes to get to school. I'll see you in homeroom. Bye." I said as I hugged her awkwardly and went to leave when Mandy stopped me.

"You can give her a kiss you know? As long as it's not too graphic I don't mind too much." She said with a little smile. I nodded and went back to Selena. I pecked her lips quickly and awkwardly before leaving.

Selena's POV

Demi left and my mom turned to me.

"So what are the ground rules?" I asked, knowing what was coming next.

"You know me so well. There's only two. One; please keep the kissing and the making out to a minimum in front of me. I don't mind goodbye kisses like that and stuff, but still, keep it minimal. Two; if you sleep with her… please be careful and make sure no one ever finds out. Don't do anything in school because I guarantee you will be caught and don't do anything in public. Other than that, I hope you two are really happy together and do you want some breakfast?"

"Yeah sweet. Bacon and toast please mommy." I said with a fake baby voice to get her to say yes. She chuckled and nodded.

"Coming right up." She said with a grin. Soon after the smell of bacon frying was wafting through the air and making my tummy rumble.

"Smells good mommy." I told her as I pulled two plates out of the cupboard and set them on the table. Then I poured two glasses of orange juice for my mom and me. She turned around, put the bacon and toast onto the plates, and joined me sitting at the table where Demi wasn't mentioned, we just spoke about the usual things.

After a half-hour conversation over breakfast, and truthfully a loss of time, I realised that I too needed to get to school and pick Alyssa up on the way –

Then I remembered that she needed to speak to Alyssa.

"Thanks for breakfast mom, it was delicious, however I need to leave now. I'll see you when I'm home and I'll text you at some point during the day if I get the chance. I love you." I told her quickly as I walked to the door to grab my handbag, slip my shoes on and check my hair quickly in the mirror. I quickly walked back to my mom and kissed her cheek before grabbing my car keys and leaving.

I drove quickly to Alyssa's house and honked the horn for her to come out. She appeared a few seconds later at the doorway with Lucy clinging tightly to her legs, most likely saying goodbye. The door closed behind her and she jumped into my car.

"Let's go, Gomez! We got five minutes to get to homeroom, no time for hello kisses, let's go, go, go!" She shouted dramatically with a wink before pecking my lips. I didn't respond to the kiss so she pulled away and sunk down in her seat slightly as I pulled away from her house.

"Alyssa, we need to talk." I muttered to her as I stopped the car at the traffic lights.

"I knew this was coming." She stated, looking out of the window, most likely avoiding eye-contact with me.

"What do you mean?" I asked her curiously.

"You just kind of cut the date short last night after I told you… what I told you… and I kind of think you've been really distracted, subdued even, whenever we've been together lately. If you're breaking up with me then I'd prefer it if you didn't do the whole dramatic built-up conversation about it and cut to the chase." She said in a monotone. I looked to my hands nervously then back up at her.

"I'm sorry. I just can't do it anymore, it's not right…" I started to tell her.

"There's another girl you like or you've been seeing her behind my back," She said with a nod of her head. I looked at her, shocked that she'd guessed my reasons, "You're not my first ever girlfriend. I know how this kind of talk goes; correct me if I'm wrong though." She told me with a week smile.

"You're right. I'm so sorry…" I trailed off as I pulled into the school parking lot just in time to see everyone walking into the building.

"It's fine. I'll see you in homeroom maybe, I'm going to go to the bathroom." She said quickly before running from the car to the girls toilets. I called after her but she didn't stop so I headed toward the English block to homeroom where Demi was sitting at her desk writing something down.

"You just made it, Selena. Take your seat please." She said, looking up at me and directing a small, flirtatious smile at me. I nodded and went to the back of the classroom. People had stopped staring and throwing things at me as I walked now so I didn't really have a problem getting there.

Demi took the register and spoke to the class about an upcoming assembly, as soon as the bell went the group filed out of the room; eager to get to their first lessons without being late.

"Selena I would like to speak with you please." She called out as I was leaving. I no longer got escorted to my lessons with a teacher because the bullying had stopped and people just ignored me most of the time by now. "Where's Alyssa?" She asked me curiously, looking into my eyes with a smile that reached her dark brown eyes.

"She didn't exactly take to well to me breaking up with her… she said she was going to the bathroom but that was when we arrived, I haven't seen her since and she hasn't text me." I informed Demi with a slightly worried shrug of my shoulders.

Demi looked concerned as well and looked out of the classroom window.

"Do you think you should go and find her?" she asked me quietly.

"I probably should. Can you write me a note so that if I get stopped by another teacher I don't get detention?" I asked Demi. She nodded and wrote on a sticky note.

"Text me when you find her, okay babe?" she asked me. I nodded and winked at her before leaning down to whisper in her ear.

"I love it when you call me babe, honey." I mumbled quietly against her earlobe. She blushed and slapped my arse slightly; discreetly, and I left to find Alyssa who could have been anywhere.

I decided the best place to start would be the toilets she ran into.