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Danny quickly grabbed my hand as Tom left the room, still on his search for Harry. "you OK, Lolly? This is the first I've heard of it, I swear" said Danny hurriedly.
"eh ….yeah… eh I guess Im ok oh god Danny I feel so stupid of course he has a girlfriend. I mean why wouldn't he? Just cause I like him doesn't mean no one else does." I could feel hot salty tears prickling behind my eyes pushing to be released. Danny pulled me into a hug. He didn't seem to know what to say. I knew Danny was wary of the notion of me and Harry but I know deep down that he always thought that Harry would never intentionally hurt me. Maybe he didn't mean to but if you have a girlfriend it is fairly inevitable that someone is going to get hurt.
"come on lets go see what this tramp looks like" I said. Yes I was being cruel, I'm sure she was a very nice girl but at that moment I was feeling seriously bitter and twisted and I didn't care.
"Lola are you sure that's a good idea? You could just end up hurting more" Danny quietly questioned.
"No come on I'll just make excuses for him if I don't see it with my own eyes." we traipsed down the stairs. I paused for a moment and took a deep breath before we entered the TV room. Danny still clutching on to my hand as a mode of support. We could hear idle chatter filtering from the room. When we walked into the room I saw her immediately she was a leggy blonde with tanned skin, perfect teeth and bright blue eyes so basically beauty personified. WOOP DE BLOODY DOO.
"hi you must be Danny" she asked enthusiastically. "Eh yeah hi don't mean to be rude but who are you ?" asked Danny bluntly yet politely. It wasn't her fault Harry was an ass . God I really was a bitter Betty today.
"Oh gosh how rude of me I'm Grace, Harry's girlfriend, I guess, we've only been seeing each other for a month or so but I'm cracked about him." she gushed. Danny squeezed my hand as he heard me breathe deeply. I glanced at Lyndsey, she gave me a sympathetic look, I wasn't sure if she had worked out what had gone on or she was just sympathising with me because she knew I liked him.
"so are you Danny's girlfriend?" she questioned. Crap! She was talking to me !
I so wanted to hate her but she seemed like a nice girl. I couldn't just ignore her. I could sense Danny was gearing up to answer for me but I beat him to it. "no, just friends,best friends." I was about to continue when I was interrupted. " Oh my gosh that means you must be Lola! I've heard so much about you, its great to meet you." she said in a seemingly genuine manner. I smiled in recognition but anyone who knew me would recognise that I was breaking on the inside. "so Grace tell us about yourself, how did you and Harry meet?" questioned Tom politely, attempting to keep the conversation flowing. If only he could see the death glares that Lyndsey was giving behind him, begging him silently to shut up for my sake.
"oh, well at the moment I'm doing quite a lot of modelling but I also want to get into acting. I did a degree in teaching at UNI so ill probably do that when im older but I just want to have some fun now. I met Harry at a club in town, we got chatting over some horrendously potent cocktails and I guess one thing led to another and I'm here." god she is pretty and intelligent aswell as a seemingly nice and genuine person. Why couldn't she be some money grabbing whore it would make my life so much easier. I had to get out of there. I was sure she was going to tell us some thing even more impressive like that she is about to find a cure for cancer and works in soup kitchens in her spare time, making me feel even worse.
Just as I stood up to leave, Harry entered the room with a towel over his head, attempting to roughly dry his hair. Danny's grasp on my hand grew even tighter and I could feel the rage begin to flow through him. I brushed my thumb against his hand in an attempt to calm him, the last thing I needed was to have to pull them apart from rolling around on the ground.
Lyndsey was biting her lip looking incredibly nervous. " hey babes, nice of you to join us, I've just been getting to know everyone, where have you been?" asked Grace cheerfully, she was oblivious to the razor like tension that been created in the room on Harry's entrance. Harry quickly stopped drying his hair and pulled the towel from atop his head. His eyes were wide and is mouth was agape. Grace's appearance had obviously caught him by surprise." eh hi grace" as he said this his eyes moved around the room. Stopping when they reached mine. I think I actually saw the blood drain from his face when he realised the situation that he had found himself in. After a few moments of keeping his gaze I tore my eyes away from his and gazed at the floor fighting the tears that were threatening to appear. After I was confident that I had control of myself I spoke up " well Grace it was lovely to meet you but I'm going to get dressed and head home." I said moving out of the room. Danny following quickly behind me. Our roles had changed he was no longer clutching on to my hand to support me but rather to stop himself from pummelling Harry into the ground.
I quickly went upstairs and threw my clothes on I wanted to get out of that house as soon as I could. " come on Lolly we'll go over to yours and have a Danny and Lolly day." said Danny as he put his jacket on. I nodded in response and made my way down the stairs, the conversation from the TV room filtered into the hallway.
"I know they said they are best friends but they look so cute together surely something else must be going on …" Mother of god could this get any worse now his girlfriend is trying to set me up with Danny . I looked at Danny questioning whether we had to go back into the room or not. "we're heading to Lolly's see you jerks later." yelled Danny as he pulled me out the door towards his car.
"right, first stop is McDonalds so that we can get some healthy grease to soak up this hangover, then the supermarket to get chocolate, ice-cream and everything else that helps to mend a broken heart and for when they don't work we will go to the off-licence and stock up so we can yell abuse and blame it on the drink, so come on chin up we have shopping to do." Danny exclaimed cheerfully . Over the years we had created a routine for when one of us broke up with someone or for when we were badly rejected . It was surprisingly effective.
I smiled weakly at him as we made our way to the drive through to collect our hangover cure.
