"Why?" Andy said icily shooting me a foul look.
"I had to tell her Andy. I was scared."
"Oh boo-hoo. Don't start this soppy romantic crap with me."
"Oh you're one to talk!" I spat. "Were you not the one who was like 'Oh I love you, I'm so sorry'" I said the last bit in a high voice Andy didn't even have.
"Well, here's the thing; I lied."
I felt so hurt and couldn't think of a smart comeback but thankfully I was saved by Mrs Diviney entering with Andy's mum. After I'd told Mrs Diviney about our… argument earlier, she'd immediately called Andy's mum, Michelle to bring Andy around. She'd said and I directly quote 'It's seems Andy and Gemma have had a misunderstanding'. She couldn't be further from the truth and quite frankly I didn't want anyone to hear the truth.

We were sitting at Kylie's (Shaun's mum aka Mrs Diviney) kitchen table. Andy was sitting across from me and Shaun was on one side of me. Andy looked jealously at him as Kylie took a seat on my other side and Michelle sat next to Andy.
"What's your problem, lover boy?" Shaun spat. He wasn't happy with Andy liking me. In a way I didn't blame him but I kind of felt sorry for Andy. He must have felt so small.
"What's yours?" Andy spat back pathetically.
"Don't have one." Shaun said casually. "Just thinking how jealous you'd be that my family's so perfect and yours is just broken. You have no clue; you couldn't even keep a goldfish let alone a friend."
"TAKE THAT BACK!" Andy stood up fists at the ready. "YOU TAKE THAT BACK NOW; YOU'RE JUST A SPOILED BASTARD, YOU WOULDN'T KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE."
Shaun laughed. "Oh, let's all feel sorry for Andy; his parents split up and now the girl who he sooo in love with hates him? What will he do? Well, that's just it, I don't care!"
"SHAUN! Go to your room now!" Kylie screamed at him.
Michelle interrupted. "He needs to hear this Kylie." And then she turned to Andy. "Andrew, sit down." Andy did as he was told, mumbling angrily under his breath.
"So," Michelle started. "What's going on here?"
Andy looked into his lap. Shaun was silent. I didn't want to talk but I suppose I had no choice. "Andrew," I said angrily my voice already rising. "Thinks he can just keep the biggest freaking secret in the world from me and I'll be okay with it!"
Kylie spoke now. "Shell, read this." She handed Michelle the folded square. Andy snatched it away from her.
"That's mine!" He shouted angrily, holding it against his chest as if it were a baby.
"Andy," Michelle said gently stroking his hair. He shook her hand away. "Baby, let Mummy have a look."
"Mum, don't call me baby and I don't call you Mummy, so why say it?"

I wanted to interrupt. I knew when they were alone Andy did call Michelle mummy. But I didn't want to embarrass him even if he had been a jerk to me. Andy was bright red but still handed the paper over to Michelle. He looked close to tears as Michelle read it through carefully.
"Oh dear." She said finally after reading it several times. "This is a problem…"
"IT'S MORE THAN A PROBLEM!" Shaun screamed. "HE'S BEEN SNEAKING AROUND WITH MY GIRLFRIEND!"
"I have not!" Andy cried defensively. "I just ..." he looked into his lap again. "I love her."
I wanted to say 'I love you too, Andy.' But that would make Shaun upset so I was quiet. There was silence until Michelle said; "I want to know exactly what's going on." She was looking directly at Andy. "And you're going to tell us or you're grounded forever."
Andy looked at her and then at all of us. "Mum, Shaun's my best friend and so is Gem. I'm happy for them really… just sometimes I get a little jealous. What you want to hear is some crap about how much it hurts to see them. I'm not going to tell you because I would honestly rather spend the rest of my life grounded than hurt them."
Michelle wasn't impressed. She grabbed a fistful of Andy's blonde wavy hair and yanked it hard. He groaned in pain. "Tell me now Andrew or I'll send you to live with your Father and the home wrecker." The home wrecker was Bradie's mum, Andy's step mum. She honestly wasn't that bad but Andy didn't like her and neither did Michelle, understandably.
"Okay." Andy sighed. "I'll tell you."
"Well, go ahead." Shaun said. "This should be good."
This clearly didn't make Andy feel any better. He swallowed hard. "It's true," he began. "I wrote it for Gem because I tried so hard to be happy for her but I couldn't be. I had to do something and I didn't want to hurt her." He looked back into his lap and tears rolled down his cheeks. He didn't look up as he said. "I'm sorry I did it, can we just forget the whole thing?"
Michelle patted his back. "Baby, it's okay." Andy hugged her back.
Andy sobbed, wiped his eyes and then said. "Mum, can we go home now?"
"In a sec," She said and then looked at Kylie. "I have a feeling that that's not the whole story but I think what Andy really needs is a good rest."
"Or a good bashing." Shaun muttered under his breath.

Michelle took Andy home, Shaun went back to his room and I just sat in silence at Kylie's kitchen table. I felt sorry for Andy, really and I knew it made him uncomfortable for him to talk about it but I wanted the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
"Are you okay?" It was Kylie and she had Tim Tams and hot Milo.
"Yeah," I said pulling out a chair beside me for her.
"I know it's hard, but you don't have to worry we'll sort it out and you can go back to normal."
"It's not me I'm worried about… it's Andy."
"Sweetie, he-
"He's my friend and I love him. This whole thing is my fault. It's all my fault Mrs Diviney. I hurt Andy."