Hey Guys, here´s the third chapter of Maria and Dougie 4! YAY! Anyways, just wanted to freak out since I´m working with boring Danish oral exam. YAWN!
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Chapter 3: Having Fun
Gio´s POV:
I walked up the stairs and down the hall. As I reached the door to Dougie´s room, I hesitated before I slowly opened the door. Dougie was sitting by his computer at the desk, his back turned to me. He was writing an e-mail, I could see but I couldn´t see who it he was writing to, or what he wrote. "I'll come in two minutes. I have to write this email it's…" he said while turning around. I could see that he wasn't expecting me. I sat at the bed beside me. "So who's that girl?" I asked with a smile. Dougie and I had never been close friends. There had always been some sort of awkward silence between us. "How do you know it's a girl?" he asked turning back to his computer and began writing again. "I'm a girl. I just know this kind of stuff" I said and smiled. He looked at me and opened his mouth. "It's a girl-thing to know that" I began before he even said a word. He nodded, "Erm.. Well.. I guess.. you are a girl, right? I'll bet you will tell tom, if I told you." He tried to hide his nervousness. "Well Dougie, I do not tell Tom everything. Of course I tell him very much. If you want me to not tell tom, then it is a deal." I said while trying to sound determined. He looked at the floor, "I'm writing to Frankie." That was so much not what I had expected. Dougie was really, really low dating his ex-girlfriend. Dougie would never had done that if... if he did not believe that Maria was coming back. "Oh My God. How long have you been seeing each other?" I couldn't help but ask. "We met to Pop star to Opera star last week." He said while looking up trying to read my face. "Wow. So she's your secret. Why don´t you tell the guys that you are together with Frankie now?" I hadn't expected this reaction. "WE ARE NOT TOGETHER!" He got up yelling at me. I could feel my lower jaw hanging. He sat down and began to cry. I ran over to him and gave him a hug. "What's wrong Doug?" I mumbled while hoping for an answer. "I don't know. I miss Maria. I miss her smile, her eyes and most of all her lovely Danish humour. I miss every little piece of her. She was such a lovely person. Anna and Chris asked me why she wasn´t here anymore. They got confused when Frankie came. I do really love being together with Frankie – you know I can be me, not thinking of Maria or the kids, just having fun again," He said and took a big breath. I couldn't help but stare at him. He was using Frankie as a person to be together with, just to stop think about Maria. "Erm..." I started but didn't seem to find the right words. "Well, I don't know what to say. I think I'm pretty bad at this. Just follow your heart." I said smiling to him. "Please come down with me. Tom made pancakes to breakfast, and I think you could use it," I told him with a smile.
Tom's POV:
As Dougie sat down I could feel there was something wrong. Gio smiled at me probably just to make me relax. "So what are we going to do today?" Danny asked, without noticing what I did. Harry and Danny started discussing it. I wasn´t really listening but I hadn´t expected Dougie to say something. "How about Cricket?" he asked and everybody turned to him. I don´t think any of them had expected him to say anything either. "Yeah!" Harry exclaimed and laughed. Harry´s favourite thing in the world had always been Cricket. Dougie smiled at him and gave him a high five. I think I could feel my jaw hanging. This was the last thing I´d expected. Dougie had never really liked Cricket, maybe he was trying to the attention away from him. I had no idea.
An hour later we were all ready to go. We drove to the park where we set up Harry´s Cricket gear which he almost brought with him everywhere. We had so much fun – Dougie too. I think Gio had told him something up in his room when she went to get him this morning that had convinced that he needed to get out and away from his problems.
When we came home the weather was so great and it was warm, that we decided that we should grill. I was the grill master, Gio and her sister, Cira, who lived here in the US and had joined us for the evening, made the accompaniment. Danny and Harry were in the garden playing ball with the kids. You could hear how they laughed. I couldn´t help but smile at that. I didn´t really know what Dougie was doing. He was sitting inside.
Later that night when we had eating outside Dougie pulled me aside as we were doing the dishes. I followed him into the living room where he told me that he wanted to show me something. He grabbed a few sheets of paper and handed them to me. It was the lyrics of a song. "What is this?" I asked looking up at him amazed when I saw how good it was. It was clear that he´d written it about Maria. "It´s…" he started but stopped and sighed."This is good stuff, Doug," I told him and patted his back smiling. "What´s it called?" I asked when he´d smiled back. "Erm…Too Close for Comfort," he told me and I smiled.
The next day we went to the beach. Harry, Danny and Cira went surfing, while Dougie, Gio and I were sitting on the beach playing in the sand with Anna, Chris and Bella. Gio was sunbathing when Dougie and I took the kids out swimming. Anna and Chris hadn´t tried swimming before so they started crying when they felt the cold water hit their little feet. Dougie laughed a little. He walked out into the water to show them that the water really wasn´t the deep. Chris laughed when he had reached Dougie and held his arm tight. Anna, though, was really scared and refused to get into the water. Stubbornly, just like her mother, she crossed her arms and shook her head. "That´s up to you little miss," I said and turned around. I heard Anna start to cry then. I looked at Dougie beside me. "Tom!" he said and sighed while rolling his eyes. "Wanna play with Uncle Thomas?" he asked Chris with clenched teeth as he said the word Thomas, just to annoy me. Chris nodded and swam to me. I couldn't help but laugh as he splashed water in Dougie´s face as he kicked his feet. When I took Chris out further out Dougie walked out of the water and hugged his daughter and comforted her. He eventually got her convinced that the water wasn´t dangerous as long as she´d just stay with him.