Mid July
(Alice is talking on the phone.)
"Ok Mrs Carr. Yeah I'm excited to see you too!" Alice said laughing. "You sure it's for me to stay at yours?" she asked for the fourth time.
Pause.
"Yeah I know I'm welcome anytime."
Pause
"You'll only have me for a few days anyway." she said.
Pause.
"I wish it was for longer too. I know that I don't see as much of you as I'd like too. I'll be down later on in August with Danny." she said. "On the 15th." she added quietly.
Pause
"Yeah I know you want to know everything about Danny!"
Pause.
"And no he hasn't tried to take advantage of me."
Pause.
"Yes he is treating me well."
GOD! So this is what would of happened if her mother had been here!
"We'll talk more when I arrive ok. See ya soon." she said and disconnected.
She walked over to her wardrobe and pulled out her holdall. Thankfully the cast had come off her leg over a week ago. She couldn't stand on it or a long period of time because it ached. But it had mostly healed. And she swore her leg tingled when it was gonna rain.
Well Alice was going up to Glasgow alone. Danny didn't know she was going even though it had been organised for over a week. They had made up but something was missing from their relationship. She couldn't explain it. She loved him but a tiny part of her hadn't forgiven him for what he'd said. That tiny part was eating away at her heart but she didn't know how to make it go away! She didn't want to talk to Danny about this so she was going to Glasgow to talk to her best friend Shauna. She always knew what to do. She knew Alice more than anyone! Yeah she could have spoke to her over the phone but Shauna's facial expressions were as important to her words. She knew it was weird but there it was! She heard a knock on her bedroom door.
"It's open!" she shouted.
Danny walked in.
"Hiya." he said and kissed her cheek. "How's your leg?" he asked.
She wobbled it then grinned, "Fine!" she said.
"What you doing today?" he asked.
"Well I'm actually heading off to Glasgow for a couple of days so I'm sorting my stuff."
"O," he replied. "Is this like a last minute thing?" he asked.
"No it's actually been planned for the last week or so." she admitted.
"What and you never bothered to tell me." he asked he had a angry tone to his voice.
"Well no, I didn't. I don't answer to you." she said.
He narrowed his eyes. "How long you away for?" he asked.
"Only 2 days." she said. Her tone was normal again.
He was sat on her bed. They were quiet for a while the only noise was the rustle of her bag as she placed more things inside.
"Are we ok Alice?" he asked quietly.
"Yeah." she said and carried on packing.
If he'd asked that before the incident at school, she would have jumped over to the bed, kissed him many times until he was 100% sure they were ok and that nothing would ever come between them. As it was she just said yeah and carried on packing.
"can you stop packing for 5 minutes and talk to me?" he asked angrily.
She looked at him. "If I don't pack I'll miss my train." she said calmly.
Alice calm voice irritated Danny. "Oh yeah and that would be a disappointment!" he said sarcastically.
"Well actually it would be!" she replied in an equally sarcastic tone.
"And why is that can't wait to get away from me?" he asked.
She looked at him, "Got it in one!" she said meanly.
"Well tell you what I'll leave you to it and find another girl who actually wants to spend time with me!" he spat at her.
Ooooo that had hurt but 2 could play at that game. She checked her watch.
"Oh great I'll arrive at Glasgow in time to meet Terry after swimming. He looks so gorgeous after swimming with his hair wet and curling." she said and put on a dreamy voice.
Danny's face went thunderous and he stormed out of her room. The door slammed with a thud. If Terry touched her he'd kill him! Alice was his girlfriend!
See Alice thought. They'd never been like this before. It seemed all they did at the minute was rub wav other the wrong way and argue. Something was definitely missing. She just hoped whatever it was they could find it again coz she truly loved him. With every beat of her heart. She and Danny could work it out. They were strong - She hoped!
(X)
Stupid Danny just stupid! Now she's going to Glasgow angry with you. Maybe the time away would do them some good. Things hadn't been the same recently. He just them to be happy like they were before! He saw Sarah walking towards him and crossed the road. He REALLY didn't want to talk to her right now. She ran across and ambushed him.
Oh God not now! He thought.
"Hello Danny." she said cheerily.
"Hey." he said
"Well what did ya think of the maths test?" she asked.
"It was ok." he replied. His replies were short and sweet. He just wished she'd take the hint. Of course Sarah being Sarah didn't!
"it could have been better though." she said.
"You'll have done fine." he answered in a bored voice. They arrived at his house.
Danny had ran out of patience. "Look is there a point to this conversation?" he asked.
"No, I just missed talking to you, that's all. Look I know that me and Alice are never gonna be friends, we'll never get along if I'm telling the truth. To be honest I couldn't care a less. But I thought you and me were friends. I never anted us to fall out." Sarah's eyes had started glistening. She knew that Danny had never been able to handle tears.
Danny saw Sarah's eyes. Oh God don't let her cry. He hated tears he hated them they made him uncomfortable.
"Me and Alice are a couple Sarah. I love her and if you upset her then I stay away from you simple." he said.
Tears spilled, he patted her arm awkwardly. "Look I never wanted to upset you Sarah."
"I thought we were friends!" she wailed.
"We are." he said. God he had to stop her crying!
She jumped on him and wrapped her arms around him. He disentangled himself from her embrace.
"Give me a hug Danny." she asked.
"No! I'm Alice's boyfriend!" he said.
Her wailing intensified.
"If I hug you will you please stop crying?" he asked.
He was willing to do anything to stop her crying.
She nodded.
She wrapped her arms around him and he patted her back awkwardly.
"There!" he said.
"One more minute!" she pleaded.
(X)
Alice walked over to Danny's house. She had to go and at least make sure they were on speaking terms before she left for Glasgow. She saw him talking to Sarah. She was crying. She then saw Sarah go into his embrace. He willingly hugged her! She was about to walk away when Sarah saw her. She winked at her and wiggled her eyebrows and before Alice could react she was kissing Danny. Alice watched in horror. Her fists clenched! Anger filled her chest. God that fucking bitch. And him he was no better. How could he do that to her? So this was the other girl who he was going to see! Well if he wanted Sarah, he could have her! They were a match made in heaven. Some other girl, she might have been able to forgive but Sarah - not a snowballs chance in hell!. She stomped upstairs and printed off the receipt from her tickets off the internet. Mrs Carr had ordered them with her rail card and Alice had sent the money up for them. Mrs Carr had said no but Alice had been adamant. when she got up to Scotland she and Shauna were gonna go and flirt with the best looking lads there! Screw Danny!
(X)
"One more minute." Sarah pleaded.
She saw Alice turn the corner. She had her chance. She pulled away slightly and then kissed Danny hard on the lips.
She held his face making it impossible for him to move!
He finally got away from her.
"What the hell are you doing!" he demanded.
"Kissing you, I thought it's what you wanted!" she said.
Oh my god Sarah. I never wanted to kiss you. God even if Alice hadn't turned up we would have broke up eventually. Your just not the type of girl I want. How could you do that? God I've got a girlfriend!" he said with disgust.
"Danny we were good together until SHE came along!" Sarah said nastily.
"She is Alice and she's my girlfriend and the most important thing is that I LOVE her!" he retorted.
"If your such a good couple then why aren't you together now?" she asked.
Danny was struck dumb for a moment. "She's going to Glasgow. I can't go!" he said. "My mum wouldn't let me go without a chaperone." he said simply.
Sarah didn't look convinced. "C'mon Danny don't lie to me. I always knew you better than you knew yourself." she said and grabbed his jacket.
"Don't delude yourself Sarah." he said removing her hands. "You know nothing about me! Leave me alone Sarah. Just go!" he said and walked into his house.
"I'll be waiting for your phone call saying you've broke up with Alice and that you want me back!" she shouted.
The bitch will be waiting for a long time, like he and Alice would break up over her! Guilt then hit Danny in the stomach. At least he hadn't kissed her back. Her lips had been so awful! They were uncomfortable! They were hard and brittle whereas Alice's were soft and pliable and moulded to his perfectly. She in no way shape or form compared to Alice!
He had to talk to Alice! He had to tell her what Sarah had tried to do. God help him if Sarah got in there first! He punched in her phone number and she picked up on the second ring.
"Hello Daniel." she said coldly.
"Ooo." she called him Daniel, something was wrong.
"Alice?" he asked.
"What do you want?" she asked angrily.
"I just wanted to tell you to have a good time in Glasgow and about something that just happened." he said.
"Yeah I will, I'm looking forward to meetings Shauna's boyfriend. Apparently he's got loads of cute friends!" she said interrupting them.
"Yeah and you've got a boyfriend remember that!" Danny retorted angrily.
"NO! Danny HAD a boyfriend. Because said boyfriend was seen kissing another girl by the name of Sarah. So said boyfriend is now EX boyfriend!""Look Alice." he started.
"I don't want to heart all the gory details Danny. I don't want to know the how's or whys ok. Just leave it. If you wanted her you should have just told me instead of going behind my back and humiliating me! You wanna know something else Danny. The sight of you kissing her didn't bother me. Didn't hurt as much as I thought it would. I guess I don't love you as much as I thought I did! Huh?"
Alice disconnected that - last statement had been a lie. The sight of him kissing Sarah had killed her. It was like he'd ripped out her heart. Stomped on it and smashed it into billions of tiny miniscule shards and then poured acid on it. The metaphorical breaking of your heart is true. It felt like something in her chest had shifted then shattered.
"Well sod him! Sod him, Sarah and the whole world!"
She walked downstairs into the kitchen. She went in the fridge and grabbed a can of Fanta. The fridge was always well stocked now and the good thing was that she didn't have to do it! Josh saw her stomping around.
"Alice what's wr…." he asked.
"Not one word Josh. I'm not in the mood!"! she said angrily. She then grabbed her bag and walked out of the house.
(X)
Danny lay on his bed with his head in his hands. He should have known that she'd know. God that girl knew everything! That bitch Sarah had ruined everything!. Why had she kissed him. She couldn't of known Alice was gonna be there. HE didn't even know that Alice as gonna turn up! Then again Alice should know him better than that. She should know that he wouldn't never kiss anyone behind her back never mind Sarah! Just show's how much she did actually trust him. He started to wonder whether she wanted to start a fight so she COULD meet some good looking boys in Scotland. He felt guilty for thinking like that but what was he supposed to think. She starts a fight for next to no reason and then just dumps him. Fair enough she thought she had a reason for it but she should have at least gave him a chance to explain. Well he had to try and explain and if she wouldn't talk to him then he'd try something else. He grabbed a sheet of paper and a pen. He also turned on his computer. He thought for a second then began to write.
A/N i apologise 4 any mistakes coz i havent checked it yet review please x
