"Jay!" I gasp, looking at the guy in front of me.
"Hey Tom!" he laughs, pulling me into a hug.
"Oh my god, mate! What the hell are you doing here? Hey, come in," I smile, dragging him inside before closing the door.
My old best friend, Jay had to move away for many years, we were best mates in school together, but he and his parents had to move away to Germany because of his dad's new job over there.
"Hey, I've recently got a job over here; the office I work in is just round the corner! I read about you in the paper and suddenly remembered you were in a band! I was determined to come and visit you, and I knew you lived around here, so I asked around until I found your house!"
"I can't believe it! So what's your new job?" I say, noting on his smartly dressed suit.
"I'm an estate agent, just round from here!"
"Awesome! I can't even believe it! It's been like, 10 years!"
"Yeah! Well we did talk on the phone about 8 years ago." He laughed.
"So, can I get you anything to drink?" I ask politely, suddenly feeling quite shy talking to my old friend.
"I'm good thanks, I should be off soon anyway." He smiles
"Oh no, don't go! We have so much to talk about!" I say.
"Well, I guess I could stay for a while, but we should hang out sometime this week, I could show you my new apartment! I've actually got Sunday off work! You doing anything?"
"You have to work on Sundays?" I ask, shocked.
"Yep! 7 days a week, except I sometimes do have Sundays off."
"Ahh, that sucks! And yeah I'm free!" I smile.
"Great" he laughed.
We walked into the lounge and sat awkwardly next to each other, Jay sitting usually where Danny sits. Shit! Danny! I almost forgot, a little while before Jay came over, Danny had called and said that he won't be back for maybe 2 weeks, so we were planning on hanging out on Sunday! Oh god, what am I supposed to tell Jay? I don't want to say no to either of them!
I opened my mouth to object about us hanging out on Sunday before he spoke already.
"Are you gonna turn the TV on" he smiles.
I turn to look at him and notice the detail of him and how much I remember him. His bright green eyes and floppy caramel-blonde hair. He's not that bad looking actually, kind of looks like an older Dougie.
"Yep!" I laugh, clicking the button on the controller and handing it to him.
He switched it over to Deal or no Deal, I know he always liked that show. I remembered a memory of ours, when we were having a sleepover round his house, aged around 14 and were making fun of all the people on the programme, until we saw a guy who looked like me. I giggled thinking about it.
He noticed and laughed, "What's funny."
"Do you remember when we had a sleepover round yours when we were about 14 and we were watching Deal or no Deal, making fun of everyone on it and then that creepy dude looked kinda like me!"
"Oh my god! Yes! He didn't look 'kinda' like you, he looked exactly like you!" he laughed.
"Oh shush!" I say, chucking a cushion at him.
That turned into a massive pillow (well cushion) fight, as we spent about an hour running around the room, acting 14 again, throwing cushions at each other, giggling, which ended up with me lying on the floor and Jay sitting on my stomach, stopping me from getting up.
I was saved by the sound of Jay's phone ringing from where his jacket lay on the sofa. He got off me and walked over to it, getting it out.
"Hello?" He said, as I got up off the floor, still laughing.
"Oh my god, I'm so sorry! I'll come right away!" He said frantically into the phone.
"What, are you sure? Thanks much!" he said, then hung up shortly afterwards.
I look at the clock, seeing it's now 2pm, I forgot he had to get back to work.
"Was that work? Do you have to go back" I sighed.
"Yeah, was my boss, but he said it's alright, I can have time off." He smiled
I was so relieved, "So I guess you can stay?" I cheekily smiled.
"Haha not exactly... I'd like to show you round mine? We could hang there for a while, watch a film or something?" he said.
"Yeah sure, I'd love that" I said, smiling at him.
A few hours later and my clock told me it was 5pm. I had a really cool clock; it had all of us – McFly, on it. Whenever it turned each hour, it would play a tiny part of one of our songs, it was set to play something different everytime, and I remember we got it made for us when we were in Japan a few years back. I really need to change it now.
Jay had stayed round here until now, we baked some cookies earlier, but just ended up burning them and we just finished watching 'Back to the Future', it feels great to have my 'Back to the Future' – obsessed friend back.
"So shall we start to make our way over to mine? We can order a pizza or something whilst we're there" he said.
"Yeah, let's do it!" I said, then blushing, going deep scarlet.
He noticed this, and chuckled quietly, making my blush harder.
We were later in my car, Jay giving me directions on where to go, and we finally made it at his apartment.
I followed him through the glass doors; the building seemed very nice and modern. We both got in the lift and he pressed the button 7, I noticed that it went up to 32. When we got there, he put the key in his door and we went in.
It was very nice indeed. The first thing I noticed was the huge crystal glass chandelier, hanging from the ceiling as you walk in. I looked over at some picture frames sitting on surfaces. I saw one of him and me around 15. I smiled, taking in the memory; it was at my birthday party. I begged my mum to let me have a house party as my dad and she were away for the weekend. Jay and I spent most of our time on the balcony, taking funny pictures of ourselves.
He guided me through his flat, showing me every room, which were very nice. I loved his kitchen the best though, silver counters and table with bright red walls, fridge and chairs, - very stylish!
We both first ordered a pizza then flopped down on the sofa.
"So, what shall we do?"
"I don't know," I laughed.
"Watch a film... play Xbox... just talk?" he looked at me for help.
"How about we watch another film" I say.
"Sure! They're all on the shelf there," he said pointing at a little white shelf in the corner.
I walked over and peered at all his films; he sure had some interesting ones. I pulled out a film and handed it to him. He frowned at it and looked up at me.
"Titanic, huh?" he smiled
"Yep, it's been a while since I saw it... so, why not?" I laugh.
Jay smiled at me, "Yeah, sure!"
He inserted the disc into the DVD player and then walked over to the kitchen.
"Do you want a drink or anything?"
"Sure, whatever you have."
The doorbell rang and made me jump slightly.
"That's probably the pizza, can you get it Tom? There's money on the counter near the door." Jay called from the kitchen.
"Yup." I walked over and opened the door.
"Pizza for Jay Carter?" a guy said, looking at me.
"Yeah," I say, giving him the ten quid that was on the side.
"Thanks," I say, taking the pizza from him.
I put the pizza on the coffee table and fished through my wallet, looking to pay for half of it.
Jay strolled in, holding a bag of popcorn whilst clutching two beers. "Oh don't worry about it" he said, looking at me.
"No, really!" I say, handing him £5.
"Tom, really don't worry!" he said, sitting on the sofa and patting the side next to him.
I decide to just leave the money on the counter, whilst he sighed a little, then I sat down with him ready to watch the film.
3 hours later, and we sat huddled up together on the sofa, crying our eyes out.
"Everytime! Everytime it just gets me going!" I sob, hugging Jay.
We sat there watching the credits and then I noticed the time on a little clock. It was 5 past 10; I should be getting back now.
I stood up, slowly and pulled my jacket on. "Hey thanks for tonight, 'twas fun, but I should be getting back now." I say
Suddenly a loud noise from outside gave off. We both ran over to the window and saw lots of lightning and rain. I sighed, knowing I had to drive back in that.
"You could just stay for the night? I have a spare room?" he says.
"Oh no, I couldn't possibly..."
"No, really! Come on," he said, dragging me off to his spare room.
He showed me inside it and it had nice green and cream walls and furniture.
"Here." He says.
"But Jay, really I can't, I feel awful!" I say, looking down.
"Hey, why do I have a spare room if nobody's gonna sleep in it?" he laughed.
I smiled "But I don't have any of my stuff, like my pyjamas?"
"I've got some you can borrow, if that's not too weird?" he smiled.
"If you don't mind, but I could wear my own clothes or something" I say, but he'd already gone into his room and retrieved some pyjama bottoms and shirt.
"Here"
"Thanks so much, Jay! You're awesome." I say, giggling.
We didn't go to sleep straight away. We spent all night, acting so childish again. Having yet ANOTHER pillow fight, and then going around the whole building, knocking on other people's doors and then running away.
A few hours later, and we finally made it back to his room, exhausted from the running. One old lady started running after us, threatening to tell the police.
"That was so fun! I miss being a child!" I laugh.
Jay giggled. "Yeah, same... Well, I'm gonna go to sleep now, I don't know about you but I'm flippin' exhausted!"
"Yeah," I say, walking over to my room, but lingering in the doorway for a few seconds until Jay looked up.
"Thanks mate" I mumble, tired.
"Anything" he smiled.
I went inside, and closed the door. I started undressing myself and slipped into Jay's clothes, they smelt strongly of him. I was just about to curl up in bed when I noticed a monster spider glaring at me on the wall. I quickly got up and scrambled out of the room. I hated spiders – much. I quickly knocked on Jay's door.
"Yeah..." mumbled a tired Jay.
I opened the door and went over to him.
"There's a huge spider on the wall!" I gasp.
He laughed at me for a few minutes.
"I'm serious!" I say, getting slightly impatient.
He put his arm round my waist and pulled me onto his bed next to him.
"Night." He mumbled, falling back to sleep again.
What did this mean? Am I sleeping here? This is kind of awkward.
He pulled the duvet over me, "Going to sleep, or still thinking about that spider?" he giggled.
I frowned, but then ended up laughing too, and we both fell asleep very quickly.
A/N: Sorry for leaving it a while. I'll try and upload asap Please R&R, makes me happy