Chapter Six

I was sat on my bed when the phone starting to ring, I pulled it out of my pocket and smiled when I saw that Axl was calling me.

"Hello?"

"Sam, we have a problem right now." My eyes widened.

"What do you mean?" Was he going to break up with me, we'd only been going out for a few days I hadn't done anything majorly wrong, that I was aware of.

"My dad's not gonna let me play in the last game of the season. I need to play, this is about honour and pride and he's gonna take all of that away from me!" He rambled quickly, thankfully not hearing my sigh of relief.

"Don't worry Axl, of course you're gonna play. There's no way that your dad wouldn't let you. Can I ask why this is happening in the first place, what did you do?"

"I didn't do anything!" I raised an eyebrow and pulled away to look at the phone, that was a lie if I had ever heard one.

"Axl."

"He may have been getting on me about leaving my socks around the house, but Sam! It's not my fault, they're cousin socks they slip off my feet." I couldn't contain the little giggle that slipped out of my mouth. "Are you laughing, this is a serious matter. I can't believe you-"

I cut him off quickly. "I'm not laughing at you I promise. I'll come round in a bit and see if I can talk your dad out of it, I think he likes me so who knows, I might be able to."

I heard a deep exhale on the other side of the phone and knew I'd calmed him down some-what, at least he wasn't going to be mad at me. I could only hope I could actually get Mr Heck to let him play, Axl loved basketball I didn't know what he would do if he wasn't allowed.

"Thanks Sam. I knew you'd be able to help me out."

"Well let's not count our eggs before they've hatched."

There was a pause. "What?"

I shook my head and said my goodbyes to him, I would make my over there soon enough and he could rant and rave as much as he wanted, one thing I'd learned from him is that when something's bothering him he lets everyone know. Usually it was something to do with his family, they were a very strange bunch.

I got off my bed and stretched, then started to get ready to go. It didn't take my long, the shower that would have lasted my half an hour was shortened to ten when my dad started banging on the door for me to get out. I frowned as I wiped the moisture away from the mirror and looked at myself; the frown quickly disappeared when I remembered why I was getting ready.

I got to see my boyfriend and that was always a plus. I got dressed, kissed my dad on the cheek when I finally opened the door and went to dry my hair. I was soon ready to leave and took an apple that in the fruit bowl, happily munching on it as I went out the door.

When I arrived at the Heck household, the door was immediately opened and I was greeted with the smiling face of Sue, Axl's younger sister. I prepared myself for more rambling and I jumped when Axl appeared exactly where Sue was two seconds ago having hip bumped her out of the way before she could even get a word in.

"Axl!" I scolded, checking on his sister to make sure she was alright, she had connected with the other wall and was cradling my head. I looked into her eyes to make sure she didn't have a concussion or anything, but I realised Sue didn't hit the wall as hard as I'd thought I had. Sue smiled at her before moving my hand away from her head.

"I'm okay." She said as I looked at where she'd hit her head and saw that there probably wouldn't even be a bruise which was lucky for Axl because I probably wouldn't have spoken to him for the rest of the day.

"See. She's fine, let's go to my room." I huffed as my wrist was grabbed and I was led to his room. He soon changed his grip to hold my hand and link their fingers and even though I was a little shocked at him, this made my smile. I was such a sucker for him.

I sat on the edge of his bed and he was just making himself comfortable when his mom opened the door. "Door open." She warned, smiling at me before going back to whatever she'd come from. They could just about hear my in the kitchen with Mr Heck.

"Do you think we should let them be alone together in his room? I mean, when we were their age you know exactly what we would have been doing." My mouth dropped open as I realised what they were talking about. I turned to give Axl a look and I could see the tips of his ears going red.

"Frankie, relax. The door is open, no one is that stupid." Mr Heck reassured his wife.

I decided to ignore everything I'd just heard and turned around on the bed so I was facing Axl, I crossed my legs having taken my shoes off. He smiled at me before handing me something that he grabbed from his bedside table.

"What's this?" I asked before looking down at the gift, it was wrapped in red paper with a nice bow on top. He just shrugged and motioned for me to open it. I unwrapped it gently, and opened the lid of the box, holding my breath. It all came out in a gasp as inside the box was a beautiful necklace, it was a gold chain with the letter A on it, on the A was a tiny little diamond that sparkled gently in the light. I didn't even want to know what this cost him, I'd never been given anything this beautiful before and I swallowed heavily before looking up at him.

I had never seen him looking this nervous before. So I smiled, handed him the chain, turned around and held my hair out of the way, I peeked over my shoulder at him as he looked confused. "Will you put it on for me?"

He smiled and so did I as he did what I asked. I leant against him when he finished and felt his arms slide around my waist. This was perfect I realised, but it almost made me forget the real reason I was here.

"Did you want me to talk to your dad for you?" I asked gently, knowing that I was stepping on dangerous territory, men and their pride one wrong step would send you flying out the door.

He shook his head and rested it on I's shoulder, breathing gently on my neck which caused me to shiver slightly. "He'll let me play, you were right. It's the last game of the season he has to know how important that it. I'm not talking to him for the rest of the week though." I nodded slightly and we stayed like that for a while.

AN: Sorry about how long this has taken to get up, but the next chapter will definitely be up sooner! Thanks to everyone who is still reading this.