This chapter takes place right after chapter 12 enjoy x

Peter continuously looked at his bloodied hands, he snapped out of his trance and made sure the coast was clear before throwing up his hood and making his way back to Albert Square, passing the busy night streets Peter began to sweat with panic, what had he done? As he neared the square he was beginning to see familiar faces and smiled at everyone as he tried to remain as calm as possible.

Meanwhile Lauren was still extremely pissed off at Joey's sudden lack of commitment and as the last orders were called in the Vic decided to call him again as she walked out into the cold brisk air, Peter walking while he drowned in his own thoughts jumped and came to a sudden halt when Joey's phone rang from his hoodie pocket, he took it out and stared until it stopped ringing, before throwing it as far away as possible.

Peter now dripping with sweat wiped his forehead as he stood looking at the Queen Vic and all the drunk punters staggering out of the pub with roars of laughter, those who walked behind him stared at the boy randomly stood in the road, Peter eyed each of them convinced they knew his secret,

'Oi!' he heard in the distance as he continued to stare at the Vic, 'Oi!' Lauren shouted again now nearing him 'Earth to Peter'

'Oh, hi Lauren,' he spoke daydream like as he finally turned to her, 'Joey still a no show?'

'Tell your mate to stuff himself!' she yelled, 'I was humiliated back there!'

'As I said Joey doesn't do commitment' he shrugged,

'I thought I changed him though, I honestly thought he loved me'

'Come on, we can go back to my apartment let you sleep this off'

Peter walked with Lauren staring at her nearly every second, she looked so down and glum she was really hung up on Joey, after a long awkward silence, they were walking up the stairs to Peter's apartment, he let Lauren in first, as he quickly took off his hoodie inspecting it thoroughly he noticed a blood stain on the back and rolled it walking inside, he darted to the bathroom hiding the hoodie and washed his hands before walking back out to Lauren.

'You alright?' he asked sitting on the bed opposite her,

'No I'm not Peter!' she yelled, 'how dare he treat me like this!'

'He's an idiot, I've told you before babe'

'Has he done this to every girl? He- he's a good looking bloke he must have girls knocking on the door for him, has he ever hurt them this way?'

'I really don't know, he probably got scared, you're beautiful, smart, he's not one of them'

'No you're wrong, I do think he's beautiful' she smiled,

'Yeah well Mr beautiful is a dick, and now you know it, I would have told you but I wanted you to find out for yourself' he spoke sitting next to her, 'and now that you know that' he leaned in and pressed his lips to hers,

'Stop!' Lauren yelled pushing him off her, 'what are you doing?'

'I'm kissing you, now you know Joey's a-'

'I don't know Joey's anything, and I told you I didn't love you anymore, that doesn't go away just because Joey didn't show, I need to know where we stand'

Peter sighed and lay on his bed, as Lauren rolled onto hers, soon enough both of them were asleep.

Lauren was first awake the next morning, she opened her eyes slowly and jumped up she stared around seeing Peter sound asleep and sighed with relief realising they didn't do anything, she grabbed her coat and walked out quietly, she walked to number 5 and showered before walking back down,

'Where did you get to last night?' Abi asked,

'Peter had some sort of issue, so I had to help him, he told me I could stay'

'Wasn't that a bit awkward?' she laughed,

'We kept our distance' she replied thinking to herself before making for the door, 'back in a while'

Lauren walked towards the caf and walked inside, she ordered a tea, when she was called by Whitney, Lauren smiled and walked down to her, 'Everything okay Whit?'

'Yeah, It's just I found this phone outside the arches, I thought it was Jay's but he said he'd never seen it before, so I was taking it to the police to hand it in to lost and found when I hit a button on the side and the screen lit up, the owner had like 15 missed calls from you' Lauren stared as Whitney took out the phone, 'do you know who owns this?'

'That's Joey's phone' Lauren spoke taking it off her, 'the screen is very cracked though, what did he throw this away or something?' she laughed,

'Probably sick of you ringing him' Whitney laughed, 'speaking of how was last night?'

'I wouldn't know, he didn't turn up' Lauren shrugged.

'He's a right loser you know that?' Whitney spoke, 'we should go out tonight and find him, show him what he's missing'

Lauren smiled, 'I like that idea very much'

'Speaking of have you got any tan? Don't tell anyone but I think Lee's using mine'

Lauren laughed and finished her tea 'You can come with, Pete's in class and I need to pick something up from there anyway'

They walked to Peter's apartment Lauren lifted the matt and found a key she opened the door, 'Whit could you just grab that top there, it's Abi's and she'll kill me knowing I wore it once' she laughed walking into the bathroom, she opened a cabinet and smiled taking out the tan, she went to leave when something caught her eye, 'Whit would you believe there's a hoodie in the rim of the bath? Boys cannot be left alone at all'

Lauren reached it and pulled the hoodie out, she went to fold it up and gasped in horror dropping the hoodie on the floor, 'Lauren what's wrong?' Whitney asked, walking to her, she gasped loudly, 'is that blood?'

What's Lauren going to do? Will she put two and two together or will she confront Peter first x