I spent the whole drive smiling to myself and remembering what had just happened. Alex had kissed me. It was even better than the last time he had which I didn’t think was possible.

Once I got home everyone was asleep and there was a note on the fridge door:

Charlie
We all went to bed sorry, you’ll have to make yourself something to eat there’s some leftover chicken in the fridge if you want it. I hope you had fun with your friends Alex was it? I don’t know anyway, Night
Mum x

I didn’t realise how hungry I was so I quickly opened the fridge and got out the chicken and microwaved it. Once I’d eaten that I wandered downstairs to my room and had a good night’s sleep.

The next morning I woke up wide awake. I went and had my usual shower and got dressed. Once I was dressed I put my acoustic guitar next to the front door along with my other bags so I didn’t forget them. I went and had an apple for breakfast instead of cornflakes and I decided to put the TV on this time.

I flicked through the channels until I came back to channel 1 again. The one thing I hated about morning TV was that there was never anything on. I turned the TV off and left the house.

My first lesson was pe. It wasn’t that I hated pe it was the fact that you didn’t know what sport you were going to be doing and I was quite bad at a few things.

I entered the gym and headed to the girls changing room and got into my shorts and polo shirt. Once I had finished getting changed I walked out into the gym with everyone else. After about ten minutes the boys started piling out of their changing room. Suddenly I felt someone come and stand next to me, I looked round and saw Jack. He was wearing shorts that stopped just above his knees and a polo shirt that was slightly pink in colour.

“Oh hey Jack!”

“Hey English girl!”

“Seriously, you’re still calling me that?”

“Yep!” He just smiled at me.

“So how come your polo shirt is pink?” I chuckled

“It did start off white but my mum decided to put her dress in the washing with it so now it’s pink. I don’t
mind, I think it suits me” He said as he spun around showing it off. Then the teacher started shouting at us to get into pairs. Jack just grabbed hold of me. “I’m going to be with you in a pair” I burst out laughing

“Okay Jack jees, calm down” It turned out that we were going to be playing volleyball. First we were just warming up our abilities to whack the ball over the net. It was safe to say both me and Jack were terrible. I served the ball to him but instead of the ball going over the net and in his direction; it went sideways and onto the teachers head. We both laughed and continued to through the rest of the lesson at how bad we were.

When it came to the end of the lesson and Jack and I were just a heap on the floor laughing in hysterics as the volleyball hit yet another girl. We knew it was cruel but it was just too funny not to laugh at.

Once I was changed back into my clothes for the day it was time to head to Music. As I left the changing rooms I saw that Jack had waited for me so we could walk down together. When we entered the music room I was welcomed by Alex with a tight hug and a cute smile,

“G’morning”

“Morning Alex” I smiled.

“Your turn to sing today”

“Ugh. Don’t remind me. I don’t know whether I’ll be able to do it. I’m so nervous”

“Charlie, look at me” He stared straight into my eyes “You’ll be fine, just sing like you sung last night and you’ll love it!”

“Okay, thank you” I smiled as I hugged him again “At least after this lesson I can put my guitar back in my car, it’s so awkward to carry” Alex laughed and we walked over to everyone else. “Morning Rian, Zack”

They both smiled at me and then one after the other gave me an awkward hug. Straight after I had finished hugging Zack the lesson was about to start so I quickly took my seat next to Jack.

The teacher called out my name and I went up to the front of the class. I was shaking so much. I sat on the stool and looked at everyone. As I scanned the room I saw Alex, Jack, Zack and Rian all smiling at me, I couldn’t help but laugh.

“Hey, umm...the song that I’m gunna perform is an original song by All Time Low but I’ve changed it into an acoustic” I stared nervously at the floor and began to strum my guitar,

“Luck loves me not tonight I’m running out. This four leaf clovers all but useless now...”

Once I started singing my nervousness drained from me and I just enjoyed playing like Alex said I would. I looked up while I was playing. Most of the students were falling asleep in their chairs but when I looked over to Jack, Rian and Zack I saw the surprise on their faces i had to hold my laugh back as much as I could.

Once the song had finished I heard a few claps come from around the room and I just got up and walked back to my seat. As I walked pass Alex he grinned at me and handed me a piece of paper. I went and sat down and unfolded it

What did I tell you? I knew you’d do great! Oh by the way I completely forgot to give you my number or whatever last night when I intended to so I’ve put it at the bottom.
Loooooveeee Allleexxx (The best guy in the world)

I laughed and got out my phone to put the number in. I sighed and looked over to Alex who was staring at me. He laughed and I quickly sent him a text

Thanks for your number, here’s mine :’) Also thanks for believing in me I guess
Looooooveeeeee Charlie (The awesomest person in the world)

I sent the text and I knew that he had got it by that loud laughter I heard coming from him. Suddenly I noticed that Jack had been staring at me the whole time.

“Jack are you okay?”

“Yeah I am, why would you think I’m not?”

“You just don’t look very happy that’s all” I smiled at him to see if it would cheer him up. He then took my phone from me and then started typing in things and gave it back, “what did you just do?” I asked looking concerned. He just laughed and so I started looking frantically through my phone for anything that had been changed. Then I saw it. A new number had been saved to my contacts. It was Jacks. I guess he must have felt left out so I texted him

Jaaaaack, what’s wrong? I know there’s something up I’m not that stupid. If you won’t tell me hen at least cheer up....just think about me hitting out PE teacher in the head with the volleyball :)

He looked at his phone and smiled slightly then I got a text back

Charlie, I’m fine don’t you worry about me :p I’m just not feeling very well I think it was all the running about in PE I might go home after this lesson

I looked up at him. He really didn’t look to great

“Jack I’ll walk you to medical if you want? Alex and the guys can come as well of course” He smiled

“If that’s okay? Thanks”

“No problem I don’t mind”

The rest of the lesson was in silence and I just sat there texting Alex. We talked about Jack going home and then he asked what had for the rest of the day, lessons wise. The bell then rang and I threw my guitar over my shoulder and dragged all four of them to reception so that Jack could sign out. He had already text his mum so he had a ride home. Once we had said goodbye to him I quickly ran over to my car and put my guitar away. We then made our way to our break room. Matt was already in there tucking into an apple,

“What took you guys so long?”

“Nice to see you too” said Zack

“Oh we were just saying bye to Jack because he’s ill and needed to go home” I said then Rian suddenly pointed out,

“Wait, if Jack’s ill how are we going to do band practice tonight?”

“That’s a good point” Alex replied “I guess we’ll just have to skip it for tonight. One night off won’t hurt”

Everyone hummed in agreement and carried on eating whatever food they had acquired for break.

The next lesson I had was English it was a lesson I didn’t have anyone I knew in and so the whole of the lesson was spent with me actually working instead of talking about random rubbish. The lesson flew by pretty quickly. I suddenly felt my phone buzz in my trouser pocket I looked to see what it was

We eat lunch in the music room by the way, come and eat with us!

I quickly grabbed my bag and made my way to the music room. As I got closer to the room I heard laughter booming from the music room. I opened the door and saw that there were only a few guys sitting down Alex, Zack, Rian, Matt and a couple of guys I didn’t know. I went to sit down on the desk next to Alex but he grabbed me around the waist and pulled me onto his lap before I had a chance. I laughed and just sat down and leant against him. He was comfy and warm and smelt amazing. I then saw him going through my bag,

“What are you looking for Mr Gaskarth?” He then pulled out my lunch and placed it in my lap and threw my bag on the floor. I started to eat and listened to everyone’s conversation.

“So what’s everyone going to be doing tonight since we don’t have band practice?” Rian said

“Probably just stay home and play Halo for hours on end” Zack laughed

“Do you mind if I join you” Rian asked

“Sure thing! Matt are you in?” Matt nodded in agreement and then Zack turned to Alex

“Nope” was all Alex said

“What? Why not!?” Everyone said at the same time.

“I just don’t feel like it i might join in from my house though” I turned to face Alex and said

“Why don’t you just play Halo with them at Zack’s?” Alex just stared at me

“Maybe because I don’t want to. I had something else in mind” he said as squeezed my side. I laughed and lent back on him comfortably again.

“Fair enough”

“What do you have planned?” Alex asked me

“Nothing really I’ll probably just go home and do some Maths homework or something”

“You could come round to mine and I’ll help you if you like” I looked at him to see if there was any hint of sarcasm whatsoever. Nope, there was none.

“Yeah sure, sounds like a great idea” I smiled and went back to eating my cheese sandwich.

The rest of the day was spent with me in lessons that I didn’t want to be in with people that I still didn’t know. The day seemed to drag on forever but when the final bell went for the end of school I was very relieved.

I walked out to my car and got in and waited for Alex to come out of school. Suddenly there was a bang and a face appeared at my car window. I jumped and screamed quite loudly then I realized who it was. Alex. He was now collapsed on the floor laughing at my reaction. I wound down my window.

“Aw c’mon it wasn’t that funny” He just continued to laugh not able to get a word out. I reached out and tapped him on the head and he managed to compose himself and stand back up again.

“That was pretty funny though, you have to admit.” He said wiping the tears from his face
“Not as funny as you made it out to be” I joked

“Yeah well, shut up” He stuck his tongue out and walked over to his car on the other side of the car park.
When we got to his house before I had a chance to open my car door and get out Alex was already holding the door open for me. I laughed and got out as he swiftly shut the door behind me. When we went inside I was greeted by Alex’s parents,

“Hello you must be Charlie, my name is Peter and this is my wife Isobel” He held out his hand for me to shake.

“Hello” I smiled “Alex you didn’t tell me your parents were English” I looked at him

“I didn’t really think that was important to be honest” He said looking at the floor

“Alex” I said

“Yeah”

“I was joking. It honestly doesn’t matter” Everyone laughed then

“Can I get you two a drink or anything” Isobel asked

“No I think we’re good mum” Alex said. I could sense that he was starting to get embarrassed. I chuckled a bit and Alex grabbed my arm and started pulling me towards the stairs.

Once we were upstairs Alex led me to his bedroom. It was quite small with a couple of posters up. He had a few guitars lined up along one side of the room and a double bed with a blue square patterned duvet on it.
He still had hold of my arm as he sat down on the bed. He then tugged on my arm and I fell down on the bed next to him.

Alex then looked down to my other hand and realised that I had my Maths book in it.

“You actually want to do math?”

“Aleeeexxx its due in tomorrow if I don’t do it while I’m here it won’t get done because I’ll just go home, eat and then fall asleep.” He laughed and went and picked up his book

“Fine you crazy, crazy child” We worked though the questions and we decided to stop doing it when Alex started shouting at the Math book to make sense. We then chucked the Math books on the floor and laid on the bed. I closed my eyes and just listened to what I could hear. All I heard was a faint talking coming from downstairs which I thought must have been the TV. I also heard Alex’s faint breathing. I then felt him start poking me,

“Charrrlieeeee”

“Whaaaat?” I opened my eyes to see him lying on his side facing me poking my repeatedly with his finger.

“Don’t be sleepy”

“But math is tiring”

“I know something that’ll wake you up” He then pulled me up so I was lying on top of him. I rested my head on his thinking in my head what he was going to do.

Suddenly he started tickling me. I ended up rolling around on the bed for about 20 minutes while he tickled my sides and neck until I couldn’t take it anymore and ended up collapsed on his bed with him collapsed on top of me. We were both panting and still laughing. He then started trying to get comfy by resting his head on my chest and wrapping his arms around my waist. I kissed the top of his head

“What are you thinking about right now?” I asked him

“Just about how comfortable you are to lay on and how amazing you are to be with, you?”

“Just about how much fun I’ve had with you and how moving here was probably the best thing I have ever done” He then looked up at me and started to wriggle to get closer and closer to my face.

“You’re beautiful” He said as he took one hand and placed it on the side of my head.

Before I could say anything his lips touched mine. This time it was more passionate. It was like he properly meant it. My hands moved from being by my sides to being behind his head. He then rolled onto his back pulling me with him until I was practically mounting him.

Then Alex’s mum shouted from downstairs “ALEX, IT’S TIME FOR DINNER!” I laughed and Alex sighed as I rolled off of him. He just looked over to me and smiled. He was the beautiful one.

“YEAH MUM ALRIGHT” He called back down the stairs. Then he got up and held out his hands to help me stand up. He pulled me up and gave me one final kiss,

“What is it with parents and ruining out fun eh?” We both laughed and made our way downstairs.
When we got to the bottom of the stairs we were welcomed with a smell of Spaghetti Bolognese. Isobel turned round to me and asked,

“Are you staying for dinner or do you have other plans?” I glanced over to Alex who was already sitting at the table waiting for the food to be placed in front of him.

“I best be getting off really, sorry. My mum will think I’ve abandoned her or something since I didn’t have dinner with her last night” She nodded in agreement before walking past me with the food and placed them on the table. I walked over to Alex and gave him a from-the-behind hug before saying goodbye and leaving the house.

When I got in my mum had just finished cooking sausage chips and beans and was laying it out onto the table. She welcomed me and we all sat down to eat.

“So where did you end up going tonight then?” My mum asked

“I just went to Alex’s to do some Maths homework” She looked at me sharply “What?”

“You seem to spending a lot of time with him”

“Do you have a problem with that?” I asked starting to get annoyed

“No of course not!”

“Well then stop looking down at me when you talk about him” I said and that quickly ended the conversation.

We ate the rest of the meal in silence and once I was done I excused myself and went to my room. I saw that my mum had fitted a door at the bottom of the stairs and shouted thank you to her as I shut it.

I got into my pyjama bottoms and strappy top, ready for bed when my mum shouted at me to go upstairs. I slowly made my way up the staircase until I reached my mum who was standing at the front door. She then walked passed me and whispered in my ear,

“It’s Alex”

I quickly opened the door to find him leaning against the door frame trying to look cool. I laughed,

“It’s not that I don’t want you here but why are you here?” I asked

“You forgot something” He then lifted one arm up and I saw that he had my Maths book.

“Oops” I then went to get the book but he put it behind his head and said

“Nope, you can’t have it”

“Wait, what? Why?” I said confused

“You have to thank me for coming all the way over here just to give you your Maths book” I turned round to see if my mum was looking and saw that she was washing up so I leaned in to kiss him. As I did he started to laugh and took a step closer to me. The kiss may have only lasted a few seconds but it still sent my heart racing.

Alex laughed and handed me my Maths book,

“Goodnight, gorgeous” He said as he kissed the top of my head

“Goodnight lovely” I said as I hugged him.

He then turned and walked to his car. I waved good bye to him as he drove off and then shut the door and walked over to my mum

“I told you we did Maths” I said as I waved the book in her face. She just sighed and told me to go away.

I went downstairs and laid down in my bed

Thank you for bringing me my maths book I know you didn’t have to but yeah :)

He replied within minutes

It was just an excuse to see you I know I could have given you it at school :’) I love you