Nameless Story!
Chapter 1;
My name is Cara, I’ve just turned 16. I’m sat in the back seat of my parent’s car, Chameleon Circuit blaring at top volume, I think my mum is saying something to me but I’m lost in a world of dreams. I stare out the window, pretending to watch the sites that pass, but in reality I’m dreaming of a story-line for Kiss The Girl, by Chameleon Circuit, that involves me and Charlie. My friend Nadine shakes my shoulder as I jerk out of my beautiful dream.
“Huh? What? Huh?” I stutter confused as reality falls into place in my mind. I must’ve really spaced out…
“We’re nearly there!!” Nadine squeals referring to Our New Flat!
I should probably explain a few things. Me and Nadine have know each other since Year 7 (6th Grade) and she’s one of my best friends from Portsmouth where we both lived for the long 16 years we call our lives. Nadine and I are going to college soon, in London! Nadine studying Drama, me Psychology, Sociology and Music. We decided, as we were going to the same college, to get a flat in London! Me and Nadine are part of a close group of 5, called Asparaguz, I don’t know why it’s called that! But it includes Me, Nadine, Charlotte, Emily and Peppa. Me, Emily and Charlotte met in year 5 (4th Grade) and we’ve been best friends since the age of 9! We met Peppa and Nadine in Year 7, and have been best friends ever since.
Nadine and Peppa, in Year 8 (7th Grade) showed me a video on YouTube, called Bread, by someone called Charlie McDonnell. When I first heard it I didn’t like it, I thought it was really boring and tacky. Then I found myself watching it again, and again, and again and- well you get the Idea, and since then I have found myself becoming almost obsessed with Charlie. Then one day he put on a video about something called ‘Still Got Legs’, I had never really paid attention to his band before but after watching that video I looked them up, it was a few days before my 14th birthday on August 1st and I fell in love. In less than a month I knew all the words to all the songs on both albums! And I also fell in love with, Ed, Alex, Michael and Liam as well.
So yeah :D
Oh! Another thing! I used to play music; I used to play Guitar, Drums, Keyboard, Saxophone and Violin and Sing. But when I was 15 something happened, but I don’t Play or sing anymore…
Just as I was thinking about which song was my favourite (it changes each time I listen to Chameleon Circuit!!) I heard a Squeal from beside me. Nadine.
We turned into our road, and I saw our house, a 2 story, 3 bedroom houses, that our parents had helped us to buy! we would be living here for at least 3 years. But something was different. I was a grown up now.
“And just because the law tells us we’re grownups now, It doesn’t mean you should allow yourself to act without thinking harder first” Charlie’s voice echoed in my head, I giggled softly.
“What’s funny?” said Nadine giving me a quizzical look as she stepped onto the pavement outside our new home
“Life” I replied my voice echoing down the deserted street. A doctor who moment hit me
“Alright London” I said rubbing my hands together “lets see whatcha got for us!”
Nadine sighed softly and rolled her eyes, smile lighting up her face. We both burst into laughter. This was going to be good. I could feel it.
<End! Tell me what you think! Should I write more? Or keep it as my own day-dream?! <3 >
Chapter 2; Moving In.
I was still trying to stop laughing when the moving van, containing the lives of two 16 year old girls, pulled up. I was still laughing aver nothing when i reached into my pocket and pulled out my key. It had been 5 months since i saw the house last and couldn’t really remember what it looked like, but I was mainly focused on dancing around and falling over things! I got the biggest bedroom the one with an En-suite! Oh yeah! ;D i rule!
The only reason I got it is because I’ve got the most subscribers on Youtube, well,I am the only one with a youtube and I have been on it since I was 14 as CaraBee53. But still! I knew from watching enough of Charlie and Alex’s videos that we lived in roughly the same area but that wasn’t why we moved there. It was the only place big enough! You see,
Me and Nadine aren’t the only ones living there, Charlotte, Peppa and Emily are moving in too, but thats in 5 months, until then it’s just Me and Nadine, I like that.
We walked inside this pristine little house. It was bigger than I could remember.
“Little help…” the voice of my Step-Dad rob strained, asking em to help him with a box of Doctor Who merchandise.
“Hey! Be careful!! Don’t break anything!!” i laughed as the box fell to the floor.
Me and Nadine couldn’t be more different, she’s girly, flirty, beautiful, and amazing, she always gets the guys. Whereas I am a massive Tomboy, not flirty, don’t really care what I look like and I’m more like a little sister to most boys, I’m 16 and never even been kissed…
My thoughts were broken by a crash cascading from my room, my Doctor Who Figurines! Giggling, and tying my hair in a ponytail I ran to my room…
After Two solid hours of moving boxes to various rooms in the house, the men from the van, I call the Van-People, left and Nadine and my Mum sat on out Big, squishy sofa in our Living room. My step-dad was trying to sort out all the games consoles I own because i’m a massive dork, I have a Wii, X-Box 360 and a PS3. I also have a bookshelf full of games and random figures and things that i like to look at! I’m a Nintendo Nerd!
The TV buzzed and Doctor who appeared on the tv,
Jumping into a big bean bag chair we, well I, own i shouted at rob
“MOVE! YOU ARE NO LONGER RELEVANT TO MY LIFE!” causing everyone to laugh.
After another 2 hours, my parents left to let us unpack. Me and Nadine are completely different, her room was full of pictures of Taylor Lautner, Justin Bieber and fashion, she has amazing fashion sense, though I prefer the more, tomboy look.
My walls were soon full of Posters of Chameleon Circuit, Charlie McDonnell, Alex Day, Doctor Who, P!nk, Pink Floyd and random pictures of my life. I looked so different back then…
“wow, you’ve changed.” Nadine’s voice broke my thoughts.
“ha, yeah, I’ve noticed…” i trailed off, turning back to my box of CD’s.
Placing her hand on my shoulder she looked into my eyes,
“it wasn’t your fault you know…” she trailed off seeing the look in my eyes, trying to forget.
Chapter 3;
A Month Later
-One Month Later-
I was walking back to out House, we call it the Flat for some reason.
Anyway, i was walking back to the flat and I got a text from Nadine
‘Gone 2 my sisters be back @5 for tea <3’
“great…” we’d been living there a month but i hadn’t really met anyone, college started in about 4 months, when the others moved in.
“FRENCH THE LLAMA!” I screamed at the top of my voice, I was right outside my house, with Masses of shopping bags. And I have just dropped my keys.
“haha, let me help you with that!” a voice appeared behind me, a soft laughing tone to his voice, a voice I recognised.
A hand appeared by my feet, i looked to see who it was, Alex Day. THE Alex Day. Helping me with my shopping!
“DO NOT FANGIRL CARA! DO NOT FANGIRL!” The voice in my head screamed, causing me to smile.
“so, where do you live?” Alex smiled at me. I pointed to my house and he started to laugh!
“whats so funny?!” I said beginning to laugh myself, he pointed to a house directly opposite mine, it clicked in my head, they lived across the road! My face must have looked really odd, Alex started to crease up as we walked towards my house. Once inside the house, the shopping was put away and Alex sat at the kitchen table, with a picture of Asparaguz in the middle, it was old, I didn’t look like myself.
“so, who’s who?” he said studying the photo.
I sat a cup of tea in front of him, and sat in the chair next to him.
“well, that’s Our friend Peppa, that one’s our friend Emily, this one’s Charlotte, they’ll be our flatmates in a few months when-” I was speaking, then Alex cut me off
“Our?!” he questioned raising an eyebrow, i sighed, with a smile on my face i started to explain again
“that’s Nadine, my current flatmate, when College starts the other three are moving in with us” I said gesturing at the picture of us with our arms round each others shoulders.
“so, who’s that girl on the end, next to Nadine?” he sounded genuinely confused, his face contorted, as I started to giggle.
“Thats me you Idiot!!” i laughed as alex looked Confusedly at me
“Really?!” he cried looking from me to the photo and back.
He sat at my house until 4pm, when he left he gave me his number, told me that i had to meet the rest of Chameleon Circuit (he discovered i liked,loved, them when he walked into my room to use the En-suite to find his face plastered all over my walls) and told me he was there if i needed anything.
After he left i slumped against the door and sighed with happiness.
I started organising our dinner with a smile on my face. Alex Day….
Chapter 4:
“BUT I WAS A TEENAGE REBEL AND THAT STAYED THE SAME!!” I sing as loud as I can along to my ipod, playing Chameleon Circuit as Always.
I danced around my kitchen singing as I prepared the sweet and sour chicken for mine and Nadine’s dinner, I couldn’t wait to tell her!
Her Face, when she found out ALEX DAY had been here would be phenomenal…
And Phenomenal it was!
“OHMYGODALEXDAYWASHEREDRINKINGTEASATINTHISCHAIROHMYGOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
This was all i could understand. But this freakout went on for about 15 minutes when the doorbell went
“haha, I’ll get it, while you try to contain yourself!” i laughed at nadine as i put the Dishes in the sink and going to answer the door.
Alex was standing there soaked through,
“Oh! hey alex! whats up?” I was shocked, moving aside to let him into the Flat that was actually a house.
“nothing much, the powers out at my place and I wanted to check on my new mates!” he laughed taking his coat off and hanging it on the banisters.
“well, I’ve just boiled the kettle! want a cup of tea?” we sat down in at the table and Nadine appeared at my side, looking amazed.
“This is-” I got cut off,
“HI OH MY GOD! I’M NADINE! HIHIHIHIHI” nadine was talking frantically at Alex whilst trying to control herself.
alex looked at me and i laughed, nearly Scalding my hand with the kettle.
Nadine and Alex were in the middle of a chat when I gave them their Tea.
“Oh! I also told Ch-” alex was cut off by the doorbell.
“Be Right Back, Nadine Don’t Kill Alex with Enthusiasm” Alex giggled as I went to answer the door.
I opened it again and couldn’t believe my eyes. standing less than a foot away from me.
Charlie McDonnell.
“Hi” we chorused simultaneously, causing us both to laugh.
“You’re cute when you’re wet” the word escaped my moth before my brain could intercept.
Charlie shuffled awkwardly so I told him Alex was in the kitchen, we went through and I handed charlie a cup of tea.
after about 45 minutes it all felt, Natural, we just sat around, Nadine and Alex chatting and Me and Charlie playing Mario and Portal 2, when they left the rain had stopped. they gave us both their numbers and I told them to come round as soon as they could!
after they left, I closed the door and turned to face Nadine.
A smile crept across our faces as we both screamed:
“CHARLIE AND ALEX WERE IN OUR FLAT!!!” whilst jumping around like the crazy fangirls we are!
That night, I dreamed of Charlie <3
Chapter 5:
Not a lot has happened since we moved here nearly 9 months ago, but there has been some changes. Charlotte, Emily and Peppa now live with us! They moved in a lot later than expected due to the fact they all had to wait for their college applications to go through (they changed their courses around so they had to wait) and whilst they waited I started playing the Ukulele, changed my course at college from Psychology to Music and nothing else has happened!
It’s just as awkward as it was with Charlie, but Alex kind of made that worse… you see…
Two days ago, someone challenged Alex to Kiss the first person who walked into the room, on live stream, so it was live. And the first person to walk in was Me. he explained what he was challenged and I didn’t know what to say…but I had to, he couldn’t fail his Challenge. But, just as Alex kissed me Charlie walked in. His face was so heart-breaking, He just looked at us and closed the door again.
“Oh Shit! Charlie!” I pushed Alex away and ran after Charlie, what the hell was I going to say.
I knocked on his door cautiously. There was a pause
“What?” His voice was shallow and sad.
“Charlie, Let me in, I need to explain!” I tried desperately to get him to let me in but he just said he didn’t want to talk. I gave up and went downstairs, everyone had heard me pleading with Charlie. I sat on the velvet blue sofa and put my head in my hands. Everyone was looking at me; I could feel their concerned eyes as they tried to figure out what happened.
“Cara…? We need to talk” Alex’s voice broke the tension and my thoughts.
“About what. About the fact Charlies not speaking to me? About the fact, he walked in at the worst possible time. Or about the fact that I thought it was going great and now everything’s ruined.” I walked up the stairs to my room, pausing outside Nadines, to see if I could hear Charlie inside. (we were at my flat)
I sat on my bed and just thought. It was all i could do. I must have fallen asleep. When i woke it was dark outside my window, the stars like candles burning in the sky. Sat up and looked at my phone.
11:45pm
The voices of my friends floated up the stairs, their laughter echoing into my ears. I stood slowly, my head spun and I sat on the edge of my bed and stood again. I shakily felt my way along the wall to the light switch. My phone rang;
*Exterminate, Regenerate I thought you always knew our- * I pressed the button. A text from Nadine
-Am going to the Boys house with Alex, see you later/tomorrow <3-
“great…” I muttered into the darkness, switching on the light and blinking rapidly. I walked downstairs, eager to see who’s voices they were that were floating up the stairs.
As I passed Nadines door I’m sure I heard soft ukulele chords playing.
But it was probably just my mind.
Later, I fell asleep on the sofa, Peppa, Charlotte, Emily, Ed and Liam still talking. It was 2am. I woke the next morning confused. I walked over the sleeping bodies. They seemed to have Coupled up. Peppa and Ed looked cute cuddled up. Charlotte and Liam made a cool couple and Emily was asleep on the floor hugging a sofa cushion.
*CREAK, CREAK, CREAK CRASH!* My footsteps sounded as loud as hell as I tried to be quiet walking up the stairs.
I walked past Nadines room on my marathon to the shower in my room, the walk felt like I was climbing a mountain. As I passed I heard soft snores, remembering Nadine was with Alex, even though they were ‘Just Friends’. I opened the door a portion to see Charlie asleep on Nadine’s bed, his ukulele on the pillow beside him. He looked surprisingly cute, I slowly, carefully walked over, it was 10am and thought I should wake him up.
“Charlie? Charlie?” my voice was hushed as Charlie stirred, I shook his shoulder gently, not wanting to startle him. His amazing blue eyes fluttered open and blinked in the harsh light.
“Charlie, It’s 10am, you should probably get up!” These were the words my brain told me to say. Instead my mouth decided to go.
“I DON’T LIKE ALEX IT WAS A DARE!” at the top of my lungs, Charlie sat up instantly, surprised at the fact i just screamed at him.
“AHH! Oh, hi… umm… what?” he stuttered, still half asleep despite my screaming.
“C’mon, I’ll make tea, we need to talk.” So we did. About Alex and Me, everything really. But there was one question on my mind.
Why did he care so much?
Chapter 6:
I decided to forget about it, I mean, that’s what Charlie did so why shouldn’t I?
That Kiss incident was a week ago, but it was still playing on my mind, why did Charlie care so much that I kissed Alex? A mystery.
I walked into the living room and asked everyone who wanted a Cup of Tea.
All of them said yes, Charlotte, Emily, Peppa, Nadine, Alex, Charlie, Liam, Ed and The boys friend Michael.
“woah, so 10 cups of tea?” I was taken aback, “That is a LOT of tea..”
They all giggled, Charlie stood up “I’ll help you” his smile was back and more amazing than ever.
We walked into the kitchen and I’m sure that as we left Alex winked at Charlie, but that was probably my mind playing tricks.
“Oh man! I’ve got like, 7 mugs in my room! Can you help me get them?” I was laughing at my own stupidity, I was normally the only to drink Tea so I had all the mugs.
Charlie laughed and nodded his head, his hair still had a small hint of Red in it from when he Dyed it all those months ago, I smiled brightly as we walked up the stairs.
Thats when I remembered that I had forbidden the boys from seeing my room, I’d have to explain why I didn’t sing, dance or play anymore. But this WAS Charlie, I trusted him, I trusted all of them.
“I’ll tell them when I give them their tea” My voice echoes around my head.
“Charlie, wait.” I pause while he turns around his hand on the Handle of my door. “Just to say, I’m going to explain everything to you all, but be warned. I’ve changed. A lot.” I sighed and looked at my feet, my Dirty Blonde dreadlocks falling over my eyes. I looked at Charlie, a look of confusion on his face.
-CHARLIES P.O.V-
“A Lot” Cara finished her sentence, what was she talking about? Changed? How? I looked at her, trying to figure out what she meant. She looked scared.
“What are you talking about?” My voice cracked in place, causing Cara to giggle “She has a cute laugh” I thought to myself.
She hesitated “I’ll show you.” She opened her bedroom door and stepped in, flicking the lightswitch as she entered. I looked round and gasped, It was amazing!
Her room was covered in pictures, of her friends, the guys downstairs, Peppa, Charlotte, Emily and Nadine. There was a Guinness World Record too!
“Wow! You can type the alphabet in the fastest time on a Iphone? Haha, I have the same record for the Ipad” I was amazed! I didn’t know Cara had that! As I looked round two things caught my attention, The first being Train Tickets. A Lot of train tickets lined the walls.
“How many train tickets do you have!?” My voice broke again, Cara laughed, she looked Cute when she laughed
“Somewhere around 242” she smiled and for the first time I noticed
“WE HAVE THE SAME MOLE!” I smiled madly, Why was I so excited by a facial feature. I blushed and put my hand on my forehead, Embarrassed, why did I say that!?
I dared to look up, Cara was smiling, I was relieved.
“First Guy to notice” she laughed and walked over to her Desk, lined with Computer Stuff. I new her from YouTube, she made videos loads, they were pretty good, I knew YouTube was her job Like me.
The second thing that grabbed my attention was a picture, well 2 actually. One was of 5 girls, i recognised Emily, Peppa, Charlotte and Nadine but who was the girl with them? I turned to ask Cara, she had seen me looking and said
“Have I changed THAT much?” with a slight giggle. I couldn’t believe that was her! She looked so different! The only reason I believed her was The Mole on her cheek, same as mine and same as Caras, well, it was her. My face must’ve showed my amazement as Cara laughed and told me to watch out for the guitar behind me.
The second picture was one that was vaguely familiar but I couldn’t think where from…
It was a signed photo, signed by Me, Alex, Liam and Ed. But who was the girl with them, wearing a fez. I noticed a Fez sat behind the photo on a Guitar. It Was Cara. Wow. She looked so different. In the picture with us she had Purple hair. Now it was a beautiful Dirty Blonde, worn in dreadlocks, not loose. There were pictures everywhere, there was some of Cara dressed up in what looked like Dance outfits, holding trophies, with a boy who looked about 16 also holding a trophy. The ones that grabbed my attention were the ones of Cara on stage, Holding a guitar, sat on a stool with a man who looked about 80, singing into a mic.
“Watch out!” I knocked something over and jumped, it was a ukulele,
“You play ukulele, Guitar” I stopped and looked round, taking 4 mugs from Caras hands “Saxophone, Kazoo, Violin and Stylophone!?” I was impressed, I had no idea, there was also a book called ‘Lyrics + Songs, By Cara B’
She blushed and started out, maybe this is what she was talking about, but why would she keep this from us all, weren’t we her friends?
(From now on in Caras P.O.V)
Chapter 7;
Caras P.O.V
We sat down with the cups of tea, placing them on the table and sitting on the sofa, I sat next to Charlie and Nadine, the others were sat on various Beanbag Chairs and bits of floor.
I took a deep breath. Here goes.
“Guys, I think I should explain something” they looked at me, I had their attention, Charlie slipped his arm around my shoulder for comfort, Alex noticed this and said, mainly to Charlie I’m guessing
“Are you two FINALLY together! It’s taken you long enough I mean really! You blatantly Lo-” I cut him off by glaring at him.
“No, we’re not together, just shut up and Drink your tea.” My tone came out harsher than intended but Alex didn’t seem to mind. “Look, well… you know how I’m really funny when someone tries to get me to sing, or when someone talks about my past?” my hint of an Accent was breaking through, not now, anytime but now, everyone nodded. I took a deep breath.
“well, I’m not originally from the UK, I moved when I was about 14 I think, it’s been ages, I forget.” They were looking at me, the boys confused, the girls encouraging me with their eyes.
“I’m from Australia.” My Accent Was Heavy now, I wasn’t trying to hide it “I lived with my parents, Mum and my Dad, Rob’s my stepdad, he and my mum met when we moved here. But when I lived out there my granddad practically raised me. I hated my dad. And I wasn’t that good with my mum either.”
I paused to take a drink of tea, Alex started to ask a question but stopped when he realised I was going to carry on.
“I had a brother out there, Josh, he was 6 years older than me, when I was 10 he was 16. He was always my Dads favourite no matter what. I felt that my mum was the same in Favouring Josh, she wasn’t but I thought she did.” I looked at my feet and Charlie rubbed my arm softly. “The only way I found comfort was in my music. My Dad didn’t like me playing. At All. My brother was the musician of the family. Playing Drums and Bass. I went to my granddads every day, and played there, I was happy. He bought me a Saxophone, engraved with ‘Follow Your Dreams, Let No One Stop You Cara’ and I played that constantly.
One day he heard me sing. He played guitar whilst I sang. He taught me to play guitar. I was so happy when I played. My granddad took me to concerts to sing, he enrolled me in a street dance class that I Loved, My parents didn’t know anything. They didn’t want to know. I wanted so badly to move in with my granddad, but they wouldn’t let me.
Then one day my Dad burst in the door while I was playing. All he did was yell at me, tell me I was stupid, Worthless, That I couldn’t sing. I didn’t care. His words couldn’t hurt me. But-” I Sigh, taking a break, wiping a tear from my eye.
I looked up. The TV was off and the attention was on me.
“I was 13, his words didn’t hurt me, he could say what ever he wanted to or about me. I didn’t care. Then he turned on my Granddad, telling him he put false hopes into my shallow head, that he was a worthless old man. I lost it then, I threw myself at him, punching, kicking and screaming. I screamed so much my voice hurt for days. I cried and screamed for what felt like hours. I knew at that point this man would NEVER be my dad.
My granddad pulled me away and told me to calm down. He turned me to face him and gave me this” I pulled the necklace from my neck, it was a saxophone locket. “It had a note in it, simply saying ‘Follow Your Dreams’ that’s all it said. He told me to go to my room, I did, and about 30 minutes later I heard My father leave. I walked downstairs. I told my granddad ‘That man may be my father but he will never be my Dad.’ About 2 hours later, I had written a song. It’s in my lyrics book. Called Granddad. My dad walked in again looking Calm. He stood in the door way, and saw me sat on the floor, a Guitar in my hands. He walked over and Snatched it from me. He tried to smash it on the wall. I couldn’t let him do that. It was an antique passed down my family. It was old, so old so I threw myself infront of it-” I pause to wipe away my tears, Charlie pulled me closer to him “It hurt, so much, He was strong, it hit me in the back, I was bleeding. But i didn’t care, I couldn’t let him break it. He tried to hit me again, catching my head” I pull away my dreads to reveal a scar, unnoticed normally.
“He grabbed my arm, he broke my wrist by twisting it so hard. He dragged me home and told me I was worthless, ugly and un-talented. Then Josh stood up and shouted at my dad telling him that he was wrong. That was the nicest thing Josh ever did for me, he saw i was too young to fight back properly. So he fought for me. My mum was out. My Father grabbed me and threw me against the wall, I could smell alcohol on his breath. It took me months to get over, I started to believe I was
stupid, fat, ugly. But the main one that affected me was when he sid I couldn’t sing. Singing was my escape from life. He tourtured me if I played or sung. I was so scared. About 6 months after the first attack my Granddad died of a heart attack. He was 89. I have never cried so hard in my life.
My family comforted me, my friends had faded as I had become more Secluded and into my shell. But My father told me I was stupid and that I should get over myself. Granddad was the only one who believed in me. And now he was gone. My mum moved us away from that man. And at 14 There I was in the UK and i met these guys. I learned to live again, to believe in myself. My mum was happy at last. And somehow Rob managed to deal with an Emotional wreck of a child and made me happy at last. I still hear from Josh, he’s 19 now. He has a Baby, called Kara, after me. But after my Granddad died I never played again. I don’t sing or dance. I used to play Violin, Saxophone, Stylophone, Guitar and Ukulele, but not any more.” I sat back, relieved t get it off my chest at last.
There was silence. I looked at the crowd of people now gathered at my feet. The girls were crying and the boys looked close to crying. And Charlie had a tear running down his face.
“Do you have any Scars apart from the one on your face?” Alex broke the silence with a quivery voice.
“Alex…” Charlie’s tone was wary and almost threatening. I stood with my back to them all and lifted up my Tshirt, a gasped filled the room. The scars were large and noticeable. They stood for strength.
I turned to face everyone, locking eyes with Charlie. He stood and walked over to me. He gave me a hug and lead me to the kitchen. Slowly the conversation returned in the Living room. Charlie just sat and hugged me, for what felt like hours.
I fell asleep on the sofa that night, cuddled up with Charlie.
Chapter 8;
I woke in a cold sweat. I had every night since I told everyone a week ago. I laid back down. Staring at the ceiling covered in pictures. I could hear everyone downstairs. I climbed out of bed and walked onto the top step. Just enough to see who was in the kitchen, Everyone, and what they were talking about. Me and Charlie. WAIT. WHAT!?
I sat on the third step from the top and listened.
“C’mon Charlie, You blatantly adore her. And she obviously loves you! Just ask her! Really!” Alex was trying to get Charlie to ask me out. *Facepalm* I stood and walked back to my room and did something i thought I would never do again. I picked up my guitar.
The first song that came to mind was ‘Because Of You, By Kelly Clarkson’ I played that, after looking up the Chords. I sung as well. Afterwards i stood cautiously and walked to my desk and piked up my book, decorated with pictures from Doctor Who surrounding a picture of me and my Granddad, I look at it closely and feel a stab of pain.
I walk back to my bed, open the book to a certain page, holding the music to a song I wrote, about Doctor Who, Called Everything Is Ending, I pick up my guitar, though the song is a duet I sing by myself, well that’s the plan, I get up to the end of the first chorus
“I have to keep you by my side tonight and this must be, Why you found me”
A voice interrupts me, startling me;
“Forgive me for barging in but that was particularly lovely singing and playing” Michaels voice was clear as fear enveloped me. He had heard. I turned slowly, Just him. I visibly relaxed.
“Did you know we could all hear you down there?” I froze. What was I going to do? Fear washed over me
“w-wh-wh-” I couldn’t get the words out; Michael could see I was scared.
“You’re really good; I swear Charlie nearly cried when he heard you sing!” A Small smile spread on his face as I blushed a deep scarlet. Charlie? Nearly crying? Why was he close to tears?
“Come downstairs, everyone has gone silent, they’re amazed” Michael was stood by my side, a hand on my shoulder. I took a deep breath and walked downstairs.
-CHARLIES P.O.V-
“Because of you…” Cara’s beautiful, angelic floated down the stairs, all the conversation in the room stopped. We sat and listened as Cara started to sing again, this time a song I didn’t know but it was beautiful. She stopped, then carried on. I knew the lyrics… where from?
The book came into my mind, the one i saw with all the Lyrics in, was that her own song, It must be.
“I have to keep you by my side tonight and this must be, Why you found me”* Cara sung in a voice different than any other i had heard, it was amazing, A tear sprung to my eye. What? I never cry!
Michael stood and looked at me, I nodded, We heard him walk up the stairs, I muttered a quiet ‘Wow…’
Cara appeared at the bottom of the stairs and stepped inside the living room, all eyes on her, she blushed. I stood up and walked over to her, her blue eyes shinging. I pulled her into a hug, took her hand and led her to the sofa, we all sat and talked about the singing for hours, it was late when people began to drift off to bed. Cara had fallen asleep on my shoulder, her head felt perfect resting on my shoulder, I was close to falling asleep too, Alex and Nadine stood up, Alex nodded at me and they left, I fell asleep with my arms wrapped around Cara, It was perfect.
Chapter 9;
“Cara? Cara?” my human alarm clock was going off, I had been up all night making and editing my new video, which seemed to be all about hair, I opened my eyes to Charlie, stood over me. I reached up and poked his mole.
“What are you doing?” all at the same time he Spoke, sighed and laughed. I had poked him because
“I was looking for the snooze button, I think it’s broken though…” I giggled looking round. I was on the sofa at the boys flat, but I could hear two voices in the kitchen, Alex and a feminine voice I didn’t know, it was American.
“Who’s that?” I asked Charlie, sitting up and pulling the blanket off me.
“Oh!” He smiled, a little unsurely “Actually, there’s someone you should meet!” He left the room, who was I about to meet?
“Cara,” Charlie broke my thoughts when he entered the room, with a pretty girl with Brown hair, I recognised her, Alex stood behind them, he met my eyes with a sad gaze “This is my girlfriend, Bryarly.” She smiled at me and said a cheery hello, not knowing that my heart had just shattered.
I gulped and stood up, I was fully dressed, I murmured something about having to leave, which I did, to pick up my parents from the Airport, it had been nearly a year since I saw them last.
“Cara?” Charlies voice was puzzled and almost Hurt as I practically ran for the door.
Alex followed me outside and into my flat. “Cara! He messed up, look, they won’t last! He needs to be with you, and not Bryarly. She’s a great mate, I’m sorry! I picked her up last night, about 3’o’clock in the morning actually, and Charlie walked in, apparently they’ve been dating online for ages…” He Trailed off seeing the look in my eye.
“I don’t care.” That’s all I said, all i could say. It was a bitter lie. Well. If Charlie was happy…
“I’m just,” I searched for the right word “Pissed off” Yeah, i didn’t find a good enough word…
“what about?” Alex sat on the sofa, a concerned look in his eye.
“Everyone has paired off.” He looked confused “Emily and Michael are together, Peppa and Ed, Charlotte and Liam, You and Nadine” He tried to tell me that was false, “Oh shut up, everyone knows!” i laughed playfully punching his arm. “I guess I thought it was almost inevitable with Charlie and Me, y’know?” I looked up at Alex as he pushed a dreadlock off of my face. He pulled me into a hug and let me go just as the, well everyone, walked in, all holding hands with their selected partners (wow, that sounds weird…)
I looked up, and all I said was
“Forever alone” before alex explained everything.
-Charlies POV-
“My girlfriend” My voice echoed around the room, and Cara looked at me, her eyes sad. She stood and left the room, walking over to her flat, muttering a quick hello to Bryarly.
Alex shot me a weird look, almost angry. I shook it off, not wanting to look worried, which I was.
“I’m juts going to go to the bathroom ” Bryarly smiled brightly at me as she left.
I sat down and sighed loudly. I picked up my laptop from the table and opened it. Last months conversation between Me and Bryarly popped up on skype.
After the normal chit-chat there was this.
Bryarly - “So.. I kinda have to tell ya something…”
Me - “Whats up??”
Bryarly – “well, I’ve liked this guy for a while now, we’re really good friends but I really LIKE him, and I don’t know what to do?! Help?!?!”
Me – “Who? C’mon you can tell me ;)”
Bryarly – “well, Its kinda… embarrassing… God, I can’t tell YOU! Of all people!”
Me – “Why me? What’d I do?! You asked me for help? Haha!”
Bryarly - “Oh. My. God. It’s you! You idiot!”
Wait.. What?? She likes me. Okay then…
The first thought I had was Cara. I Liked her. Didn’t I? But I liked Bry too… not in that way but.. I could learn to like her in that way couldn’t I?
I closed the laptop and turned on the TV, It was Blink, one of my favourite episodes, but I couldn’t concentrate on it. I gazed out the window at Cara’s flat, Alex was there, why had he shot me such a weird look?
“Oh Blink! I love this one!” Brylarly snapped me out of my thoughts. I smiled at her, unsure of what to say. We sat and watched the TV, I still wasn’t concentrating. Bryarly cuddled up to me and put her head on my shoulder, but it felt wrong. I realised, it only felt right when Cara put her head there.
“STOP thinking about Cara!” I mentally scalded myself!
It was awkward for the rest of the afternoon, Alex came back and stayed in his room, making a video.
What did I do wrong…?
Chapter 10
-Cara’s POV-
“darling it’s better, down where it’s wetter, take it from me” I sung quietly under my breath, dancing into the full to bursting living room.
I frowned. We were in the Nericoollocation, and even though there was only two people living there, there was a surprising amount of furniture. A 3 seater, a 2 seater, an armchair and random Bean Bag chairs.
On the three seater, there was Charlie, Bryarly, Charlotte and Ed. On the 2 seater there was Alex, Nadine and Peppa, in the armchair there was Emily and Liam. Michael was lying across the coffee table. I put my cup of tea on top of the TV and sat on Michaels stomach.
“Hey!” various voices shouted at me, Michael was shouting at me for sitting on him and the others were shouting because I was blocking Doctor Who. I started to laugh.
“Someone move so I can sit down and stop killing Michael!” I was in hysterics now, I’m not sure why, but I looked behind me and locked eyes with Bryarly, it was the only time we’d really spent together the week she’d been here. She nodded at me and I stood up. I walked over to where Charlie and Bry were sat. I nodded at bry and we each grabbed one of Charlies arms, pulling him out of the seat, falling onto Michael with a “manly” scream. I quickly sat down as Charlie steadied himself.
In the chaos my Ipod headphones had fallen out, and as I sat it started playing Alex and Bryarlys cover of ‘Under The Sea’ I started to laugh, I tried to get the Ipod out of my pocket, but in skinny jeans that can prove a challenge. I looked around the room, the TV had been turned off and Alex was singing along. I looked at Bryarly and we burst into song as loud as we could!!
I felt bad, thinking about how I had acted this past week, I had spent it in my room, well thats what they thought. They didn’t know I had actually been to this little hut thing, in a small rock garden, hidden from civilization. I had found it one day, about 6am the day after Bry had arrived. I went for a walk, with my ukulele. I had sat on the roof of this hut and played. Then at about 9am, I had climbed back in my room, from the tree outside.
I was going to miss Bryarly so much. For the rest of the night we all danced about, sang at the top of our lungs, laughed and cried, and finally we got shouted at by the Police for being to loud!
I woke the next morning confused. I had my arms draped around someone who had their arms wrapped tightly around me. I looked around, I was on the coffee table at the boys flat. I looked to see who had their arms around me. A small glimmer of hope faded when I saw it wasn’t Charlie, it was Alex.
I stood up, accidently kicking the coffee table, I cursed loudly.
“GODDAMMIT, FUCK! AHH!! FRENCH THE LLAMA, MAN THAT HURT!!” I screamed at the top of my lungs. I had woken the beasts. I looked around and quickly made myself Scarce.
I walked into the kitchen to find Charlie, looking almost sad
“hey, what’s up Charlieburg?” I smiled at him as I turned the kettle on and grabbed the teabags.
“well…” He paused and gazed at the table, “Bryarly left this morning, but…” he sighed. I didn’t like this Charlie, I wanted the old Charlie back, the one who always wore a smile on his face, I sat in front of him, handing him a cup of tea.
“but.. well.. I kinda broke up with her” I must have smiled as Charlie gave me a caonfused look. “you see there’s someone else… but I don’t think she feels the same, I mean, I think she likes another boy way more than me” He sighed avoiding eye contact.
“oh god! Look at the time! Summer in the Citys starting in three hours! Wait.. wasn’t bryarly meant to sing with you guys?” I looked from my watch to Charlie.
“Urgh, yeah, but coz they moved it from Thursday to Today she can’t sing, we’ll have to change the songs…” Charlie explained how they really needed a female singer, but they couldn’t find one.
“Cara could sing with us?” Alexs voice made us both jump.
“have you been there the whole time?? Oh never mind! I can’t sing!” I tried to protest, but eventually they wore me down.
“Alright then! Lets wake the others, get ready and go!”
This. Was going to be fun.
Chapter 11;
We woke the others up, and told them about the change of plan. We sat at the table eating toast and drinking tea, while the others got dressed and showered me and Charlie sat and talked, about well, everything, except the kiss.
We arrived to the sunny site of Summer In The City with loads of time to spare
We were setting up on stage, when Liam came over to me, looking confused.
“hey, um, theres a man that wants to talk to you over there” Raising an eyebrow, I could feel Charlie approaching me. He placed an arm on my shoulder,
“I’ll come over with you, If you want” I nodded and began to walk. No. Please. Anyone. But just, not him.
We approached slowly, I started shaking, Charlie grabbed my hand and comforted me.
As we approached this man, a smug grin appeared on his face. I looked at the tattoos on his arms, I knew it was him. How. How in the hell did he find me?
I needed to get away, but it was too late. He’d seen us, He walked over to us, confirming my fears.
“hey there, long time no see” he grinned smugly. Then proceeding to give Charlie a dirty look.
“Dad.” My voice strong and determined. What the hell was he doing here.
“what you looking at sweetheart, give your old dad a hug then” he still had that look on his face as he tried to hug me. I backed away, still clutching charlies hand. He was speechless. Staring at me with a worried look.
“why are you here.” I didn’t use this as a question. A statement would have been a better way of putting it. “after all this time, all the pain you put me through, after everything that happened, why did you come here. I don’t know you, I never did and I never want to. So leave.” My voice quavered in places, causing his smirk to grow
“well, I wanted to see how much my daughters grown, It’s been to long Cai” using the nickname I had back in Aus, he placed a hand on my face.
“Get off me.” I slapped his hand away. “I’m not your daughter, and I never will be.” I turned and felt a hand grab the guitar on my back, I heard a spiteful laugh.
“Ha, you still wanna be a little rockstar missy?” he spat as he spoke, I turned sharply ripping the guitar from his hands “well, remember, you are, and always will be, A useless, talentless, peice of crap on the ground. You cannot sing, you cannot play. You will never amount to anything.” He smirked at me, Charlies hand tightened on mine. The other boys, Michael, Ed, Liam and Alex, heard what he said and stormed over. I stopped them
“This is my fight guys. I’ll fight it myself.” I gave them all a stern look, they stayed still, Charlie looked at me scared as I let his hand go, and walked towards the beast in front of me.
“Look. You spent 12 years beating me. Hurting me and degrading me” I stared at him. “but now, I am not the scared, weak little girl you beat up all those years ago. I am me. I am determined to make something of myself. I can sing. My Granddad taught me that, he taught me to fight back. That’s what I’ve been doing for years now. Fighting back. You can’t hurt me any more.
“ I have friends, I have a family here. You let me down. You were a drunken wreck, a pathetic excuse for a father and a man. You didn’t deserve my mum and you never will. She’s moved on. I’ve moved on. We made a life. A good life. Without you. I’m making something of myself. I will never, ever, believe that I am not good enough. Because It’s you. You’re the one thats not good enough. You are the one who spent 12 years beating a lonely little girl. You are the one who tried his hardest to ruin my life. But in fact, you made me stronger. You made me believe in myself. So yeah. You beat me,you made me hate myself, but you pushed me so far. So hard that I am more than determined to beat you and prove you wrong. So get out of here, Get out of my life. You are nothing to me. And never will be.”
I clench my fists. His face falls, anger flooding his eyes.
“You little Bitch!” he screams at me. Grabbing my arm, he tries to push me to the floor, he’s to strong as I try and fight back. The ground rushes to my face. The boys charge at him. He kicks me in the face, and in the ribs. Passers-by see the situation ad call security. Charlie is kneeled at my side, I can feel my nose bleeding as his foot catches my face. Charlie is nearly crying as the others restrain that man. The last words I hear are alex saying
“CALL THE POLICE AND AN AMBULANCE. NOW!” as a tear falls from Charlies face, blackness envelops me.
Chapter 12;
-one week later-
I’m lying on the sofa, It’s about 6 in the morning, Nadines Birthday, I fell asleep on the sofa watching Doctor who last night.
I stand slowly, blind for a moment, I shower quickly and dress as fast as possible, which is incredibly hard with 3 Broken Ribs, a broken finger and a severely bruised leg, from the attack, from that man. He’s now in custody and waiting to go back to Australia. He has a restraining order, I push what happened to the back of my mind. I grab a bag, full of Nadines presents, leaving it on my bed. I peek into her room, she’s sound asleep. I sneak over to the boys flat, knock the door and we’re all at my flat. I grab my present, as Alex starts cooking Nadines favourite breakfast. When he’s done, he puts it on a tray and the Nine of us walk into Nadines room. We gather round her bed.
“one, two three. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!” we scream grabbing her arms. She jolts up, confused
“huh, wha, huh!?” she looks about as a smile spreads on her face. We each say our own happy birthdays in turn. Hugs are shared, laughs are laughed, and its only 8am!
After Nadine eats her breakfast she sits and opens her presents,saving mine till last, I’ve been teasing her for weeks!
From the girls normal things, such as clothes, jewellery, make up, etc. It’s her 17th!
From the boys, random little bits and pieces, Photo frames, make-up, books all the normal stuff, its all lovely and very well thought out!
Just me and Alex left. She looks from one to the other of us. She opens mine first.
“C’mon then! Whats my ‘Big Prestent!’ you’ve been teasing me for months!” she’s smiling so much, her face lit up. I start to laugh. “Open your other presents first, then the big one!” It sounds like an innuendo, causing me to laugh at myself. So, she opens her clothes, jewellery, and new Phone, then there’s a single envelope left. She opens it and her face lights up.
A years worth of Driving Lessons! Her parents promised her a car!
Then comes Alexs.
At first all the normal stuff, then, when she opens her final, large square present she gasps.
I’m sat next to her and I can’t help but gasp. “alex thats….” I search for the right word “amazing” I settle on.
It’s an amazing Photo album, filled with pictures of us all, all the girls and boys, from our past, the others must have helped him, at the end, there’s a picture of Alex and Nadine together, with song lyrics scattered around.
“girl you’re amazing” “you’re beautiful, it’s true” and so many more. They’re all saying how amazing she is.
I get up and nudge Alex, who is staring at the floor, trying to hint that he should sit next to her, I plop myself on the sofa, squashed between Liam and Charlie, its surprisingly comfy. Michael, once again, is lying on the table. Alex and Nadine just stare at each other, I turn to liam and whisper in his ear, then he says the same to Michael and I say the same to Charlie.
We sit together, I nod. We all take a breath and sing at the top of our lungs
“OH FOR GODS SAKE! KISS THE GIRL!” and as we scream/sing they kiss, causing victory cry of “FINALLY” to erupt from all of us!
We spend the morning lounging around, watching TV, singing, dancing and being crazy!
Nadines family arrive and she goes to lunch, Alex joins them. The rest of us get ready for the party.
We get all the decorations, and everything ready by 5’o’clock, nadine’s nearly back, all her friends from Portsmouth are here.
“SUPRISE!” We scream at Alex and Nadine, as they walk in, hands clutched.
We party late into the night, Me and Liam dancing like maniacs all night. Charlie looks uncomfortable, so I leave Liam and Charlotte to dance, walking over to Charlie i grab his hand and pull him into the designated Dancing Space. I try and tell him to dance, but the musics loud, Thank god we warned the neighbours!
Suddenly a slow song fills the room. It’s about 2 am, there is just Me, Charlie, Liam, Ed, Alex, Michael, Nadine, Peppa, Charlotte and Emily left. Everyone pairs off, leaving me and Charlie standing awkwardly.
“Oh c’mon you two! Dance together!” the pairs turn to look at us, its creepy…
I grab Charlies hand “Mr. McDonnell, may I have this dance!” I giggle slightly as I speak.
“Of course my dear!” he puts his hands on my waist, my head resting on his shoulder, my arms around his neck. It’s amazing.
Chapter 13;
I wake up, confused and dazed. I have a small, well not small, hint of a hang-over… I can’t even remember drinking… I only had coke… then I remember Alex kept giving me drinks… I remember Dancing with Charlie, how amazing it felt, how well my head fit on his shoulder.
I open my eyes, and scream slightly.
“ALEX WHAT THE HELL?” alex is sat on the table, with Liam smiling madly at me. I feel the arm around my shoulder. Charlie. I realise this is why they’re smiling so much. My scream woke pretty much everyone, including Charlie. He looked at where his arm was, barley opening his eyes, and started playing with my hair.
I leant back on his chest, kicking Alex and Liam in the shins to get them away, I was too tired. That was when the pillow fight started.
“OUCH!” me and Charlie screamed as Liam hit us with a pillow. I grabbed the pillow from liams hand, it flew past Liam, hitting a sleepy Ed in the face. We looked around. Everyone was pretty much awake now. Feathers went, EVERYHWERE. After about 20 minutes, most of the pillows were broken.
We cleared everything up, then, as it was about lunch time, we went to a small cafe. We got a booth, probably because there was about 10 of us. Liam and Charlotte sat next to each other, Ed and Peppa, Michael and Emily, Nadine and alex were still denying the fact they were together despite the birthday kiss, they said it was a one off kiss
They all sat with their arms around each other, Me and Charlie looked at each other, Laughing awkwardly. There was us, surrounded by couples, and we were the only single ones there. We sat down, me next to Liam and Charlie on the end. It was a fun day, we spent about 3 hours there. In the end, all the awkwardness disappeared, Liam and me were just hysterical for no reason! We couldn’t stop laughing at everything!
We left the resturaunt.
“Can I just, Like, Lay down…” I said, sitting on the floor, I’d eaten my lunch and half of Charlottes, and Me and liam shared a dessert, Awesome!
“Lets go to the park, walk off the food.” Alex said grabbing my hand to pull me up from the pavement
“uuuugh..” I groaned “Effort” I stood, and we started to walk the five minutes to the park. Alex and Charlie hung back, I stopped and turned back, Alex looking almost Smug, Charlie looked annoyed.
“If You don’t, I Will!” Alex walked ahead as Charlie caught up with us, we looked at them both confused. Charlie juts shook his head.
“Hey Charlieburg! Where’s that smile I love so much!” I smiled at him, Poking his mole “C’mon! I miss the old, smiley, happy Charles!” I stuck my tounge out at him and he smiled brightly at me.
We all sat in a circle in the park, I sat between Alex and Charlie, It was almost awkward, but I tried not to notice.
But while we were there, I kept noticing things that Alex was doing, ‘Accidently’ touching my hand, putting his arm round me, playing with my hair…
Liam noticed too. On the walk home he pulled me aside,
“Whats going on with you and Alex?” he whispered at me abruptly, as Alex gave my bum a cheeky pat (no pun intended) he winked at me as he walked by. Liam was the only one who knew how I felt about Charlie, he was my closest friend.
“I have no clue, whats going on? Alex and Charlie arguing, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!” I accidently screamed that last bit, causing odd looks from the others.
At the boys we talked about VidCon, we were leaving in a week! I couldn’t wait! The boys had asked me to sing with them, So I am!!!!
We stayed at the boys till about 11, I gave Ed a hug, then Michael, then Charlie, his felt right, when I hugged Liam i whispered to him “Find out everything! Then text me!” and when I hugged Alex he kissed me on the cheek and spun me round.
I hope Liam finds out whats going on…
Chapter 14;
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY!” Voices rip me from my dreams, I scream and fall of the bed, landing on my back.
I look up, everyone is surrounding me. A smile appears on my face as Liam grabs my hand and pulls me into a hug. Everyone hugs me, then Alex (who kissed me on the cheek when he hugged me, I had to dodge to stop it being on the lips!) Told me to get dressed and go downstairs. There was a surprise for me waiting. I dressed quickly, not bothering to shower. I jumped down the stairs to see everyone sat on the sofa, all full except the armchair facing the table
I walked in to find Charlie sat on the table, with his ukulele, I sat in the armchair as Charlie started to play
“This is a song that I wrote you for your birthday” Charlies amazing voice filled the room as he played the song.
“Its, right, here!” Charlie said, picking up a bag from the floor.
I started to laugh, as everyone handed me bags and boxes and gifts!
I got so much! It was my 17th, I’m the youngest of the Five Girls, and youngest in total!
I got Clothes, Itunes Vouchers, Loads of camera stuff, A new Ukulele as I broke mine, Loads! Right at the end, Charlie picks up a medium flat square box and handed it to me.
It was really heavy, I looked at him, confused. I ripped of the wrapping paper and gasped. A New MacBook.
I was speechless! I opened the box, staring at the beauty in my hand. It was beautiful, I turned it in and smiled madly at the Desktop Choice,
The Original Picture of Me and the boys, a few days after we moved in!, I stand and hug everyone individually, then Charlie is last to be hugged. I give him the biggest hug I can, Almost crying with happiness.
We sit around until lunch time, then at about 11:30 Liam grabbed my hand, pulling me up out of the armchair.
“heeeeyyy!!! The ood was about to get them!” I complain cheerily, laughing as liam pulls me to my feet. Everyone smiles at me, and its only then that I realise everyone, even the boys, are still in pyjamas.
“Go get dressed! Something nice but not too fancy!” Liam said, pushing me towards my room.
“okay, okay, Gok!” I said as I left the room, thinking about what to wear. Whilst ripping out the contents of oxford street onto my bed, the boys shouted up that they were going to get dressed.
I decided on;
I decided on A black tee with ‘LOL’ written across it and gaps on the shoulders, my mismatched converse (one Green and the other Red) my ‘Worn Out Jeans’ covered in rips and faded patches, a Bow tie, a mustache necklace, 2 rings, one a Raven and the other a wolf, Angel wing earrings and my ‘This is my killing Zombies Hoodie’ hoodie. so, no essence of ‘Posh’ but oh well!,
I walked downstairs, a small piece of my Bluey-green hair falling in front of my eye.
There was a beep from outside when I was looking round to see where everyone was, Outside, there was a Taxi with all my friends stood outside it, I ran outside and climbed in!
We went to a small, but very posh restaurant.
We sat down in the booth, and a waitress ran over. Charlie was sat on my right, Alex on my left with no-one next to him. He slipped his arm around my shoulder, I pretended not to notice
“Helloo! I’m Izzy! I’ll be your waitress” she was staring at alex, when she noticed his arm around me, her face dropped. We ordered our drinks and started to chat.
Chapter 15;
“Oh my god! Do you remember that time I sung chemical love in science!!” I’m laughing madly as I remember, The 14 year old me, sat in a room full of people who were in my science group with Nadine singing Chemical Love. The looks we got where varied from Confused to admiration.
Nadine nods, and everyone laughs as Izzy comes over with our meals. I got a Pizza and chips, my favourite! Toms blue hair bounces as he laughs, We match!
Liam stands about 5 minutes after we all start to eat,
“Well… I need to pee” he wanders off in the wrong direction, we then see him wandering the other way trying to look cool. He failed.
I stand too, I drank all my Pepsi and now I need to pee.
As I walk stand I grab a chip off of Charlies plate and he laughs, feigning shock.
“Oh! Now it is on!” He runs after me and picks me up round the waist, spinning me round.
“Ch-charlie! Stop!” I’m laughing too hard to make any more words to form an actual sentence. I wander off to find the bathroom.
-Toms POV-
“Oh! Now it is on!” Charlie stood and rand after Cara, who had stolen a chip from his plate.
Everyone turned as Charlie picked Cara up by the waist and spun her round
“They should be together” Alexs voice was shaking for some reason. Charlie set Cara down and she wandered off in the same direction as Liam had.
“Why aren’t you two dating yet?” My voice escaped before I could stop it as Charlie sat down. Everyone began to nod and they all agreed with me. Liam came back to Charlie looking embarrassed but smiling and blushing, and the rest of us ‘bullying him’
We told him what had happened and how perfect they were together, but as I heard them all talking about how perfect they were, my heart began to sink.
I had fallen for Cara.
Damn.
Chapter 16.
-Caras POV-
I walked back over to the table and EVERYONE turned to face me. I stopped in my tracks
“err… did I miss something?” I stuttered slightly, I was still hiding my accent as I thought of it s almost a gateway to my past. I rarely stuttered, but I had been stuttering more recently.
“N-no! Nothing much really!” Nadine was laughing so much she could barely get the words out, I noticed Charlie was sat there completely red.
I shook it off and sat down as our waitress Izzy ran over with the dessert menus.
“CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE!!” I practically screamed as soon as I opened the menu. I was in love with chocolate cheesecake!
We left the restaurant, barely able to walk. I had eaten so much.
My phone rang
“Oh my god he’s wearing a fez, Oh my god he’s we-” “Hello?”
It was my mum
“Hey! We’re right outside your flat! Well, we will be in about 15 minutes! I have some news for you! Its really exciting!! ”
“Okay, we’re all out right now but we’ll be back in about 10, love you, bye” I hung up and explained, then told them I was really confused about the ‘News’. Mum never gave me news…
We were sat in the flat and five minutes later there was a knock.
I forced myself out of the armchair and opened the door, My parents were there, with my grandparents and my little brother and sister.
Did I forget to mention them?
My brother, Hayden, is 13 and my sister Jayde was 15, just. She had changed, her normally blonde hair was now Greeny-Blue, copy Cat.
I loved my little brother loads, though I never saw him much any more. My sister on the other hand, well, we didn’t get on. At all.
I hugged my grandparents, then my parents, then I hugged Hayden and lastly, Jayde. It reminded my strongly of Voldemorts hug with Draco…
We sat down and I introduced everyone to my family, I saw Jaydes eyes widen as she spotted Tom, she smiled at him and sat almost on top of him, he made us all laugh as he looked uncomfortably around, unsure of what to do.
I opened my presents and thanked everyone, I had decided to leave my friends presents to last, when my family were gone.
“Well, you have a choice, The News or the big present!” I heard alex laugh at the words ‘Big Present’
“I WANT THE PRESENT!!!” I yelled jumping up! My parents led me outside and what I saw took my breath away.
“Wow…” I was speechless. A sky blue Vespa sat there, It had always been my dream to own one after falling in love with ‘Sasha’ on Scrubs.
“NO FAIR!” Jayde whined, “I’VE always wanted a scooter, but you said you’d never get me one! You said I wasn’t responsible and that they were dangerous!”
Jayde could stand there and pout, I didn’t care!
“Jayde grow up, it’s Caras birthday, grow up, really” My brother paused his music to have a go at Jayde for me. I was still speechless!
I rode it round the block a few times and nearly crashed into a car but managed not to.
We went back inside, It was an amazing feeling! I was so happy!
“Well, do you want the news now!?” My mum questioned
“Sure!” I smiled gratefully!
“Well, this is a first for all three of you kids, and your friends of course.” She took a deep breath as Charlie handed me a cup of tea and sat down next to me, casually draping an arm around my shoulder on the back of the Sofa.
“Well, I’m pregnant!” My mum smiled madly.
I looked from Jayde to Hayden back to mum and rob.
“WHAT!?” me and my siblings chorused in unison.
For once we agreed on something. This couldn’t be real…
Chapter 17:
My parents sensed the atmosphere in the room, what had been a cheery vibe was now awkward and silent.
How could this be happening…
“How far along are you?” My voice was shaking as I felt an arm slide around my shoulder, I expected it to be Charlie for some reason, but I turned to look and it was Tom, I wondered why.
“Three months!” My mums voice tried to sound enthusiastic but it was shaking.
“THREE MOTNHS!? How could you not tell us that!?” I started to scream but managed to calm down to finish my sentence.
My mum just stuttered, they were leaving soon, I knew that, but I was fuming. How could she not tell us, after all we’ve been through. And on my birthday!!
-A few hours later-
My parents had left with my grandparents, I had thanked them for all my presents and the money and told them I would see them soon as I was going to Portsmouth in a few weeks.
We sat about talking when Charlie shot out to the kitchen with alex, each with a cheeky glint in their eye. I felt a hand on my shoulder, Tom. I smiled at him and he smiled back.
Randomly, he put his arms around me and hugged me tight, I laughed slightly as it was so unexpected. I wasn’t the only one to think so.
“Alright mate! Let her down!” Alex walked in the room, laughing at the fact I was nearly 5’11 and tom had picked me up, literally.
Thats when I saw Alex holding something behind his back, I glanced at him and chuckled nervously.
“Put this on!!” Alex flung the dress at me. It was a replica of Christina Perri’s dress in Jar Of Hearts, I had fallen in love with it, I wore a high-low dress to prom, and everyone thought it was amazing, I couldn’t believe they had found one just Like Christinas’….
I ran out the room, laughing as I went. I changed quickly and put on make-up, well more make-up.
I walked down the stairs and I hear Charlie gasp, followed by the rest of the boys, they had never seen me in a dress, or in anything vaguely girly at all!
“You look… Beautiful” Charlie’s bright blue eyes were sparkling.
“Hot is not even on the scale” Alex stared at me, none of them blinking
“Alright guys, I know I look good but I’ not a weeping angel! You can start blinking again!” I laughed slightly as I walked onto the last step and stopped, confused, “Wait, why did I have to wear this again?”
A cheeky, mischievous look crossed Alex’s face as he walked towards me, holding a silk scarf. I must’ve made a strange face as they started laughing, it made the whole situation a bit sinister…
Alex tied the scarf around my eyes gently, I felt a hand grab mine, I think it was Toms. The hand led me outside and into a car.
We arrived at our destination, the boys all chatting excitedly, Tom was still holding my hand, I didn’t mind, It stopped me from falling over things.
“Alex! Tell me where we are!” Alex ripped off the scarf and I gasped, A hall, a massive hall I had seen on my first day in London.
The lights flickered on as my friends and family appeared, screaming various things at me, I’m pretty sure I heard someone yell ‘PICKLE’ at me…
I turned around to face the boys and my eyes locked onto Charlies, I walked over and pulled himinto the biggest hug ever, doing the same to each boy.
The night was a blur of Dancing, eating and laughing.
The night was drawing to an amazing end, there was only about 20 of us left. Alex and Nadine were dancing, as were all the boys they were all dancing with a girl, one of ‘The Group’ girls (Nadine, Peppa, Emily, Charlotte) or a girl they’d met this night.
Charlie sat with Tom at a table, Tom had a girl sat next to him. Charlie was staring at his coke whilst talking.
‘Get the party started’ By P!nk (my favourite singer) was nearly finished, I ran up to the DJ and asked him to play Angels by Robbie Williams
As P!nk finished I walked over to Charlie, holding out my hand to him, he gazed up at me a cute smile on his face, his blue eyes shining
“May I have this dance Mr McDonnell?” I smiled brightly as he took my hand “You may”
He led me to the centre of the dance floor as Angels began, it was beautiful, we danced together, slowly, his hands on my waist my hands draped around his neck.
The song ended but we didn’t move, we just stared t each other, his eyes were amazing.
I realised then…
I loved Charlie.
-Tom’s P.O.V-
“May I have this dance?” Cara’s voice was directed at Charlie and I felt my heart sink…
They walked to the middle of the dance floor and they looked perfect together, it made me feel worse than ever…
“Hey tom! Whats up?” Liam sat across from me, following my gaze “Ahh… she looks beautiful doesn’t she. Charlie picked the perfect dress for her, they look good together, don’t you think?” He saw my face “Oh, sorry mate, I didn’t know…” His voice trailed off, the girl called Hannah came back and put her arm around me, offering a sip of her drink. I declined. She went off to dance with some of her friends, Me and Liam sat talking.
The Song, Angels, finished and I looked over to Cara and Charlie, they stood there, holding each other, they looked good together, despite the fact it hurt to say, it was true. They were perfect for each other…
Alex ripped me out of my thoughts as they ll sat down, leaving Cara and Charlie stood on the dance floor, dancing to ‘She’s the One, another Robbie song’
“How well to they go together!” Alex laughed as everyone nodded,I felt a hand on top of mine, Nadines, she could tell by my face how I felt. Cara looked over smiled at me and said something to Charlie.
They walked over to one of the girls, a small girl with brown hair, wearing glasses, she was skinny but not too skinny.
Cara walked over to me and grabbed my hand, telling me to get up, I stood, he soft hands feeling nice on mine, It was a nice fit in my opinion!
“Tom, this is Jemma! Jemma, this is Tom!” The girl, Jemma, smiled shyly at me, i smiled at her and we started talking, Charlie smiled at Cara and took her hand, leading her to the dance floor once again, but this time it was a faster song, Dance Dance by fall out boy. I saw the other guys rush to the dance floor as they all started dancing, Charlie still holding Caras hand.
Me and Jemma started chatting, somehow we ended up sat at a table laughing, joking and talking.
Jemma was amazing, funny, smart and quirky, I realised after talking to her for an hour not only was she beautiful, she was Brilliant!
I forgot about Cara and danced with Jemma for the rest of the night, I kissed her on the dancefloor and she kissed back.
It was an amazing night
Chapter 18
“urgh,” I groaned rolling over in bed, an arm shaking me. Charlie.
“C’mon! I know its ridiculously early, but we have to leave for VidCon!” Charlies mention of vidcon made me sit up straight away, I’d forgotten about Vidcon!!
I jumped out of bed, hugging Charlie as I went. I grabbed the suitcase I had packed about a week ago
“Wait, what time is it?” I turned to face Charlie, taking the tea from his hands.
“4:30, we’re leaving for the airport in about an hour” His smile made me melt. I had seen his new video, Shocking Myself, before he uploaded it, it made me laugh and cringe!
Just then I heard a sound I did not like at all. Someone crying, But, I was at the boys flat, it was only me, Alex and Charlie.
I walked into Alexs room with Charlie, it wasn’t Alex crying, Liam…
“You wake Alex, I’ll go see if Liams okay” I squeezed char lies shoulder,
I walked warily into the living room, Liam was sat there, looking ill, holding his throat…
“L-Liam are you okay?” I sat next to him and put my hand to his head, he was absolutely boiling, “God Liam, you’re burning up, what’s up?” I flicked on the light.
“Oh Liam, come here, let me have a look at your throat” I had problems with my throat all my life, I could recognise these symptoms easily.
“Liam, you cannot sing with this, I can’t let you fly, you’re too ill” Liam just whimpered at me, unable to speak. He had Laryngitis.
Alex and Charlie walked into the room, Alex in Pyjamas and Charlie in a Cloning Charlie tee and jeans
I explained what was wrong, then I explained how Liam couldn’t fly let alone sing.
I phoned the doctors, it was only just open. I made an appointment for Liam for 9:30, I’d get Nadine to take him.
-5:30 am, In the taxi to the airport-
“Well, what’re you gonna do? You don’t have anyone to sing Liams parts…” I trailed off as they looked at me pleadingly, I knew what they were thinking. “I can sing them, but who’ll play the instruments?”
“They’ll have someone there.” Alex said simply. He was sat up front me and Charlie in the back.
“well, I’ll just have to be Liam, who has goggles, or will we have to stop at wal-mart?” The boys all laughed.
-after the plane journey-
We piled into Michaels car, I had slept on Charlie for the entire flight, I wasn’t what you would call a morning person…
When we got to the hotel we all unpacked and went to the center where VidCon was held, we had reversals and we needed to explain how I would be playing Liam
We walked around, talking to fans (mainly Charlies) and watched some of the acts rehearse. The pressure started building then, it was our turn to rehearse, well, Chameleon Circuit. Alex explained how it was Me instead of Liam. The rehearsal went really well, I fell over at one point but Alex caught me, luckily.
A few people had gathered to watch us rehearse, mainly the girls fans.
Then, it was me, my singular rehearsal time. I was there mainly due to my youtube, CaraBee53.
I walked on stage, trying not to look too much at the small crowd just yet. The music filled the room as my guitar player started. I joined in with my acoustic guitar. I walked up to the mic.
“He is sensible and SO incredible, all my single friends are jealous” I started singing, putting emphisis on SO, I saw alex and Charlie at the back, Alex was nudging Charlie. I blushed.
At the end of my 25 minute slot, the boys walked over to the stage, I jumped down.
“Urgh, my voice went so weird during Who Knew!” I moaned rolling my eyes
“It was beautiful!” Charlie had to nearly shout as a large group of girls surrounded him, he didn’t look comfortable. I guess he isn’t used to the major fangirls just yet.
We walked around till about 5’o’clock, my stomach rumbled.
“I. Am. So. HUNGRY!” I had to shout hungry as the boys were surrounded by squealing, chattering girls.
About 20 people walked over to me and asked for various photos, hugs, autographs. I laughed all the way through. I guess I wasn’t used to getting noticed either.
At 8pm we were in the restraint when someone came to get us, we walked backstage and stood by the side, the other act walked off, Charlie and Alex squeezed my hand and shoulder.
Showtime.
Chapter 19;
I took a deep breath as we walked onto the stage, the cheers filled my ears and I could feel the people watching us. I walked over to the microphone in between Charlie and Alex, Charlie introduced me to the crowd. I think they were disappointed I wasn’t Liam, but the show must go on!
It was as Alex started playing the intro to Everything Is Ending that it hit me. ALL OF YOUTUBE COULD SEE MY FACE. Gulp.
“I’m getting married in the morning” I sung, trying to stop myself from shaking too much.
As the song ended the crowd cheered madly, I may not be Bryarly but they seemed to like me! I couldn’t stop smiling.
We sung loads of songs from both of their albums, then the final song.
Kiss the girl. My favourite.
Charlie started singing to the girl, Sophie, who he had pulled from the audience. She looked like she was going to explode.
When the chorus came Alex sung with all his heart, punching me gently on the arm and I swear I saw him smirking at Charlie who was looking at us.
When we got to the final chorus before Liams, well My, bit Alex gave me a strange look, then as Charlie sung “You’re talking to a cat! And everybody loves you”
Alex Kissed me on the lips. My eyes darted to Charlie, he was standing at the front of the stage, an angry look in his eyes.
Alex broke away from me and left me standing with a confused, angry, surprised look on y face.
Charlie practically screamed “YOU’RE GONNA TAKE HER AWAY FROM ME” In Alex’s face.
They were close, staring at each other, Alex looked at me. I stepped between them, looking from Alex to Charlie.
“alright I didn’t want to do this but it might be the only way the world will end if you don’t concentrate on why you want to stay” I turned towards Charlie “So Mr. Sofa Man. Whats keeping you here?” both boys turned to face the audience.
I was also singing the bits with Charlie whilst Alex sung ‘Sophie!’
“I can’t breath!” I took a deep breath “I love you CHARLIE!” I looked at the floor, not knowing what to say. My line again. WHY DID I SAY THAT?!
“Oh not again, not when the worlds about to burn, just for gods sake kiss the gir-” I was cut off by Charlie tiltling my head up and kissing em on the lips. He pulled away and smiled at me, I could feel the fangirls watching us. Some glaring, others pointing and squealing.
I smiled up at him and hugged him, Alex ran over to give us a group hug
It was the start of something awesome!
Chapter 20;
We spent the rest if the evening, after my solo performance, walking about and trying not to get killed by the fans!
“Wow you guys! That was public!” I turned around and gasped.
“MICHAEL!!!” I screamed letting go of Charlies hand and running over to Michael to give him a hug.
“Hey kiddo, good performance up there, sweet ending, so, you guys dating now?” Michael let go of me and hugged Alex then Charlie. I took Charlies hand “I guess so” I smiled up at Charlie. I felt the crowd watching us. I turned to see half the room with an angry or sad look in their eyes whilst the other half was beaming at us.
The room had fallen practically silent, beside the band doing sound check “well… this is awkward…” my voice echoed around the room. I had forgotten to take my microphone off and they had just turned it up… awwwkward…
I ran backstage and took off my microphone. When i ran back the band had started, the ALL CAPS had the crowd wrapped around their little finger, the entire crowd was bouncing, jumping, singing, laughing. The atmosphere was brilliant as it almost echoed round the room.
It was about 8pm when I dragged everyone off to find food, despite the fact all I’d done since leaving the stage was eat.
We sat down and ordered our food, Pizza!
“So, why did you say Charlie and not Sophie?” Alex raises an eyebrow at me as Charlie goes off to find the bathroom. I sigh heavily, thinking about my answer…
“I don’t know, just…” I needed to think about it so I didn’t sound stupid “To be honest, I don’t know. I was singing and it just… came out” I see Alex smirk at the word ‘Come’ I laugh at him, hitting him lightly across the table. Charlie walked over with Michael and they sit, Charlie next to me and Michael and Alex on the other side. Charlie nervously puts his arm around my shoulders, I laugh at his awkwardness, The others are staring at us, it’s kind of unnerving.
“Can you guys… I don’t know… stop staring at us?” the boys laugh and shield their eyes jokingly. Charlie chuckles. “So, why are you staring at us?” I question the boys, looking from Alex to Michael, they blush slightly.
“We’ve just been waiting for you two to get together for so long! I mean really, Charlie never shut up about you. He’s loved you for, like, months!” I look at Charlie “Oh really!” I laugh as he blushes, he laughs at the same time.
He looks as if he is about to say something when a voice says “Hey, here’s your food guys, great show by the way!” a young-ish girl with long blonde hair and bright blue eyes places our food down and wanders off after waving at the boys.
At about 10:30 the atmosphere is still there though we are all tired and want to go to bed.
We stayed in America for two weeks, then it was time to go home, I didn’t want to leave, I loved it in America.
I had gotten really close to Michael over the fortnight, we’d become really good friends.
At the airport I hugged Michael, a tear in my eye
“hey hey, don’t cry. It’ll only be a month or so until we meet again! Besides, we have skype! C’mon be happy! You get to see all your friends again!” I hugged him again.
“I don’t want to see my friends yet! It’s been brilliant here, perfect!” he laughed as I said this. Michael hugged Alex and Charlie kissed the top of my head, putting his arm around my waist, pulling me close
-Back Home, 2 days later-
When we told everyone about Me and Charlie they all went crazy! And ever since, we’ve been practically inseparable.
Liam’s voice is much better but not fully. Charlotte and Liam have gotten even closer over the break. I was so happy to see all of my closest friends happy and healthy (well, mainly)
We were sat at the Nericoollocation one day when Charlie walked in
“Hey, can I talk to you Cara?” I stood and gave the guys a confused look, shrugging.
He led me into his room, it was about 9pm, we sat on the edge of his bed and he put his hand on my knee, I put my hand on top.
“I-I just wanted to say, I love you Cara, and I have for months now.” He looked me in the eyes and I felt the smile spreading on my face. He began to laugh.
That night was beautiful (I’m not saying anything, I’ll leave that to your imagination ;) )
I woke the next morning with a massive smile on my face, remembering the night before, Charlie was asleep next to me, his hair dishevelled and he couldn’t look more adorable.
I knew from the moment I saw him as a 14 year old that he was the one for me. I knew it was a matter of time.
Chapter 21
-six Months Later-
I was sat on the sofa at the My Flat, thinking. Just how massively my life had changed in the past few months since moving to London. I had more best friends, a brilliant boyfriend and my life was just perfect
“Hey Alex? Can I talk to you quick?” Charlie walked in, handing me a cup of tea then turning towards Alex who had a confused look on his face
“erm, sure thing mate…” He stood and gave us all a confused look.
About 5 minutes later we heard what could only be described as a girlish scream coming from Alex’s room. Alex ran out, grabbed my hand, pulling me out my seat and dragged me into his room, squealing.
“TELL HER NOW!!!” Alex was laughing and so was Charlie.
“Okay, so, I’d been wondering… would you like to move in with us?” Charlie smiled at me, his blue eyes shining.
“OF COURSE! Wait, where would I sleep?” I can’t believe it! I’m moving into the boys new house, they’re moving in soon, before then they’re staying at their parents houses.
“Well, I do have a bedroom you know!” Charlie smiles at me and gives me a hug, Alex joins in causing us to nearly fall over, laughing.
I walk out and tell the guys, the first thing said is “I CALL CARAS ROOM!” Nadine obviously.
“Oh thanks! Not even packing yet and already acting like I’m not here!” I laugh, then jump slightly as Charlie sneaks behind me and grabs my waist from behind, “Hey there!” I laugh as he kisses my head, despite the fact I’m nearly as tall as him, just an inch shorter.
We spend the rest of the day talking about the new house, drinking tea talking some more, eating and yep, drinking more tea.
“DOCTOR WHO!!!” I screamed as the sound of the Tardis filled the room. It was only an old one, but it was Doctor Who!
After hitting Alex in the face with a yoga ball everyone settled down quietly to watch. We stayed up talking till about 10pm then I fell asleep on Charlies chest, his head resting on mine and his arm around my shoulder.
I woke up at about 8am dressed in my Pyjamas, lying on Charlies bed… how the hell did I get there?!
“Morning sleepy!” Charlie hands me a cup of tea, I nearly drop it in my sleepy state.
Alex runs in, clutching the phone, a smile stuck on his face.
“CHARLIE!!! ITS THE LANDLORD! THEY SAID THEY WANT TO TALK TO US ABOUT MOVING IN! AS IN TOMORROW!!” Charlie looks shocked, they’d be able to move in tomorrow… that would be AWESOME!
The boys leave to go to the estate agents, to see when they’re moving in ad to tell them I’d be there too!
I get up and get dressed, I text Charlie to tell him I’m stealing his t-shirt.
I pull on my skinny jeans and walk out the door, bumping into Nadine who is walking out of Alex’s room. I just smile and wink at her, she giggles, winking back and we walk to the kitchen laughing together.
“Hello Ladies!” Liams voice cause us both to jump. I hit my head on the cupboard and pour the water from the kettle onto my hand, luckily I haven’t boiled it yet.
“LIAM! WHY Y NO WARN ME!” Liam laughs at my Tumblr reference, Nadine is sat at the table watching us. Liam leans up, trying to get teabags, instead he tips the box over causing the teabags to rain over my head.
I gasp “oh, it is SO on!” I grab a handful of teabags and throw them at Liams face, one lands inside his glasses. We have a fight which results in Liam pouring a cup of water on my head and splitting 5 teabags over my head, causing the leaves to stick to me and the floor.
Alex and Charlie walk in, talking excitedly before stopping abruptly after seeing my with tea leaves stuck on my head and teabags everywhere
“What did you do?” Alex is laughing as Liam gets hit in the face by another teabag. We explain and the boys help us tidy
“What happened at the place-y majig where you went?” My brain isn’t giving me the ability to speak…
They look at each other like little kids on Christmas day (well, like anyone on Christmas day)
“Well, they said that since there will actually be Four of us and the other people moved out early we could move in next week!” Alex explains, I begin to happy dance then stop.
“Wait, four? Charlie, You, Me… who else?” I’m genuinely confused.
“Well, four if Nadine says she wants to move in with us?” Alex turns to Nadine who is sat there with her mouth wide open.
“are you serious? Move in with You?” she tries to look disgusted but breaks into a smile “YES! Awesome!!” We all stand and do a group hug-jumping thing.
At about 1pm, after just sitting, talking and beginning to pack, we ring round and decide to go swimming, all of us.
We arrive and go into the changing rooms, its the first time I’ve worn a bikini in a long time. I’ve never worn a bikini in front of people, my friends included. I’ve always worn shorts and a tee.
Not today, though I am wearing shorts but that’s because my bikini bottoms are ever so slightly small.
I walk out of the cubicle where my friends are waiting and they gasp.
“Cara, you have girl abs!” I laugh at this, poking my stomach. I do sit ups, street dance and yoga which have made me get what my friends call ‘Girl Abs’
“You look like p!nk!” Peppa gasps, the she sees it “When did you get a tattoo!?” I laugh, looking down at my hip where there is a design of a Treble Clef and A Bass Clef combined to make a heart.
“I’ve got 3!” My friends gasp, Like I said I always cover up.
I show them the tattoo on my neck, showing the first few notes of ‘Who Knew’ my favourite song and the design on my lower back, a Sun Flower and a Poppy design, to represent my grandparents, my granddad was a soldier and my grandma’s favourite flower was Sun Flowers.
They stare in awe, I never told them about my tattoos, they knew I wanted them but I had decided to keep them secret until I was a bit older. They’d always said that they thought getting a tattoo before 18 was a mistake…
“C’mon! The boys are probably waiting for us by the pool!” I make sure my sea blue bikini with small golden square sequins, is right, I make sure my denim shorts zipper is shut and the guys lead on.
As I walk out Charlies eyes widen. He gasps, the rest of the boys look away from their respective girlfriends. They all gasp.
“Cara, you have abs!” Alex is looking at the tattoo on my hip.
I laugh and grab Charlies hand, he’s wearing blue patterned swimming trunks (long shorts that are near the knee, not a speedo! Thats a weird image….)
I grab his hand and run towards the pool, “No cara! No!” I jump in and drag Charlie in behind me, the lifeguards turn to stare as we emerge. Charlie grabs my waist, lifting me slightly and kisses me on the lips, gently but amazing.
I hear a few fangirls screaming ad Charlie splashes me then swims away. The war has begun.
We spend the rest of the day swimming, laughing and diving. The guys didn’t expect me to be able to swim as fast as I do! We leave the pool at 7pm, Pick up a Chinese and go to my flat. We decide to start packing tomorrow, until then everyone watches as I kick Charlies butt at Portal and Mario
“How!? How is this possible!?” Charlie moans as I jump onto the coffee table and start dancing in victory!
-A year later-
-Caras POV-
I woke up the next morning with a smile on my face.
I was in my bedroom; I could hear laughter flowing up the stairs. I threw the duvet off me and ran down the stairs, nearly falling down them but regaining my balance, I felt like a gymnast.
“Me Gusta” I whispered quietly to myself
As I walked into the room I was greeted by a sea of smiles, the feeling radiating from the room was magic, Alex and Nadine were sat together, their fingers laced. Same with Charlotte and Liam, Peppa and Ed, Emily and Michael and Jemma and Tom, I knew they’d go well together. Charlie walked into the room holding a cup of tea in a mug with a cute cat on it, he handed it to me. I placed it on the table and he looked confused. I explained how I had to wait for it to cool down. We sat on the sofa and talked for about 25 minutes, by the end my tea was finished.
I told everyone to get dressed. When everyone had emerged from their various place, I was dressed, ready and full of tea.
“C’mon, there’s somewhere I want to show you” I led them out the door and began the walk. They all looked confused as they followed me
…
We arrived at the field about 10 minutes later; no-one knew about this place, not even the girls.
We walked across it, onto a path lined with blackberry bushes, we walked round then I stopped.
I turned round to see Alex holding a berry that looked like a blue berry…
“ALEX YOU IDIOT DON’T EAT THAT!” I screamed at him, knocking the berry from his hand, he gave me a confused look, until I explained it was a nightshade berry and it was Fatal…
I turned and walked through the opening in the hedge, it led to a field full of rabbits, birds and flowers. To many the motorway roaring along side would be an annoyance, to me it was soothing. Everyone stopped talking and looked around, they hadn’t been here before. I led them to a spot; I had been pretty much silent. I led everyone over to a clearing and sat down.
I had a guitar there, since the place was never seen people couldn’t steal it.
I played a few chords to get their attention.
I looked at them all and smiled.
“Wow, why didn’t you ever tell us about this?” Charlie questioned gently.
“I don’t know, I guess… It was my place, a place I could go to forget the world, and I would come here and sing. I would just sit and watch the sky, eat the blackberries and forget the world. This place was my own little world I guess, somewhere I could forget my worries and really be myself Y’know…” I looked him in the eyes, the beautiful blue eyes I could stare into for hours…
I sung for about 30 minutes, after that we all sung together for hours.
We had left at about 1pm and it was now 5pm, I was starving as we started the long walk back.
-Charlies POV-
Cara walked ahead, lost in her own thought. I sighed out loud.
“What’s up Charlieburg?” Alex gently punched me in the arm.
“I Haven’t told her yet….” It was then that I realised, I didn’t LIKE Cara… I loved her.
“What did you not tell Cara?” alex knew me so well
“I love her, I’m in love with her” I looked at my shoes as I walked
“Well, Charles, the thing to do now is show her!” He pushed me past everyone so I was right behind Cara, on her left.
I didn’t know what to say, being awkward as I am, so I walked alongside her, painfully aware of the others watching behind us.
Cara carried on walking but turned to smile at me, she was beautiful, her grey eyes shining in the dusk.
I interlocked our fingers and stared ahead, relief flooded through me when Cara squeezed my hand back.
“I love you Cara, I know we’ve only been together for a year, but I know your the one for me, I thought so when we first met when you were 14, It was 3 years ago, you know something?” I reached into my pocket and pulled out my wallet, opening it “I asked them for a smaller version of the photo we had taken with you, Its been in my wallet ever since”
“August 19th” Cara laughs as I put my wallet back and wrap my arm around her waist.
“So, everyone ready for VidCon tomorrow?” Alex tries to do a cartwheel and lands face first on the floor. Everone begins talking about it, except Cara, she walks holding my hand lost in her thoughts. She looks so happy, yet there is almost a sad glint in her eye.
-The next Morning 4:00am-
My alarm goes off and Cara jumps. Its flashing, vibrating our bed and ear-splittingly loud.
“Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!” I scrable to turn ot off as cara winces in the early hours of the morning.
“Well… I’m awake now!” Cara laughs and kisses my cheek
I kiss her gently on the lips and she kisses back, despite the early hours it feels like its the middle of the day, brilliant!
“If you don’t mind not kissing for a moment, we have to go in half an hour! Get dressed!” Alex’s voice causes us to jump, Cara laughs climbing out of bed.
“Okay, I need a shower, be downstairs in about 10 mins!” I watch as Cara leaves to have a shower, how is it that someone in a big baggy tee and shorts with messy hair look so amazing?
“Dude, why don’t you just marry her!” Alex laughs leaving the room. I stand us and walk over to where my jeans are, I check the pocket, the box is still there, relief floods through me as I open the box and know it’s still in there.
Alex isn’t far from the truth…
<this was originally 2 chapters but I combined it! Enjoy!>
Chapter 22;
-Charlies POV-
I got dressed quickly, grabbed both mine and Caras cases and walked down the stairs, finding Alex in the kitchen, making tea.
“Hey, Cara ready yet?” Alex placed a cup of tea in front of me
“Nope, how about Nadine?” I took a sip of my tea, it wasn’t that bad, considering it was alex after all
“Just having a shower, god, it feels like forever that we’ve known them! Its only been…” Alex trailed off trying to work it out
“Just over two years, they moved in, may 23rd, and it’s July 31st today” I finished his sentence for him
“wow, how do you remember that? I mean the day they moved in, not todays date” Alex laughed slightly as he spoke, I just shrugged.
Cara and Nadine appeared, Cara wearing my ‘You need to be able to love yourself’ tee, skinny jeans and a black hoodie with ‘this is my killing zombies hoodie’ written on it. Nadine was wearing a long, dress top, leggings and a cardigan.
“Hey!” Nadine said hugging alex round the neck. He kissed her and they giggled.
After about 2 minutes they were still being all soppy “ANYWAY!” Cara shouted to get their attention “We need to go soon, we need to make sure we’re on time” Cara drank the remainder of her tea, I did the same and stood up, pulling on my shoes.
The taxi arrived about 10 minutes later, Liam and Ed appeared from the girls flat, I’d been wondering where they were.
The drive to the airport wasn’t long, but it felt it, Cara sat there headphones rammed in her ears, my arm around her shoulders.
-After the flight, in the hotel with Michael, the girls are in their own room-
“Well, that was a long flight, do you guys think Cara is okay? She barely spoke to anyone on the flight, other than you, of course, Charlieburg!” Alex poked me in the stomach, I wasn’t paying attention and fell backwards, knocking over a chair which had my hoodie on it.
A box rolled out the pocket and in front of Alexs feet. “You okay Charlie? Hey what’s this?” I jumped up instantly and grabbed the box before he could open it
“GAHFALHAMAD!” I screamed as he wrestled me to the floor trying to open it, the others bundled on top of Alex, well and truly squashing me.
“Well, we’ll leave you alone to have some private time” Cara winked from the door way, then jumped on top of us “What’re we wrestling for?” Cara rolled off as Michael, who was on top, stood up.
“Charlie has something and we want to know what it is! He won’t let us see it!” Alex complained to Cara, who grabbed my hand to pull me up, she was oddly strong.
N’aww Charlieburg, are you hiding something?” Cara winked at me as I put my aarm around her waist, I couldn’t let her guess, not yet anyway!
“er-I-I-um… No!” I stuttered, realising I hadn’t replied.
“You are! C’mon tell us! What did you just put in your pocket?” Ed pestered me, Liam was trying to get in my pocket….
“Hey, Hey okay, one, Liam. Stop raping Charlie. Two, Leave him alone, its blatantly private and Three” Cara paused, turning to face me “GIMME!” Cara shouted, trying to get the box out of my pocket…
“hey! Hey! Argh!” I nearly fell,
“Okay guys, we gotta go, Cara get off Charlie” Alex laughed as Michael pulled my hand, Liam grabbing Caras “We gotta do rehearsals”
Well, they might leave me alone now…
Yeah, didn’t think so either…
-Caras POV-
We arrived at rehearsals and I saw one of my YouTube friends, Josie, so I ran over to see her whilst the boys got their microphones set for later, I was the last act, Chameleon Circuit were on before me, though I was singing in Kiss The Girl, Everything Is Ending, Travelling Man and a few others, they were doing songs from both albums, I got to see them rehearse. They were really good, though Alex nearly impaled someone with the microphone stand when he kicked it over.
They finished, I was called and I had my microphone fitted, the band doing warm up and then I was on!
I picked up my guitar and walked out, I smiled at the few people in the crowd and began to play
“We were both young, when I first saw you” I began, my voice echoing around the room, my eyes scanning the crowd for Charlie, I saw him smiling, the others looking a bit shocked, I don’t normally sing in front of people, Michael had never heard me sing.
I finished my 25 minute set and walked off.
We had Two hours to find something to eat, get our mics then we were on!
We found a place to eat, a Pizza place, yummy, and the conversation turned to the mystery box that Charlie had.
“So, Charles will we ever find out what’s in the mystery box?” Alex laughed as he stuffed his face with pepperoni pizza, causing us all to burst out laughing
“Wha?” Charlie looked up, a piece of pineapple on his cheek, i wiped it away laughing.
“Will we ever find out what’s in that box of yours?” Alex repeated slowly, patronizing Charlie, who blushed.
“err…. maybe tonight” he smiled looking at me, I only know he was looking at me because he put his arm round my shoulder. I had my face buried in Pizza, A Mushroom stuck to my forehead.
“Gwah?” I looked up and Charlie giggled, picking the mushroom off my head. It was silent for a moment, then laughter filled the air, loud, rambunctious laughter, that hurt so much but was so good!
Someone walked over to us to tell us to get ready, Nadine went to find the other girls, and our families in the crowd.
I couldn’t believe our familys had come, well, Mine and Charlies.
I walked over to Bridie who was standing with Bryarly. The boys donned the stage as we hugged and said our hellos!
They sung a few songs, I ran backstage, having to push through the fans Alex winked at me as I walked backstage to get my microphone ready.
This was it,
I walked onto the stage, Charlie put his arm around me, causing cameras to flash, fans to half cheer, half cry out.
“KISS KISS KISS KISS KISS!” Alex chanted at us, the band and the fans joined in, I saw cameras being prepared for a photo.
I pulled Charlie into a kiss, my arms draped around his neck, his arms around my waist. A cheer erupted from the crowd, cameras flashed and it was a perfect moment.
We did the rest of the performance with Charlies arm around my waist, smiling happily, his eyes shining.
Then I ran backstage whilst the boys did a final encore, the third they had to do!
I picked up and tuned my guitar, talking to the band I was about to play with. Charlie gave me a kiss then ran into the audience. SHOWTIME!
I walked onstage, the atmosphere hitting me like a wave.
“HELLO! Tonight, I will be singing some songs you may know. I would sing my own, but I can never seem to be bothered to finish the songs I write! LET’S KICK IT!”
We sung 8 songs, then 3 encores, just one left.
Taylor Swifts Love Story.
Alex ran to the back of the room, where a projector screen was, it showed videos that you made yourself. “Oh god, Alex has a plan!” I said, laughing to the audience. I started to sing, looking at Charlie, I wasn’t the only one. I walked to the back of the stage, looking at the screen, me and Charlie filled the screen! Clips and pictures, all of us, hugging, dancing, singing and laughing.
When I sung “see you make your way through the crowd and say hello” It shows a clip from my party, fitting perfectly. All the clips and pictures fit the lyrics and music perfectly.
Charlie suddenly disappears, when I sing ‘I got tired of waiting’, I look at the boys, in the front corner, right by the stage, they just shrug.
“When I met you on the outskirts of town” I’m almost drowned out by the crowd cheering. Charlie appears on stage, looking nervous. He has a microphone on. Whats going on!
“I don’t know what to think, he knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring and-” I’m barely singing now, when I sung ‘knelt to the ground’ thats exactly what Charlie did.
“Marry me Cara and you’ll never have to be alone! I love you and that’s all I really know, I talked to your dad go pick out a nice dress, Its a love story baby just say?” he looks at me, he pulls out the mystery box from earlier and opens it. A ring sits there, a tardis blue gem shining in the middle.
I finish Charlies line by singing “YES!” I kneel down and hug him, kissing him as he slides the ring onto my finger, he wipes away the single tear rolling down my cheek.
We stand, I look at our friends, they look shocked, amazed and so, so happy!
I hug Charlie and say ‘I Love You’ just loud enough to be heard over the crys of the crowd.
Charlie pulls me into a hug.
I couldn’t be happier.
This is not the end, there is two more chapters left, what did you guys think?
Chapter 22;
Charlie took my hand as we walked backstage, i was still in a state of happiness and shock. We were welcomed by our families, and of course the boys and girls.
Alex ran over and hugged/tackled Charlie “CHARLIEBURG!”
I just stood there laughing. Suddenly the floor was at my face and there was about 10 people lying on top of me
“GUYS! GET OFF! I CAN’T BREATH!” I was laughing so hard I couldn’t talk properly! Everyone stood up, alex was still talking excitedly to Charlie, pulling him up by the hand. Nadine hugged me, they all hugged me individually, then moving onto Charlie, I showed our families the beautiful ring Charlie had given me. A golden band, with a single TARDIS blue gem sat in the middle, Charlie knew I wouldn’t want a classic diamond, I always said TARDIS blue was my favourite colour.
Charlie was freed and he walked over to me, hugging my waist. I jumped slightly, laughing.
“well, we should probably go into the madness of the crowd…” Charlie laughed as he spoke, his eyes shimmering “if we aren’t back in 20 minutes we may have died, please save our bodies from being attacked!” we began to walk towards the crowd. I took a deep breath and squeezed Charlies hand
“Ready?” I nodded “then let’s go!”
The cheering hit us like a brick wall, the atmosphere was amazing you could almost feel it
The fans ran over to us, some were crying oddly enough. People were throwing things at us, asking for pictures and autographs
After about 30 minutes the crowd began to die down, after another 20 there was only about 10 people left. I started chatting to one of the girls who was telling me how lucky I was, I couldn’t help but smile.
Suddenly a woman ran over to Charlie, an embarrassed looking girl trailing behind, shouting for her mother to stop, the girl looked about 15, she had long brown hair with blue streaks.
“HOW COULD YOU!?” the woman screamed at Charlie, storming over “HOW COULD YOU NOT BE MY DAUGHTERS BOYFRIEND? SHE IS AMAZING, PERFECT, HOW COULD YOU NOT BE MORE AVAILIBLE TO MY DAUGHTER?” Charlie looked terrified as this woman screamed at him for not being more available, the girl looked like she would either cry or kill her mother.
After about 5 minutes the woman hadn’t let up at all, I stormed over
“EXCUSE ME! What the hell do you think you’re doing? That my fiancée you’re talking to, and nobody talks to him like that.” I was so angry, i could kill her, I tried to stay calm “well, I’m sorry if you feel he isn’t more avalible to your daughter, but he’s taken, if you cared at all about anyone elses feelings, you would see the your daughter is embarrassed beyond belief, and me and Charlie are in love, so please, leave us alone to live our lives” I walked over to the daughter, she had a nametag that said ‘Amy’ on it
“amy, I’m sorry about your mothers behaviour, it’s immature and I hope you don’t follow in those footsteps!” I gave her a hug, she hugged me back, Charlie walked over, signed her shirt and CD,gave her a hug and had a photo taken. Amy apologised for her mothers behaviour.
As we walked back towards the stage I felt a hand on my hair, pulling it. I turned, Amy’s mother was there.
She pulled my hair, she tried to punch me as I dodged. She tried to punch me, kick me and bite me.
I swung my foot round and kicked her in the back of the knees, she fell, I stood and walked away, grabbing Charlies hand. Everyone was staring at me, Alex smiled and congratulated me. We walked back to the hotel, laughing all the way there and all the way back.
The next morning we were all sat in a cafe talking, I realised something. I whispered in Charlies ear and he nodded, smiling. I faced alex, holding charlies hand which was around my shoulder.
“hey Alex, car we ask you something?” the table fell quiet as Alex nodded and I grinned at charlie, prompting him to ask
“Will you be our best man?” Alex jumped up, ran round the table and hugged us both “Is that a yes?” Charlie laughed as alex smiled madly.
“And can you all be groomsmen and bridesmaids?” I gestured at the others, who nodded and hugged us in turn,
Perfection!
-July 23rd-
I woke up early, looking beside me to see an empty space. I remembered the date as Nadine ran in my room, followed by the other girls all shrieking!
My wedding day!
I jumped out of bed and got enveloped in a group hug, me, Nadine, Peppa, Charlotte and Emily!
They all started talking at once, my dress, my hair, my make-up everything was being talked about at once!
“woah woah woah! Hang on guys! One at a time, me first!” I looked round and smiled my brightest smile “I’M GETTING MARRIED!” my phone rang as Nadine was curling my hair,
“Hello!” Charlie chorused,
“Hey! Wait, do you have a toothbrush in your mouth?” Charlie made a weird noise “you’re not Rory!” I laughed as I spoke, Nadine was telling me that I needed my make-up done, “I gotta go now Charles, love you!” I hung up, my normally blue hair was now a chestnut brown with a blonde fringe, styled after Christina Perri.
I stood, still in my pyjamas, my hair and make-up looked amazing when I looked in the mirror, the only thing left was my dress.
I walked over and stroked the dress, smiling as the sparkles on the black bodice, the white skirt perfectly flat, no creases. The bodice was black and sparkled, I had fallen in love with an identical dress aged 7, it had been in my mind since. I saw my shoes on the floor, velvety material, a white ankle boot that I loved. It was a strapless dress and it was my dream dress
I walked into the bathroom holding the dress, I slipped it over my head and pulled the zip up from under my left arm. I put my shoes on and walked out and down the stairs into the living room, where everyone from my family, Charlies family and my friends were sat. They gasped, both mothers had tears in their eyes as I spun round for them, I wasn’t wearing a veil, I didn’t want too, or need to. Bridie stood and hugged me, I stood about 6 foot in the boots, i was normally 5’11, same height as Charlie. I heard the taxi pull up outside, I checked my make-up was okay and my hair wasn’t madly frizzy and walked out, it was a beautiful summer day, clear blue sky. It was 11am.
The journey with my step-dad felt like it would take forever, all I could think about was Charlie. I couldn’t wait, everyone would be at the church already.
I stood outside the door as ‘Angels’ by Robbie Williams started playing. I smiled at Rob then poked out my tongue at him.
We walked through the doors as a gasp cascaded and cameras flashed, Charlie turned, his blue eyes shining.
I reached him and couldn’t stop smiling “You look beautiful” he brushed a stray piece of hair from my face.
We reached the Vows, me first.
“Charlie, well, it’s been a ride! I saw you on YouTube at just 13, then when I was 14 on August 19th I met you. It was a dream come true. But I felt something else when I walked in, i saw your blue eyes and something clicked. Then I had to leave and I could have cried. I moved across from you at 16 and I think it was fate, my entire life i’ve felt a connection, even if you didn’t know who I was. I’ve loved you since I was 14, and this is a dream come true for me, not only are you my fiancée, husband thing. You’re my best friend, you’re my pillow! you’re my guide, you’re the Doctor to My TARDIS. I love you.” I look round to see everyone wiping their eyes, it wasn’t until Charlie said his vows that people really began to cry
“Cara, the first time I met you when you were 14, just for that little while when you were with us, I felt something. I still have the picture of us. Wow you’ve changed, you have grown into a beautiful, amazing, confident young woman. When you left the room that day, I told alex I thought you were beautiful, despite nearly squashing me with a space model! When you moved across, I knew it was you, even if it took me a little while to figure it out, I knew because you had the same bubbly personality and the sparkle in your eye. To me you aren’t just a woman, you are everything to me. You’re my entire world, you make each day perfect by just smiling. You are the fish fingers to my custard, I’ll always love you”
Alex presented the rings, once again, TARDIS blue, like I’d always wanted “You may now kiss the bride”
A cheer rang out, Charlie kissed me.
Mr and Mrs McDonnell, at last.
Chapter 23;
We walked back down the aisle, hand in hand as people around us began to stand, Alex and Nadine ran after us, jumping onto our backs and hugging us.
We walked out and jumped into the Taxi, a bright yellow taxi that I loved! We arrived at our party place a few minutes later, the same place where my birthday had been held!
We walked around, no one else there yet.
“I love you so much Charlie, thankyou” I smiled at him, taking both his hands and swinging them
“what for?” Charlie was smiling but looked confused, I just shrugged, still smiling “everything” simple.
Everyone began to arrive and the next 20 minutes were a cascade of hugs, cheers and pictures. I checked twitter on my phone quickly, thanking everyone for the congratulations. I jumped onto Charlies back whilst he was talking to his mum, “ONWARD MIGHTY STEED!” I screamed at him, pointing at the boys who were waiting. Alex saw us and started jumping excitedly.
The next hour was a barrage of drinks, well, for everyone else but for me and Charlie we were pretending to be posh, drinking tea from fancy teacups! Speech time! Alex and liam had asked to do the speeches, and since the others didn’t mind we let them. My step-dad, Charlies dad, Alex, liam and Nadine were all making speeches! though I was a bit worried about Alex’s as he was already a bit drunk, despite the fact he barely ever drank, he decided this was a celebration!
Alex stood, wobbling ever so slightly
“I’ve known charles here for a long while npw! he has been a best friend to me, hes also been a brother and even a father to me sometimes! He’s helped me through breakups befor and I’ve helped him, I always knew that he would find someone one day! Cara came into our lives once, just once, at 14 when we met her at a Still got Legs signing, charlie thought she was beautifully crazy then! and then when she moved across from us, Charlie nearly died1 he knew it was her! Charlie would do anything for you cara, jump in front of a bus, die for you, refuse to travel with the doctor without you! and I bet he’d evn give up tea for you! Cheers to you both!” alex hugged us as he sat down. I couldn’t stop smiling, Liam stood up
“well… I haven’t known Charlie as long, but I feel like i’ve known him forever! i’ve known Cara even less time and I feel like she’s always been around! Cara and Charlie were perfect for each other from the day they met, I could feel it! we all could! but they refused to say how they really felt, and now i’m standing here at their wedding, and I can hardly believe they haven’t been together forever, congratu;ations guys!” Nadines speech was next, I was saving robs till last, after nadine it was charlies dad, who had recently married himself.
“well, a lot of speeches tonight! I’ve known Cara for a long time now, though not as long as people thought. When I first met Cara she stood out as a crazy, brave and incredibly talented person. She had blue hair, falling past her eyes as she walked into school, we can hardly say that she was the best behaved but she is smart! also, very talented! Charlie, what can I say! Cara’s dream came true! she’s had this day planned since she first saw you on youtube! she loved you from the day she saw you and I am so happy you feel the same, it was fate we moved across from you, who knew where it would lead. I cannot be more proud of you both! i love you all!”
Charlies dad’s speech was fairly generic, telling how he was proud to see his son all grown up and how he was so glad he found a nice girl who was perfect for him, I couldn’t be happier! Then it was robs speech (my step-dad for those who don’t know!)
“i came into Cara’s life when she was just 14, 4 years ago, thats gone so fast. When i first met Cara she was withdrawn and lonely. then slowly she came out of her shell, and developed intot he beautiful woman we see today. She’s been through alot in her life and I couldn’t be more proud. we haven’t always gotten along, but i would never give up on her, she slowly began to trust me more, I hope anyway, but then she moved to London and I realised how quiet it was without her! She told me all about Vharlie, i knew he was perfect for her, He would do anything for her, even if it kills him. he would risk his life just to make her happy. so today, standing at their wedding i am proud to say these two may be young, but they are ahppy and in love, thats all that counts!”
I was crying by then, it was then I realised, he wasn’t my Step-Dad, he was my Dad, the man who had protected me and loved me no matter what!
PARTY TIME!
We danced to ‘our’ song Iris by the GooGoo Dolls, It’s not a classic song, but its perfect.
We dance all evening, me in my weddig dress and charlie still in his suit, I leave him to get a quick bit of fresh air. I walk outside to see alex doing the same, he smiles at me widely
“hey! you still look breath-taking!” alex hugs me as I sit next to him on the ground, staring out, I chuckle
“you know you said Charlie was the Doctor to your TARDIS? does that mean he rides around inside you?” I died.
I haven’t laughed so much or so hard in a long time! Just as I’m getting my breath back Charlie comes out, all of us walk onside to dance some more.
It’s the best night of my life <3
-December-
“It’s nearly christmas!” i sing, walking downstairs to find Alex, Michael and Liam sat at our table. I smile at them and grab an almost empty box of sugar puffs from the cabinet, “I cannot stop eating these things! seriosuly, I have a problem! this is my third box this week!”
Nadine walks in and comments on the sugar puffs “god, you are your sugar puffs!”
charlie emerges from his room a few minutes later, his hair dishevelled and amzingly cute “how is my darling wife?” He smiels at me, though I’m not feeling so good
“God, it’s so weird that you’re married! i keep forgetting!” Michael laughs
“urgh, I’m not feeling so good…” I tyurn to face charlie, hugging him
“You’ve been saying that for, like, two weeks! why not go to the doctors? you keep saying you’re nauseaus!” Charlie frowns as Nadine speaks,
“thats not good! you can’t get ill! you’re never ill!” He hugs me tightly
“it’s fine! I’ve just been a bit nauseas for a bit…” Charlie raises an eyebrow at me “okay more like three weeks but still!” I protest.
We spend the day woth the girls and guys talking, the nausea comes and goes. everyone ventures to the shops, except me and Alex.
“Cara, this may sound really weird but can i ask you something?” Alex speaks cautiously
“Erm, sure, whats up?” i sit down, holding my stomach and pulling my tee down, i’ve gained a little weight recently…
Alex interrupts my thought “Could you possibly be pregnant?” I’m taken aback, i wasn’t expecting that
“urm, err, I…” I trail off, still shocked “what makes you say that?”
Alex sighs slightly “well, you’ve been nauseaus for, like, a month, you keep craving sugar Puffs and you said you’d gained weight?” alex trails off as shock fills my face
“…Shit…” I quickly ring nadine, putting it on speaker for Alex to hear
“nadine! no time to explain! don’t tell anyone but I need you to get a pregnancy test!” i scream down the phone as she answers
“A WHAT?! WHY?” nadine screams back, i explain.
They arrive home about 20 minutes later, nadine discreetly hands me the test and I slip into the bathroom, litterally, “Who left this fucking shoe here?” I shout through to the front room, picking myself off the floor
“longest. three. minutes. EVER.” i mutter to myself, i check my watch, it’s time…
God, i can’t bring myself to look…
I take the risk…
Positive…
Wow.
Chapter 24
I poke my head round the door, hiding the hand that holds the positive pregnancy test,
“hey um, Alex? can I just borrow you quickly!” I raise my eyebrows at him, he jumps to his feet, nadine catches my eye, her chestmut eyes widen, i sigh then leave.
“oh, my, god! did you take it? what did it say? what will you do?” alex questions, I am still speechless as I hand him the test, he pulls me into a hug, laughing, nadine knocks. i show her the test and we all hug and jump.
“do not say a single word until i tell Charlie!” I warn the others, a voice makes me jump “Tell me what?” I turn to see a confused looking Charlie, the other two slip out, I take Charlies hand and sigh while I lead him to the bed. he looks worried.
“well, um, i don’t know if this is good or bad…” I trail off, catching his eyes “but… I’m pregnant” a smile spreads over Charlies face as he jumps up, pulling me with him. he pulls me into the tightest hug ever, spinning me round.
“YAY! I CANNOT BELIEVE IT!! AMAZING!” Charlie screams! “we have to tell the people!” he grabs my hand and runs out the room
“TELL THEM! TELL THEM! TELL THEM!” Alex squeals as i get dragged into the room, smiling and laughing
“well!” I pause, all attention is on me “I’m pregnant!” suddenly the room is mad! a barrage of hugs, congratulations and laughs.
We go to the doctors the next day and find that I’m two months pregnant, we get referred and have an ultrasound. I’m not far enough along to know the sex yet, i think its a boy though.
the next few days are a mad whirlwind of calling our families and friends, I tell Michael, he is madly happy!
Then we only have one set of people to tell. YouTubers.
we were still getting people sending us wedding presents!
We sit infront of the Camera, Charlie tells who I am and stuff. Then it’s time to tell them.
“Well, should we tell them?” I jokingly turn to face Charlie “fine! I’m pregnant!” I can almost hear the fangirls screams!
within the first 10 minutes of it being uploaded there are hundereds of responses, my favourite being
“You two are my OTP <3 best luck to the baby Mcdonnell-Brunnen, we all wish you the best in life, health and love <3 perfect!
Ps; keep us updated guys! ;)”
<IKR, short, but i’m tired and needed to get this out the way, in the next chapter. Profanity, screaming (not literally) and pain (again, not literal) also known as BIRTH! love you all <3
ps was this an okay-ish chapter, its 12:15 and i only got 2 hours sleep at most last night…)??
Chapter asferqjll….. I lost count…
-July 22nd 10pm-
the past few months whizzed by in a blur of nothingness, YouTube videos, scans and nausea. I also had a craving for Nutella! I was sick of it now though, i just wanted the baby OUT!
I lay on the sofa, my legs stretched across Alexs lap, I get up, my small bump isn’t showing really, but its still visible.
As I wash my hands, I feel something between my legs,
“holy shit,” I mutter to myself “CHARLIE, GET YOUR CUTE ARSE DOWN HERE RIGHT NOW” I scream, Michael who is visiting, runs in and takes one look at me
“CHARLIE! HURRY UP! NOW!” Michael screams, I laugh. Charlie runs in, confused and looking panicked,
“Wha…” he trails off, then jumps, a grin springing to his confused face.
Nadine and Alex run into the bathroom, theres little room there now…
“GUYS! can we go soon, yeah… kinda need to leave…” Charlie grabs the bag by the door with all the things we need, Michael comes with us and Nadine and Alex begin to ring round to say whats happening. I call both our parents on the way there, they both rush to arrive!
We arrive at the hospital and get checked in almost instantly, a bed waiting.
“So, Miss, how’re you feeling?” The doctor, Dr Free, is smiling at me.
“Pretty good tha-” I get cut off as a contraction ripples through me, caught off guard.
“Ow, okay, I’m good thanks!” I smile at Charlie, Michael is waiting for our families, who suddenly all rush in. all 5 parents are there!
My mum and step-dad, Charlies Mum, Dad and Step-mum. The room is full of talking and laughing, Charlie sits on my bed with me, his arm around my shoulder and holding my hand.
- about 5 hours later-
Just me and Charlie in the room, along with the doctor and the midwife, I’m walking around with my hands on my lower back, pain shooting through my body,
“GET THIS THING OUT OF ME OR I WILL KILL SOMETHING” I raise my voice
“HOLY FRICK THIS HURTS! WHY CAN’T I BE A SEAHORSE!?” I scream at the top of my voice, getting confused looks from the others “the men have the babies, the females are pain-free!” I sit on the bed, Charlies staring at his phone, I look to see what he’s doing
“oh, so while i’m in pain YOU’RE on twitter! at least tell them its not out yet!” I laugh as Charlie kisses my head
“You know, you’re coping very well for someone so dilated, lets see how far along you are”
I mutter incredibly loudly”HOLY FUCK, OW OW OW, SHIT THIS HURTS! WHY ISN’T IT OUT YET!” I scream
“Not long, you’re ready, 10cm.” Charlie jumps to his feet, pale and looking suprised.
“Do I do anything!?” His voice breaks, I laugh weakly, suddenly over-ridden by pain and exhaustion, the next few hours are a blur of pain and crying. Screaming too, there was definitely screaming. and swearing.
-July 23rd, the one year anniversary of the wedding, 6:23am-
a soft cry rings throughout the room, charlie can barely talk, excitement choking him.
“You did it, Cara, the baby’s here!” A tear runs down his cheek, I sit up and kiss him, lightly on the lips.
“Would you like to see your baby?” The doctor places the baby gently in my arms, I begin to cry again, happy tears.
“Bright blue eyes, just like your daddy! and the same mole” I giggle slightly, smiling at Charlie.
Theres a knock on the door, Our Parents,
They spend the next 45 minutes fussing over our baby.
They leave to let our friends come in,
Alex is first, we asked them to come in indiviually.
“Before you say a thing Alex, We have something to ask you” I pause, smiling at him “Will you be God-father?”
We ask the others to come in, including our families.
“everyone say hello too…”
trololol, cliff hanger, ;) if you have a suggestion for the name, let me know via my ask or shizz. So, are people gonna like this or not?? I bloody hope so! :)
Did you know I love you all?
Chapter…. zewrty… that works for me…
I pause, looking at Charlie as we both burst out laughing causing confusion
“What? whats so funny?” The others question as me and charlie struggle to get our breath back.
“we haven’t actually got a name yet!” everyone laughs,
“Well, girl or boy? you never actually told us!” Alex stares at the little bundle sleeping peacefully in my arms
“Should we tell them?” Charlie nods eagerly ”We had a baby girl!” everyone ‘Awws’
“Stormageddon…Ette!!” Liam whispers, careful not to wake the baby
As we all laugh I say “hmm… not sure about that! hey, we COULD go down the doctor who route!” I raise my eyebrows at Charlie, who nods and agrees with me, suddenly people are yelling random Doctor Who names at us ‘TARDIS’ ‘JACKIE!’ ‘AMY!’ ‘KAREN!’ ‘ROSE!’
the last one grabs both our attentions, I smile at Charlie, “Thats brilliant! and it feels perfect” Charlie now holds our daughter in his arms, his blue eyes shining, a smile fixed on his face. “Rose” he whispers simply, Its perfect.
Everyone takes turns to hold Rose, Nadine is her God Mother, Alex is God Father, they look like proud parents. we take a photo of everyone and Rose, then all together, then Charlie and Me And Rose
They leave and Charlies family comes in, my family will come in after
Bridie has the biggest smile on her face “hey! how are you?” she gives Charlie a hug, then looks at Rose, smiling madly, “did you guys choose a name yet?” Charlies mum smiles at Rose, who I’m feeding whilst the nurse helps.
“Yep, Rose” Charlies smile is amazingly wide, he looks so proud as I place Rose in her cot. Charlies dad snaps photos of Rose, Rose and Bridie, Rose and Will, Rose and Lindsay, everyone together, all on my own, Me and Charlie. so many photos!
We do the same with my family, it’s perfect.
Then me and Charlie are left alone, Rose sleeping peacefully.
“She got your looks” I sit up, smiling at Charlie, who laughs graciously,
“definitely you there! except for the mole!” He turns to face me, walking over and placing a light kiss on my head “You, must be shattered! why don’t you get some rest?”
I don’t bother to argue, having a baby is bloody exhausting
when I wake Charlie is cradling Rose in his arms, singing softly
He sees I’m awake, He walks over still singing, Rose begins to cry, he rocks her gently back and forth to get her to sleep. It works. I take Rose in my arms and Smile at Charlie, who is on his Iphone.
“We should put a photo of us all on Twitter” he whispers, kissing me softly.
he takes a photo and shows me, I look awful, tired and pale, Charlie looks exhausted, but Rose looks healthy and amazingly beautiful, her eyes bright blue. It’s an amazing photo.
I check twitter on my phone after placing rose in her cot to sleep, we’ll be going home later, it’s 11am, we’ll be going home at about 3.
‘@coollike My Perfect Wife, and a Suprise, I think You’ll ALL enjoy!’ then a link to our photo. I put my phone down and face him
“I love you, so very much” I kiss Him on the lips “More than The doctor loves Sexy!” He laughs at my doctor who reference.
The next 9 months all blur into one long, amazing, perfect day. Sleepless nights, Nappies, milk, baby-proofing, none of it matters. Everyone rallies round to help, Fans send clothes, nappies, toys!
Life is amazing, We’re sat at the table, Me and Charlie with Alex, Nadine, Peppa, Charlotte and Emily. Rose in the middle of Charlie and I, squashing a banana everywhere. I take a sip of tea
“Daddy!” A loud voice rings out, i practically spit out my tea, staring at rose, who is dressed in a mini Cloning Charlie baby grow.
“Did.. Did she just say Daddy?” Charlie leaps to his feet, swinging Rose out of her Chair, Laughing
As I said, I love my Life, It’s Perfect <3
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