I walked out of the shower, still trying to get the picture out of my mind, it had been three days, Bryan and me were working towards being together as a couple again. Keely and me hadn’t spoken for days. Every-time she’d walk into the room; I’d walk out and vice-versa. It was horrible. I really wanted to talk to her, I needed to talk to her, but I just couldn’t bring myself to say anything. We would still communicate either through Shane and Bryan, or like that morning Keely had left a message on the notice board reading "Rav, could you get the groceries in today, as I won’t have time. Love Keelz" and I scrawled an "Okae, Love Rav" on it. It made me laugh in a way, I knew we were being asinine, but then, who was supposed to make the first move?

The tension around us was building and Bryan and Shane were on the receiving ends of it as Keely and I would very often lose our temper and take it out on them. It was obvious that Keely and I needed to talk, we just didn’t – it was like giving in to one another, something we just didn’t do.

I was all alone that day, Keely was at work, and I had decided to work from home for the day, as Keely and me would be at each other’s throats all day if we had to work together. I walked out of the shower and a grin formed on my face, as always Keely would do anything to get her message across, she didn’t know where things were with Bryan and me and to make a point, she, very conveniently, left the CD player playing, and the song, "Change The World" running on repeat, I walked out and smiled. She would do anything just to make sure that I got what she wanted me to do/think! I had tried to put everything behind me, but it was difficult, it was almost a good thing that Bryan was going back to Artane the following day; it would give us some time away from each other, time when we, for ourselves, could try and get over all this. I didn’t want it to fall apart but I knew we had to stand the test to know if we were meant to be. Just as I sat down to start work the door opened, it was Shane. "Hi ya Rav" he smiled as he kissed me on the cheek, "you okae?" he asked, "Yeh, you?" I replied, "Hmmh, so-so" he grinned, "Keely has given me a message for you, she asked if you could get the groceries, the fridge is… Eeeempty" he said whilst opening the fridge door and seeing unfilled shelves. "Would you ring her and tell her I’ll do it?" I called over and asked, he walked into the room and grinningly said, "NO!" "Excuse me?" I asked, "No" he answered, "I have had enough of you two, and so has Bryan. Jeez Rav, you two are just being silly now. I’m not going to play message boy between you two, either you to talk to each other directly – to one another or you don’t talk at all" "Ooooh" I said, "Touch-ey" But I knew that he was, as always, right! He smirked at me, he knew it too – this is one reason why I envied Keely – in a friend sort of way. Shane was good looking smart, funny, sexy, had a good head on his shoulders – and more than anything, he was ALWAYS right – but the thing was, he knew it! It never made me want him though – simply because, he wasn’t Bryan, my Bryan.

I picked up the phone and began to dial, it started ringing, it was kind of nerve racking, what was I going to say to Keely? Just as I wondered the phone was answered, "Hi newsdesk" called the MALE voice on the other end of the line, "Hi Dom, is that you?" I asked, looking over at Shane with a huge smirk on my face, "Yeh, it’s me, what can I do for you Rav?" asked Dom, "Erm, is Keely about?" I asked, "No, not at the moment, she’s in conference, can I take a message" he asked, "Please," I replied, "Tell her that I got her message, and I’ll get the groceries later" and with finishing off I put the phone down. I looked over at Shane and cheekily came out with, "Oh, Keely was in conference so I had to give Dom the message". "Where’s Bryan?" I asked Shane, "You two went out together, and you’ve come back alone" "Oh, he had to sort out his flight details for tomorrow. He’s going to miss you, you know". I moved over towards the sofa to where Shane was sitting and sat down beside him, "yeh, and I’m going to miss him too, but it will be good to get away from each other, sort things out" he looked up at me, he could tell that deep down inside I was as worried that Bryan and I just wouldn’t survive it. He moved towards me and gave me a hug, "Rav, it’ll be fine, you’ll see…" "I hope so Shane, I really do…" and with that the conversation ended.