Chapter 4
I woke up in a
room I didn’t recognise and someone was in the bed with me, was a big bed too,
I only had a single. I turned round and saw Paul asleep and then yesterday came
back to me. I smiled as I remembered Paul has said Amy had dumped him, that had
to be the highlight of my year so far.
I tired to climb
over him, without waking him up, but it didn’t work, so when he did wake up I
was on top of him,
“Oh never had
someone straddle me first thing in the morning” he said winking,
“I was trying to
get over you actually, I need to go home, I have to get changed and then phone
the girls see if they want to do anything today”
“Well go home get
changed and then you can hang out with me”
“But you have
friends to hang out with…”
“Yeah and are you
not my friend?”
“Well I suppose…”
“Well there you
go, we can go shopping, I know girls like that, and hell so do I” he said
laughing, I climbed off him and fell onto the floor oh so graciously releasing
that my trousers were no longer on me,
“Erm how did they
come off?”
“Well I was
undressing you for bed, and I got your jeans off but then my mum walked in and
said I shouldn’t be doing that and that you would be fine in your clothes, but
I couldn’t get your jeans back on very tight indeed” I got a little flustered
at the prospect of Paul undressing me,
“So you go home
get changed and I will get all sorted and I will come for you, easier that way
I know how long it takes for you girls to get ready”
“Whatever!” I said
as I pulled my jeans on, he got out of bed in just his boxers and followed me
downstairs, he opened the door and let me out, I saw Amy walking up to me,
after he had closed the door,
“I knew it was
true!”
“What?”
“You and Paul”
“Me and Paul
what?”
“You are together”
“No we aren’t”
“Then why on earth
are you leaving his house in the morning, and why did he open the door in his
underwear”
“Well I stayed
there last night but that’s only cos I was locked out of the house, and no one
came back until late, he said I could stay over”
“Now isn’t that a
coincidence”
“No it’s the
truth”
“I swear if you
make any move on him, you wont be able to walk”
“Well I don’t
think it would be any of your business if I did, didn’t you dump him”
“Just leave him
alone okay, he doesn’t like you”
“That’s why he
suggested we hang out today”
“He wouldn’t, you
are so out of his league. He is premiership as am I and well you are second
division”
“A touch of the
green eyed monster there I think” she moved forward to me a little bit, but for
some strange reason I wasn’t scared of her,
“Just keep your
grubby hands of my man”
“Oh just get lost”
with that I turned around and walked into my house,
“Mum I’m home” she
rushed into the hallway,
“I hope that boy
didn’t take advantage of you”
“Mum don’t worry
he didn’t, he is a perfectly nice boy” The things you have to say to please
your parents,
“Its just that you
don’t know the boy…”
“Mum I do know
him, he is in most of my classes and if you were as bothered as you made out,
you could have dropped the keys off at college; they would have gotten to me” I
walked off upstairs and decided to get a shower and then I heard it…PRINCE, I
must not retaliate that’s just what he wants, but by the time I had finished I
had heard purple rain four times, I got dressed and banged on the wall,
“Marazzi if you
wanna live turn that crap off” its wasn’t fair I didn’t have any really
offending music, apart from my smurfs
Christmas album and he would probably enjoy ‘Have a smurfy Christmas”.
He still didn’t turn the music down so I waited for him to turn up. As soon as
I heard the door bell go, I ran downstairs and got to it before my mother did,
“Hello…Kaz”
“Hey you doing
anything today?”
“Erm…well…yeah”
“Oh right, you and
the girls planned stuff without me?” she looked a bit sad,
“No…no…” before I
could finish what I was saying Paul was shouting my name,
“Oi Beth are you
ready?”
“Yeah…Paul, I’ll
be there in a minute” Kaz smiled at me,
“Oh…I see, well I
will go, good luck”
“No Kaz” but it
was to late she had run off. I walked down the path and dropped in step with
Paul,
“Had a little
confrontation with your ex this morning”
“What?”
“She seemed to be
waiting, and then she told me to keep my hands off her man, and that you were
premiership and I was second division, such a lovely girl”
“I don’t think she
realises that when she dumped me, I no longer belonged to her”
“She really
doesn’t like the aspect of you finding anyone new; if you did they would be in
danger of losing their life”
“Ahh no because I
would protect who ever I was with” he said slinging his arm around my shoulder
“and because you are my friend I wont let you get hurt either”
“Thanks” I said
laughing at how precious he seemed at time,
“Don’t laugh at me
missy”
“I wasn’t laughing
at you”
“I think you were,
I give you ten seconds and then your dead” he said smiling at me, I started
running and heard him count down, he started after me and was so fast, and soon
had me pinned to a wall,
“Jesus you’re
fast” I said breathing heavily, he just smiled at me,
“You have gone
awfully quiet” he smiled at me and let me move away from the wall,
“You are so much
more fun the Amy, she would have told me to stop being stupid, but you seem to
like fun”
“I do there is
nothing more boring then a boring person”
“You are so
right?”
“If I am right
then why do you hang around with
“No he is actually
very interesting, everyone thinks all he ever talks about is his hair, but we
have the same love for music so there is common ground there”
“You sound like
Mark”
“Ahh Mark Read?”
“Yeah”
“He is just too
talented I hate it, we will be in the music labs and he will just start playing
something and it will sound great”
“He has always
been like that”
“Anyway enough of
them, we should get some shopping done, I need new clothes”
“Me too” he
grinned at me, I could never get bored of that smile, we were looking at
trousers in Bay, when I felt someone tap my shoulder, I turned around and saw
Siobhan and Mark,
“Oh hey”
“Hey”
“BETH…BLACK JEANS”
I heard Paul shout excitedly
“So you and Paul
are friends now” Mark asked,
“Yeah…we had a
huge talk last night and cleared a lot of things up and then he suggested we
hang out today and I don’t see any problem with it, he thinks you are a music
god”
“Really?” Mark
said smiling,
“Yeah, anyway how are
the both of you?”
“Good” they said
together, and started giggling,
“I hate happy
couples go be couply somewhere else” I said laughing, and walked over to Paul
who was still amazed by the black jeans,
“You found any you
want yet?” he asked me,
“Nah I have enough
jeans, wanna get some combats or something”
All day we shopped
and Paul made me buy some underwear I don’t think I will ever wear; I don’t
like the idea of see through underwear, he is just so damn persuasive.
We saw Hanne and
Kaz today and Kaz was looking at pointing and waving, I don’t know what she
thought she knew, but she was whispering stuff to Hanne.
“Hey do you wanna
come back to mine, my mum will be out” I asked Paul
“Yeah okay, you
can show me what you look like in your new clothes-all of them”
“I am not going to
wear these so you may as well have them” I said handing him the risqué pair of
knickers,
“You want me to
wear them?” He asked looking at me smiling,
“You can do
whatever you want with them”
“You just wait
till Monday and see what I do with them” he said stuffing them into his bag and
linking his arm through mine, when we got back to my house, my dad was there,
me and Paul where just heading upstairs when my dad came into the hallway,
“I don’t think you
two will be going upstairs” Paul looked more embarrassed then I did,
“DAD!!”
“Bethanie, he is a
young man and has all the urges that young men have” Paul was now almost deep
red,
“Dad we are not
going to do anything, watch a couple of videos and maybe grab a pizza or
something”
“Bethanie…you and
you’re boyfriend are not going into your room on your own”
“He isn’t my
boyfriend, I stayed at his last night and its didn’t bother you”
“Because his
parents assured us you would be in the spare room”
“Well guess what
dad I wasn’t, I slept in Pauls room and in his bed with him but nothing went
on, do you think I am going to go out with someone on the rebound, Dad I’m a
big girl” I said dragging Paul upstairs,
“My parents really
do my head in!!” I said slamming all my stuff on the bed and sitting down,
“Hey don’t worry;
he is just worried I am going to have my wicked way with you”
“It just really
does my head in, I mean do you know I have never had a boyfriend because of
them, its like im a leper and my brother can get up to all sorts, I have to put
up with the noise he makes and it makes me sick and yet, I cant have a friend
over, because he happens to be a boy” Paul flung his arms around me and pulled
me into a hug at the moment, my dad walked in,
“Get your hands
off my daughter”
“Jesus man, I was
giving her a hug because of the hassle you give her, just leave it man, I am
not threat what so ever to her ‘innocence’” Paul said doing quote marks in the
air, no one ever talked to my dad like that, my dads face just dropped and he
went out of the room and closed the door,
“How did you do
that?”
“I am a genius am
I not?” he said finishing off the hug we had started.
The night went
pretty good, he stopped flirting which put me at ease, and my dad didn’t bother
us, although a very drunk Jason fell into the room,
“Could you give me
some money?”
“Erm…how about
No!”
“Oh come on dad
only gave me twenty”
“Well maybe you
should do what the rest of the world do and got a job over the summer and saved
the money”
“You are so out of
order” Paul got up and pushed Jason out of the room.
“You wanna stay
tonight?”
“Yeah… Ill just
have to tell my mum”
“No…use the phone,
if you leave tonight you won’t get back in” I said throwing the phone at him.
He phoned his mum
up while I blew the blow up bed up, and then settled down for the night.