"Shelly, it's been 45 minutes since I heard the shower cut out, and you never take this long to get ready, so you're obviously avoiding me, which isn't a good thing because you know you can still go into school 2 hours late." My mum called up the stairs, that was the ultimate threat, but I didn't want to go down there firstly because it was embarrassing, and what was there to say? I wasn't left with much of a choice though as I slowly plodded down the stairs and sat on the opposite sofa to my mum.

"So," she started.

"So what, mum I don't get what you want me to say." I said stubbornly.

"I want to know why you had that outburst in the kitchen this morning, over these," she said whilst holding the tickets in one hand and the note in the other. "It's obviously something to do with Mark, I know you two went out sometime last year before they were famous,"

"Me and Mark never went out mum," I said looking at the floor, starting to feel tears well up just from saying his name. God what was with me? And it wasn't even that time of the month! Get a grip I thought to myself.

"Okay so you never went out but it's obvious you like him and he likes you,"

"He doesn't like me, he hates me mum," I said through my tears, which were starting up again.

"Oh come on Shelly, where'd you get that idea from? If he hates you why would he write this," she said looking at the note.

"He's got every reason to hate me mum, I acted like a total bitch, and he'll only want me to go to take the piss out of me. There's no way I can go, and that's that."

"Oh do stop being so ridiculous Shelly," my mum said angrily. " I know for a fact he doesn't think that."

"Oh yeah, you physic or something?" I started back getting angry too.

"Bloody hell Shelly, you don't need to be physic to see how much you like him, and I didn't tell you but a few months ago he rang,"

"What? He rang and you didn't tell me?" I interrupted almost fumming.

"Would you let me finish? He didn't ring to talk to you, he rang to see how you were, I told him you were moping around the house,"

"You what?" I shrieked. "I was never moping around the house!"

"For God's sake Shelly you were, why you have a problem admitting it I don't know. He seems really nice, and you like him, so why not just give it a go. You're both miserable apart, things can only get better if you're together." I sat there huddled in a ball, crying unable to stop the tears once again. "Oh okay mum, so what you want is for me to just drop everything, forget about school, university etc, just so I can travel around the world and 'be happy' for ooh a whole 5 minutes before he sees someone else and leaves me? Well I've obviously got a lot more sense than you, because I can see it won't work, so I'm saving myself the grief before it even starts, and making sure I have a career. It'd be a whole lot easier for me to do that if people like you weren't constantly ramming him down my throat." I finally finished and stormed out of the room slamming the door and running to the comfort of my bedroom.