We'll Stay Gold Forever (Nathan Sykes fanfic)

The Weekend

Chapter 5 ~

I head indoors and try to ignore the sick, worried feeling creeping through my body. It will be ok, I tell myself, everything is going to be fine, this kind of reaction is expected from the press. To take my mind off of my troubles, I place my shopping bags on the kitchen table and begin unpacking everything, halfway through my phone buzzes yet again with another message, this time, it's from Sophie:

Hey babe!!!! It was amazing seeing you today!!!! We need a proper catch up soon, I've got a holiday next week, are you free then? :) oh and by the way...do you know what day it is tomorrow????? xx

I reply happily, with a smile on my face, Sophie can always make me smile:

Heyyy, oh it was great seeing you as well! Yes, that sounds fantastic and yes I think I'll be free. Uh, its Sunday tomorrow xx

While I wondered why she was asking me what day it was tomorrow, I took my dress upstairs to my bedroom and took it out of it's bag and hung it up in front of my wardrobe so I could take a proper good luck at it. Wow, I thought, stepping back and taking in every tiny detail, it was actually a gorgeous dress. It was a long, white, floorlength dress with short sleeves. But designed on it were lots of little red flowers, starting at the waist of the dress and scattered around randomly, although they became scarce near the hem of the dress. Sophie had made a fantastic job of repairing it.

I went back downstairs to see I had a reply from Sophie:

That's good, well it's a date then. Oh Hannah you're hopeless, yes it is Sunday tomorrow, but it's also the 14th February which means.................it's Valentine's Day!!!!! xx

Oh no, how could I have forgotten? Should I have got Nathan something? He hadn't mentioned anything but he might be planning something secretly. Instead of replying to Sophie I ran back out to my car and clambered in, heading quickly back to town. What on earth was I going to get him? I parked my car and got out, quickly scanning every shop to see if they had something. Then suddenly an idea hit me and I knew exactly what to get Nathan.

About half an hour later, I was back at my house, hopefully I wouldn't have to leave again. I ran up to the spare bedroom and grabbed a handful of tissue paper and wrapped up Nathan's present. Ah yes, I thought, looking down at it with satisfaction, this was perfect.

I went back downstairs again, not sure what to do, I had been excused from  work for a few weeks because they felt bad about my accident and they said they wanted to give me some time to recover. That was fine with me but I was a bit bored. I'm one of those people who always have to be doing something. I went through to the kitchen and caught sight of the ingredients I'd bought earlier today and I knew exactly what to do. I spent a good couple of hours baking. First of all I managed to bake some biscuits and once they'd cooled, I iced them with tiny hearts and flowers, now that I was in the mood for Valentine's day. Following my theme, I also decided to cook a small cake and found a heart shaped cake tin. Once it had been cooked and cooled, I iced it with red icing and then made miniature 3D roses and flowers out of other icing and placed them around the cake artistically and wrote on the whole thing: Happy Valentine's Day in black icing with swirly handwriting.

By the time I'd finished all of that, it was nearly 11pm, and I was tired after today's events, so with heavy eyelids, I crawled upstairs to bed and fell asleep.

The next morning I woke up super early, without the aid of my alarm, which was unusual. I had a happy and excited feeling inside of me, and I wasn't too sure why. Then I remembered, Valentine's day. I jumped out of bed and took a quick shower and then got dressed into navy jeans and a white stappy top with a nice grey-silver oversized jumper. I left my hair loose and just plaited a small section at the front and pinned it back. I put on my charm bracelet and headed down for breakfast. After breakfast I checked on my baking again, it still looked perfectly fine and untouched. I couldn't wait to surprise Nathan with them. I wasn't too sure what to do after breakfast. I went to check my phone, but there were no messages, not even from Nathan. I was a little surprised at that, and I felt a little hurt for some reason, but I told myself not to worry about it, he's probably very busy. I told myself, so I took the first step this time and texted him: