Everything's not what it seems

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HAPPY 13TH BIRTHDAY TAOME! This is the chapter you always nag to happen. I always knew I'd write this chapter, and I knew I wanted to do it for your birthday so here we are, you're reading this as a TEENAGER! Read until the end for a surprise :)

Dylan's POV
Me and Taome have kind of been staying out of the group chat with everyone in. Not in a bad way, they're all amazing and everything, we've just been spending more time getting to know each other, and I've spent a lot more time falling for her. I think she likes me too, well I hope she does, I need to gain the confidence to ask her out.

I've convinced my parents to let us go on holiday to Morecambe at some point so I can see Taome again. Yes we FaceTime every day but it's not the same as when I saw her in real life, yes it was awkward but it won't be now we know each other better it won't be awkward. "Hey Taome." I smiled as she rung me.

"Hey Dylan." She grinned.

"Right, I was going to make a big thing out of this but I'm too chicken to. So I'm just going to do it now. Taome, you're the best person in my life, the one that makes me the happiest I've ever been. You're the one that even though we have a great distance between us I couldn't feel closer with. You know what I'm going to cut the cheesy s**t and just say it. Taome will you be my girlfriend?" I asked. She went completely speechless. "I would kind of like an answer." I laughed after a good few minutes of pure silence.

"Y- yes!" She exclaimed. "Sorry, it took a while to sink in." She laughed.

"It's official, we just need to find someone for Tom now." I laughed, so did Taome.

"You don't get how happy I am right now!" Taome said with the biggest grin.

"I'm so happy too!" I grinned. "In fact I'm f**king ecstatic!"

"Dylan Henry! Language!" Mum shouted up.

"Sorry mum!" I shouted downstairs and Taome just burst out laughing, so did I.

"Dylan, you can't go getting in trouble." Taome laughed.

"You're right." I laughed. "Anyway, now we're together we need nicknames. Liv and Harvey call each other 'Via' and 'Kitt'. Max and Caitlin call each other 'Maxi' and 'Caity', just not often. And Charlotte and Dobby call each other 'his girl' and 'Jem'." I said.

"How about I call you bubba, or bubs." She smiled.

"Bubs, I like that." I grinned. "I can call you, I don't know."

"I don't like 'I don't know', how about you just call me bubby or bubs?" She asked.

"Yeah, ok then but we can still call each other Taome and Dylan." I grinned.

"Yeah." She smiled.

"Now you need to come down here, or I need to go to Morecambe cause I wanna hug my girlfriend." I said, smiling as I said girlfriend. "Man I like the sound of that."

"So do I." Taome smiled. "I'm so sorry but I'm going to have to go, I'm at Katie's house. Bye bubba." She smiled sadly.

"Bye bubs." I smiled sadly, I ended the call and a few seconds later there was a knock at the door.

"Dylan! Someones here to see you!" Mum shouted up.

"Coming!" I shouted and went downstairs.

"Hey." Taome grinned.

"Taome!" I shouted running to her and hugging her tightly.

"Hey Dylan." She hugged back.

"Wh-what are you doing here?" I asked as it sunk in she wasn't in Morecambe.