The Curse-Breaker

Pizza Delivery Boy

Whilst we all waited for our pizza to arrive, Fred decided that he was going to make us watch Star Wars, yet again and explain every plot point. Harli looked over to me and rolled her eyes as Fred sat on the edge of the sofa, animatedly explaining why Obi-Wan Kenobi was duelling Darth Vader. I leant my head onto George's shoulder, unable to actually hear anything that was going on in the film, he leant his cheek against my head and sighed. We stayed like that for a while, until we'd finally had enough of Fred and I turned off the movie. "What are you doing?" Fred shouted, gesturing his arms up in anger. "Oh I'm sorry, were you watching? It's just that you were talking so much, no one could hear a fucking thing." I said, George stifled a laugh as I looked over to Fred, who furrowed his eyebrows at me and raised his hand, flipping me off. I raised mine flipping him off too, raising my eyebrows at him.

I decided to just stick on a music channel, that way we would have the least amount of arguments. I sat talking to George some more, he mostly talked about work, and how there was a cute girl that worked at the bakery. "We'll have to go get some pumpkin pasties tomorrow so you can show me." I said, winking at him. He smiled shyly and nodded, "Although you cant take her this time." He said, raising his eyebrows at me. I dropped my mouth open in fake shock, he was right however, I did, sort of, maybe, not on purpose start dating the girl he liked, Angelina Johnson, in fourth year. I nodded, "I promise I will not take your girl George." I said, he held his pinky finger up. I took it with mine and nodded, George and I had always taken these 'pinky promises' way too seriously. 

After a while of listening, Old Town Road by Lil Nas X started to play on the channel, one of Fred's favourite songs. He jumped up, pulling Harli up to dance with him, George and I watched him from the sofa as he pretended to put on a cowboy hat, using a pretend lasso to bring Harli closer to him, she rolled her eyes before playing along, jumping closer to him as he pulled. George laughed and went to stand up, I clung my arms round his neck as he stood, he grabbed my legs so that I was now, more than a foot higher than my usual height. George danced along, holding onto my legs so that I didn't fall off, he started to spin round as fast as he could, causing me to shout and cling on tightly. We all started to shout the lyrics to each other as our favourite part came up, almost missing the knock on the door.

I grabbed onto George tightly as he sprinted to the door, I kicked the door handle and the door opened. George dropped me instantly as he watched the door swing open and I ran past him out into the hall, slamming the door behind me. "What are you doing?" I whisper-shouted, making sure inside couldn't hear me. "What? I was coming by to check on you because you weren't in work. I saw the delivery guy outside and told him I was coming up so I paid him and brought these." Bill whisper-shouted back, gesturing the pizzas at me. "And you didn't count them? There's four pizzas there. You brothers are here!" I continued speaking in that same low voice and gesturing to the door. "Why are you angry?" Bill said, his voice softer, almost like he was hurt. "You're just... You're lucky it was George's back I was hanging off of." I said, sighing. Bill raised an eyebrow at me, "You're so against Fred knowing?" He said, this time I could tell he was hurt. "I.. I've just been hurt before, I can get hurt again. We've only been on two dates." I said, looking down at my feet, feeling vulnerable wasn't my forte and I hated it. 

Just as Bill was about to speak, George swung open the door, standing and looking between us both before taking the pizzas from Bill's hands and closing the door behind him again. Bill and I both lightly snorted at the awkwardness. Bill hooked his finger under my chin and tilted my head up to look at him. "I really like you. I'm not going anywhere unless you tell me to." He said, softly. I smiled weakly and stepped forward, resting my head against his chest, he put one hand on the back of my head, pulling my body closer into an embrace with the other. He leant his chin on the top of my head and I put my arms around him, letting out a deep sigh. "But you're ok?" He said, his voice sounding concerned. I leant my head back so that I could see him. "More than." I said, smiling at him. He smiled back and leant down, placing soft kisses on my lips and holding my face with both hands, I could feel him smiling against my lips which made me laugh, throwing my head backwards as he fought to still press kisses into my skin on my face and neck.