Who you are - Union J / George Shelley Fan Fiction

Chapter 17

Last night with Tanya was actually pretty fun, it was nice having our old chats about irrelevant things back. I forgot why she was my best friend and I think she thought the same. In fact, Tanya and I are going shopping together for Katie's birthday this weekend. I wasn't going to go because of the Tanya situation, but everything is kind of sorted out now so I'm excited to spend some time with all my friends, it's been a while since we last met - some of us haven't seen eachother since we left school two years ago.

I'm not going to bring George up to any of them if they don't ask, in a way I guess I have to keep him seperate from my friends. It's not as easy as me saying 'I have a boyfriend', as soon as they know who he is they might treat me different. Oh...wait.

They might have seen the newspapers with George and I in...no let me correct that - they HAVE seen the newspapers. Anyway, like I said I'm not going to bring it up. My friends and my boyfriend are two different things and I just need to forget about George for this weekend. Wait. I can't forget about him, what am I even thinking? Am I seriously going to blank my boyfriend out of my mind to please my friends. I guess putting it like that, it sounds harsh but I have my reasons and I'm not trying to forget about him forever. I mean, I like him a lot so I'd hardly choose my friends over him.

I suppose I've never actually thought about that, who would I put first? I don't think it'll ever really come down to that anyway so it's all good. Just calm down Diana, all this is clearly stressing me out too much. Breath.

"I like this dress on you." Tanya held up a black lace dress. It was cute, just a little too dark for a party. I shook my head and carried on to search.

Whilst I was searching a hand tapped on my shoulder, I spun around and lifted my head from the clothes rack. A few girls, probably around fifteen, were smiling at me as if they knew me. Tanya looked confused, well I was just as confused as she was at the moment.

"Are you Diana?" One of the taller girls asked me, "George Shelley's girlfriend?"

"Oh erm, yeah..." I said kind of awkwardly, why did they want to talk to me? I'm just a normal girl. Maybe they want me to ask George to follow them on twitter or something, probably.

"Can we have a picture with you?" All the girls handed their phones to Tanya, who was stood there with a plain face.

This could not be happening. People want pictures with me?...ME?! Tanya and I looked to eachother, I could hardly say no to the girls but I could tell Tanya wanted to. This was why I wanted to keep my boyfriend and my friends seperate, it would ruin everything. Is this what my life will be like now?

Once I had finished getting a few pictures with the girls I was left awkwardly turning around to see Tanya giving me an evil glare.

"You think that's pathetic, right?" Tanya said through her teeth to me. I wasn't sure what to say. I couldn't be harsh about them, they were so sweet and George's fans. I don't want to be the girlfriend everyone hates.

"Erm, I think they're- erm - they're cute." I stuttered, focusing back to the clothing rack and not looking back up to Tanya. She didn't say anything back to me, but I could feel her eyes burning my back.

The night of the party had finally come and about eight of us were in my apartment waiting for the taxi to come to take us to the club Katie's party was at. We were all just wondering around the kitchen in our heels and talking general stuff. I had to hide everything to do with George and I before they came, I didn't want their questions. I knew they were coming though...sooner than I hoped.

"So Diana, stop trying to change the subject." My friend, Louisa, teased me. I hadn't seen her in about a year, the last time I had seen her was in new look or something ages ago and we hardly spoke properly.