Michael's POV
I took Phoebe down into the basement and introduced her to Luke, Ashton, Grace and Daisy. She seemed to be getting along well with the other girls and they were playing pool with eachother while the boys and I played Call of Duty.
"She's cute, Michael." Ashton whispered, and I pushed him playfully, but I couldn't hide my smile.
"She is staying for only one night, Ashton." I whispered back to him, all of us keeping our voices low so the girls, and most importantly Phoebe, wouldn't hear us.
"Someone cut her wires?" Luke said, not taking his eyes off the screen, but still managing to keep his voice quiet. I glanced over to Calum and he gave me an apologetic look. He must have told the both of them.
"Yeah, Luke, someone did." I said, taking a gulp of my beer and I looked over at her once, trying not to be too obvious. She was taking her shot at pool and I admired the way she took her tongue between her teeth when eyeing up her shot and then she took it, and she pitched it. She then shouted in celebration and Annie (who was probably a little too drunk) threw her arms around her and Daisy and Grace clapped and laughed at Annie.
"Who do you think did it?" Ashton asked and I shrugged, looking back at them.
"I don't know... I want to say that maybe it was some people playing jokes, but..." I trailed off and closed my eyes, running a hand through my hair.
"But what?" Calum asked and I looked up at him, licking my lips once.
"I don't think it was an accident." I whispered and they all didn't want to look me in the eye.
"Guys, they were cut in such a way that someone deliberately wanted her electric to go out. Whether it was a joke, or someone was trying to target Phoebe tonight, but I think it would be safer for her to stay the night." I said and they all nodded and they continued playing their game.
Calum and Luke started to get a little too drunk and Grace and Annie came over to try and take care of them, even though Annie was as drunk as Calum.
"I think I might take the three of them home." Grace said to me and I nodded, helping Grace up the stairs with Calum and Luke, as she helped Annie. I unlocked my door and we walked to her car, which was not parked to far away.
"You going to be okay with taking them all home?" I said, putting Luke and Calum in the back seats. They started to blindly try and find their seatbelts.
"Yeah, I should be. I'll leave Calum and Annie back at Calum's and I can take Luke home to mine." She said and I nodded as she buckled Annie into her seat.
"I'll see you around, Mikey." She said, giving me a quick hug and she got into the car and I saw her drive off. I took a deep breath and walked back up my driveway, and I locked my door again when I walked back into it.
I walked back down into the basement and I heard Ashton speak up as we came down the stairs.
"Yo, Michael! Can we watch a movie?" He yelled and I nodded, pointing over at my DVDs.
"Take your pick!" I said, coming over and sitting back down on the sofa.
"Phoebe, what do you want to watch?" Ashton asked, and Phoebe looked up.
"I don't really mind." She said, with a smile and Ashton motioned for her to come over and they started looking through some DVDs and I saw Daisy sitting watching them. She turned round to me and then she shuffled over.
"She's really nice, Michael. Why haven't you invited her to hang out with us before?" She asked and I laughed and was going to answer her when Ashton and Phoebe came back over and Ashton loaded the DVD into the TV and it was one of the Paranormal Activity Movies. Phoebe came and sat beside me and Ashton flung himself back down onto the sofa. He wrapped an arm around Daisy and he kissed her forehead.
Soon, I looked down and saw Phoebe had fell asleep and I saw Daisy was sleeping against Ashton's chest.
"Hey, Ash." I said and he looked up and I reached into my pocket and gave him the note I had got sent. He read it and he read it again and then he gave it back to me.
"What's wrong?" He said and I shrugged, putting the note back into my jeans.
"Does it not seem a bit strange?" I said and Ashton sighed, squeezing Daisy tightly.
"I don't think so, Michael. You got invited to a party, and you don't have to go if you don't want to." He said and I leant back, realising he was right.
"Yeah, thanks, Ashton." I said and he smiled and he shook Daisy's shoulder. She groaned and opened her eyes and Ashton motioned towards the stairs.
"Should we go, babe?" He asked and she nodded and he pulled her off the sofa.
"See ya, Mikey." He said and Daisy waved goodbye to me.
"Tell Phoebe I said goodbye." She said and I saw them walk up the stairs. I sat and watched the movie for another half an hour and I heard Phoebe groan.
I looked down and as she woke up and she smiled at me and then looked around the basement.
"Did Ashton and Daisy leave?" She said, sitting up and I nodded and she nodded and she sighed, leaning back.
"What's wrong?" I asked and she looked at me and she shrugged.
"I don't know. I was just thinking about some things." She said and I moved closer to her.
"Like what?" I said and she bit her bottom lip and let out her breath slowly.
"Like Alex. I was just thinking about him." She said and I felt a pang of something in my chest.
"Oh." I said and she sighed.
"I..." She said, trailing off and she looked away.
"It doesn't matter." She said and I touched her arm gently.
"If it's bothering you, then it does." I said and she licked her lips.
"I was thinking that maybe our relationship wasn't... true." She said and I raised any eyebrow.
"Like when we were together, there was never any... like he never was really giving me everything. He always seemed to be focusing on something else. We would do everything, like other couples would do. We would go on dates, he would come round to my house and we would... make out... and all that, but it was never... he never really.... he didn't ever show me any..."
"Compassion." I whispered, without realising and Phoebe raised her eyes to look at me and a small smile appeared on her lips.
"Yeah. Compassion." She whispered back and I felt myself moving closer and my arm was on the back of the sofa. But Phoebe was now moving closer to me and I moved in and I could now feel her breath on my face. I inched closer and I flinched when I felt our foreheads touch and both of us froze.
I closed my eyes praying that something would happen and then Phoebe cleared her throat and I pulled back.
"I'm sorry." I whispered and she shook her head.
"It's okay. Don't apologize." She said and she looked at the TV.
"Should we watch the rest of the movie?" She said and I smiled, turning my attention back to the TV.
But I couldn't get that almost kiss out of my head.
I think the movie was almost finished and the next thing was that I felt something fall against my shoulder and I saw that it was a sleeping Phoebe, now laying against my shoulder.
I smiled and I felt myself yawn and I felt myself slump to the side and I felt my cheek fall on top of Phoebe's head and I fell asleep...
