ARABELLA*

PART 3 || PILOT || COOKS PARTY PT1*

It had been days since the first day of college. I had finally started to settle in. It was a Saturday morning and I was just getting ready to meet Effy, she never said where just to be ready for 12. I got up and went to pick out an outfit, as I opened my wardrobe clothes came toppling out so I just took the nearest ones to me. Thank goodness they matched. The outfit was low wasted black jeans, and my top being black and white striped with black lace around the top half. I loved how the top looked tight to show off my figure. I finally topped it off with jewellery and was about to do style my hair until all I could hear was shouting coming from outside of my window."

"IM 17!"the one and only James Cook screamed, of course it was him.

I couldn't help but notice Freddie trying to calm him down as he was singing to random old men trying to walk their dogs. I was just staring at the vodka he held whilst brushing my teeth until a call broke the stare. 

"Hey Bella, looking spiffy as always." Cook shouted.

I raised my middle finger before spitting out the leftover toothpaste that was filling my mouth and walked down the stairs and to the door to greet my 'friends'. As I opened the door they were already on my porch smiling.

"happy birthday you dick" I said 'politely'.

"someone's in a good mood." Cook said whilst rolling his eyes.

"Hi Bella!" JJ said excited. 

"Hi Jay!" I hugged him.

Cook looked at us both rather confused.

"wow so where's mine, you know it's my birthday and all" He said. 

"rather not" I sighed "probably have the lurgy."

I hugged Freddie instead. 

"Hi Freds"

He looked at me confused, which made me confused. He soon snapped out of it.

"Hi Bella" he smiled. 

"Coming to the party then?" Cook asked.

"what party?"

"You know the one everyone is coming too?" He said sarcastically.

"So that's where eff was taking me" I said annoyed. 

"Effy?" he asked excitedly. 

"oh shut up, bye JJ, bye Freddie." I slammed the door.

Hours passed and me, Effy and Pandora just walked through the doors of the pub. 

"WHEYY" Cook yelled.

"hate this geezer" I whispered to Eff earning a giggle from the girl. 

"GUYS GUYS" he began walking over, "hey baby" he said kissing Effy on the cheek.

I looked behind me only to see the Fitch sisters. Why Katie? She smiled at me, but I couldn't tell if it was real or sarcastic so I chose to ignore it.

"Anyways I'm 17 today so all bets are off so do whatever the fuck you like" Cook ranted. 

I looked around to see Freddie smiling at me, oh was I happy to see him. I smiled back, wider than usual. I jumped as Cook began to shout.

"LETS GET FUCKIN MENTALL" he screamed pouring beer all over him. 

Half an hour past, this 'party' was wank. As he forced us all to sing for him.

"oh he's a jolly good fellow" we all sang dryly whilst he was wafting his arms to try and get us to be louder. And kissing JJ on the cheek which made me smile and JJ also smiled. 

"thanks man, thank you very much" he said. 

"oh yeah, more drinks, more drinks, more drinks" he repeated banging his hands on the table. 

"he's fun" Katie said sarcastically. I'm not gonna lie as much as I hate the girl this made me smile. 

"you have no idea" Freddie said looking towards me. 

"he's already had half a bottle of vodka." JJ says nervously.

"really? how crazy" Effy said faking being shocked causing me to laugh whilst nudging her as I know how sensitive JJ can be after my first encounter with him.

"yeah" he said awkwardly. 

Cook returned with a tray full of shots.

"who's in then?" everyone agreed, although there wasn't much point as he had most of them howling like a wolf. As we all looked at him in disgust. 

After he finished JJ performed a magic trick for him by making a fish appear in a glass of water causing us all to be in shock. He was so talented. What happens next is just minging, as cook took the glass and downed it including swallowing the fish. Like what the fuck?

Later on we switched tables as Panda threw up on the previous one, the only problem was that there weren't enough seats and I couldn't take any from other tables as the pub was full or someone had their bag laying on it. So I stood for ages and my legs were aching. I turned to see the doors being opened slowly as Naomi walked through the door. I smiled at the girl. Better late than never, right?

"great, It's the lesbian who's come to gay us up" Katie said disgusted. 

"watch your fucking mouth yeah?" I said as Katie just sunk into her chair with a sorry look on her face. Good. 

Everyone turned after Naomi sat and was welcomed by everyone.

"Sine when was there space?" I asked annoyed.

"Oh yeah that guy over there brung us that chair for you, forgot to mention." Cook said.

"Nice one Cook" I said annoyed.

"you can sit here if you like" Freddie asked nervously. I turned down his offer until Cook kept looking between us.

"right I see what's happening here, Freds be a gentlemen not a pussy. Just ask her to sit on your lap." He said as if it was normal. 

I looked towards Cook to give him a look to shut up and then looked to Effy who was encouraging me to do so. Fuck it. So I sat. 

"oooo" Cook said as Freddie kicked him under the table to get him to shut up. 

After Emily gave Cook the cake and ate it all in five minutes we were all bored and just wanted to leave. I found myself laughing with Freddie a lot and his grip tightening on me. I didn't mind it. 

"Can't believe you ate the whole thing" Freddie said, his breath against my neck.

"well someone had to get this party started." Cook replied.

"Party? you call this a party? where's the conversation? where's the dancing? Where's the men?" Katie asked and to be fair I was with her for once. Panda barely spoke only nodding in agreement. 

"we're men" Cook said.

"You're boys" Katie laughed.

"do you wanna measure my dick? It's daddy sized. So you reckon this parties shit yeah?"

"It's a little bit" Emily said.

"It could be" Panda finally spoke. 

"It's shit" Effy said with everyone agreeing but me. 

"what about you Bella?"

I didn't answer. I just wanted more to drink as I had my head resting on Freddie's shoulder with a frown.

"cmon Bella give us a smile" Cook said jokingly. 

"shut the fuck up Cook" I rolled my eyes to doze off into Freddie's shoulder until something more eventful would happen. That's when I'll be up. 

This is quite repetitive I feel and sorry for the wait I'm ill at the moment

but love xox