Electric Love ⇒ Heartstopper [ON HOLD]

07 → Are You Alright?

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'Are You Alright?'
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Imogen stood nervously at the Barnett's door, building up the courage to knock. She was there to check on Gabriel and she thought it was a good idea despite Jasmine's ominous message.

The girl took a deep breath, tightening her grip around the carrier bag she held and knocked on the door.

The was a moment of silence before Imogen was faced with a girl who she guessed was a year or two above her. "Hi," she awkwardly began. "Is Gabriel home?" Imogen noted that she should of texted the boy before rushing over to his house when she was free.

"Yes... but, not to sound rude, who are you?" The girl asked, looking the girl up and down as if trying to determine something.

"Imogen."

"Oh," the girl's features immediately broke into a smirk. "Come in, come in. He's just in his room- the first door on the right upstairs," she informed, inviting Imogen in.

"You must be Francesca," Imogen guessed while taking off her shoes.

"Yeah but call me Frankie. Francesca makes me sound like I have 25 grandchildren," Francesca joked before leaving for what Imogen assumed would be the living room.

Imogen climbed the stairs, each creaking a different pitch. Slowly, she creeped onto the landing then paused for a minute. First door on the right. She was slightly worried she'd somehow got the wrong door but knocked anyway.

"Frankie I swear to god if you're here again to 'check if I'm alive', I will throw myself out the window," Imogen heard Gabriel yell from the other side of the door. She opened it, making the boy look up from his copy of Macbeth. "Oh." He sounded in surprise.

"Don't throw yourself out of the window," Imogen stated with a laugh.

"I wouldn't for you," he winked before he sat up on his bed, patting the space next to him for the girl to sit down.

"Are you alright?" Imogen asked as she sat down, looking at the boy's arm cast.

"Of course, I'm such a big strong man," Gabriel jokingly replied, flexing his muscles. "But I'm good and I've been very popular." Imogen smiled. "So are you going to tell me what's in that secret bag of yours?" Gabriel continued.

"I thought we could eat a bunch of food and watch 90s romances... now that I think about it I kind of just walked in here without asking if you were free."

"For you, I'm always free... and food," the boy stated, a grin on his face.

"Are you writing a paragraph?" Gabriel asked the girl beside him glancing away from the TV. Currently they had watched three films and now we're watching '10 Things I Hate About You'.

"I want it to be neat," she replied, his arm in her hand, scribbling on his cast. "There," Imogen said a few moments later.

'Your favourite person ♡' was now written beside a picture of a...

"Is it supposed to be a rabbit?"

Imogen glared at him playfully. "Yes? It's Venus?" She questioned herself, looking over at the rabbit. Gabriel let out a laugh. "It's not that bad."

"Yeah..." Gabriel replied which resulted in getting a pillow chucked at his head.  "Oi!" He yelled, chucking a pillow back. Imogen playfully shoved him but Gabriel ended up on the floor as he was at the edge of the bed.

"You're coming down with me!" He exclaimed, grabbing Imogen by the hand and pulling her off the bed onto the floor. Imogen landing right on top of him.

"You're an idiot," she commented, laughing so much that she rested her forehead on his chest.

"A handsome idiot," Gabriel corrected with a smirk but Imogen stayed silent. "Oooo, so you admit it?"

Before Imogen could reply, the bedroom door opened.

"Oh!" Francesca exclaimed before Imogen scrambled off Gabriel. "Do I really have to give you the talk?"

"Frankie!" Gabriel chucked a pillow at the door.

"Alright, alright, just wanted to say I'm heading out," she said with a smirk on her face before closing the door.

"Oh my god," Imogen breathed out, red flushing her cheeks. "I am mortified," she said before nervously laughing.

"She will not let me live this down," Gabriel said, his arms crossed over his face, hiding his red face. "Want to do it again?" He asked with a smirk.

"Shut up!"

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