Afraid • l.h

Chapter 10 • "What are you doing here?"

Tilly's POV

"Michael? What are you doing here? How did you get in?" I began to question him and then realised. "And Jack how did you get in?"

"I climbed, sorry." Jack replies.

"Me too." Michael admits.

I just stand for a few moments laughing at how stupid they are.

"You guys there is a buzzer and microphone at the front gate."

"Well I hate to say his but I gotta go Tilly. I'll text you about coming over and a time." Jack says standing up and walking towards the door.

"Okay." I say and give him a quick.

Once he left I turned around to Michael giving him a confused look.

"Why was Jack here?" Michael asks.

"He just came to talk because I haven't seen him in 5 or 6 years. Why did you come over?" I answer and ask Michael.

"To check up on you."

"Thank you Mikey. You're a good friend." I tell him.

"How was your sleep?" He asked.

"Good thanks. Do you want a drink or something to eat?" I say.

"How about we go to the coffee shop?" Michael suggests.

"That sounds good." I reply as the front door opened and my Mum walked in.

"Hiya Mum." I shout to her as she walks into the kitchen. "How was your day?"

"It was busy busy busy. But anyway, aren't you going to introduce your friend?" She asks.

"Oh yeah." I laugh. "This is Michael. Michael this is my Mum, Nina."

"Nice to meet you Nina." Michael says with a smile.

"We are just going to the coffee shop and then I'll be back." I tell her whilst running up the stairs to get changed.

I decide on wearing my denim shorts and a black halter top. I start to apply my makeup when there is a knock at my bedroom door.

"Come in."

"Hey Tilly your mum said I could come up."

"Yeah that's fine." I say and carry on applying subtitle makeup.

5 minutes later and I'm ready.

"Let's go." I say to Michael and pick up my keys and phone. "Bye mum."

"Bye text me if you need anything." I hear her say just before shutting the door.

"Oh Tilly, we have band practice later. Do you wanna come?"

"Yeah sure. As long as we get pizza and you don't blast out your music in the car." I say and laugh.

"You can walk to my house then."

"No no no no no, I'll suffer the music thank you." I say.

"You'll learn to love it." He says and I just raise my eyebrows sarcastically.

As soon as we arrive at the coffee shop we go straight up to the till and order a mocha and hot chocolate to take away.

"Where do you want to go?" Michael asks me.

"Can we go and find a bench in the park?"

"Yeah sure." He agrees.

The walk to the park is very short and we soon find an empty bench that is fairly clean. We finish up out drinks and then sit down. By time it is now 11:20 and my eyes feel heavy.