The Real Me ☾| Zalfie |

Chapter 43.

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I pushed the door open and it creaked slightly making me flinch. My sisters car was in the drive, as was Ashleigh's.
"I don't want to Alfie" I sniffed but he held my shoulders gently and carefully pushed me in the door.
"It's fine, I'm determined to not let you get hurt, even if I do have a broken knee" he smirked. I sighed and walked in.
"HI MUM" Joseph shouted but got no reply. I walked upstairs and helped Alfie with every step.
"Will Joe be okay on his own?" Alfie questioned me, looking worried.
"I could go and get Charlie, I can easily persuade my mum to let him stay over too" he carried on.
"No, it's okay, he might sleep in here though, is that okay?" I half-heartedly smiled at him. He rubbed my shoulder and hopped along towards my room.
"ZOE!" My mum shouted.
"YEAH" I replied.
"ARE YOU OKAY?"
"YES, IM FINE, WHERES, ASHLEIGH AND FLEUR?" I called back.
"GONE TO THE SHOP, THEY WILL BE BACK ANY SECOND" she shouted to me.
I sat on my bed next to Alfie who was resting his ankle. I could here the stairs creaking as someone walked up them.
"Is Alfie with you?" My mums voice asked as she pushed open my bedroom door slightly.
I didn't need to answer as she saw him already.
"What happened to your knee son?" She pulled a sympathetic face.
"I broke it twice whilst playing football" he sighed.
"I hope it gets better soon love, I'm sure it will" she weakly smiled at him.
"Where's Joseph?" I questioned, suddenly worried about my brothers whereabouts.
"I don't know" she replied and walked out. I stood up and looked out the window, I was shocked at what I saw. Joseph stood there with his arms full of bags and Ashleigh and Fleur had none as they strutted in leaving him behind struggling. I explained to Alfie but paused when I heard him come in the door.
"Aw aren't you helpful little bro" she sarcastically cooed.
"If you've smashed the eggs, I will kill you" she carried on.
"JOSEPH COME HERE!" I shouted down the stairs.
"Oh would you look at that, Zoe's back too" I heard her grumpily say. Joseph came running up the stairs and into my bedroom were he flopped into my arms.
"I shouldn't have left you. I'm sorry, are your arms okay?" I worriedly questioned him.
"I left you and they hurt a bit, those bags were so heavy" he exclaimed. I pulled him in for a hug and he great fully accepted.
"Why don't you sleep in here tonight" I suggested and he nodded and grinned up at me.
"Can I borrow your hair spray?" My sister barged her way in and grabbed it. Then turned facing the mirror and clapsed eyes on Alfie.
"Ohhhhh, who are you? Zoe's boyfriend" she evilly grinned.
"I'm Alfie, her boyfriend" he politely answered and he signalled for me to sit next to him as my brother ran back to his bedroom.
"And how on earth did she get you?" Ashleigh kept on.
"On just by how down to earth she is and she seemed genuine you know, not fake at all, oh and she's probably the prettiest girl in the school, I mean someone in the family had to get the pretty genes didn't they" he smirked. I turned my head away so she couldn't see me laugh.
"Oh aren't you a charmer" she rolled her eyes and walked out.
"Just because you have him sticking up for you Zoe doesn't mean your wrapped up in cotton wool" she chimed.
I shook my head and grabbed my laptop out from my bag. I opened it up and logged on. After it did that, I clicked on YouTube and saw my account was growing massively.
106 subscribers and 340 views on my video. I turned round and grinned at Alfie.
"Maybe you should film another video" he hinted.
"Good plan" I agreed. I stood up and grabbed my camera from my bag, I piled up some books and placed the camera on top of it.
"What shall I talk about though?" I asked Alfie.
"We could film together" he suggested.
"I could do your makeup" I grinned. He raised his eye brows at me.
"Please because your the bestest boyfriend ever and I love you very very much" I squealed. He leant his back against my pillows so he was half sat up. He held his arms out and signalled for me to cuddle him. I got up and lead on top of him. I pressed my lips against his and he kissed back.
"Zoe?"
Shit, my sister.
"Is he still here?" I snuggled into Alfie and blocked my ears. I felt his hand on my bum and I smirked. My door flew open but he didn't move an inch.
I heard him let out a small snore and immediately I knew what he was doing. So I joined in and pretended to be asleep.
After about a minute my door slammed shut and I popped my head up.
"Nice one" I giggled and I ruffled his hair and kissed him again.
"Now let's film little one" he smiled. I nodded dramatically and got up from his grasp.
"Got ya makeup bag?" He smirked. As he manoovered his knee to stand up. I held it up and began getting out important bits I would need.
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I leant forward and pressed stop on the camera after waving at it and finishing the video.
"Well that went well I think" I smiled at Alfie as he took the makeup off with a makeup wipe that he had found.
"It did, let's edit it tonight and get it up tomorrow" he planned. I nodded and put my thumb up.
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After editing what seemed like forever, which was probably about two hours, the video was finally ready and now uploading.
"Have you told Joe about YouTube yet?" Alfie asked. I shook my head,
"I will though, now I've reached 100 subscribers"
"I'm so proud of you" he smirked.
"How many subscribers have you got?" I questioned him.
"I have 97 last time I checked" before I could reply there was a soft knocking on my door.
"Zoe, can I come in?" Joes timid voice sounded through the wall. I leapt up and pulled it open, signalling for him to come in.
"I have my fold out camp bed" he whispered.
"That's great but why are you whispering?"
"Because there in the bathroom" I sighed and unfolded the camp bed and set up his bedding onto it.
"Zoe, I need to use your face stuff" Ashleigh yelled.
"Urrrr... No" I sarcastically replied back. After a couple of seconds the door flew open and she walked straight in.
"Where is it?" She shouted.
"On the second row, top shelf in boots" I replied. She faked a laugh and searched around my room for my makeup remover bottle. When she eventually found it she turned to me and went to slap my cheek but Alfie threw his hand in the air and she kit that instead.
I buried my head in him and I heard Joe shout.
"Don't hit her! She's your sister"
"Sssshhhh Joe" I poked my head back up.
"Now that you've hit my boyfriend, and stolen my things, you can leave you evil little cow" I shouted.
"Your gonna regret that" she muttered,
"Evil bitch" I heard her say to Fleur.
"Are you okay?" Tears formed in my eyes at the fact that my own sister just hit my boyfriends bare arm. He nodded and wrapped his arm around me.
"I told you, I will do anything to protect you both, and I actually mean it this time" she securely spoke, I felt safe with him and my brother by my side.

Thank you all for reading, I would just like to say that the sequel to 'two sides of the same story' is out and it's called, 'this is forever', it would mean the world to me if you went and checked it out!! Also I would like to thank everyone who voted, comments and shares this story, you all make me so happy so thank you so incredibley much:-)
Ily all as readers,
Georgia. Xx