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Chapter 16

Quitting swimming was one of my biggest regrets; when my parents split up I found it hard to be able to get to my lessons and have the time to travel to a pool just to do a few laps. I gave up and just stayed home to read or sit on my arse all day. Living with Billie means the that house we live in is massive, one of the upsides is the pool out the back. I rarely used it apart from if I was mucking around with Joey, Billie or their friends but now I'm swimming like I used to. I do laps trying to get to the level I was before I gave up, I'm pushing myself but I know that without training and the schedule we have I'll never going to reach that goal.

When I left Billie was still in bed, Tre and Mike were knocked out in the guest rooms. I left breakfast for them on the counter while I came out to practice, I heard a door slam and I assumed Billie or one of the others were up. The lazy arses don't get up until noon when they have the day off, today they have to be up and get packed ready for tour. I'm so not looking forward to be locked in a bus with these doofuses.

The backdoor opens and a person I wasn't expecting walked out, I stood there in the middle of the pool in shock. They walked to the pool edge and sat with their legs dangling in the water, I just froze and stared them right in the eye. This wasn't how I wanted this day to go down, it was just meant to be the boys and I but now that dream came crashing down.

"Joey, aren't you meant to be in city for your gigs?" I can't believe he's here, they left for tour already. He has that smirk on his face that I hate and his hand stuffed into his pockets. I pull my body over the edge and wrap my towel around my waist, I can't be around him anymore.

"Nah had the day off, called in to grab some stuff that I forgot."  Joey continues to sit there with his hands resting on his lap, he isn't going to be leaving anytime soon.

"That doesn't explain why your here sitting on the pool edge, I thought I was a disgrace and you wanted nothing to do with me." I turn away and go to walk back inside but Joey grabs my arm and tugs me back so I'm facing him, his face is inches away from mine and I can't help but to gulp.

"Exactly, I thought you'd be off fucking someone. I guess no one wants your SDI ridden body." His face just makes anger boil in my body, I rip myself out of his grip. My hands boil into fists and as soon as he takes a step closer my knuckles smacked into is nose.

I shakily move backwards and fall into my arse, the sliding door slams and Billie is on his knees in front of me while Mike and Tre remove Joey from the scene.  I just punched my best friend in the face but than again he hasn't acted like my best friend in months, he deserved it.

"You ok?" Billie asks, what a stupid question. Of course I'm not ok, I just punched your fucking cunt of a son. Billie pulls me into a hug and the pool house door swings open, Joey storms over and points his finger at us.

"You fucking bitch, I've got concerts lined up and you fucking damage my face. What am I meant to tell them?"

"That you just got hit by the real world you self absorbed little arsehole." I stand up and get on joeys level, I'm not going to let him stand over me and act as if he superior. Mike and Tre cheer and I feel like all hell is going to break loose.

"You think you know what the real world is because you sleep with guys and get high and drunk, your never sober enough to even remember the fucking real world so don't even start this with me. also don't tell me how I'm living my life you bitch." Joey pushes my backward and I just smile at the fact that he thinks he's so tough. My foot collides with his crotch and Joey falls to the ground in plain.

"Well don't fucking tell me how to live my life. Why do you think I'm like this, I've been living in the real world ever since I was little. I brought my self up while you were waited on by hand and foot, I was on the streets while you were living in luxury. I'm so used to be treated like shit that I continue to let people to treat me like it. I got out and get duck in more ways than one to forget the past you son of a bitch.  I know how to fight Joey, you learn this stuff when you have to protect yourself. I once didn't know to and I got abused on my way home, a man took away my innocence away in an alley. Sex was nothing to me for years, I never knew it was meant to be special. You think I want to be known as the person I was, you think I want to have the reputation as the slut. My own best friend left me because he thought of me as dirty, I was never dirty because I just wanted the feeling of purity back and I knew I couldn't so I did the opposite. Guess what Joey I'm a changed girl, i only have sex with one person. I have found someone who had made me feel the way I could have felt for years, I feel loved and cared for. This person had helped me realise there's more to life than just sex, it's love."