"Mia, come on, we're gonna miss it if you don't hurry!" My employer grabs my hand and pulls me towards the door.
"Wait! I don't have your makeup bag!"
"Well hurry, Harry STYLES is gonna be there!"
"Ok, ok!"
Yeah. I'm a hired best friend to Lily Edwards, pop star extraordinaire.
Back when we were kids, she was my bully. I was over weight, with a bad case of acne. She and her gang of pretty, popular girls taunted and teased me.
In Year 7, I had my first boyfriend, a boy named James, equally as spotty and over weight as me. We would sit in the playground hand in hand, sharing toffee and discussing our futures, him as a video game designer, me as a botanist.
One morning, he was telling me about a new game that had just come out, when Lily sauntered up, grabbed his wrist and pulled him up to her face, giving him a big slobbery kiss.
"James is MY boyfriend now!" She yelled in my face and stormed off.
James followed like a dazed puppy dog, awestruck by this beautiful girl.
6 years later, Lily's manager hired the made over me to keep her out of trouble and provide companionship.
Her manager knows that we went to school together, but thinks that we were friends, whilst Lily does not remember me, but assumes we were close friends.
We are both 24 now, and although her attitude towards others makes me angry, I have grown used to it over the years and have forgiven her for how she treated me.
We are friends and she seems almost like a sister to me.
I trust her.
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Lily is grinding against a celeb boy as I lean on the bar ordering her a vodka and lemonade at the night club.
The drink slides towards me and I tell the bar tender Lily's name for the bill before heading over to Lily and pulling her away from the boy.
"Lils, it's getting late, we need to get going!" I yell at her above the vibrations they call music.
"I haven't spoken to Harry yet!" She pulls away from me "Loosen up!"
Lily spots the guy she has her eye on, Harry, and shoves her way through the crowd towards him.
I return to my bar stool, sitting and mentally closing my eyes. By the time I look up Lily is pushing her lips against Harry's, pulling him towards the door.
I sigh and make my way after her, getting into my own car as she shoves Harry into hers.
I drive out of the silent car park, glancing to my right to see Lily ripping off Harry's T-Shirt.
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I'm huddled under a blanket on the sofa of my private living room, watching Netflix and cuddling my sleeping golden retriever puppy, Millie, when Lily and Harry get home.
I hear Harry slur something to Lily, she giggles and then shushes herself and him loudly.
They creep up the stairs, still giggling as I snuggle down further into my nest.
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I open my eyes and check my alarm
8:46 am
A smashing sound comes from the kitchen as I slide out of bed.
I quickly wrap up in my dressing gown and slip on my slippers, then patter out of my room and into the wooden floored kitchen.
