The Best it Gets

1. The Night in the Bar

       I had just spent a great day in Bramerton with Jim Chapman.  I was on my way to the bus stop when I realised that the bus I needed to get was already there.  Ready to leave any second.  I ran toward the bus, - that would take me to the station - it was the last one tonight.  It was slowly pulling away.

       "No!  Wait for me!" I called.  But it was too late, the bus had already left.  I knew I wouldn't be able to catch up with it so I settled for a brisk walk.  I would call Casper but my phone was dead.  It was starting get quite dark and there were some dodgy looking people around so I quickened my pace and tried to stay on the main roads.

       When I finally reached the station, I realised it was no good.  All the trains to London had left and the next one was at 5 o'clock the next morning.  I was thinking, maybe I could sleep the night at the station, but I quickly changed my mind when I saw the amount of staff that were still there, at the station who were bound to notice and kick me out.  Then what would I do?  In the end I decided to try and get into a hotel, and possible have to busk for some extra cash...  Of all the days to forget my wallet!  "NO!  This is stupid" I thought to myself.  I'll go into a bar and ask if I can charge my phone there, hopefully that will get me somewhere.  So I set of to look for a bar.

      I soon found a bar, the man at the bar seemed nice and thankfully let me charge my phone there, using his phone charger.  I sat in the bar and got some tap water, since it was free. Whilst waiting until my phone was charged, I asked the man,

      "Hey mate?  How long is this place open for?"

      "'till four in the morning, by the looks of it your need a place to stay.  Am I right?" he replied sympathetically.

      "Sadly," I paused, "Yes, do you mind if I..."  But he interrupted.

      "Yeah, sure as long as you keep yourself to your- BLIMEY!  Are you that Alfie Deyes kid m' kids watch?!"  He questioned in shock.

      "Errr... yeah, yes I am"  I replied, unsure of how he would reply.  He either hated me or didn't know that much about me.

      "Well you famous!  Of cause you can stay!  Do you mind if I mention this to my boss?  He's breechin' on givin' me a raise!"  He exclaimed.

      "I guess so, I'm gonna get some sleep now, okay?"  I breathed.  I had only just realised how exhausted I was.

      "Sure!"  Said the man as he got ready to serve some customers that had just came in.

      After calling Caspar and leaving a message:

"Hi Caspar, won't be back tonight. Sorry!  I'll explain when I get back, Bye!"

- he mentioned going to some party with some of his old friends - I settled of to go to sleep.

      Next thing I knew, someone was shaking me awake,

    "Hey?  Kid?  You gotta wake up!  The bar's closing 'till noon. That's when I remembered where I was,

      "Yeah..."  I yawned,  "I'm awake,"  I said as I sat up. After waking myself up, I grabbed my stuff and headed to the door, "Thanks for everything, I didn't catch your name?"  I questioned.

      "Rob" he plainly said.

      "Well you already know my name but, Thanks again Rob,"  I said as I left.  I walked quite quickly towards the station.  When I got there I had 10 minutes untill the train back to London left.  So I bought my new ticket and headed for the platform.  The train had been there all night so after having my ticket checked I went ahead and found a seat.  Which wasn't hard since not many were on the train since it wasn't a weekday so no one was going to work.  I pulled my phone out of my pocket and found two texts:

Hey got your message, see you tomorrow.  I'm guessing you missed you train back?? LOL!!

Caspar Lee

Hi m8, Caspar told me about you being back later than expected, that's cool, just don't forget about coming to see my sis in Bristol.  I'll pick you up at 10a.m

Joe Sugg