Forever •BWS•

5.

•Riley's PoV•

"No don't wake them, they look so cute!"

I furrowed my eyebrows in my sleep. No I'm just hearing things, no one was talking. There was heavy foot steps followed by a slam of a door, which woke me up completely. I half sat up and rubbed my eyes, checking the time and the clock read 8:30am. I yawned and rubbed my eyes before I noticed a presence in the bed beside me. Bradley. Aka my boyfriend. I smiled to myself as I moved some of his curls away from his eyes, remembering last night. It felt amazing to have my Bradley back, it was like that piece of me that was missing was finally back. I then realised what the date was today which ruined my mood slightly, but I tried my best not to let it show.

"Morning my gorgeous girlfriend" Brad smiled up at me, his voice raspy.

"Morning my amazing boyfriend" I smiled back and kissed his cheek before my phone buzzed on the side table, and I checked it to see a tweet from James.

@TheVampsJames- Briley.....I ship it😉

Attached to the tweet was a picture of me and Brad sleeping.

"James Daniel Mcvey, you little bitch!" I yelled, getting up and running downstairs. "Care to explain?!"

"It's a picture of you and Brad cuddling in bed"

"Yeah I can see that, I want to know why the hell it's on Twitter!" I said angrily, running a hand through my hair frustratedly.

"I thought it was cute. And aren't you guys dating anyways?"

"That's not the point!"

"Calm down Riles, it's just a photo!" Ari said.

"A photo that's getting me extra hate that I could do without today"

"Oh. I forgot that was today" she replied with sympathetic eyes.

"C'mere" I heard Brads brummie accent from behind me before he turned me around, wrapping his arms around my waist tightly.

"Why do they hate me so much?" I asked so only he could hear, as my vision became blurry.

"Because they're jealous. Don't worry, it'll die down soon"

"But what if it doesn't?"

"It will, I promise" He whispered, kissing the top of my head.

I then decided to go for a walk, try clear my head a bit but I knew it wouldn't work. Today was going to be an extremely bad day and nothing could change that......

• • • • • • • • • • •

"Feeling any better?" Ari asked as I walked in the door.

I shook my head, sitting down and Kevin called me just as I did.

"Hey Kevin"

"Hi Riley. I'm just calling to remind you that today is your day in the studio with Kerry"

"Today isn't the best day for me to be doing anything Kevin" I mumbled.

"I know, I'm well aware of what today is. But maybe that will give you some inspiration. I'm sorry Riley, but we can't cancel on Kerry"

"I know, it's fine. I'm on my way"

And with that I hung up. I threw my phone onto the sofa beside me, huffing as I went to the kitchen and grabbed my car keys for my Mercedes.

"Hey babe, where you off to?" Brad asked, wrapping his arms around my waist.

"Out" I said, pushing his arms away from me and walking out the door, slamming it as I went.

I never meant to take it out on Brad, I really didn't. God, I feel horrible....

• • • • • • • • • • •
•Brads PoV•

"Is she okay?" I said as I walked into the living room after Riley had slammed the door.

"Does she sound okay to you?" Mia answered.

"What's wrong with her?"

"I don't know" Jess shrugged.

"Really? No one noticed what today's date is?" Ari said.

"Oh........I forgot" Mia said.

"Yeah, we all did. It's no wonder she's acting like this"

"Can someone please tell me what's wrong with my girlfriend?" I butted in.

"It's not really our place to say. But I'll drive you to the studio, and you can talk to her about it. I'm sure she'll tell you"

• • • • • • • • • • •

"3rd floor, room 5. Good luck" Mia said.

I nodded and jumped out of the car and into the studio building. I went to the third floor and got out of the elevator and found room 5, which had 'reserved for Riley Taylors' on the front.

"Riles, you in here?" I asked quietly going into the room.

"Yeah, I'm here" she sighed.

"What's going on Riles? Is everything okay?"

"Not really no" she shook her head.

"Wanna talk about it?" I asked, moving the many pieces of paper to sit down next to her.

She sighed and curled up to me, drawing shapes on my leg before taking a deep breath.

"Today marks 1 year since Dad passed away" she whispered.

"Mateo....what?" I said, not believing what I had just heard.

Mateo was a second father to me. He was there whenever I needed advice on something and felt like I couldn't talk to my own father.

"Car accident. Just couldn't pull through it" she said, and that was when I felt the cold liquid of her tears coming through my shirt.

I sighed and held her tighter. I didn't know what to say, and even if I did it wouldn't make her feel any better. I could only be there for her.

"I don't know how to help, I'm so sorry" I whispered.

"Don't be. You're not a miracle worker Brad, no one is. No one can bring him back and I've accepted that fact. But it doesn't make it any easier to cope with" She sniffled. "Just.....hold me. Been with me all day"

"Easily done"

"I'm gonna be moody all day"

"I don't care Riley, I'm staying right by your side" I replied.

"I'm gonna go back to Birmingham soon, go see Ethan"

"How is Ethan?"

"Massive" she replied. "Literally he's like 6 feet tall now"

"And he's only.... 14 now. Wow time flies, I can still remember the day he was born"

"Me too. Little 5 year old us planning all these games to play with him literally 2 days after he was born" she chuckled. "I miss when he was so young, I used to love looking after him"

"I think that's why you loved Ava so much, because you had someone else to look after when Ethan grew up a bit more"

"I haven't seen Ava in years. God I miss her"

"She misses you too. Whenever I'm home and she's there she always asks when you're gonna come visit her. She started school now and everything"

"The years slip away from you when you're busy" she sighed. "Okay cmon, I'm bailing on the writing. Can we go home and watch a movie?"

"Course babe, anything you want".....