After 2

Chapter 23

Michelle's pov

I return home with a smile on my face. Actually the smile hasn't left my face since Alfie dropped me off. He's honestly amazing.
I let out a sigh and jump on my bed and pull out my phone just as it starts ringing.
"Hey hey shoe box girl" I can literally hear the smile on his voice.
"Well if it isn't Alfie" I say smirking even though he can't see it, "miss me already?" I joke
"You wish. But actually I was going to say you left your wallet in my car"
"Oh shit. I kinda need that"
"Figured. I'll drop it off in about 20mins?"
"Nah it's fine I'll come get it. I was about to go out anyway"
"You sure?"
"Yep. Totally fine" I smile.
"Sweet as, I'll text you my address. See you soon"
"Okay, bye" I hang up an scream into my pillow with excitement.
My phone buzzes in my hand, Alfie has sent through his address.
I quickly get up make myself look decent and head out the door.
All the way there I feel kinda nervous but excited at the same time.
About 45 minutes later I arrive at his house. It begins to rain. Really hard. Luckily there's a covered bit at his door. Before I could knock on the door he opens it with a smile.
"Well hello" I say with a funny accent.
"Ayeeee shoe box girl" he grins.
"Your never gonna let that go are you?" I say with a serious / joking voice. He just laughs. "Well am I just gonna stand out here in the rain?" I joke
"Please come in" he invites with a cheeky smirk.
"Thanks" I say and brush past him. I take in my surroundings and my jaw drops in awe.
"This place is huge"
"Thank you"
Oh my god, did I say that out loud? I look away from his eye contact in embarrassment and I feel my check heat up.
"Do you want anything to drink or eat?"
"Uh yes please" I smile, still admiring his home. He stands there awkwardly, not saying anything, just giving me a questioned look.
"Which is it?" He laughs.
"Ohh umm water please"
"Coming right up" he darts into another room which I assume is the kitchen. I step into the living room and room around at the photos.  There's heaps of him and and family all over the walls. They all look so happy.
I smile at a photo where Alfie is holding up a fish that's twice the size of him. He looks real young.
"I was 7 then. First fish I ever caught" I jump slightly at his voice but quickly recover.
I smile at him in response. He hands me the drink.
"Have a seat. Make yourself at home"
I grin at his gesture and take a seat on the couch and drink my water.
"So do you go to uni or anything?" I ask.
"Yeah. I'm studying engineering at Richmond" he says proudly. Wait.
"Richmond? I go there too! How come I've never seen you around?" I ask.
"Different areas of the campus. I couldn't see a pretty girl like you hanging around a junk yard and mechanical workshop" he jokes.
"Hey, you'd be surprised" I laugh.
We continue talking for over an hour when it starts Getting dark.
"I should probably go. It's getting late and it's a fairly long drive" I say.
"Oh yeah sure. Here, I'll walk you out"
We both stand up and walk over to the door.
"Thanks, it's been fun" I smile.
"Anytime, just give me a call. You know where I am" he smiles back. We stand for a moments silence, just staring into each other's eyes. It's nice. He has such pretty eyes. I snap out of it when the door starts to open.
"Alfie were home- oh hello!"
"Hi" I say awkwardly.
"Mum, dad, hi" Alfie says cheerily.
They embrace in a hug and I take a step back and stand there.
"Oh my, sorry for that. That was rude of me. I'm Nikki, Alfie's mum" she offers her hand for me to shake.
"Hi, I'm Michelle" I smile and shake her hand.
"Thomas" his dad I'm assuming greets. His handshake is firm an kinda painful.
"I should probably get going. Nice meeting you all though"
"Oh hunny you can't go out there. Street are flooded. We were lucky to even get back here. There's no way, it's too dangerous"
What is she implying. I give Alfie a questioned look and he looks as confused and shocked as me.
"You might as well stay the night. It's rather late anyway and in these conditions your bound to have an accident"
"Umm" I say. I take a look out side. I didn't even realise it was raining. The street lights barely illuminate the street but from what I can see it looks hectic out there. "Okay" I say awkwardly. Why am I being so awkward.
"Ohh brilliant!" His mum cheers, "I'll go set up the spare room, Alfie go get her some spare clothes from your sisters room"
Alfie shakes his head and rolls his eyes behind is mums back. Hey, where did Thomas go?
"You coming?" Alfie asks. He sounds slightly annoyed. Oh god. I should've left sooner.  I quickly catch up to him as he leads me to his sister room.
"Hey, you alright?" I ask.
"Yeah, it's just, my mum can be a tad overwhelming at times. Kinda pushy. It comes off rude and kinda embarrassing. I'm sorry"
"Oh it's fine. Really. I don't mind" I smile, trying to reassure him.
"We don't have to hang out with her. You can either go to bed now or we can watch tv in the spare room. Or if you want, watch sucky soap operas with my mum while she rambles on about not nothing"
"Uhh tv in the spare room sounds good" I laugh. He laughs too.
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We are about halfway through a movie, not really watching it. We have been kind of venting to each other about everything. I told him what happened with James and funny enough, he had a similar incident with his ex girlfriend. He hasn't seen her in over a year.
Now he's on my phone while I'm watching the movie. It's funny, even though we just met over 12 hours ago, I feel like I've known him for years. 
"What are you doing on my phone exactly?" I ask. By now it's a little past 1am. His parents have gone to sleep and it's started to thunder and lightening now. I've always loved this weather.
"Oh nothing" he says cheekily.
"Alfie, give me my phone"
"One sec" he holds his finger to my face. So I my first instinct is to bite it. Which I do.
"Ow what the fuck? Did you just bite me?" He says while shaking his finger.
"Maybe" I smile.
"Bitch" he mumbles while handing me my phone. I go through everything to see what he's done but I can't find anything. At all.
"I should probably go to bed now. Night Michelle"
"Night Alfie" I smile as I watch him leave the room. He's so sweet. I think I might, just maybe, have fallen for him.
I snuggle in the blankets and just as I'm about to but my phone down I get a text.
From: King Alfie 👑
Night shoebox girl ;) x
I shake my head and put my phone down. And for once in a very very long time. I fall asleep with a smile on my face.