The Chim Factor

Chapter 28

Cheryl's POV

I wanted Kimberley.

My mind was a mess right now but that was one thing I was sure of.

I quickly make my way out of my dressing room, not even bothering to close my door behind me, the door that he had previously walked out of.

There are a few people in the corridors but I take no notice of them, although they seemed to take notice of me.

I feel the first few tears slip down my cheeks as I attempt to compose myself and make my way to Kimberley's dressing room.

I wipe them away trying to act as normal as possible, I don't want to draw attention to myself.

I keep my eyes down but I know people are looking at me.

As I turn the corner, getting closer to Kimberley's dressing room, I notice a group of people stood talking but I don't look up long enough to see who they are.

I keep my head down and hope that they won't notice me.

I keep wiping away my tears but they just keep falling.

I thought I had made it past them unseen but then I heard my name.

"Cheryl?"

I recognised the voice as Simon's but I couldn't find it in myself to turn round.

I didn't want to but I knew there was too many people here to face him so I ignored his call and kept on walking.

I only had a few more steps until I was at Kimberley's dressing room and I let out a sigh of relief.

I'm just glad I didn't run into him on the corridor, I don't know what I would have done.

As I get to her dressing room door I don't bother knocking, more and more people are starting to look at me so I don't have time to wait.

I open the door and straight away I'm met by the faces of four people. I don't look at the other faces long enough to be able to recognise them because as soon as I see Kimberley I don't look anywhere else.

As I make my way over to her she has a very concerned look on her face and she meets me half way.

I wrap my arms around her and return she wraps hers around me. She can no longer see my face as it's buried within the space between her neck and shoulder but I know she can tell that something is wrong.

She's right, just like she always is.

"Cheryl, what's happened?"

I shake my head because I don't want to talk about it with other people in the room that I don't really know and she strokes my back knowing that it calms me down.

I hear movement around me but I don't make the effort to look up and see what's going on.

"Cheryl? What's wrong?"

I know that's Simon's voice, he must have followed me in here but I still don't move from Kimberley's arms, I don't want to.

I can feel myself crying harder and my arms tighten around Kimberley's waist and in return hers do the same.

"Ok, please can everyone leave me and Cheryl alone for a few minutes."

I hear people moving around and the door to Kimberley's dressing room is opened again but her arms don't move from around me.

"Simon..." Without wasting a second Simon cut Kim off.

"I'm not leaving."

I think everyone knows that nobody can tell Simon what to do and she seems to give up already.