Tangled Web (Catfish Sequel) {M.C}

Chapter Nine

Ivy, Olivia, Nova and Bill had all boarded the plane and were heading home. Ivy hadn't stopped crying yet. Michael had hugged her and Olivia so tightly and struggled to let go, and Ivy hadn't wanted him to. She wasn't ready to go back to reality yet. Olivia was tired and refusing to sleep, and kept shouting for her dada. 

The journey home seemed to take forever. Her phone battery had died so she couldn't play games or anything, and everyone else fell asleep before they even got halfway home other than her so she was sat alone with her own thoughts. 

They made it home, and she sorted Olivia out then placed her phone on charge. She had a few texts and a missed call from Mikey. She quickly called him back.

"I just got home, my phone had died." She explained. 

"Okay, I was just panicking. I've got to go anyway, I've got to go and do some interviews before soundcheck anyway. I love you." 

"I love you too." 

The phone line went dead, and Ivy threw her phone down onto the bed. She went back to Olivia and made her bed time bottle and took her upstairs to her cot. Ivy was hoping that Olivia would fall asleep with her bottle like she had been doing more recently, but tonight she decided to go back to square one with her sleeping. She drank the bottle and started crying again. Ivy got her out of the cot and rubbed her back in case she had any wind stuck, but she didn't bring anything up, but she settled in Ivy's arms, not going to sleep but being quiet.

"We're not sleeping tonight are we?" She  said quietly to Olivia. 

She carried her downstairs and grabbed the TV remote and flicked aimlessly through the channels trying to find something to watch. She settled on an episode of CSI and grabbed the house phone before sitting down on the sofa with Olivia still curled up in her arms. Ivy dialled Nova's number and she answered pretty quickly. 

"Did you get home okay?" Ivy asked after they had said their hellos. 

"Yeah, I'm wide awake after sleeping on the plane though." Nova said. 

"You can come here if you want? Olivia is showing no signs of going to sleep any time soon so I'm gonna be in for a long night. We could order in? I shouldn't really but I don't think Olivia will let me move for long enough to make anything."

"Yeah sounds good to me, I'll jump in the shower, get into my pyjamas and drive over." She told her.

They hung up, and within the hour Nova was at the door. Ivy stood up and let her in. Nova put her arms out for Olivia and she leant over to go to her. Ivy shook her arms about not realising how sore they had gotten. 

"I'm starving, what do you fancy?" Ivy asked. 

"I picked us up chinese, I knew it'd be shut by time I got here so I ordered it before I jumped in the shower and picked it up on the way." Nova told her, passing the bag she had in her hand to her. 

"This is why you are my best friend." Ivy laughed. "What do I owe you?" 

"Don't worry, your fella just paid for me to go on holiday, I think I can get you some chinese." She joked. 

"Fair enough. Anyway young lady, spill the beans. I didn't want to ask on the flight because my dad was there, but what did you get up when we were at the sea life centre?" Ivy asked.

"I don't kiss and tell." Nova smiled. "Also you are like three months older than me, so less of the young lady."

"Yeah okay then, spill old woman." 

"Fiiiiiine." She caved. "We basically spent the whole day in Calum's hotel room." 

"I don't think I should have asked in front of Olivia." Ivy joked as she served up the food.