My Heart and Other Black Holes (My Heart #1)

Chapter 18

A couple of days later, Rowan was on skype with Zoe and Alfie. "So, whereabouts do you live?" Alfie asked her.

"Kew. It's so nice here," she replied.

"No offense, but how can you afford that house? It looks pretty massive from here," Alfie asked.

"My friend Annie grew up here. We lived together for two years but she recently moved to France, asking me to keep her childhood home since she has no family," Rowan explained.

"We'll have to come visit soon," Zoe piped up.

"I don't know..." Rowan replied.

"Why not Ro?" Zoe asked; looking hurt.

The reason was because she realised from watching Jack's videos that he hated Zoe, Joe and especially Alfie, but Rowan couldn't exactly say that. "Lots of viewers live around here, they might see us together," Rowan lied. True to their word, Zoe and Alfie hadn't mentioned her. Neither had Joe, Louise, Caspar or Hazel. In fact, she was still pretending to be Amelia.

"Well, you'll have to come and visit me then," Zoe insisted. Rowan nodded although she had no desire to do that. Her doorbell rang.

"I have to go, I'll speak to you soon," Rowan said.

"Bye sweetie," Zoe smiled.

"See ya, little Sugg," Alfie added. Rowan ended the skype call, took a deep breath and then went to open the door.

It was Dan. "Hi Amelia,"

"Hey Daniel," Rowan replied guiltily.

"I was sent by Hazel to ask if you wanted to come out with us tonight?" Dan offered with a smile; expecting her to decline.

"Erm... whereabouts are you going?" Rowan asked.

"A club. In Soho,"

"Okay, sure. What time?" Rowan asked with a quick smile. She was as shocked as Dan was – she hated going out usually.

"We'll knock at 8?" he suggested.

Rowan nodded. "I'll see you then," she closed her door and checked the time. 17:30. She should probably start getting ready. But first, she called her sister.

"Hey, didn't you just say you needed to go?" Zoe asked as she answered the phone. "Zoe, I'm going out tonight and I don't know what to wear," "Ooh, where are you going?" "A club. With some friends," "That's not really where my expertise are..." "Yeah, but aren't you obsessed with clothes?" Zoe laughed. "I guess... do you have any dresses?" "Well, obviously," "Okay... ooh, do you still have that strapless blue dress? That's gorgeous!" "I do have it. And isn't that yours?" "Yeah, but if I remember correctly, you look a lot nicer in it. Wear that. Have your hair down, but curled and do a natural make-up look. Guys will be more interested in your boobs anyway," Zoe rambled. Rowan rolled her eyes. "Thanks Zo,"