No One Ever Comes Close To You

Chapter 9.

Aston's Point Of View.
I had a long day of rehearsals in front of me today, we had a few show coming up so we needed to get into the studio so Leon could teach us the new routines. I knew the boys would be pestering me about Zara, asking me all about it, not that there was much i could tell them.

Walking into the dance studio, being the last one here as usual, I saw all the boys' faces turn smug as they noticed I was here.

"Yes?" I asked simply, throwing my jacket of and onto the floor.

"Oh nothing, nothing." Oritse shrugged, looking at the other two who were watching me. I shrugged off their looks and got ready to warm up.

"Come on guys, get a move on! We have loads to fit in today." Leon said as the other three were slowly joining me.

"How'd you like Zara then Ast?" Marvin said, patting my shoulder as he stood next to me. I rolled my eyes and looked at him.

"If you're trying to set us up then I'm not interested," I sighed.

"I wasn't trying to do anything, I was only asking if you like her," Marvin shrugged, acting as if I hadn't caught onto his plan.

"Well yeah she's a nice girl," I told him.

"Just nice?" JB asked.

"She's great, very friendly but what does it matter anyway? I was only showing her around," I said, pretending I thought thats all yesterday was about even though I knew what they were doing.

"Just want to know she'll have some friends around here, she's a good mate," Marvin shrugged, jogging on the spot.

"Yeah of Rochelle's more like! I know exactly what you three are up to!" I exclaimed. All three of them looked at me and stopped what they were doing, probably because they saw I was getting a bit angry about it.

"Whats that then?" Oritse laughed a little, breaking the silence.

"You're trying to set me up with her, hoping it'll make me get over Amelia but it's not happening, we've only just broke up and we were together three years and I'm no where near ready to move on!" I said, all their faces dropping which proved to me I was right.

"We just want you to be happy mate," Marvin sighed.

"And I was with Amelia, right now I'm still planning to try and get her back, setting me up with other people isn't going help! What if she saw us?"

"I doubt she did," JB said.

"You never know, a pap could of got a picture and you know what ridiculous rumours they come up with! If Amelia saw that and thought I'd moved on that quickly then there's no way she'll want me back," I frowned.

"Sorry we didn't think of it that way.." Oritse said, sounding guilty and the other boys' faces told me they felt the same way.

"Doesn't matter anyway, its more than unlikely she'll want me back," I said quietly, shrugging and looking down to the floor.

"Right we have no time to gossip like girls, lets get started," Leon called breaking our conversation and started playing She Makes Me Wanna. Within half an hour we'd nailed half the routine, luckily we were quick to pick things up and would get more done in a day then some people could in a week.

Throughout rehearsals Amelia was constantly on my mind again, she's always there and not even having to learn endless dance routines would shake her out. I knew I'd have to move in eventually but right now I wasn't ready, being on my own seemed better than being with somebody who wasn't Amelia.

With rehearsals over for the day I was looking forward to going back home and having a quiet night in. I'd been doing this a lot recently, i was hardly ever up for going on nights out or seeing the boys as they would talk about the latest girl they'd got with or constantly flirt with them at the bar while I sat round weeping over my ex.

It was five before I got home but when I did there wasn't a good sight waiting for me. Getting out my car I noticed two cars outside the house and the door was wide open. Rushing to the door to see who was in my house I realised that one of the cars was Amelia's. Just as I went to walk into the front door Amelia came walking towards me out the house with a cardboard box in her arms, filled with some of her belongings.

"Whats this?" I asked, a frown coming on my face as I realised what was happening.

"Oh Aston.." Amelia said, looking up at me as she heard my voice, stopping in her track, "I er left you a message.."

"I haven't had my phone, I've been at rehearsals," I explained.

"Oh right..I've come to get the rest of my things, I still had my key..I hope you don't mind," She smiled a little.

"But.." I started before I was interrupted as Katie walked out of the house with another box.

"Thats everything Mils," She said before she noticed me and stopped too, "Oh hi Aston, you alright?"

"Amelia please, you don't have to do this," I laughed nervously, ignoring Katie's question as I didn't know how to answer.

Amelia sighed, "Yes Ast I do, this is for the best..we need to forget the past,"

"But we can work things out, please babe," I begged, watching her walk down the rest of the steps from the front door to her car and placing the box in the boot.

"No, it's over..I'm sorry," she said quietly, not being able to look at me as I searched for some eye contact.

"It doesn't have to be, it was all just a misunderstanding..I love you," I whispered, tears stinging in my eyes.

"I love you too Aston but it's not going to work, is it? we both know that," She sighed, walking up to me so she was standing in front of me.

"We'll make it work," I whispered, trying to take her hand but she shrugged her hand out of mine.

"This is already hard enough, don't make it worse," she bit her lip and I couldn't stop the tears spilling down my face. She noticed my tears and frowned, her hand coming up to my face and brushing them away.

"One day you'll find a girl and forget all about me, you're upset now but it'll pass..I promise," She smiled weakly and kissed my cheek.

"I'll see you around Aston," she said and stepped away from me, going down to her car where Katie was standing at her own, watching both of us with a sad look on her face. I didn't make any attempt to beg her to stay anymore, I just watched her get in her car and drive away from me which was possible the worst thing I could've done. Katie looked sympathetic towards me as she smiled weakly at me and got into her car, following behind Amelia who was already half way down the road.

I dropped my head to the ground and turned around, going into the house and shutting the door behind me. When i walked into the bedroom it looked so empty, only my things were there and all Amelia stuff had vanished like it was never there in the first place. I'd really messed things up, she definitely wasn't coming home.

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