Secrets // Ethan Dolan

20. Bang

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Chapter 20, Bang

Katie's p.o.v.

Calling Marcus...
"C'mon Marcus, pick up the damn phone." It had been a while since I had talked to Marcus. I had been telling myself to call him more often or sent him a text once in a while but I kept forgetting it. He must have thought that I'm a really shitty friend and I can't blame him. He's the one who has been with me through everything, he was and is my best friend and I couldn't even make some time to give him a call.

"Hi, Marcus speaking." His voice sounded raw, like he had just woken up.

"Hey, Marcus." You could hear the hesitation in my voice, "It's been a while since I've called and I wanted to say sorry for that. I miss you."

"It's fine, Katie. I've missed you too, but did you really have to call me now? I was sleeping, you know, time zones and stuff." He said through the phone.

"Oh God, sorry! I totally forgot about that. Anyway, go back to sleep. I'll call you in the morning."

"No, I'm awake already so let's talk a little. How are things there? Any updates on that Ethan kid?" I could hear him open a door and walk downstairs. Knowing him he was probably on his way to get himself a midnight snack.

"Are you getting a snack? And yeah well, I don't know. We have been talking a little more lately, but I may have said something that could have hurt him. I don't even know, Ethan is so confusing, one moment he acts like he doesn't want to know me and another moment he takes me out to his favourite place in town and talks all sweetly to me."

Marcus wispered into the phone whilst biting on something. "Well, what do you think? Does he like you or is he like all those douchebags who just try to bang a girl for a bet?"

"Bang? Do we even use that word anymore? And I don't know, you're the guy here." I wisper-screamed into the phone. I don't even know why I was wispering, I was home alone.

"I still use the word bang, yeah. So, is he in it to win it or does he really care about you?" I heard him take another bite of whatever he was eating, "Wait, Katie... Maybe you just want to bang him?"

"You know I'm not like that! And stop using the word bang."

"What is wrong with the word bang?" Marcus voice sounded loud through my phone, "Oh oh, Katie, I gotta go, I think I woke up my mum. Goodnight, sweetie, I'll talk to you soon. And keep me updated!" He rushed the words out of his mouth and before I could answer him, he had hung up on me.

This didn't get me any further, but at least I talked to my best friend again. Keeping a friendship steady while you're on the other side of the country is not as easy as I expected it to be. Sure, the first couple of weeks Marcus and I skyped a lot and texted eachother the whole time. But after a while you just start to respond slower and suddenly you just lose contact. I don't want that to happen to Marcus and my friendship. Sure we have lost touch a little, but if we try hard enough we could make it work.

Whilst I was thinking about Marcus, I thought about other things about my past. I thought about my old house and my previous school. I thought about the goldfish I had that I named Gubby but it died because I forgot to feed him too many times. For a moment I even thought about Oliver, but I shook those memories from my mind.
The next thing that popped up in my mind gave me an idea.

I set up my camera in front of me. My tripod consisted of a couple of books laying on top of eachother on my desk. I had been saving up money to buy a tripod and other things but I found it stupid to buy all these things while I wasn't even a youtuber yet. So for now, this would have to do.

With the camera in front of me, I started thinking about what kind of video to film. A questions and answer video? Or a challenge video? I didn't know, there were a lot of video's you could make. But I figured that making some sort of questions video was the best to begin with. My viewers could get to know me a little bit better that way.

"Hello everyone, it's Katie." I waved at the camera. "I've wanted to make a video for a long while now, but I always kept postponing it. So here is my first video."

I started going to some questions and answered some of them, untill one popped up that made think. Do you have a crush on someone?
Maybe. I don't know. I thought to myself. Do I have a crush on him? Do I really like him? You do, a voice screamed in the back of my head. Stupid voice. I don't even know him that well. I don't know what sports he likes, what his favourite colour is, what he thinks of in the middle of the night when he can't sleep. But I still liked him. I really liked him. After that question, I couldn't stop thinking about him. He kept popping up in my head and I started wondering what he was doing right now.

Ethan's p.o.v.

"ETHAN! GET OFF OF ME YOU FAT ASS!" I was currently sitting on top of Grayson, he was laying flat on the ground and couldn't get up because I had his arms pinned behind his back.

"No, you have to tell me what you know about Katie!" We started fighting about ten minutes ago, he really didn't want to tell me everything he knew and suddenly started to get mad 'cause I wouldn't stop asking him. I kept nagging and nagging and nagging and suddenly he burst. He started to push me, stupid of him because he knows that I am the stronger one here and now I was holding him in this painful grip. "Just tell me, bro."

"Why would I? Remember, I like her too. I don't want to see her with you 'cause I don't want you to break her heart." Those words tugged on my heart, was I really such a bad person that even my twin brother thought I would break her heart?

"I'm not planning on doing that. I really like her, Gray. She does something to me, and I don't know what. I want to be with her so bad, she's on my mind the whole fucking time. I don't want to hurt her, I just want to get to know her better. If she doesn't like me after that, I'll leave her alone. Please, Gray?" My grip had loosened a bit and quickly he pushed me off of him.

"Fine. What do you want to know?" He said with a sigh.

"Everything."

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