True Love (Benedict Cumberbatch)

Chapter 6 - Falling Into Routine...Again (Lucy POV)

Hi guys, sorry Its been ages since I've updated but I started to write the ending instead of doing the next chapter... weird I know, but oh well, I've finally done another chapter :) Enjoy xxx Just a pre warning i havent edited this yet so sorry if some bits are confusing :P 

"What! There is no way in HELL that the Black Widow is better than Iron Man." I reply in absolute amazement as I look across at Toby who's goofily smiling at me. We've had this same argument at least 3 times a week since since we first saw the Black Widow in Iron Man 2. So now, as we walk through the massive cast iron gates that wear the school crest of Avalon High secondary school on the first day of summer term, we have the same debate again. I mean, how can he even think that the Black Widow is better than Iron Man.

"Whatever, you're only saying that because you love Robert Downey Jr, 'Oh Robert come sweep me off my feet, Oh Robert, I want to rip your shirt off and make sweet sweet love to you, Oh Rob..." I slap him in the stomach with the back of by hand to make him stop.

"Shut up Toby, and anyway, at least I wasn't drooling over him the way you were every time Scarlett Johansson came onto the screen" I retort looking at Toby rather smugly as his cheeks turn the lightest shade of pink. Knowing what I've said is true he turns his head away from me so that I can see his cheeks burning before replying

"Yeah, well..."

"Wassup besties?" Jenny Shouts, coming up behind us and slapping us on the back to make us jump, and in the process cutting Toby off mid sentence.

"JEN! What the actual hell?" Toby shouts back clutching his heart with his hands as he stumbles forwards and looks back at her.

"I swear one of these days you're actually gonna give us a heart attack..." I say looking at Toby who's still looking rather shell shocked "Well, maybe him more than me" I finish while smirking at Jenny as we carry on walking to the school and through the main entrance, Jenny slotting in-between Toby and I as we walk..

"Hey, that's not funny, my toad died from a heart attack." Toby says with a deadly serious expression on his face. I look at Jenny and we both burst out laughing as we all turn down another corridor that leads to our form room.

"Toby" I say gasping for breath between my out burst of laughter "you've never had a toad." I say finishing my sentence while giving a sideways look at Jen who, for some unknown reason, started laugh even harder.

"I know, but if I had had one then I think that's what it'd have died from."

This makes Jenny and I both stop dead in the middle of the bustling school corridor to stare at him with concern and slight confusion in our eyes. I mean, we both love him to pieces and all, we have done since we first become friends in year 2 when he moved into our class. I still remember when he fell, and I mean literally fell, into our classroom and unfortunately for him it was the Monday morning when we had painting. Now, I say unfortunately because of what happened after he fell into the room. Due to his forceful impact when barging into the room, he tripped and fell into Tessa, who had been carrying a tray of freshly squeezed paints to our table, this caused her stumble, fall to the fall and release the paints she was carrying into the air, which went flying across the table, landing on Jen (who was already having an off day) and covering her in a multi-coloured array of paints. Jen who was stunned only for a couple of seconds, remained calm and walked over to where Toby stood, starred him straight in the eye with pure hatred burning in her own before punching him in the nose; this of course made Toby scream out in pain loud enough to scare the birds sitting on the window sill outside. Jenny was then marched to the school reception to be sent home, which meant I was the only one left willing to take Toby to the nurses office.                                                                            However, while sitting on a plastic chair in the first aid room in awkward silence with Toby, who was holding a wade of tissues to his nose to stop the water fall of blood that had been pouring from it; I noticed a comic book poking out from his rucksack, I reached down and pulled it and stared at it for a couple of seconds before saying "Loki's my favourite Norse God, who's yours?" after looking at me slightly baffled Toby replied, and without realising it our friendship began to blossom. Although, 3 days later when Jenny came back to school she wasn't impressed that I'd become friends with, and I quote, "that clueless black haired vampire skinned pretty boy dumbass" to which Toby replied "Well, I have to say I'm not too keen on the way you look either, I liked you better when you looked like a rainbow." which made me laugh and Jen hold back a smile; and to be honest, I think Toby's bravery in speaking out when it was obvious Jenny was still pissed about the whole thing is what earned him her 'friendship approval' because all she said in return was "sorry I hit you the other day" and then she pulled out her wildly fluffy dog pencil case.

But even throughout all those years of knowing Toby, his dream of a toads death was among one of the weirdest and most randomest, and slightly concerning things hes ever told us.

"Special child" was all Jen said breaking the silence before walking off towards our form room. She opened the door but stopeped before entering so that she could look back over her shoulder at Toby before saying "Special child... Just Special child" and then she stepped through the door, letting it slam shut behind her.

I looked at Toby and shrugged before we followed Jenny's lead and entering the classroom; where we were immediatly engulfed in the shouting and laughter that filled the large square, too brightly lit room. Looking around I saw people sitting on desks and swinging on chairs, while others were happy throwing paper aeroplanes across the room or texting. My eyes finally landed on Jenny who was sitting at the back of the class and, grabbing Toby’s arm I weaved us through the maze of chairs, tables and people before eventually flopping down next to her and throw my belongings onto the table with Toby doing the same next to me; and we easily fell into our routine of getting out our headphones and connecting them together so that we could listen to the same IPod.

“How come you didn’t come to mine yesterday?” Jen asks me as I untangle my headphones from my keys before connecting them with the others and plug them in. “You always spend the last day of the hols with me” Jen says sounding a little hurt, and just then Toby changes the song and Liar Liar by Avicii starts pounding through our headphones, which is quite fitting actually since I haven’t told either of them about the whole making out with a guy I’d only just met and inviting him to stay the night. I look down into my lap guiltily, and I can’t help but let my mind wonder to how he made me feel. The way he made my heart pound against my chest like it was trying to escape to be able to sore through the sky at a million miles a minute; and how his muscle arms surrounded my body, like a protective barrier against the world, and how he used them to hold me up and pull me closer, but at the same time was careful to not be too rough, like I was a delicate flower that he didn’t want to damage, oh and those ey…

“Hellooo! Earth to Lucy!” Jenny says clicking her finger in front of my face and shouting in my ear, damn that girl has a pair of lungs on her, I feel like my ears about to bleed. “Well?” she says looking expectantly at me.

“Oh, sorry, I woke up late and needed to get ready for today, and you know, just got busy and forgot to say… sorry” I lied, I had forgot to call, but I actually spent the day listening to music and losing myself in thoughts of my mystery man Benedict, who came in and swept me off my feet, cheesy I know, but true. I mean, don’t get me wrong I want to tell Jenny and Toby all about him, we’ve told each other everything ever since Jenny and I swore to do so when we 4 and always had play dates and it was obvious we we’re going to ‘friends forever.’ How could we not, we’ve always lived on the same estate, 6 houses away from each other, our dads are mate and went to school together and our mums have been close since going to the same law school, and now work at the same law firm; so I guess you could say our friendship was already planned. So, after Toby joined our friendship and it was clear he was going to stay we made him sweat to do the same. But, for some reason, something inside of me was almost, warning? me to not tell them, so I haven’t… yet.

“Anyone going to ask what I did on my last day of the hols?” Toby says breaking the silence. “No. Didn’t think so” he finishes letting a small smile spread across his face making Jen and I smile back at him; good old Toby, always there to lighten the mood.