DAISY // FIONN WHITEHEAD

Daisy

"Right, Danny, explain to us the importance of music?" Mark asks Danny. Danny quickly stands up nearly knocking his chair over, Fionn's eyes are wide and scrunch together.

Danny takes a deep breath and closes his eyes. Fionn waits for his answer but sighs and slouches in his chair, he hears a giggle and looks towards Daisy who's staring at him, he notices his posture and sits up straight a smile wide on his face. He looks down at his lap and fiddles with his fingers.

"Music isn't important? It's just the devils music, we don't need it, it isn't good for us, you know what would be nice? Sitting in a field with no music! Huh how great would that be?! Taking in the birds chirping and shit, great" Danny laughs to himself rambling on. Fionn's eyebrows are still scrunched together over this lad, what the fuck is this lad on he thought.

"Excuse me Mark, but can I correct Danny on his opinion on music?" Fionn looks ahead once he hears an angelic voice, she sounds northern and he loves it.

"Sure Daisy, go ahead"

Daisy stands up and sets her book down on her chair, She then faces everyone and starts talking. Fionn is mesmerised by every word she says. He's fascinated and he surely can't get enough.

"Music brings back a time in our lives when everything was good, brings nostalgia back, brings good memories and having fun, when you think of music you think of what you were brought up on, myself, I was brought up on indie and rock as to me they are the most important music genre's out there. My favourite band is The Smiths because Morrissey himself puts words into his songs that make you feel a type of way, whether you're proud to be from somewhere or you hate life or not just your life, the life around you, society's way of controlling us. It doesn't matter really, but music is there for everyone and it really is important because if it wasn't there, then, we would be nothing without it" She finishes, Fionn is absolutely astonished and takes her words in, she's completely right.

"Thankyou Daisy for your interpret on music" Daisy smiles and nods her head towards mark before sitting back down again. She looks towards Fionn and smiles, he's already smiling.

"Right Fionn, since you're new to the group, let's tell everyone who you are and why you're here" Fionn gulps and hesitantly stands up, his hands are shaky and sweaty. He looks to Daisy where she's watching him carefully, noticing his discomfort she smiles reassuringly and nods meaning that it's okay. He takes a deep breath.

"Erm, hi.. my name is Fionn Whitehead, I'm 17 years old and the reason why I'm here today is because... I.." he stops and looks at Daisy. He feels comfort even if he doesn't know this girl. She nods at him slightly that it's okay to go on.

"I tried to kill myself" he finishes, he waits for the look of disgust to set upon Daisy's face but there's none, there's a small smile and a gleam of love and sadness setting between her eyes.

"Thankyou Fionn, you may take a seat"

An hour into the session, Fionn listens carefully to everyone's stories and the things they love. He found out that Danny loves peace and doesn't want bad things to happen, he then found out that the two blonde lads Alex and Jamie, were twins who have extremely bad anxiety, the ginger girl, Jenny, wanted help to be a better parent and get off the drugs and Daisy, oh Daisy, he didn't expect it but, she tried to kill herself too. She didn't explain why, it's like she didn't want anyone to know. He thought, how can someone that perfect want to end their life, he doesn't know, he just knows that he wants to protect her.

"Right, let's pair everyone up" Fionn thankfully ended up with Daisy and was filled with joy. He made his way over to the other side of the room where each person was placed to have a private conversation and get to know one another better.

"Hi"

"Hello"

Fionn sits down next to Daisy. He notices the book and tilts his head trying to read the title.

"Wonder" Fionn lifts his head and raises his brow.

"Huh?" She laughs and points to her book.

"The book is called Wonder" he then understands and nods.

"What's it about?"

"About a young boy who had an incident which disfigured his face, he then has to deal with the judgemental stares and bullying he gets, but he's beautiful and at the end of the day you shouldn't judge because the boy has a heart of gold and that doesn't stop him from living his life" she smiles at him and hands him the book.

"You're really smart with your words" he says lifting his head up to her after analysing the book cover.

"Thankyou, no one really wants to hear me talk about my interests to be honest" she smiles gracefully. He frowns at her words.

"Whys that? If you don't mind me asking" she nods telling him it's okay.

"I guess before what happened, all my life no one was interested in what I adored the most and they took me as some kind of basket case, they didn't care" She says.

"Like the breakfast club?" He asks. She lifts her head and a smile made its way to her face.

"Yeh, exactly, that's one of my favourite films as well" she grins.

As they chatted to one another for over an hour, from a distance, Mark looks over and smiles. For the first time in a while he sees Daisy be herself and laugh at whatever Fionn was saying.

"So now that I know what you like and dislike, I still don't know where you're from" he asks.

"I'm from Manchester, I moved down here when I was 14, wasn't my choice it was my parents, I wanted to stay in Manchester because I spent most of my life there, but my dad got a better job and yeh that's why I'm here" she shrugs. Fionn nods understanding.

"So how do you find it here" He asks referring to Dorset, where they live.

"It's beautiful, I love the beaches, it's quite and peaceful" she smiles.

Fionn genuinely feels like he's falling in love with this girl and he hasn't even known her a full 24 hours. He's starstruck.

"Right everyone, the clock has hit seven, you're free to go, I'll see you all in two days" Marks shouts.

Fionn helps Daisy to her feet and both of them walk towards the exit.

Once outside Fionn sees his mother on the phone in the car, he rolls his eyes and turns towards Daisy.

"So" He awkwardly says putting his hand behind his back.

"So" she giggles. God that giggle is going to be the death of him.

"Could I possibly get your number?" He asks shyly looking down at his feet.

"Sure" he doesn't expect it, he lifts his head up fast and he's sure his heart is about to come out of his chest. She gets out a pen and a little pad where she rips the end off.

"Here" she hands him a small piece of paper with her number on it. He grips the paper tight like he's afraid it'll fly away.

"Anyway I've got to go, text me tonight, it was lovely meeting you Fionn" she stands on her toes and lightly kisses his cheek. His eyes go wide and he blushes.

He watches her walk away and turn a corner. He's frozen, until a beep interrupts his thoughts. He walks towards his mothers car with a small smile on his face. He gets in and straps himself in still looking forward heart beating so fast.

"Who was that eyy?" His mum asks him and he sees her in the corner of his eye that she's smirking.

"Some girl I met" he shrugs.

"Didn't look like 'some' girl, it looked like a girl you've fallen in love with"

He doesn't answer her, just smiles knowing that she's right.