In real life

Phone home

Everything felt calm and peaceful. Troye, Tyler and I were all curled up on Zoe's couch, Tyler and I sitting up while Troye lay on top of us. His legs were sprawled out over mine and his head rested comfortably on Tyler's lap. Finn sat in an armchair opposite us, typing something on his phone. The soft sound of his fingers tapping on the screen was calming and contributed to the peaceful atmosphere.

I took Troye's hand in mine and slowly started to draw patterns with my finger on the back of his hand. He smiled up at me and squeezed my hand softly. Then the smell of food came drifting through the air and both of our eyes lit up. ''Zoe seems to be doing a good job in the kitchen'', I said with a smile. Troye laughed softly. ''Seems so'', he said.

We sat there in silence for another few minutes, just enjoying each other's company like we had been doing for the last half an hour or so. It felt wonderful to be able to just sit back and relax. But I knew the moment couldn't last forever. There were things that had to be sorted out.

I sighed as I let go of Troye's hand and sat up straighter. ''Okay so, what's going to happen now?'' I said. Troye frowned. ''What do you mean?'' he said. I took a deep breath. I didn't like what I was going to say next, but it had to be said. ''What I mean is that even if I made the right decision when I came to London I can't stay here forever. You had a plan when you came here Troye, both you and Tyler had. You are going to find a place here where you can live together and in the meantime you are going to stay at Zoe's place. I don't have that kind of plan, I don't have anywhere to live.''

Troye sat up and wrapped an arm around my shoulders, squeezing them slightly. ''It's okay'', he said, ''we'll figure something out. I'm sure Zoe will let you stay here if you ask her.'' ''Yeah, you are always welcome here!'' Zoe said. She had just entered the room with a tray in a tight grip. Five bowls of steaming hot macaroni and cheese balanced on top of it and it looked absolutely delicious. Zoe sat the tray down on the small coffee table and then turned to us. ''There is only one problem'', she said, a frown slowly entering her face. ''Troye and Tyler are staying in the only guest room I have so there isn't really any place where you can sleep, if you don't want to sleep on the couch of course...''

Suddenly Finn looked up from his phone. ''She could always stay at mine and Jack's place for a while'', he said. ''Right now our parents and our sister isn't home anyway, and I'm sure Jack won't mind.'' He turned to me and smiled. ''You could stay in the guest room you slept in last night. What do you think?''

I looked at him in shock. Finn Harries, the Finn harries, was asking me if I wanted to stay with him and his twin brother? It seemed like it. And I knew exactly what my answer was. ''Y-yeah'', I stuttered, ''absolutely!''

I smiled but after a few seconds my smile dropped as the words that Troye had said to me earlier came back to me. I will never leave you again. Even if none of us had said anything about it I knew that the promise had gone both ways. We had promised that none of us were going to leave the other one, and there I was taking the first opportunity I saw to get us separated again. What kind of awful friend was I?

I looked over at Troye, afraid that he would be looking back at me with disappointment and hurt in his eyes. To my relief his eyes held none of those emotions. He looked happy and smiled at me approvingly. ''Sounds like a plan batman!'' he said cheerfully. I smiled back and almost let out a sigh of relief. Troye approved. Everything was fine. And besides, it wasn't like I was leaving him for good. We would still live in the same city and probably see each other everyday. I didn't know what I had been so worried about.

"Wonderful!" Zoe said and clapped her hands together. "Then that's settled! There is one thing left that I worry about though; your family. Have you sorted everything out with them when it comes to you living here? Do they know that you are safe?" Zoe smiled at me and gave me a questioning look but all I could do was let my gaze drop to the floor. I looked down at my feet as a painful knot started to form in my stomach. My family. Had they even noticed that I was gone yet? And if they had, did they even care? There was only one way to find out.