Proud - Keep You

Chapter 33

Fay’s POV:

“Mm, Ivy’s gone,” JB whispered to me, as I continued to lie in bed, but smiled when I felt JB’s body come close to mine and wrapped me up in his arms. “Was she pleased to see Ast?” “Of course, she’s always happy to see him,” he chuckled, before nuzzling his face into my neck. “What’s the time?” I asked “Err... Quarter past eight,” JB mumbled “okay... I’m gonna have an hour more of a lay in, then gonna get up,” I said quietly, at the same time as I felt him smile onto my neck, “sounds perfect,” he whispered, kissing the skin behind my ear, as we continued to nap our way to quarter past nine.

Twenty minutes later, JB’s groan of what seemed frustration interrupted our peaceful morning. “What’s the matter?” I mumbled in tiredness “remembered I need to pick up something from work... Means I have to get up,” he complains as I giggle and roll over to face him, “can’t you go in later?” I ask with hope for another option, “I think so... Today is Wednesday, so I suppose that on Wednesday I have until one ‘o’ clock to get what I need,” he talks me through, but then with curiosity... What does he need to pick up?

“Can I know what you need to pick up?” “Do you wanna know? It’s not interesting, it only has something to do with work; running order of songs for the upcoming tour,” he tells me, as I nod “oh, I see, why do you need it?” “To learn what songs are gonna be in order, and everything else. Baby, are you coming to see me and the lads perform?” “Depends, when, where and what time it is... Knowing my boss she’ll properly keep me on late shift on the day I can ONLY go to,” I sigh with sadness thinking about my boss who never lets me have a life outside of work! “I’m pretty sure, you can make a Saturday,” “yeah, of course... but why do you seem so confident on that?” I giggle, “because...” He begins as he reaches over and goes into his bed side table draw and pulls out an envelope, and passes it to me “you’re going on a Saturday,” he grins at me and winks, as I gasp and peer inside the envelope seeing one ticket in there, “aww JB, thank you so much! Aww yay, I can see my boyfriend perform, and be like ‘oh yeah, look at my honey rocking out his moves’” I impersonated a rock star, which made JB laugh, as I then giggled at myself. “That’s sweet baby... Plus, I know where you’re sitting, so I can look there all the time,” he winks at me again, as I pull the ticket out of the envelope and see that I’m in one of the front rows on the floor ground, right in front of the stage! Life couldn’t get much better than this!

Ivy’s POV:

I gasped at the sight of a BIG teddy bear that my heart instantly fell in love with. “DADDY, PLEASE DADDY CAN I HAVE THAT BEAR?” I shout excitedly to daddy as I run back over to him, as he is sitting on a bench and mummy is standing by some clothe shop. “What one?” Daddy asks, as he gets up from the bench and allows me to take him to the shop with the teddy, “oh honey, that’s a big bear! Don’t think my car could fit it,” “oh please daddy, I want it so badly,” I beg as I couldn’t resist, but want this teddy. “What about a smaller one? A much smaller one,” “oh, but...” I begin to get upset “I want that one,” I look down to the street floor. “Well, let me think about it... We have yet to get something to eat,” daddy chuckles as he picks me up and carries me with him to a cafe, that mummy is standing near.

Aston’s POV:

“What would you like to eat? Or drink?” “Can I have a fruit shoot and a cookie,” “of course,” I begin to order what Ivy would want, and (Your name) as well as for myself.

Sitting down at the table, I noticed that (Your name) had only just come into the cafe and sat down next to Ivy, as I started to put one of two sashes of sugar in my coffee. “Look, daddy got me a cookie!” Ivy giggled as (Your name) smiled, “so I see... See anything you liked?” “Yeah, there’s a BIG teddy bear that I would like and daddy is buying it for me,” she giggled and grinned with the excitement about it, making me smile as I put the last sashay of sugar into my coffee and start to stir. “It’s not the one in the pink shop is it?” (Your name) looks at me with a shocked look, as I sit there and become confused “what’d you mean?” “That huge on in the window of the shop... We can’t possibly get that in your car... can we?” She asks a bit of concern is sparked in her voice. “I’m pretty sure we can,” “so it is that bear... I saw it walking up to the cafe, and thought Ivy would have seen it... Are you sure you can?” She asks a frown on her face “yeah,” I flash a smile as I begin to drink my coffee as Ivy is not taking an interest of our conversation, but too busy eating her cookie.

As I glance over my shoulder, I notice that everyone is staring at me... why, I’m not sure, but I swallow hard, before looking back at my coffee. “What’s wrong?” (Your name) asks me quietly “everyone is staring at me,” I whisper “don’t you expect them to?” “What’d you mean?” “You are famous... You ARE from JLS,” she says, as I look at her. “Oh yeah,” I chuckle to myself “did you forget?” (Your name) asks as little smile appears on her face as I blush, “you are so down to earth it’s unbelievable,” she giggles as I titter.

We arrived back at home, later that night and Ivy had become tired from the car journey, eating a lot and walking around town. As soon as we got in the house, Ivy automatically went to bed.

On the other hand, I was spooning (Your name) in bed, as she was in a light sleep. Thinking over this morning, about what she said to Ivy about Claire, had my brain ticking over. Why did she tell Ivy that? My head prickled at the thought!

“(Your name),” I whispered, as I heard her mumble back “why did you tell Ivy that I loved Claire?” “Because you did... Or maybe still do. I couldn’t just let Ivy have an unanswered question. She’d come back to it anyway, so I thought might just get it over and done with-” “But she now might think, that I don’t love you,” “she doesn’t understand the meaning of love... Aston, she’s only six!” “So? What happens when she finds out, and thinks that me and you just had some sort of fling, and didn’t really care,” “at the end of the day... I suppose that only one of us only really cares for the other, and the feeling isn’t mutual,” “what’d you mean?” “Ast, it feels like I’m the only one who cares for us-” “You see this is EXACTLY what I mean about Ivy,” I snap as I pull myself away from her, and sit on the side of the bed, as I feel her sit up. “What?” Her voice is quiet “what you just said... EXACTLY PROVES MY POINT ABOUT IVY... You think she might not understand the meaning of love, but WHEN SHE DOES SHE’LL THINK THAT I DON’T CARE FOR YOU... JUST BECAUSE SHE’S SIX DOESN’T MEAN SHE DOESN’T KNOW THINGS,” “Ast, please... Ivy is trying to sleep,” “IS THAT ALL YOU GIVE A FUCK ABOUT... IVY, THIS IVY THAT, DO YOU NOT HONESTLY GIVE AN ACTUAL FUCK ABOUT US,” “what do you want me to do, stop caring for Ivy?” “I didn’t say that!” I snap “then what are you suggesting,” “I’m not suggesting anything... All I’m saying is, that the NEXT SHE ASKS ABOUT CLAIRE, YOU LEAVE IT TO ME TO ANSWER, AND NOT HER TO FIND OUT FROM YOU OTHERWISE SHE THINKS I DON’T CARE FOR YOU,” I scream at her, but tucking myself into bed leaving (Your name) to herself.

Ivy’s POV:

Sitting at the breakfast bar, mummy had just given me some cereal to eat for breakfast. Although, mummy’s and daddy’s argument was on my mind as it woke me up and I heard everything, but mummy pretended everything was okay, even though she didn’t know that I knew.

Then I heard daddy come down the stairs making me look towards him, as he had an angry look. “Daddy,” I call him quietly as he walks over to the fridge past mummy, although he doesn’t reply to me, “daddy,” I call again, but mummy frowns “daddy,” “WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT,” he suddenly screams at me as I frown and burst into tears. “What the hell is wrong with you? She just wanted your attention,” mummy hugs me in her arms, “I’ll tell you what is wrong... SOMEONE KEEPS ANSWERING MY QUESTIONS FOR ME,” daddy screams, before walking out the kitchen, while I feel mummy peck the top of my head, at the same time I hear daddy walk out of the house...