Chapter 1

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"Oh my god Andy stop!" I complain to my best friend. She's been talking to her boyfriend, Liam, for the past thirty minutes. Liam has the perfect bad boy look with his warm blue eyes and black hair but that's where it ends, he's a giant goofball when he wants to be, so I guess looking the part makes people get the wrong idea of him.

"FINE! I gotta go babe. Yes, Jessie's being an ass. Bye!" she ends the call and glares at me with her baby blue eyes, "Since you've deprived me of my boyfriends lovely voice, what do you want?" She asks as she jumps on my bed.

"Well, seeing as you asked, I thought we could order some pizza, and have a movie night." I say while taking off my jeans and slipping on some grey sweatpants, "If you want you can also sleepover."

She nods, "Anything to get away from my godforsaken house."

Andy's dad moved to Canada five years ago when she was thirteen and her mom remarried two years later to Bran. She hasn't heard from her dad since the move and whenever I want to talk about it, she just immediately changes the subject. Bran sucks hard core, he is such a douche and thinks he is now magically Andy's dad, which is the main reason why the majority of the time she sleeps over at my house.

We make our way out my room and down the stairs to the kitchen to get something to drink.

With a cold glass of Cola in hand, Andy and I make our way to the living room. My mouth falls open as I examine my dad putting a beautiful silver chain around my mom's neck, who's wearing a gorgeous black, floor length dress, with her short brown hair pinned to the back of her head with a few strands falling effortlessly to the sides of her face. My dad is wearing a black suit, with a white buttoned up shirt and a long thin tie to finish the outfit.

Andy speaks first, "OH MY GOD! Mrs. O'Brien, you look absolutely stunning and Mr. O'Brien you look quite dashing yourself!"

"Why thank you Andy. This mister over here," my mom says pointing at my dad, "Is taking me out to an old school friend of his party and we'll be spending the weekend there and we'll only be back on Monday morning." I completely forgot they were going away this weekend and I only then notice the bags standing against the couch.

"Well Mom. Dad. You both look amazing and I hope you enjoy your weekend away." I say with a smirk playing on my lips, "Sounds a little high class for my taste." My dad mouths "Mine too" which earns him a smack in the stomach from my mom.

"We're off then, wouldn't want to be late now would we," my dad mocks.

With loads of hugs and kisses my parents finally leave and Andy and I are left with one thing in mind.

PIZZA.

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"This movie hits me hard in the feels man." Andy says while she sniffles beside me.

We're watching The Notebook, the greatest romance movie ever made, at the part where Old Allie forgets Old Noah in the middle of their 'old people dance' and she starts screaming and lashing out. We wanted to invite Liam over but decided we'll call him at ten it's only nine thirty now. We've gone through two large pepperoni pizza's, two Cola cans each and a thousand tissues since my parents left. Andy phoned her mom before the movie just to let her know she hasn't died yet, but it seems her mom was too preoccupied with Bran to really care.

"Jess?" Andy asks and I nod absentmindedly as I watch the nurses take Old Allie away from Old Noah, "Do you think Liam loves me?" I whip my head to the side and look at Andy who is trying to avoid my gaze.

"Where is this coming from?"

I've never seen Andy this nervous before. Normally she is quite confident which is something we both have in common. She plays with a strand of her shoulder length, blonde hair before answering in a shaky voice, "I don't know, its a simple question. Do you, or do you not think Liam loves me? I've been thinking about it for quite a while now, that we've been dating for ten months and I know I love him, I'm just scared of telling him. You know, in case he doesn't feel the same." I gape at her revelation for a few moments trying to recognize this insecure girl sitting in front of me.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" I yell, "Of course he loves you, you moron! Do you honestly think he would put up with all your shit if he didn't?"

"I'm going to tell him tonight . I'll take him out to the back porch on the swaying bench and declare my undying love for him!" she exaggerates.

For a while we talk about how far she and Liam have come over the past ten months. They broke up once, I think round about seven months, when Liam's Dad got offered a job in Australia and made the decision that the whole family should move there to make life easier. Luckily Liam's older brother got a job at a big firm in the area and bought a place for the both of them to stay at, needless to say the break up wasn't for a bad reason just "technical difficulties" but they got back together as soon as they found out and here they are today very happy with how things turned out.

Andy phoned Liam twenty minutes ago which means he should be here any moment now. Just then, the front door bell rang making Andy jump up and start playing nervously with a lock of her hair. "Operation tell Liam I love him without him dumping me" was in motion. I give her a reassuring smile with a bonus thumbs up as I make my way to the front door. The door bell rings again resulting in me shouting that I'm on my way. I open the front door and see-

"Spencer!!!"

I jump up and wrap my legs around his body, kissing him immediately. He stood still for a few seconds before tucking his hands on the lower part of my back and returning the kiss softly. We stay in this peaceful heaven for not more than a split second before someone clears their throat, "If you guys are done sucking off each others faces that would be great." Andy says sarcastically.

I untangle myself from Spencer's body and roll my eyes at Andy while sliding my hand into his, satisfied with the warmth it provides. I was confused as to why Spencer was here, not that I was complaining, but he was supposed to be at his sister Phebe's house for another week.

He must've seen my confused expression as he answers my question, "Phebe's best friend got into a car accident and fell into a coma, he was hospitalised and Phebe wanted to be the first person he sees when he wakes up. We came to the conclusion that it would be better if I came home earlier."

I felt really bad for Phebe, she didn't deserve this type of stress in the beginning of her final year at university. Spencer being Spencer sees my change in mood and takes my face in between his two hands and sweetly kisses my forehead, erupting tiny butterflies inside my stomach.

I take his hand back in mine and lead him to the back porch where I'm sure Andy and Liam are sitting at. We exit the back door and find the two love birds kissing each other...forcefully if you could say so?

"If you guys are done sucking off each others faces that would be great." I mock my friends previous remark.

Andy jumps and turns a dark shade of red on her cheeks and tries to hide it by pressing her face into the crook of Liam's neck, Liam on the other hand just has a look of adoration as he looks at Andy. It's odd to see this shy and cute side to my usually bubbly friend, but I'm glad that it's Liam who causes these emotions.

As soon as Andy recovers she gives me a leave-bitch-I-want-to-tell-Liam-I-love-him look and I all but drag Spencer away from them. I ease Spencer's confusion by telling him what Andy was going to tell Liam and Spencer just laughs at the fact that we called it "Operation tell Liam I love him without him dumping me".

We fall onto the couch and I throw my legs over Spencer's lap resting my head on the arm rest. "Jess?" I look up and he's fidgeting and playing with his fingers nervously, making me think of how Andy looked like earlier. This, making me nervous, causes me to take my legs off him and fold them underneath me nodding at him saying my name.

"Well I've been thinking. We've been dating for seven months and I think now is the right time to tell you." He grabs my hands and kisses them slowly before speaking again...

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Holy cow!!!! That was chapter 1!

Please tell me if this book is crazy bad, I honestly hope it's bearable. This is my first book so try and be nice so that I don't feel like a complete loser.

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xxx

-Inge

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