Warzone

Warzone Part 8

part 8

Tom's POV

I really need to stop doing this to Anne, I think to myself as I sit in the deserted park, with a half empty bottle of vodka by my side. I can't help it though she doesn't understand what I'm going through... Rebecca does though. I can't believe I have left her on her own in the house; she got on well with Anne, yes. But she doesn't really know anyone there. I reach across to the bottle and take another big mouthful. I can't go back home now though, she will still be up and she doesn't know how much I drink. I can't let her see me in this state. I need to sober up, although it's ironic that this thought crosses my mind while once again reaching for the bottle. 

Rebecca's POV

I don't know how much more of this pretending I can take, Tom obviously couldn't hack it and that is why he has disappeared. I just wish I could do the same. I steal another look at Nathan; although he is a band with my brother, and one of his best mates; I have always dreamed of something happening between us. This is partly the reason I have always pestered Tom to bring me to London before. But now I am finely here I don't have the courage to talk to him. He wouldn't be interested in me anyway. I think while standing up and beginning to walk up the stairs. 

Nathan's POV

"You look lost" I say after following Rebecca up the stairs. She jumps slightly before turning around to face me.

"Which is my room?" She asks.

"The one at the far end on the left. It's opposite mine." I reply and wink at her. Nathan you idiot. What happened to just being friends? She blushes slightly and looks down at the floor, before thanking me and turning to walk off. 

"Wait. you're not going to bed now surely?" I ask. 

"I'm not really in the mood for this. I can't... I can't deal with this right now." Slowly a single tear rolls down her cheek, after some time another follows and then there are more quickly after that. I reach forward and pull her into a tight hug, she holds on to me, and we stand like this for a while, before I pull away and take her by the hand and lead her into the room at the far end on the right. 

Max's POV

"Lottie babe, your phone's ringing. Someone called Dan, do you want me to answer it?" I shout across the room as she is getting herself something to drink. 

"No!" She turns around quickly and shouts to me. She looks worried and panicked, and I can't help but wonder why. Suddenly before I know it, she has taken the phone off me and is walking into another room. I can't help but worry about this. Who the hell is Dan? Why is she being so secretive? And why did she look so worried when I almost answered the phone? What the hell is going on?

Rebecca's POV

Nathan takes me into his room and sits me on him bed before leaving to get me some tissues, when he returns he sits on the bed besides me and puts his arm around me. 

"Everything too much?" He asks and I nod in the way of an answer. "I thought so, but you don't have to go back downstairs. I'll leave you to go to your own room if that's what you want."

"No." I say, and for the first time I look into his eyes. "I like the company."

"Good." He says and he gives me a smile. We sit in silence with him just gently holding me, and slowly I begin to feel a tiny bit better. The silence isn't awkward, and before I really even know it I am looking back up at him, only this time I lean towards him, hoping for a kiss.

"Rebecca." He says while pulling away. "We have only known each other five minuets. You are a beautiful, lovely girl; but you are in no fit state. I would be taking advantage, and I don't want to do that. Lets wait and see how you feel in a few days."

"You wouldn't be taking advantage." I say, slightly annoyed and upset that he has reacted like this.

"I would. And besides Tom would kill me." We both laugh slightly, but we know that this isn't funny.

"He wouldn't know. He's out getting wasted. You don't need to pretend he's not. I'm not a little kid."

"I know you're not, and you're right. But like I said we hardly know each other. And we both know that some of the fun is getting to know each other." We both smile, as he moves closer so that he is holding me once more. I fell safe in his arms and slowly I begin to fall asleep. I am barely conscious as he lifts me up to carry me into my own room and place me gently in my bed, and I think I must have been asleep by the time he closed the door behind him on his way out.