I'm Down But Definitely Not Out - A You Me At Six Fanfiction.

Chapter 18 - Shopping.

A week had passed since Josh had been informed about Adrian, his actions around me changed a lot. Our friends had noticed this, and we'd been questioned, which Josh always responded in shaking his head and grinning, putting his arm around my neck to show he was proud of how strong I've come through the years. Sure there had been things bottled up, but the biggest problem I held inside me was the thought of Christian telling me about Adrian. I hadn't seen Christian since Adrian's funeral which was two weeks after the accident, and that told a lot - he wanted nothing to do with me either, as my parents had blocked me from their life, especially my father, who had walked out on my mother when I was young, but his back now, although I still do not trust him as he had brought my mother's walls tumbling down. Adrian had to be strong for us at that point, he looked after my mother and myself, Christian came over every day or so to help out as well, that's why I loved them both dearly; and  to have them to leave me in such a short notice, killed me on the inside.

I had felt like I was being strangled when Christian left after the funeral; someone had punched me so hard in the stomach, and twisting my lungs, I couldn't breathe. I was in a bad state for so long, but I got through it with the help of music and my only friends - Beau and Elle, which later I had met Sam - who I opened up too and treated me like I was a pile of rubbish. That also had brought me back to my old ways. Bumping into Josh after my grandfather's heart attack in the hospital was probably the best thing which happened to me in over the past two years. Now that I was back with the boys and girls my life was slowly getting back together, I loved them so dearly for this, and I felt like I could start trusting them all again and believing I'd never get left behind.

I felt my phone going off on my beside table, as I was sitting in bed, reading "Looking For Alaska By John Green" I quickly went to pick up my phone before it had rang out.

"Hello?" I answered my phone, as I couldn't be bothered checking the caller I.D.

"Hazel, it's Kay, Shelbs and Jay, we're coming over in five okay? We're meeting up with the guys at half two in London, look alive by the time we're there, and run the idea by Beau…" Kayleigh answered back, and before I could say anything she hung up. Groaning while getting up and heading to Beau's room, I softly knocked on his door.

"Yo, Beau. I'm heading to London later with the lads and girls, don't ask me what for, I just got informed" I spoke to him as he opened the door, he nodded slowly and yawned.

"That's fine, call if anything goes wrong" Beau responded and put his hand through his thin long, brunette hair. He smirked and winked at me as I had turned around to go make myself a coffee.

As I sat down on the stool, finishing the coffee I heard knocking and laughter outside of the apartment door.

"It's unlocked, come in" I shouted while putting the cup in the sink and looking at the girls. Noticing they were all smirking at me and had shopping bags and their own backpacks, I raised an eyebrow at them.

"We're giving you a make-over girl. You need to get more of Josh's attention." Shelby had winked at me, groaning in annoyance, and nodding slowly as they wouldn't let me disagree, I went to jump in the shower.

Once I had gotten out, wrapped in my towel, with my underwear and bra on underneath the towel, and noticing clothing items on my bed, with Shelby, Jayde and Kayleigh smirking at me, I rolled my eyes.

They had chosen out a pair of black high waisted shorts with a white singlet and a cargo jacket. Kayleigh had also given me my black pair of converse shoes. I had never worn something like this in a long time, as usually I'd just wear skinny jeans with whatever shirt I could find. Huffing out a sigh, I put the clothing items on and walked out of my bedroom to see what the girls had thought. Kayleigh, Shelby and Jayde had screamed a little and dragged me into the car to be on our way to London.

I was lucky enough to grab my black backpack which had contained my earphones and purse, because knowing the girls they'd drag me to go shopping with them, which would lead the guys into groaning as they took ages shopping.

We were about five minutes away from arriving where Josh had told us to meet, when I received a text from Josh claiming someone had gone up to him and asked him "if he was the French guy she was supposed to meet" this lead the whole car into laughter.

Once we arrived, I put my backpack on and waited  for everyone else to hop out of the car to go meet everyone else, I was rather excited to spend a day with the people I had grown to love and adore in the past weeks. I noticed Josh and walked faster towards him, which ended up in us both hugging each other for a while, he grinned at me as he pulled back and grabbed my hand. As I had assumed the girls went into almost every store they had seen and taken a while in each store. I rolled my eyes at this, as they'd take quite a while browsing the items. I leaned my head on Josh's shoulder as we waited for the girls after the fifteenth store they went into.

"Have you heard from this Christian guy since Adrian's funeral?" Josh whispered into my ear softly, I shook my head at him and looked down. "No, but I miss him, although I wouldn't be sure if I would forgive him for leaving like he did.." I spoke softly back, blinking my tears away as I hated talking about Christian and my brother.

A while had passed and the girls suggested to go to a park and eat Fish and Chips for dinner, Matt, Max, Jayde, Chris, Kayleigh, Dan and Shelby went to the park while Josh and I went into the store to purchase the dinner for everyone, as Josh and I arrived at the store I went to sit at a table while Josh ordered the meal, once he had, he sat down across from me.

"I'm sorry about earlier about Ch-" he spoke, I interrupted him as he attempted to apologise.

"Josh, it's fine, I know you are." I responded, he nodded his head and smiled softly at me.

"Would Beau mind if we all went back to your apartment and hang out?" he asked politely,

"I'll call him and find out, hang on," he nodded at me as I pulled my phone out and dialled Beau's number.

"Heya Beau, it's Hazel" Beau made a grunt noise and spoke back to me.

"Realized, I'm at work right now, so kind of can't talk," he said quickly and quietly supposedly so he won't get in trouble at work.

"Ah, sorry. Is it cool if the guys and girls come hang at our place?" I asked quickly as I didn't want to disturb him anymore, didn't want him getting in trouble..

"Yeah, that's fine. They can sleep over too if they really need to, got to go now, bye" he hung up at that, as I put my phone in my pocket, I nodded at Josh.

"It's fine, for you guys to stay over, even sleep if necessary, his at work.." I spoke, Josh smiled at me, in the process of speaking again; Josh spoke up.

"I need to ask you something later" he spoke in a serious tone, I nodded at him as I was about to say 'why not tell me now?' our meal had been called. Josh and I had lugged the meal back to the others in the park and ate, speaking amongst ourselves. Today was a rather good day, as for once spending it outside instead of someone's house or apartment, it was rather nice.

A/N.

Hey guys, so sorry it's a late update, I've been in Bali for the past two weeks and have been studying for exams/tests for school, which sucks.

Promise to try make the next chapter not so long of a wait, hope ya'll enjoy. xx