My Addiction

My Addiction: Chapter Six

He smiled at me when he saw me and walked over to me quite awkwardly. I couldn't help the small grin that spread across my face when I saw just how truly awkward this man could be. He finally made his way over to me and said "Sorry I'm late."

"Don't worry about it."

"Would you like anything from here?"

"Oh no, I'm okay." I said lying because I was actually extremelly hungry.

"Well, I'm getting something, so you still have a chance to change your mind." Ed said while doing a funny dance thing up to the counter where the people who are too lazy to eat here go to order. I walked over to the counter with Ed and heard him say, "Can I get a plain black coffee and a ham and cheese croissant please?"

The lady at the counter smiled and nodded her head, then looked at me. I paused for a second then sighed and said "Can I have a-" "Ma'am, you might want to prepare yourself for this order right here." Ed said, interrupting me. I playfully punched his shoulder and said "Can I have a caramel macchaito and a scone, please?" The lady smiled and nodded.

Ed and I walked over to the area where you pick up your order and we waited.

"I see you changed your mind." Ed said with a smile.

I rolled my eyes and mumbled a quiet, "Shut-up Ed."

At that moment the lady from the cash register handed us our stuff with a smile. "Thank-you." Ed and I said together.

We walked to the door and were almost out of the coffee shop when Ed quickly turned around and walked back to that lady and left a tip in the tip jar and walked back over to me. "Thank-you sir!" the lady yelled and Ed just smiled in response.

"Well that was nice of you."

"She probably makes like 6 pounds an hour and I know how hard it is to try and live making that little an hour."

"What do you mean?"

Ed and I began walking to the iphone store and Ed's happy-go-lucky attire seemed to falter.

"Well um, when I was sixteen I ran away from home because my family and I were having some.. troubles. I had like two different outfits and my guitar and that was it. So, sixteen year old me, had no idea how hard it would be to live on your own in Manchester. I did it at first, well somewhat, I had a shitty apartment and all, but at least it was a home to go to at the end of the day. Eventually I got kicked out and had no where to go, so the streets were my new home. I would play the guitar and get some tips here and there. One day, things seemed to brighten up a little bit. I was playing my song 'You Need Me I Don't Need You' and it caught someone's attention. He stayed and listened to a few songs, and gave me a huge fucking tip, I actually thought he had meant to put in something else. Turned out he had some strings with a record dealership so he let me crash at his place, and he brought me up to where I am today. Oh and by the way his name is Example."

I was shocked at his story and couldn't even think of anything to say. "Never judge a book by its cover I guess."

Ed laughed and shrugged his shoulders "You're telling me. So now it's your turn."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I just spilled my whole life story to you for the most part. So now you have to tell me yours."

Hell to the no.

"I think we're at the shop." I said.

"Oh, wow that was fast."

"No, you just walk faster than any other living human on the face of the planet, that's all."

"Rude! Well, let's go get you the best mobile in here!" With that said he rushed into the store. I quickly walked over to him when some very pretty girl walked over to us and said "Oh my god, are you Ed Sheeran?"

Ed looked at the floor with a timid smile and mumbled "Yeah, I am."  The girl smiled even wider and asked "Can I please get a picture with you?" "Yeah of course love."

Ed looked to me and awkwardly handed me the girl's mobile. They both posed and I decided to take about 20 pictures, just to be safe. I took a few steps closer to the girl and said with a smile "Sorry, I took like a thousand pictures." The girl glanced between Ed and I and said "Are you two dating?" "No no no! He just owes me a phone!" I said playfully elbowing him. "Oh okay, it was nice meeting you Ed! I love your music so much!" the girl said smiling. "Thanks for listening to my music darling." Ed said shly to the girl.

After the girl walked away I looked to Ed and said jokingly "Alright, so you are certainly going to be playing me some of your music. And I swear, if you are some pop queen, auto tuned, Britany Spears, princess thing, I am not going to be your friend."

Ed dramtically placed his hand over his heart and wiped away a fake tear and said in a mocking tone, "I guess our friendship ends here then." "So it does." I said jokingly.

"Is there anything I can help you two with today?" Ed and I both turned around and saw a man who had an Apple Company uniform on.

"Uhm, yeah, uh, so we kind of need the newest iphone out, if that's not a problem of course." Ed said shyly. The man, who's name was Jack, laughed and said "That's not a problem at all sir. Our newest iphones are right over here." Jack said leading us over to a different section of the store. We followed after him and he said to Ed "So these are all the new iphones we have, and these are the only colors that we have in at the moment, and the cases are right next to the beautiful girl's right." With that said he walked off, leaving me with blush evident on my features.

Ed playfully elbowed me, "Get some." Even though Ed sounded playful there was something in his eyes and I couldn't tell exactly what it was. "So, what colour do you want you're phone in?"

I continued starring at Ed and I saw him begin to get uncomfortable and I realized just how long I was starring at him for. "I like this one" I said pointing to a purple one.

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After Ed and I picked out my phone and payed for the first month and everything, we were walking around the streets of Addingtion when Ed got a phone call.

"Hello?" "Aw hey mate, what's up?" "Yeah."

Ed glanced at me before answering whoever he was talking to.

"Yeah, I'm gonna bring someone though, is that good?"

Ed looked at me and smiled. "What?" I asked suspiciously.

"I want you to meet someone..Well, actually five someones."