Catfish - Michael Clifford

Chapter Three

A/N: sort of a filler, I swear it'll get to the good stuff soon! Bare with me! :)

Ivy lay on her bed staring at the ceiling. The flat was really quiet. Nova had left for work already and Ivy had another day off. She picked up her phone and started scrolling through her social media accounts. Checking through Facebook was just mainly her sighing. She hated mostly everyone on their and was sick of the mundane stories about peoples lives, the annoying photos that you apparently have to share or you'll die and videos that were stupid and made her hate people even more. Twitter was nowhere near as bad, other than the tweets that are the same thing over and over again with different numbers added to the end. She couldn't stand them. But she could tolerate it more than the crap on Facebook.

She noticed one of @GamerGuy95's gaming tweets as she scrolled through, and decided to DM him.

'Hiya how are you? x'

After around 10 minutes of waiting for a reply and aimlessly scrolling through Twitter she decided she wasn't getting a reply so she may as well get up and do something productive. She quickly tweeted about how happy she was to read that 5 Seconds Of Summer were back in the studio recording some new material then twisted herself out of the bed.

She walked through to the living room and put the 5 Seconds Of Summer album into the Xbox. She thought about playing Call of Duty or FIFA instead but after looking around the room she knew she needed to tidy first.

The album had played all the way through twice before she finally finished cleaning and tidying the whole flat. How two girls made so much mess she didn't know.

After looking around and making sure she'd definitely done everything, she sat down on the sofa with a cold can of Sprite that she'd found at the back of the fridge.

She leant forward and took the Xbox controller from the coffee table. Letting the music carry on playing she pressed play game on Call of Duty: Black Ops. It was the older version of the game but she preferred this one to the others.

She was just getting into killing all the bots on Nuketown, when her phone alerted her that she had a DM. She waited until the score limit was reached on the game then checked her phone.

'Hi sorry was at work, I'm OK thanks you? Xx'

Sh noticed he'd changed his picture to one she assumed was him, it was an average looking guy with blonde hair. He didn't look like her usual type but she wasn't looking for a relationship so she wasn't too bothered.

'Oh where do you work if you don't mind me asking? Also sorry for slow reply playing COD xx'

She played another round whilst waiting for a reply. One came just as she got the last kill she needed to win.

'Just the shop near my house. Wow what's your gamertag I'll add you if that's okay xx'

'Its cringey but its the same as my twitter username haha xx'

Within a few minutes she had a notification pop up telling her that 'DeafLeopard' had added her. She chuckled at the clever gamer tag.

'So do you actually like Def Leppard? Xx'

She DM'd him.

'Yes! And I happen to think my gamer tag is amazeballs xx'

'Me too, now can I kick your ass at COD? Xx'

'You can try! Is it ok if I add some of my friends to the game? Xx'

'Of course, more peoples ass to kick! Xx'

She watched as their game session became 5 instead of two. The three other gamertags were 'thepenguin' '20cal09' and 'drummerboy'. Ivy laughed at how lame they sounded, before remembering her own. They played against each other in Team Deathmatch. Ivy of course did beat all of them. Shortly after, she received a message through the Xbox from the guy she knew as Ash, @GamerGuy95 and now DeafLeopard as well.

'Wow girl youve got game. Re-match on Infected?'

'Hahaha you're gonna get creamed again'

'Game on.'

Yet again, she won.

'Dude how are you this good, you're a chick?' thepenguin sent her.

'Ha sorry, its called having 5 brothers that are competitive!'

They all played again, but this time it was capture the flag. Ivy was teamed up with Ash, and the other three were on another team. It was a close game but Ivy and Ash won.

As she was about to start another game she heard Nova walk through the front door.

"Hi honey, I'm hoooome." Nova said, lengthening the word home.

"You are so cringy. Why are we friends?" Ivy joked.

"Because you're a loser that lays around playing video games and I felt sorry for you." She replied, poking her tounge out.

"Actually I've been kicking ass so shush you." "Thanks for tidying by the way, I was actually thinking of doing it tonight, so I'm glad I don't have to now."

"Its okay you can cook tea tonight." Ivy smiled.

"Fiiiiine."

A message notification popped up at the bottom of the screen which Ivy saw out of the corner of her eye.

'Hey where have you disappeared to? The game is lacking without you! Xx'

'Sorry Nova just came home and we need to get sorted, will definitely be back to kick all your asses another day! Xx'

'I look forward to it :) xx'

"Ooh who's this then?" Nova teased.

"The guy from twitter that was DMing me." Ivy told her.

"Ooooh." She teased again.

"Shut up." Ivy replied before throwing one of the sofa pillows at her.

"Alright alright, so what do you fancy for tea?"

"I don't know, surprise me."

As Nova walled into the kitchen, Ivy's phone buzzed.

'Do you have Kik or anything cause trying to write through DMs is difficult ha xx'

'Do you have Facebook, we could message on there? Xx'

She waited around 20 minutes before she received a reply.

'No, sorry'

She was a little disheartened by his blunt reply.

'Oh ok how about texting? We can exchange numbers if you want.'

'Ok sounds good to me xx'

She sent him her number and waited anxiously for a reply or a text.

'Hey xxx'

She received from an unknown number, smiling at the extra kiss. Ivy was till unsure about the blunt message but shrugged it off.

'Hey, I really have to go and help Nova now, I'll text you later :) xx' She replied to him.