When We Were Young - George Daniel

CHAPTER NINETEEN (confrontation)

August, 2009

I woke up the following morning with a dull ache between my legs and I smiled. I was finally not an eighteen year old virgin. The boy responsible for that was laying stomach down next to me snoring softly. His arm was over my mid section so I made sure to move carefully as not to wake him while I searched for my phone on the floor.

Reaching success I unlocked it seeing several texts and missed calls from George, Adam and Ross.

"Fuck," I whispered.

Adam Hann at 12:35am

"Evie! Where have you gotten to? Are you with Matty?"

Ross McDonald at 12:47am

"Jesus Christ Evie respond to one of us please! George is losing his mind."

George Daniel at 1:00am

"Evie I need to know where you are. I know you said we'd talk tomorrow but I have to find you!"

George Daniel at 1:01am

"If you don't get back to me soon I'm going to do something really stupid, I can't lose you again!"

George Daniel  at 1:02am

"I swear to god Evie!"

Adam Hann at 1:13am

"Evie please you really have to get in touch with George he's so drunk I don't know how to fucking control him!"

And finally...

George Daniel at 2:03am

"I fucking love you so much, please come back"

"Fuck, fuck, fuck," I mumbled and got up out of Matty's bed, walking out into the hall. I had to call one of them, but I couldn't call George. Not yet.

I pulled up Adam's name and rang him. 

"Evie!" He picked up after two rings. "Am I glad to hear from you!"

"Adam, I'm so sorry I lost track of time and I didn't se-"

"It's alright, I'm sorry we all blew up your phone it's just George was in a pretty bad way."

"I kinda got that from all his messages," I spoke sadly. "Is he okay?"

"Yeah, he's still passed out on my couch. Ross and I managed to get him here so he could at least calm down a bit."

"Thank you. I would have hated something bad to have happened. In one of his messages he said if I didn't reply he was going to do something really stupid," I told my friend.

"He was just being drunk and dramatic," Adam laughed. "I think he was trying to say whatever he could to get you to respond."

I swallowed nervously. I hoped him telling me that he loved me wasn't a ploy to get a reply out of me.

"You're with Matty though, yeah?" Adam asked.

"Oh, y-yeah I am. We're just at his, he's still asleep."

"Okay," Adam spoke carefully. He definitely knew something was up from my nervous response. Fuck. "Well obviously George is still asleep and Ross is too so I suppose I'll see you later on today then when everyone's pulled themselves together a bit," he laughed.

"Hopefully!" I smiled. "Hey Adam?"

"Yeah?"

"Thanks for, you know, looking after George last night. He means everything to me and if anything would have happened I just, I don't know. Thank you."