Teach me how to dougie

Chapter 31

Dougie's pov

"Where's James, he's late, again." I checked my phone, it was now 11, he's half an hour late. this isn't the first time either, he's been late a couple of times lately, and he's been acting really shifty with me. I feel like he's hiding something, but I can figure out what.

"Something's going on with him, he's been so secretive and is always 'busy' I don't get it." Matt sounded slightly hurt, even more so when he made a quote action on the word busy. I knew this had been effecting him more than us, James and Matt as so much closer, they've been through so mic together, they were the new boys together in the band, James is his go-to guy.

Suddenly the door slammed open and James stood in the opening. I could see he was walking towards me, not looking to happy.

"How the hell could you do that to her?" his voice boomed, much lower than usual. I looked around hoping he was talking to someone else because I didn't have a clue what he was going on about.

"What the hell is going on?" Tom voice was still calm and relaxed yet seemed to take leadership over the situation, which I was glad of because I felt James was slightly out of control.

"Are you going to tell them or am I?" I felt like I had betrayed James someone, the way he spoke, as if I'd hurt him, and I still didn't know how, or why, or even what?

"James, mate-"

"Don't, you didn't see what you did to her." I could see him breaking as he lived the memory of whatever had happened, snapping inside of him.

"Who? what the hell am I supposed to have done? because right now James, I'm lost."

"Darcy, she was convinced she was being replaced, how could you let her feel like that?"

What the hell has Darcy got to do with him? him and Darcy have always been friends but she wouldn't spill her heart out to him. what's changed?

"She saw that photo, she was hysterical, I was scared of what she was going to do, I've never seen a person so vulnerable, you let that happen to her. You have that one your conscience."

Vunerable? Darcy, why would he see her like that?

"What's she got to do with you James, since when have you two been 'best buds'?"

Angry twisted through his face, the pain washing away as his fists clenched.

"She's my friend, I care about her and you let Ellie put the photo up of you and the twins, knowing she would see it. I mean come on, she's been in your life for two seconds and she's already calling things 'family days out' the twins have met her a couple of times, she's not their family."

Fuck.

That's what he's going on about.

"Is that it?"

"Don't you dare. She cried herself to sleep last night after I had to rush to her house to make sure she didn't do anything stupid. She screamed down the phone, sobbing and crying that they were her babied, not Ellie's. Don't you see? Dougie she's petrified of losing them, they're her world and she thinks she's going to be replaced by Ellie."

"Woah, woah, woah. why were you at her house, why have you suddenly cosied up to her a all of a sudden. Are you trying to pick up my sloppy seconds or something?"

As soon as the words left my mouth his fist knocked the air out of my cheeks, my body jerked backwards as I fell to the floor, I heard shuffling as the other boys jumped to their feet. I squinted, slowly opening my eyes and clutching my cheek. I could see James was still still above me. His face didn't show an once of regret, just anger.

"Sloppy seconds? have you seen Ellie, you've down graded, we both know if Darcy could bare you, you wouldn't think twice, it's hardly sloppy seconds if your jealous of it."

(I didn't mean that, it's just for effect, Ellie's not actually ugly, please don't strangle me.)

"But don't worry, no, were just really good friends, but if we were how would you feel if I was putting photos up of your kids with captions like Ellie did?"

Without even waiting for my reaction he walked away slamming the door behind him.

"Jesus, I've never seen him like that before. Doug you okay mate?"

I was still lay on floor until matts voice pierced the silence, breaking the ice, giving me a reason to get up and attempt to find my dignity.

_______________________

Authors note

Heyy, sooo what do you think?

Drammaaaa😲😵😮

How sweet that he stuck up for darcy, but what's that going to do to the band?

Uh oh

So many things to think about....

Hoped you like it please vote and follow me, let me know what you thought in the comment, thanks for reading I hope to have another chapter up tomorrow, try and get as many up as I can before I have to go back to that hell hole that grammatically correct called "school"😩😫😖😤