emma's perspective
I wake early before my midday alarm with a banging headache. I'm next to Will who's snoring gently with his arm still around me. I move his arm but there isn't even movement from him as he's still in deep sleep. I'm wearing his T-shirt which is very oversized and I grab his joggers he's been wearing the night before and throw them on me. I don't recall a single thing that happened last night.
There's voices in the kitchen and I walk in to see Alex and George. 'What the fuck mate you and Will got frisky last night,' George almost shouts pointing at me. I turn my head in confusion. 'Your neck,' Alex says shocked. He has lipstick on his face from whatever happened last night. 'Yeah and you have some girl's lipstick still on your face from whoever you were snogging,' I say folding my arms in defence. I chose not to believe what George was laughing about. 'That's your lipstick,' George says to me.
Both mine and Alex's eyes widen at each other. 'I remember I dared Alex to kiss you when you guys were pissed drunk,' he chuckled. 'Please tell me that was not me,' Alex says pointing to me. 'What?' I say walking to the mirror. There's hickeys tracing down my neck down to my collar bone. George cackles, 'No that was Will.' My jaw drops. 'Oh no no no no no,' I cry. Gee walks out of her room stretching and yawning. 'What's all the racket for?' She says and then looks at me and bursts out laughing. I groan and walk over to take a seat next to Alex. 'You're a good kisser by the way,' Alex says jokingly. They all laugh at the table and I hit him continuously.
After a few minutes chatting about last nights events, Josh comes out from Gee's room and Stephen comes out from the spare room and joins us at the table. 'Last night was a banger,' Stephen says taking a seat next to me. I get up immediately and run to Will's room to get another one of his jumpers to hide my neck. 'Jesus am I that bad Emma?' He fools. I go through Will's wardrobe and pick out a white jumper that hides my neck fine. But just as I'm about to leave the room, Will starts to wake up.
'Morning,' He says in a lazy voice and stretches. I walk back to the bed where he is and sit next to him. I smile but stay silent looking at my nails as I feel awkward. 'Reppin' the merch again, I like it,' he says yawning. But I ignore, feeling like I should cut to the chase. 'We didn't do anything last night Will, did we?' I blurt out automatically. He shakes his head no. 'We just kissed and stuff. Why?' He questions hesitantly. I pull down the jumper to show the hickeys he'd left and that's when I seen his, that I'd obviously given him.
The two of us burst out laughing. 'Jesus we're gonna have to hide these from the lads now,' he says. 'Too late they've already seen mine and taken the piss out of me. Also did you know I kissed Alex last night?' I say turning red as it's a weird subject to talk about. 'Yeah man I was tipsy but can actually remember everything. It was class you shoulda seen him getting proper in there with you,' he chuckles uncontrollably. I roll my eyes and get up to walk out of the room.
I had a big feeling this day of travelling would be awkward for me. It was weird knowing that I'd made out with my best friend, nearly had sex with Will and that both our necks are now covered in hickeys. It would be weird if Stephen had seen as well. It wasn't awkward at all between Alex and I since we had kissed before multiple times but the fact that everyone knows is quite weird. I didn't even feel like looking at Will today or any day for that matter because I was so embarrassed that all that happened. I was so excited to spend a month away with him, and hoping I'd tell him that I'd liked him but now I've a great feeling this trip will be spent at Gee and Alex's side.
(time skip to that evening)
We have finally reached the first destination which is Rome, where we would be spending a three days. The hotel arrangements had already been made out by Alex and I on the plane over being that him and I share a room, Josh and Gee share a room and Will, Stephen and George would be sharing a room together. Everyone but Stephen had pleaded on Will and I sharing a room but I refused by saying that Alex and I already promised to stay together and I see this gave Stephen a sense of relief. I've at all costs, tried to avoid speaking to Will which everybody noticed and found strange but I pretended I didn't take any notice which killed me. I couldn't stand being like this to Will but I'm just an awkward mess.
