Boy Meets Girl, Girl Meets Boy

Chapter 5

- LULU - 

I left Westfield and headed home where I ordered a pizza and engrossed myself in 'How I Met Your Mother' reruns. 

"Oh" I yawned. My eyelids were slowly closing and my brain was shutting off. 

*Chime* my phone went off and I immediately jumped off the couch in search of it. Where are you? I thought whilst looking for my phone. Got you! It was shoved down the side of the couch with a pillow on it. I have no idea how it even got there. 

The text read. 

'Hey just wondering you still on for our date tomorrow? You should expect sun!' Ethan texted me with a clue of what the date was going to be. He also showed his excitement by including a sun and smiley face emoji. 

'heyyy, yeah still on. I have a feeling I know where we are going. :)' I replied with a fluttery feeling in my tummy. Yikes I better go get some sleep. I jogged up the stairs, cleaned my teeth, washed my face and jumped into bed. Before falling asleep I checked my instagram feed and put my phone in the charger. 

"DONE! I hate when you haven't checked instagram for ages and you're left with what seems like 1000 photos." I mumbled so that only my dog Tiny could hear me. 

I replugged my phone into the charger that in the spur of the moment of instagram mahem had  unplugged. 

I rested my head on the pillow and slowly my eyes closed and I drifted away from any troubles I was having in real life. 

I awoke to a loud bang downstairs. My parents were away in The Blue Mountains with my grandma on a long weekend vacation. My sister was at university and my little brother was on a sleepover. Should I call the police? I started to freak out, I tied my hair up and opened my bedroom door. I heard footsteps from downstairs. I got a baseball bat from my brother's room right next to mine and made my way down the stairs. 

"Who's there?" I shouted with a confident exterior but I was shaking inside. 

The intruder was in a black hoodie, black jeans and white converse. They started to turn around. It was, it was...... Issy? 

- ISSY - 

What do I do? Do I just leave him crying and go to another bus stop, just get on the bus without saying anything to him or just sit down and tell him to get on the bus with me, or just say hey? I am confused and scared. Lulu would kill me if she knew I was talking to him but I would be a horrible human being if I left him here crying. I'm just going to ask him if he's ok. No harm in that, that way he can go home and get some rest. I started to briskly walk over to the bus stop. 

"Hey Mason are you ok?" I started the conversation uneasily. 

He looked and removed his hands that were cupping his face. He moved his fingers through his hair before replying. 

"Oh yeah. Just a bit down after last night." He said removing a tear from under his eyelid.

"I let myself get worked up and it nearly resulted in hurting someone. All because I cheated on Lulu. Worst mistake of my life. " He added clearly being genuine with me. 

"You just have to remember she is hurting double, even triple the amount you are. She lost her friend and her boyfriend in a matter of minutes. On top of that she also got cheated on and betrayed. Get yourself out of the dumps, think about what you've done and go get some sleep. Seriously you need it." I suggested, noticing that his eyes were bloodshot. 

"Yeah, yeah I know, I know. It's just I didn't relaise how much it would affect me."

"That's why breakups are hard and way heavy on your heart." I responsed and offered some advice.