reading between the lines

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Mattys POV

Ryan's sister Molly arrived in about 10 minutes, she was average height with long brown hair that was in a surprisingly neat braid. However, that was just about the only thing neat about her, her shoes were wearing away and her tie was pulled down with her top button undone. She also had a freshly placed plaster on her knee which drew in ryans attention straight away. 

"for christ sake molly, what have you done now?" he asked, clearly insinuating that molly being injured was a regular occurrence. 

"okay it actually wasn't my fault this time ryan so don't use that tone with me" she replied with so much sass that i was stunned to silence. 

"who's fault was it then, the floor?" Ryan replied sarcastically, the way he acts around molly shows a side to him that i've never seen before, he seems a lot more cheeky and just generally happy. 

"No, someone pushed me over" Molly argued back quite fiercely, giving ryan a look as if to say this conversation is over now before directing her focus to louis, she went over and held her hand out "My names Molly Dean, nice to meet you" 

Louis smiled and shook her hand "louis tomlinson, nice to meet you too" 

Whilst louis and molly were chatting amy came over to me and rested her head on my shoulder and whispered sorry, i looked down at her and smiled before kissing her temple gently, forgetting that i was in a room with other people. I looked back up and liam and adam were giving me some sincere death stares with ryan smirking beside me. I'm guessing Molly saw too cos she looked over at ryan which a threatening sort of mysterious look in her eyes "i don't know what you're laughing at Ryan Dean because i know a secret about you and kissing" she said with smile plastered all across her face. Ryan suddenly went a little more quiet and looked directly at Molly "what's the secret molly?" i asked smiling, thinking it would just be something stupid. 

"Ryan if i tell them will you shout at me, hit me, or be really properly mad at me and not talk to me for a week?" molly asked, wanting to know the consequences before she committed to anything which i give her respect is a pretty good idea for an 8 year old. 

"I'll probably hit you" ryan said pausing for a minute "hard" 

"Ryan! you can't hit her, she's too cute" Amy protested. 

"Amy you hit Adam all the time" Niall pointed out, leaving Amy with no real comeback. 

"Amy it's fine, me and ryan hit each other approximately 7 times a day, he doesn't really hit very hard and if he does I'll just tell dad and then he'll get grounded again like he did the other week" molly said looking at ryan then back at Amy "but i'm going to keep his secret a secret for now" 

A few hours passed of us all just talking and as it turns out we found out Ryans secret anyway because it naturally came up in conversation; ryan's gay and he kissed zach Barnes behind the school bikeshed last year. Zach Barnes was one of the most  popular kids at school until the end of last year when him and AJ had a massive falling out and everyone began to hate zach. I never really knew why they fell out but i always wanted to find out more about it because it was so out of the blue and i knew how much of an idiot AJ could be. As soon as AJ and zach fell out ryan became AJ's new best mate in a way, but now i know that thats not legit then maybe AJ and Zach's friendship wasn't legit either. Also it seems that AJ and Zach falling out was around the same time as zach anf ryan kissing so what if that had something to do with it. I needed to get to the bottom of this so me and ryan went out for a walk while molly stayed at home and amy did her makeup and hair for her. I took ryan to Harry's mum's cafe and got us a milkshake and a cake each. Ryan chose a simple slice of Victoria sponge cake whilst I chose a slice of authentic carrot cake topped with white butter cream icing. While we ate I asked Ryan a few more questions about aj and Zach. Surprisingly he answered a lot of my questions really openly, revealing a lot more of AJ's antics in the process. I learnt that AJ had been blackmailing Zach for the past year so that whenever AJ got into any type of trouble it was Zach's job to get him out of trouble within a day otherwise Zach would get beaten up. I asked Ryan to message Zach, the three of us are going to meet up tomorrow and I'm going to come up with a plan to teach AJ a lesson.

Ryan and I walked home and talked a little more, but this time it was about his home life. Ryan's mum died 3 years ago and since then they've struggled for money, Ryan has 2 jobs and his dad has 3 just in order for them to be able to afford the basic necessities. I wanted to help, I wanted to speak to Harry and Louis to see if there was anything they could do but Ryan asked me to keep it to myself so I just said okay for now and told him that him and Molly were welcome at our house anytime. I'm pretty sure Amy enjoyed having a younger girl in the house cos yeh Eva comes round occasionally but apart from that Amy is the only girl and it cannot be good for her to live with so many boys.

When we got back Molly looked as tho she has been to a professional make up and hair salon, she had a light touch of natural make up on the majority of her face with a like pink and sparkling silver around her eyes with a couple of sequins around each eye for decoration and a light touch of pink lip gloss on her lips.
I personally quite like the idea of make up but I know it's a girls thing and I'd get bullied a lot more than I already do if I ever wore it. But then again, why should I care what others think?