The Boys Next Door

Chapter 8 ~ Screw my life!

Chapter 8

Charlotte’s POV

“Charlie Chumz?” the first one spoke her and the old nickname made me cringe. Who does she think she is to call me that after all she did to me?

“Hey Char,” the other one greeted me.

“It’s Charlotte to the both of you,” I spoke up. I looked up to see the boys with confusion written all over their faces and Tyler and Grace look as if realisation has just hit them.  I don’t blame them, they hadn’t really known these certain people.

“Charlie, your parents were over the moon and why is everyone…quiet…?” Josh burst through the door, without a clue about what was going on. He realised that everyone was confused and quiet so he turned around; as soon as he saw them, he went pale then red with anger.

“If l were you, I would leave now!” Josh said as calmly as he could.

“Char, who are they?” Zayn asked

“Oh so he gets to call you Char and I don’t?”

“You don’t deserve to call me that. Don’t even go there,” I replied giving them a dirty look.

If looks could kill, THEY would be dead by now due to the looks Josh was giving them, they deserved it though.

“Zayn, boys, this is Marina Joyce and Jason,” their names felt like poison on my lips and tongue, “and you might want to leave. Oh wait, you don’t have a choice, it’s up to me whether I want you guys here or not and I don’t want your presence, so goodbye!”

Marina wanted to say something, but Jason interrupted her.

“Come on Marina. Leave the bitch be, she couldn’t care less,” and with that he grabbed Marina’s hand and left the room. He definitely hasn’t changed being a dick. However, when Marina left, I couldn’t help but notice the look in her eyes but I couldn’t really decode it. Luckily, Josh had calmed down a little and I called him over and gave him a bear hug. I had missed giving and receiving bear hugs from Josh and I couldn’t help but notice a little smile tug his lips.

Soon after, the doctor walked in and told us that I was free to leave today after one last check-up.

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Josh opened the door to my house (my parents had left the keys with him) and as soon as the door opened, I ran upstairs, into my room and jumped on my bed. Don’t judge me, you won’t believe how much I love my bed. Imagine not being in your own bed for six days and you were just lying in an uncomfortable hospital bed. It’s too painful to remember. I lie there, wondering off into my own world on the most luxurious thing on Earth (my bed), but my thoughts are soon cut off by a knock on my door. Knowing it’s probably Josh, because I can hear the boys, Tyler, Grace and Gemma’s voice coming from my living room, I mumble into my pillow and tell him to come in. Call me rude, but I can’t be bothered to turn around and open my eyes because it’s only Josh. We just sit there in silence until Josh decides to speak.

“Charlotte? Are you asleep?” and that’s when I realize that this person isn’t Josh.

“Harry? I’m so sorry I didn’t know it was you, I thought you were Josh and no I wasn’t asleep,” I tell this curly haired, green eyed cutie sitting on my mini sofa. WTF did I just call him?!?!?! Forget I called him a cutie. What is wrong with me, I can’t fall for someone who I barely and who acts like they’ve seen a ghost whenever I’m round.

“Its ok, I just came up her to check if you were ok,” he smiled at me and got up to leave.

Just as he was about to leave Harry popped his head back in.

“Oh and by the way Charlotte, thanks for calling me a curly headed, green eyed cutie, but try and keep your thoughts to yourself next time please,” he says as he leaves with a smile on his face, showing off his dimples. Blushing and embarrassed, I shove my face into the pillow again and stay like that for a while.

After a while, I decide to make my way down the stairs and join in with everyone else. As soon as I get there, all eyes turn to me, waiting for an answer. I knew this was going to happen. I might just get it off my chest and not have to worry about it again; I look over to Josh to get a reassurance and to see whether he is ok with me telling the boys and Tyler and Grace what occurred and Josh gives me a nod, signalling for me to go ahead.

“Now you may all be wondering what happened with Marina and Jason. You see, Josh and I knew those two since we were I nappies, we were all really close friends. Tyler and Grace had met them before but they didn’t really know them, coz it wasn’t until year eleven that Grace, Tyler and I became close friends. Back to the point, Josh, Marina, Jason and I were inseparable, but in year eleven all came crashing down. Josh was dating a girl called Tina at the time who seemed like a sweet girl, but we didn’t really know the true side to her. Josh came into school one day saying that he was going to be moving away to America for his parents’ business work and this really annoyed Tina. This was where her true colours came out. She told Josh straight in the face that she had been sleeping with half the boys from our school behind Josh’s back, Jason being one of them. I also had a boyfriend at the time. Marina and Jason joined in with the wrong crowd at the time and they started doing drugs and other illegal things at the age of 16. A few weeks later, Josh left, leaving me with no one but my boyfriend and Marina and Jason used this against me. Jason went and got Tina pregnant, who then had an abortion and Marina spread rumours to my boyfriend that I was seeing boys behind his back. They turned my boyfriend against me too, but I’m glad they did because this was the time where I found my two true best friends, Tyler and Grace, and they helped m throughout the shit Marina and Jason caused. Our head teacher of the time found out about the two taking drugs in school, so they were excluded and sent to a different school.”

I finished explaining the story and it felt good to get it off my chest. Josh stood up and came over to give me a hug. The boys had a sorry look on their faces and they each came up to give me hug, except for Harry. I don’t know why it bothered me so much that he didn’t give me a hug, seriously that boy is bipolar, one minute he’s joking around and embarrassing me and the next he’s sitting there looking annoyed  as if I’ve done something. For some reason I feel a need to try and ‘knock down the walls he’s built’ and know what he’s hiding. I’ll get to the bottom of this one way or another being the person I am. Watch out Styles! I’m coming to get ya!

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A/N

Hi guys! So what is Harry’s secret? Charlotte has finally let the cat out the bag and told the boys her story. Can I just say that I love Marina Joyce and Jason (VeeOneEye on YouTube) so please don’t hate that I’ve used them as ‘the bad guys’, they are both one of my favourite YouTubers. I hope you guys enjoyed reading this chapter and feel free to share your thoughts with us and whoever comments there thoughts, I’ll try and give you a dedication in the next chapter.

Thanx for reading!!

~A xx

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