8) Pizza

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"Oh my gosh Ethan, what are you doing here?" Eve basically squealed as she quickly pulled Ethan into a tight hug. Everyone in the room now had their eyes on the two of them, a confused look on their faces.

"Wait... what?" Althea exclaimed, her finger pointing at them both. She recognised the man as Ethan Payne, but she had no idea how her best friend knew who he was, she didn't even watch youtube.

"This is Ethan, the boy I've been telling you about" Eve explained as she pulled back from her hug, acting as if this whole thing was no big deal.

"Wait a second, you're telling me that you've been going on dates with Ethan Payne.. and you didn't think to tell me?" Althea basically shouted, she was still in extreme shock.

"To be fair, we just wanted to keep it lowkey at the moment" Ethan tried to defend Eve, not really sure if Althea was annoyed at her.

Eve nodded in agreement but then looked at Ethan, a confused look on her face too. "I just realised, what are you doing here?" she chuckled.

"Me and my friend Harry have came down from London to surprise JJ" He explained, pointing to Harry as he spoke, who gave an awkward wave. "We were all going to get some food, you're both welcome to join us if you want" Ethan offered as he looked between Eve and Althea.

"Yeah sure, we were coming over to ask the same thing" Althea chuckled awkwardly, rubbing the back of her neck as she spoke.

The group talked for a few moments before heading out of the hotel and towards the city centre. Althea couldn't help but feel a little betrayed by Eve, they normally told each other everything, this was definitely the first secret between them. She sighed as looked up at Eve and Ethan who were walking arm in arm. She was of course happy that her friend was happy with a boy, she just couldn't help but feel left out.

"Penny for your thoughts?" JJ asked Althea as he walked next to her, causing her to jump out of her daydream.

"Oh nothing.. I'm just a little nervous for tonight" she lied hesitantly, not really sure on what to say. She didn't want to look like a bad person by admitting she felt betrayed by her friend.

"Don't be nervous, this venue isn't as big as the first one you did at London." he tried to reassure her before pausing "you know, we haven't had chance to get to know eachother yet. Do you wanna grab some pizza or something after the show?" He asked hesitantly. Part of him felt guilty for forcing the idea of getting to know each other, he normally just let his relationship with people flow, he had to keep reminding himself of what Simon had said on the bus, 'you're not leading her on, you're just being friendly.'

Althea smiled. "That sounds great, I'd love to" she agreed, the idea of Eve leaving her mind as they spoke.

"great" He chuckled back before they headed into the restaurant.

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