Fix me.

Chapter 5.

I smile at Jack as I turn over in bed, our bare bodies touching. “Last night was the best” I giggle, still feeling abit drowsy. “Hmm” he smiles, placing a gentle hand on my cheek and kissing my lips softly. We smile in the kiss, laughing to ourselves. “What are the plans for today?” I ask, actually getting excited. I don’t know what was wrong with me. It was only yesterday I wanted to get out of this place. I wanted to leave. But now, I want to stay. I feel like I am going to have a better life, and I have no idea what have overcome me. “Well…” Jack starts, walking his fingers up my bare arm, leaving goosebumps in their trail. “We are going to a party, that may potentially, get us rich” Jack whispers, kissing along my jaw line. “Hmmm… I like the sound of that” I groan, bringing his face to mine and kissing his on the lips before getting up and running into the en-suite.  Locking the door I hopped into the shower and washed before brushing my teeth and wrapping a towel around me before opening the door back to the bedroom. “Oh!” I yell. “Sorry” I felt slightly embarrassed by the ensemble going on around me. Everyone was in mine and Jack’s room. “Come here” Jack beckons me over. The only thing that was covering me from Cain, Flynn, Benn, Jake, George and Jack was a towel and I felt slightly uncomfortable, but all the same I made my way over to Jack and sat on his lap.

I looked around at them all, Cain winked at me before Jack could notice and George was staring at me, half smiling and half growling. I felt a little confused by this but shrugged it off. “Guys, tonight, we are going to Gray’s party. With the amount of people going who are neck deep in money, if I pull afew strings I may possibly get us all abit of cash. You know, through our little business.” He winks at Cain. “So, all we need is this lovely lady to look a billion dollars and to do abit of meeting and greeting and we are on our way” Jack looks at me, causing all of the others to follow his lead. “M-me?” I ask. “Yes baby, you” Jack laughs. When he laughs he reminds me abit like Alex Pettyfer. He reminds me of Alex Pettyfer even when he isn’t laughing. He’s quite attractive actually. “Here, take this, and go and buy a new dress and shoes! I need you to look expensive but not as if we are rolling in it! Okay?” he asks, puckering his lips for me to kiss whilst he handed me his credit card. “George, You can go with Tia can’t you? Take care of her for me?” Jack sounded stern. George nodded and left the room along with the others whilst I started to get changed into some shorts and a t-shirt as summer seemed to be nearing.  Soon enough I was ready. I walked downstairs, flats on my feet and my handbag in my hand. “Ready?” I ask George, smiling. “Yeah” he grunts. I kiss Jack goodbye and walk out of the door, George walking behind me.

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Cups and saucers clinked together ontop of the murmuring of chatter around Costa Coffee within Bristol. George sat opposite me at a 2 person table in the corner of the cosy café. My Vanilla Creamy Cooler placed infront of me whilst his Caramel Frappe was placed infront of him. “I love the summer!” I perk up slightly. “Why?” George asks. “Every summer My Mum would take me to this little resort where you can do anything! It’s for girls only, a boys resort was just across the lake. At the resort you could choose up to 4 things to do and they put it all in a timetable – like a lesson plan really – and you would go to each one and have your skills in that lesson bought out within you… each lesson would be about 1 and a half hours long, possibly 2 depending on how much time we had. It was amazing… I would always pick Art, Singing, Horse Riding and Drama. They were my favourites” I sigh, leaning my head in the hand. “Well she can’t take you this year can she” George snorts, leaning back in his chair, shaking his head. This hurt me. “I’ll have you know she hasn’t taken me to the resort since I was 12 years old” I swallow my tears that were bubbling within me. “That was 6 years ago!” I choke on my own tears. “And why hasn’t she taken you since you were 12 then?” he asks, not noticing the tears that were rolling down my cheeks one by one. “She died on my 12th birthday” I huff, standing up and getting ready to leave. “Aw.. Tia! I’m sorry, I hadn’t known” George stands up and hugs me. I didn’t stop him. It was George I’ve been wanting all along. I never said me and Jack would last forever.

“George..” I whisper into his jacket. “Yeah?” he whispers back. “Promise me this.. Promise me that you will never leave me alone with Jack, or with any of the others. No matter how many times I say to Jack I love him it’s never true.. The only reason I’m staying is because I’ve already lost my mother,  I don’t want to lose my Dad or Brother too” I sob into his chest. “I-I promise” he pats my back and kisses the top of my head. He moves our stuff and drinks over to a different table that had a Sofa instead of Chairs to sit on. We both collapsed on it, both of us still hugging as I calmed myself down.  We sat there in silence for a while, just staring around the room, thinking about random things.  There was quite afew people. An old couple sat in one corner chatting and laughing together as they drank their hot beverages. A girl and a boy around the age of 15 that were clearly going out smooching in another corner, and finally the business people clustered in the middle, their laptops on the desk and their phones to their ears.

“George…” I whisper, tensing up. “Yeah?” he looks down at me. “Why is that guy over in the corner staring at us” I was getting really scared now as the guy stood up and started making his way towards us. “Just sit still and let me talk okay?” George reassures me. “Are you Tia Thomas?” he asks, holding up a sheet with my face on it with the words MISSING imprinted at the top of the sheet. “No, I’ve never heard of her sorry” I say, getting up and grabbing George’s hand. We pick up our bags and make our way out of the shop.  “Don’t lie to me!” the man grabs my arm causing me to drop all of my bags. I swung myself around, letting my hand come in contact with his face as I slapped him. “Now why would I lie to you?” I hiss, grabbing my bags again and making a run home.

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“I bet you’ll look stunning” Jack smiles, hugging me from behind as I hold my dress up infront of me. “Thank you” I smile, putting the dress back in the bag. “Now leave, I need to get ready” I giggle, pointing towards the door. He laughs with me and walks out winking. I roll my eyes and make my way over to my dressing table that Jack bought for me whilst I was out. I spread all of my make-up on it before going for a shower and washing my hair and the returning to the mirror. I put on very little foundation and abit of blusher, then used my eyeliner and winged it out slightly before adding a little extra mascara to normal. Smiling I added a pale pink lipstick. I got up and dried my hair off at the long mirror, then got out my straighteners and curled it. Then, it was time to put my outfit on. (http://www.polyvore.com/priceless/set?id=63312497&lid=2039772) I smiled at my reflection. “Tia! Come on, it’s time to go!” Jack shouts up the stairs, clearly they were all waiting for me. Checking myself in the mirror once more I descended the stair-case. Their faces a-gawp at the bottom of the stairs, their mouths a clear o shape. Their shocked faces all turned into grins as I reached the bottom and spoke. “Ready to go handsome’s?” I giggle, walking out of the door before them.