The Ship Sails

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Zoe's POV:

I woke up to a bunch of tweets but one in particular caught my eye. Of course it was from Alfie,

"@Pointlessblog: I'd more of a morning person, if I got to wake up next to you x"

I couldn't help but smile, he tweeted it almost directly after I had fallen asleep on skype. Although I didn't want to assume things and be a crazy girl, so I didn't say anything and turned my phone off.

The week passed by with questionable tweets from myself and Alfie here and there. We had limited contact again, and I was frustrated. I thought after the first skype call he finally got that I was waiting for him to want to talk to me. Still absoulte silence and it was driving me mad. It's that possessive feeling you have when you like someone. All I wanted was to know what he was doing, who he was with, if he was happy. Basically I just wanted to know everything that happened as i happened.

In the back of my head though I was still glowing with the fact that Alfie had agreed to meet Lousie with me. I didn't tell him that there was a good chance we would have to stay with them though. I think he would be okay with it, but if he wasn't I may not be able to ever see him sleep up close again, as creepy as it sounds that's truly all I wanted.

-The day of the trip to Louise-

The drive was long but Alfie and I had agreed to meet up. I was dissappointed he hadn't asked me for a ride. He told me he needed to do a few things and he would be running late. I offered to wait but he insisted that I go so I did. I began the drive up to Lousie's. Finally after many, many songs on the radio I pulled into the driveway. Matt, Darcy, and Louise all stood in the driveway, it looked like an intervention. Louise practically pulled me out of my car.

"CHUMMY I'VE MISSED YOU!" she said basically hugging the crap out of me.

"I missed you too, but would you kindly let go. You're breaking me chum."

"Oh sorry Zo, I forgot you're small. It's been too long."

I just nodded agreeing. We saw each other as often as we could, but since she has a baby and a husband it proved to be getting harder than it already was. Everytime I wasn't with her when I vlogged people commented saying we weren't friends anymore and all this other rubbish. It became rather difficult and tiring having to explain all friendships to viewers. It was a small price to pay in my favorite job.

"Zo, we are going to London. Matt has to go into work and I decided we could hang their. Sound good ya?"

"Ya I'll be sure to let Alfie know. He was running late. He can just meet us there."

Of course, Louise rode with Matt because she would be seeing me all day and I didn't mind truly. It just reminded me how lonely I was, but Alfie would be there soon so it shouldn't be all that bad.

Pulling up into the tube station we all piled in. We chatted her and there but the ride was silent. Darcy slept a lot. She didn't seem to be the handful Louise had said over skype, but then I remembered I wasn't in the car with them on the way here.

The doors shifted open the ride was boring so Louise and I improvised playing games and searching through tumblr, and twitter. Our tube had appeared to arrived before Alfie's so we stood waiting. Soon another one pulled in, my brilliant idea was to jump out and scare him. It was a good plan but I would need to find Alfie in the crowd of people. I spotted him and basically attacked him.

"Shit!" he said covering his face.

I just smiled at his reaction. He moved his hands from his face and looked at me for the first time. That's when I saw his camera.

"Zoe you literally scared me so bad."

Then he saw Louise. He made his way over to her,

"Hi I'm Alfie it's nice to meet you Zoe told me about you. I hope you all don't mind I vlog today."

Louise pulled Alfie into a hug. She was quite the hugger. Of course we agreed to be in Alfie's vlog I mean we were all just friends hanging out. Louise and I ran all around the station like fools, Alfie trailing behind filming the whole thing. We needed to go out eating soon, I was craving pizza.

"Do you guys want to eat now, or later?" Louise said.

Darcy was still asleep, and you basically could see the silent pleading in her eyes. She wanted to eat now without any disruption. Of course me and Alfie agreed and we made our way for some food.

Now one thing everyone knows is that Youtubers love selfies, and taking pictures of their food. So basically we all did that and posted it on our instagrams. Suddenly I had a purge of comments:

'Omg she's with Alfie!'

'She's on a date with Alfie!'

Etc. I looked over at Alfie and he flushed. I decided to take to twitter to clarify.

"@Zozeebo: Out to eat with @pointlessblog @sprinkleofgltr & Darcy x"

The comments still came through but with less frequency. I hated having to clear things up. Alfie sat filming the uneventful meal. As we made our way outside I had a text,

"Hey Zo, It's Marcus I need help. Like help."

I couldn't not respond. I guess Louise and Alfie saw the look of worry in my eyes. I don't know why but I thought Marcus was hurt but if he was surely he would've contacted Alfie over me.

"Do you want me to call you?"

"Yes please, thanks Zo."

I walked ahead of Alfie and Louise letting them know Marcus was calling me. I answered and he started basically talking super fast I couldn't catch a single thing he was saying.It was something about the blond girl who's name was apparently Niomi. He was freaking out and tried explaining when I stopped him.

"Marcus I know about Niomi you can skip this part."

He was silent. Until he responded,

"You couldn't have possibly known. Not even Alfie knew."

He had just confirmed something I thought the whole time.

"I saw you talking to her on the computer in Florida. I didn't want to say anything, but I knew."

He looked confused for a minute but then he seemed to let it hit.

"Oh"

After we had cleared all that up he went on to tell me he had planned surprising Niomi with some romantic gesture since Alfie was out of the house, but it went horribly wrong. Apparently Niomi thought her and Marcus were nothing more than friends with benefits because for many years before that's all they had been. Niomi told Marcus she didn't want a relationship and basically stormed out of the flat.

It was a rather horrible situation and it was one that I had also experienced previously. I told Marcus what to do and I heard Alfie talking to the camera and Louise,

"It's been about an hour and a half and Zo is still on the phone with Marcus."

He panned the camera to me as he was saying this and I waved making a gesture showing Marcus was talking too much. Alfie was smiling behind the camera mouthing to me, "take as long as you need" I was grateful for that, although the call ended briefly afterward. Darcy had woken up some time during this and was looking at me and Alfie. The drive back to their house was sure going to be grand.