~ In Love With The Competition ~ A George Shelley Love Story ~

Chapter 22

Lacey's POV


"Thank you so much, you've been amazing!" I shouted into the microphone, still on a rush from my performance. The crowd gave their loudest cheer as I jogged backstage and jumped into the boys' arms. Ew, they were all sweaty! I told them my thoughts and they decided to shake their hair at me, splattering me with drops of sweat.  I laughed and went to find my dressing room.

I emerged from the room, five minutes later, dressed in a pair of grey joggies, a white vest top and George's red hoodie that he gave me. I secured my messy bun with the snap of my bobble(Hair tie?) and heard the door nearest me open. Two pairs of arms wound themselves around my waist and I felt myself being picked up and spun around. I was laughing like a maniac as the person put me down on my feet and, me being my clumsy self, I staggered a bit before falling on my bum. 

George started giggling hysterically, of course it was him, as he stuck his hand out for me to grab. I gladly took it and couldn't help but laugh myslef at his. See, the cute thing is, George always giggled, never laughed. "Glad to know that my sore bum is humerous to you." I said sarcastically. He rolled his eyes, "Awwwww, do you want me to kiss it better?" He winked and wiggled his eyebrows at me. I slapped his chest playfully and glared. Cheeky.

I was glad that, after a few weeks, me and George could feel comfortable around each other again, always joking and occasionally flirting. I mean, how could we help ourselves? We are in love! Even if it is 'forbidden'. I walked with George down the hall and out the door towards our bus. I'm pretty sure the driver, Steven, hated us all by now. We were always playing games of truth or dare, blind man's bluff, which was like hide and seek in the dark except the seeker had a blindfold on, and had a lot of parties. 

Me and Ella seemed to sort of drift apart and weren't talking to each other as we used to. Sigh. If she wants to be that way, she can. Not my problem. What was my problem, was Herbert. Grrrrr. I positively hated him. He was always popping up whenever me and George were alone together or when we sat side by side, or even walked near each other. Sometimes, NO- All the time, I wanted to kick him where it hurts and make him incapable of making babies. Huh, that was, more or less, the first thing I ever said to George. I giggled to myself as George raised his eyeborws at me. I shook my head and let out a last giggle.

I opened the door to the bus and walked in. It was strangely quiet...I swear to God if they try to scare us I will- "BOO!!!" Someone shouted. I let out an ear-peircing scream and jumped back a bit, crashing into George. My eyes searched the hallway and fell upon the culprit, who was rolling on the floor laughing. ROFL! I narrowed my eyes at him. "JOSH!" I scream and lunged at him. I out my legs at either side of his waist and held his arms above his head. "You've been a bad, bad boy Joshy." I said in a sickly sweet voice. "Bad boys deserve to be punished." I whispered the last word and lowered my head down. Josh's eyes widened as he thought of what I was gonna do.

NO! Not that you sickos! Dirty minded chlidren...
Just as my face was near his, I released him arms and began to furiously tickled his sides. He immedeantly started laughing as hard as he could and tried to get me off him. As a last resort, he began to try to tickle me and, being extremely ticklish, I let go of him and started giggling. Josh rolled over so he was on top and resumed his death tickles. "George - Ahahaha - a...little - ahahaha - help?!" I managed to scream out while laughing. George chuckled and pounced of Josh, lifting him off me and whispering something in his ear. He nodded to whatever it was and ran off. George turned to face me with a devilish smile on his face.

Oh no. Just as I though, George pinned me to the ground and started tickling me. I screamed and giggled and kicked and tickled him in order to get free but nothing. Nada. Zilch. After not being able to breathe, I grabbed his hands and pinned them to his sides. "Not.....fair!" I said, out of breath. He rolled off me and pulled me up, leading me towards the living room. 

"Oooooh! What have you two been doing!?" Jaymi yelled, wiggling his eyebrows at us. What? Oh! I know what this must look like, Out of breath, messy hair. Jaymi was so dirty minded. "Shut up Jaymi!" Me and George shouted at the same time. I chuckled and took my hair out of my bun, shaking it as I did so. 

"I whip my hair back and forth! I whip my hair back and forth!" I started singing, much to everyone's annoyance. "Nooo! Not that song!" Everyone groaned and I laughed. My phone buzzed in my pocket, I was surprised that the boys' weight didn't crush it, so I took it out and examined it.

1 New Text Message From: (Blocked Number) **** *** ****

Shizzzz! Not this again. I opened it up and scanned over it.

Hey bitch face! I got bored of Georgie ignoring me, so I decided to annoy you instead!Now, Imma gonna be dry about this and get to the point so listen here slut, George is mine. And will always be mine. Keep your dirty little paws off him, or there will be consequences. Now that you two arent dating anymore, I have a clear shot. But back off, and don't try to stop me. Or that 'pretty' little face of yours will get ruined. Don't worry though, your death won't be too painful! Ta ta now! xxxxxxxxxxxxx


Booooooorrrriiiiiiinnnngggggg!!!!! Ugh! Im so sick of this thing!  Time to text back:

Hey there sweety! Seeing as you know about me and George breaking up I'm guessing you know the reason why? I'll tell you anyway. The contestants on this tour aren't allowed to date anyone, it'll 'take their mind off the performing'. So your wee plan kinda back-fired. You can't have George while he's on tour. You can after the tour but I will do anything to keep him safe. Did I mention Im a Judo champion? Guess not. So have fun in your prancy world of being a stalker and leave us alone. 'Ta ta'! xxxxxxxxxxxxx

I put  the kissed at the end to annoy her, him? It? Don't know, don't care. This person needed to watch what they're saying or they'll gave another thing coming. I was interrupted out of my thoughts by my phone buzzing again. So soon?

Ha ha ha! That's where you're wrong, babe. The contestants on the tour aren't allowed to date each other. They're allowed to date whoever they want from outside the tour. But I guess you're just too stupid to know that!x Have a nice life while it lasts!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

What?  Thet didn't say anything about dating anyone outside the tour. Anger bubbled up inside of me. This makes no sense! It would still 'distract' us from the performing! UGH! Im so confused. I realized that I had been in my own world for quite a while because most of the people in the room were looking at me weirdly. I smiled sheepishly and blushed from embarrassment.

They all chuckle dand went back to their own thing. I saw George looking at me and I caught his eye. He motioned for me  to follow him, so I did, into the room.

"What's wrong?" He asked, righ after I closed the door. "What d'you mean?" I aksed, confused. He can't know about the texts already, can he? "Oh come one Lacey! I'm not stupid!" He pleaded grabbing hold of my shoulders. I sighed and took out my phone. I typed in the password and handed it to him, showing him the texts.

After a while of him reading and re-reading them over and over again, he put the phone down and engulfed me in his arms. "I won't let anybody hurt you." He murmured into my hair. Those words melted me inside. I hugged him back and we stayed like that for what seemed like forever.

I wish.

Hey Turtles! I didn't wait as long to type this up as usual! You lucky monkeys! Sorry its crap but its only a filler:(( It'll get juicy, I promise! Sooooooo how was it??? Good? Bad? Comment! I love all of your feedback!<3
Bye Turtles!<3

Zoe x