Now you may think i'm overreacting. But if you just walked in on your cousin and your new friend getting it on, wouldn't you be just a little mad? I mean they only met last night.

I quickly walk to my room, locking the door behind me. I sit on my bed and stare at the wall.

I shouldn't even be mad. But I have this lingering feeling of hurt. George just got dumped, if he uses Darcy as a rebound then she won't want to come around anymore. And what if now that Darcy knows who he is, she'll use him.

I'm overthinking, yeah, just overthinking. I mean, I fancy Alex. Isn't that the same thing? What about Will? He's cute too.

I scrunch up my face in confusion. I hear a loud bang of the front door shutting, maybe Darcy left.

I check the time on my alarm clock; 4:46pm.

At least I have enough time for a nap.

—- 3 Hours Later —-

I stir in my sleep, eventually opening my eyes. The room is pitch black, how long did I nap for?

I stay laying down for a few minutes, I think about what I want to cook for dinner.

I unlock my door and make my way out to the kitchen, looking through the pantry to find something I could cook.

In the end I find a bag of spaghetti and a can of crushed tomatoes. Perfect.

I'm messing around in the kitchen when Georgie walks out.

"Hey (Y/n)."
I hum in reply, trying to focus on the amount of water filling the pot.
"I'm sorry you walked in on us. We didn't think you were home."

I ignore him, taking the full pot out of the sink and placing it on the stove.

"Are you mad?"

"No Georgie, I'm not mad. Just disappointed." I huff, waiting for the water to boil.
"Will's coming round for dinner by the way."

"I know, he messaged me before." George says, looking around the room.
"I promise it won't happen again, if that helps."

"George I don't care, just don't hurt her."

He looks at me with hurt in his eyes,
"Why would I hurt her?"

"Listen, if you're using her as a rebound, just stop. I don't want her hurt and I don't want her to use you. I'm sorry for overreacting."

George nods and sits down at the island table, pulling out his phone.
"Joshy and his girlfriend are coming over to, so you should make enough for them aswell."

Once the water is boiled, I pour in the spaghetti. George and I have a staring competition, looking directly into each other's eyes. I blink and he smiles,
"You suck at this game."

I laugh and turn around, stirring the wet spaghetti. There's a knock on the door and George gets up to answer it.
"Alreet lad, what's for dinner." Will smiles, strolling in with George following.

"Spaghetti, (Y/n) makes a mad spaghetti." George replies as they both take their seats at the table.

I continue to make dinner, draining the pasta and mixing in the crushed tomatoes as Will and George talk about the whole Tic Tok crisis.

"Nah but we should make a Tic Tok for the laughs, where's Alex?" Will asks no one in particular.

"Pretty sure he's out with James and Fraser." George replies, taking a swig from a water bottle he got from the fridge.
"But (Y/n) could be in it instead."

"No way in hell, not happening." I say giggling, stirring the pot.

There's another loud knock at the door and I look to George, expecting him to open it. Will gets up, noticing we aren't moving.

"Hello lads." Josh enters, Nina tailing behind.
"How's it going?"

"Yeah good, yourself?" Will replies as Nina runs over to me.

"(Y/n)!" She yells, almost knocking me over as she hugs me. I hug back and smile,

"Good to see you again Nins." I say, unwrapping my arms from her.

"How's things? I heard you got a new friend, when can I meet her?"

"Ahh well I guess she's more of Georgie's friend now." I joke, watching George blush at the comment. Nina furrows her brows for a moment then catches on.

"You dog! You're not rebounding with (Y/n)'s friend are you?" She exclaims, slapping George's arm.

He shakes his head, giving me a death stare, which in return I poke my tongue out.

Everyone is sitting around the table, Josh is next to Georgie, Nina is next to him, Will is beside George and the last seat is in between Nina and Will.

I set out the plates and forks, getting everyone a drink - because i'm such a good host - and being the big bowl of pasta to the table.

"Enjoy." I say, letting everyone fill their own plates.

We converse over dinner, talking about everything from sports, to missing club penguin.

Nina and I make small talk over Uni and how hard it is living with the boys.

Eventually, that lads go to the living room to fuck around with the playstation, leaving Nina and myself to clean the mess from dinner.

I rinse out the pots and place them in the dishwasher, same with the bowls and forks and so forth.

"So tell me more about this Darcy girl, and why does she have the same name as Will's dog?" Nins asks, wiping the counter top.

I laugh a little,
"I met her at Uni, went out for lunch and bought her to dinner where apparently she took a liking to Georgie. She likes photography and the beach, she's a nice girl."

Nina nods along,
"I wanna meet her, to make sure she's right for our George." We both share a laugh and eventually Nina goes to sit with Josh, leaving me to sit in the kitchen alone.

My eyes are trained on the television, where I think they're playing fifa, when an arm slings across my shoulders,

"What are you doing up here? Come sit down there with us." The geordie accent fills my ears, looking up and surely enough I find a pair of eyes that belong to Will.

"Hate fifa and I like standing up here." I laugh when he looks shocked at my statement.

"How could anyone not like Fifa?" He questions, eyes wide, trying to stifle a laugh.

"Shit game, anyway, you can go back over there. I'm heading for a shower." Will nods, letting me go off to my room.

I love long showers, so it's no surprise when i'm in there for 45 minutes.

Washing out my shampoo, singing along to a random song that's playing and dancing around.

The door swing open and I hear something drop on the tiles. Looking over I see someone standing at the door. I scream and try to cover myself with the shower curtain.

"Get out!" I yell at, who i'm assuming to be Alex, he fumbles with the door, eventually closing it but not after he gets a good look at me.

I sigh and quickly finish my shower.

Rushing out the door in a towel and into my room. I huff slightly and push my back up to the door.

What the Hell Alex?

I get changed into a hoodie and Lord Of the Rings Pj pants.

There's a knock at my door just as i'm sliding my fluffy socks on.
"Who is it?" I ask, tying my hair up in a ponytail.

"Alex, are you decent?"

I mutter a 'Yeah' and Alex walks in.

"I'm so sorry about that, i'm not used to sharing a bathroom." He apologises, red tinting his cheeks.

"It's cool, not that big of a deal."

He smiles and looks down to my pyjama bottom,

"Hey you like LOTR?" His smile brightens, I nod happily,

"Love it, watched all the movies a thousand times."

"Maybe we could have a marathon one day." He smiles, I blush deeply,

"For sure." He sits down on my bed and pulls out his phone.

I look at him weirdly, wondering why he's still in my room. I check the time and it reads 10:20pm.

"They're playing Fortnite still, fucking hate that game. And we haven't really had the chance to hang out." He pats the spot next to him on the bed. Slowly I slide onto the bed and get under the covers, whereas Alex is sitting on top.

"Whatcha doing?" I ask as Alex scrolls through his phone.

"Nothing much, just on twitter. Do you want to watch something?" He asks, nodding towards the tv on the wall.

I nod and turn Netflix on, letting him choose something to watch.

Eventually he chooses 'Breaking Bad'.

We sit in comfortable silence for the first 10 minutes, until Alex decides to break it.

"Are you busy tomorrow?"

I shake my head, and yawn.
"I don't have Uni until Friday. Did you want to do something?"

"I was thinking about us going out to lunch or something. Do you want too?" He asks quietly, turning his head to me, smiling when he see's my eyelids droop.

"Yeah, of course." I slur sleepily. Resting my head against Alex's shoulder, I let sleep take over me. But before it does, I feel Alex quickly press his lips against my head.

"Goodnight (Y/n)."

———-
So I tried incorporating Alex a little more.

I have a few things planned for this book ooof i'm excited.

400 reads that's insane! thank you guys :)

- Emeryx