"Ok so this is what I found." Reece grinned as he came piling into my room with snacks stacked in his hands. He looked more handsome than ever, his hair all fluffy and only wearing a green t-shirt and grey trackies as I was still wearing his hoody.

For fuck sake Sam, get a grip.

I smiled gratefully at him and patted the space next to me on my bed as I scrolled aimlessly through Netflix on my laptop for something to watch. We had only been home for about ten minutes and had hardly spoke since we left Belle's. What I liked about Reece is he never asked me what happened, he just tried to distract me from it which I couldn't be more grateful for. I hadn't dared to even look at my hair yet as I just couldn't face it.

I had always been one of those people that would tend to bury their emotions until they all come bubbling out, just like today in the bathroom. Normally, I would never let myself cry at that kind of situation but it felt physically impossible to not let the tears out.

They cut my damn hair.

"Sammy?"

I just didn't understand what I did so badly for them to firstly plaster pictures of me throughout the school to then humiliating me at my own cousin's birthday party. I was so angry but also fed up of all the bullshit.

"Sam?"

My eyes were staring at the laptop but they weren't concentrated on the screen. I hadn't even notices the tears coming out until my shoulders were being shaken and my head snapped to meet his.

"Hey." He spoke so softly that I was actually shocked. "Don't cry buttercup." He whispered as he lifted his hand and slowly wiped away a tear that had fallen with the pad of his thumb.

I opened my mouth to speak but closed it when no words came out. I was too busy staring at the boy in front of me as he slowly wiped away my tears but they kept on coming. At this point, I wasn't sure if I was crying because of what happened or because of how fucking sweet he was.

"Why are you so nice to me?" I blurted out without even thinking.

Reece looked a little taken back at this and furrowed his eyebrows. "What do you mean?"

I chuckled, sniffing slightly. "Its Friday night, I'm sure you were busy but you still came to help me right away." I paused and gave him a warm smile. "Not many people would do that."

He rolled his eyes, gave me a sly smirk and returned his hands to his lap. "Well I'm not just anyone."

I rolled my eyes and playfully pushed his shoulder. "You know what I mean."

He sighed and leaned back into the headboard with his arms resting behind his head. May I add that I found that quite hot.

For fuck sake Sam, it really isn't the time.

"Because were friends." He replied, narrowing his eyes down at his lap. He then turned to me. "And because I care about you."

This made me grin for some strange reason. "I care about you too Reecey."

He narrowed his eyes at me. "I told you not to call me that Sammy."

I raised an eyebrow at him. "What are you going to do about it?" I smirked.

Being in Reece's company made me completely forget about being upset and that's why I loved hanging around with him. He could make me feel better in a matter of seconds without even meaning to.

He edged closer to me so his face was dangerously close to mine. "What do you want me to do?" His hot breath fanned my face and I attempted to hide a gulp.

I challenged him with my eyes and was about to reply before my phone started ringing. Reece's head shot back into his previous position as he grabbed a bag of crisps and tore into them like he hadn't eaten in days as his eyes focused on the wall in front of the bed.

Shrugging, I grabbed my phone from my nightstand and answered it.

"Hello?"

"Sam where the fuck are you? Those assholes from your school showed up and completely gate crashed like they do every other fucking party. Apparently someone beat the shit out of them and they fucked off finally." Belle rambled over the phone and I chuckled quietly.

"Belle I'm fine. I'm home."

I heard her sigh with relief before speaking. "Ok good- wait why did you go home? I thought you were staying?"

I fiddled with the little strings on the hoody before replying. "Well it's kind of a long story which I'll explain later."

"Did someone hurt you? I swear to god if they did I'll kill them with my own fucking hands-" Belle hissed as she was interrupted.

"Babe as cute as you sound right now, you couldn't even hurt a fly without tripping over." I muffled a laugh at Elliot's comment and I could imagine her face right now.

"Shut up." She snapped. "Anyway, are you sure you're ok?"

I nodded and them remembered she couldn't see me. "Yeah I'm fine."

"Do you want me to come over? We can watch mean girls and eat ice cream till we blow."

I smiled to myself at the thought. "As great as that sounds, its ok really and it's your birthday so enjoy it. Plus, Reece is here."

Reece's head snapped around to meet mine at the sound of his name but I just flicked his shoulder to annoy him.

"Reece? Why is he there?" She questioned.

"He's kind of the one that beat the shit out of them." I chuckled lowly.

Reece wiggled his eyebrows at this and I had to bite my lip to prevent me from smiling widely. If it wasn't for Belle replying to that, I was so captivated in Reece that I forgot she was even there.

"No fucking way." I then heard her whispering to Elliot that it was Reece.

"Wait, why did he do it though? I mean, I can't blame him because they're all dickheads but why tonight? Unless..." She trailed. "Shit it was them that did something to you wasn't it?" Belle questioned.

Although she was my cousin, Belle was also like a best friend to me so I didn't want to lie to her. "Yeah." I replied quietly.

I heard a sharp intake of breath on the other line. "Fucking... I fucking hate them. What did they do?"

I glanced at Reece to see him scrolling through Netflix. "I'll tell you another time."

I could imagine her nodding at this as she was pretty much the most understanding person I knew. "Ok, just promise me you're ok right?"

I laughed. "I promise, now go enjoy some birthday sex!" I exclaimed and muffled a laughter at the most confused expression on Reece's face at that moment.

"I certainly will, thanks Sam!" I heard Elliot yell and I shook my head with a slight grin on my face.

"You won't after that comment." Bell hissed. We quickly exchanged goodbyes as I put my phone back on charge and turned on my side to face Reece.

"What we watching?"

Reece smirked at me and tilted the laptop so I could see. I rolled my eyes and grimaced. "Oh god please no."

Reece grinned widely. "Oh yes!"

Cue the opening credits of 50 shades of grey.

"Come on Sam, your hair looks great!" Jodie smiled warmly at me as we left the hairdressers.

After Reece left this morning, I instantly called Jodie and she was around straight away. It took a full 20 minutes of calming her anger down after telling her what happened until we finally took a look at my hair together.

Surprisingly, it wasn't as bad as I expected but my favourite feature was my long hair. There was a small chunk of hair missing on the left side so I had to have quite a bit cut off for it to be even again. Luckily, I didn't have to have too much cut off but still a lot more than I would ever want.

"Thanks Jod." I smiled back as we walked back to her car.

She turned to me before we reached the car with a soft smile on her face. "So you called Reece huh?"

I shrugged as I leaned against the car door and watched Jodie stand in front of me with a taunting expression on her face. "I knew you and Cole were busy so- "

Jodie's eyes widened. "Woah. I don't care what the fuck we were doing, you know I would drop anything for you right?"

I chuckled softly. "Yeah I know... it's just for some reason I only wanted to see him." I told her truthfully.

I saw a flash of recognition on her face and I braced myself for whatever comments she was about to make. "Why is that?" She asked slowly with a teasing grin appearing on her face.

I rolled my eyes and folded my arms against my chest. "To be honest, I really have no idea."

She raised her eyebrows. "You have no idea why when you were upset there was only one person that you wanted to see." She then smirked. "Who also happens to be a very handsome guy."

I sighed. "I know what you're about to say and I don't- "

She held her hands up in surrender. "'I'm not saying anything. You will figure it out soon enough."

What was that supposed to mean?

Jodie flipped her short black frizzy hair over her shoulder and flashed me a grin. She was wearing a white fur coat and black skinny jeans which contrasted well with her tanned skin. "We need to do something cool before we go back to school."

I raised a brow at her. "Like what?"

She smirked at me and I rolled my eyes as a grin formed on my face. "Fine."

Her grin grew wider as we entered the car, ready to get absolutely shit faced drunk before school on Monday.

"This is suicidal." Cole muttered as we walked into school together.

"Tell me about it." I murmured in response.

The first day back to school sucked balls anyway but it sucked 100 times more when hungover, which the three of us were. Jodie had an early dance meeting so it was just me and Cole walking to class.

Cole rolled his eyes, irritated. "Who's idea was it to drink that much anyway?" He asked, rubbing his tired eyes.

I gave him a deadpan look. "Your girlfriend's."

I noticed even in a bad mood how his lips twitched at the mention of her. How adorable. Cole then sighed and held the bridge of his nose. "Maybe we should've stopped when I threw up."

I chuckled and raised a brow at him. "You were the one who sprung back up with your pukey breathe and downed more shots."

"And then tried to kiss Jodie." I added and he shook his head with a quiet laugh as we carried on walking to maths. As soon as we entered the class, we were instantly separated and I was sent straight to my seat at the back next to Reece. His left cheek was squished against the table as he snored softly.

I muffled a laugh as I grabbed my phone from my pocket and took a quick photo of him. I took my seat and within seconds I found myself drifting off next to him.

"Reece, Sam!" I heard someone yelling as I lazily opened one eye to see Mr Harvey in-front of us with an extremely pissed off expression. The entire class was staring at us and I nearly shut my eyes again before an obnoxiously loud yawn came from beside me. I chuckled and the class laughed as I watched our teachers face harden with anger as Reece just yawned in front of his face. We locked eyes and my lips twitched with amusement before a hand was slammed down on the desk.

"It's the first day back and if you two want to sleep then get out of my class. There's people here who actually want to learn!" He scowled and I instantly cowered away from his loudness.

Nobody in this world wants to be shouted at when suffering a hangover.

Reece yawned again and held a finger up at him. "One moment." He said.

"OUT NOW!" Mr Harvey screeched.

Reece just shrugged and grabbed his bag and turned to me with an eyebrow raised. "You coming?"

I looked at him and back to Mr Harvey's tomato face and shrugged, grabbing my bag and standing up from my seat.

"Bye Sir." Reece smirked and grabbed my wrist and led us out of the classroom, slamming the door shut behind him.

I heard him yell something but we were already walking down the corridor away from him. Reece turned to me with a grin. "So what do you Wanna do?"

I shuddered. "Try and fix my hangover I guess."

He laughed softly and amusement filled his eyes. "No wonder why you look like shit."

I gasped and playfully smacked his shoulder. "Take that back!"

He grinned widely. "Nope!"

Rolling my eyes, I pushed his back so he went stumbling into the lockers. He turned to me and narrowed his green eyes. "That wasn't very nice Sammy."

I gave him a fake smile. "I wasn't trying to be."

Shaking his head, we carried on walking until we reached the parking lot. "Can we go get some food?" I asked as we approached his car. Even though I drove, I knew Reece would insist on driving so I couldn't be bothered to argue that.

I opened the passenger door and climbed inside. "Obviously." He replied as the car started.

Reece turned to me with a warm smile. "How are you doing after the other night?"

I returned his smile. "Fine, I'm sorry I got all emotional on you I don't really know why."

He shook his head. "Don't apologise, never." He stared down at me with a look I couldn't quite decipher before looking back at the road.

Smiling to myself, I switched on the radio and much to Reece's dismay Taylor Swift starting blasting out.