We watched 16 year old Alfie singing a god-awful breakup song.

My heart is broken,

Like and egg on the floor,

If I wasn't such a grown up,

I'd call you a whore,

You are my personal salmonella,

Going off on holiday,

And having sex with Trevor

We all laughed at how terrible it was. We were all gathered around Alfie's desk, I was sat on Mitchell's lap and he had his arms wrapped around my waist.

I'd been to the hospital to see what happened to my wrist after Humpage pushed me and it was nothing serious, just sprained so it was bandaged up.

Every now and then Mitchell you make sure I was okay, sometimes he'd kiss it. We made this running joke that if you'd hurt yourself, a kiss made it better. So if one of us fell over and hurt ourselves (e.g the arm) the other would kiss it and it would be better.

"I was 16 okay? I was in a bad place." Alfie explained.

"Why don't you just tale it down?" I asked.

"I would but I forgot my password, and my security question. God, what's my favourite place?"

"Judging by that, another dudes ass" Mitchell laughed.

"Shut up Mitchell"

"Sir, can we watch Katie's video now?" Stephen asked.

"What? No. No we can't" I replied. "What's it called?" Alfie asked.

"Nothing! It's called nothing! I don't have a video! You shush!" I said and snapped to Stephen.

"Yeah, she writes songs"

"I hate you"

"You didn't tell me that." Mitchell said resting his head in my shoulder.

"uh, yeah, I haven't for a while though. We're not watching it!" I pointed to Alfie.

"Okay, Chantelle didn't you want to watch your video?"

"Yeah, it's called 'One Girl Ten Cups'"

"Oh my god Chantelle!"

"What it's just me doing the washing up." Chantelle explained.

Then some rando walked into the class.

"Greetings and Salutations, David Milbank. I was wondering if I could count on your vote for the schools election." He spoke.

"Uh, go away. We're working." Alfie said.

"Now, who did you vote for last year?"

"Little Mix" Stephen and Chantelle said in unison and high-fived.

"Ah, the X-Factor, I'm a big fan of the Coldplay, Jay-zed, and Olly Murs feat Rizzle Sticks."

I began to take the scissors from the lining of my skirt ready to throw them at his head but Mitchell took my hand and lowered it so that I wouldn't.

"Oi, sir. You wanna see an old guy singing with his but sack?" Mitchell interrupted and put his head on my shoulder again so that he could see what he was typing.

"Mitchell why would I want to see- wait. Oh I've got to send this to Fraser. He loves Peter Gabriel!" Alfie replied and began to forward the video to Fraser.

~~

"Right, we've got an election to win!" Alfie arrived into the class. I sort of zoned out but I zoned back in when I felt Mitchell tapping my shoulder.

"Sorry. What?" I whispered.

"I found your videos." He replied.

"Oh my god. Mitchell, please don't watch any of those. I'm begging you." I whisper-yelled.

"Okay, fine. If you sing for me in person. I bet your amazing" he suggested.

"Fine, one day" I agreed.

"Deal." He held out his hand and I shook it.

"Everyone loves a chubby virgin" I heard Alfie say as I tunes back into their conversation.

"Oh, why is it always me?" Joe asked. He tried to convince him but Joe wasn't having any of it.

"You got the best team. Jing is a mastermind she'll be crunching numbers. Stephen, does plays he can do your speeches. Mitchell... has got a laptop, he can run the website. An-"

"Uh, hack the website, I've given out more viruses than her" Mitchell interrupted and pointed at Chantelle.

"Shut up!"

"Whatever. And Katie... is terrifying, but can flirt with the other candidates along with Chantelle. And Mitchell can't stay away from her for longer than 3 minutes so she can help him too." Alfie continued.

"Shut up Dickers!" Mitchell yelled.

"Oh, this will be fun" I laughed.

~~

We were walking down the hallway and talking about how Mitchell put the school on Gumtree then Jing said that David Milbank has a younger brother.

"Right, Katie, Chantelle you're going to take his breath away" Alfie ordered.

"Steal his inhaler?" Chantelle asked.

"No."

"Punch his chest to wind him?" I suggested.

"Oh my god! No! Flirt with him!" Alfie protested.

"Not happening" Mitchell spoke and wrapped his arm around my waist.

"Oh, please. Like I'd fancy that. Calm down Mitch" I laughed. "Okay, Cherry"

"Wow. I haven't heard that one since we met" I added shocked.

"Yeah, I found that selfie of you and me with cherry lollies and I remembered" he chuckled.

"I miss it" I smiled and put my arm around him as we continued walking.

~~

Chantelle and I found Even Milbank.

"Ready girl?" I asked.

"Yup. Let's get this over and done with."

We both let down our hair and unbuttoned our shirts a little. We strutted to him.

"Hey, are you Evan Milbank?" I asked.

"Uh, yes."

"That's hot" Chantelle said. "Thank you?"

"Are you campaigning?" I asked. "No. My brother is." He replied. "You should, I mean, I'd vote for you" I added running my hand down his chest.

"Uh, I don't know"

I kissed him on the cheek leaving a light red lipstick mark.

"Okay. I'll ask Miss Gulliver." He said and walked away, his face bright red.

"You're a natural" I laughed as they walked towards me.

"Thank you." She flipped her hair with a smile. God, that smile.

"Wanna help me hack the school website?" I asked.

"Okay, Chan you in?" She asked Chantelle, to be honest I hoped it would be just us.

"No, it's okay, I'm going to help Stephen write Joe's speech." She declined.

"Oh, okay. Let's go then" she turned back to me.

I smiled and put my arm around her waist as we walked to Dicker's classroom.

~~

"Okay, almost done." I informed Katie who was sitting on our usual table facing me sitting at RemDogg's table.

"Okay" she smiled.

"Can I ask something?"

"Anything."

"Is it a bad idea if I went on a date with Grayson?" When she asked that question my heart dropped.

"Oh, uh. I dunno, he's a dick but if yah like him then go for it. Be happy" I replied, sadly.

"I don't know if I do. I really like this guy, possibly even love him, but I don't want to ruin what we already have, so I thought if I go on a date with someone else I'd get over him." She explained. My face lit up, what if it's me? No that's stupid, she don't deserve a dick like me, as a best mate sure but not as more.

"Well, why don't you try this date, if it goes well, great, if not tell the guy you love him." I suggested.

"Okay, I'll just call Grayson to tell him that I can go on the date." She replied and hopped off the table. It was adorable because she's so short.

~~

"Hello?" Grayson answered the phone. "Hey, it's Katie. I just wanted to tell you that I can go on that date with you" I replied. "Aight, I'll pick you up after the disco."

"I want to change first" I laughed. "Okay. Send your address then." He suggested. "Okay, bye"

"Bye"

I hung up and texted him the address. What if I was making a huge mistake? I probably was, but at least I'll get to know Grayson more... right?

~~

Some dude in a Spider-Man costume ended up winning the election. The disco has started and Mitchell was DJing.

"Rem, play this song when I say" I told RemDogg, even though Katie was going on a date after the disco I still wanted to dance with her. Maybe she'd change her mind.

"Alright, just gimme the thumbs up." RemDogg replied as I walked towards Katie.

"Hey Cherry, wanna dance?" I asked.

"Il love tho" she replied and we went towards everyone else that was dancing. I gave the thumbs up to RemDogg and he put on Katie's favourite song; If I could fly by One Direction. (A/n I know this is from 2015 but just go with it 😂)

"Oh my god I love this song" she gasped with a smile.

"I know" I smiled. she put her arms around my neck. I put my hands to her waist and we began swaying to the music. She began quietly singing the lyrics and she put her head on my chest and moved her arms to around my waist.

All I heard was the angelic soft singing of the girl I love most.

For your eyes only,

I show you my heart,

For when your lonely,

And forget who you are,

I'm missing half of me,

When we're apart,

Now you know me,

For your eyes only

"Was that a little preview of what I'll hear 'one day'?" I asked when she'd finished singing.

"You could call it that" she laughed.

"It was gorgeous" I complimented, I could tell that she was blushing as she dug her face further into my chest, making me chuckle.

When the song had finished, she thanked me for the dance.

"Thank you for the preview of your beautiful voice" I replied.

"I have to go though, I have to change before my date" she smiled, but it looked like a sad smile.

"Want me to walk you home?" I asked.

"No it's oka- oh my god."

"What?"

"Dickers is kissing Gulliver!" She smiled.

"Oh I need to put sirs song on" I laughed and ran to RemDogg. After I put the song on I looked to where Katie was but she'd left. I sighed, and continued to watch a drunken Dickers tell everyone about how Gulliver's tits felt, I really couldn't care less...

I was on FaceTime with Mitchell that night. (Italics-Katie underlined-Mitchell)

Sorry I left I just needed to get ready

It's aight, after you left Dickers told us what Gulliver's tits felt like so you didn't miss much haha

Oh my god *fame palm*

So, how was your date?

It was great! I haven't been on a date in ages! It was fun, we watched a movie then we went for food then walked around my neighbourhood for a while and just talked. Grayson was so different tonight compared to at school. He's very polite, actually quite shy.

Pfft, shy my ass haha

Haha, well he was a real gentlemen. We're going on another date over the holidays. He's taking me to the beach

To drown yah? Haha

Oh, ha ha, very funny. And done! *shows him this:*

(But it's a hoodie)

Wow, that's amazin'

It's me and you haha

Which is which?

You pick, I can paint our names onto it

I want the left one, cause I always walk on your right so then it's like third person to us, or is it second?

awh, that's cute! And yes it's third. Haha. Okay gimme a minute.

Okay done! *shows the same hoodie but with "Mitchell" and "Katie" written in cursive under each cherry*

How you so talented? You ain't human!

No I ain't, I'm demigorgon haha

I can't even say dem- yeah, I ain't even gonna try haha

*katie stands takes her phone off her desk and plops onto her bed, already in her pjs, she climbs under her thin blanket that she uses instead of her duvet and lans the phone agains the wall*

How you sleep under that thing and don't get frostbite is still a miracle to me

Like you are to me *gives cheesy smile*

We talked until around 1am at least when Mitchell fell asleep, I just watched him sleep until I finally nodded off too...

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