I got to school and walked into Alfies class, but before I could get through the door, I felt a hand wrap around my waist and pull me away from the door and spun me around like a dance.

"Mitchell" I laughed. "You scared me"

"Sorry, but we rigged the door to prank Pickwell, I don't want you getting covered in feathers" he replied. "Come on" he intertwined his fingers with mine and pulled me with him into another classroom.

Stephen and Chantelle squealed when they saw us holding hands. "Calm it yeah" I laughed.

While waiting for the time to call Pickwell, Chantelle and I made a TikTok.

Chantelle posted it on her account with the caption love my bestiee

I turned back to the others and saw Mitchell staring.

"I hope that's a good stare" I laughed.

"Uh, yeah" he replied and rushed to stand behind RemDogg who laughed, knowing why he did. Then I realised and laughed along.

"Okay, let's do this" Alfie said. We called Pickwell's phone.

"Isobel? Hi this is Chris Tarrant from who wants to be a millionaire." Mitchell spoke over the phone. "Yeah, we've got your friend Malcom here"

"Elementary mistake rookie, I have no friends but I do have a very particular set of skills that make me a nightmare for people like you" she replied.

"Hello Isobel" Alfie began in a terrible Scottish accent. "My million pound question is: is Miss Pickwell a) the demon headmaster in drag. b) Rosie Macwest c) Andy Murray's mother or d) and angry Scottish chicken!"

We could tell that she'd gotten to the classroom as we heard everything working from the room.

"I can't believe you made her look like a chicken" I laughed as we left the classroom.

~~

At lunch, we all sat outside together, we laughed, talked, gossiped and made a few more tiktoks. We borrowed Joe's water bottle to lean our phones against on the table next to Mitchell.

Stephen posted it with the caption #bffs4life @jailbait @cherryy

We made others too. Chantelle and I even convinced Jing to be in one too.

She was actually quite good. We then decided to all do a put a finger down challenge. We'd take turns and film it.

Chantelle began with "put a finger down if you've kissed the same gender."

Stephen and I put a finger down.

"What?" Mitchell asked me. I simply smiled.

"Put a finger down if you've gotten drunk" everyone but Joe and Jing put a finger down.

"Put a finger down if you have a crush or love on someone at this table" I added. Mitchell and I put a finger down, and surprisingly, Joe and Jing put one down too.

"Oh my god!"

"Aight, lemme go" RemDogg spoke.

"Put a finger down if you're not a virgin."

Chantelle, Stephen, Mitchell, RemDogg and I put a finger down.

"Put a finger down if you have horrible period cramps right now" Chantelle joked and put a finger down and so did I and we laughed.

"Put a finger down if you fancy a teacher that shouldn't even be a teacher" I laughed. Chantelle put a finger down.

"Put a finger down if you think Katie and Mitchell are the cutest couple alive!" Stephen squealed. Everyone including Mitchell put a finger down, he put his arm around me and I buried my head into his chest in embarrassment.

"It's you that makes it so cute" he whispered and kissed my head.

"Okay, put a finger down if you own a weapon" RemDogg said. I put a finger down and so did Mitchell.

"Woah! What?" Joe asked.

"Yeah, switchblade. I gave Mitchell my back up back up" I smiled.

"You have a back up back up?"

"Not anymore no" I chuckled.

~~

I ended up losing and Joe won. We carried on with our day as usual then a few weeks later we heard shocking news.

~~

"Miss Pickwell has very sadly passed on." Fraser then explained during assembly that a bear attacked her and the paramedics found her eyebrow up a tree.

~~

"Alfie?" Joe got his attention "yeah?"

"Can you tell us the truth about how pickwell died?" He asked.

"Okay" Alfie took a deep breath. "She... she killed herself apparently, jumped off a bridge or something" he explained.

I felt Katie stand up as my arm was around her shoulders. "Excuse me I- I can't-" she said as though she was going to cry and ran out of the class.

"I've got it" I said and followed her. She ran into the girls bathrooms, I went in not caring that I wasn't a girl.

As soon as the words "killed herself" reached my ears, many memories of vivid thoughts and daydreams came rushing back into mind. I couldn't breathe as I ran out of the classroom. I heard muffled yelling of my name and nickname made by Mitchell but I didn't once stop until I got to the girls bathrooms. I leant on the sink and looked into the mirror.

I couldn't breathe I was suffocating I grabbed my cheap necklace and ripped it off my neck. I crouched down and cried more.

"Cherry?" I heard Mitchell's voice. He wrapped is arms around me, comforting me.

"What happened? Is it because of Pickwell?" He asked once I was sitting leaning against the wall.

"It's what she did." I began. "She should've gotten help when she needed it. I can only imagine what she probably went through, it's terrifying the fact that we saw this woman every day without fail and not once did we think that something was shattering her from the inside out. It scares me when I think about it because, if someone if that broken inside and doesn't tell anyone, you never know that they are. You know, at the back of my mind, I worry that what if someone I love is feeling that way? When I think of that, my mind instantly goes to you." I continued. "You know what I'm like with the vivid imagination" I laughed weakly. "I then begin to imagine what my life would be without you and it's miserable and I don't want that to happen! I don't want to loose you too! I can't loose you too! I jus-" Mitchell cut me off by calmingly shushing me as though to say that it's okay.

"You're not going to loose me. Alright? Unfortunately for you, you're stuck with me forever." He chuckled.

I was pulled into a tight hug "please don't leave me" I muttered into his shoulder.

"Never"

~~

We went back into class after I'd fully calmed down and cleaned myself up.

"Hey babes, are you okay?" Stephen asked and hugged me.

"Yeah, I'm sorry, I just have a vivid imagination" I laughed and went to sit back down. Before I could, Mitchell grabbed my hand and pulled me to sit on his lap, I wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed his cheek.

"We still haven't see you two kiss yet" Chantelle said.

Mitchell and I looked at each other and shrugged. We stood up and kissed, well, snogged. We heard Chantelle and Stephen clapping and squealing in the background. We didn't stop until we heard a camera snap.

We pulled away and saw that Stephen was taking photos.

~~

I was on my phone while Alfie talked about some random shit and I saw on Stephens snapchat story a picture of Mitchell and I kissing.

(A/n I decided to actually try with the pics 😂)

I showed Mitchell and screenshotted it. I put the screenshot in my little album called "Mitch & Cherry🍒"

It was full of pictures of Mitchell and I. I look through it a lot, like I was doing at that moment.

"I love that picture" Mitchell whispered pointing to the picture displayed on my phone:

"I remember that day" he added.

"Yeah, we had a sleepover at Stephens house and Chantelle stole my phone while we were asleep, I want to do that again." I replied.

"We should, we could ask the others" "definitely"

~~

Alfie was talking about how he thinks ghosts can't be real.

"I thought I saw a ghost once" RemDogg began.

"When Katie and I were sleeping over at Mitchell's, turns out it was just Mitchell's mum in a nighty tryna haunt my cock" he joked.

"Just because your mum looks like someone drew eyes on a scrotum" Mitchell retorted.

"I heard your gypo mum does palm readings with a happy ending." RemDogg continued.

"Do one!"

"Stop!" I yelled.

"Someone's dead! Can we just show a little respect" Jing added.

"Thank you girls, although I did hear that about Mitchell's mum" Alfie commented. I put my hand on Mitchell's seeing that he was annoyed.

~~

"What does this ghost want from me?" Alfie asked.

"To put its unquiet spirit at rest" RemDogg joked.

"What? Like in the film where Jing walks out the telly?" Mitchell added.

"Oh, you can watch scary movies now? The boy who cried at Toy Story 3." Jing retorted.

"I didn't cry! I had something in my eye! Why do I give a shit if Andy goes to college? Just, why did he leave Woody behind" he began to cry and put his head on my chest. I patted his back in support.

"It's okay," I tried to hold in my giggles.

"I cried at Five Feet Apart"

"But that's actually sad" Stephen added.

"Oh well" I chuckled.

~~

We decided to put on a memorial/funeral for Pickwell. Mitchell and I were sorting flowers.

"Did you actually cry at Toy Story 3?" I asked.

"Nah, I had something in my eye"

"Mitchell, we've been over this, I know when you're lying." I laughed.

"Right, yeah, I did I little, but why did he leave Woody behind?" He asked about to cry again.

"Oh god not again" I laughed. "If it makes you feel any better there's a 4th one out, maybe he finds him again" he doesn't but Mitchell doesn't have to know that.

~~

"I've never been to a funeral before" Mitchell began talking to Alfie.

"Lucky" I muttered.

"But in WWE survivors series, right, the undertaker comes out the coffin, choke slams Randy Orton and then finished him off with a tombstone pole-driver. Why don't we just do that"

"The reasons are literally endless Mitchell" Alfie replied.

"Can you just help Katie with the flowers please?"

"What do I know about flowers?"

"I swear your sister sold me some roses at the traffic lights"

"And you got me sunflowers for my birthday" I added. Earning a

"Awh cute" from Stephen.

"Whatever, she's got a real job now and I only got you sunflowers 'cause they're your favourite" he replied to both of us.

"She holds a bucket while daddy washed the windscreens LOL" Stephen said.

"RemDogg has asked the art department about Pickwell's painting" Jing informed Alfie.

"Great, can they go easy on the whole menopausal child-catcher vibe?"

"I'll try to find a picture of her smiling"

"Hah, thats like trying to find a picture of sir watching One Direction without a boner" Mitchell laughed.

"Or you with your real dad" Alfie replied. Mitchell's face dropped and he turned back to the flowers.

"Or you watching Katie dance without one" Stephen added. My face went red

"Don't think we've forgotten" Stephen laughed, I walked away trying not to laugh.

~~

All hell broke loose at the memorial, pigeons flew everywhere and one pooped on Grayson it was hilarious. Then when RemDogg was pointing at laughing one did the same to him. Mitchell took my hand and we ran out of the hall, laughing.

"That was hilarious!"

"I know!"

~~

I went back to Mitchell's and we watched a few movies and I borrowed one of his hoodies to sleep in. Then we fell asleep like this

Just as my eyes closed while I drifted off to sleep I heard Mitchell whisper "I love you"

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