Ten

The party was somewhat good after Libby had fallen asleep, I am not going to say it was amazing because I can't drink too much due to my medication but allowing myself one at least is good, right? I mean I did have shots as well but one technical cup of alcohol.

When we arrived home Helena and I literally hit the hay so fast I think you literally could have thought we had died because, when I tell you I didn't want to wake up and found it hard this isn't an understatement, I rolled out of bed taking the pain of hitting the floor as just an addition to the pain that my body was in already, I heard a few mutters and distant voices coming from downstairs so I got up from the floor and made my way out of my room and down the stairs.

"Morning sleepyhead" Helena greeted me as I smiled weakly and then look between her and her cup of coffee on the kitchen table "You're okay? not in any type of tiredness?" I asked a little surprised as she smiled widely and it was definitely a different smile then usual which had me suspecting something was up "I am in no shape for any kind of prank or surprise today Hell" I said as she shook her head and rolled her eyes taking a sip of her coffee "there is no prank or surprise numpty but I did make you a coffee that is in the microwave, you'll have to reheat it" she said as I quickly shot her a smile and did a little dance as I walked to the microwave to heat it up.

After we had breakfast we decided to just chill in my room and listen to some old school vinyl's, and just sit around on our phones just doing the normal anti-social Gen Z stuff that our mums definitely didn't like, it was either we stay out too late and until God knows hours or we aren't doing anything but on our "bloody phones all day", so we can never make happy our parents but who's complaining. Not us.

The door bell rung and Helena and I looked at each other then ran to my window trying to see who it could possibly be, but unfortunately the person at the door was so close to the door that my window wasn't showing us anything, I stopped my vinyl and we both went to sit on my bed again and listen in to what was going to take place downstairs, there was a longer silence that was literally dragging on and on until we heard shuffles, I tapped Helena to follow me and we made our way to my bedroom door.

"I don't think you should be here!" Patricia said as we cracked open my door and listened out for the voice that was disturbing and causing a bit of tension in the air, "I think that it's better if you leave" my mum said as we moved from the door to the rails and saw Vincent clear as day standing there as confused as we were, Helena and I shot up and leant on the rails of the balcony "Vincent?" I spoke out as everyone's eyes snapped to look at Helena and I that were standing there looking over at the three standing at the door, "what are you doing here? what's going on?" I asked as Vincent shrugged and looked back at the mums who one had a flushed and quite embarrassed face and the other had a worried and horrified look on her face, I was so confused and I could tell Helena was too, what was going on?

"I just came to ask if you wanted to hang out? but I guess that's a no" Vincent said as he had his skateboard in his hand and what looked like an iced coffee in the other hand, both Helena and I walked down the stairs so we were now standing where everyone else was "oh how nice, I mean I don't feel outdoorsy today but maybe tonight or something" I said as I shrugged and looked back at the mums "it's okay, just wanted to check you know after last night you and your friends were safely at home and Libby was ok" he smiled as Helena and I nodded "Well I am going to get going, but here, um, I got you a coffee" he handed me the coffee and I smiled as I looked at the label, a white chocolate Mocha with 3 pumps of caramel with Almond milk, how did he know that?

The door closed and Helena and I crossed our arms with frowns on our faces as our mums turned to look at us "what was that?" I asked as the mums sighed and just walked off "weirdos" Helena muttered as we went back into my room and went back to what we were doing at the start before the commotion downstairs.

"Do you think they are hiding something? I mean they don't even know Vincent like that, why would someone just look at someone and be so mean?" Helena asked as I looked over at her, I was currently surfing the internet and she was lying on my bed on her phone "they must be, but poor Vincent didn't even know what was going on" I said as she came and stood behind me looking over at what I had on the screen which was just my Instagram, "it's possibly because it's a certain person's birthday today" I tilted my head back so I was looking up at her and she smiled a little and rolled her eyes "who's?" I asked as Helena's smile quickly disappeared and then she looked down at me and I could see the sadness but yet anger in her eyes "my dad" she barely whispered as I straightened my smile and now I knew why that bit of anger was there "sorry" I whispered.

"I never asked you how you and Zack got on" I asked as Helena shook her head bringing the smile back to her face but definitely wider then a normal smile was " it was good, we have a lot in common which is nice, we are actually going to hang out tonight, he wants to show me some new places to skate so it should be fun" she said with pure happiness in her words, I smiled and clapped my hands childishly "that's my babies!!" I cheered a little and did a little dancsy dance in my chair, I was over the moon that they were fond of each other, my little babies liked each other.

"Yeah well thanks for pushing me to talk to him and even though he is a pain in my arse I think that I could like him a little bit, but it's very early feelings and I don't want to jinx anything" she said as I nodded.

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The day was coming to an end and to say today was eventful would be bang on point, I mean I don't know what was going on between the mums this afternoon but honestly, they hadn't spoken to us all day, and now Helena and I were both hanging out with our friends and just making sure nothing was getting us too worked up about our parents.

"Sorry about what happened today, it's not like them to do that to someone they don't know" I apologised to Vincent as we were laying down in the middle of a field looking up at the stars just taking in the night sky, it was my favourite thing to do as well as having the smell of hot McDonalds getting cold filling our nostrils, I also like cold Maccies, don't judge.

"Don't apologise, sometimes I can get that reaction seen as I am quite the notorious bad boy" he shrugged as he turned his head to look at me, I looked into his eyes and the sadness that was displayed in them made the whole conversation hit differently, just seeing how hurt he was, "You can talk to me you know, I know I wasn't the best person to you when we first met but you know you told me I have to live life and maybe it's time you let people in and not put up this big bad boy front" I said as I smiled softly towards him as he closed his eyes and took a deep breath "it's not easy like that, I open up to you and then people will get the wrong end of the stick, I mean the media still follows me around, I don't want you being dragged into this" he said as I shook my head and laughed " I am not talking about our friendship you loser I am talking about not playing up to people's expectations, don't be a product of the internet, be yourself" I said as he kept his eyes closed and just didn't say anything, I scooted over to him and place my arms on his chest and my chin rested on them, he opened his eyes and looked at me the distance between us now closer than before "be the best version of yourself and not the worst product of what people have told you do to" I said as he smiled softly at me as I rest my head on my arms and closed my eyes.

"My dad just wants me to be the best thing to come out of his family, I don't want to disappoint him so it's what the media wants, I do" he said as I just listened to his heart beat and his words that echoed in his chest as he spoke, I closed my eyes and slowed my breathing down "your dad is proud of you regardless of what you do" I said as he took a deep breath and sighed, "I wanted to hang out today because it was his birthday today and well him and I aren't on speaking terms as I declined a branding deal with a company that isn't super supportive to my political views and what I stand for and he was super against it, he just wanted me to do it because at the end of the day I still get paid" He said as I lifted my head up and then got up from his chest and went straight for the cold Maccies that was still very much In the bag next to me, I handed him his food and I started digging into it.

"happy Birthday to your dad, your dad has the same birthday as Helena's and I am sure that he is just making sure you don't miss opptunity" I said as he shrugged and dug into his food, "he is a construction manager so he sits in an office bossing a load of workers to build different things" he said as he rolled his eyes, I can see where the arrogance and narcissism comes from them, his dad. Vincent pulled out his phone and showed me a picture of his dad.

I froze, I saw a complete ghost, my soul left my body, when I tell you all these emotions had escaped my body as I looked at this photo, I dropped my shake and gasped "that's your dad?" I was flabbergasted, what was this world coming to, the actual scum of a father was obviously the father to this socially seen egotistical narcissist but lowkey sweetheart. "Yeah that's my dad why what's wrong?" he said as I grabbed my stuff and got up "um I need to get going ya know, I think Helena text me just now saying she wasn't feeling the best and I need to check it's not like her dying ya know" I said stuttering through my words and literally tripping over myself, he paused and looked at me gathering my stuff "Oh okay I'll um drop you home" he said as he collected his stuff and we made our way to his car.