"So what happened last night?" Diana asked as I opened the front door.

"Whoa! give me a chance to wake up." I laughed as I stepped out of the way to let Diana come into the house rubbing my eyes and trying to flatten the frizz that had formed on the top of my head as she did so.

"I heard Nick stayed here last night so explain yourself!" She persisted a knowing but cheeky smile all over her face.

I didn't get a chance to answer her though as Nick walked into the hallway right on cue. He smiled at Diana before kissing me on the forehead and exclaiming a very cheerful 'Good Morning.'

"Good morning." Diana and I chorused at the same time. I smiled at him while Diana just stared at him like she was 8 years old and he was a magical unicorn.

I had to admit he looked just as gorgeous as he had last night. Even more gorgeous if that was possible. I had awoken to the sound of the front door being knocked upon like fifty times since I had gotten off the couch and I didn't quite understand why Nick wasn't glaring at Diana for interrupting (in my situation) a very deep comforting sleep!

"So uh I'll see you later." Nick smirked as he pulled his coat over his shoulder and walked out of the open front door. He turned to wink at me before I could say anything and I couldn't help but smile back as Diana closed the door quickly and bombarded me with questions.

"Oh please!" I sighed in annoyance as she pulled me into the living room and sat me down on the couch. I glanced at the clock as she started to speak and was shocked to find it was already 10:20am, later than I had expected.

"Hey! Less of the attitude missy" Diana frowned.

"I am not leaving this house until you tell me EVERYTHING! She emphasised the everything and I couldn't help but frown back at her. This is really what I need first thing in the morning I though to myself as I sank back into the couch.

"Fine" I sighed in defeat, "but I need some pain killers first, you thumping the life out of my door has obviously given me a headache." Diana just stood there watching me as I took the pain killers and I started to tell her the events of last night. After a few startled questions from Diana as she worried about why I had fainted I finally finished telling her what had happened.

"So he just asked you like that, out of the blue?" Diana asked startled by Nick's random and unexpected question that would change our relationship.

"Well no, not exactly." I answered looking out of the window at the blue sky that had a few clouds still dotted around in it. "Wait the storm how bad was it, was anybody hurt?" I asked my eyes widening as I cursed my selfish ignorance. Why hadn't I asked before! I told myself.

"Yes everyone's fine thank goodness." Diana started, "The tree in Doug and Chris's back garden fell down but fortunately it fell away from their house and onto the street so nobody was hurt."

"Oh never!" I cried, "Not the swing tree!" I was shocked at the thought of their tree falling down, we had played around that tree for so many years when we were younger. I smiled at the memories of our failed attempts to build a tree house and quickly lost it again as the disappointment fell over me.

"I know tell me about it" Diana sighed "But at least nobody was hurt. Now tell me what you mean by not exactly."

I sighed forgetting about the tree for a moment to look at Diana who looked very confused but anxious to find out what had gone on between me and Nick.

"Well, do you remember how much time me and Nick used to spend with each other when my mum died?" I asked her, she nodded a sad look in her eyes. "There was something about him, I don't know what it was but I started feeling things for him. He was so supportive and I'm not saying that everyone else wasn't it was just his company soothed me and sort of took my mind off things." I looked down at my hands as I thought back to the dark times where I felt as if nothing would get better again. I felt as if I had been trying to swim in deep water for so long that finally I lost all will to try and I just fell deeper and deeper with no way of getting back up to the surface. I felt defeated without my mum there to hold me up. It can take people a life time to grow up and finally become independent. It took me 5 minutes.

Diana placed her hand on my arm and I looked up at her. I pushed those memories to the back of my mind and continued with what I was saying. I knew I was never going to forget about those sad times but I found a way of focusing on other things.

"I started relying on him, it was as if we could be with each other for ages and neither of us had to say anything. I liked it like that, pretty soon we were becoming really close and we would tell each other anything that was on our minds. Both of us were sort of in the same boat and all off the barriers just fell down." I smiled as I remembered sitting in the passenger seat of his car as we just drove for hours with no destination in mind.

"But what happened Cassie? We all noticed how close you were getting but since school started you haven't really hung out with him as much as you used to." Diana asked a look of confusion etched on her face.

"I don't really know, I guess I was focusing on school and he was always in his garage working on his car, we just drifted apart." I answered.

"I'm so happy you're both together though" Diana grinned. "I can't wait to tell everybody! They are going to be so shocked" She stood up and gracefully danced out of the room. "Anyways I have to go but I'll see you later." She smiled. I followed her out into the hall and opened the door.

"Yeah I'll see you later then." I replied as Diana gave me a quick hug and walked out of the door.

I closed it behind her and slowly walked upstairs I felt too drained to do anything else but catch a few hours' kip. My neck was in agony as I lay down on the soft pillow. I hadn't realised how stiff it felt from sleeping awkwardly the night before. I couldn't think about anything else though because as soon as I closed my eyes I was fast asleep.

I woke up and stared at my chest of drawers on the other side of the room. It took a few seconds for my mind to register and my brain to realise that I was in my bedroom. I noticed that the room was still quite light which meant I hadn't slept the whole day away thank goodness.

I reached over to my bed side table and pulled the charger out of my phone so I could look at the time, it was twenty to two. It was then that I noticed the amount of missed calls I had, I forgot to take my phone off silent after being in school so I hadn't woke up, damn it! I sighed

I looked through my call history and saw that I had 2 missed calls of Nick and 5 off Diana. Typical that Diana would try and get hold of me a good few times before giving up I smiled. I scrolled through my messages and looked at the one off Nick.

Hey, I tried calling a few times. Hope your okay? Just wanted to ask if u fancy coming over later I've finally finished my car and was wondering if u wanted to come out for a drive? Should we say 6? Xxx

I clicked the reply button and suddenly felt extremely excited about going out with Nick later, just like old times I thought as I smiled serenely.

Hey! Sorry about how long it's taken to text back I fell asleep lol. Yeah of course it'll be just like old times! J see you later xxx

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(All characters belong to L. J. Smith)

Jodie xx