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Ella's POV;

As my breathing returns to its normal pace, I turn my head to face Mattie.

"So, you love me?" I ask, trying to sound as casual as possible.

"Yes, I mean I know I've only known you for nearly 3 months, but I do love you Ella, and I know its quick and rushed, but I thought why wait? Why wait half a year to say it if I feel it now? My feelings for you are incredibly strong and I've never felt this way about anyone, so I wanted you to know it," He tells me and I feel my heart doing summersaults.

"I'm incredibly in love with you too Mattie, I have been for quite a while now, and I've only just recently admitted to myself and I wanted to tell you but I didn't know whether you would reject me or not so I kept it to myself, but to hear you feel the same way makes me ecstatic," I grin at him.

He doesn't say anything, he just simply stares at me. His hand reaches for my face as he tucks a strand of hair behind my ear.

"You're so f*****g perfect baby," he says, his voice gravelly.

I feel my cheeks heat up as I look down.

"Hey, look at me," He cups my chin and moves my head ever so gently so I'm giving him eye contact.

"You are perfect okay? You're perfect to me," He says and I giggle.

"What's so funny?" He asks.

"Oh nothing, its just 'you're perfect to me' is a One Direction lyric," I grin and face palms.

"What? I had to say it," I say and he chuckles.

"So you like One Direction?" He asks and I take a second to realise how crazy all of this actually is, we're madly in love with each other, but yet we don't actually know a lot about each other. It's mad.

"I love One Direction," I grin and he nods.

"Who's your fave?" He asks and I laugh at him.

"You sound like every girl I meet who likes them,"

"Well I'm in love with Liam, he's just so manly," He puts on a girly voice and I crack up.

"You like the Payne train ay?" I smirk.

"Oh yes I love whatever that is," He says, still in character.

"That's his d**k babe," I say and this time he cracks up.

"Oh god I don't understand why its called that,"

"You probably don't want to either," I laugh.

"Yeah I think it would be for the best if you kept that piece of information to yourself,"

"Yeah. For the record I like Harry," I tell him and he smiles.

"Oh my god Harry has such luscious hair!" He screams and I fall off the bed in fits of laughter.

Mattie "falls" on top me, but his fangirl character is no longer here. He stares into my eyes and smiles.

"Your laugh is so cute," He smirks and I blush.

"I sound like a drowning cat," I admit and he nods.

"Well yeah, but its cute," He smirks.

"We'd better get changed and go back downstairs before mum catches us like this," I grin.

"Ohhhhh," he whines and I push him off me.

I slip my bra on and my t-shirt and look around for my underwear.

"Have you seen my thong?" I straightforward ask him.

"Hmmmm no," He smiles, but I can see right through him.

"Give them back," I raise my eyebrow at him.

"I don't know what you're talking about," He smiles smugly.

"Mattie you pervert gimme my underwear back," I grin.

"Certainly not now," He smirks.

"f**k sake fine, I'll wear some different ones," I roll my eyes at him before slipping a new pair on.

"Okay babe," He smirks whilst slipping his jeans on.

"Weirdo," I smirk at him.

"That's me baby," He smirks back.

I slip some ripped jeans on and sort my bed out so it doesn't look like s*x has been had in it.

I hear my mums car pull up, and freeze.

Mattie must have heard the same thing because he stares at me.

I throw his shirt at him and grab my laptop.

"I'll pretend you've gone to the loo, shut my door as you come out because mums like an FBI agent when it comes to these things," I quickly say before frantically running downstairs.

I sit at the table and open up my laptop getting on the work, when I turn and catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror.

I notice a fresh hickey on my neck. f**k!

I grab a scarf and slip it round my neck as its the first thing I can think of.

Mum walks through the door and I pretend to type.

"Oh hey mum," I try and act as cool as possible.

"Hello sweetie, where's Mr Wilde? And why are you wearing a scarf indoors?" she asks.

"He's gone to the toilet, and oh its part of this outfit," I smile.

"Part of the outfit? Yeah right El, you hate scarves," She says and she's not wrong I do hate them.

"Okay okay, you got me! My neck is so very cold," I say and she looks at me weirdly.

Just then Mattie comes downstairs. Thank f**k for that.

He's back into his professional "teacher" look.

How did he do that?

"Hello there!" She grins at him.

Is my mum ... flirting?

She only brings out that smile when she's flirting or she wants something, and I don't think its the latter.

Don't get me wrong, mum loves dad, but she does do her fair share of flirting here and there. She would never cheat on dad, but she says she's getting old as the day goes on so she may as well do a few things she shouldn't here and there.

"Mrs Faye," He acknowledges her.

"Oh please, you know you can call me Mandy," She smiles.

Yep she's flirting. God this is so f****d up and weird.

"Mum, what's for dinner?" I but into their encounter.

"Well I was going to do spaghetti, but Karen (Blake's mum) got a call from Blake asking if you were with us because you weren't answering your phone and I told him you were at home studying with Mr Wilde, and he said that your friend Chase is having a party tonight at his and he wants you to come so I told him you would," She tells me, and Mattie glances over at me to see my reaction.

I didn't really want to upset him by going to another party so I thought I should pass this one up.

"Mum, I'm not really feeling up to it tonight," I say.

"Oh come on El, Blake wants you to, plus I bought you a dress for it," She said and I perked up.

I have never really been a dress sort of person, but party dresses are alright and mum knows what I like and she always chose me such nice clothes.

She handed me a bag and I opened it to find an incredibly beautiful item of clothing.

It was lacy black mini dress with a nude colouring under the black lace. The bust was sort of triangular and it was honestly beautiful. (I suck at describing so the dress is in the cover photo)

I gasped as I flung my arms around mum.

"Thank you so much this is beautiful!" I scream and she laughs.

"I'm glad you like it, so you'll go?" She asks me and I glance over at Mattie who just smiles.

But it wasn't a genuine smile, It was a sad smile.

He doesn't want me to go because of last time.

"Okay, but I'm only going to have a couple of drinks," I say, hoping that will make Mattie feel better.

"I should hope you only have a couple of drinks anyway," Mum tells me and I laugh nervously.

I forgot she didn't like me drinking loads. Neither does dad.

"Of course, duh!" I smile and she raises her eyebrow.

"Anyway, Mr Wilde's going now, and I need to collect my book he's left at his house so I'll be back in a sec," I tell her and she nods.

"Bye Matt!" She says and I grin. He hates being called Matt.

"Goodbye Mandy," He smiles before leaving.

When we're out of earshot I speak up, "I didn't want to go tonight. I'm only going because mum wants me to and she did buy me that beautiful dress,"

"I know El, I don't expect you not to go, you should live your life and do what you want, I just hope you'll take my advice when I advise you to just be careful," He sighs and I slightly smile.

He wants to tell me what to do I know he does because he wants me to be safe, but he's refrained from doing that because he knows I hate it. He's trying, so I should too.

"I will, and I'll only have a couple of drinks," I say and his smile becomes more genuine.

"Well its what you want to do," He smiles and I can tell its what he wants too.

"And I'll send you a pic of me in my dress so you know what it looks like," I grin.

"Or, how about you come here after? Pretend you're sleeping round Blake's?" He smirks.

"Would that make you happier?" I ask and he nods.

"It would make me very happy," He says and I smile.

"Then I will come to yours after," I say and he smirks.

"Now I would kiss you, but I'm afraid I can see your mum peeking out the window, so it will have to wait until tonight," He says and I smirk.

"She was flirting with you earlier," I scowl and he smirks.

"I know she was, was that why you asked what was for dinner? To stop her from making conversation?" He asks and I blush.

"f**k sake you know me too well," I say and he laughs.

"Here, wait here, let me get a book so it looks like you did get one from me," He says before disappearing then reappearing quickly.

"Here you go Miss Faye, now tonight get Blake to pick you up so you don't have to ride your bike there, and then you can text me where you are and I'll pick you up because your bikes so damn loud it will wake your family up and then they'll wonder why you're here and not there," He says and I grin at him.

"I love the way you think everything through, it saves me a lot of hassle," I joke.

"See you tonight Ella nice scarf by the way," He smirks.

"That was to cover up that massive hickey you left on my neck, I swear you're either a hormonal teenager or a vampire," I say and he smirks.

"Vampire," He says and I giggle.

"See you later Mattie, I love you," I whisper.

"I love you too you nutcase, now go before your mum gets jealous that you're spending even more time with me," He says and I roll my eyes.

"Bye Mr big head," I smirk before turning back to enter my house.