Goodbye

I woke up the next morning before anyone else. From where I was lying I could see Ben curled up in his bed looking very angelic and Mark fast asleep next to me. I didn’t want the moment to end so I snuggled back down against Mark’s chest. I could hear his heart beating steadily and my head rose and fell as he breathed softly and soon I was asleep again.

Mark

An urgent banging on the door woke me up. Jo was still curled up next to me and sleepily waking up so I untangled myself gently from her and went to the door.

When I eventually opened the door Christian and Paul came flying in.

"Do you know what time it is! We have-" Paul’s sentence halted abruptly as he noticed something over my shoulder. "I see you’ve got company. You sly devil, don’t tell me the three of you....." his sentence trailed off as he raised his eyebrow and gave me a wicked grin.

I turned round to find Ben in the room in only his boxers and Jo leaning on the door post in my shirt. I was confused as I looked back at Paul who was still grinning then realisation dawned as I did a double take behind me.

"We have not had a threesome!" I exclaimed as I heard Jo and Ben laugh behind me. "God Paul you have the dirtiest mind I know."

"I aim to please," Paul said. "Why don’t you introduce me then?"

He didn’t seem bothered as to why Jo really was in Mine and Ben’s room.

"Guys you forget!" Christian who had been quiet up to now interrupted. "We have an interview in 5 minutes!"

"What!" Ben squeaked from behind me. "My hair!"

"You two go down and meet them and we’ll be down soon," I said.

Paul and Christian left after Paul had given Jo a cheeky wink and I went into the bedroom to find utter chaos. Ben was flinging clothes round the room and had even managed to get Jo to help him.

"They’re in the room somewhere," Ben said.

"What!"

"My hair straighteners!"

"Your hair’s perfect," I said eyeing Ben’s slightly messy but perfectly straight curtains.

"No it’s not!" Ban wailed.

"Found them!" Jo exclaimed holding them up in the air.

"You lifesaver," Ben said planting a kiss on her cheek, grabbed the straighteners and disappeared into the bathroom.

"He spends so long in the bathroom," I said rolling my eyes. "He’s as bad as any woman!"

"I heard that!" Ben’s voice came from the bathroom.

Jo sat back down on the bed. I looked down and surveyed my clothes, my jeans would do another day but my t-shirt was looking crumpled and slept in. I whipped it off and found a decent one from my wardrobe. I couldn’t be bothered to style my hair so I grabbed a baseball cap aswell and pulled it on.

God he had such a nice body. I couldn’t believe he’d just taken his t-shirt off to reveal the finest chest I have ever seen. There was not an ounce of fat on it and it was toned to perfection. I stared at his back as he searched through the wardrobe. Once he’d chosen a t-shirt and baseball cap he came and sat down next to me.

"You’re very quiet this morning," he said.

"I’m not a morning person," I explained. "I’m not really awake yet."

"Ok, well the interview won’t last long so you can wait here and amuse yourself with the tv or summat and then we’ll go out for some breakfast," Mark said.

"Sure," I said.

Ben emerged from the bathroom with perfect hair and threw on some clothes. "Right I’m ready."

"Let’s go then," Mark said. "We’ll be back soon."

"Yeah see ya Jo," Ben said as they left.

I lay back down on the bed and flicked between the tv channels until I found MTV. Incidentally the fourth video was a1 singing Same Old Brand New You. I got closer to the screen and watched as Mark started singing the opening to the song. His voice was so good and I watched as a1 danced and sang their way through the song. Mark looked so sexy as a mechanic. The video all made it seem more real. A1 were a famous band with a busy schedule. Mark had been really kind and let me stay the night but he didn’t want me to hang around now, I would just be getting in the way. I looked at my watch and saw they had only been gone 25 minutes. It would be better for everyone if I left now. Mark wouldn’t have to politely tell me to leave and I liked him so much it was gonna be much easier without seeing him again. It would be so hard saying goodbye to him when I fancied so much and knew that I’d never see him again.

I went into the bathroom and got changed back into my skirt and shirt.

Writing the note was the hard part. I didn’t know how to put my thoughts into words.

In the end it ended like this:

Hi guys,

I’d just like to start by saying thanks to u two for letting me doss in your room for the night, u both made me forget what happened last night.

Mark there are no words to express how grateful I am to you. You are truly my knight in shining armour…..