Victoria’s point of view

“I DON’T CARE IF YOU DON’T APPROVE OF LAUREN, I LOVE HER!”
I heard someone shout; Alan. He loves her? He’s only been with her for not even 24 hours and he loves her? Or maybe he was with her for longer, maybe he was with her when we had sex. Austin, Anouk, Jen and Amanda all stared at me, scared of how I would react. I didn’t want to annoy them so I kept my feelings to myself. My unshed tears made their way to my heart and each watery droplet stabbed into my heart like a red hot knife. The pain was excruciating.
But weirdly enough, it hurt more to smile. I smiled sadly at everyone in my room.
“I’m okay. Really, I am.” I said convincingly, “But I really would just like to be alone and focus on some paperwork right now.” Thankfully none of them said anything, they just hugged me and walked out of my room, closing the door behind them. I grabbed my phone and decided to go on twitter. While scrolling through I saw a tweet from Oli His tweet read;
“Just can’t stand missing someone…”
I instantly hit the reply button;
“Aw babe, you too huh?”
A few seconds later I received a text message;
From: Oliver
Sent at 2:28pm
You sad too? :(

To: Oliver
Sent at 2:28pm
Yep :(, you?

From: Oliver
Sent at 2:28pm
Unfortunately yes :( What’s up with you? Xx

I then proceeded to tell Oli everything that had happened, he already knew Alan and I slept together, so I told him everything about him and Lauren.

From: Oliver
Sent at 2:38pm
Fucking hell that’s rough mate. And he loves her?

To: Oliver
Sent at 2:38pm
That’s what he just screamed at the guys ten minutes ago.

Oli decided that texting all our shit to each other was too much hard work so instead he just called me.
“How you ‘olding up?” Oli said, with his adorable accent.
“I’m okay I guess, I just feel…”
“Empty?” Oli finished for me.
“Yeah.” I said sadly, “Like I can’t feel anything, I’m numb, but I can feel my heart breaking at the same time” My voice cracked after I said ‘breaking’ and the tears started rolling down my cheeks.
“No no don’t cry, love.” Oli said sympathetically, “Alan’s being a jerk. Asking her to be his girlfriend and then straight after inviting her to the bus.”
I still couldn’t speak for fear of my voice breaking again as the tears were flowing hard. Oli could tell I wasn’t talking because I was overcome with tears.
“Look, love, how about when we reach Lauderdale, you and I go out and get ourselves some new tattoos!” Oli asked, I instantly brightened up.
“Can I get ‘Alan’s a dick’ tattooed on my forehead?” I jokingly asked.
“You can get whatever you want, love!” Oli laughed.
“Thank you, Oli. You have made me feel ten thousand times better!” I said, I really meant it as well.
“You’re welcome, anytime, love.” I could hear the smile in Oli’s voice, “How about I come onto your bus when we reach our pit stop? Because after our pit stop we have one day before Lauderdale. Plus I can check out this Lauren chick!” Oli said with an evil laugh.
“Trust me, you really wouldn’t want to see her!” I laughed, “just disgusting” I said with a shudder. Oli laughed;
“Hey! At least Alan downgraded!” Oli exclaimed.
“Looking on the bright side there Sykes!” I giggled.
Our conversation then moved onto Hannah, Oli’s girlfriend. Poor Oli really missed her. They had just gotten engaged and he had to leave for tour almost straight away. At some point in the conversation Oli nearly broke down in tears. My heart broke for him.
“But anyway, Hannah is going to fly down and stay on the bus towards the end of tour, I’d love for you to meet her!” Oli got all excited about seeing the love of his life in a few months.
“Oh definitely! I’d love to! From what I’ve heard she’s a very sweet girl”
Oli and I spoke more about Hannah and just about everything in general. We were on the phone for about 2 and a half hours. We confirmed that when our buses made a pit stop, Oli would spend the rest of the time to Lauderdale on the Of Mice And Men bus.

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