“Just walk up and ring the doorbell and take it from there.” Deborah said as she turned the corner, on Izzy’s block.

“I still can’t believe you’re making me do this.”

“Oh shush, you. I know you’re glad I’m making you do this. Now which house is it?”

“It’s up a few more houses, but what do I fucking say to him? I’m dying here!” I whinged, frowning at her.

“Just be yourself.” She chuckled. “Izzy seems to have bought that.”

I threw her a look in the darkly lit car. Deborah had literally pushed me into the car and was forcing directions out of my mouth to Izzy’s place. She was absolutely determined to make us a “thing”.

“You never know he could be ‘the one’, but imagine if you ended up alone for the rest of your life because I never drove you back to his house...” She looked at me with wide eyes.

“Oh jeez thanks. You are such a good friend” I said with the most sarcasm, “It’s so nice that you can imagine me alone for the rest of my life...”

“Well you won’t be now since I’m changing the timeline- is this his house?” She pointed out the window cutting herself off.

“Yep.” I took a deep breath. “I can’t believe you’re still making me do this. What the fuck am I supposed to say?!”

“Umm... Oh! How about you think you left your wallet at his place because, ahem, you totally can’t find it... How about that and you’re fucking welcome, now get out and get lovin’.”

Deborah reached over me and opened my door and undid my seatbelt.

“Go on, get!”

I sighed loudly and rolled my eyes, and reluctantly got out of the car. I really hated Deb for making me do this, but, I do have to admit, there was a little part of me that secretly liked it. I really liked Izzy, and when I left earlier that day I did think about how and when we would catch up again.

Well that was now solved for me wasn’t it?

“I promise I’ll stay here until you are fully inside his house. Then I’m outta here.” Deb yelled out from her window as I tried to open the front gate, since it was nighttime.

It looked as though no one was home, I couldn’t see Izzy’s car anywhere, but as I approached the front door I could see through the small frosted glass window in the door, there was a light on somewhere at the end of the house.

I opened the screen door and fumbled around the front door to find the knocker, but my hand brushed against something little and fuzzy. I shrieked and moved my hand away like lightening and just knocked somewhere random on the door.

Suddenly I heard voices yelling from inside and laughter and I saw a silhouette come towards the front door. It looked as though it would be too tall to be Izzy... The front light suddenly came on and the door was swung open. I could barely see anything since inside the house was dark as, but I spoke too soon since this person flicked on the hallway light.

There standing in front of me was a really tall guy with wavy blond hair and a cute face. It was that bassist from Izzy’s band that I remember seeing that day on the video clip set.

“Can I help you lovely?” He said with a laugh.

“Yeah, I was wondering if um... Izzy was home?” I asked in a quiet voice.

“Izzy? Yeah he’s here, sweet.” He smiled. “YO IZZY! THERE’S A CHICK HERE THAT WANTS YA!” He screamed down the hallway.

I heard more voices down the hallway and more laughter and I saw Izzy stumble up the hallway, chuckling.

“What the fuck do you want Duff- oh Mel” His face suddenly changed from ecstatic to shock mixed with seriousness and a little bit of surprise. He pushed Duff out of the way, in which he complained, “Dude what the fuck”, and opened the screen door.

“Hey, uh... what’s up?”

I was about to reply but we both heard a shriek from Duff.

“Holy fucking shit dude there’s a fucking spider on the fucking door!” He did this weird shiver thing and he ran down the hallway screaming:

“Where’s your fucking bug spray?!”

Izzy rolled his eyes, closed the screen door and faced the main door and looked for the spider. So that meant that what I felt a few seconds ago was a fucking spider... how wonderful.

Izzy put a hand up on the door and scooped up the furry fucker in his hand, asked me to open to the screen door and flung the spider out into the front yard.

I looked at him with big eyes.

“Did you seriously just pick up a spider?”

He shrugged. “Yeah, it was only one of those common black spiders. They don’t do much, it’s alright.” He laughed and looked at my face. “Why are you scared of them or something?”

“Oh dude, you have no idea. I just touched that thing when I knocked on the door but because it was dark I wasn’t quite sure what it was...” I shivered and wiped my hands on my jeans.

Izzy laughed tipping his head back. “If I knew that before I would have thrown it on you.” He nudged my arm. I just glared back.

The blonde guy, who was supposedly called Duff, came bounding back up the hallway with a fly swat and a can of spray in his hands. He studied the door and looked terrified.

“Okay, guys, the fucker’s gone. Where the fuck did it go!” He jerked his head around the door and looked under his feet.

“Dude, I just threw out here. It’s gone now.”

“Oh thank fucking god.”

“This is just what I need, two more pussies around me that are scared of spiders.” Izzy flung his hands in the air.

Duff looked at me. “Are you scared of them too?”

“Yep. I’m worse than you though, I can’t even spray them because I’m too scared to go anywhere near them. You’ve certainly got more balls than I have.” I laughed.

“See! I’m not the only one. Fuck Izzy.” Duff sighed.

Izzy was about to reply but he just shook his head at Duff and closed his eyes for a second.

“So Mel what do I pay this visit for?”

“Umm...” I turned around to see if Deb’s car was still there, which it was, and I could just make out that she was pressed up against the window with her hands on either side of her face staring at the three of us with a gobsmacked expression.

“When I was here last... did I leave my wallet here?” I said feeling like an idiot, hoping Izzy couldn’t tell I was lying.

“Your wallet?” He said looking puzzled. “Uh, I’m not sure...  But look, come on in and we can look for it.” He said putting an arm around my waist.

“Is there someone looking at us over there?” Duff questioned pointing behind us with the fly swat in his hand. I snapped my head back to see Deb with her head out the window staring at us, probably so that she could try to hear us knowing her, and she saw us staring at her, she ducked and hid.

“Oh yeah, that’s my ride.”

“Is that the chick that I met a few months ago, the really annoying one?” Izzy asked.

“Yep. DEBORAH WE CAN SEE YOU!” I yelled.

She stuck her head back up and smiled sheepishly, then came out of the car walking awkwardly towards us.

She waved. “Hiya there- oh my god you’re Duff!” She squealed staring at him.

I face palmed and I heard Izzy chuckle and Duff looked chuffed as.

“Well, ahem yes, yes I am. Nice to meet you...?” He took out his hand.

Then at the corner of my eye I saw Izzy face palm.

“Ah, let’s go inside and leave these two idiots out here with the spiders.” Izzy whispered in my ear, that both sent chills down my spine and made me laugh.

When we entered the living area I saw another guy sitting down, snorting white stuff, no doubt cocaine, along the kitchen bench, that I had cleaned not long ago.

“Slash! For fucks sake we have people here!” Izzy yelled.

The guy, who I now remember was the afro-haired guitarist from the band, looked up a little startled and started laughing.

“Oh shit man I didn’t fucking know. You guys disappeared down the hallway and didn’t come back, so you know I assumed you left or some shit. Oh I’m being rude, lady would you like some?” He motioned to another “fresh” line of coke on the bench.

“No... I’m fine thanks.” I replied awkwardly.

“Alrighty then.” And then we went back and snorted the offered line.

Izzy stuck his tongue in his cheek. “Slash, can you fucking not?”

“What? Oh did you want it? Sorry I thought you said you’d had enough-“

“Can you fucking get out and clean up?!”

“Jesus Christ calm the fuck down, Izzy. I’ve never seen you have a bad reaction with coke before.”

I saw Izzy close his eyes, holding back his anger and he waited till Slash had gone into the bathroom. I cringed when I started to think how much he was going to dirty the new and clean bathroom.

Take note Mel: don’t ever clean a guy’s house when you’ll know their mates will fuck it up...

“Sorry about that, Mel.” Izzy sighed. “Now, do you know where you left it?” He let go of my waist and began to look around the room.

“Um, Izzy can I tell you something stupid?” I asked pinching the bridge of my nose.

“Yeah...” he said still looking around the room and under chairs.

“I didn’t leave my wallet here.”

“Oh, where else do you reckon it would be?” Izzy asked innocently.

“No, I mean I lied about my wallet. Look I have it with me right here.” I pulled it out of my jean pocket.

“Oh.” He raised his eyebrows.

“Yeah, my stupid friend Deb made me come back over just to see you because she said that she sees us together and if I didn’t come back within 24 hours you would forget about me...” I realised I had just word vomited all over the place and I put my hand over my mouth and felt my cheeks heat up 100 degrees.

Izzy just smiled and looked down at his feet for a second before looking back over at me and he began to walk over. He walked right up to me, our chests nearly touching; he placed his hands on my hips and nuzzled into my neck, softly kissing me.

“You’re friend isn’t that stupid. You’re here now.” He whispered.

“No, she is, and right now you have no idea how embarrassed I am. I had to make her give me an excuse because she just thought it’d be fine if I just rocked up to your place and was like ‘hi’-“

Izzy shut up my rambling by suddenly pressing his lips into mine, and I felt one of his hands move around to my back pressing me closer to him. Izzy pulled back and looked me in the eyes. Before he spoke I noticed he kind of looked like shit; he had slight dark circles under his eyes and he looked a little washed out.

“Just so you know, after what you did for me I could never forget you. In fact I was going to call you tonight when my idiot friends left.”

I blushed. “Oh.”

He pressed his lips against mine with a little more force this time and I moved my hands up to his hair.

“OH MY GOD! I’M A GENIUS!” Deborah’s voice screamed, making Izzy and me jump right out of our skin.

I spun around in Izzy’s arms to see Deborah standing there grinning at us with her palms pressed into her cheeks with excitement.

“So I guess you weren’t lying to me that you were really were with him.” She smirked.

“You know I could easily kill you right now Deborah?” I asked eying her.

“Kill me? Damn girl, you should be thanking you. I just set you up with sexy-pants here.” She beamed.

I gave up right there. It was always impossible arguing with her, which I kept forgetting about, so I just rolled my eyes and she poked her tongue out at me.

“Anyway, Duff and I were talking and we’re going to go out for a drink, I mean it is Saturday night after all.”

“Yeah, so you guys want to come along?” Duff asked as he picked up his denim jacket on a chair beside us.

“No they don’t because they’re going to be too busy hooking up.” Deborah said looking at us and then she sprinted down the hallway because she knew I was going to chase after her and get my pay back, but I thought it would be funny just to see her run today.

“I’ll be in the car Duff!” She yelled as she flung herself out the front door.

Just as she did that, this guy Slash came stumbling out of the bathroom pissing himself laughing.

“Dude, I was looking out the window in there and you should see Ripley!”

“Yeah, well she’s not in the good books at the moment.” Izzy mumbled.

“Yo, Slash, you’re coming with us.” Duff said.

Without a single question, Slash just nodded his head and began to walk out of the house. Duff gave us a cheeky look.

“Now don’t go getting into any trouble you two.” He laughed and he walked out of the house following Slash, just leaving Izzy and me all alone.

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