Chapter 32.

I stretch out under the covers and rub my tired eyes, opening them slowly.

"Morning beautiful." Perri says in a tired voice.

"Oh god no, I look terrible!" I scoff, flattening my ugly bed hair.

"Shut up, no you don't!" He chuckles, putting his arm around me, squeezing me slightly.

"So, what have you and the boys got planned for today?" I ask, shuffling myself up the bed.

"Well, Ashley wants everyone; including you- down at the studio by 11." He replies, locking his phone.

"And me!" I chuckle. "Okay, I'm just going to pop into the shower." I say, pushing back the covers.

"Cool, I'll meet you downstairs. Pancakes?" He smirks.

"How could I resist!" I smile, kissing him quickly before heading into the bathroom.

I close the door behind me and head over to the mirror, looking at my shocking reflection before turning around and switching the shower on.

I peel off my pyjamas and step under the warm water, letting it hit my aching body. After everything that's happened recently, this is needed.

I wash my body with Perri's manly smelling body wash and wash my hair with his shampoo- I don't have any of my products with me.

I switch off the shower and grab a towel, wrapping it around myself- dabbing myself dry.

I open my towel fixing it when the door creaks open.

"OMG!" Mitch says spinning around.

I quickly pull the towel around myself tighter and feel my cheeks burning up.

"I-I'm so sorry." Mitch stutters, facing away from me.

"It's fine." I sigh, feeling really embarrassed.

"No, I'm so sorry, I-I didn't realise you were in here." He explains.

"Honestly it's fine." I reassure.

"What's going on?" Perri's voice asks, getting louder as he approaches the door.

"It was just a accident." I smile, Mitch turning to face me, staring me straight in the eye.

Perri furrows his eyebrows as I tighten my towel even more. My wet hair drips down my back and I shiver from only being in a towel.

"Can I finished getting dressed please?" I ask, adding a little chuckle on the end.

"Oh, yeah, yeah- sorry." Mitch says quickly, taking his gaze off me, closing the door.

I sigh and continue drying myself and pull on my high waisted jeans; with great difficulty, and a cropped hoodie.

I rub my hair with a dry towel and drape it over my shoulders, the ends abit damp.

I drop the towels into the laundry basket and head into Perri's room and retrieve my makeup bag- after about 10 minutes my makeup is complete. I stand up and place my makeup bag back in my handbag.

"Soph?" Perri says making me jump.

"Omg Pel, you nearly gave me a heart attack!" I reply, slapping a hand to my chest. "What's up?"

"What happened earlier?" He asks quietly.

"Oh, nothing major- Mitch didn't realise that I was in there and walked in as I was fixing my towel." I explain, again feeling slightly embarrassed.

"Did he see anything?" He questions, gesturing down my body.

"I don't think so, well I hope not!" I answer.

"I hope not too!" He says raising his eyebrows, pulling me into a hug. "Right your pancakes are downstairs."

I unlatch his arms from around me and run downstairs, skidding into the kitchen- nearly loosing my balance.

"You're such a kid when it comes to food!" Perri laughs, shaking his head as he also enters the kitchen.

"Oi! Everyone loves food!" I state, before beginning to eat the pancakes he made.

After devouring the pancakes, I place the plate into the dishwasher before grabbing my handbag from Pel's room and pushing my phone into my back pocket.

I slip my feet into my adidas superstars and follow Perri out to his car.

"You coming with us Mitch?" He calls from his car door.

"Um, no it's okay, I'll drive myself." He says closing the front door and unlocking his car.

"Strange." Perri mutters, furrowing his eyebrows. "He always gets a lift with me."

I can't help but think I'm the reason Mitch won't get a lift with us...

We pull up outside the studio and head inside. I give Dani and Starr a hug before following Pel into studio 1.

I say hi to all the boys and Ashley pulls me into a hug, giving me a sympathetic smile. I know he's on about yesterday, but I need to get over it slowly and anyways I feel fine!

I stand in the middle of the studio and fold my arms, raising my eyebrows. A small smirk plays on my lips as I stare at Clara. She has this glow across her face that I've never seen before.

I defiantly know what happened at Sam's- since she never came back to Pel's...

"Soooo..." I say, sitting down next to her and nudging her.

"Soooo..." She mimics, a smile playing on her lips.

"You don't have to tell me, I already know." I chuckle, checking my phone.

"Oh you know do you?" She smirks, making me look up.

"Of course I know!" I chuckle. "Your glowing babe!" I wink before laughing.

"Okay okay!" She says going all shy.

"You can tell me later." I whisper.

Jordan puts "in2" on by wstrn and I automatically start singing along. I sway my head to the beat, Clara joining in. Then we begin gesturing our arms around- we can't dance fully as we are sat on the mats.

Clara nudges me and I look up seeing Perri, Sam and Ike recording us. I quickly stop and let my hair cover my face as I fall about laughing with Clara.

The boys begin rehearsing and me and Clara sit and watch, taking the odd selfie.

I'm showing Clara a picture I found on twitter when I hear the boys whistling and clicking their fingers.

"Mitch! Yoohoo! Mitch!"

"Earth to Mitch!"

I look up and meet the gaze of Mitch. All the boys follow Mitch's gaze and lock eyes on me.

The boys all look at each other before Jord waves his hand in front of Mitch's face, making him blind and look all confused.

"Sorry- what?" He says, running his hand through his hair.

I glance over at Perri who looks rather annoyed. I ask Clara if she also noticed Mitch staring and she did.

He's acting really weird lately, like since the last time I came down and stayed at their house.

I explain to Clara what happened this morning with the bathroom situation and her face was priceless!

I felt quite thirsty, so I grab some change from my bag and head into the cafe.

PERRI'S POV:

I watch Soph head out of the studio in the direction of the cafe. I continue running through the routine with everyone until Ashley calls a break.

"Well done lads!" He claps.

Everyone takes a seat in the studio or mess around, but Mitch was no where to be seen.

I furrow my eyebrows and head in the direction of the cafe. Something's not adding up. First we all catch him staring at Soph and now he's not with the rest of us.

I spy Soph collecting her drink from the bottom of the vending machine and see Mitch leaning on the counter next to the machine.

"Oh god Mitch! I didn't see you there." Sophia says startled.

I decide to stand the other side of the door where they can't see me, I want to know what Mitch says...

"I just wanted to say sorry again for what happened this morning." He begins.

"It's cool, don't worry about it, just forget it!" Soph replies.

I smile to myself, the sound of her voice makes me feel complete.

"But I can't forget it..." He says quietly.

Wait? He can't forget it?

"Why can't you forget it?" I question, heading over to them.

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I'm so sorry for not updating in a while, I had exam week last week with mocks for my GCSEs 😭 and then on the weekend I went to see to see Strictly Come Dancing which was amazing 🙌👯

Anyways I hope you enjoy this part, it's unedited so no judging for any mistakes 😁😉😂

Vote and comment if you did enjoy it, much appreciated 👌😏

I've started to use the Mitch idea more in this part 😎