I have no idea how long I’ve been asleep, all I know is I woke up to sun shining through the curtains and no Conor in bed. I turned round to the empty half of the bed and saw a note.

Just popped out for a little while. Will be back as soon as possible! Love you! Xx

Well that’s just great! Although, it does mean I can get a queen sized bed to myself! I stretch out across the whole bed, half of it warmer than the other and just lay there, thinking about things. Its so peaceful, just me and my thoughts and a huge room just for me for now!

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK.

I roll my eyes and sit up, rubbing my eyes.

“Hello?” I say sleepily. A moment to myself is all I wanted!

“Ella? You got a minute?” It was Jack, and he didn’t sound happy! I jumped out of bed, put my feet into my warm beige slippers and toddled over to the door, opening it to reveal a very stressed and upset Jack.

“You alright?” I ask as he lets himself in and sits on a chair in the living room equivalent. The whole room was basically open planned, there was only a door to the bathroom and one to the bedroom, everything else was in the same room.

“Does it look like I’m alright?” He snapped.

“Alright! I was only asking!” I reply stroppily as I walk to the fridge. “Drink?”

“Alcoholic.” Jack replies as he stares out the windows to the beautiful view of the city below us.

“I don’t think that’s wise.” I say, caringly.

“I don’t care what you think!” I roll my eyes, grab a bottle of beer and throwing it at him. He catches it, although fumbles as he does so.

“Who put a bee in your bonnet?” I ask as I pour my orange juice and walk over to the chair next to him.

“Who do you think?”

“Me?” I say, no idea as to who he means.

“Yeah, that’s why I come here to get advice… Cos you’re the problem.” He huffs.

“Jack, you’re not helping anyone with this attitude! Christ!” I exclaim.

“Sorry… I’m just annoyed!” He says, making eye contact with me for the first time since he walked in.

“So, who’s done what?”

“My girlfriend.” The way he said ‘girlfriend’ sent a chill down my spine, there was hate behind that word.

“What’s she done?” I ask, caringly.

“What hasn’t she done?” he says, and I’m taken aback by this comment. I knew something was wrong yesterday when I tried to talk to him.

“Go on…” I say, feeling like a therapist.

“She used me for the fame, money, getting to Conor, she cheated on me, name-dropped and dumped me this morning.” I stare shocked at him for a second or two.

“Wow…” I said, just about. “What a bitch!”

“Tell me something I didn’t know!”

“Get her back then!” I suggest. “I wouldn’t deal with that shit!”

“And what am I meant to do? She could easily go to that stupid channel all you guys talk about!”

“Did Conor ever meet her?” I question.

“Nah. Never got the chance, we hadn’t been going out that long and she doesn’t like gigs and stuff.” He said.

“You got her number on your mobile?” I ask.

“Well, I’m going to delete it, but yeah.”

“Let me call her!” I smile cunningly.

“No. No. No.” He shook his head.

“Err, why? What are you scared of?” I say, sarcastically.

“Well…” He paused, trying to think of something.

“That’s what I thought. Give me your phone, I wont be too rude I promise! I’ll call from my phone!” Reluctantly he hands his phone over and I get mine out, searching through his contacts I come across her name and type her number in my phone and press the call button. It says ‘Dialling Hannah’ and I freeze.

“Hello? Ella?”

“Hannah?” I ask idiotically.

“Yeah. Why are you calling me? We’ve not spoken for forever!”

“You’re dating Conor’s brother?”

“Hmm?” She says, nothing more.

“You’re dating Conor’s brother? And you re-named yourself?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” She tried to play dumb.

“I’ve got Jack beside me, I took his phone and called his girlfriends number and you pop up.. What the fuck is your problem?” Jack remains confused and stares over to me.

“Ella, I think you’re over-reacting…”

“Why did you date Jack? You tried to steal Conor from me at the beginning! Were you using him?”

“What does it matter to you? Go play happy families. Oh no wait, you can’t…” I knew she wasn’t talking about me and Conor anymore.

“Don’t you even start talking about my family…”

“It’s not only yours, Jake cant play happy families either. Why I hung out with you and your fucked-up families I’ll never know. Well, there’s not much left of them now, but…”

“Screw you, Hannah. I’m glad I’ve not had to deal with you all this time. You’re a two-faced bitch and if you even come close to any of my friends I will murder you.”

“Ha!” She laughs, “What you going to do? Put me in the back of a van and crash it?” I stand, teeth gritted, fists clenched. The lump in my throat was growing. Words couldn’t even cuss her the way I wanted to.

“Why don’t you just go back to your cousin and enjoy your relationship. You fucked up piece of shit. You mean nothing to anyone. Just die. In fact, I’d happily call Red out of prison just to murder you for me. And watch. Pay to watch in fact. With popcorn... Bitch.” I hang up the phone and throw it across the room. I stand, breathing heavily for a second before my legs give way from underneath me and I collapse onto the floor. Jack runs up to me and sits beside me, pulling me in for a hug as tears stream down my face.

“Are you alright?!” He whispers. I just nod. It takes me a while to compose myself but when I do I stand up and sit on the edge of the bed, Jack next to me.

“She spoke badly about my sister. She died 3 years ago yesterday, hence my bad mood. She used to be my best friend, until she met Conor and tried to take him away from me. I didn’t talk to her ever again. Then she went on the news and lied about their relationship, saying Conor was violent. I knocked her down and she never bothered us again really…”

“And she tried to be with me to get to Conor? I could tell she was never that interested in me… That’s what I was going to say yesterday, but I thought you’d be like ‘Oh well guys never understand girls’ and all that crap!” Jack says, head down.

“Oh, Jack I’m sorry!” I say, putting my arm round him. “Just ignore her, she’s a fucking bitch. Always has been and always will be!”

“Yeah, but I kind of liked her…” He said. It broke my heart to hear him upset, he was always the cheerful chap when I saw him.

“You deserve so much better!” I smile at him.

“If only I could find someone like y-” Conor interrupts by bursting through the door. “I’m baaaaccckkkk!” He shouts. I move my arm from Jack’s shoulders. “Jesus, Jack are you alright?” Jack shook his head. “What’d I miss?”

“My girlfriend? It’s Hannah, a girl you apparently are all too familiar with. She pretended she was called something else and got with me to get to you!” Jack said, mumbling. Conor’s face drops.

“God why can that girl not just disappear off the face of the earth right about now?” Conor said. “I was with her, if that’s what you want to call it, for like a week and she blasted me on TV. If she does this to my brother I will knock her head clean off her shoulders…” I look at the time and run over, as before, jumping onto the bed to reach the remote and turn on to gossip channel.

“Precaution…” I say as I sit watching it. I can feel the guys staring at the back of my head. “I’m not crazy.” Within seconds, the sixty second update comes on. I’d watched this programme so many times I knew when the updates were.

“Hi, I’m Jade and welcome to Sixty Second Update! It has been revealed that One Direction may have been able to fly under the radar as there are rumours going round they are back in London now! Lets see who they’re pictured out with first, eh? You never know what’s going on behind closed doors! In other news, I have just been told that Jack Maynard is single again after his girlfriend broke up with him. We, luckily, have her on the line now! You may remember her from before; Say Hello to Hannah!!” We all freeze, I hear a huge gasp from behind me but my eyes are glued to the screen.

“Hi Jade! How are you babe?” Hannah begins, the mere sound of her voice makes me want to destroy the TV.

“I’m good thanks, Hun! So, you’ve now dated both the Maynard’s… We’re sorry to hear it ended!” Jade smiles. A picture of Hannah taken from her twitter account is put up on screen so everyone knows what she looks like. “Remember viewers #JadeAskHannah!” Jade smiles as the hash tag for twitter comes up on screen just underneath her and she points down.

“Yeah, it was very sad, I’m heartbroken! But he started to get a bit much for me… He talks about his brother all the time, and I know its because he’s in Conor’s shadow, but I don’t want to hear about it, you know? And he started touring with Conor so I didn’t see him that much, but then came home and bitched!”

“So he was spending more time with Conor and Ella? Did that make you mad? I know you and Ella haven’t been on speaking terms much.” Jade smiles to the camera.

“Well, it did make me wonder, you know what Ella can be like; she probably cheated on Conor with Jack! My head was spinning because I never knew where he was or who he was with! He could have got with hundreds of girls!”

“It sounds like you were left out of your own relationship! We have a question in, if you don’t mind, from @PauliesGirl She asks ‘Which Maynard was better?’ with a wink face at the end.”

“Well, I shouldn’t really say, but Conor was more romantic. Jack was better in bed. Can I say that?”

“Yeah, the bosses cleared it, you just can’t swear!” Jade says, grinning from ear to ear.

“Yeah, I mean it’s difficult, I received a lot of hate, people saying I was moving from one to another for fame, but I really didn’t! I just needed comforting and Jack was there for me!”

“We have one more question from @Ellaalle saying ‘Why do you feel the need to lie about everything?’ Oh… Oh is that Ella’s official twitter page? It is! Ella has spoken!” I could imagine Hannah’s face dropping as that was read out and I put my phone back in my pocket.

“Look, I’m really heartbroken about this break up. I’d quite like some time to myself, if that’s alright! I just wanted to get the truth out there before the rumours came and ruined the loveliness of our relationship! But thank you Jade! Bye!” and she hung up.

“And there we have it! Jack is newly single. Let’s hope it’s not Ella’s turn to jump from one to the other! I’ll see you all soon!” She smiles and waves as the adverts come on and she’s eventually off-screen. There is a prolonged awkward silence. I turn round to see Jack still staring at the screen, but Conor looked furious.

“Babe, are you alright?” I ask, Jack suddenly breaking gaze with the screen and looking over to Conor.

“You bitched about me to her?” Conor said, sounding furious yet shocked.

“No! She’s lying!” Jack says defensively.

“After everything we’ve been through, you still have to do that?” Conor was square on to Jack, face inches from his. I get up and begin to walk over.

“I didn’t. I told her about the fact we used to have issues but that was it!” Jack said honestly.

“You’ve always been jealous. Jealous because everyone knows you as my sibling… You’re Conor’s brother and not Jack, the infamous. You always need to go behind my back!” Conor shoves Jack and he stumbles backwards. I run over and stand in front of Conor.

“Come on! She probably did make it up! She’s trying to ruin you! Cant you see that?” I say in his face.

“Who’s side are you on?” He hits back at me.

“The common-sense one!” Conor flings his arms in the air and walks off to the kitchen, grabbing a bottle of beer and drinking it in one swoop.

“My brother… Jealous?” He shook his head.

“Bro, I didn’t! I swear! We’ve been through this before, I’d never do it again!”

“Last time it was a blogger, this time the girl is on a fucking gossip channel. Oh you do pick the best ones!” Conor says, shooting glares at him.

“You fucking picked her as well! Over Ella for a while!” It was the truth, and the truth hurts, I felt myself go numb but I knew I had to keep it together for now, for the sake of the brothers! Before I had time to think, Conor had run at Jack and rugby tackled him to the floor and they were in a full blown fist-fight. I run over, yanking at whoever was near me to pull them apart, which I finally did with some force. I pushed Conor back a bit and held onto him so he couldn’t fight any more, but he was physically shaking with anger.

“You’re a burden to me, Jack. A fucking burden!” Conor shouts over my shoulder just as five boys enter the room, their faces drop.

“The door was open…” Zayn said, pointing back at the door left ajar. “You want us to come back later?”