Chapter sixteen - Elsie

Billy's been back a few weeks now and we've fallen into a regular routine of one of us pretending to be out so we can sleep over in each other's room. 

Laura's still secretly doing whatever with The Four and my mum and William have eased up on the loud displays during the night. In fact everything seems to have reached some sense of normality, or at least consistency.

I can't say I'm disappointed that Billy's decided against the army, a week felt long enough to be away from him, let alone months at a time, and that's the moment I realise I'm thinking about him in a long term way, not only that but in a long term relationship manner and I'm not sure that's even feasible, let alone what I want? 

I feel like I need to talk to him about this, but the sooner I talk to him, the sooner I need to address this issu