Since I Met You | Joe Sugg x Reader

Chapter Eighteen

P/T - Pizza Topping

I open my door, after being woken up to find Joe casually leaning on my door frame with a smirk on his face, "Get dressed, we're going out."

"So you wake me up and now you're commanding I get dressed and go outside." I moan, frowning, letting him in.

"Pretty much," He smiles, ignoring my negativity. "It's also cold outside, so you should put something warm on."

"Where are we going?" I ask, sulking back to my room, Joe following me. I turn around to him with a smile on my face before jumping on my bed refusing to go, rolling around and wrapping myself up in my duvet enjoying every bit of warmth it gives me. Joe just giggles before pulling it away, getting a groan from me but then I smirk and cuddle into a pillow until he snatches those as well leaving my bed stripped and me with nothing warm to cuddle up to. Sighing, I flip my legs over the edge of the bed and begin to get some clothes. "So are you going to watch me get dressed?" I smirk, lightly laughing at Joe's reaction when he shakes his head nervously and rushes out closing the door behind him. Choosing to wear a one shoulder burgundy jumper with a black tank top underneath and a pair of black jeans, I also cover my slightly dirty hair with a beanie and I'm pretty much ready to go. I've never really been one to take a while to get ready, I can usually simply throw something on and throw my hair into a situation which is acceptable and skip makeup unless I'm not feeling lazy which is a very rare occasion and then I'm ready to go – of course with my phone though! When I leave my room Joe is waiting patiently on my sofa, his head quickly spinning around, a small smile evident when I come out of my room. "Where are we going?" I ask for the second time, taking my phone into the back pocket of my jeans.

"It's a surprise."

"I don't trust surprises!" I tell him fearfully, joking about. He just smirks, giggling before standing up and pulling me out of the flat after I snatch my keys of the counter and into his car when he begins driving to wherever we're going. Soon we reach our destination and to my surprise it's an outdoor ice skating rink which is pretty much empty, I'm not surprised which it being earlier in the day. Leaving his car and walking over to it, Joe takes my hand causing me to jump a little with the sudden contact but immediately getting comfortable with it, knowing it's Joe. "Definitely a good surprise, why so early though?" I ask, smiling at how pretty it is.

"It's always pretty much empty at this time which makes it more fun." I nod my head and we go over to collect our skates. Once our skates are on and Joe had paid for us, after insisting a billion times (me losing), we step onto the rink. I forgot one of the most important things at this time though — I can not skate! And that means, I fall right on my bum, causing me to squeal with the hard and cold landing and Joe to begin to hysterically laugh. (If you can skate, just pretend you're absolutely terrible). Once Joe calmed himself down after continuing to laugh at my many failed attempts of getting back up, he skates over to me to explain how to get up. So doing as he instructed I go onto my knees and push myself up falling into Joe's arms when I slip forward.

"So it's not as hard as it looks, bend your knees slightly and push-off each foot." He explains, taking my hand again. Bending my knees ever so slightly and pushing off on each foot I begin to glide, still extremely wobbly and almost falling at several points but eventually I'm doing it! This is something I never thought I'd achieve or do again, the last time I skated was when I was ten and that was with both my parents and my sister; of course, that was before our family fell apart. My parents still remain together, unhappily married however, too interested in their jobs to pay a second of attention to their children or each other. Me and Jackie pretty much faded from them, my parents and I do have occasional conversations but nothing you'd expect, they're cold and unloving. I'm pretty sure it's the same for Jackie. Jackie and I always stuck together because she was the only family member I loved and trusted, that trust and love was undeserving though. She went with my boyfriend... What sister does that? "You're doing it!" Joe calls out excitedly, snapping me from my thoughts. I laugh lightly, continuing to watch my feet glide along the barely touched ice doing several more laps around the rink still hand in hand with Joe. When we step off it's the strangest feeling not gliding as I move but I slump down on a seat taking the skates of getting an even weirder feeling from my feet touching the ground again but soon I adjust to it when we collect our shoes from the guy at the front and put them back on. "Shall we go back to mine and order a pizza?" I ask, realising I haven't eaten yet and it's midday and for once I was up quite early!

"Sounds amazing! I'm starving!" Joe says, rubbing him tummy before taking my hand again and walking me back to his car.

As soon as we step inside my flat our phones begin to explode with notifications, most of which are from Twitter, confusion evident on both our faces we open on one of them widening our eyes at the picture below both of our names. Someone took a picture of us holding hands at the ice rink.

"I can't believe someone did this." Joe says, anger faintly in his voice.

"You could have just been helping me." I tell him, nervously, putting my phone down and sighing.

"It meant more than that," He mumbles, surprised he said that himself as he clears his throat and picks up his phone and dials a number. "What pizza should we get?"

"P/T?" He nods his head smiling as it's his favourite as well before ordering it and telling me it'll be here in half an hour. Cuddling into him on the sofa, I sigh, "are you mad about the photo?" I get that it's invasive and irritating but what if he's ashamed to have been holding my hand or being with me and doesn't want anyone knowing? I can't be hurt like this again, be dragged along believing I'm liked when I'm not one bit. Nothing has hurt me more.

"I mean, it was just annoying that one of our viewers has done that." He tells me, playing with my hand as it sits in his.

"It wasn't that you were with me then?" I ask quietly, ashamed I asked the question.

"Of course not! You're one of the most beautiful and kindest people I know, why would I be?" He says, a blush creeping onto my cheeks above a small smile.

A while later we're still talking, also fuller than ever having devoured the pizza and the events with Liam suddenly fly into my head, unwanted.

"Joe?" I ask, gaining his attention. "What do I do about the video announcing my engagement? My viewers must still think it's happening."

"Maybe you could make another video talking about it in small detail but only if you're ready, I could be here when you film if it helped." I smile, nodding my head, standing up and getting my camera set up.

"I'm ready." I tell him, breathing deeply, dragging a chair into view while Joe climbs behind the camera so he isn't in the shot hitting the record button for me.

"Hi everyone, there is something I need to tell you. The video me and Liam uploaded the other day announcing our engagement didn't exactly last as long as I had imagined. I decided it was best not to marry him when things went a lot different, basically something happened which stopped it all; I won't go into that though. Anyway, you should know, I'm sorry this video isn't like my others, they'll be back to normal on Tuesday but for now, bye." I say to the camera, pausing a lot and at the end dragging out the bye with a grin.

"You did really well."

"Thank you." I sigh, I guess this is moving on.

I was only just thanking you for 100 reads and now 200!? Each day passing, I get more reads and just this to me is so much as I NEVER expected this many. Honestly, I only expected one, from my best friend. Thank you so much, it means so much to know that people are actually interested in what I write when I didn't think anyone was. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I guess you could call this a date.. It was also 1458 words!! Finally able to write something over 1000 words, hopefully from now all chapters will be like this XD