"What the actual fuck?" I heard a voice as I refused to open my eyes, snuggling closer to the hard chest that I was laying on.

"When the hell did he get here?" I heard another voice, which was female with a light laugh on the end.

I heard a deep sigh. "We should have known not to leave them both drunk down here. Look at Belle."

I groggily opened my eyes as I saw three faces staring at me. There was Jack stood there with a very amused face who must have spoken first. Next to him was Kelsey with a light smile on her face and beside her was my dad.

"What?" I murmured, turning around and my eyes widened when I saw I was laying cuddled up in Reece's arms. He was fast asleep with his cheeks squished into the side of the sofa.

Oh for fuck sake Sam.

I slowly turned my head back around to them and muffled a laugh when I glanced at Belle. She was half dangling off the couch snoring loudly. Dad raised an eyebrow but he had an amused smile on his lips nevertheless. "Did you two leave last night?" He asked, gesturing between me and Belle.

I huffed, laying my head back into the comfort that was Reece's chest. "Maybe."

I heard more and more voices getting closer and I squeezed my eyes shut, bracing what was about to come next. Reece was still sleeping as I could hear him softly snoring from above me but his arms were still wrapped around my waist tightly. I groaned into his chest as more faces appeared in the living room, each giving me very curious and amused looks.

Next to enter the room was Sarah, with a sleepy looking Charlie in her arms as she did a double take at my position on the couch. And then as she was a Walker, she decided to smirk. "Oh hey Sam." She eyed me and Reece. "Don't you look cosy."

Narrowing my eyes at her, I gently elbowed Reece in the chest so he would wake up and that I wouldn't have to deal with this embarrassment alone. "Ow." He hissed groggily, tightening his grip on me and falling back to sleep again.

Sarah laughed loudly as my cheeks warmed with embarrassment. I turned around and found myself smiling at how adorable Reece looked asleep before mentally scolding myself as everyone was watching with amusement. "Reece." I hissed quietly, poking him on the chest.

When he ignored me once again, I sighed with frustration and turned back around. "What time is it?" I asked, yawning.

"7, but don't worry were all leaving soon so you can take lover boy up to your room." Jack teased with a smirk.

"Fuck off Jack!" I hissed and he just grinned in response. "It's too early for your bullshit."

We all snapped our heads around as Belle's eyes shot open and Jack had to catch her before she fell flat on her face off the couch. "Huh? What?" She asked, disorientated as her blue eyes scanned the room confused. Her eyes landed on me and she chuckled.

"Oh god." She moaned, holding her head. Sarah turned to her, her dirty blonde hair slapping her cheeks as she did so.

"Lets' get you home." She smiled softly at her niece. John stood beside her with a very amused smile. As everyone began to get ready to leave, Reece's eyes shot open. He looked extremely disorientated as he looked around the room before his eyes landed on me. He shot me a soft smile and I returned it. John helped up his daughter as everyone turned to us.

Jack walked over as he narrowed his eyes at Reece. "I like you and I don't like many people, just don't hurt my cousin." He threatened as Reece chuckled above me.

"Don't worry I won't." He said deeply, his voice attractively raspy.

Jack smiled as they did some weird male handshake that I would never understand. After saying goodbye to everyone, the only people left in the room were me, Reece and my dad. Dad laid on the other sofa as he eyed us suspiciously.

I hadn't moved from my position in his arms. "There's something I need to tell you both." Dad stated, sighing. Me and Reece shared a confused glance before turning back to him.

"The guys that were helping Peter are his brothers." He looked at Reece. "I know you had a run in with them before but I just want you guys to be careful as they're still out there. The police are looking for them but they have no clue where they are and if they're still even in the country."

I looked up at Reece to see his teeth were gritted as he ran a hand through his messy hair, the other staying wrapped around me. "Those fuckers are the ones that grabbed me in the first place but there was more than two of them and Peter only had two brothers."

Dad raised his eyebrow as he sighed deeply. "I'll let them know." He then smiled softly at us both. "It's very unlikely that they would do anything, just be aware ok?" We nodded and he stood up, brushing down his trousers with his hands.

"Well I need to go to work anyway." A sly smirk appeared on his face. "Don't do anything I wouldn't." I buried my head into Reece's chest to hide my red cheeks as I heard the sound of the front door click.

Once dad had left, I turned to Reece with a tired smile. "I'm going to bed." I raised an eyebrow. "You coming?" He nodded, jumping up from the couch and grabbing my hand. As soon as my head hit the pillow, I fell straight into a deep slumber.

I narrowed my eyes at Jake who stared at me with a bright grin. "Sometimes I hate you."

His grin only grew wider. "Oh come on Sam, tell me."

I huffed, rolling my eyes as I playfully pushed his shoulder. "Why do you want to know so bad?" I questioned as he laughed loudly, instantly being scolded by our French teacher. Our seat was in the back which every single lesson we just chatted through anyway.

There was a very, very high chance we would both fail.

"Because." He grinned, holding his heart. "I want to know about my favourite couple." I rolled my eyes again, realising that if I didn't stop I would probably end up with an eye malfunction as I roll them multiple times a day.

"Fine." I sighed, furrowing my eyebrows. "I guess it was after Belle's party a few months back."

He raised a blonde eyebrow. "Is that when those assholes ambushed you?"

I nodded with a deep breath. Jake had no idea about any of this until a couple weeks ago when I told him. This was just after Reece woke up from his coma and I had a deep chat with Jake outside the hospital. We spoke for hours, which included me apologising over and over for having a meltdown in front of him. When I told him about what went down at the party, he looked absolutely fuming and my heart warmed at the amazing friend that I had made.

A few weeks ago after mine and Reece's first date, we told Jake about us the next day at school. His face was absolutely unexplainable and the guy actually did a happy dance in the middle of the school corridors.

He was truly something else.

Even though he was fucking annoying, I loved him like I did my best friends as Jake was one of my best friends now.

Jake was so easy to talk to and he was like my personal little therapist. "So what?" He beamed, leaning on his elbows so his cheeks were squished in his palms. "And you realised you liked him just like that?"

I deadpanned. "You are such a girl."

He rolled his eyes with a chuckle. He smirked. "Izzy doesn't seem to think so."

I screwed my face in a joking disgust as he laughed. "So?"

Rolling my eyes, I shrugged. "I guess; I mean I was fighting feelings before that but I never let myself think about it as I thought he would never feel the same."

Jake laughed loudly and cowered down when he was once again shouted at. "Sorry miss." He grimaced before turning back to me. "Sam you must be very oblivious because Reece liking you was the most obvious thing in the fucking entire world. He never shut up about you, he still doesn't."

I smiled softly at his words and shook my head. "Enough about me, how's you and Izzy?" I questioned and I grinned widely when I saw him smile at her name.

"Good. Really good." He replied.

I nodded with a quiet chuckle. "Remember when I met her? That night was eventful." I reminisced to the time we all went swimming in the sea and I really, really wanted to kiss Reece. If I suddenly went back in time to that moment, I would have.

He grimaced. "Yeah I remember, I had a fat fucking bruise on my chest from where she accidently booted me when I gave her a piggy back." He narrowed his eyes at me. "Thanks to you."

I muffled a laugh in response and smirked. "Not my fault Reece is stronger than you." I teased.

He glared down at me. "I was fucking drunk, it wasn't equal."

I smiled, patting his shoulder. "Sure, keep telling yourself that Jakey." He rolled his eyes at me as we both snapped our heads around at the sound of a boy being screamed at by the teacher at the front of the class. The boy looked utterly terrified as our French teacher was a right bitch, she looked like she was frothing at the mouth she was so angry. Me and Jake both shared a glance before we burst out into uncontrollable laughter and I mean uncontrollable.

Jake was wheezing as he slapped the table and I had tears streaming down my face as I grabbed onto his arm. Miss Lopez turned to us with a pure look of anger as she stormed over to us. Her face was bright red which was a funny contrast to her auburn coloured hair. She had a French accent which made her yelling even funnier.

"You two, stop it!" She yelled loudly but this only made us laugh harder.

If there was anyone that would make me laugh harder, it would be Jake. He was truly one of the funniest people I knew. I slowly turned my head to his through laughter and he caught my eye. My lips quivered and I hastily wiped my tears.

I turned to Miss Lopez. "I-I'm sorry." I stuttered in-between fits of giggles before she screamed at us to get out. We complied, grabbing our stuff and our shoulders shook violently as we walked out of the class room.

We turned to each other with wide grins on our faces. "Food?" Jake questioned after a couple moments where we had time to calm down.

I grinned, linking my arm with his. "Of course!"