I flop down on my bed and just lie there staring at the ceiling, I'm exhausted!

I went hard surfing this afternoon. I really needed it too, after the week I've had. I stayed out getting wrinkled beyond recognition, hours after the girls had given up trying to convince me to come in and headed home.

I still can't quite believe I kissed Hunter earlier, what was I thinking! Who am I kidding, It was freaking awesome! The way his body felt against mine; his soft lips; the heat that travelled from the top of my head to the tips of my toes.

If I could bottle that feeling and sell it, I'd be a gazillionaire!

Suddenly I'm snapped out of my horney daydreaming by my phone ringing. I let it ring a little cause I really like the new song I set as my ringtone.

Cold bones, yeah that's my love.

She hides away, like a ghost.

Oooh,

Does she know that we bleed the same?

Oooh,

Don't wanna cry but I break that way.

I changed it a few days ago after everything that happened with Skylar, plus I was (am) feeling sorry for myself and it felt appropriate for my mood at the time.

I decide I better answer before it goes to voicemail. When I pick it up I see Emily's name flash across the screen. Great, just what I need after a long ass day!

"Hey Em, what can I do for you?" I answer cheerfully.

"Don't play dumb with me, you know full well why I'm ringing."

Crap!

"Did you think you could stick your dirty little tongue down my boyfriend's throat and I wouldn't find out about it?" She says, the disgust clear in her voice.

"Em...."

"Shut up you conniving slut, I'm not finished!"

Woah, what the hell!

"You disgust me, you know that. First, you tell my boyfriend you're in love with him, then you try kissing him, not once but twice. Couldn't you take a hint the first time he rejected you? You just keep embarrassing yourself while at the same time pissing me the fuck off!"

Who the hell does she think she is talking to me like that!

She keeps ranting and I can't get a word in. When she finally slows down after a whole lot more swearing and name-calling I take the opportunity to interrupt.

"Look I'm sorry I kissed Hunter, but he was the one who kissed me first!"

Perhaps that wasn't the right thing to say to an unstable she-beast.

"He's done with you, you know that don't you. He was just at my place and he told me after what you did today, he is sooo done. So stay away from him or you'll have me to deal with. Just because your lame boyfriend dumped you for being a prude doesn't give you the right to go round trying to steal someone else's. Hunter would never be interested anyway, we have great sex and I give a fucken amazing blow job, a virgin loser like you wouldn't stand a chance. So get over him and move on for everybody's sake, it's just pathetic now!"

And with that, she hangs up on me. I'm stunned, did he really say he was done with me?

I don't feel so good, I put my hand to my chest and my heart is beating fast, too fast! OMG I can't breathe properly, I try to focus on my breathing but it just makes it worse.

"Hey Maddie, they just said on the weather there's a big storm rolling in tonight.......Maddie! What's wrong? Are you ok?"

I shake my head while trying to gasp for air, I start pulling at my shirt.

"Hunter....no....I....can't....lose....him....no....no....no...no..."

"Maddie honey, you're scaring me, slow, just slow down."

She pulls me into her arms and holds me close, she starts stroking my hair and whispers in my ear,

"Shhhhh, I'm here. Deep breaths honey, just take deep breaths and try to let them out slowly. I've got you ok, just try to calm down, shhhhhh just calm down."

The feeling of her stroking my hair is helping, I try taking deep breaths and letting them out slower and slower each time. Her hushed words are working and I feel my heart start to slow too.

She keeps stroking my hair as I slowly clam down and my breathing goes back to normal, but now I can't hold back the tears, I quietly weep as mum just holds me.

"Shhhhh, it'll be ok honey, shhh, you're ok, I'm here, just let it all out, shhh......"

Eventually, I'm so exhausted from everything that's happened today that I let myself drift off to sleep in the comfort of my mother's arms. The one place I always feel safe!