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~*~*~ One Year Later ~*~*~
“Wow, I would shag him” You say before taking a sip of your Pepsi.
“That guy?” Matty questions you.
You nodded your head to confirm that you really would shag Billy from Scream.
“Really?” He asks you wanting confirmation.
You nod again, confirming, “Oh yeah” before looking to Matty with a smile.
“He’s literally the murderer” He tells you and you giggle nodding you head.
“Well he can murder me” You say very seriously before you glancing at Matty and he has a look of disbelief on his face. At that you let out a giggle at his expression and then look back at the TV.
“You do know I can run my hand up your leg, like he’s about to do to her, just as good?” He said holding you a bit closer to him.
You were both cuddled up on your sofa in your pyjamas watching the first Scream film. It was one of your favourites and Matty loved it too, so he had no problem with watching it. Obviously until you said that Skeet Ulrich was good looking.
“Yeah but you’ve already done that before” You grin before trying to focus on the film instead of looking back to him.
You heard Matty scoff beside you and then he said, “Don’t act like you don’t enjoy what it leads to”
“Shut up and let me watch” You say swatting his hand away as you focus of the film again. It was one of the only horror movies you enjoyed watching.
You watch the screen as Billy hovered over Sidney and started kissing her neck. As his did that Matty’s lips mimicked his actions and peppered kisses over your neck. His now long curly hair also tickling your neck.
“How can you be so jealous? I’m literally sat here with you” You sigh moving your neck to the side, so it was out of his reach.
Matty pouted at you, trying to make you come closer again,“I’m not jealous”
“You clearly are because if I did this to you during a film you chose you would tell me to fuck right off” You tell him truthfully.
“Oh, but you weren’t complaining when I did this in Leeds all them years ago” He said as his hand slid up your bare leg with his fingertips grazing the bottom of your shorts.
You put your hand over his much like you did back then and stopped him from going any further as you wanted to watch the film. You weren’t going to give into him again. You’d gave in the last few times when you wanted to watch a film and Matty didn’t.
You turned to look at him and reminisced, “I can’t believe I was gunna let you work me up in front of George, Ross, and Adam”
“You fully were as well” Matty chuckled at the memory.
“The things you do to me hey” You smiled at the memory of it too. You still probably would have let him if George hadn’t interrupted. A part of you probably still resented him for interrupting.
“Can’t be that good because you won’t fuck me now” Matty said grabbing a handful of your thigh and
“Matthewwww” You whine.
You sigh and then pout, “I just wanna watch the film”
Matty huffs, “You’re so mean to me”
“I’m not mean to you at all. We shag all the time” You say looking back to him. He seriously couldn’t think he was hard done too.
“All the time my arse” Matty scoffs and your jaw drops.
“Matty at least once every few days is a lot more than most men get. Get a grip” You tell him shaking your head slightly.
“I’m trying but you keep pushing my hand away” He says, and you don’t know whether to laugh or slap him for taking the comment the other way.
You end up doing the former. “Fuck off” You giggle moving away to the other end of the sofa.
“Tomorrow Matty, you can have me as many times as you want after the Brits” You bargain with him.
“You’ve done that on purpose” Matty sighed pulling your legs over his so he could run his hands up and down your smooth skin.
You furrow your eyebrows at him as you were beyond confused as to what he was on about. “What?” You have to question.
“Saying ‘oh yeah you can have what you want after the Brits’. For one I might lose so I’ll be sad and won’t want to,” Matty tells you but you hastily interrupt.
“We both know you’re not going to lose” You tell him.
He had worked far too hard on this album, and it had so many messages in it that it couldn’t be overlooked. It was a masterpiece.
“Shut up, it’s not a definite. We could. And, you know that after the Brits I’ve gotta be up to do that Tape Notes interview and you certainly won’t shag me before I go to that because it’ll be early” Matty tells you.
“Well you’ll have to decide what’s more important then. Sex or sleep?” You tell him, laying the cards out with his options on. You also couldn’t help the smile on your face as you told him as you knew he would
“With you that’s a very close decision” Matty smiled at you let out a giggle before your attention was drawn back to your TV.
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The following day was hectic, and you could feel Matty’s nervous energy all day and you knew that there was nothing you could do to distract him. Not even sex would work when he was like this, so you didn’t even attempt to do that.
Thankfully getting ready distracted him for a while and him watching you get ready took his mind off it a little bit. You were dressed in a long black dress that was open to the middle of your chest which gave Matty something to look at throughout the evening.
“You look stunning” Matty smiled as he watched you finish up your make up.
You turned around to smile at him, “You’re looking very dapper yourself”
He was wearing a lovely black suit with an adorable bow tie and the whole outfit really suited him. His hair was jelled straight and to the side and he looked adorable and so handsome at the same time.
When you all got to the O2 and the boys had been on the carpet, you all sat down on the big table that they put you on and ordered your food. There was food on offer in The O2 but to help settle everyone’s nerves, you all decided a Nando’s take out would be best.
Matty and George had apparently got everything sorted out and about 5 minutes before the show was due to start the lovely staff that were serving you came and brought you your food. You didn’t know how they were coping; you were getting overwhelmed by all of the celebrities around you, yet Matty acted like he was best friends with half of them.
You saw Jack Whitehall take his place on stage ready for the cameras to start recording him and you were half listening to him get the crowd ready to go. After another few minutes the night had started, and Jack was giving his opening speech to the people watching along at home.
Most of the tables around you were chatting amongst themselves and had already started drinking the night away. You table was mostly the same but all of you were eating and you and Matty weren’t drinking.
Matty’s reason being that he was trying to be sober and not depend on alcohol and yours being that you didn’t want to forget a single moment of this night. You had never been to a big important event like this with the boys and you wanted to remember every second of them winning the awards they really deserved.
You almost spat your food out as you watched the big screen. You started laughing causing everyone on the table to look at you like you were a mad woman, but you couldn’t help yourself.
“Christ, he’s not that funny” Matty told you but you shook your head and grabbed his arm.
You laughed for a few more seconds until you managed to tell them “No, you and George came on the screen and George fucking licked his fingers and you had a mouthful of food”
They all giggle at what you’ve just told them you’d seen, and you literally thought it was the best thing you’d seen in your entire life. You had to find it to show it them, so you went on Twitter and instantly found it.
Everyone was @ing Matty and George and you giggled again with just as much enthusiasm. You were sat next to Ross and Matty, so you elected to show Ross first and then loop back around to the table.
When Matty and George saw it, they cackled at it and you all found it really funny. At least the internet would talk about that moment now instead of George’s spontaneous hair cut just days ago.
When the boys won their first award you jumped up and Matty kissed you. You smiled as you pulled away and watched as he hugged George, you quickly hugged Ross who was next to you then you turned back and Matty grabbed your head to kiss the top of it quickly and said a quick, “Love you” into your ear before he moved around to get up on stage.
You watched with pride as he got up on stage and said some words by Laura Snapes about people in the music industry being misogynistic. They were powerful words and ones that you hoped everyone would take home tonight.
The night continued on and you gave Matty another hug once he came back to join you. And after a few more awards and a few more stunning performances they announced the big award. Best British Album of the Year.
This one you knew Matty was nervous for. He’d worked so hard on A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships that you really really really wished whoever decided upon the winner would give them the recognition that it deserved.
As Jared Leto was doing the dramatic pause until he read out the winner Matty was holding your hand so tightly. You were rubbing soothing patterns over his hand with your free one until you all got the news you so desperately wanted to hear.
As their name was called you felt Matty’s grip loosen and he stayed seated shocked to his core. You let out a sigh of relief as everyone around the two of you stood up and started applauding.
You slowly stood up and ushered Matty to get up too. You couldn’t contain your smile as you both stood up and you gave him a hug from the side as you watched Adam give Carly a kiss. You smiled at them as Matty hugged George before he turned back to you and kissed you for a few seconds.
Once he got passed, you went and stood next to Jess as you both beamed with pride as they walked up on stage to claim their second and what you thought was their most deserved award.
You’d seen their blood, sweat, and tears go into this album and you were all so proud them and what they had created.
Tears filled your eyes as you watched them from your table to get up on stage and claim their award. As they got on stage you could hear Love It If We Made It filling the room, along with the huge applause that they were receiving.
Matty’s voice quickly found the speakers and the crowd started to settle down and all but your table sat down. You were all frozen watching their actions and a tear slipped when you saw Matty embrace Ross in the biggest hug.
The boys who were up on that stage were honestly your world and you loved them all so much it hurt to think about. Your amazing boyfriend started talking again and you knew he didn’t know what to say at all.
He genuinely didn’t believe that he was going to win, and you knew for a fact that he didn’t prepare anything for this one. You stood there watching them with huge smiles on their faces as Matty started to ramble about Arctic Monkeys which made you giggle.
Of course, he’d get up there and start talking about another band. That was Matty all over when he didn’t know what to do.
But then he said something that you didn’t for a second expect to hear. As he looked into the crowd, he must have seen your table still all standing and he smiled as he started the rest of his speech.
“Thank you to my beautiful girlfriend for letting me write that stuff down. Thank you to all of our partners… Thank you erm… Yeah this this is mad. Thank you so much we love you… Thank you very much, thanks, cheers” Matty rambled before he lifted their well-deserved award up into the air and they were ushered off stage.
At that point, you were in tears and Jess and Carly both embraced you in a group hug. Which was a hug that you needed because you didn’t have your boyfriend comforting you in that moment.
You were all teary eyed at how happy they all looked on stage and how proud of them you all were. You even saw Jamie wipe a tear from his eye.
A few minutes later, Matty came back down to the table and stray tears were still running down your face. You stood up to greet him again and you gave him a massive hug.
“I’m so proud of you” You mumbled through your tears as your arms tightened around his neck.
“Awh Babe” You heard him chuckle as he hugged you tightly and rubbed a hand up and down your back. “Why are you crying?” He asked and you could hear the humour in his voice.
The hug lasts for a few good seconds before you release Matty to wipe your tears away.
“I’m just so proud of you. You deserve it so much. I love you” You told him with the biggest smile and Matty thought you looked beautiful.
“Never as much as I love you” Matty said before he pulled you towards him with his hands that were still around your back.
Your hand came up to cup his face and you smiled into the kiss. Never in a million years did you think that you would go from kissing the man you were going to marry in an empty bath, to kissing him in front of thousands of people at the Brits.
Yet here you both were. Completely sober, but drunk on love.
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