beside you | wroetoshaw

twenty-five

talia mar's pov

it had been a few weeks since emilia and harry had split up, again, and again emilia has went MIA.
all the girls have tried messaging her, calling her, going to her flat but she never answered us.
obviously we are all worried about her, she's already left us before and has attempted but this time she might have actually done it again.

i was currently at cal and harrys flat to film a video for freezys channel, 'cook off vs talia mar' and i wanted to snoop about what harry had been up to as he had been acting as if nothing happened. at this point i honestly thought katie would be back with harry again, im surprised but glad she that she isnt.

"right talia malia are you ready to start the video?" cal asked as he was helping his camera man with the lights.

"let's go" i said clapping my hands, eager to start

-

the end of the video was coming up, halfway through cooking harry and gib ended up coming home - to be the judges in this competition.
but they had already tasted both mine and cals meals and we were now currently we were waiting to find out who they decided won.

harry was holding my wrist and gib was holding cals, and after a countdown mine got raised meaning i had won.

"WHAT" cal said shocked, pacing around us

"although talias pasta wasn't that impressive, i could have made it" harry said trying to make cal feel better

"eh, excuse me" i said jokingly annoyed

"sorry, sorry" he laughed, taking another fork full of my pasta

once cal finally calmed down about him loosing he done his outro and we started cleaning up, gib and harry were sat in the living room still talking to us.
well more talking to cal rather than me.

"so what were you up to today gibbo" cal asked putting plates into the sink

"nothing really, just some shopping" he said scrolling through his phone

"and you bog?" cal asked again

before harry could speak gib jumped out of his seat

"BY THE WAY YOULL NEVER GUESS WHO I SAW" he said waving his hands about, more really talking to me rather than cal or harry

"who?" i asked, curious on why it was such a big deal

gib looked at harry as if he had remembered something.
"sorry bog but i saw emilia" he said looking at harry but turning to me.

i felt my mouth fall onto the floor.

"fuck off, where was she?!" i said stopping what i was doing

"i saw her walk into her old apartment building" gib said sitting back down but not loosing eye contact

i felt my heart stop
"gib. was she with anyone?" i said seriously

"i-i don't know, i don't think so?" he said innocently as if he had done something wrong

"why does it matter if she was with someone?" cal asked confused, joining the conversation unlike harry who was sitting in the middle very awkwardly listening us talk about his ex-near-girlfriend.

"her old flat was jamies" i said looking at cal, his face dropped as he finally understood why i was so serious about it.

"w-what" harry said finally getting involved with the conversation

"fuck" i whispered under my breath, picking my phone up to phone emilia, hoping that just this once she would answer.

it went to voicemail

i stood there with my head in my hands, worried. thinking of something that i could do.

"should we go there?" cal asked, breaking the tension of the silence

i shook my head, knowing that if jamie knew that we knew she was there it would be worse for her

"she's going to jjs album release party isn't she?" gib said

me and cal looked at him

"what". we said in unison

"jj said she's been put down to be going, and don't you have to like phone someone to say you are actually coming to have your name down for it?" he said scrambling his words

"he's right you know" harry said looking up at us, picking at his lip

"when is it again?" i asked harry, who clearly knew more than me and cal

"in a few days, i'm sure it's saturday" he said checking the date on his phone

"i'll ask jj about it, i'm going back to simons after this anyways" i said washing my hands that were still dirty from cleaning

i texted emilia, asking if she was going to jjs album release party, almost 99% sure we wouldn't answer me like she has been these few weeks.

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i opened the door to simons flat, seeing both jj and simon on the couch watching something on the tv. i knocked my shoes off and threw my coat into simons room before going into the living room

"hey talia" simon said once he noticed me walk in

"hello guys" i said walking through and plonking myself next to simon

"so how was filming" jj said pausing the show they were watching, both clearly bored of it.

"it went okay, but once we were done with it gib told us that he saw emilia today" i said sitting up to face them

both their faces lit up

"but she was at her old flat" i said, both of them hadn't realised what that meant.

"so?" simon scoffed

"that flat was when she lived with jamie" i added, making both faces drop.
much the same as harry and callum

"oh shit" jj said holding his head

"but i don't want to make assumptions, it's gib that saw it. he could be wrong" i said

they both slightly laughed

"jj is she coming to the release party?" i asked him,  starting to dig

he nodded his head

"she called my manager, i asked if she said anything but it was apparently just a quick call just to say she's going" he shrugged

"i'm worried" i admitted

"worried about what" simon asked

"well she hasn't spoken to any of us that i know of, she's not been round her flat, and apparently being seen at jamies. but she is coming to your party? it just doesn't seem right to me" i said trying to think why everything was like this

-thank you for 5k, the timeline may be a bit weird with the date the videos came out and that but ignore it pls x