Deception (N.H)

CHAPTER 8: ZZZ

"When's the next job?" I heard Liam ask. What job? "Dude, she's literally right here. Why would you ask now?" Harry whispered back before I heard the crunching from popcorn being chewed. "She's sleeping." I felt a hand go on my cheek. "I wonder what happened yesterday in the car." I heard Niall whisper, so I assumed he was the one caressing my cheek.

My heart started beating faster at the thought of what happened yesterday. "I don't know but she looked pretty freaked out." I heard a sigh before the hand on my cheek disappeared and was placed on my arm. "Should we ask her?" I heard Louis ask before the hand on my arm started moving up and down across my skin.

"I don't think so-" I heard Niall say before squeezing me closer to him. "-maybe we should just stay out of her business. If she wanted to talk to us about it then she wouldn't have acted the way she did." I didn't hear a response so I assumed the guys just nodded.

"So, did boss explain what the next job was?" There was a moment of silence, other than the sound of typing from a phone, before Harry spoke up. "Yeah, he said the next one is on the 27th which is in 2 days. It's just a trade." Trade? What were they doing?

"Cool. So what's our excuse gonna be?" I heard Niall ask before I heard more crunching of popcorn. "We can just say that Liam's gonna visit a distant cousin, Louis is going to hang out with an old friend, I am meeting with someone from Heyes' office here in the Glasgow branch, and you are going to go meet with some whore."

"Dude, I told you I haven't slept with anyone since the tour started." I heard Niall sigh. "And why is that Niall? You usually sleep with a new chick every single night." I heard Harry ask with a chuckle. I felt Niall's arm tighten around me. "I don't know. Just don't feel like it." After that I stopped my eavesdropping and fell asleep.

I was woken up to the sound of a plate breaking. I jump up and look around the room. "Woah woah, calm down chica." I heard Niall say before he placed his hand on my shoulder. " What the fuck?!" I said looking at the broken plate. "Sorry, it was annoying me." Niall said before sitting back down on the bed. "A plate, THAT ISN'T ALIVE, annoyed you SO YOU BROKE THE DAMN THING?!" I yelled at him. Niall just shrugged and went back to watching TV. I sigh and begin picking up the broken pieces. "Where are the rest of the guys?" I asked, noticing that the room was quiet and empty.

"They got tired and left." I nodded and picked up another piece of the plate, but accidentally cut myself. "Fuck." I whisper before throwing the pieces of glass in my hand into an empty ice bucket, then grabbing a towel and placing it on my bleeding palm. "What happened? Are you okay?" Niall asks, getting off the bed and grabbing my hand. "Yeah, just a small cut." I say wincing from the pain. "Come on, let's get you cleaned up and bandaged." He says getting up and leading me to the toilet. He runs my hand under cold water and I wince from the pain. "Sorry, but I have to clean it to look at the cut." I nod and pinch my eyes shut.

"Are you going to go back to your room?" Niall asks as he grabs a first aid kit that was in the hotel room. "Yeah." I nod as Niall cleans up the wound and wraps it up. Once he's done, he grabs my hands in his, making sure not to put pressure on my cut. "Maybe you could uh stay here." Niall suggests, looking down at our hands.

"You want me to stay with you?" I ask to clarify. Niall nods and rubs his thumb over my knuckles. "I guess I could stay for a little bit. Maybe we could watch a film or something." I say as my eyes look over his features.

Niall looks up and we make eye contact. I blush and look away before Niall clears his throat and lets go of my hands. "Yeah, that sounds fun." He helps me get off the sink and we go lay on the bed. "You should be more careful." Niall says looking at my hand. "Yeah no shit." I say rolling my eyes. Niall chuckles before turning on a film.