Mask || Harry Styles AU

13

c h a p t e r  t h i r t e e n
MOVE
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Tuesday

I hear a low voice speak,

"Skye?!"

I let out a short, high pitch scream before grabbing my tits in an attempt to cover myself. I bend down immediately to grab my towel and when I look up I'm met with non other than Niall, standing in only his boxers, covering his eyes with his arm.

"What the hell Niall, what are you doing in here?"

Niall, keeping his eyes covered replies, "What do you mean what am I doing in here? I should be asking you that, when I fell asleep we were definitely the only two people in the apartment. What else was I supposed to do when I hear noises in the middle of the night? I thought you were a burglar or something?"

"Oh yeah, sorry my bad, burglars always come in and use people's showers!" I reply sarcastically. "And I'm wearing I towel Niall you can stop covering your eyes," I say rolling my own at his stupidity.

Just as he opens his mouth to reply, the door once again swings open and Lexi stands there in nothing but an oversized t-shirts and lace panties.

"What the hell's going on his here!" She whisper shouts, her eyes still practically shut and puffy, clearly half asleep.

She grabs hold of Niall's arm and then looks over to me, confused for a second before smiling softly, "oh hey Skye,"

"Hey Lex," I reply, unconsciously matching her smile.

"Niall, why are you in the bathroom with Skye half naked?" She asks, sounding far more confused than accusatory.

"I heard noises and thought someone was robbing you!" He says exasperatingly.

"In my shower?" She says with her brows furrowed.

"How was I supposed to know Skye breaking into your shower at 05:00am was a regular occurrence?" He says, sounding very defeated at this point. "I swear I didn't see anything," he carries on almost frantically.

Lexi giggles slightly at his worried tone and stands on her tippy toes to kiss him on the cheek, "come on baby, let's get you back to bed." She says before turning to me smiling, "Night Skye,"

"Night Lex," I reply.

Niall then looks back and forth between the two of us utterly confused and I just smile as Lexi pulls him back to her bedroom by his hand. The door shuts behind them and I hear some faint muttering and another giggle before it falls silent.

I quickly nip back into the shower to finish washing before grabbing my towel and wrapping it around myself once again. My mind, now far clearer, suddenly realises that I came over here in only a towel. It's nearly 05:30 in the morning now which means it would be far riskier to be out in public so I decided to just borrow some joggers and a T-shirt from Lexi. We wear each other's clothes so much, I could probably find a pair of my own in here anyway.

As quietly as possible I open her bedroom door, being careful to ensure it doesn't creek and wake them up again. However, as soon as I take a step forward Niall shoots up and stairs at me dead in the eye.

"Sorry, just grabbing some clothes," I whisper.

He seems to ponder this for a second before lying back down, seemingly abandoning whatever he was going to say or do.

I slowly open the top draw of the dresser and grab what I need. Usually I'd just climb in bed with Lexi but Niall was in my place so that unfortunately wasn't an option.