Overboard

Chapter Four

I crawled into bed with a full stomach, clean teeth and drooping eyelids. There were still butterflies in every part of my body from seeing the blonde guy again, he was so good looking it made my head spin. 

"You're drooling Kendall," Hunter said with a yawn, hitting the lights and throwing the room into an eerie and uncomfortable darkness.

"Am not," I protested.

"Was it the gay guys in the restaurant or the other one?"

My mouth fell open with a loud pop and I sat up, turning on my bedside lamp and looking at my younger brother.

"What makes you think it was one of them?" I asked with arched eyebrows.

"Come on, the way you acted when we saw them line cutting earlier and just now, you went all googly eyed and were blushing. Was it the one with the curly hair? He had a nice smile, or maybe his boyfriend, he had nice eyes," Hunter babbled, and I put my head in my hands, rolling my eyes.

"The blonde one," I cut in before he got the chance to suggest him.

"Oh right, blue eyes stick together and all that," Hunter nodded.

"I'm going to sleep," I said, turning the light back off and rolling over to face the wall rather than my smirking brother.

"If it's any constellation, he was giving you the same look," Hunter told me quietly.

My cheeks burned and I couldn't help but smile. To my surprise, I fell asleep with ease that night, and my dreams were filled with the nameless, familiar guy with the gorgeous blue eyes and thick blonde hair.

***

I woke the next morning with a start.

"I know who they are," I gasped, jumping out of bed and pacing the room quickly, unsure what exactly to do.

"Shut up I'm trying to sleep," Hunter groaned from under his pillow.

"I know who the guys are, and they'll get you lots of street cred in the playground," I told him, which made him stir and slowly sit up.

"Firstly, I already have a heap of street cred and second, I don't play in the playground anymore," Hunter slurred, still half asleep.

I rolled my eyes and grabbed my cell off my bedside table, flicking through the photos I had saved in a folder I'd titled 'Lilly and her shennanigans'.

"Lilly sent me this a while ago," I said, enlarging the photo and showing my brother.

"That's One Direction," he realized, his eyes widening.

"And you see the blonde one, Niall, and the one with the curly hair, Harry and the guy with the 'nice eyes' as you put it, Louis," I said hurriedly, pointing them out.

"No way, no way! How did we not recognize them?" Hunter gasped, bringing the photo closer to his face to get a better look.

"I really don't know," I murmured, sitting down on my bed and clasping my hands together in my lap.

My best friend, Lilly, was a huge fan of the boys and hardly ever shut up about them so the fact that I'd seen them multiple times, made eye contact and even had one of them speak to me and I still didn't recognize them confused me.

"Maybe I'm getting Alzheimer's," I concurred.

Hunter rolled his eyes and handed my phone back to me.

"You want to go hunt them down?" he asked, a mischievous glint in his eyes.

"As long as you don't embarrass me," I said.

"Deal," Hunter grinned, climbing out of his bed and rifling through his suitcase.

I pulled out my black skinny jeans and an elbow length pastel blue top. Quickly I closed myself in the bathroom and got changed, then ran my toothbrush over my teeth and fixed my hair.

"Come on Kendall," Hunter called.

I fell back into the room and grabbed my phone, the room key and slung my Canon camera around my neck before Hunter and I slid into the empty hall. With excited butterflies in my stomach, I pushed the button for the elevator.

"Is it weird that I'm screaming on the inside?" Hunter asked when the doors finally slid open.

"Not at all," I told him.

The ride up to the sky deck was silent, both of us too shocked and excited to be able to maintain a conversation. There would have been maybe fifty people milling about, taking photos and having late breakfasts, but I couldn't see the three boys I was searching for.

"They could be anywhere, they'll be trying to be conspicuous," I said eventually.

"Want to get some breakfast? We've still got five days to hunt them down," Hunter told me, his eyes glued to the cafe that sat a few feet away.

I sighed and nodded at my brother who grinned and ran for the cafe. Drowning in disappointment, I followed him and got the two of us a table. 

*Niall's P.O.V*

I rapped my knuckles on the door to Louis and Harry's room and waited, my hands sunken into my front pockets. After a few moments, the door creaked open and Harry stepped into the hall in just his boxers.

"Hey man, Lou isn't feeling too flash, it might have been something he ate last night so he's just going to sleep it off, and I'm going to stay and make sure he's alright," Harry told me, crinkling his nose which was his tell tale sign for lying.

"Hazz, you're a terrible liar. But if you two want some alone time I'm not going to stand in the way, I'll go to the games room and hit all the food places. I heard there's going to be a party on the sky deck tonight too, I think Lou would have a great time, we all would," I said with a big smile.

Harry sighed and patted my shoulder, grinning at me.

"Thanks man, you're the best. We'll definitely be there for the party, wouldn't miss it for the world," Harry chuckled, then he slipped back into the room, leaving me alone in the hall.

I smirked, then headed for the elevator. There were hours to kill before the party, and I still hadn't seen all of the boat.