Learning how to fly (Niall Horan fanfic)

18 - A little drama

*Niall's POV*

The boys, El and I all sat around the table eating some breakfast. None of us really spoke, we were tired from last night and they all knew that I wasn't in the mood. Last night I wasn't the only one who had noticed something strange about Rikke, and the fact that she didn't answered her phone freaked me out a bit. I had called her 4 times during the night and 2 times aging this morning, but she still didn't answered. I shouldn't had let her walk home alone last night, maybe something had happened to her. And why did she act like that in all of a sudden? Maybe she was mad at me? We hadn't really spent some time together during the day, but it didn't seemed like that bothered her, so what was it? Was it the thing in the shower? Maybe I went too far? But again, I could tell that she wanted it just as much as I did.

El laid a hand on my shoulder and interrupted my thoughts "She is just sleeping, Nialler" she said, trying to calm me down. I knew she probably was right, that girl sleeps more than Zayn which says a lot, but it was like my brain wouldn't accept it. I left the table and went up to my room. I looked at my phone, still nothing. Looking for something to do, I opened my laptop and logged on Twitter.  I replied some tweets but got bored and went offline again.

Louis came into my room and sat down beside me on the bed. "Listen mate, she's okay and I know that you know it" he looked at me to confirm it "Maybe she just needs a day alone, you are aware that she is not used to be around this many people all the time" he laid a hand on my back and I looked up at him.

"Yeah you're right. I just…"

"Really like her?" Louis finished my sentence, "I know Niall, but give her some time, all right? I think she needs it"

"I guess" I said.

"Come with Liam and me out shopping today, okay? You can't hang around here all day and wait for her to call you, and seeing some fans might cheer you up a bit" he said and smiled at me.

I really love Louis, he's so concerned about the rest of us and he always knows how to make us feel better "All right then, I'll just go get ready" I said and gave him a thankful smile.

"Great Ni, I'll see you down under in a minute then" he said and left the room.

I found some clothes, made my hair and checked my phone one last time, before I left it in the room. I knew that if I brought it with me, I'll just check it all the time, so leaving it in my room was an easy solution.

I walked down the stairs to Liam and Louis who was waiting for me. Harry and Zayn still sat in the kitchen, I could hear them discuss something about the pancakes we got for breakfast.

"So what are they gonna do today? And where's El?" I asked Louis

"Zayn has plans with Perrie and one of his sisters, I think Harry just want a day off and El left about ten minutes ago" he said, "You ready? 

"Yeah, let's go" I said and we went out to the car where Paul was waiting for us. We drove to the shopping part of the city and of course we were greeted by a lot of fans. I put on my Ray Bans as the cameras went crazy. We stopped to take some pictures with some of the fans and wrote some autographs and then Paul lead us on to the shops. Louis was actually right, smiling and talking to the fans made me feel better right away and it made me forget about Rikke for a while. I had a great day together with Louis and Liam, they even took me to Nandos to cheer me up, which of course helped.

*Harry's POV*

When Zayn left I wrote a message to Rikke, asking if I could come over. I waited for about an hour and when she didn't answered I decided to drive over there anyways. I had heard Niall talking about where her rented flat was, so I had no problems finding it.