Finding Me (Sequel to Ava,The World, and Niall Horan)

9: He Knows, But He Won't Remember.

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“Ava…?” I heard Allison call out. She sounded to be in her room and a bit worried.

It was late and the flat was pitch black. It was only around eleven though.

I went back to Mauro’s flat and we hung out there while we tried to cook dinner. I failed at that obviously. After that mess we ordered Chinese and a movie.

“Yeah,” I called out. I could see the light from under her bedroom door and she seemed to be pacing.

Why is she pacing?

I opened the door and instead of finding Ally pacing, it was Louis.

“Louis?” I asked surprised, “What are you doing here?”

“Where the hell where you? And why were you out by yourself,” he said worriedly ignoring my questions, “Why aren’t you with that Mauro guy, or better yet why didn’t that asshole walk you home?!”

“We just hung out at his flat and went shopping before,” I informed him since it wasn’t a big deal, “I wasn’t with him coming home because I insisted on taking a cab. There weren’t any so I walked. Why are you here?”

“… We were at the studio deciding the line-up for the mini tour,” Louis breathed while shaking his head.

“You guys are having a mini tour?” I asked surprised. Niall didn’t tell me anything about that…

“Yeah, just around Europe nothing big,” he sighed, “We were all fooling around and then the news came on, and a picture of you and that douche came on while you guys were walking and holding hands; Doing what Simon told you to. Niall said that it wasn’t supposed to be like that, and he got pissed off at Simon ‘because he said it would be better if you guys were acting like that, and then he kept saying that that wasn’t the deal, but then we thought it was weird that he got so worked up, and we were teasing him that you two were still together, and he left.”

I sat down on Allison’s bed and she stood there reading her book.

“…. Did you guys find him?” I asked with a breath. This was my entire fault.

“Not yet…”

“Did you guys check the pub?” I asked referring to Niall’s favorite.

“Yeah, they said he was there a couple hours ago but then he left. We haven’t heard from him since.”

“I’ll be right back,” I said and stood up. I didn’t wait for Louis’s approval and instead grabbed my sweater and ran out the door.

“Ava,” I heard Louis say while running towards me, “You can’t go looking for him at this time alone.”

“That’s why you’re coming isn’t it?” I said not stopping.

“The boys are looking for him already; we’ll find him in no time. You need to get back inside,” he said.

“And yet you haven’t found him,” I said with a shrug, “I will.”

I didn’t hear anything. I couldn’t even hear his footsteps behind me.

If Niall left that studio because of those pictures then we were all screwed. Niall would make it obvious that he still wasn’t over everything, even though everything was fine now! And I would just feel guilty and probably drop out of the deal, then everyone would find out and I would be left jobless. 

Okay fine. I want to keep my job.

“… So where are we looking first?” I heard Louis say once he was next to me.