White Horse

Chapter 31: 4 am toilet visits

~Louis pov~

“Morning Ash,” I mumbled, trudging into the kitchen. It was currently 10:30 and the only person that was up was Ashtyn, everyone else was still sleeping.

“Stop shouting,” Ash groaned, gently laying her head onto the table. Ashtyn and Niall were the ones who got the most hammered out of all of us last night. Then it was Zayn and I, and Devon and Harry. Harry surprisingly didn’t drink very much, which was unlike him. He was usually the one who drank the most out of all of us.

“First time drinking?” I chuckled, grabbing myself a cup of tea with honey and sitting down next to her.

“First time heavy drinking,” She answered, casting a side glance at me. I got back up from the table and walked over to the medicine cabinet. I grabbed the blue bottle of Advil then a cup full of water. Ash gave me a wry smile as I handed these things to her. She popped two of the Advil in her mouth then quickly downed them with the water. “Thanks Louis, you’re a life saver.”

“No problem.”

“Morning y’all,” Devon chirped, joining us in the kitchen. He walked up behind Ash and wrapped her in a hug from behind.

“Stop shouting,” Ash repeated, glaring up at Devon. He just laughed and kissed the top of her nose. A smile crept onto her face as she leaned up to kiss him.

“Hungover?” He asked when she pulled away.

“Yep.”

“Well babe, that’s what you get for drinking so much.”

“Oh shut up.”

“Why is the room spinning?” Niall mumbled, stumbling in and joining us. He trudge over to the fridge and grabbed the orange juice. He opened up the carton, downing half the beverage in a few seconds.

“Niall use a cup,” I ordered, taking the carton from his hand. He glared at me, snatching the carton back causing the OJ to slosh over the top. I jumped back to avoid being hit by the oncoming juice. “God Ni be careful.”

“GRRRR,” He shouted, finishing off the drinking. With a loud burp of satisfaction, he tossed the empty carton into the trash then went to grab the waffles from the freezer.

Niall was a funny, upbeat drunk. He was the type of drunk person that you wanted to be around. But when he was hungover, he was snappy and cranky. It usually took him an hour or two and about four Advil for him to return to normal.

As Niall put almost the entire box of toaster waffles into the toaster oven, we were joined by Zayn and Liam. Liam went over to the cabinet to grab the box tea as Zayn sat in the seat across from Ashtyn.

“I think I’m gunna faint,” Ash said as her eyes roamed around the room.

“What’s wrong? Are you okay baby?” Devon asked putting a hand on her shoulder.

She shook her head, “No I’m not OK. Four fifths of one direction and my boyfriend are shirtless in my presence. It’s a feels overload and my poor heart can’t take all of this,” she replied.

I looked around to see that she was right. We were all shirtless with either just our boxers or with pajama pants, including me. I couldn’t help but start laughing and soon enough everyone else joined in. Ash was brutally honest but she delivered it in such a funny way that it was okay.

Once our laughter died down, I realized that there was something missing, “Speaking of One direction, where’s Harry and Caden?” I asked, looking around.

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~Caden’s pov~

It had been a very long night.