Our Summer of Direction

Chapter Eighteen

Katie's POV

“I wanna go!” Emilea whines while helping me do my makeup.

“Sorry! You’re not old enough!” I tease getting dressed. As we go to leave I see Emilea go snuggle with Niall on the couch. I look at the movie they picked and grin to see Finding Nemo.

“Come on!” Harry says pulling me out the door. We all pile into Liam’s car and go to the pub.

“I found a table!” Perrie yells while we get in line at the bar. Perrie, Dani, and I go sit at the table while the boys get us a round of beer.

“Here Darling” Harry says handing me a beer. I scoot over in the booth and he scoots in next to me. I struggle to get the cap off of the beer and Harry chuckles taking it back. He pops the top off with ease and hands it back with a smile. I shake my head at him and take a sip.

“I want to dance Li!” Danielle says after finishing her first beer. They slide out of the booth and start grinding on the dance floor.

“Will you get me another beer, Zayn?” Perrie asks after the first beer is gone. Zayn gets up and goes to the bar. He comes back with four beers and passes them around the table. I open this beer easily and we start drinking again.

“Let’s go dance, Love.” Harry says dragging me out of the booth. We rush out to the dance floor and a very fast song comes on. We dance closely and I grin when a slow song comes on. I wrap my arms around Harry’s neck and he places his hands on my hips and we sway to the music.

“Let’s go get a couple HOOCHES.” I say over the pounding music when the song is over. We go up to the bar and I place our order.

“Can I see some ID?” The bartender asks. Harry and I pull out our driver’s licenses and the man looks them over.

“Looks good; here you are.” He says passing back our IDs and the drinks.

“Harry! Look who is here!” Liam exclaims pointing over my shoulder once we are back in the booth.

“ED!” Harry shouts going up to Ed Sheeran and giving him a hug. I get out to shake hands with Ed.

“Hello; my name is Katie.” I say with a smile. Harry climbs back into the booth and pulls me backwards so I am sitting between him and Ed.

“You’re the girl dating Harry right?” Ed asks/yells. I nod with a smile.

“YES!” I shout over the music. Zayn and Perrie come back to our booth with a crap ton of shots.

“Hello Ed!” Zayn yells passing him a shot. We all take a few shots and I stop when the room starts going fuzzy.

“Let’s go dance again Harry!” I slur already moving to the music. We crawl over the still soberish Ed and start wiggling on the dance floor.

“Are you hammered already Darling?” Harry asks keeping me upright.

“NO!” I say sounding very drunk. Harry laughs and makes sure I don’t fall down.

 Suddenly Perrie is behind us dancing with us; Danielle joins us and we all start dancing together.

“I am going to get another beer.” Harry says leaving the dance floor. I nod and dance with my girls. 

Harry's POV

“She seems fun.” Ed comments, sliding next to me at the bar. I look at Katie and grin.

“She does, doesn’t she? You wouldn’t guess she was just in high school huh?” I ask watching her dance. I pass Ed one of the beers I had just ordered and he pops the cap off.

“She’s only in high school? Well, you’re young enough to still be in high school so I suppose that is fine.” Ed says back.

“She is pretty awesome.” I  say smiling.

“It’s been too long bro!” Ed says once we get talking.

“I know it has! You never told me how the tour was.” I say turning away from my adorable girlfriend and towards one of my best friends.

“You know how tours are; it was musical.” He says with a laugh. I ruffle his ginger hair and we drink our beers.

“Where is Niall?” Ed asks after a moment. I realize that Niall and Emilea are still at home.

“He is back at the flat with his new girlfriend.” I say with a grin.

“OOH! Niall has a girlfriend? Why didn’t he just bring her here?” Ed asks scrunching his nose in confusion.

“She is underage.” I say grinning at the confused look on his face.

“He is dating an underage girl? How old is she?” He asks incredulously.

“Don’t worry; she is 18 in like 2 weeks.” I say swigging my beer. Katie stumbles over to me and takes a sip out of the beer still in my hand.

“I think you’re a little drunk madam.” I say kissing her mouth and tasting alcohol.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” She says kissing me again. She sits on my knee and talks to me and Ed for a while.

“Where are you staying Ed?” I ask once Katie heads back to the dance floor. I don’t really catch his reply as the drinks are finally catching up to me.

“Hey mate! Do you think you’ll want to head out soon?” A totally hammered Zayn asks.

“Nah! I want to PARTY!!” Ed and I shout getting another drink. I look over onto the dance floor and see a guy approaching Katie, Danielle and Perrie. Zayn swoops in and gets Perrie, but Danielle and Katie start talking to the guy. I stand up as he keeps getting closer and closer to Danielle.

“Easy tiger; I am sure she is just fine.” Ed says putting his hand on my arm. Since I am so drunk I don’t really listen to his logic. I look over at them again and see him reach over and plant a kiss on a very drunk Danielle. She looks like she is struggling to get away and I jump up and push through the crowd of dancing people. I pull the guy off of Dani and punch him as hard as I can in the face. Knocking the guy over, I sit on his stomach and repeatedly reigning punches down on his face. Liam is pulling me off of him before I even let my fists slow down.

“What is going on?” Liam asks keeping me away from the bloody guy on the ground. Luckily Ed swooped in and took Katie and Danielle back to the booth.

“That CREEP was hurting Dani!” I scream shoving Liam away from me.

“What?” Liam shouts. Ed grabs Liam and takes him back to the booth as well; although he leaves again.

“Are you okay Dan?” I ask pulling her close.

“He *hic* said *hic* that he *hic* was gonna h-h-hurt m-me. *hic hic hic*” She says looking horribly scared. She is shaking and crying and I just hug her until Liam comes back. Liam looks really angry and I notice he has a bit of blood on his knuckles. He pulls Dani close and the rest of us wander back to the bar.

“Let’s get out of here.” Liam says after seeing that all of us are drinking again; and the fact Danielle is still crying and shaking. Like a babysitter, Liam takes us out to the car one by one and buckles us in.

“Will you guys grow up?” Liam asks while we start singing Grow Up by Cher Lloyd. He apparently doesn’t see the irony in his words because we start shrieking about how we are never gonna grow up. Liam somehow manages to wrangle us all upstairs; I suspect Emilea and Niall help.

“Wow, they look a little drunk don’t they?” Niall says. He and Emilea start helping us all into sleeping spots.

“Go to sleep Harry!” Emilea says loudly when I get off of the floor. I go over to where Katie is sleeping and snuggle up next to her. I look up for a moment and see Niall and Emilea doing the same thing and heading upstairs.