AGLOW [L.T]

76

This is such a long fucking chapter I sincerely apologize, read it in different parts or something lol

"At least the dress is hot..." I mutter in the hallway after Louis's very annoyed rant about the slit on the very pretty dress that a supposedly old man going out of his way to terrorize us got for me.

My comment makes Louis shoot his head in my direction and I shrug at him who just sighs and shrugs. We knock on the door and wait for it to open. When it opens I see Harry, sweaty and a bit dirty, half of his hoodie off of him. But I'm just so glad he's actually okay after that, so I step forward and I hug him.

He seems startled at first and then he hesitantly wraps his arms around me too. I look over Harry's shoulder and see Niall and Liam inside of the room as well. I let go of Harry and walk up to Niall next, hugging him too because even though they're used to this kind of thing, running from cops and such, I'm not. That stressed me out insanely so I hug them for my own sanity. Niall doesn't hug me back at first and I suppose it's because of the same reason as before so I just let him go again, slapping his shoulder as hard as I can.

"Are you mad at me or my dad? because you acting like this to me doesn't make sense, at all!" I say, pointing my finger right in his face before I hug him again, this time he hugs me back. He hugs me tight. Because I guess he can understand the stress I had to go through when I know nothing about these things.

When I look over Niall's shoulder at Liam I just watch him mouth Sophie's name over and over again. I shake my head a little, because it's not such a good idea for me to go over there right now. I'm still stressed and a bit out of it. Going to talk to Sophie about my dad is really not going to help my situation right now.

I let go of Niall and hold my middle finger up to Liam for only focusing on me talking to Sophie when I'm just happy they made it back okay. He laughs and shakes his head but I turn to Harry and Louis instead. Louis looks around at the boys with a sigh and then he shrugs lightly.

"Sorry to ruin the mood right after we finish a robbery we almost got caught doing, but..." Louis starts, holding out the invite, "we're going to a charity event."

"Are you joking?" Harry grunts, rolling his eyes as he takes the invite out of his hands, "Why the hell?"

"Because he's dragging my ass over there, you can't make me go alone," I shake my head, crossing my arms over my chest. Niall grabs the invite, scanning it with his eyes for a moment.

"Why do we all have to go? Liam and Sophie are going anyway, why can't you just double date?" Niall asks.

"Because Avery is doing this for us," Harry says, snatching the invite back will staring Niall down, "the least we can do for her in return is to be there for her."

Niall silently nods and Louis just sighs at them both, then looks over at Liam until he gets his attention.

"All you have to do is keep Sophie away from whatever they're dragging her there for, okay?" he says and Liam nods, then turn his head to me.

"Speaking of..." he starts and I roll my eyes and nod.

"Speaking of Sophie, yeah, yeah... fine," I grunt as I pass the boys and head towards the door. I guess I better get this over with then. Liam will probably nag until I want to rip my own hair off my head, "I'll be back when I've talked to Sophie, have fun you guys."

I'm kind of hoping Sophie isn't in her room, then I can go back to the guys and say I've dealt with it and I can hear everything being said in there first hand instead of Louis telling me things afterwards. But when I knock on Sophie's door, it opens almost immediately. Sophie stands there with her hair in a bun and a pair of glasses resting on her nose.