Louis POV
I could hear ‘Headlines’ by Drake outside as we sat in Sadie’s room, watching the Notebook. She was sniffling and I was trying to hold back tears of my own as Liam was texting Zayn about visiting hours, Niall was reading a magazine that was on Sadie’s desk about ‘KATY PERRYS NEW ALBUM!’ and Harry was playing Angry Birds on his iPod touch. We heard car doors shut and girls talking. The front door opened and there were some girly ‘aww’s’ and ‘oh’s’ and then they all barreled up the stairs. Cara burst open the door and said-
“SADIE!!!” she stopped in the doorway, causing Kayliegh, Bella, and Lucy to bump into her back, groaning. “Aww what the-? We wanted to be the first visitors!” she said now frowning at me, Niall and Harry.
“Sorry babes, we beat ya to it!” I said to them with an eye-brow raise and a grin. They all shrugged and joined us in the room and on the bed. They poured out the loot they had scored for Sadie and added it to the pile Harry and I had made. We talked about the accident briefly and Sadie started to tear up, so the subject was quickly changed. As the group was in a heated debate about cats verses turtles as great pets, I made eye contact with Bella. She gave me a cheeky grin and pulled out her phone.
*BUZZ* I got a text
*From: Bella- Guest bedroom. Follow me there in 2*
“Gotta pee!” she said and left the room. No one even noticed she left.
“Seriously though, cats are the BEST.” Harry said seriously.
“No, man, you’ve got it all wrong!” Liam objected “turtles make the PERFECT pet!” I rolled my eyes and said-
“Thirsty, be right back.” Again, they had no clue I was leaving and continued on arguing. Occasionally someone let out a groan or a squeal. We can really get into these debates. A few days ago, Kayleigh, Zayn and I argued for a good hour about what an appropriate response would be to someone who walked in on you while you were singing by yourself… naked, it started out as Zayn and I just trying to get Kayleigh mad and also to hear her talking about being naked, but turned into a full blown debate! I walked down the hall into the dark green guest bedroom. Bella was waiting for me on the lounge chair in the corner. I walked towards her
“So… fancy meeting you hear.” I started. She saw me and bit her lip. My stomach flopped. Oh god that was so sexy. Even though she was just in a sweatshirt and yoga pants with little make-up and hair looking a state, for some reason, she seemed irresistible to me. She got up and passed me to lock the door.
“Really fancy” she said and pulled my face into hers. I kissed her back for a few minutes and she muttered.
“It’s getting hot in here.”
“So take off all your clothes” I responded with a smile. She giggled through the kiss and I felt her arms move to her hips. In one quick movement, she flung her sweatshirt to the floor, revealing a sheer, white tank top. I could see her bright blue bra through it. It took me by surprise.
“I didn’t mean literally take your clothes off” I said smiling. “But nice touch.” I joked.
“I need you” she said seriously, pulling at my shirt. What had gotten into her? What started with a playful, secret,…whatever this was, was suddenly turning into something….
“Bella.” I said pulling her hands away and pinning them to her sides. “What’s up?” I asked, knowing something was weird.
“Nothing, I just missed you.” She said biting her lip again and kissing me on the lips. I kissed back for a little while but pulled away again. She groaned
“Louis I thought we were just gonna have fun!”
“We were having fun, but something is wrong and I want to know what it is.”
“Look. We weren’t ever really friends before this and we aren’t going to be friends now. I thought we were just gonna fool around. You were like my… never mind.” She grabbed her sweatshirt from the floor and started to leave.
“I was what?” I asked, grabbing her arm.
“Nothing, Louis. Let go.” I did as she asked, not wanting to make a scene. I sat on the bed, confused as hell. I walked down stairs, got a cup of water, to make it look like I was actually getting a drink and went back up to Sadie’s room. I expected for them to still be in the turtle vs. cat debate of 2011 but they were all getting their purses together and helping Sadie get out of bed. I made eye contact with Bella for a second as she pulled Lucy’s hair into a ponytail for her. She quickly looked away.
“Hey mate, Zayn is ready to be picked up!” Liam said, excited “We’re all going to go get him, his mom said it was okay, since she was working, for us to take him home!”
We all piled into different cars and headed to the hospital. Even with the weird Bella drama in the back of my head, I was really excited to see Zayn.
