The Way Things Change

Chapter 56

"God, you reek of alcohol!"

I groaned at the sudden light. My head actually wasn't that bad. I had thought it would be much worse. I slowly pried my eyes open, seeing a dark haired boy stand in front of me, caramel eyes judging me.

"Good morning to you too Zayn." I croaked, sitting up. I noticed I was still in the same clothes as yesterday and I wasn't in my bedroom. I was lying on the bench in the hall.

Zayn just laughed at me, taking a seat next to me.

"So how's your head doing?"

"It's actually not that bad. I thought it would be much worse, since I can't remember how I got home yesterday. Is Eleanor here, by the way?"

"Yes Eleanor is still here. She is emptying her guts in Louis' bathroom."

"Ugh, I didn't need to know that!"

"And Louis picked you two up yesterday. I don't know more than that. I was sleeping."

"Of course you were. So where is Louis? Is he with Eleanor? I should talk to him."

"No, I'm right here." Louis said coming down the stairs. "Eleanor fell asleep again, so I thought I should check up on you. How are you?"

"I'm fine. But why am I lying here?"

Louis laughed at me, taking a seat on the other side of me. Immediately his features showed disgust.

"Wow, you really smell bad. You should really shower more often young girl."

"Haha, very funny. Just tell me."

"Well, I couldn't take the both of you upstairs at once and since that guy" He pointed to Zayn "was sleeping, it was too difficult to wake him. And both Niall and Liam were at their girlfriends so they couldn't help me either. So I brought Eleanor up first and when I came back down you were sound asleep, so I just let you be." Louis explained.

"But what about Harry? You didn't mention him." I said confused. He was my boyfriend after all, he surely would have helped. I had helped him get to bed lots of times.

"He is over at Gemma's. Didn't he tell you?" Zayn said, looking at me suspiciously.

I searched my brain, trying to recall him telling me. Oh yeah... I vaguely remembered a text I got. I pulled out my phone to check. Sure enough, there was a message, telling me where he was and that I didn't have to worry. I triumphantly showed Zayn.

"Now go get a bath!" Louis ordered.

"Actually, I think I'll go for a run first. Otherwise I have to shower twice." I got up, and surprisingly I wasn't dizzy at all. And I didn't have a heavy head. Hurray, I escaped the hang over.