Good Boy

Chapter 54

Charlie's POV

I hang up the phone on Louis. Simply because I don't need this temptation at the moment. I am trying to figure things out between me and him.. and things between Zayn, Linda, and Perrie.

I hear faint crying in the kitchen and I stand to run and find Linda crying over her phone on the counter.

"Ch-Charlie? I'm sorry.. I forgot you were here.. you're so quiet.." she sniffles.

"What's wrong?" I grab a glass of water and hand it to her in hopes it would calm her down as she sips.

"M-my ex again.." she wipes her eyes a little bit.

"What did Za-- I mean your ex do?" I correct myself mid sentence. I don't want to ask her about my assumptions until I know for sure.

She gives me a confused look before sipping her water again.

"My ex is having a party.. with his.. girlfriend.." her words turn to disgust on the word 'girlfriend' "and everyone is there.. and they are all posting about it and it hurts.."

"Would it be bad if I asked to see the photos?" I hesitantly ask and she nods and hands me her phone.

I see a group photo on the screen. But, one person automatically stands out to me. Zayn. And Perrie. Plus, a lot of other people I do not know.

I study the picture for a minute and hand it back to a lightly sobbing Linda before speaking again.

"Grab your stuff, we're going to the party."

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I knock on the door of the address Linda guided me to and we patiently wait outside the door. She has done a pretty decent job at wiping her tears away, although her eyes are still puffy and red.

Someone opens the door and Linda tenses and I calm down a bit since Zayn didn't open the door. Doesn't mean he's not here though. Who's apartment is this anyways?

"Were you guys invited?" The dirty blonde tall man asks me.

"Uh.. yeah.." I awkwardly lie and the dirty blonde shrugs and lets us step in.

Loud music is blasting through my ears and everything is booming. This looks like a club, a not as busy club. But, there are a lot of people here. Tons of bad influences.

"You're cute you know," the dirty blonde smirks down at me and I blush and Linda nosingly looks back and forth between us.

"uh.. thanks.. you too.. I g-guess.." I struggle to respond as the dirty blonde chuckles.

He is very attractive. Is he Louis? No. Is he gorgeous? Yes. He has dirty blonde hair with pretty blue eyes but not very ocean like and pink lips with a lip ring attached. He is nice and broad and he isn't holding a beer bottle, which is a plus.

"Would you like to have a drink with me?" He asks and I cringe before I can stop myself.

"I don't drink.." I decline and he nods in understanding.

"Sorry. We can have water," He chuckles and I giggle as Linda gives me a "get it" look.

"Sounds awesome," I smile.

"What about my ex?" Linda reminds me.

Damn it.

"What?" Dirty blonde asks.

"Her ex invited us.. we can't find him and tell him that we're here," I lie. It's not a complete lie but it's not the full truth either.

"Who's your ex? I can possibly help you find him," Dirty blonde offers.

"His name is Zayn. Zayn Malik."

My heart drops and I freeze. Her ex really is who I thought it was. I was kind of getting by with that small chance of the whole situation being a weird hallusination.

"Okay, he's somewhere over there," Dirty blonde points to a couch across the room towards a crowd of people. I spot Zayn pretty quickly and silently thank dirty blonde before beginning to guide Linda to Zayn.

"Wait," Dirty blonde stops me "I never caught your name."

"Charlie. Just Charlie. What's yours?"

"I'm Luke. Luke Hemmings."

I smile at Luke before running off to find Zayn with Linda. We push past the crowd, getting bumped here and there before making it to Zayn.

"Zayn?" I tap him and he turns around. His red eyes grow wide as he looks back and forth between me and Linda. He nervously looks at Perrie, who is sitting right beside him and I do not feel the least bit bad for him. Not at all. He deserved this torture for what he is doing to these girls.

"Charlie?" He chokes and decides to not acknowledge Linda which makes me feel bad.

"Wait.. you two know each other?" Linda asks, shocked.

I can tell she is holding back tears just by her voice.

"Not like how you think," I assure her "he's an old friend."

I look back at Zayn in disgust of his actions. He notices my disgust because he mouths 'I'll explain later' before looking away from me.

"Charlie.. I can't do this. I need to go sit down," Linda tells me before running off and I follow. She can't continue to let tears fall, as much as she's been crying, she will become dehydrated.

As I'm running for her, I bump into my secret admirer, Luke.

"And we meet again," he laughs and I giggle.

"Yeah," I nod and run a hand through my hair.

"Are we allowed to have that drink now? Or do you have an ex to seek revenge on too?" He chuckles.

Yeah, I do have an ex I would like to seek revenge on. But I was doing a decent job at not thinking about him. Thanks for the reminder, Luke.

Although, Louis technically isn't an ex. He didn't want to date me.

"No, not at all," I smile.

Luke smiles back and guides me through the large crowd of people until we get to the drinks. He grabs a bottled water and hands it to me and he grabs himself one too.

"Thanks," I thank him and he nods.

"So what are you like?" He leans back against the wall and I sit in a nearby chair beside him.

"What do you mean?" I ask before sipping my water.

"What are you like? Interests? Hobbies?" He breaks it down.

"Oh uh well I like dancing.. well liked it.."

"Why liked?"

I'm not sure if I want to share my dance story with him. I'm not sure if I want to share that full story with anyone anyways. It's too personal. Only Louis knows a small part of the story.

And I would like to keep it that way.

"I lost interest in it.." I lie.

As Luke opens his mouth to say something, we hear a loud British accent boom through the apartment.

"Guess who's here!!" The voice yells, with a familiar crowd of british voices plus one irish voice following.

Everyone yells in excitement and my heart drops, my head spins, thoughts rushing to my head, I can barely move.

The voice is so joyful and happy as it parties it's way into the room. Everyone slinging each other around and dancing in horrifying sexual movements.

At least until me and Louis make eye contact.

The boys have joined the party! Louis has joined the party! And Luke Hemmings has joined the story! Yes, I'm 5sos af so there will be some 5sos members mentioned (: but, they are not a main part of the story. Sorry for no update lately, I've been writing this chapter in between days of tests, exams, and studying. Exams end on wednsday so I can update more often (: gonna take time to get back on scheduale though. Love you guys x
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