Forever Winter//NH//

Two

"One sin, I know, another doth provoke; Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke."
-Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

June 7th, 2015
Los Angeles, California

After the concert on Friday, Harry invited all the crew out to a bar nearby. It was a small building, yet we still managed to get everybody inside even with many others spending their Friday night there. I had mainly stayed by Iris and Caroline the whole night, as well as other crew members I had previously met every now and then. My dad stayed talking with Katherine most of the night, smiling at me when he caught my eye.

The people I were with weren't drinking, since most of us weren't of the legal age anyway, but nearly everyone else was; more so the band than anyone else. The bar got really stuffy really quick, and I excused myself from the booth of people I was with to go outside for a minute. I stepped past the entrance, leaning against the brick wall and pulling my phone out before my name was called nearby. I looked up to see Louis walking over, smoke bellowing out of his mouth as he held a cigarette between his fingers.

"Hi." I slip my phone back in my pocket as he stops, standing in front of me.

"What are you doing?" Louis twists the cigarette between his fingers.

"Fresh air; It got too hot inside."

Louis nods, taking a drag and holding it out to me.
"No thanks. I don't smoke." I decline politely and Louis shrugs, leaning his shoulder against the wall next to me.

Louis blows the smoke out of the corner of his mouth, the soft breeze taking it away almost instantly.
"Me and a few of the others want to go try out a club downtown. Do you want to come with us?"

"My dad-"

"With all due respect I haven't seen your dad speak to you at all yet. I'm sure he wouldn't mind your absence." Louis flashed a grin, taking another drag of the cigarette before throwing it to the floor and stubbing it out with his shoe.

"He's just been busy."

Louis raises an eyebrow at me, a cocky look present on his face.

I sigh, smiling to myself as I give in. "Who else is going?"

"Me, Harry, Liam and Niall." Louis pushes himself off the wall, starting back towards the entrance while I trail next to him.

"What about Caroline? Or my dad?"

"What about them?"

"I thought they had to go out with you."

"When we make the mistake of telling them that we're going somewhere they end up with us. So when we actually want to go out we just don't tell them," Louis made his way through the bar, until he came to the booth where the rest of the boys were. "Are we going now?"

Harry looked up, smiling at me. "Is Scarlett joining us?"

Louis nodded, saying something as I glanced around the room of people distracted by their drinks and each other. My dad sat across from Katherine and a few others I didn't know.

"Alright then, let's just go while Caroline and Carlos are distracted." The others stood up at Louis' words, walking out of the bar swiftly.