CASUAL • Harry Lewis/w2s

thirteen

A couple of days after my embarrassing trip to Harry's, we were going to Dubai to film a 7-star versus 1-star hotel video. I had been looking forward to this video, except that JJ was hosting. JJ was exceptionally good at making the bad team miserable, and my chances of being on the bad team were high. Before filming the video we were all spending some days there as a little vacation together.

I arrived at Simon's flat at 6 in the morning an hour before we had to be at Heathrow Airport meaning I was a bit early, which was odd from my side. As Simon got done getting ready I allowed myself to make a quick breakfast so I wouldn't go hungry later, knowing he wouldn't say anything about it.

"Morning Maisie," Talia greeted as she walked into the kitchen.

"Morning Beautiful," I said, as I spread some butter on a slice of bread. "You're up early."

"I'm driving the car back after you get to the airport," She explained sitting down on a chair at the dining table.

I walked over to her and sat on a chair beside her.

"How's it going with Harry?" Talia asked.

"Nothing is going on, haven't slept with him for a month. It's over," I said shooting her a glare.

I decided not to tell Talia about my embarrassing trip to Harry's flat. I was hoping Callum was stupid enough not to suspect anything, but until then, I was keeping it to myself.

"Sure, whatever you say."

Simon walked into the kitchen-dining area as we ended the conversation. "I'm done. You ready to go, Mais?"

"Yeah."

The drive to Heathrow Airport was rather long, but I fell asleep as soon as I sat in the car, so it was relatively short for me.

Simon and I said our goodbyes to Talia before making our way to the meeting point.

We were the first to arrive but we were also 15 minutes early. Little by little the crew and other members started to show up.

Not long after, we were only missing Harry. It was crazy how much I wanted to see him a few days ago, and now I don't want to see him at all. I was almost hoping he had gotten sick and couldn't show up. But that wasn't happening, I looked up to see Harry walking towards the group.

"Hi," I said unenthusiastically.

He shook his head slightly before saying, "Nice to see you, too."

The group proceeded to check in our luggage and then go through security, which took some time due to the size of the group.

When we got into the actual airport after security we still had to wait 1 and a half hours before the flight took off.

Kirsty and I found a place to sit and made some of the others bring something to eat from Joe & The Juice to us.

Time flew quickly and soon after our group were making its way to the gate. We boarded the plane and I were seated at a window seat with Kirsty beside me, thankfully. The plane took off and not long after the plane was in the air, I fell asleep.

I woke up only 30 minutes later. My mouth felt as dry as the Sahara desert and I had a big urge to pee. I climbed over Kirsty, who also was fast asleep, and made my way to the restroom. The second I got to the restroom Harry exited it. And I somehow decided I should say something.

"I am sorry about the weekend. I should never have just shown up at your flat. If I ruined your night with that girl, I'm even more sorry."

He looked at me for a second. "That's okay. I sent her flowers, and we went on a date the following day."

"Oh. Good. I'm glad everything worked out," I said with a forced smile. I felt a slight pang of jealousy that he had gotten with her after all. Perhaps the pang wasn't so slight.

"Are you?"

"Of course. Why wouldn't I?"

He stepped closer to me as he said, "I think you're a little bit jealous."

I scoffed. "What? No! bloody hell, you have an overinflated ego."

"I wasn't the one who showed up at someone's door for sex and was turned down because they were already with someone. I understand why that would sting."

"I'm actually very glad she was there. It saved me from making a stupid mistake," I said, though his words struck close to home.

I walked into the restroom after that shutting the door and leaving him standing there. I did my business, washed my hands and went back out to head to my seat. I sat down and fell asleep for another hour before being awoken because food was being served.

I spent the remainder of the flight watching 3 movies and after that, there was still half an hour till we landed and I spent that trying to sleep but not succeeding.

We landed at around 18:30 England time meaning it was around 15:30 here in Dubai. We got off the plane, headed to collect our luggage and a while later we were all on our way to the hotel we were staying at.

We decided to meet in the lobby at 17:30 to get something to eat, giving us about 1 and a half hours to ourselves.