corrupted highness - mgc - 5sos - 1D

Chapter Seveteen; Beside You.

"... I made a promise that I'll come home soon."

ALEXANDRA

Then the day I'd feared for, for so long, arrived at last.

Waking up the last day and realizing what day it was, made the tears stream down my face.

Walking out of my room, heading down for breakfast for the last time for ages, seemed like something that wasn't happening.

Before I could even reach the stairs, I fell onto the floor; crying and I couldn't stop. I just couldn't stop.

"Alex? Hey, Alex are you okay?", Michael's worried voice seemed to come from nowhere but suddenly his arms were wrapped around me.

"No", I sobbed and hugged him back.

   We sat like that for a while and I just cried.

I felt like a child sitting there crying, but the tears wouldn't stop rolling down my cheeks and everything seemed to be wrong.

Why was I acting like this? Three months was nothing compared to what Charlie had been gone (more like eight months).

Calum found me and Michael sitting there and soon he was hugging me as well.

It felt like I was losing everything and it was such a childish thing to do.

We would meet again. It wasn't forever.

I tried to tell myself that, but I just couldn't listen to my inner voice.

Nothing made sense, and I, for the first time since June the eight, regretted meeting them all.

I had been sad many times in my life and nothing seemed to compare to this, even though I knew multiple things did.

"Hey, don't be sad, baby", Calum said and rubbed my arm.  I hadn't seen any of them cry, ever and I had a feeling they wouldn't show me their tears today either.

"It's hard not to be. Why do you have to be talented?", I complained, making both Michael and Calum laugh.

Harry and Louis, who both slept on our floor, also found us three in the stairs and joined us.

My tears finally stopped falling down and I now felt like a child more than ever.

Was I taking our friendship way too seriously? Were they even gonna miss us? Was I overreacting?

  Niall called us down for breakfast, one last time and we went down all together.

Kylie, Luke, Lia and Ashton were all sitting in the enormous kitchen and it suddenly reminded me of the rainy day in June when me, Ashton and Michael were making breakfast for the sleeping Lia. The memory made me giggle; such a great day.

  After breakfast, I went upstairs to pack the last few things that I had brought to the beach house.

My charger, makeup stuff and one of my three pajamas's.

And once again, I bursted into tears. This time without letting anyone hear me.
I hated myself for crying and I felt like a little baby. C'mon Alex, get your shit together for once.

  Soon, too soon maybe, we were all standing in the hallway we'd all walked into, three beautiful weeks ago. Me, Kylie and Lia with all our packing, and the boys in their jackets, ready to take us to the airport.

Both Lia and Kylie were crying and they didn't even try to hide it, and I suddenly felt better about the fact that I was crying as well.

"Group hug?", Niall chuckled in his adorable Irish-accent, making me smile through the tears.