The Summer I Got Hot {L.H} ~ Book 1

Chapter Ten

"Shut the door." Michael grumbled and violently slammed the door shut. It closed with a bang and the windows surrounding shook. I waited for my parents to come shouting but they were angry at me and would probably ignore me for the rest of the night.

Scrambling to find the chord to shut the blind, Michael eventually found it and closed them so that my room was pretty much left in darkness.

"What the hell are you doing?" I wasn't particularly happy they were here and now they're trying to break my blinds as well. "You all need to get out." I pulled into the chord that so at least a little bit of light could stream in. All four peering through the shutters, they seemed tense.

"Some guys are trying to beat up out asses." Calum said, not even bothering to look at me.

"What guys?" I asked, bored of this conversation already. Luke turned to face me.

"Just these guys okay. But we had nowhere else to go quickly." He explained. Luke always seemed pissed off but now he seemed more pissed off than normal. Guy needs to take a chill pill.

"Well you can't stay here. I'm actually grounded and if my parents where to walk in and see four guys standing in my room, you know exactly what they would think." I raised an eyebrow at them.

"Well we would never want to do you anyway." Ashton sneered and the others laughed.

"The feeling is mutual." I replied. That kind of hurt but woman are not objects that you can just 'do' whenever you feel.

"Anyway we're staying here for a while. They seen us come in, they'll be waiting. Unless we can get out the front door." Luke said. Pulling out the hair from my desk, he sat himself down comfortably and balanced his elbows on his knees, putting his head in his hands and running a hand through his dirty blonde hair.

"Unless you want my parents to see you. They already hate you." I told him. Calum, Michael and Ashton took this opportunity to also make themselves at home and climbed onto my bed, pushing the books to the side and lying back against the headboard with their hands stretched behind their heads. "You guys can't stay here. I'm already in trouble."

"Well unless you want to be a witness to a murder, I suggest you figure out a plan to get us out." Luke spoke in a harsh, commanding tone that oozed authority and a slight manliness was added to his schoolboy demeanor. I had to admit he had gotten significantly good looking these past few months. He'd grown into his head and was now growing a sexy stubble that on any other man I would've found irresistible.

"Why are they even after you guys?" I asked curiously. I tried to act as casual as I could in this uncomfortable situation.
"You don't want to know." Luke scoffed sitting back in the chair and picking up a notebook from the desk to flick through.
"Uh, yeah I do." I said marching over and grabbing it from him. "If I'm giving you a safe house, I kinda want to know why I'm keeping you safe?" I shoved the notebook away in a drawer.

"Just these assholes who are out to get us, nothing too serious." Calum said as he played with a little stress ball from my beside table. Why couldn't they just leave my things alone?
"But why?" I asked again, dragging out the 'why'.

"Why are you so fucking nosey?" Luke grumbled and I glared at him. "If you really must know. We took some pot from his stash one night and forgot to pay him back for it. Then when he asked us we lied. And then we done it again."
"So I'm in the middle of a drug deal?" I said starting to freak out a little. I knew marijuana wasn't that bad and I had in fact tried it before, only once, but using it usually lead people into other drugs with more serious consequences.
"Oh for fucks sake."Luke sighed and rubbed his eyes. The other three groaned. "We don't do the hard shit, we just get high sometimes, it's no biggie. But they think we stole other stuff even though we didn't, so now they're after us."
"And how did you end up here?" I asked them.