She's Not Afraid

Vacation Cut Short

***Chapter 11***

                That was our second almost-kiss. No. This is not happening.

                Well, I guess if you count the one where I kneed him in the nut sack, then that’s three. Wut.

                These were just some of my thoughts before I finally fell asleep last night. I didn’t have the guts to wake up poor tired jet-lag Eleanor to move her to her own bed, so I resulted on sleeping on the couch. I don’t think Harry saw my lying there as he backed away up to his own room.

                I woke up and immediately smelt pancakes cooking. It was definitely a good smell to wake up to, considering I haven’t had pancakes in forever. I dragged myself into the kitchen to find Liam and Danielle cooking pancakes together. It was a cute site, too bad I was too distracted by the food.

                When Liam saw me he gave me a smile but it wasn’t his signature one. I gave him a worried look and he mouthed the words I’ll tell you later. I just shrugged it off.

                When all of us, even Eleanor, were collected downstairs, Liam spoke up. “Alright, lads. Looks like we’re cutting our vacation short.” He said with sadness clear in his voice. Every single one of us gave him weird looks.

                “Why?” Zayn was the first to ask. You could tell none of us wanted to leave quite yet.

                “Paul called me this morning, he said he had good news and bad news,” Liam said. We all nodded for him to continue. “Well, the good news is that She’s Not Afraid hit number one on the charts. The bad news is that we have to go back to London tomorrow to shoot the music video management is demanding.”

                “Oooh music video? I love shooting those!” Louis said excitedly. “What’s this one gonna be like?”

                “Paul said this time there’s actually gonna be a girl in it. Well, because it’s She’s Not Afraid…” Liam explained and Louis face lighted up.

                “Hold the phone,” I said. Harry raised an eyebrow at my choice of words. “What’s She’s Not Afraid? And why are you guys so excited that there’s a girl in it?” I asked clearly confused.

                “She’s Not Afraid is one of the extra songs on our second album. And we’ve never had a girl in the music video because management didn’t want to lose fans because…well, I don’t really know why.” Niall told me while the others just nodded.

                I pieced this all together. We were leaving back to London for a stupid music video that stupid management is demanding the boys shoot. Wow, that’s stupid. We literally just got here like two days ago. I promised my mom that I would come and visit her new house that’s like an hour away. Looks like that’s not happening. I didn’t want this supposedly two week vacation to end so quickly.    

                “I guess I’ll go pack…” I told them, trudging up to my room. Yay, fun.

                As I made my way to my room I realized something. When we get back to London I have to go on a date with Harry. Aw nuggets.

***The Next Day, in London***

                I hoped off the plane at LAX WITH MY DREAM AND MY CARDIGAN!!! Just kidding I got off the plane at London, obviously. Stupid management.