Already Gone : Part One

Chapter 9

"Hey guys, get a room!" an Irish accent yells from behind us. Me and Harry immediately step away from each other, blushing uncontrollably. The crust falls onto the floor. So much for having pizza for dinner.

"Niall," Harry glares at the irish boy. Niall laughs at him. "We were having a moment," he pouts.

"Awe, I'm sorry lad. It was kinda disgusting watching my best mate eat Taylor Swift's face off, though." Niall shrugs. I wrinkle my nose, giggling.

"Niall?" we hear Liam's voice from the front room.

"Nialler?" Eleanor's voice echo's into the kitchen.

They walk into the room holding bags of Taco Bell food.

Harry's eyes light up and a smile quickly grows onto his face. "TACO'S!" Harry screams.

"Hey," Eleanor says, moving the bag of mexican food behind her. "We have to wait for Zayn and Lou to get here."

"Ugh," Harry sighs. "Fineee."

Eleanor smiles and starts to walk into the room when she steps on the gooey pizza crust on the floor.

She looks down and she looks disgusted. "Ew, what is this?" She says trying to get it off her heel.

I laugh and say, "Me and Haz were trying to make homemade pizza." I look over at Harry, who's biting his lip trying not to laugh.

Eleanor laughs a little and places the bag she had onto the counter away from all the flower.

"Looks like we have some cleaning up to do." Liam says, his arm resting on the doorway. I nod and grin. He looks down to where he finds Meredith scratching at his jeans. He picks her up and starts petting her.

"So how did you guys get inside?" I ask them, walking over to my messy counter.

"Your extra key was under your door mat," Eleanor smiles at me. I smile back, guilt hiding behind my smile.

After we finally clean up all the flower and what not, Louis and Zayn arrive. Zayn comes in first, holding a box of donuts. Niall nearly knocks him over trying to get one. More like 5. Louis slumps behind him, looking the same as he did earlier today. We could all see his 5 o'clock shadow growing. He looked terrible.

"What's wrong, boo?" Eleanor said, trying to grab his hand. He waves her away and sits in the empty chair at the end of the table. El looked hurt by his rejection. He shouldn't be treating her like this.

As Zayn walks past me, he gives me a worried look. I hand the bag of tacos to Harry and he serves everyone. I go into the kitchen and close the door behind me.

"Zayn," I whisper.

He turns around after he places the box down. "Hm?"

"What did Louis tell you?"

"He told me about what happened earlier. He told me how he tried to-" I shush him before he said it. He was talking too loud.

"Whisper," I say.

"He told me how he tried to kiss you earlier." Zayn glups and says, "Taylor, you've got to tell El."

"I can't. Me and Harry have already talked about it."

"Talked about what?" Eleanor says from behind me. My eyes grow big, as do Zayn's and we both looked at her confused face.

"Um.." I say. "We, er.. We were planning a party!"

"A party?" Eleanor questions. "Why?"

"Heh, ya know. Just a small get together." Zayn says, trying not to let the truth come out.

"Ok!" She starts to walk out when she turns around and says, "I'm invited right?" Me and Zayn both hesitate. "I was kidding, guys." She smiles at us and walks out.

We both let out a sigh of relief. "That was close!" I say.

"Yeah. We should head back so it doesn't seem suspicious." I nod and we walk back into the dining room.