W E T [l.t. au]

f o u r ;

Katie and I were walking around London, it was a relatively nice September day so we decided to spend the day out in London before classes started up tomorrow.

"So... How come you didn't invite your boyfriend?" She asked me and I sighed, not really wanting to discuss it. "And how come you didn't come back until like four am? And how come we came to London with Louis and his friends?" Katie asked me, well it felt more like an interrogation actually. 

"Well, we came with Louis and his friends because well...they offered to take us. I think it's...Niall who has the giant range rover that was able to fit all seven of us." I answered her, completely ignoring the first question. 

"And how come you came back to our room at four in the morning?" She asked me again and I didn't look at her. I continued to look at Maria kicking around the football with the guys. She's apparently on the girls football team. "Susan."

"I was with Louis." I answered her quickly.

"What?" She asked, a little too loud. 

"I was with Louis last night." I answered her simply. 

"Are you and Mark...over?" She asked carefully and I didn't answer him. I didn't really know how to answer that. I mean, I hadn't formally broken up with him, and he didn't break up with me... by all means we were still technically still in a relationship, but our relationship is basically over. 

"Not really." I answered her vaguely. 

"What do you mean not really? You..you went to a party with your boyfriend, and left with a guy who wasn't your boyfriend...the same guy that you left a club with, a club that you also went with your boyfriend." Katie said matter-of-fact and I simply didn't respond to her. I kind of felt guilty now that she was interrogating me about this, she's trying to make me second guess all my life choices. Okay, that was me being dramatic, but that is how it's making me feel. "Susan, are you cheating on Mark?" She asked me carefully and I whipped my head over to her and I glared at her.

"No!" I shrilled tightly, glaring at her hardly. "I..I wouldn't cheat on anyone! Why would you think that?" I asked her, even though we had only known each other for a good three weeks, I was hoping that maybe we were becoming good friends. If she was thinking this, then maybe I should re-think being friends with her. 

"Well...you have a boyfriend, who you have been with for two and a half years...and now you're going off and hanging out with this other guy that has come out of no where? A guy that obviously your boyfriend doesn't like... I mean, there has to be something going on here..." She explained her thoughts and I sat there and sighed. 

"I know it looks like I'm cheating but I'm not! If anyone is cheating, it's Mark." I grumbled. 

"What? How do you know?" she asked tightly. I stared at her for a moment, wondering why she suddenly got a little stiff. 

"Well when we went to Rain , when I met Louis... Mark kind of...went off dancing with some other girl. Grinding, touching... the works...and that is when I met Louis, he danced with me and I wanted to get back at Mark, but..he never looked in my direction. Louis and I never did anything. Actually when we left the club we just went back to his flat and played monopoly and watched Friends. Nothing happened between us...and then last night... we just went to this all night restaurant and sat there for five hours and ate food and played games. We drove around...nothing happened."

"Did you want something to happen?" She asked me and I scoffed at the mere thought of me getting...involved with Louis. 

"Please, no way. He's rather annoying and wont leave me alone so, no I don't want something to happen between Louis and I." I answered her. I was truthful. I mean, Louis has proved to be a half decent guy, a bit obnoxious and arrogant, a little - no a lot, full of himself... but he had a nice heart from what I can tell. The first night we met I knew he wanted to have sex but didn't push it, which was nice. Then when we hung out at the cafe, he seemed genuinely interested in me. Like...about me. Then last night at the party, he wasn't trying to get me to sleep with him at all.  "If anything, he'll be a friend and that's it." I added as I turned back to watch Maria twirl past Louis with the football and kick it to, I believe Liam. I let out a loud laugh when I saw his face and he turned to look at me and glared playfully and it only made me laugh even harder. 

"Maybe you should give Mark a second chance..." Katie spoke up again, talking about Mark. I took my attention away from the 'game' and turned to her. 

"I've been giving him loads of chances. I just... don't know if I want to break up with him." I answered with a shrug. 

"I don't think you should, you two make a cute couple." She nodded and went back to playing I think it was candy crush on her phone. My brows frowned at her, confused as to why she would encourage me to stay with Mark even though he's been having sex with loads of other girls.  Usually a friend would tell me to break up with him right now... I shook my head, I didn't want to think about Mark right now. Soon the four stopped playing football after Louis was getting butt hurt about Maria keep passing past him with the ball and I couldn't help but laugh at him because he got so into it and was obviously being a sore loser. 

"Okay, come on stop being a baby, Louis." Maria laughed as the six of us began walking down the streets of London to find some place to eat. Louis scoffed, crossing his arms and began to grumble under his breath. "Say, where's Harry?" She asked. Harry was one of Louis' other friends that came with us. He kind of disappeared at some point in the beginning of their game. 

"Oh, he went to go hang out with his sister who lives here." Niall answered as he held the door open to Applebee's. "They don't see each other that often so when his sister has a day off they tend to spend the day together." Maria nodded as she told the guy at the door that we needed a table for six. We were guided to our giant booth and I slid in first from the left and before Katie could slide in beside me, Louis slid in next to me and grinned at me. I gave him a flat look before rolling my eyes at him but that only caused him to laugh.  Our waitress took our drink orders and the table filled in conversation, well everyone else did. I didn't particularly want to join in on the conversation so I went into my bag and took out a book and began reading it. 

"What are you reading?" Louis asked quietly, bumping my knee with his. I looked up at him and saw him smiling at me and held the book up so he can see it. "Ah, Pride and Prejudice. Typical." He shrugged and leaned back, letting his arms rest on the back of the booth behind us. 

"What is that supposed to mean?" I asked him, putting my book down and turning to him with an obvious annoyed smile on my face. 

"I mean, you are a girl and most girls enjoy that book." He answered simply as if he had to answer that question a million times before. "I'm not saying it's a bad book, it's just typical for girls to read it." He added with a shrug. 

"So you've read Pride and Prejudice?" I asked, a little surprised. 

"Yeah. My sisters loved it and wouldn't stop talking about it so I succumbed and watched it because they wanted to watch the movie with me and wouldn't let me watch the movie with out reading the book. I do admit it's a good story, it's just a typical girl book." He told me with a smile. I looked at him, I still had no idea what to make of him. He wasn't an idiot, of course not. You can't be an idiot and make into Oxford so of course he had some intelligence... but this is the second time we had a small conversation on literature. Mark never wanted to talk literature with me, it was only about Rugby or about his friends. Here I was comparing Louis to Mark again. 

"Have you read any of Austen's other works?" I asked him and he shook his head. 

"Nah, don't really have the books to read them. I had to borrow my sisters copy of Pride and Prejudice."

"If you were able to obtain her other books...would you read them?" I asked him seriously and he stared at me for a few moments with a straight face that I couldn't read before nodded.

"Yeah, I would." He answered.