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Chapter 7

Niall woke up the next morning with a pounding head. He was Irish and he was used to it so it wasn't as bad as Valerie's. Valerie was in one of his t-shirts with nothing underneath and Niall was just in his boxers, neither knew what happened last night. They don't know how they got home, and honestly they don't remember meeting each other at the club, they were already more drunk than they thought they were at the time.

When Niall saw Valerie, he practically panicked.

"Val! Val! This is not good." Niall whisper/yelled while shaking the sleeping girl awake. She grumbled something incoherent, before moving closer to the heat that was Niall. It's not that Niall minded or anything, it's just that this wasn't the best time for her to be unbelievably cute. She was like a little bunny.

"Valerie wake up." Niall pushed again. This time Valerie lifted her head to look at the blonde haired boy. His hair was a mess and his puffy cheeks were perfectly red.

"Niall, I know what you're going to say. And it's a little to late to be trying to sneak out of your room. Look at the time." Niall did as she said. It was around 2 in the afternoon and now that he stopped and listened he could hear the rambunctious boys moving around the flat. Niall let out a sigh, in which Valerie chuckled. After a moment of silence, Valerie rolled over a straddled his waist. Niall's body jolted, Valerie's hand latched onto Niall's shoulder, tightly.

"You don't what them to know?" Valerie asked, her jaw tight and her grip tight on Niall's shoulders. Niall just nodded, a little scare of what his answer might have been if he opened his mouth. Valerie smirked, leaned down to Niall's ear, and nibbled on it a bit. "Then I advise you to never do that again."

"Mm k." Niall nodded still not trusting himself to speak.

"Niall, I'm gonna go take a shower, you're going to stall them long enough for me to leave."

"Or-"

"Or what, Ni."

"Or I could accompany you."

"Does that seem like a good idea?" Valerie asked as she sauntered slowly over to the bathroom door, teasing Niall with her long tanned legs, and how if Niall were to stare long enough, he could get a glimpse of her bum.

"My mind could be a little clouded, right now, but it seems like a perfect idea."

"If you think the outcome will be good, in the long run, then come join me." Valerie walked in the bathroom leaving the door slightly cracked for Niall if he decided to come in. Valerie knew that he wouldn't come in immediately, if he came in at all, though she doubted that too. She doesn't remember what happened last night, but she knows that Niall wouldn't do that to a friend on purpose. He wasn't that kind of person, and Valerie needed someone like that in her life. She needed something stable, whether it was a friends or something more, Niall could be that.

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Zayn stumbled out of his room around two in the afternoon to get something to eat. He noticed that his blonde haired friend hadn't woken up yet, though he did come home late last night. Zayn could hear him and whoever the girl he brought home giggling like teen age girls all night, so no wonder he wasn't up. He pulled out a bowl and poured some cereal, then shuffled to the refrigerator to get some milk. Once he was done he walked over to the couch in the living room and sat down.

There was this tension in the air, caused by mostly Zayn and Liam. It was there as Louis and Harry avoided Zayn's looks, or as Liam couldn't look anywhere, but down at his hands. It was there in the silence that seemed to follow Zayn wherever he went lately. It's been there since Valerie came and left. Zayn missed her. He. Missed. Her. It was so stupid of him to think that Perrie would want him again after all this time. After all Valerie did for him, he just went running back to the girl that broke his heart. How could I be so stupid? Zayn thought to himself as he finished off his cereal. He walked back and was met with a chipper Irish lad and the sound of the shower running. Zayn smirked at Niall.