Like Before (Niall Horan)

Chapter Thirty-One: You'll Be Alone

I wasn't sure how I got home, but I woke up in my own bed. My head was pounding and I felt like a bulldozer just ran over my entire body. I looked around me and saw a couple other heads peeking out from under blankets. I also noticed I was in pajamas which means somebody had changed me. I stood up off my bed and started for the kitchen where I was hoping to make myself some coffee and wake up.

Even after being out until who knows when and not sleeping until who knows what time, I was up at the crack of dawn. It was only like six in the morning when I started making my coffee. At least I'd be ready for school today. "Alix! How was your night?" Tia came running and yelling in the room and my head throbbed.

"It was great." Honestly everything was a little fuzzy. I didn't really remember most of the night after I puked. I really didn't remember a lot after we got into the club.

"Thats so cool! Are you ready for school?" Tia asked me and I looked at her. Wasn't she just a little bottle of energy today?

"Yeah. I just have to get Jaesin and Steph up." I told her taking my cup of coffee and heading upstairs. I literally threw on the first pair of jeans and the first t-shirt I could find, not really caring that my jeans were ripped and probably dirty. "Steph, Jaesin." I found their sleeping heads and I was shaking them to wake up. Jaesin got right up but Steph was moaning in protest. "Steph we have school."

"Not today."

"We have to today. Its the second to last day." 

"Don't care." Steph mumbled. I looked at Jaesin and he made a motion of picking her up and pointing toward the bathroom. I nodded at him so he put one hand behind her head and the other under her knees. He started walking toward the bathroom and laid her back down on the bottom of the tub. Trying not to laugh, I walked over to the faucet and made sure the shower part was on. Then I turned on the cold water only and Steph screamed. "That was really mean." She glared at both Jaesin and I.

"We have school. Lets go or you get a repeat." I smiled at her.

"So hows the hangover?" She asked raising a brow.

"How much did I drink last night?"

"We couldn't really keep track of you. You kept stumbling away from us and getting lost in a ton of people." Jaesin told me. 

"Every time we found you, you had found your way back to the bar." Steph told me and frowned. "Do you even know how many you had?"

"I don't even remember much after being there. I have a vague idea about their being a guy who was feeding me drinks basically and then we were dancing and something happened and he like was gone after that. I remember Niall giving me gum after I puked—which was totally gross by the way—and then I woke up." I told Steph.

"You're missing like a whole chunk." Steph raised a brow at me.

"Yeah well, that chunk is sadly hiding from my brain. Its a little fuzzy. But I can't think about it right now because we have school, which means finals, and then I have to go to work today so I don't have to tomorrow. So get your butts in gear, we leave at seven sharp. Its 6:20 now which means you have forty minutes to do whatever you need to do and then I'm dragging you out of this house." I told them both and turned on my heel to go back downstairs. I had my bag over one shoulder and my shoes in my other hand, dropping them both by the door before going to sit down on the couch in the living room. I shut my eyes for two seconds and when I opened them again, Louis and Niall were staring at me. "Uh, hi guys."

"Do you remember like any of last night?" Louis asked me and I shook my head at him.

"Its all a little hazy. I don't remember very much of it and I really don't have time to think about it at this second. But if you guys would like, feel free to fill me in after I go to school and work and do my homework and practice my speech and worry about making our flight tomorrow and practicing more while we're in Florida and try to have a good time and—"