ALIVE [H.S]

Thirty seven

"Where are your parents?" Niall asked.

We all sat down at the kitchen table and she took out some glasses and poured vodka in each glass and we passed them down until we all had a glass in our hand. She sat down next to Louis and I was sitting across from her.

"They moved to Spain and kept this place for the holidays." She said and took a sip of her drink.

"Then what are you doing here?" I asked.

Her eyes shot up at me and I saw that she was thinking about something.

"I had to pick up some stuff." She said and turned back to her glass.

I knew everyone felt a bit uncomfortable and when I looked around the table I noticed everyone was staring at me except for her. She couldn't look at me. I widened my eyes and stiffened my lips silently telling them to stop fucking staring at me. They all looked back at their glasses except for Niall. He was staring at me furiously and I knew what he was thinking.

I felt horrible about what I did back then especially because she had never done anything to me. I had erased the tape right after we had left the pub that day, hoping it would also erase the guilty feeling I had about it, but it didn't.

After we had all finished our drinks in silence the boys went back upstairs to go to bed and I was left here alone with her.

"You can take the couch. I'll sleep in the car." I said as I got up and put my glass down on the table. She nodded still staring at her glass and I turned around to walk away.

"I know that you regret what happened, Harry." I suddenly heard her soft voice and I turned around. "But you don't know the damage you've done in spite of how much you regret it." She said and I heard her voice break.

"Look Diana, I wasn't.." I started but she cut me off.

"My parents saw that tape." She said and she finally looked up at me.

I saw the tears in her eyes. I didn't want to care too much. I wanted to let this go and not have to be confronted with it ever again, but she shoved it right in my face.

"How? I never send or showed it to anyone." I said.

I didn't understand how that could be possible. I deleted the tape pretty much the next day.

"I don't know how, but they saw it and they kicked me out. Said I was a disgrace to the family." She scoffed and refilled her glass with more vodka.
I pulled my seat back and sat back down.

"I really don't know what to say to you." I said embarrassed.

I wanted to go to sleep because I really wasn't in the mood for this, but I didn't want to hurt her feelings again, so I stayed put.

"It's fine don't worry about it." She said and she gulped down the whole drink at once.

"What happened to you? We heard you were shipped off to boarding school."
I said.

She looked up at me and laughed. "Yeah because what happened after that was even more disgraceful and my parents had to make up a lie to protect our family name." She said and I noticed the anger in her voice.

"So if you didn't go to boarding school, where the fuck did you go?" I asked.

"I ran off with Jason, Harry. He was there for me after that whole thing with you and I was desperate for some comfort so I left with him." She said.

"But Jason was in school that year and you weren't." I was confused.
If she had run off with Jason then why was he in school the entire time?

"I'm tired. Can we talk about this in the morning?" She said and she got up from her seat.