Catfish: Two People Already in Love

Chapter 7

I sigh in relief as I finally enter the lobby lugging Lux and my carryon bag. Tom walks behind Lou and I pushing a luggage cart. As we enter the elevator Niall rushes in just as the doors close. He squeezes past Tom and Lou to stand close to me. The other people in the elevator mutter excitedly about him. He “accidentally” bumps into me as he moves around.

“Sorry miss.” He whispers looking down in my eyes. Lou and Tom move to us blocking the other passengers from seeing anything but our heads. He discretely puts his arm around my waist his hand landing on my hip. I look at Lou and smile beginning a conversation with her about Lux as Niall and Tom talk about sports. As we near our stop Niall squeezes my hip and lightly hugs me to his side before releasing me. When the doors slide open I hurry out past Lou and Tom and head towards my room. Lux was staying with me while I rested and got over getting up so early. Yawning I slide my key in the door and push the door open. I hold it waiting for Tom. He hurries in and drops my bags next to the window before waving goodbye. I lay Lux down and place pillows around her so she won’t roll off the bed. I yawn and walk to the bathroom. I use the bathroom and as I come out my door opens. I scrunch my eyebrows and wait. Niall’s grinning face appears around the edge of the door. I smile and quickly pull him into the room and close the door. He leans down and kisses me quickly.

“How’d you get in here?” I ask wrapping my arms around his waist. He grins and points to the baggage cart behind him.

“This is my room too.” He says grinning. “It’s connected to Liam’s right next door and I’ll leave out of there when we go anywhere. Paul figured that we would want at least some privacy while we are traveling so this will be the situation the every time we go to a new city we are going to be sharing a hotel room.”

I smile and he leans down kissing my lips and pushing me up against the wall. I push him away giggling.

“There’s a baby in the room! You need to wait! Plus I’m tired!” I whine and he chuckles.

“Come on princess lets sleep.” He says kissing my forehead. I smile and he pulls me over to the bed. I gently scoop Lux up and hold her to my chest and lay down with my back to Niall. I feel him scoot over so we are spooning. I giggle softly and I feel him smile into my hair as he wraps an arm around the both of us. I smile and close my eyes leaning into Niall and fall asleep.

I feel someone tugging on my hair and my eyes flutter open to see a grinning giggling Lux. She pats my face and tugs my hair some more. I laugh and set up looking around for Niall. I frown and stand up placing Lux on my hip. I kick my slippers off and trudge into the hallway. I glance around trying to remember which room Lou and Tom were staying in. I shrug and walk down the hall and knock on a random door. I hear someone fumbling around and the door flings open to reveal a disheveled Zayn.

“Oh hey Cheyanna. What’s up?” He asks yawning.

“Oh I’m sorry did I wake you?” I ask as Lux squirms around reaching for Zayn. He chuckles and pulls her from my arms.

“Yea but it’s cool. Hey Lux how are you?” He says tickling her. She giggles and squirms around. I laugh.

“I couldn’t remember what room Lou and Tom were in.” I say sheepishly.

“So you knocked on a random door?” He says laughing.

“yeah. With the hope that it was one of you guys.” I say grinning. “well at least 4 out of the five.”

“yea. Harry was really out of line. I don’t know what happened. He seemed to like you that morning I wonder what happened.”

“People change their minds all the time. He just changed his mind about me.” I say with a shrug.

“It was still out of line Chey. He knew how much Niall cared about you and he had to go and be a douche. He could have kept it to himself.” I just nod.

“I’ll take her to Lou and Tom you go back to your room and get some rest sweet cheeks.” He says with a laugh. He kisses my cheek and walks off down the hall talking animatedly to Lux. I smile and walk back to my room. I turn the handle and it’s locked I groan when I realize I left my key card in my room. I lean against the door and slide down it to the floor. I start humming to myself to get rid of my boredom. Soon I start flat out singing all the Katy Perry songs I know. A door opens down the hall and I glance over to see Harry standing in the hall glaring at me.

“Can you please shut up. I’m trying to sleep.” He snarls. I cower away from him pulling my knees to my chest and looking away from him. “that’s what I thought.” He slams the door and I turn glaring at his door and make the most rash decision I’ve ever made. I start singing at the top of my lungs. I hear his door fling open and hit the wall he stalks towards me and I press myself against the door as flat as I can. He stoops down and grabs my jaw roughly squeezing tightly. I yelp in pain as he yanks my face up forcing me to look at him. “If you don’t shut up I’ll make you shut up.” He growls.

“Harry you’re hurting me.” I whimper as he squeezes my jaw hard and shoves me against the wall causing me to whack my head on the wall. I yelp loudly and collapse to the floor tears brimming in my eyes. I hear his door slam closed again and I lay there on the floor for a moment. Trying to calm down but I can’t and then I remember Liam is next door. I set up slowly and crawl towards his door. Tears pouring down my face I pound my fists on the door repeatedly until Liam flings it open in aggravation.

“What do you – Oh my god Chey what happened?” he says dropping to his knees beside me taking my face in his hands. “Your jaw oh lord Niall’s going to be pissed.” He stands up and leans down to scoop me up. He holds me close as I cry and sets down on the bed with me. As my sobbing slows he sets me on the bed. “I’m going to call Niall ok?” I nod and scoot back on the bed. Rolling onto my side and curling into a ball with my back to him I stare at the wall tuning him out. Minutes later Niall busts through the door between our rooms yelling causing me to scream and jump up and scoot to the top of the bed trembling. Niall freezes and stares at me his face emotionless. I’m sure I look like a mess red puffy eyes tear stained face red probably purple jaw. Then suddenly he’s gone. My eyes widen and I tumble off the bed shoving past Liam and stumble into the hall as Harry’s door opened. Niall’s fist connects with his nose with a sickening crunch and a scream rips from my throat. Niall continues to punch him.

“Niall Stop!” Liam yells running forward as other doors open throughout the hall the other two boys and Paul come running down the hall. Niall pulls him up by his shirt and points at me.

“Look what you did to her. Look. How could you. You’re such a piece of shit Harry. Stay away from her.” He snarls and shoves Harry to the ground. Harry was staring at me in shock. I start to walk towards him as Niall makes his way to me. He reaches for me and I swerve around him. Everyone watches on silently as I make my way to Harry. He watches me carefully. I crouch down next to him.

“I’m sorry.” I whisper staring into his eyes. “I’m sorry that you don’t like me and that Niall punched you. I forgive you but I can’t do that without apologizing for my part in it. Bye Harry.” I stand up and walk back to Niall. He opens our door and we disappear. As soon as the door is closed he wraps his arms around me. I hug him tightly throwing my arms around his neck.

“thank you. No one has ever stood up for me like that. I’m still upset that you hit Harry because the paparazzi will have a field day with that. But thank you.” I whisper and lean up to kiss him. He smiles and kisses me lightly.

“they’ll just say he broke it boxing.” He says chuckling. I roll my eyes and relax into his arms hoping that life will straighten out at some point.