Adopted by Elounor!<3

13. Messages

*Katrina's POV*

I wake up to the sound of birds tweeting in the trees outside my window. It's cute. I sit up, yawn and stretch my arms out as far as they can go and flop back down on my bed. After a few minutes of silence I remember something from last night. I remember it is my birthday. 

Imagine that, someone forgetting their own birthday. How on earth could I have forgotten?! My birthday along with Christmas is my favourite time of the year even though in the orphanage we didn't get many presents for either occasion. 

Which was kinda rubbish but oh well. I wonder if Eleanor and Louis know. I don't think they do.

I thought wrong.

A few minutes later the bedroom door bursts open and I jump about 3 feet in the air. Everyone is here, the boys, the girls and Tia. They all crowd around my bed. In the middle of all of that I noticed that El has a cake in her hands. It is AMAZING. 

It was a normal cake with a picture of us iced onto the top. Everyone started to sing happy birthday to me. I am unsure of where to look so I just kept my eyes on the floor, I mean where do I look. It's so awkward making eye contact with anyone. They finish and cheer while I blow the candles out. 

"How did you know it was today?" I ask Eleanor. "It was on your files. Come downstairs, we have some things for you." Her smile widens as she said that. I get a bit curious so I get out of bed and rush downstairs. As I am going down, a thought crosses my head. 

I am now 18 years old. I feel no different to how I was yesterday, but now I am eighteen!

I get downstairs to the living room where everyone already is as they has taken the other set of stairs. We all get in a circle after they had each grabbed their gift out of a bag. 

Eleanor and Louis give me theirs first. It is wrapped in black starry wrapping paper. Inside is a black rectangle shaped box. I open the box and inside is an iPhone 4s. 

My eyes widen and I take in what I am seeing. I jump off the floor and run over to hug Lou and El. I hug them as tightly as I can and whisper in Lou's ear, "I love it."

 Next is Perrie and Zayn, they have gotten me a cool t-shirt that says 'I am smiling because I have no idea what is going on" and a picture of a minion grinning as wide as it can. "I love it guys" I laugh as I hug them.

 The other presents were a doughnut maker from Harry, a towel with the Irish flag on it from Niall, Mario Kart for the Wii from Liam, a big selection of smelly stuff from Jesy and Jade and a huge basket of sweets, cookies and chocolates from Leigh-Anne. 

~6 hours later~

It is now around 4pm. Harry is cooking us some Spaghetti, my favourite. He said it would be ready in about an hour. To pass the time me, the boys and the girls are playing Mario Kart on the Wii. It is so fun. Right now, I'm racing against Perrie, Liam and Jesy. I don't know who is winning at the moment because i'm too sucked up in concentration on the actual racing.

 Liam has absolutely no idea what he is doing. He is constantly falling off cliffs, running into rocks and slipping on bananas. I swerve right to avoid a huge rock then swerve left to avoid plunging into a river. After a few laps of that crazy driving, the race was finished and the results are in.

The board said:

Perrie: 1st

Kat: 2nd

Jesy: 3rd

Liam: 4th

I hear a cheer from Perrie we all laugh at her gently. We all came off the Wii so other people could play. To pass the time I go upstairs and get Lou's laptop so I can check my Twitter.

Over the few days I wasn't online I have gained another 2million followers, which to me, was a LOT. I also have a few thousand messages. I scan through them quickly but one caches my eye. It reads: 'Stay away from Niall. He is mine and will always be. If I see you with him again you are going to wish you were dead. I'm watching you. Closely.'

It takes me by surprise a bit. I clutch my stomach and look around my room. The laptop beeps meaning I have received another message. I look at the screen. This one says: 'You feeling alright there? You're looking a bit pale. Don't bother looking, you won't find me. I'll make sure of it.'

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~The Next Day~

I'm sitting here thinking. About the messages. I'm still trying to figure out who sent them. I was not sure if should tell one of the boys. I ponder over the thought for a moment and decided to tell one of them. I went through them to decide which one to tell.

Louis would freak out and never let me out of his sight

Harry would never let anyone go near me

Liam would go over protective brother on me

Zayn would just go all 'OhMyGod! What do we dooooooo?!'

Niall would probably comfort me and help get to the bottom of this.

I decide to go with Niall. He would be the best to tell. I jump off my bed and run down the corridor in record time. I knock on Niall's door and I hear rustling. A few seconds later the door opens. Niall sticks his head out the door as if to check who it is. 

When he sees it is me he takes a step back and opens the door all the way before inviting me in. Once we have sit down and gotten comfortable I pull him into a hug. He seems surprised but softens up when he hears me crying a little. 

He pulls me back a bit so he can see my face. There is tear streaks slowly running down them. I look down, "I just do-onn't know wha-hat to do Ni-i-i-all" I stutter out to him. 

He holds me then asks me "What are you talking about?" He looks very worried. I wipe my eyes and grab my phone out of my pocket and hand it to him. 

He reads the messages and just sits there for a minute afterwards. I frown. "Say something Niall, please." 

He looks up at me. "We need to find out who done this."

Just then I get another text. Niall hands my phone to me. It's that number again. This time though, the text says, 'I told you to stay away from him. And you will find out who I am soon enough.'

I gasp and feel my face go pale. Niall's eyes widen and he hugs me. He also grabs my phone out of my hands and reads the message. "Oh dear, this is bad."

"You think?" I say in disbelief. He chuckles. 

"How can you laugh at a time like this? I have my own stalker."

He sits there for a moment. "You want to go out and get some food?"

I immediately perk up and nod vigorously. He laughs for real this time and I smile after wiping my face. He has a beautiful laugh. 

Well, I don't know if you can call a laugh beautiful but, hey ho. I just did. We grab all of our stuff before letting everyone else where we were going. They give us some requests of what they want  and we write them down in a list. He ushers  me out of the house and into the car.

~20 mins later~

We are at Nandos. The food here is nice, according to Niall anyways. I have only had the plain chicken burger from here. 

There are only a few other people here, an old guy, a young couple and a woman sitting alone at a table wearing sunglasses, inside may I add, looking as if she is waiting for someone as she kept looking at her watch.

 I keep feeling like someone is staring at me. I keep looking around expecting some dude to be staring at me. But no one was, weird. I received another message: 'Looking won't help. I am the last person you expect me to be.' I was freaked out by that one.

~10mins later~

We have received the food and are on our way out. We were about to get in the car when the woman that was at the table alone came up to us. 

She looked around 18-19yrs old, had brown mid-length hair with blue dip dyed ends and chocolate brown eyes, like mine. She just stared and said "The names Summers, Lizzie Summers."