Differences

Chapter 9

Carley's POV

I woke up and saw Harrys head above me. I was lying down in, a car? Why was I in a car? How did I even get in here? Oh well. "What happened?" I said currently trying to remember. "Looks like someone finally woke up," Harry said looking down at me. I sat up and saw that we were pulling into the parking lot of my favorite pizza restaurant. "Ooh! I love this place!" I said quickly unbuckling my seatbelt and forgetting about my previous question. 

I jumped out of the van and ran inside, like a little kid when their parents bring them to their favorite ice cream parlor. Niall was right behind me obviously liking this place too. "Table for seven please," I told the waitress standing by the front door. "Right this way," she said with an obviously forced smile.

Once we got to our table I immediately sat down and waited for everyone to 'slowly' sit down. Maddie sat next to me and so did Harry. Niall and Louis were almost fighting over who got to sit next to her. After about what seemed like ages Louis finally won and sat next to Maddie while Niall sat across from her.

Everyone picked up their menu and started reading over them while I sat there awkwardly not needing the menu since I already knew what to get. After a few seconds of silence I decided to start a conversation.

"So how did I end up in the van. With you guys?" I asked confused. Everyone tilted their menu down to look at me. "I think the real question is how you became so strong." Harry said. I looked over at Maddie then whispered "how does he know?" She leaned back and looked at me like I was crazy. "He was there when you 'changed'," she said putting air quotes on 'changed'.

"What are you talking about, 'changed'," I said repeating her motions with 'changed'. "She leaned back and just stared at me for some reason.

"What's wrong?" Harry said obviously watching our conversation. "Carley doesn't remember anything about her little 'event'," Maddie said putting air quotes around 'event'. I still had no idea why she kept doing air quotes.

Everyone's jaw dropped. Literally dropped. Was I missing something?

I figured Maddie wanted to explain a little more and I really didn't want to hear it. So I just said that I had to go to the bathroom. I stood up and started walking when I got a terrible pain in my head. I put my hand over the spot and my mouth was wide open like a fish out of water. Harry stood up and almost knocked his chair over. He grabbed my arm and helped me back into my chair and said "what was that?"

My head felt like it was about to explode.

Then it stopped.

I remember the change.

Everyone looked at me like I was going insane until I wrapped my arms around Maddie and said "I'm sorry Maddie. I didn't mean to hurt you. I feel so bad. Please forgive me." I was crying into my best friends shoulder while everyone looked confused.

"It's okay you couldn't do anything about it. I forgive you." Maddie said putting her hands on my shoulder.

I guess everyone eventually caught on because Harry then said "so I'm guessing you remember now?"

"Yes I do and I'm sorry for hurting you," I said blushing. "It's fine it didn't hurt that bad," Harry said while almost everyone rolled their eyes in disbelief. "So you never answered my question. How did you become so strong"