Downfall [lwt]

Chapter Four - Another World

We got into their car and might I say that their car is the nicest car ever. It has the inside of a mini van but the outside looks a bit like a range rover. "Nice car..." I mutter as Louis laughs at my reaction. Harry is in the driver's seat, Niall is in the front seat with Harry, Liam is in the back seat, and Louis and I are squished into the very back of the car.

 I don't want to ask Louis all of these questions that I have had for years but it's like aching inside of me. "Are you alright?" Louis asks noticing I'm squirming around. 

At least he can take a hint... 

"Well I have all these questions but I don't want to bombard you." I admit.

"Go ahead." Louis shrugs.

"Do you like being famous and having people always take pictures of you?"

"You get used to it, I guess. Have any other questions?" 

I'm glad he didn't think I was crazy by asking that. 

"What would you be doing if you weren't famous?" 

He twitches a bit and starts thinking.

"You don't have to-"

"I would probably be a football player." 

I guess he means soccer. 

"That's cool, I guess." I smile.

"Hey, are you two done? We're at the restaurant and I'm starving!" Niall calls. I look up from Louis' dazzling blue eyes and see that everyone has left the car and is just awkwardly standing.

We get out of the car and walk into the restaurant where it looks extremely fancy. We were seated at a table and Niall was to the right of me and Louis was to the left of me. I shifted a bit awkwardly in my seat when the waitress came. She apparently knew Pierced Direction before they were famous and laughed at how they all have tattoos. 

"Long time no see, huh Louis?" She smirks.

He rolls his eyes and says, "Are you going to take our order or not, Andrea?"

"Fine, what do you guys want?" She places our order and that leaves the five of us to talk amongst ourselves. I feel a little awkward in jeans and vans while there are people at the restaurant in tuxes and dresses.

Louis Tomlinson

God, why did we have to come here? Out of all places, the boys KNOW I specifically avoid this place because of Andrea. 

I notice Bella shifting around in her chair and I stretch my arm over her shoulder. It wasn't more of that old school kind of thing where the guy yawns and stretches his arm, I just kind of did it. She turns to me and smiles, relaxing a bit.

After we're done eating we head out to sight see. "Sorry, guys! I have to meet Danielle in a few minutes so you're on your own to shop. Be back at the apartment by no later than 6PM and it's 1PM now!" Liam says jogging off to a random store.

We all shrug and make plans of where to meet up. "Okay, so Niall and I are going to go check out some shops so I guess that leaves you and Louis, is that alright Bella?"

"Yeah, that sounds cool." I say smiling. Louis shoots a smile back and I literally feel like I am about to melt.

"We'll meet back at the Apartment, sound fair enough?" Niall asks. We all nod and go our separate ways.

"Where do you want to go first?" 

 "Let's go in here!" I gesture to a girly store as Louis groans and whines that he doesn't want to go in there. After a few stores we come across one with sweatshirts. At the check out the lady who is a little older than us says,

"Aw aren't you a cute couple." 

My cheeks redden as it goes silent as Louis tries to buy my sweatshirt. I push his hand away and try to give the lady my money. Louis bumps me and the lady gladly accepts his money earning a scowl from me and a smirk from him.

We walk out and put them on and I can't help think about if this is a dream or not.

"What do you want to do now? We only killed three hours."

"Let's go to this park." I say dragging him to a bench. After a few minutes of silence Louis speaks up. 

"I'm sorry I freaked out when you were in our apartment."

"I-It's okay. I understood where you were coming from. Having a random girl in your apartment..." I shake my head at my choice of words.

"Well you haven't fangirled yet, so I think we're good."

I smiled as we talk some more. "Who did you live with, growing up? Because I'm pretty sure you knew I only lived with my mum." He states. 

I'm not a mega-super fan... I actually didn't know that. I retort back in my head. 

"I used to live with my dad. He's gone now so for the last two years I had lived with Zayn..."

"Do you have a crush on Zayn?" Louis blurts out. He smacks his mouth and his eyes become wide.

"I think he has a crush on me, but the feeling is platonic." 

He smiles and says, "Good." 

How am I supposed to answer that? 

I nod a little wearily and he checks his phone. "Liam wants us back a little earlier than expected... I forgot we have sound-check, want to come to our show?" Louis offers.

I was actually going anyways. Duh.

"Yeah, I was actually going to go anyways. I have tickets." I smile as he helps me stand up. "Well I have back stage passes and front row tickets?" Oh no. I am NOT taking those. 

They must have cost a fortune. Well, not to Louis of course because he gets everything for free. But they matter way more to someone else than they do for me.

"Don't bother saying no." He shoves me the tickets in my hands as I am frozen in awe. Maybe I should trade with someone else, to let them have a chance?

"And don't try anything on me, Bella. I'll be checking to make sure you're there." He winks and leads me back to the apartment building. 

Great.