Midnight

Chapter 2:

I wake up the next morning from Kelly throwing a pillow at me.

"Shut your damn phone off my head hurts!" She grumbles. I roll over and unplug my phone. Of course my mother is calling me. I glance at the time, expecting it to be like 6 in the morning but in reality it's almost one in the afternoon.

"Yes?" I whisper into the phone.

"Why are you whispering?" Her voice was loud. I yank my phone away from my ear with a jolt before turning the volume down.

"Hold on a sec," I put my phone down and pull my hair into a bun. I keep on my Sophie shorts and baggy Patriots shirt. Before walking out of the room I slip on a bra under my shirt. "Ok what do you need?"

"Don't be snappy with me. It's not polite. Now why were you whispering." She demands. I begin to walk down the stairs as I explain.

"Cause my roommate has a han-" I quickly stop and correct myself. "Headache. She says she gets them quite often."

"Only when she drinks too much. Which now that I think about it is quite often." A British accent says as I reach the bottom of the stairs.

"She does what! You-" my mother begins.

"Sorry mom I gotta go! Call you later! Love you bye!" I quickly hang up.

"Mother troubles?" I turn to find Harry leaning on the counter of the kitchen. His hair was a curly mess of sleep atop his head. He wore the same black shirt and skinny jeans he did last night. Did he sleep here? I look around the couch area to find a bunch of sleeping people.

"No. But I do now thank you very much." I mumble and walk over to the fridge. I open it only to remember that I haven't bought anything to put in it yet. With a sigh I close it.

"Glad to help. Belle right?" He pours himself a glass of water and sips it.

"Izzy." I correct him.

"Well Izzy is short for Isabel correct?"

"Yes."

"And Belle is also short for Isabel. Correct?"

"I suppose..."

"So technically I am right." He says in smug triumph.

"I guess so... No one calls me Belle though."

"Good. I will enjoy being the only one." He smirks.

Well alrighty then. I then realized that I also don't have coffee and have a small panic attack within my head.

"Well it was nice talking to you but I've got a mission." I grab one of the keys to the house out of the drawer under the microwave.

"A mission?"

"For coffee and food. But mostly coffee," I slip on some flip flops. "See you later."

"I doubt it. Whatever."

The mood in the room changed within a matter of seconds. I was gonna ask him if I did something to offend him but when I look back him and Hannah are intensely making out.
And exit stage Izzy.

I put my headphones in and began my walk to the small shopping center right off campus that I went to all the time last year. I walk into a small coffee shop and as soon as I open the door someone calls for me.

"Izzy!"

I look around to find one of my closest friends who I haven't seen all summer, cause she was traveling.

"Megan! I see you still have all ten fingers!"

She holds up all ten fingers and wiggles them before flipping me off. I run up to her and we did our handshake that we made up when we were younger. We failed horrible at it.

"We should just sit down I think we have embarrassed ourselves enough." I laugh and we sit.

We talk for hours before I decide I better get home and get ready for classes that start tomorrow. But first I stop by the grocery store and pick up some necessity's.

When I get back all the people are gone and the house is clean. Kelly is standing in the kitchen, well more like leaning.

"Look who is finally up." I say and put labels my stuff before putting it away.

"Shhhh. Don't be so loud." She whispers.

"Where is everyone else?" I look around.

"Marie, Jane and Abby are out shopping. And Jackie is, well I don't know." Perrie says as she enters the kitchen.

"Who?"

"Our other roommates." Perrie smiles.

"I really should get to know them."

"Nothing special. You two are more my type." Perrie shrugs. I don't know why but that made me feel much better about myself.

"Thanks. Now if you will excuse me I'm going to hurl." Kelly says and runs up the stairs.

It's a pretty nice place when I think about it. Each of the four bedrooms upstairs have their own bathroom inside plus one connected inside the TV room downstairs.

"I see you went shopping." Perrie says and opens the fridge.

"Yup. Fair warning: touch my food and I will kill you."

"Don't worry I am the same way." She says.

"Ok well I better go get ready for tomorrow." I say as I walk upstairs. I pack my backpack first then plan out my outfit for the next day. I like to plan out everything so I can sleep more in the mornings.

I go downstairs looking for Perrie or Kelly to see if they wanted to go get something to eat but found not only them but Zayn, Harry, Hannah and Louis.

"Pizza?" Perrie offers.

"It's like you read my mine." I grab a slice from her and sit at the end of the table next to Louis. I could have sat next to Harry on the other side but he seemed mad earlier so I didn't risk it.

"So are you new to this college?" Zayn asks me.

"Nope. I was here last year. Although I was on the other side of campus and didn't come over here often."

"So still fresh meat?" Harry says.

"I guess you could say that."

"Harry leave her alone. She is too good for you." Kelly says. I couldn't stop a small smile from spreading across my face. The weird part was that a smile appeared on Harrys face too.

I shift uncomfortably in my seat before looking him up and down. He is pretty buff, but I bet I can take him.

"Like what you see?" Harry raises his eyebrows.

"What's that tattoo?" I pointed to the tattoos peaking out of the collar his shirt. It honestly wasn't what I was looking at but I wasn't gonna tell him that I was sizing him up incase I need to fight him.

"Someone is curios," his expression is playful. "But I'm afraid that's confidential."

"They're sparrows." Hannah cuts in.

"Way to take the mystery out of it." Harry turns to her.

"What do you care? She could go yell it in the streets and I guarantee someone within a mile radius will know." Hannah snaps. Woh, someone is having relationship issues.

"Well, anyways...." Kelly says, taking the attention off the couple glaring at each other. "This is sort of the party side of campus so, don't be surprised if you come home on a Monday and there is a party."

"It's fine. Just please don't let people in our room."

"No we don't let people up on the third floor." Perrie explains.

"NO I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANYMORE EXCUSES!" A girls voice booms from downstairs.

"Jackie is home." Perrie mutters. A tan girl with black hair runs up the stairs and continues past us and up the other stairs.

"So that's another roommate of ours?" I ask.

"Yes. She is a complete drama queen. Not that I'm judging." Kelly takes a bite of her pizza. Perrie leans and whispers something in Zayn's ear and they both let out a small laugh.

"What?" Kelly asks.

"I will tell you two later." Perrie says to me and Kelly.

"What about me?" Louis whines. Zayn leans over and whispers into Louie's ear then Louislet out a small laugh.

"Well is someone gonna tell me?" Hannah says.

"Nope wasn't planning on it." Louis smiles.

"It was about me wasn't it?" She glares at Perrie.

"No. I would never whisper rude things about you." Perrie put on an innocent face.

"I don't know why I hang out with you people." Hannah says as she gets up and leaves.

"Well go after her, Harry." Kelly says.

"Not gonna happen. She just wants attention. That is not my job."

"Some boyfriend you are." I comment. Harry nearly spits up the water he was drinking.

"Boyfriend? I am most certainly not her boyfriend."

Relief flowed through me.

"Plus Harry doesn't date." Zayn adds in and nudges Harry with his elbow.

And just like that, the relief gets sucked out of me and replaced by hopelessness.

"Well someone seems to have a reputation." I observe. It's a pity too, he is hot.

"Well someone should go make sure she doesn't end up getting raped in an ally." Perrie says.

"Oh come on now. It's Hannah, it wouldn't be rape, she would want it as much as the rapist." Harry comments.

"Harry!" Perrie says and throws her wadded up napkin at threw it at him.

"Real mature. I'm out of here." Harry grumbles and get up.

"That's right go run after her." Zayn chuckles.

"Fuck off I'm not going after her." Harry spits.

"Ya but you two will somehow end up in bed together." Louis says.

"What can I say. She is good in bed," Harrys mood changes as a smirk spreads across his face. "I bet you are too." He stares at me.

"I bet you are never gonna find out." I reply.

"I like a challenge." He licks his bottom lip before leaving.

"Don't do it." Perrie warns me.

"Oh come on. It's basically like an initiation onto this side of campus." Kelly interjects.

"An initiation for sluts." Zayn adds.

"Which basically sums up this side of campus." Kelly points out.

"But Izzy isn't a slut." Perrie says.

"That we know of." Kelly smiles.

"Oh you know she isn't! And you know she shouldn't sleep with Harry!"

"I know she isn't a slut but I still think she should."

"Do I have a say in this?" I interject. Both of them say: "No." At the same time.

I honestly wouldn't sleep with him, unless we were dating, but he doesn't date, so that takes care of that issue.

But I don't know, something about him intrigues me and makes me want to know more. Damn him. I can already tell this isn't going to end well.

After we finish eating we all watch some TV before the guys leave and I go to bed. First day of classes tomorrow, ugh.