“Excuse me? Do you know where the nearest bathroom is?”
I'm about to throw up and I hope this lady can give me some sort of direction.
“No, I'm sorry” she shakes her head as she rushes past me.
As I look through the large clusters of girls I spot Crown Casino. Perfect. I thank myself for wearing my converse sneakers and 'fat jeans' as I bolt to the entrance and try to find the closest bathroom. I can feel last night's consequences rising up and I don't have much time to keep it down.
Just hold it in for one more minute, I think to myself, but my body isn't convinced. Before I can reach the women's bathroom I stop in my tracks and the Fruit Loops I had eaten this morning, along with some milk and a chocolate chip cookie, come flying out of my mouth and onto the guy walking towards me. Shit.
“Ugh, yuck!” I hear him yell in disgust.
I try to say something but the only thing that seems to be escaping my mouth at the moment is vomit.
“I'll just stand here and be your target,” he sarcastically remarks.
“I am so, so, sorry!” I say, tears falling onto my cheeks. As I look up at him I notice his brown eyes even though his hair has changed a bit. “Oh my God, I-”
“Louis! What's taking you so long?” A familiar voice shouts from behind me and I'd recognise it anywhere. I don't dare to look back, I can't.
Louis waves his hand over his clothing, which is now covered in my vomit. He looks down at me with a look of familiarity in his eyes.
“I know you from somewhere,” he says. Crap. “Are you okay?”
“Um, yeah... yeah I'm okay. I have to go,” I rush past him and run towards the women's bathroom. “Sorry again!” I yell out. I couldn't stay knowing that he almost recognised me. Even if he didn't, his friend most definitely would have, I'm certain of it.
Standing in front of the sink, trying to clean my clothes that are covered in the splatter of my vomit, isn't exactly how I planned on spending my afternoon. Any other girl would kill to be in the position that I was in five minutes ago, to be in the presence of Louis Tomlinson, yet I'm standing here wishing it was the exact opposite. I had forgotten that 'the biggest boy band in the world', One Direction, were coming to Australia this month, and my plan to avoid them at all costs seemed to have failed miserably. I didn't exactly think that it would be this easy finding them though. I thought they'd be smart enough to have more security at least.
The doors to the bathroom open as two girls enter, one with bright purple hair and the other a brunette, and my train of thought is broken as I scrub at my black t-shirt, my chest threatening to burst out of the top as I stretch it out.
“Did you not just see Louis covered in vomit? Typical him to be stuck in this situation,” the brunette questions the other. Her accent is quite strong and very British... very much like mine.
“Yeah, that was disgusting. Apparently the girl just ran off too,” the purple-haired girl snickers, and they both laugh together.
I tried to hide the evidence of vomit around me as they both entered separate stalls. I quickly finished cleaning myself up and walked out of the bathroom, only to bump into the familiar frame again.
“Please don't vomit on me again, I just showered,” he joked, a small smile plastered on his face.
I chuckled lightly, and apologised again for that embarrassing encounter. My face suddenly turned to a mixture between sadness and horror.
“Are you feeling okay?” Louis was studying my face, trying to make out my expression.
“Yeah.. Uh, I really have to go,” I tried to squeeze past him but he lightly took hold of my arm and swung me around.
I looked into his eyes and I could tell he was confused, but I couldn't risk being recognised. Not after working so hard to forget the pain that his friend had caused me a few years ago.
“Why do you keep running away from me?” He questioned.
I battled with myself as to which answer was my best option. I was so busy trying to forget the past that I never really thought of the future and what to say if I ever came across him or one of his friends.
“I'm just a really busy girl,” I smile, trying to hide my ridiculous fear.
“Well, you do owe me something seeing as you showered me with your breakfast,” he joked, letting go of my arm and moving out of the way of the bathroom door.
I ponder what to say as I drag my laugh out a little too long. I shouldn't be over-analysing my conversation. Louis isn't going to remember me any time soon.
“I guess I do,” I reply a little too confidently. Before either of us can say anything more, the two girls from the bathroom earlier walk out, still laughing about the incident I'd rather forget.
“Hey, that's her! That's the girl that vomited on you,” the girl with the purple hair laughs as she speaks to Louis, and the other joins. He gives them a smile, and so do I.
“Yep, that's me!” I have nothing else to say now. This is embarrassing. “Anyway, I better get going. I guess I'll see you around,” I say as I give Louis a smile and head off in the opposite direction.
“Uh, yeah... See ya!” He shouts behind me.
As I walk through the busy crowds of girls in the casino, I decide to take a short cut through the gaming area. No doubt they are all on the lookout for One Direction and I'd rather not have to deal with them all screaming one particular name in my face. This short cut proves to be handy until I bump into two slightly taller guys, one of them all too familiar for my liking. As the guy with the blonde hair excuses himself and apologises, my eyes are fixed on the person I had wished I could have avoided, the one with the green eyes, curly hair and the scattered tattoos on his arms.
“Indianna?” he quizzes me. I don't respond, but rather stare at him in awe. All the pain he had seemed to cause me back home was forgotten for a moment as I stared at his perfectly sculpted face, the one I had missed so much.
“Indianna, is that you?” the smile on his face growing as I snap out of my trance and back into reality.
“Uh, yeah... Yeah, it's me Harry,” I fake my smile, remembering what it was like to hear his voice say my name, sounding more beautiful, more hopeful than it did the last time he said it, just over two years ago.
