Summer Love

part thirtyfour

Lauren’s POV

He was dressed as a vampire, his shirt was ripped, so I could see his toned torso and almost see his butterfly tattoo. I’m pretty sure he saw me practically drooling over him because when I looked up he was smirking at me. I walked past him and straight to Emily, who was obviously with Niall. I greeted the rest of the boys and the girls, and for the first time ever Louis was quiet, the sarcastic thought; hmm wonder why that was? Went running through my mind. “I wanna get drunk!” I heard Niall call, I ran over “Me too!” I saw Harry shaking his head out of the corner of my eye. Niall and I ran over to the bar and got many, many shots for us all. The others only had one or two so the rest were left for me and Niall. “You know what? You need to forgive Harry man!” He slurred in my ear “Maybe Niall maybe!”

Harry’s POV

Lauren and Niall were smashed; watching them down shots is the most fun I’ve had all night considering the rest was spent watching Lauren all over Sam, least she isn’t with him anymore, “Mate! Mate!” Niall came running up to me “She said she might forgive you! I say, go look after her when she is too drunk and she’ll have to forgive you!” He was jumping around like a 5 year old child. She probably wouldn’t want me near her when she was drunk; I know she seems to get very honest and confident when she has had a few. I stayed sober the whole night but Lauren on the other hand is a completely different story. She wasn’t avoiding me anymore and sometimes I swear I saw her smile at me, which was an odd sight. By the end of the night Emily was taking care of Niall, all the couples were together and Lauren was sat in a booth by herself, slumped over, downing shots, she looked like she could pass out any minute. “I think it’s time you went home don’t you love?” She shook her head, exaggerating her movement. Emily came up to me, looking back at Niall every few minutes, “Niall keeps saying he wants to have a ‘sleepover’ at ours, could you help me get him and Lauren home please.” I was quite weary about this. But then Emily did puppy dog eyes and I couldn’t refuse.

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Emily drove us back to hers and Lauren’s apartment, “You can stay tonight Harry, we have a spare room.” I just wished things were like a few days ago, I would have stayed with Lauren and everything would have been great, but I had to open my big mouth didn’t I. “That’ll be great, thanks.” Lauren and I were sat in the back, her head rested on my shoulder. This wasn’t like when she was drunk before, she was quiet this time, the complete opposite of what I thought I would be dealing with. I helped her get up the stairs and when we got in she ran off to her room to get in her pyjamas. It had been a while so I went to check on her. She was sat on the middle of her bed with her head in hands, looking like she was crying. “Lauren, are you okay?” Her head shot up, clearly surprised by my presence, she slightly sniffled before answering “Yeah I’m fine thanks,” she smiled up at me but I could tell it was fake. I went and sat across from her, “Hey what’s wrong?” Now I was closer I could see she wasn’t crying but she wasn’t far off it. “You.” Wow, that hit me like a ton of bricks. I could tell by her voice she was upset. “What do you mean?” She hadn’t really said how she felt about this whole thing, she’d been keeping her guard up whenever we spoke about it, or at least whenever I spoke about it. “I want to forgive you, you make me happy, but I can’t and I shouldn’t, not yet anyway, you hurt me, really badly, I thought you were different, I know you said you didn’t mean it but that is what everyone says.” Her voice almost went, I could see her eyes filling with tears and for once I saw her vulnerable, I mean really vulnerable, she looked so hurt. “If we are gonna work this out it will take time.” I wasn’t sure if I should believe her or if it was just the drink talking but either way I was just happy she wasn’t avoiding me anymore. “We’ll take it slow then, because I don’t want to lose you.”

“I don’t want to lose you either,” Finally I was reassured her feelings for me were still there.