The Band I Thought I Knew // Liam Payne {Book 1}

Chapter 12

"Joey answer the door!" Bang, Bang, Bang. I slowly rise from the couch and blindly walk out of the living room. I move to the door then finally open my eyes too look out the peephole. All I see is black until I feel around for a light switch to turn on the porch light. I look through the peephole again, I see Jake's face and unlock the door then open it wide.

"Kira?"

"What are you doing here it's like four A-M."

"I have no idea." He giggles. "What are you doing here? This isn't your house." He pushes past me into Joey's house. He turns around to watch me while I shut the door.

"No Joey and I were hanging out and I feel asleep."

"Speaking of Joey where is the bloke?"

"Kira, where did you go?" I hear Joey's deep voice from the couch, the floor creaks as he stands and walks from the dark room into the hallway. "Jake? Bro what are you doing here?"

"I don't know, just thought I would drop in."

"Kira, turn the light on." I walk over to the switches and switch on the one I didn't use justa second ago to see Jake's eyes completely red. The once dark green eyes are now super bright with color, almost like a lime green color. "Jake are you high right now?"

"I don't know man" He giggles again.

"Man what are you doing I thought you quit?"

"I did but I just needed a little pick me up!" He whines before looking in my direction. I don't know why but I feel so exposed to him. I'm not undressed or even remotely undressed and I feel so revealed. "Hey baby, how you doin' everything good?"

"Joey, what's going on why is he like this?"

"You can ask me baby I don't mind."

"Why are you like this?"

"I was smoking what the americans call cannabis. That's what you call it isn't it?"

"Jake this isn't cool. You quit a long time ago, why are you starting again?"

"I told you I needed a pick me up"

"Why what happened?"

"I don't know I just had this moment where everything that has happened to me hit me at once and I needed a reliever of that."

"So you smoked, you idiot, what's wrong with you?"

"Yeah man, maybe you should try it."

"I'm not that stupid. Seriously, go lie down" Joey turns Jake around and starts pushing him toward the stairs. He pushes him up the first few steps before Jake tries to go up them. I don't understand Jake didn't seem like that kind of guy. He seemed so calm and soothing I would have never pegged Jake as the weed kind of guy.

"Stay in bed." Joey groan's groggily. He comes and puts his arm around my shoulders "I'm sorry, I didn't know this was going to happen again." He and I move over to sit on the couch, I lean into his chest and yawn.

"Again?"

"I didn't tell you about this part of his life. He wanted to be independent when he was about seventeen, he moved out and fell into the wrong crowd."

"So he started smoking?" Joey nods his head before he leans his head against mine.

"Jake is a good guy but that time in his life is over now. I don't know what set him off but he will get over it." He yawns out loud before leaning against the arm of the couch. "Just go back to bed and don't worry about it"