"Hello?" I peer around the corner of the wall to see a redheaded girl with extremely bright blue eyes. "Raye!" The girl looks surprised that I know who she is. I go over to her and hug her tightly. She hugs back. "I'm really sorry. About everything. Niall told me, it must be really hard." Raye looks about to cry, but she nods. "Oh my God, I'm sorry. If you don't want to talk, it's fine." I feel extremely guilty.
"oh, no, no it's fine. It's just.... you guys all seem so nice. No one's ever been this nice to me." Raye says. I sit down on the couch and gesture to the seat besides me. She obeys. "That was the same reaction I had when i first met the boys and El. No one had ever befriended me so quickly." Raye nods in sympathy, and turns her head so I can see a huge scar. "This is total proof of that."
I gasp. "Oh, God, what happened?"
"Well, when I was 15, I had this boyfriend. Sawyer, his name was. He... wasn't like anyone else. He had issues at home with his parents, and his mental health wasn't that great. One day, he just took it out on me, I guess. Hit me hard, so hard I was in the hospital for 6 months. I just... I felt so bad for him, felt like somehow I could help him, make his life better, because I knew what it was like for one parent to abandon you. So I didn't fight back."
It's silent in the room for a moment, until I wrap my arms around her. "I'm sorry. I know what it's like." I take my arms away and lean back on the couch. Harry opens the door suddenly, chewing on a piece of beef jerky.
"Oh... um, hi, guys. What're you doing here?"
My eyebrows raise. "Harry, this is Zayn and me's hotel room."
"Oh. It is? I was looking for Niall. There was this girl ther-."
"Harry, before you say anyrhing stupid, that girl's sitting right here."
His eyes widen. "Oh... um... I just wanted to say... sorry for that first impression last night. I mean, it's not every night I dress up like Miley Cyrus and-."
Raye starts to giggle. "I didn't exactly make a great first impression with everyone either. Honestly, it's fine. At least you were funny. My impression consisted of complete strangers staring at me while I cried. But, you know, life goes on."
Harry smiles at that. Then his eyebrows furrow. "You're Irish?" Raye nods. "Oh my God. You're that, that GIRL."
She stifles a laugh. "Um, yeah, I'm a girl."
"No, I mean... wait, has Niall told you the truth yet?"
Raye nods. "And if he hasn't, you pretty much did." I tell Harry accusingly.
He smiles sheepishly. "Okay, I just wanted to apologize. I'll.... see ya around?"
We both nod. "Bye!"
Raye's POV
I'm sitting on my bed in the hotel room, taking 80,000 selfies and deleting them all. Then I try again. I'm smiling up at the camera on my iPhone when someone clears their throat. I jump and whirl around. "Oh..... sorry. I was juat trying to take and Instagram selfie." I mumble, thinking it's one of the boys. But it's not. It's Perrie. "Hehe, that's okay, Zayn walks in on me doing tha all the time. We were all wondering... maybe you'd want to come to dinner with us? And then the girls- Danielle, El, and I- thought we'd go shopping. Christmas shopping."
I stare at her in disbelief. I hadn't gone out since... since Sawyer. I was ready to have some fun.
"Sure!" I say, and glide off the bed to go get ready.
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