Midnight Memories [One Direction AU]

01. HANGOVER

A grumpy set of young adults awoke to painful headaches and remnants of what the night before had held. All most of them could remember were smoking plenty of pot and drinking gallons of vodka. 

They all woke to a shrill alarm drilling through their brains and let out synchronized groans of agony which caused the youngest to topple off her respective sofa and land on another unsuspecting being. 

"For fucks sake Roo, what are you playing at?" Zayn groaned as Ruby clambered off his stomach where she had landed. 

"Oh shit sorry Z." Ruby gushed and tried to stable herself on both of her feet. "Heidi's fucking alarm startled me."

"Well sorry for waking you all up in time for classes," Heidi made a sarcastic comment from the other end of the room where she was sprawled across a large area of floor. 

"What classes?!" This was when Liam awoke from his slumber and sat up a bit too harshly. "Shit, that hurt my head."

"How hungover are you? It's Monday, most of us have classes," Heidi rolled her eyes at the boy who was stupidly intoxicated the previous night. 

"Oh shit, I thought it was Sunday again," Liam grumbled and fell back into the swamp of his cushions.

"Good morning!" A peppy Pip entered the room, dressed in her usual attire of jeans and a slogan covered sweater. "You're going to need pills for them headaches and more motivation because class starts in like half an hour and you all stink so the shower's going to be clogged."

Louis sat up with his hair sticking up in all the wrong angles and winked at Pip. "We could shower together if you wanted?" He asked and received a clap on the back of his head from Harry.

"Nice try, I've already had one," Pip raised her thin brows and laughed.

She threw out packets of pills for the groaning ones who were in no mood to sit there and listen to droning professors. She also threw numerous pieces of bread into their battered toaster and rummaged for old jars of 'Nutella'. 

A large bang alerted Indie (who had reached the shower first) that something was not quite as it was meant to be and the loud "fucking hell" which Pip shouted was all the more conformation so she rushed out of the shower with only a thin towel covering the parts which she'd rather not show. She giggled as the others got covered in the aftermath of a large cloud of smoke which erupted from their jacked toaster

"Well now what are we meant to do for a toaster?" Niall asked as he woke up and it came to him that they may have to survive the morning without eating a single ounce of food. "No, that ain't happening. We have to eat breakfast, it's meant  to be the best meal of the day!"

"Sorry Ni, you may have to go without it this morning," Flora ruffled his hair and received a shove from an irritated Niall. 

Louis noticed that Pip was looking a little downcast as she positioned herself on the sofa whilst the chaos ensued around her. The bags were a prominenet feature as she sighed and burrowed her head in her hands, her usually blond and straight hair was falling raggedly past her shoulders which reflected her mood. 

"No sleep again?" He questioned, sitting next to her albeit awkwardly. 

"What do you think?" She retorted with a hint of sarcasm and lifted her head so Louis could get a proper glance at her makeup free face. 

"Just a guess but, has it been the third night in a row?" Louis guessed as Pip hugged one of their tea stained cushions like it was the only source of life and it was in it's dying moments.

"You guessed wrong," She said with a playful smile etched on her face, her one dimple shining through. "But before you apologise, it's been four not three."

Louis threw his small hands up in frustration. "Well I'm fucking sorry for not charting it on a graph," The pair shared a light-hearted giggle before all seriousness took over again. "I'm serious now, what helps you sleep?"

"I don't know. Comfort, knowing people who look after me are there, pills?" Pip gave a petite shrug before smiling like she was about to change the communication topic (Louis had seemingly memorized the look on her face before she was about to change the topic). "Anyway, I'm going to see if we have any spray pancakes."

Louis embraced his hand around her narrow wrist and their similarly coloured irises locked onto the others for one awkward second before he sincerely said. "Maybe, instead of sleeping in your own room tonight, you could try sleeping in the sitting room like the rest of us?" He scratched the back of his neck where the light brown hairs tickled.

"I don't know Louis..." Pip thoughts trailed off as her mind seemed to wander.

"Why not? Just give it a chance?" He persisted and she rolled his eyes at his enthusiasm at having her sleep in the same room as him, maybe only twenty metres away if he got lucky.

"Alright, but if it's five o'clock in the morning and I'm not asleep then I'm going back into my room?" She held her hand out with her lime green nails striking Louis' vision and then he rolled his eyes but placed his clammy hand into hers.

They shared a smile and unknowingly three of their friends were watching and placing bets on when the two could possibly get together over steaming mugs of coffee.

"Don't you think that they'd be cute together though?" Flora merely observed which sparked an unusual reaction in Heidi.

"Oh my god!" She acted like a light bulb had struck her brain and made her get a sudden wave of inspiration.

"What?" Flora asked, her brows furrowed in upmost confusion.

"We should get them together," Heidi suggested and the girls started to gush over their new found "job".

"Who the fuck are you on about?" Niall asked, his Irish lilt even more accentuated because of the caffeine which was streaming in his blood.

"Haven't you realized?" Indie joined in and leant on the counter like Niall.

"Realized what?" Niall's clueless statement made her roll her large brown eyes and almost slap him on the upside of the head.

"Louis and Pip," She said and Niall felt stupid that he hadn't noticed the obvious chemistry between the two.

"I knew that," Niall scoffed but the weird look in Niall's eyes told her different.

"Of course you did," Indie patted him on the shoulder before resuming a conversation with Zayn.

Just then Liam and Harry returned from wherever they'd been (nobody had known that they'd left the flat so it was just a shock as to when they returned) with a surprise that everyone would welcome.

"Food!" All the girls cried and rushed towards it and four of the boys huddled.

"Girls..." They mumbled in synchronisation before Niall surprised them all.

"FOOD!" He shrieked and the boys tutted again.

"And Niall."

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A/N: I'm quite pleased with this and I'm sorry for the long gap between updates. Since this story is the most popular of my new ones, I think I'll be concentrating on it!

I love you loads and thank you to everyone who will continue to support this story no matter who sporadically I update.

Amy - xoxo

Dedicated to Cindy who may just be a new friend, but one I still love and cherish as much as some I've known months. I love you, my Cindy bae.