Patch Our Hearts

Chapter 17

Ryder's P.O.V.

THUD THUD THUD THUD

BR-INNNGGG BR-INNNNNGGGG BR-INNNNGGG

Oh my God. Seriously?

I was sleeping peacefully- what is even going on?

"Liam!" I recognized Nolan's accent through the door.

Lifting my head up, I ran a hand through my hair. Liam's phone was ringing off the hook, I stood up to see who it was. Carina's name read clearly across the screen. I swiped the decline across the screen, eliminating one annoying noise.

Liam was lying on his bed, totally out of it. Man, he's a heavy sleeper!

"Liam!" Nolan called again, what did everyone want?

Walking past the mirror, I noticed how bad I looked. Screw it, I thought as I opened the door to Nolan.

"Hey," I said, noticing the sleeping laced throughout my voice.

"Lad," Nolan said, surprised.

Nolan looked behind me at Liam and laughed, looking down at his phone. I looked back at Liam.

"It's 8:35, go get dressed and wake Liam. Met us at AppleBee's." Nolan smiled, turning to go down the hallway to the elevators. I leaned out the door to watch him. AppleBee's? Oh yeah! Liam said we were going to eat their at 7:30, he must've feel asleep too. Whoops.

I walked back over to my bag, silencing his phone once again, this time it was Abby. I shot them both texts saying we were on our way.

Meeting my bag lying on the carpeted floor, I picked it up and grabbed my famous Air Horn.

Smiling I walked up to Liam, careful to be on the opposite side of the bed in case he fell out, which I was completely expecting. I was awake now, and my stomach grumbled, good thing I had AppleBee's to look forward to.

Placing the Air Horn directly next to his ear, I pressed down on the button.

An earsplitting, annoying ring filled the entire hotel room. Liam's eyes shot open, bulging out of his head. A yell erupted from his mouth and flailed his arms everywhere, desperately trying to grasp something.

I laughed, letting go of the button, and shut my eyes just as Liam landed onto the hard floor with a THUD.

"RYDER!" Liam yelled, mad as hell.

I tried to muffle my laugh, but failed miserably as Liam gave me the death-stare. He grabbed his phone, and realized what time it was. Of course, being Daddy Direction he started freaking out.

"Ryder! Why didn't you wake me?" Liam asked, running around, tidying the room as also changing into clean clothes.

"I feel asleep too man," I answered, "But Nolan already came by and I told him we'll be there soon."

My ears were still ringing, as I pulled on a clean shirt and went to brush my teeth, for no reason at all.

"What time did you tell them that we'd be ready?" Liam called from across the hotel space.

"Nolan just said to come when we were ready, there wasn't really a specific time," I replied, squeezing the tube to squish out a white, red and blue string of toothpaste.

"Alright," Liam said, and I started brushing, the mint stinging in my mouth.

Liam walked up behind me, zipping the zipper on his pants and doing his belt. I spit out the foam from my mouth, rinsing my toothbrush and setting it in the plastic hotel cup. Wiping my mouth with the back of my hand, I checked my hair one last time before following Liam out the door.