I woke up to the sound of Alfie's voice in our hotel room. I could already tell that it was really early for Alfie to be up. Then I remembered that it was the first of December. Then I remembered something else. Alfie probably had the camera out and was filming right now. I groaned.
"Alfie, don't!" I said pulling the pillow out from under my head to cover my face. I did not look good in the morning and I most definitely did not want all of our viewers to see my disgusting face. I kept the pillow up to my face for a few minutes before warily speaking again. "Are you still filming?" I asked tentatively lowering the pillow so only my eyes were showing.
"No," was Alfie's brief response.
"Are you sure?" I asked lowering the pillow even more. I then continued to tell Alfie not to film me in the morning because I looked disgusting and I didn't want to blind the viewers with my ugliness. Alfie's response was sweet and short.
"Sorry little one, but it's Vlogmas!" I couldn't help but smile at that.
I didn't respond though I just picked up the clothes I was going to wear for the day and walked into the bathroom to get ready. It was cold inside and I turned the lights on. My stuff was strewn across the counter. We had been at this hotel for a while and I had obviously made myself at home.
I heard Alfie humming some One Direction song in the main room and I joined along even though I know he couldn't hear me. I put on light makeup since I knew we wouldn't be going anywhere at all that day. I just did my hair in loose curls. I looked at myself in the mirror before pulling on my clothes. I didn't think I looked nice today, and I felt like crap.
I opened the bathroom door and flicked off the light with a sigh. Alfie was on his phone on the bed. He looked up at me at the sound of the door opening.
"How do I look?" I asked knowing he would say I looked beautiful. He woud make me feel better even though I knew I looked crappy.
"Gorgeous," was his single word answer. My heart filled with warmth and I couldn't do anything but believe him.
I walked over to my small bag by the window sill and pulled out my vlogging camera. Joe had given it to me for my birthday but I had yet to use it. I always borrowed Alfie's because I was convinced that it was much better than mine. Even though I had never used it...
I turned it on and flipped it around in my hand so it was facing me. The quality actually looked really good. I was about to click record when there was a knock at the door. I slowly lowered the camera to my side and looked at Alfie with a confused look.
"Who's here?" I asked really perplexed. I quickly went through my mind a list of people that could be calling. I briefly thought it might Louise but that didn't make any sense.
"Open it," Alfie said with a secretive smile.
I walked over to the door really slowly and undid the dead bolt before pulling it open. Standing there was Dan and Phil.
"Oh my gosh hi!" I said loudly hugging them both a shuffling them into the room shutting the door softly behind them.
"Hey Zoe," Dan said with a sly smile. Phil just smiled at me. I could tell he was really happy that Dan was out of the hospital and it made me happy too. I just loved when people were happy, it made me so happy too.
They both walked over to the couch in our room and sat down. There were still bandages on Dan's leg but other than that he looked really well.
"How are you?" Alfie asked walking over and sitting down in the chair across from the couch. I followed him and sat down on his lap. I reached my hand down the side of the chair and slipped it into his. He squeezed it softly.
"I'm feeling really well, my leg hardly has anymore pain. I have to take some really heavy painkillers for the next two months though," he said with as much as enthusiathm as someone who had been shot in the leg recently.
"How are you Phil?" I asked looking at him. He was looking at the ground solemnly.
"I'm fine," he said with a forced smile. I knew he was happy that Dan was okay, but this really affected him and that broke my heart.
"That's good," I said with a genuine smile, trying to make him feel better.
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"Thank you for coming," Alfie said as Dan and Phil stood in the doorway about to leave. They had stayed in our room for two hours just talking and telling stories. Phil actually started to smile for real and that broke my heart as well.
"Thank you for having us," Dan said with a grin.
"Yes, thank you," Phil said adding on. He was actually happy. He was happy. Happy.
"We'll keep in touch about that collab!" Dan said as they started walking out of the room.
"Totally," Alfie said with a grin.
"Bye!" I called as they walked away.
Once they turned the corner I shut the door with a soft click. "That was really fun! Thank you for inviting them," I said turning to face him. He wrapped his arms around my waist and made my insides go all wobbly.
"You're welcome little one," he said as he reached his hand up into my hair making my scalp all tingling.
"I love you," I breathed in his ear.
"I love you too."
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