Before She Falls

Chapter 10

"So you're actually going to come out?" Vanessa asks me as I open to the door to her black Range Rover.

"You act like I never go out anymore" I say as I buckle myself in.

"Because you don't" Vanessa laughs and brushes her blonde hair over her shoulder.

"I've just been busy" I shift in my seat.

"Oh right, how was the city?" Vanessa turns onto a different street.

"It was really good. I went out to lunch with Liam, then had dinner with all the boys, I slept over in their suite and then my mom pick-"

"You slept over? Where'd you sleep?" Vanessa cut me off with her question.

I hesitate to answer, I'm not really sure if I want to say what happened. Vanessa's eyes widen because of my pause and now I have to tell her.

"What happened?" She looks over at me anxiously awaiting my response.

"Nothing! Nothing happened. I went to sleep in the same room-" I get interrupted again.

"With Zayn? Wait no Zayn has a girlfriend right? Niall, oh my God it was Niall wasn't it?!" Vanessa turns to me to see my reaction.

"No! Okay, I slept in a separate bed, but in the same room as Harry" I start my story.

"Oh my God" Vanessa mumbles but lets me continue.

"But then I was woken up" I question if I should tell her the whole situation. "Harry was sleepwalking in the bathroom, so I brought him back to bed."

"What? So he wasn't awake?" Vanessa is intrigued.

"No, he was completely asleep. He wouldn't go to bed until I laid down with him" I finish and look to Vanessa whose eyes are lit up.

"Kat, oh my God!" Vanessa shrieks. "What happened the next morning?!"

"Nothing. We woke up in the same bed, I had his shirt on, but he didn't say anything. Liam woke me up, actually."

"You had his shirt on?! What did Liam say when he saw you?"

"I had no pajamas! And Liam just gave me a look, I still have to tell him what happened" I remember that I still haven't told Liam that Harry had another sleepwalking incident and that's why I was in Harry's bed by morning; not any other reason that he might have concluded.

"Holy shit, Kat. You were in the same bed as Harry Styles, wearing his fucking shirt" Vanessa states as if she's informing me of new information.

"I'm going back to hang out with them again on Friday, maybe even stay into Saturday. I'm pretty sure Liam wouldn't mind if I brought someone along" I wave the offer in her face.

She takes her eyes off of the road and I can almost hear her internal screams.

"So are you coming or what?" I laugh.

"Yes!" Vanessa nearly screams.

I stumble into the kitchen of Brian Hill's kitchen and bring my plastic cup to my face. I've probably had at least four cups of this fruity mixed drink but I'm sure at this point.

"Kat!" I hear Vanessa call from around the corner, in the living room.

I push my way through some people walking the other direction and find Vanessa sitting on the couch with a couple of guys from our high school in the living room. I can't remember their names, but I recognize their faces.

"Come sit with us!" Vanessa is plastered. I could tell from her eyes that could barely stay open.

I follow her instructions and plop myself down next to the random guy that was sitting with Vanessa.

"Hey" the dark haired guy sitting next to me says.

"Hi" I reply softly, he wasn't as attractive as he looked when I was ten feet away and I instantly became disappointed.

"Katrina, this is Myles and this is Zach" Vanessa slurs. So Zach is the one sitting right next to me.

"Nice to meet you guys" I smile at both of them.

After a while of irrelevant drunk chatting, Vanessa, Myles, Zach and I continue to sit down on the couch. We've all had a couple more drinks and Vanessa's practically on Myles' lap and his hands are sting comfortably around her waist. I'm starting to feel like I don't want to be sitting here talking to Zach, but as soon as I think this is the perfect time to stand up and walk away, Zach snakes his hand onto my thigh.

"Are you okay?" Zach asks me looking at my surprised facial expression.

"Yeah, I'm fine" I answer, trying to be as sweet as I can.

"Relax a little bit, do you want another drink?" he says squeezing my upper thigh a little. Even through the six cups of alcohol I still feel uncomfortable.

"Sure" I say just wanting him to get up and away from me.

"Alright, I'll be right back" he gives me a smile and then lifts himself on the couch and walks to the kitchen.

I quickly stand up and automatically feel dizzy.

"I'm going to the bathroom" I say to Vanessa, but I soon realize as I look over that her and Zach are in the middle of a pretty intense make-out.

I quickly weave through the kids standing in the living room and make my way to a hallway that has to have some sort of bathroom around. I push open a door, but it turns out to be a bedroom with at least ten people sitting in a circle doing some sort of drug. I trail down the rest of the hallway and finally find a door that might be the bathroom, however it's shut. I wait next to it, praying that Zach doesn't come looking for me after he realizes I ditched him.

The door swings open and makes me jump a little bit.

"Whoa, I'm sorry" I hear a guy's voice and feel a hand brush against my shoulder and as soon as I look up to see who it is, I get twice as dizzy.

"Kat, you came" Mark's mouth turns into a loose smile.

"Yeah, actually I just needed to use the bathroom and then I'm leaving" I give him a faint smile. "Vanessa and I have to go to the city tomorrow morning."

"Aw c'mon, stay a little longer" Mark taps my shoulder.

A girl rushes by us with her hands covering her mouth. Her friend pushes us out of the way before slamming the bathroom door shut behind them.

"Looks like you're not using the bathroom" he laughs. "How are you even going to get home? Vanessa's wasted, just stay."

I sigh knowing that he's right; I don't really have a way of getting home.

"Alright" I roll my eyes. "I'll stay."