Misadventure (One Direction)

13 - Distraction

Friday, January 10, 6:45PM

Harry was waiting downstairs in the living room with Lesley and Vanessa. They were hoping to get a phone call from Liam or Stephanie. Harry was staring at the the television blankly.

Lesley heard her phone ring and answered it right away. "Hello?!" she said as she put it in speaker mode.

"Hey! It's Stephanie! 

"Oh, hey! We're just so bored without you. I can visualize us playing back home in high school... Sad," responded Lesley.

"Oh, that sucks... How's Vanessa?"

"Just bored too," said Vanessa.

"Hey, how's Liam?" Harry asked.

"He's in the shower..."

The two girls continued talking to Stephanie, convincing her to come back to London, only as a joke. After the two cousins told Stephanie that they we're going to plan for their next performance, she became quiet excited. Then she informed them that she would be back on the twentieth. Their conversation ended. Lesley got up and went out. She claimed that she needed to clear her mind out of things.

Harry hugged Vanessa again. "Ready to go out tonight?" he asked as he brushed her hair.

"Yeah!"

"Okay, let's go!" he smile to uplift her mood.

Both headed out the door towards Harry's Black Range Rover. The ride to the party was about twenty minutes long. Where are we heading? wondered Vanessa.

When they got to the party, it was a massive house. The lights inside illuminated the cars parked.

"What are we celebrating?" asked Vanessa, while they approached to the cabin.

"One of my neighbors just graduated from the university this last semester!" Harry smiled and combed his voluminous hair back.

"Oh," replied Vanessa.

"You don't mind singing with my old band and I?" Harry said as he rang the bell.

"What?!" Vanessa shockingly asked.

"Yeah, you can do your DJ moves while my band and I perform."

"I--" But the door was opened by a dark-haired 22 year old guy.

"Hey mate," The guy gave Harry a brotherly hug and then glanced at Vanessa. "Who's this?"

"She's Vanessa. She goes to the University of London. Lovely person," revealed Harry as they walked back into the house.

"My name is Kyle. It's weird that I haven't met you. I went to the uni you're at. Pleasure to meet you Vanessa."

"Hello, nice meeting you too," greeted Vanessa with a smile.

"Oh! We got an American here? How exciting!" said Kyle.

Harry laughed at him as he pulled out his bandana from his pocket and fixed it on himself.

Once they entered the living room there was about twenty people. Some had the classic red solo cups with liquor. They walked up to where they were serving drinks. Vanessa noticed that Harry was talking to some other people. Kyle and a guy, who looked like the younger version of him, went to her.

"Hey, this is my brother, Brenton," said Kyle to Vanessa.

"Hello." Vanessa smiled. "You must also go to the University of London?"

"Yes," said Brenton, "in fact, I needed some place to live... are you allowing people to rent at your place?"

Vanessa had not thought about it before. Since Alexia left, there was one room available, and they needed to be able to play the rent of the house.