sweet as sugar, cold as ice

Chapter 28

Alex's pov

"Harry it can't be that bad." I tried to defend myself "it is, Alex, he's who made me who I am today, I never intended to be this person." He turned the corner, I swallowed hard unsure what to say next "so, what do we do now then?" I asked nervously "we wait." "Wait?"

"Yes, we wait, until he calls, he will probably want you to do some sort of drug deal, which I don't want you to do." He explained "well who else is going to do it then." I waited for an answer but there wasn't one. I never bothered asking again.

"Did they hurt you?" He suddenly asked "no, I wouldn't count it as 'hurting'..." I trailed off "what did they do?" He gripped the steering wheel "they gassed me. I was knocked out for a couple of hours, that's all" "all? If they gave you too much of that it would've killed you" he clenched his jaw. "Well it didn't, so just forget about it." I huffed and sat back in my chair.

I walked into Harry's house and took my jacket off, I sat on the couch and kicked my shoes off. "Sorry" he muttered "for being so abrupt earlier, it wasn't your fault" he sat next to me "it's fine, don't worry about it." I smiled and he wrapped his arms around me, and kissed my forehead, about twenty minutes later his phone went off. It was a text "do you want to go to Nialls house tomorrow?" He asked "uh, yeah okay" I smiled.

*the next day*

We were on our way to Nialls in Harry's car. "Harry, I'm running out of clothes, I'm going to need to go back to, em, my house to get some." Harry's eyes widened "no, we'll just buy new ones" he suggested "Harry, you and I both know we can't afford to do that." I laughed "fine" he huffed.

"Hello!" Niall shouted as we stepped into his doorway "hiya" I reached my arms out and hugged him. When we walked into the livingroom I noticed, Zayn, Rebecca and Gillian were also there "Alex! I've not seen you in ages" Rebecca squealed "oh, hey" I smiled

*4 hours later*

Everyone was so drunk and playing monopoly for some weird reason? "It's my turn!" Rebecca yelled "no, it's mine" Zayn shouted back "actually it's Nialls" we all laughed and Niall rolled the dice. This game was never ending. I used to play monopoly all of the time when I was younger, it was my favourite game, I smiled at the memories. Then I suddenly felt a wave of sadness wash over me, I had just realised it was always me and Ben that played it. Nobody else. I felt like I was going to cry. "I'm just going to get a drink of water" I spat out and quickly walked into the kitchen. I poured myself a glass of water and sat down at the table. I fought the urge to cry for about ten minutes, why was I so upset? I eventually just let it all out. I felt the tears roll down my cheeks one by one.

I felt a light hand on my shoulder. I turned to see Niall "what's wrong?" He took the seat next to me, I quickly wiped the tears "nothing, it doesn't matter" I quickly said "no, Alex it does" his eyes looked sympathetic, and... And familiar?

"Just... Old memories. They hurt" I looked down. "It's alright Lexa." My eyes shot up, completely stunned.

It was my old nickname. That... That only Ben used to call me...