One Thing - One Direction fanfic

Chapter 8

I woke up really confused. I was in an unfamiliar room on a bed. There was no one else with me. Where was Caroline? I got up sleepy and a little worried. Where was I? I didn't remember anything after I rested my head against Niall's shoulder. I must have fallen asleep. I got out of the bed, but quickly fell back. I was too tired to be able to balance myself. I gave it another try and went for the door. As I stepped outside, I realized they must have carried me inside because I was in the boy's house. I smelled something really good and went downstairs. Caroline was eating pancakes.

"Brontë!"

Caroline got up as she saw me and gave me a hug.

"Good morning! Try these pancakes, they are fantastic!"

She handed me one.

"Wow! Who made these?"

"The guys made these."

She smiled.

"They left instructions everywhere."

"How long have you been up?"

"About half an hour, I think. It took me a while to find the first note."

She handed me a piece of paper.

'Good morning girls! Sorry, we've already left early. We had a rehearsal. To fill you in on what happened: yesterday, you two fell asleep in the car. We didn't know where you lived and it was super late anyways so we let you sleep over. We hope this doesn't create some kind of problem though. In the fridge are the leftovers of the pancakes we made. The instructions of the microwave are on a paper in the kitchen. We'll be back in the afternoon. You don't have to leave if you don't want to, but you can if you do.

Zayn, Niall, Louis, Liam, Harry'

They had signed it. Caroline was already eating again.

"We have their autographs now! Did you wake up at all before this morning?"

"Nope, as soon as I had put my head on Niall's shoulder, my lights were out. You?"

She wanted me to ask that question. I could tell by the way she smiled. Something had happened.

"What happened? Tell me!"

"Well, I remember waking up to the cold air outside. I felt I was being carried, so I panicked a little. I started to move so I would feel some ground under my feet, but I heard someone shushing me and I realized it was Zayn. He said something like 'it's okay, go back to sleep'. So I did and next thing I knew, I woke up in a bed next to you!"

"Zayn carried you?!"

I screamed a little from excitement. She wanted to know what happened when Niall and I had our spontaneous date yesterday. She had been heating some pancakes for me too, and we went to sit on the sofa.

"Tell me!"

"Okay, so, we left to pick up food. There's a Nando's not so far from here. It's only a few minutes' walk. On our way there, he asked me whether I liked to travel. I told him I did. He asked me to which places I had already been. I said something like the south of Asia and, well, you know where I've been. I asked him the same question. He said he had been to a few places because of their tour around Europe. It was basically getting the basics covered, you know? When we could see Nando's down the street, he stopped and suggested nonchalantly to have dinner alone and get you guys food afterwards. I asked if he was sure the others wouldn't mind and he said it was fine, so I had no reason to refuse. We went to some restaurant where he must have known the owner or something, because upon seeing him, the waiter got us a table in a separate room. Everything seemed casual, though you know on the inside I was dying of nervousness. It was so pleasant to just get to know him. Did you know he has a secret Tumblr? He can see the crazy posts everyone's reblogging about them."

I saw Caroline pull the same face I had wanted to pull, one of both amusement and 'oh god'. They'd better never find our blogs.

"Other highlights?"

"Well, he called me beautiful."

Caroline was both surprised and happy. We were so in sync.

"Of course I turned as red as a tomato. I told him, and trust me when I say that I still don't know how I even said it, I just did. I told him that he didn't even know how absolutely flawless he is."

I saw Caroline's jaw drop.

"Are you serious? Girl, that's kinda fangirly."

I laughed.

"Yeah, well, I didn't realize what I said either until it was out there. Luckily, he wasn't creeped out or something, he just smiled and held my hand."

Caroline shook her head with an excited smile.

"Love is in the air, I suppose."

"That's a little drastic."

"We'll see!"

"What about you and Zayn? What's going on there?"

"Nothing at all."

"I'm sure it's more than that."

"No, wait, I think we're becoming friends. I guess we're acquaintances. I mean, I do have his number now."

"What? You casually forgot you have Zayn's number?? There is definitely something going on!"

"It was just in case something happened to your phone."

I gave her a look of disbelieve, but I knew she wouldn't let go.

"I guess we'll have to see about that too then."

We chuckled and swapped some more details of last night.

"Are we going to stay here until they're back or are we going to leave? Stay, right?"

I had to know we were on the same page for this. She nodded.

"Of course! We need to at least thank them."

"Yeah. How are we going to repay them all this?"

"I don't know."

I heard my phone ring. I looked at the caller ID: home. I looked at Caroline.

"Hello?"

"Brontë! It's mom here."

"Hi mom."

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