Love Caught Fire (One Direction Fanfiction)

18++Intoxicated

Charlie's POV

I woke up to the morning light and I realized that I was literally sweating. The car was a little over 80 degrees and I was wearing a big sweater along with Louis' heavy jacket.

Louis.

I sat up straight and attempted to stretch out my aching back but I accidentally elbowed Louis in the face. His eyes immediately opened and he massaged his face with his hands.

"I'm so sorry!" I apologized. "Are you bleeding anywhere?"

"You didn't elbow me that hard." he smirked but I was still worried.

"I'm fine." he promised and I sighed with relief.

"How did the heater turn on?" I asked him.

"I don't know. Maybe they took pity on us and turned it on." he guessed.

"My back is killing me." I whined.

"Mine isn't." the popstar bragged.

"Well that's because you were laying on a nice and comfy seat that was reclined and I, on the other hand, was sleeping on your--"

"My rock hard abs?" he interrupted.

"No, more like you're rock hard skeleton." I teased.

"Hey, I work hard on these things." he said, pointing to his abs.

"Yeah, I'm sure you do." I said sarcastically and I climbed out of the car.

"Where do you think you're going?" he questioned.

"I'm stretching and I'm really hot." I replied.

"I agree." he smiled and got out of the car too.

Louis Tomlinson just said I was hot. Is this happening? Oh my--what is air?

I twisted my hips, trying to make me back crack. I've never exactly done it successfully before. People do it in my class all the time but every time I try, I can't ever get it to crack.

"Here, lemme help you." Lou said, walking over to me.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm gonna crack your back." he replied and moved closer to me.

"No way am I letting you crack my back! You're probably going to do it wrong and kill me!" I worried.

"I do it for the boys all the time. It's easy, trust me." he said and I gave in.

Louis stepped behind me so that my back was against his front.

"Alright, now cross your arms in an X over your chest." he instructed and I hesitantly did as told.

"Ready?" he asked and I shrugged.

Lou wrapped his arms around me just below my chest, picked me up, and squeezed me tight. I heard a crack come from my back (hey, that rhymes) and it hurt at first, but once Lou put me down, I felt amazing.

"Better?" he asked and I nodded.

"Thanks," I said kind of awkwardly to be honest. "Um, we should probably get back inside."

"Uh, yeah." he ran his hand through his hair and escorted me inside.

I found my phone on the counter buzzing like crazy. Seconds later, Harry and Alyson were running down the stairs, and Liam and Zayn were sleepily getting up off the floor.

"I'm getting it, I'm getting it." I said before they started yelling at me for waking them up.

"Do you even know how loud that thing is?" Zayn asked me.