Been Here All Along xx

Chapter Twelve - 12

Lanie's POV

"Are you kidding me? That is not true!" I said.

"Why would I lie to you?!" Louis said to me and I heard a car door open. I quickly turned the living room lights off and tiptoed over to the front door.

"We'll get back to that later. You two, pretend to be asleep." I whispered and they both laid on the floor. I stood in front of the door and I heard it unlock. My mom walked in and looked up at me and took a couple steps back.

"Lord, Lanie! You scared me!" she said.

"Where have you been? It is exactly three in the morning and you left a little before one. I think you owe me an explanation." I said and I heard Louis sneeze. I heard her sigh.

"I had to go down to work... can you believe they would call me down for a meeting at this hour?!"

"No... why did they?" I said and she started walking to the kitchen, so I followed her. "What happened?"

"Are you still working at that cafe place?" she asked me and I shrugged.

"Probably not.."

"Do you think they'd let me take your place?" My eyes widened.

"You lost your job?!"

"No, no! They are just cutting my hours, cutting hours equals a little less money than usual." I breathed and calmed down.

"I'll just text Jake and tell him I couldn't make it yesterday because it was my birthday.. it will be fine. You need less work, so I'll just keep working." I said and she smiled.

"You're a saint." she kissed my head. "Now, go to sleep. How long have you been up?"

"Uh, a couple minutes." she nodded and grabbed a water from the fridge.

"I'm going to go to sleep. Are Louis and Liam here?" I nodded. "Well, alright. Goodnight."

"Night.." she walked to her room and I quietly went into the living room and turned the light on. "Okay, she's gone." I whispered and heard a snore come from one of them. "Guys?" I sat in between them and poked their noses. "Seriously? You two are little assholes!" I kissed both of their cheeks. "Fine, goodnight." I stood up and walked to my room. I grabbed my laptop and got onto my bed. My phone beeped and I grabbed it.

Jakey!:) - Hey... I know it's really late/early, but I didn't get to tell you happy birthday! Hope it isn't too late!

Wowww.. I never saw that. Okay? Okay.

I deleted the message and then my phone beeped again... but it wasn't Jake.. it was Connor...

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"Yeah, it was really good talking to you too." I said into the phone. This is going to sound bad, but I had been talking to Connor for about two hours.. we had a lot to talk about. He moved to the states because his dad transferred jobs. He hadn't cheated on me, well that's what he said, I wasn't going to bring it up, but.. we weren't exactly friendly to each other when we started talking.. every sentence from me ended in 'Asshole' and I guess he caught on that I was mad at him for something else than him breaking up with me. I didn't really care that he cheated on me, well if he did, but I guess I was just not in the mood to be nice to him.

I told him about Jake and then after he said: "Wow. He is a jerk, just like me." about a million times, he asked how Liam was doing, I don't think he really cared, he just wanted to make conversation. Then he asked how Harry was doing and he told me that he hadn't talked to him at all, because Harry wouldn't answer any of his messages. Then he asked me about Darcy and Josh and you should have heard the crickets in the room when I told him they were dating. It was pretty amusing how confused he was. After that I told him how I was friends with Louis and Niall now. He asked me if I knew Zayn Malik, which I said no to... I should probably know him, but I don't.