The Falling Stars (The Vamps and One Direction Zombie Apocalypse)

Chapter 37- It Takes Three

A/N Chapter idea here Courtesy of the wonderful @tenerifetay13 ;)

I was in exactly the same position on the sofa when I woke, except this time I was naked. L was curled up beside me, also naked. I sat up slowly, my hangover headache making the world spin and feel like a fair ground ride as I looked around for my clothes. I found some boxer shorts and a bra under the drum kit and pulled on the shorts, throwing the bra across the room so it hit the wall above where L was.

She stirred and blinked awake, smiling up at me momentarily before realising where we were.

“Shit!” She cried, rubbing her head and grabbing her long grey sweater off the floor in front of her. She put it on and it was so long it fell to her mid thighs. She sat back on the sofa, her eyes closed and face strained.

I didn’t get it. I mean, sure, we had woken up naked together, but that was no big deal. I mean I was sort of pissed off because that meant we were cheating on Niall. Only we weren’t cheating on Niall.

I froze in shear horror as what I thought was a pile of blankets moved to reveal Niall, naked from the waist down.

So this is what L meant by awkward.

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Five minutes of absolutely the most awkward silence I had ever experienced in my life before pursued this moment, before the footsteps on the stairs could be heard.

“Shit!” Yelled Niall, also hearing the steps and beginning to rummage around in the piles of blankets to find clothes. “Erm, Connor, why are you wearing my fucking boxer shorts?” He asked, and, knowing he would pursue the matter further if I didn’t do so I dived into the blankets and pulled them off, expertly covering my bottom half with sheets until my dark blue jeans surfaced on the other side of the room and I was able to wrestle them on.

The footsteps were sluggishly approaching the door now and L was panicking, shuffling frantically through the sheets to find some underwear or trousers. I dragged my hands through my hair in pure stress and realised her jeans were poking out from the edge of the drum kit and threw them to her.

She stood up, her legs at strange angles as she jumped into the jeans, struggling to pull the skinny legs up and only just having done so when Ava wandered into the room. Niall pretended to be asleep in the blankets whereas I just smiled and walked over to the cupboard as if nothing had happened.

“Hi Ava do you want some breakfast?” I asked, grabbing some packets of dried fruit and tossing them onto the table.

“God Connor how do you not have a hangover? I’m never going to be able to eat again after last night- just a water please, if you would” She moaned, clutching her head in her hand. I placed a metal water bottle which had been recently filled beside where she was sitting at the table. She thanked me moodily and rubbed her head with her hand, taking a small sip of the water and lying back in her seat.

I tensed up once again as another load of people came into the room, in the form of Ellie, Harry, Liam, and Tristan who immediately strode over to Ava and planted a kiss on her forehead.

“Oh my god what did you three do!” Yelled Ellie, the minute she entered the room. I don’t know how she did it, but she just somehow knew exactly what had happened straight away, even though everyone of us looked dishevelled and hungover. It didn’t help that half way through the practical intervention and generally awkward chat L lifted her leg up to cross it over the other one and a pair of black knickers shot out of the bottom and landed on the floor.

I was so embarrassed I wanted to scream all the way through the conversation, but eventually it was over.

After finally being left alone, I ran up to the roof with L to have a serious discussion.

“What the hell happened?” I asked bluntly, before answering it myself “Okay, don’t answer that because I don’t need to know!”

“Okay, erm, we like need to stay away from each other?” She half asked, although it was more of a statement really

“What?” My voice was quieter suddenly, more hurt “Why?”

“Because everyone came so close to knowing about us today, I mean it’s not weird it was with Niall, but they don’t seem to understand it with you, only Ellie and Tristan-“

“And that means we should be apart?” I grasped on to the barrier with my right hand “If anything I would have thought that was more important to stay together, you know as friends because then they won’t find it weird as it goes along”

“But it is weird!” She exclaimed “We’re just friends Connor! And now I’m this slut who has two boyfriends, both of which she sleeps with on the same night!”

“Well you wouldn’t have two boyfriends if you’d have just broken up with Niall when you said you would!” I yelled loudly, causing a couple of undead to begin trudging towards the building at a snail pace.

“Oh yeah, because dumping someone is so easy when you can’t think of a reason other than that you’re dumping your perfectly good, loving boyfriend for some awkward idiot who’s had about as much dating experience as a fly and doesn’t have a fucking clue how to do anything!” She yelled back.

“Oh , so that’s all I am to you? Some idiot? There’s no wonder you’re acting like this now, you finally got me into your bed and now you’re just gonna screw me up and throw me away because I’m not good enough,” I lowered my voice slightly “I thought we could have gone somewhere, L, but you just insisted on making me the other man all the time, and now what am I? I’m just nothing.”

“You know what Connor, just leave it. Forget it.” She turned and walked for the door, turning back as she opened it “Just for the record, Niall and I broke up yesterday morning”

She slammed the door hard behind her, leaving me to stand alone, stunned and upset by the events of the day.