The Rogue | Louis Tomlinson

Chapter 8

Louis Tomlinson

She's still getting hate and she hasn't responded to my tweet. I wonder if she's seen my DMs? Did she ignore my tweet and my DMs?

Maybe she's just busy?

Maybe she's just doing an assignment for school?

Or maybe she's out with friends?

You can't reply to DMs and accept apologies when you're out with friends.

...unless you choose to ignore it.

Damn it.

"Dude, you just defended her on twitter." My head snaps up to see Zayn entering my room.

"I had to. She was getting hate for no reason, needed to pull her out of it. Poor girl." I sigh and I look back down to my phone, scrolling and reading more tweets. Some are really making fun of her. There are already these 'funny tweets' that have been tweeted by fans that have a large number of followers and it has over 500 favorites and retweets already. But not everyone is making fun of her and it's nice to see some of the fans defending Lia.

Did I just give her a nickname?

Fuck.

I hope she's seen my DMs.

"Was she the one you were staring at last night?" Zayn snaps me out of my daze yet again. He's looking at me with that playful smirk of his.

"No." Is all I say. He laughs and he hits me with a pillow and I cuss him for it.

"Lou, I saw you last night. We've been in this band for how many years now and I know you all too well. What makes you think I can't tell when you or any of the boys are acting different?" He claims.

"Oh, do you now. Is it that or you're gay and you've been in love with me all this time, Malik?" I say sarcastically, giving him my sarcastic smile and I tease him by wiggling my eyebrows.

"Ha, I don't like dick, Tommo." He answers back with a chuckle. "I mean, usually you'd be jumping and pouncing on the stage but during the last song, you were stiff, man." He says. I raise my eyebrow at him wondering what he was trying to say but I don't interrupt him.

"You were just looking at one direction." Now I know where he's going.

"You'd look other ways at times yeah, but you were staring at someone and it was very obvious. I just couldn't tell who among those screaming girls you were looking at but I was sure you had your eyes fixed on someone." He finally finishes off. I look down at my phone again and I realized that it wasn't just the my mates who noticed, the fans did too. And I remember seeing a few articles about it also. I never thought it was a big deal until now. I guess I really was obvious last night.

"Now tell me, was it that Amelia girl? The one who you were eyeing and the one you just defended on twitter?" Alright alright, I'm caught. I feel like a girl being cornered by her best friend.

"Did you just narrate to me how you were staring at me last night?" I say with a chuckle and he shrugs with a smile. "You know what's fucked up? I thought seeing her last night was all I could get from her. Could you believe I bumped into her at the mall earlier today?" I say and Zayn's eyes widen at the coincidence. Same Zayn.

"You did? What happened?" Curiosity evident in his voice.

"I pretended to be on my phone the entire time." I say and Zayn scoffs.

"What the fuck Louis? Why didn't you talk to her?" He nags.

"What the fuck do you expect me to tell her, Malik? Should I ask her why the fuck she's following me? I couldn't even look her in the eye!" I raise my hands in annoyance. Okay, I was able to look at her for a good 10 seconds but after that, my feet dragged me to leave and my chest was pounding so hard and I swear the lady at the cashier could have heard it.