How To Save A Life

Chapter 9

Harry placed Michael's drink in front of him and sat down. 

"What took so long?" he asked a bit annoyed. Harry took a sip of the Cosmopolitan and looked over at him.
"There was a long line." He lied and smiled. Michael just shrugged and took a huge sip of the drink.
"Remember that we have to drive back to the house later, so everyone can't be hammered." Jade said as she put her Pina Colada down at the table. Harry nodded. It was Friday and as they all worked the same shifts on Fridays, they had decided that it would be their usual day to go out drinking and having a good time together. Anyway, it also seemed to be one of the days Iggy and Evelyn would be performing and Harry felt kind of excited about hearing them once a week as well.

Harry took another sip of his drink as what he had just said to Louis settled in his head. He had really impressed himself; he really hadn't thought he had it in him. Maybe he had cleaned that whole mess up after all; maybe he could move on from it and just avoid neuro from now on. He had always thought he would go into cardio anyway, and Nick Grimshaw didn't seem too bad. Anyway, he had noticed Nick checking him out on multiple occasions, not that he was going to sleep with yet another attending, but he could always use that to his advantage, not that he was that kind of person anyway.

"Harry!" he suddenly heard someone say. He looked up to see Iggy wave at him from over by the stage. He excused himself and walked over to her. Her hair was straightened and pulled up in a high ponytail; her lips weren't red any longer but a shade of dark purple. She was still wearing black though, a tight jean-shorts and another revealing crop top and over the knee boots.

"Hey!" he said as he finished his drink and put the glass down on an empty table right beside them.
"You came." She said and hugged him all of a sudden. He hugged her back still unsure of her intentions. "Did you change your mind?" she asked as she leaned back.
"No, I'm gonna talk to Gemma – my sister – about it first and then we'll see. I came to see you perform though, and my friends and I usually go out on Fridays to party." He said. She nodded and smiled again.
"So I was gonna go get a drink, you wanna join?" she asked and he followed her over to the bar where Louis had sat down with his drink. He eyed him confusedly.
"What do you want?" Iggy asked.
"You don't have to order mine."
"I get free drinks since I'm performing, so yes I do."

Well, that seemed reasonable. Harry smiled at her again just to get another look from Louis. Was that jealousy he could see?
"Well, I'll have a vodka shot then." He said which had her smiling even broader. She turned as Calum came over to take their order.
"Give me two vodka shots!" she said. He nodded as he looked - still a bit pissed about the whole boob-job thing apparently - at Harry. He put the shots down in front of them.

"OK, let's do it on three!" she said and began counting. Harry could hear Louis make an annoyed sound at the other end of the bar.
"One!" she shouted and they downed their shots.
"Let's do another one later, I'll have to get backstage now though. See you after?" she asked.
"Of course!" Harry said and smirked.
"Can't wait." She replied and winked as she walked away.

Harry ordered another drink as he was planning on getting wasted. It was not like he didn't have enough drama to forget anyway. He wasn't really sure what he had built up to with Iggy though. She was nice and pretty... and fascinating, but he was still gay. Anyway, it seemed to annoy Louis so he was just going to go with it. If he was drunk, he could just blame that if she managed to get him to a bed and nothing happened. He did realize that was kind of rude to her, but right now he didn't give two shits about what he was doing. He downed the drink within minutes and decided to order another one. He brought it back to the table and sat down next to Michael again.

"Who was that?" Niall asked. Harry looked over at him as he felt the alcohol starting to affect him.
"She's the friend of one of the patients we had earlier..." he said which made him receive a confused look from Michael.
"I thought you were gay, dude." He said sipping on a beer he had ordered without Harry noticing.
"I am, I can't have female friends?" he asked taking a gulp of his drink.
"She's totally trying to bone you though and you're playing along." Michael continued. "... and I'm a bit jealous, 'cause she is hot as fuck."