One By One (One Direction Fanfic)

Drowning

*Louis' POV*
All this bumping around was starting to make me sick. Liam was looking at me with a worried look on his face. I'm sure I was probably looking a little green.

"Are you OK there Louis?"Liam asked. I nodded and Harry patted what would have been my knee.

"Try not to hurl on my back Lou."He said as I swallowed back another wave of nausea. I'd always been easily nauseated in a car but never like this. I wasn't sure I could hold it in much longer. I knew I would eventually need to empty the contents of my stomach. I was just praying it didn't land on Harry or worse yet on me.
 
*Zayn's POV*
I really just wanted to crawl into my lamp where I could be safe. Oh wait, I don't have a lamp! She had it and I was not OK with it at all. She was not my mother therefore not the only female allowed to touch my lamp. She's the only person I trust with my lamp, my Mum that is. I could feel the signs of genie-lamp separation anxiety coming on. I was fidgety and when I walked small plumes of smoke came up from the places I'd stepped. I was feeling very caged.

"Don't worry Zayn, we'll get your lamp back."Liam said. I shook my head then I leaned up against a tree.

"Could we just stop for a little while?"I asked and Liam motioned for everyone to come sit. I sat at the base of the tree and rubbed my head. Niall plopped down beside me. His wing brushed my shoulder. Harry stood as horses always do. He was part horse so he kind of leaned up against a tree. Louis was lifted from Harry's back by Liam who gently placed him on the ground by Harry's hooves. Louis leaned back on his leg.

"Does this bother you Hazza?"Louis asked.

"Not in the slightest."Harry replied. We all sat in silence not sure what we were going to do next. I heard giggling in the distance that almost sounded like girls, but it was cold. I thought my ears had to be playing tricks on me. There was no one else there but us. We were alone in this God forsaken world.
 
*Clarissa's POV*
I was walking back to my place when I was stopped by two girls. I wasn't stopped often but sometimes people recognized me as the person who is friends with One Direction.

"Is it true?"One asked.

"Is what true?"I asked taking the paper with their twitter names and tucking it in my purse.

"That they're not normal."The other said and I laughed. I laughed so hard I thought my sides were going to split.

"Have you ever really watched them love?"I said and the first one shook her head.

"Not that kind of not normal, like weird not normal. Like the TV station said, Louis is a mermaid."She said and I stared at them for a few minutes.

"Merman."I corrected automatically and their eyes widened."If he was a Merperson he would be a merman."I was trying to smooth over my mistake but I could tell it wasn't working. It wasn’t working in the slightest.

"I'll ask them to tweet you."I said quickly waving goodbye and speed walking the rest of the way home. I seriously couldn't believe people actually believed it. I mean, it was outlandish and completely stupid to believe something so ridiculous even though I knew it was true. I thought the directioners would take it like all the rumours that used to float around about them being dead. They've died so many times I can't keep track. When I finally got the door open in my apartment I was greeted by a woman sitting in one of my chairs drinking a cup of tea out of my good china. I couldn't have mistaken those purple eyes and white blonde hair for anyone else.