Walk The Line. -Louis Tomlinson

Chapter 4: Who else is on this liferaft?

Chapter 4: Who else is on this liferaft?

Still in the arms of some complete stranger, I dragged my phone safely out of my pocket. No reception. No texts, no wifi. Just a clock and games. And a 20% battery. What else could be worse?

I looked at the time. 7.45. Really? So I just randomly jumped into the water hoping to land in a lifeboat? Lucky me. I wonder what time the alarm went off? A guess may have been about 1am? Wow.

I sat up trying not to wake the stranger who had his arms around me. Who else had magically fallen into this boat? Who else hadn’t fallen into a boat at all?

The boys eyes fluttered open. He obviously remembered exactly what happened as he muttered a quick ‘sorry’ to me. I smiled as a response. I counted 7 people in the boat. 5 boys and my best friend and I.

I looked around to see Indie snuggled up into a curly boys arms. She looked tired and warm so i didn’t bother waking her.

3 other boys were fast asleep in the arms of eachother really. And thin blankets that theyd obviously pulled out from the safety kit.

“Erm , i hope i didn’t wake you?” The boy said with a thick Irish accent. Running his hand through his blonde muffled hair. “No, im sorry i snuggled up to you. I was just awoken by what had happened.” “Yeah. Whos the girl in Harry’s arms?” “Im just going to guess, your Liam?”. “Niall he corrected me.” “Oh sorry” i answered as he laughed. “Im just not one of those crazy girls who follow you around all day”. “He smiled

“So uh, where do you think we are?” I asked him. “I guess somewhere in the English Channel”

“Im Layah. By the way”. “Lovely name”. “Thankyou.”

“Yeah. So uh, i guess you may not know but thats Liam” He pointed to a tall brunette resting on the crook of the dark haired boys shoulder. “And thats Zayn. The one hes leaning on”. “Harry with the erm girl and Louis over there”.

Louis. Louis. I had to ask Louis. A million questions ran through my mind. Did he know my mother? Did he know of me? Did he think about meeting me?

“Layah” Niall repeated and I looked at Niall with a confused face. “Im guessing you have a little thing for Louis?” He asks. “Well no, i just. Its complicated. Very”. “Well im here all day and night i think and tomorrow, until something washes us to shore so you can tell me if you want...”

“Okay erm. My best friend doesn’t even know. The one curled up in Harrys arms”. “Oh thats your best friend?” “Yeah but erm anyway”. I can tell Niall starts to listen, properly.

“When i was little i had always longed for a little brother or sister. We lived in Doncaster at the time. My mother never spoke of her family. She once did very rarely when i asked if I had any cousins. She said she thinks her brother Mark has 5 kids. So then i have 5. But then when i was 5, my aunty Analyse from my dads side was looking after me since it was my mother and fathers honeymoon. They didn’t come home the night they were meant to and my aunty couldn’t look after me as she had to move.Both my parents died in the plane crash from Australia to England.”

“ I remember all the names of my ‘cousins’ hoping one day i’d meet them. Louis, Lottie, Fizzy, Daisy and Pheobe. But it never happened. Until i realised the name ‘Louis Tomlinson’ in the band One Direction. I was never a real directioner or one of those girls that fangirl over something so small. So when i realised Louis was performing on the ship, I decided to go check it out as i longed for a cousin. I was an only child so who could blame me. I just needed to meet Louis but i never felt like the singing after the concert was such a good idea either. My best friend and my aunty Analyse were best friends so my new mother Jess would care for me. And now that i turned 18, they bought Indie and I a joint present since our birthdays were only weeks apart.”

I looked back at Nialls face. He seemed tired but i knew from his expressions he’d listened to it all. “Wow, you had one hard life didn’t you?” i nodded in agreement. “But after Jess and Tom started caring for me, i felt alot more secure”.

“So are you going to tell Louis?” “I’ll try as soon as he wakes up.”

Funny enough, Niall reaches over to Louis patting his face. “Lou, Lou, *slap*” “Ow what Nialler?!” “Lou, we need to talk.”