My Addiction

My Addiction: Chapter Eight

Ed looked down at me, and our eyes met, "Have you heard of One Direction?"

I stared at Ed with a blank expression on my face.

"I'll take your lack of an answer as a no."

"Is that like a movie or something?"

I saw Ed's face spread into a smile and he bursted into laughter and replied, "No Analee, no. They're a band."

"Oh, so like a boy band then?"

"Yes, but they don't really like being called that."

I nodded my head as we continued walking down the long corridor to a room with loud music coming from it. I looked to Ed and raised an eyebrow. Ed just shrugged in return. We walked towards the door and Ed didn't even bother knocking, he just walked right in.

I walked next to Ed and subconciously held onto his arm since I had some social anxiety. He looked down at me and smiled, "Harry, we're here mate." A guy with ripped skinny jeans and extremely curly hair walked over to us then yelled, "Mate, turn down the volume."One of the other guys turned down the volume.

"I'm Harry." The curly haired guy said.

"I'm Analee." I said quietly, tightning my grip on Ed's arm.

"These are Niall, Liam, Zayn, and Louis is the one over there doing some weird ass yoga shit."

"It's karate!" Louis yelled, glaring at Harry.

"Lou, you don't do karate and you know it!" Harry said rolling his eyes.

Louis got up and walked over to where we all were and widened his eyes and lifted up one of his legs and pretend kicked Harry while making really weird noises and said, "I may not know karate, but I do know crazy, and I am NOT afraid to use it."

I laughed at how weird these two were already acting and I hadn't even known them for two minutes.

"What's your name?" Louis asked.

"Analee." I replied.

Harry looked between Ed and I and saw how I was holding onto him and said, "Are you two, you know?" then he wagged his eyebrows at us.

I looked down at how I was holding onto Ed and quickly let go and mumbled "N-no uh, we-we're just friends."

Ed nodded his head and Niall said, "So Analee, do you cook? Because I swear, my body is eating away every ounce of muscle I ever had because of how hungry I am." Everyone except for me rolled their eyes at his remark.

"He eats more than a starved elephant." Zayn said exasperatedly.

I let out a nervous laugh and replied, "Well, I can make a mean bowl of cereal." Everyone in the room laughed and I smiled slightly. I felt Ed's hand touch my back and he rubbed soothing circles into my skin. Surprisingly, it helped me become slightly more comfortable. Slightly.

"To the kitchen pretty lady!" Niall yelled and ran into the kitchen and began rummaging around the fridge. We sat in silence for a few moments when Zayn suddenly said, "We should probably go supervise in case he tries to use the stove again." The four guys all shuddered and we walked into the kitchen.

I felt Ed put his hand on my arm and pull me back so that the five guys I had just met were in the kitchen and Ed and I were behind them.

"Are you okay?" Ed asked quietly.

"Yeah, great." I said with a fake smile.

"No, you're not. We're going to talk about this later." Ed said sternly.