A Hybrid And One Direction (ON HOLD/SLOW UPDATES)

Chapter Six

Chapter Six

One hour left until we arrive in York. Parsley has slept in my coat pocket the whole way, but I can't wait to get to our hotel and have my own room again to hide Pars in.

"Elise, do you want to play truth or dare?" Harry asks, snapping me out of my thoughts of the kitten in my pocket.

"What dares can we do in the car?" I question.

"Umm... dare you to pick truth?" Niall suggests.

"So it's basically just truth?" I ask.

"Truth OR truth, to be fair." Zayn says, looking me in the eye. The rest of the boys laugh, but I feel threatened. I feel like if I agree he'll make me tell the truth about Parsley. And I'm not going to do that.

"Haha. But no thanks." I say, crossing my arms over my chest.

"Awwwwwww!" The boys protest. I feel Pars start to move in my coat pocket.

"But Eliiiiise!" Niall whines.

"Come on Elise, have some fun!" Liam says.

"I'm already having fun." I lie.

"No you're not." Harry sees through it. "Come on. How bad could it be? I'll start. Elise, truth or truth?" He smiles at me. I raise my eyebrows at him.

"I never said yes." I protest.

"Truth it is! Ummm... how many boyfriends have you had?" He asks. I can feel myself blush.

"None." I answer.

"Don't lie to us! How many?" Louis says.

I hesitate. "One." I tell the truth. Zayn looks skeptical.

"How old are you again?" He asks.

"Sixteen." I answer.

"Oh. You look much older." Liam comments.

"Tell us about your one boyfriend!" Louis demands, leaning forward in his seat to look at me.

"Okaay, well his name's Alfie but he likes to go by his middle name, Bryson. He works as a barista at Starbucks, which is how I met him. He's eighteen years old but still a kid at heart and we are currently still dating. Zayn, truth or truth?"

"Truth."

"Which one, first or second?"

"Does it matter?"

"It might very well matter. The first one might be as simple as what do you like to have for breakfast, whereas the second one could be the key to saving the universe from alien robots who scream 'exterminate!' or something like that."

"Okay, the second one then."

"Or, the first one could be the key and the second one could concern breakfast foods."

"Gosh, girl, just ask me a question already!"

"Okay. Your question is: first truth or second truth? You must answer truthfully."

Zayn groans and rubs his temples while the rest of the boys are laughing.

"Guys! We're here!" Paul the security guard interrupts from the front of the van.

"Yay!" The boys cheer." I sigh in relief. Parsley squirms in my pocket, and for once I'm not worried about the boys seeing.

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"There's only five rooms, and the couch is not big enough to sleep on, so Elise you'll have to room with one of us." Liam explains. I look around at the boys. Harry gives me an I-told-you-so look.

"Zayn." I decide. Zayn gives me a look, but I can tell he understands my reasoning.

"Okay that's settled, let's all put our stuff in our rooms and go out to dinner." Liam says. The boys cheer half-heartedly.

----(skipping dinner)----

Zayn and I go back to our room, where Parsley is happily chasing a little rubber ball around the room.

"You never answered my question." I say once the door is closed.

"What question?" Zayn asks.

"First truth or second truth?"

"Ugh, you're still on that?"

"Just choose one!"

"Fine! Second truth."

"Okay. Why are you helping me?"

"I'm not helping."

"Well, you're keeping my secret, so to me that's helping."

"Does it matter?"

"It matters to me."

"It doesn't matter to me."

"It matters, ok? You could've told them the truth the first time, but you told them I should tell them."

"The secret wasn't mine to tell."

"And then when I lied, you said you should've told them the truth in the first place, but then you didn't. And then when-" Zayn cuts me off my pressing his lips onto mine. I stand there stunned for a minute before stepping away and slapping him.

"Ow!" He yelps.

"What the hell was that?!" I almost yell. "You have a fiancée!"

"I was getting you to shut up." Zayn says with a smirk.

"What, do you just kiss everybody when you want them to stop talking?"

"It works with Perrie. Not so much for you, though."

A loud knock comes at the door. Frightened, Parsley scurries underneath the bed with her ball. The door opens to reveal Niall.

"I heard you yelling at Zayn, is everything alri- woah, Elise, your face is really red."

Then something dreadful happens, something I was completely not expecting. Niall's eyes widen and he says,

"Woah, is that a cat?"