Every Minute's Like the Last; A One Direction Fan Fiction by Niallerbeast

Every Minute's Like the Last; Chapter Thirteen

Mikaela

October 2011; Day before party

Take me away

We'll jump in the car

Drive til the gas runs out and then walk so far

That we can't

See this place anymore

Take a day off

Give it a rest

So I can forget about this mess

“Oh baby, baby, how was I supposed to know,” I belted out to my shower head. “That something wasn’t right yeah. Something, something, I forget. HIT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME” just then, I thought I heard the bathroom door creak open. I shut the water off.

“Mikey? Is that you? Did you need the potty?” I asked out. Mikey, my roommate usually knocked or yelled, but maybe it was an emergency. Unfortunately, no one answered. Maybe I’d been hearing things. I reached my arm out and tapped the wall around the towel rack. Shoot, I left my towel in my bedroom. I pushed open the shower curtain anyway. Even if Mikey was still in the bathroom, he’d seen me naked a couple times. One of the not-so-nice perks of living together for so long. Plus, Mikey was gay.

Much to my surprise, the bathroom wasn’t empty, and it wasn’t Mikey.

“Ahhhhhhh!” I screamed, pulling the shower curtain so hard, it ripped off the little hooks. I wrapped it around me and looked into the face of the camera. “Get out! Get out I’m showering you perverts! Mikey!!” I pushed past the camera and the sound men and ran out to find Mikey lying on the couch watching TV with his boyfriend. “Mikey I’ve had it! I was naked Mikey! I told you, I don’t want another reality show! The Real World was fun, but I’m done with cameras!” I turned to go put some clothes on, and saw another camera right behind me. I pushed the guy out of the way and ran into my room, slamming the door. I quickly put on jeans and a t-shirt and grabbed my purse.

“Mikaela, wait,” Mikey appeared at my door. “Mikaela I’ve told them to give you space, but they don’t listen. There’s nothing I can do. Can’t you just cooperate with them?”

“No! I told you not to do this, and you said that you would let me have my privacy. I don’t want to be featured on the show, and I understood that living with you meant I’d have to be on camera sometimes, but why all the times? Mikey, I’m leaving.” I was planning on going to Harry’s. The lads had finally broken down and bought the flat next to Nikki’s, so they wouldn’t be in her way while they were in the States.

“You always fucking leave Mikaela, can’t we just have one normal conversation? Without us yelling or you leaving?” I pushed past him and hopped into my car, taking off for Harry’s.

*****

“Oh, Mikaela,” he said, when I turned up on his doorstep, my hair still dripping wet and a huge purse overflowing with clothes slung over my arm.

I stepped forward and collapsed into his arms, sniffling. He rubbed my back soothingly, and I broke down into tears again.

“Mikaela, were you and Mikey fighting again?” he asked, kissing the top of my head.

“Yes,” I managed to sniffle out. Harry took my bag from my arm and led me inside. I took a deep breath and tried to calm myself down so he and I could talk normally.

“Why don’t you just ask him to move out? It’s obvious you aren’t happy.”

“I can’t kick him out. And I can’t afford that apartment on my own. Not while I’m just waitressing. I need a real job to be able to afford anything. Which I can’t get, because I have no idea what I want to do with my life.” Harry looked down at his feet and shuffled his toes a little bit.

“Then move in here, with me.”

I looked up at Harry. “I couldn’t, what about Louis?” Harry and Louis were sharing this apartment. Liam and Niall lived together in the apartment upstairs, and Zayn lived in the studio above that by himself, but came down to either apartment to use the kitchen.

“Louis spends almost every night with Nikki. If he doesn’t sleep over, then he doesn’t come back here until late. You wouldn’t get in the way.”

“Do you think this would strain our relationship at all?” I asked. We’d only been together a few weeks, and that seemed really soon to be cohabitating.

“I don’t think so. And if it does, then one of us can always find somewhere else to live.”

“Harry, I’m not a pop star. I don’t have an endless amount of cash, or people that take care of me twenty-four seven. I don’t think I can afford this, even splitting rent three ways.”

“You don’t have to pay rent. Until you get a real job, you can be staying here as my guest. Please think about it Mikaela. This is the third night this week that you’ve come here crying over your fights with Mikey, and this is the second weekend in a row that you’ve stayed here because you couldn’t handle the fighting and the cameras. This isn’t healthy for you, and I want to fix that, to take care of you.”

“Are you sure?” to be honest, as scared as I was to move in with Harry, I was also excited. When I moved to L.A. to go on the show, I wanted to fall in love. I wanted to be one of the girls to have a showmance on set. I was a little disappointed when that didn’t happen. I wasn’t the girl who hooked up with random bar guys, and I didn’t want to be. But that didn’t mean that I didn’t want an adventure. After the show, my goal was to fall in love. And with Harry, I was pretty damn close. I could feel it. I was starting to fall in love with him. And nothing excused my old life more than moving in with a guy I’d been dating a short while.

“Mikaela, I’ve never been more sure of anything in my personal life, ever. I trust you. With other girls, I was always second-guessing things. Were they with me for fame or for love? Not with you. You’re like a breath of fresh air in my life. And I’m addicted to that feeling. Please, love, move in with me.”

I felt my face heat up as I broke into a huge smile. “Yes. Ok.” Harry picked me up off my feet and spun me around in a circle, before kissing me deeply.

“You won’t regret this M. I promise.”

A/N

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