wonderlani

Chapter 25

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"So dinner was nice," Zara burped into her fist, Lizzie smiled over in her direction but turned away when our eyes. I glanced at Zara, who took a deep breath out, "Never had food that expensive in my whole life,"

"It was alright," Nattie mumbled at the end with her arms crossed over her chest. We all stopped dead in our tracks, except Louisa as she throttled down the street. Zara rolled her eyes and walked after her as Lizzie and I stood closer to Nattie. Her blue eyes drained of color as she looked between us, "What?"

"Seriously? Seriously Nattie?" Lizzie huffed and Nattie shrugged, making Lizzie throw her arms in the air, "Thee, hottest, guy I have ever laid my eyes on took us out to an expensive dinner in Spain and you're standing here with your droopy face, like," Lizzie stepped back and copied Nattie's position, "It was alright," Lizzie mocked as she dropped her arms back down.

I smiled, "Nattie. What's the matter?" I placed my hands down in my jean pockets, rocking back and forth on my tiptoes, "Someone missin' Niall?"

"Are you fuckin' kidding me?" Oh god. Louisa marched up to Nattie; a full moon shined against her steel eyes and running down the strands of her grey curls. She looked like she was charging. Nattie laid back against the storefront with her arms still crossed, "You miss Niall? Well newsflash, Niall doesn't give a shit about you," Louisa chuckled and took a step back as Nattie pushed herself off against the wall, "And you know what else? Maybe you shouldn't be so damn ungrateful," Louisa huffed and huffed back down the street. 

We all stood there, stun. What the hell? Our eyes fell on Zara, who glanced at us and then at Louisa, mumbling, "Well what are we waiting for?"

We all breathed before following Louisa down the street. 

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We woke up to the sounds of dripping on the basement floor. My eyes peeked out through my lids, as I lifted my head from the pillow. As my body began to wake up, I realized that I wasn't down in the basement; I was in a room with five guys and a bunk bed. I groaned to myself as I dropped my head back to the bed.

After a few minutes of laying with my thoughts of self-hatred, 

What are you doing here? 

Why are you still here?

Why do you sound like a dying sheep, you don't deserve to be here!

I decided to just get up and move about the house while everyone else was sleeping. My feet touched the bunny soft carpet, as I swung myself off the bed to land on my knees. My head still stuck on the pillow as I smiled to myself, how do I always end in bed with Harry? Seriously? Always. 

I pushed myself up on my feet and tiptoed out of the room. I closed the door with a gentle creak and started down the hallway. As I got closer to the stairs, my ears started to itch with this awful noise. I cleared my throat, this is my throat isn't it? That awful noise is coming out of my vocal cords. Piece of crap. 

But the noise kept persisting and I started to think about running back to get a baseball bat, but I stood my ground and continued walking down the hallway toward the staircase. I finally got to the first step and my ears poked at the sound, for fuck's sake Fruit Lou.