The Darkest Direction

Chapter 8

I wake up to a few large bumps in the road. I can hear Louis curse, he's been driving all night. I guess we're running from something too serious to give us time to stop at a hotel. Hopefully we'll be able to find someplace safe where Louis can sleep. The booth is black with the exception of a few streaks of weak light shining in through the crack at the end of the curtain. The air is cool but my fluffy sheets keep me somewhat warm. I hold down a small button on the digital watch Liam lent me, bright green digits glow. 3:26 AM. I try my best to get comfortable in Harry's bed. He said he'd try to get Louis' bed but he might be sleeping on the couch in the back. I pull the sheets over me and listen to the bus as it pushes through thick mud and hard rain, there's a clap of thunder. I close my eyes and try to go back to sleep. Then a crazy idea hits me. I pull the curtains back and look around, everyone's asleep except for Louis. I quietly make my way to the front.
"Hey Louis," I say as loud as I can while in a whisper. Louis' head jerks away to look at me.
"Alice! You scared me." Louis speaks a little louder.
"Can you sleep?" he says, a little softer.
"Yeah, it's just that I had this idea..."
"Yeah? What's that?" I squeeze into the driver's seat with Louis and whisper the idea into his ear. He laughs and looks at me, then back at the road.
"Oh my god, we have to do this."
"Will you stop the bus for a moment?"
"Yeah. But not long, just for this." Louis brings the bus to a halt and lightning flashes down on us through the trees. We get up and walk to the wall just before the beds.
"Wait, who do we do it to?" I ask.
"We should do Zayn," Louis says with a giggle.
"Yes oh my god, we should totally do Zayn."
"He'll freak!" We sneak over to Zayn's booth and slowly pull back his curtain inch by inch. He's dead asleep and lightly snoring with his mouth wide open. Louis and I look at each other and do our best not to start cracking up.
"This is perfect, do it," Louis says with excitement.
"Okay, I'm gonna do it!" I pull down my pants and squat over Zayn's face, letting a steady stream of pee flow out. Louis holds his mouth and inaudibly laughs. Zayn lets out a groan and Louis and I can't help but burst out laughing. We let it loose for a moment and try to calm down but struggle badly. I hit the wall and try to breathe, pee shooting out onto Zayn's face.
"He's still asleep!" Louis says through laughter.
"He-he-he can't even-he doesn't feel-" I try to get the phrase out and breathe at the same time.
"I know!" Louis yells even though my sentence made no sense.
"What's going on?" A sleepy Niall comes out from his booth rubbing his eyes. We're both laughing too hard to reply. Niall comes closer and tries to make out what's going on.
"Are you peeing on Zayn?" Niall lets out a small laugh and kneels down.
"Yes! And he's not waking up!" I say, almost losing my balance. Zayn turns to his side and starts mumbling, we all laugh.
"How long have you been peeing Alice? It's been like two minutes," Louis says, wiping tears from his cheeks.
"I've never peed this long!" I laugh so hard that I push off of the wall and my butt falls onto Zayn's face. We all laugh even harder. Zayn sits up and I fall to the ground, our laughter dies down a bit.
"What the hell is happening?" Zayn feels his soaking wet face.
"Alice was peeing on you!" Niall says with a huge smile.
"You were asleep through the entire thing!" Louis adds.
"Can someone get me a towel?" Zayn doesn't smile or laugh. Niall gets up and walks to the bathroom for a towel.
"Isn't that hilarious?" Louis asks, Zayn doesn't say anything.
"Are you mad?" I ask, trying to hold in the nonstop pee.
"I'm just tired guys." Niall hands Zayn the towel and dries what he can and lies back down.
"I'm going to sleep, good prank." Zayn pulls his curtains across and Louis and I look at each other and laugh.
"That was so great, but I'm wide awake now," Niall tells us.
"Niall, could you maybe drive until you get to a fork? I need to sleep."
"Sure thing Louis."
"Thank you so much." Niall takes a seat behind the wheel and steps on the pedal. Louis gets into his booth. I stand and waddle to the bathroom so I can finish peeing while on the toilet. Pee runs down my legs and I leave a trail behind me. I take a seat and empty my bladder until everything's out. Sweet, sweet relief. I turn off the light and shut the door behind me.
"Goodnight Alice," Louis whispers, sliding his curtains across.
"Goodnight Louis." I climb into bed and pull back the curtains. I lie down and close my eyes, listening to the storm. I love being with the boys. They came into my life so suddenly and everything is different. I think about how great this story will be a while from now.
"Remember the time I peed in Zayn's mouth?" I smile and turn onto my side, letting myself drift into a deep sleep.