We Need A Reunion

Part 21

It was a week later and Louis has come home exhausted everyday. I'd just gotten back from dropping Freddie of at Jay's and decided that I wanted to fiddle around with my guitar. I went to my room and changed into something more comfortable. I chose some pyjama shorts, an oversize StarWars shirt and put my hair up in a messy bun. I also decided to take out my contacts and put on my glasses.

I sat on my bed messing with my guitar after tuning it. I put the strap on my shoulder, just in case, then played some chords and started strumming a song and humming along. I went and grabbed one of my songwriting journals that Louis and I started over the tour and tried to make sense of the gibberish we had wrote in there.

Around three hours later I had some semblance of a song and decided to check my phone. I had a text from Louis saying he was gonna be home soon and another from Zayn asking if he could come over. I replied to both before trying to finish the song. Forty minutes later I decide to try find my laptop and start putting the background music together. I always wrote when I was bored and I always did the background music on my laptop as it was just easier. I walk out my room and into the living room in search of my laptop with my guitar on my back. I freeze as I enter as I see Liam, Louis, Harry and Niall staring back at me.

I blush as I look down at my outfit then stutter out a 'Hi'. During my boredom I had pushed a pen and pencil into my hair. I must've looked a train wreck honestly. The boys laugh at my awkwardness.

"You could've told me that you were home and had guests over." I say looking at Louis after they'd calmed down. "Speaking of guests, Z's on his way over."

"I did tell you. I texted you back saying the boys wanted to hang out. What were you doing anyway? I mean I can get an idea of what you were doing but was it just messing or have you actually pulled something together?" Louis said back to me looking at my guitar.

"Actually pulled something together. I came in here to grab my laptop." I say taking my guitar of my back and propping it against the sofa while looking for my laptop. "Do you know where the yoke is?"

"The yolk is in the egg." Louis says and I stick my tongue out at him.

"You know what I mean. Have you seen my laptop?"

"It's in the coffee table drawer."

"Thank you."

"What kind of guitar do you have?" Asks Niall picking it up. I smile at that and quickly answer.

"It's a Lowden s32 from 1978 it was my grandads when he used to play. Uncle John got him it for his birthday that year. He's gotten every single person who has used it since he got it to sign it. He used to help Uncle John around the studio and lent his guitar to the artists, so there are quite a few famous people that has signed it. Including Louis, Zayn and myself. Grandad gave it to me on my eighteenth and I've had it ever since." I say.

"Wow, that's crazy. It's like one of the first ones made by them! Do you mind if I try something on it?" He says looking at it in awe.

"Go ahead as long as you don't mind signing it after. I still need to grab my damn laptop." I say before hearing a knock at the door. "That's probably Z. Who doesn't know you lot are here."

I walk to the door and open it and standing there is Zayn in jeans and a t-shirt. I give him a hug and invite him in. I tell him the lads are here and we walk to the living room.

"Look who decided to show up after half an hour." I say playfully glaring at Zayn. He chuckles back and puts his arms up in surrender.

"Sorry management called on my way over. Bunch of nonsense though." He says.

"Most managers are a bunch of nonsense. I got lucky." Louis said smiling. I grin at that before turning back to Niall. He was sat fiddling with the strings and playing some chords. I laugh at his look of awe which gets Zayn's attention. He looks to where I'm looking and laughs as well.

"I told you that'd be his reaction K. He's obsessed with the buggers." Zayn says.

"So you did." I say nodding. "You weren't much better Z, especially after you saw who'd signed it. Then again it's a very special guitar and not just because it's Irish made, like me." I wink at him as I say that and he starts laughing again.

"Now where is that fecking laptop." I mumble to myself walking over to the coffee table. I find it and start it up while Niall plays starts to actually play a song. I recognise it as 'Little Things' and so do the boys. They grin and sing along while I check my email.

They finish the song as I come across and email from Theo. I groan and Louis looks over at me. I give him a look that means 'I'm dying internally, help me'.

"What's the matter Kayleigh? Sick of our singing already." Harry says giggling.

"No the singing was great. It's just Theo again." I say before quietly saying. "How many cases does he need help with?"

Apparently it wasn't quiet enough as Liam, who was sat next to me heard it.

"What do you mean cases?" He asks looking at me.

I look up and see all of them looking at me expectantly. I sigh once looking down before looking back up at them.

"I consult with Scotland Yard on some of their cold cases or cases that they need help with. Theo, my step-dad, accidentally sent me a link to a case he was working on a few years back. I took a look at it and gave him a list of the suspects characteristics. Apparently he'd been on that particular case for a few weeks and was getting nowhere. When asked why I thought it was those people I gave him a description and he said I was a natural profiler. I help him now whenever I can under the conditions that I remain an anonymous consultant and as long as it doesn't interfere with my normal work." I say. They all looked shocked except Louis and Zayn who nod.

"What kinda case is it this time?" Asks Zayn.

"A set of serial burglaries from what I can see." I say reading over the little bit of information Theo sent with the email. "I'll look over the actual files later for now let's talk."

With that I shut off my laptop and a normal conversation picks up. I hand Niall a sharpie and he signs the back of the guitar next to where Louis's signature is. He then looks over the rest of the signatures then looked up at me.

"Ed Sheeran, George Harrison and David Bowie have all played this guitar?" He asks.

"Yeah. Though most of the ones who have played were back when my Grandad worked for John." I say.

"Wait really?" Harry says coming over to look at the back of the guitar. I nod.

"It's been in many hands since it was made. If you look on the inside, it actually has the signatures of all the people who made it as well. That's how my Grandad got the idea for the back."

"George Lowden helped make this guitar? That's so cool!" Niall says.

"Pass it over here I wanna take a look." Liam says. Niall looks reluctant to give it up.

"How about this, if you give it to Liam now I'll let you borrow it whenever you want." I say before adding. "As long as you don't break it."

"Really?" He says with his eyes lighting up. I nod and he hands it over to Liam.

When they've all stopped fangirling over who has signed it, I put it back in my room before sitting down on the sofa with my head on Zayn's thigh and legs across Louis'.