Running Bases With You

Chapter 43

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*Annabeth's POV*

I stayed with Louis all night at the hospital while they observed him. Talia and the lads went home not long after Louis and I had our special 'moment' together. I am more than ecstatic that we settled our ongoing mess of a situation. I feel much more relaxed and less anxious now that I don't have to worry about him hating me anymore.

The night was awfully long, and Louis kept waking up with excruciating headaches. The doctor told him it was a normal side effect of a concussion and gave him pain killers to put him back to sleep. They would last for a few hours, but eventually he would wake up again and ask for more.

"Annabeth?"

Louis' voice catches my attention and I look up from my phone.

"Yeah, Lou?" I say gently.

"C-Can you please get me some water. I'm really thirsty." He coughs slightly, his voice croaky from lack of sleep.

I stand up and set my phone to the side. "Of course. I'll be right back."

I leave him alone in the room to go to the vending machines and get him a water bottle.

I'm sliding coins into the old machine when I hear a familiar British accent from around the corner.

"Excuse me, can you please tell me where Louis Tomlinson's room is? The other nurse told me the floor, but not the room."

My eyebrows furrow in confusion. It can't be her...

I peek my head around the corner just enough to see the familiar brown hair, designer clothes, and perfect legs. My jaw hits the floor in an instant and I snap my head back around the corner.

Eleanor Calder.

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*Louis' POV*

I'm laying in the uncomfortable hospital bed waiting for Annabeth to come back, the dull ache in my head slowly becoming worse. It's 9 A.M., and I barely slept at all last night. I really pray these headaches go away soon...

A knock on the door breaks me from my thoughts and I snap my head up to see who it is. Thinking it's one of the lads coming to visit, I smile a little.

"Thanks for coming lad, I thou-"

Not a lad, but a woman, steps in the room. But not just any woman. A woman that shattered my heart to pieces. A woman who ruined me and my thoughts on love. A woman who I know all too well. A woman known as Eleanor Jane Calder.

"Hello, Louis." She smiles.

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*Annabeth's POV*

"Yes, I'm sure it's her!"

"What the hell!"

"I know, yeah?!"

I stand in an empty corridor leaning against the wall. I called Talia almost as soon as I saw Eleanor disappear on her way towards Louis' room.

"You need to do something! Louis will flip when he sees her!" Talia yells nervously.

I take a deep breath, sighing. "There's nothing I can do! She probably doesn't even know he has a girlfriend again! Louis has been keeping things hidden as best as he can since he knows I can't handle too much. He wants the media and paps out of our business as much as possible."

"Uhg! Do I need to come up there? Because I will, and you know it. I will beat her cheating arse-"

"Talia, enough! I can't even think straight right now, damn it what do I do?" I practically whine, so frustrated I'm nearly in tears.