Always

Chapter 25

LISSA

        So now it was Saturday and you'd think that everyone was asleep from the long nght and multiple drinks, but I on the other hand hadn't drank so I had an idea. Although I was deprived of sleep, I woke up at around 9 and of course all the girls were still asleep. I swiftly slipped out of the living room and away from everyone's sleeping bodies. I searched Elizabeth's kitchen for the certain ingredients to create the perfect disaster to loosen up. Ever since I distanced myself from Niall I had been returning to my old self. 

        I didn't show as many emotions and I was like a silent monk without all the wisdom. So I carried baking soda and vinegar with me to the trash can and carefully got out the empty 2 liter pop bottle. I poured all of what was left of the baking soda into the bottle and threw the box away. I then put a bunch of vinegar into the bottle and screwed the cap on tightly and kept the bottle very still as not to stir it up and loose the fiz. 

        I walked back to the girls and aimed the bottle towards the girls. Then I let all hell loose on them. The mixture had a foul smell but definitely exploded like a volcano onto them. They all woke and screeched. I made sure to not aim it at their eyes so I didn't impair them for the rest of their lives. I laughed so hard that I fell to the ground. They were all wide awake now.

        They all slowly got up and I slowly backed away out into the hall. Then they started running towards me. I ran as fast as my legs would carry me. Eventually they cornered me and tackled me and tickled me. I was about to pee my pants so I mustered some breath.

        "Tr-truce." I gasped out between laughs. They slowed and we decided that we were even. After that I was really hungry and everyone else was grumpy still from smelling like vinegar. We all ate breakfast and after another hour or so I left for my flat to take a shower and sleep. 

        When I got to my plain flat I dropped my bag and just went to the bathroom. I stripped and cleaned and just soaked for awhile till I got really tired. So I got out, changed, and slept. At around 3 I was woken up by Xander calling me. I groaned as my phone's ringtone resinated throughout the apartment leaving an annoying echo. I pulled the covers and sat up to reach for my phone that was charging on my night stand. 

        "HHHEEEYYYY!!" Xander shouted into the phone.

        "Bloody hell Xander I just woke up and still have a bit of a hangover." I growled.

        "Oh, that bad eh?" Xander laughed lightly.

        "What do you want?" I asked irritably.

        "Well, I was wondering if I could come over." Xander whispered into the phone.

        "I'm kind of a mess right now and just want some sleep, going clubbing really takes everything out of you."

        "Excuse me? You went clubbing and you didn't even bother to say hi to me at the bar?" Xander said in his best girl bitchy tone. I let out a small laugh. Just then I heard a ring at the door.

        "See the thing is.." Xander said into the phone as I arrived at the door. "I wasn't asking to come to your flat." he said the last part of his sentence as I opened the door to a cheery Xander.

        I facepalmed and shut the door in his face. He sighed over the phone and I hung up on him. Then he picked the lock on my front door and entered my flat.         

        "Thanks for asking to enter my living area." I said sarcastically. Xander just smiled and walked to my bedroom and plopped onto the bed. He flicked the small tv in my room on and I just shook my head. I laid dowm beside him and took his arm. He didnt even notice. I studied his arm and all the tattoos. Then I studied mine that was inbetween my fingers. It was a little itty bitty tear drop and to anyone who didn't look ard enough at it, it was a birthmark or a freckle or something. 

        "I want another." I stated simply. Xander looked at me confused.

        "What? Another arm?" I didn't think that he had noticed that I had captured his arm. Then he looked down at his tattooed arm and a look of realization came across his splendid face. 

        "OOOhh, wow I'm just going to be known as the guy that got you into tattoos. All we will do together is get tattoos." I just rolled my eyes. "Ok lets get you another tattoo." I smiled and we paused some Marvel show and I changed into something decent. I kicked Xander out of my room and put on leggings and a sweatshirt with some fuzzy boots. I was about to do my makeup when Xander just walked in.

        "Hey, what are you doing?" Xander pointed to himself in confusion as if he was asking if I was talking to him. I nodded vigorously. 

        "Oh, I was going to ask if I could do your makeup." he said like it was something every guy asked to do. I tilted my head in confusion.

        "Um what if I was naked and you walked in?" 

        "Well you aren't and I heard you fall over and curse to your boots and if I'm not mistaken you don't put your boots on before your clothes." he said matter-of-factly. I just shook my head and went to the bathroom with my makeup bag.

        "Ok, so I have always been confused about makeup because I see girls with it caked on and I have a pretty good idea of how not to do it so you should let me figure it out using your face as a canvas." I just shook my head... again.

        "FIne but if I look like a hag afterwards I will make you dig your own grave and bury you alive."

        Xander just paused, thought about it, and nodded his head. I handed him my bag and sat in my chair and looked into the mirror. 

        "You can only look at your face once I'm done." he said and turned my chair. He took out everything in my bag and laid it on the counter and inspected the things. It took us a long time because he didn't want to die so he googled what everything was and where it went. He obviously had never done this before.

        He decided to not put any face makeup on because he said I didn't need him and that the bronzer scared him. I laughed and he scolded me as he tried to curl my lashes. He only ended up using mascara, eyeliner, and the lash curler. He turned my chair and I was surprised. I actually looked good. The eyeliner was slightly crooked but it was straight enough. 

        I patted him on the back and we went to my car. I had a nicer car then him so we took mine instead. He was confused on why it mattered, but I just said that I was more comfortable in my own car. His was a clunker. I owned a Ford Fusion that was black and I loved it. 

        Xander gave me the directions for the tattoo parlor we had went to last time. I decided that I would get a small trail of stars on my collar bone. Xander said that stars were too childish and I should do something else. So I picked tiny little hummingbirds instead. It would be really hard for the person doing the tattoo to do but, it would look amazing. 

        Xander wanted one like it too so I got the hummingbirds on my collar bone and he got them aross his pointer finger. The tattoo took some time to perfect and then we were all done. They put bandage on it and I walked out happy. We didn't want to go back to my flat just yet and it was almost 5 so we went to a Chinese restaraunt that was down the street. We got the dinner buffet so that Xander could fill his bottomless pit of a stomach. I wasn't all that hungry for Chinese so I ordered takeout from Nandos. At the end of the call from them they told me that my chicken would be ready to be picked up at 5:30. As the time went by we chatted and I placed bets on how many plates of food he would consume.

        We had a good time. It was 3 minutes after 5:30 so we got our stuff and left for Nandos. All I had ate at the Chinese place was fortune cookies so I was really hungry. I parked and ran into the restaraunt and grabbed the bag that had my last name on it. 

        "I was waiting for you to pick your food up. I was about to pay when I saw you last name and decided to wait." I dropped the bag and sharply breathed.

        "Niall."