Just a Runaway // Niall Horan // Book 1

Graceland & Plans - Chapter 20

It took the boys awhile to separate me from my laptop, so we could go to Graceland. I know I've always wanted to go, but I was so memorized by the woman I saw on the screen. I wanted to know who she was so bad!

I spent so long on Google and looking up news sites to see if they just had her name, but no one did. I hated when my mind got stuck on something that I knew there wasn't an easy way to figure it out. 

We were all sitting in the van being driven to Graceland, which was about 15 minutes away. I was in the back with Harry and Zayn. Everyone was on their phones considering I didn't even have mine. I was on my Ipod instead. I kept scrolling through my list trying to find the best song that would fit the mood, but wasn't having the best of luck. 

I'm sure my music was loud enough that Harry could hear it sitting right next to me, but at the moment I didn't really care. I just ended up putting it on shuffle, and the first song to come up was Breathing by Jason Derulo. 

I crossed my arms and rested my beanie covered head on the window. I could feel the coldness through the beanie from the window, but I didn't care. Now that we were now starting to get well into November, it's starting to noticeably cool off. Back in Detroit, we could even start to expect snow in a month or so. 

Winter was probably my favorite season. I wasn't a huge fan of summer, due to the sticky humidity. Plus, you could only strip off so much, but in the winter, you could wear as much as you wanted! 

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We finally got to Graceland and we probably spent about a few hours there. I just kept wanting to go back and forth walking through the whole thing. We went through the black and black dining room about 3 times, the living room twice, the Jungle room a few times, and so on. But my favorite room out of the whole house had to be the Pool Room. The walls were something I couldn't even describe. They had different layers, and probably had about every color. 

Of course I enjoyed it all, since I've always wanted to go there, but the one thing I couldn't get out of my head was what we all saw on the TV this morning. I have a right to know...right? I mean, it's my parents and they were on the news. Just before we had left for the hotel, I had the perfect plan all planned out.

We finally left at about 2 in the afternoon since everyone else was starving, but we couldn't eat until we got back to the hotel. 

We didn't have any paparazzi problems when we left the hotel, but we for sure had some when we got back. There were probably about 30 fans outside with posters and cameras, along with the regular paparazzi. I kept my head down the whole time since I didn't want to photographed, and I didn't want to hear what the 'fans' had to say either about or to me. 

When we got back up to the hallway, Harry, Liam, and Zayn went to their room while Niall, Louis, and I went into ours. I figured we'd all end up in the same room, but I didn't know which.

I went to my room, and quickly changed into something more comfortable, like some sweatpants and my Coca-Cola shirt. 

Behind me, Louis leaned on the door and knocked. He himself had already changed into sweatpants. 

"Hey, we're all going to go over the other boys' room and order some pizza." He held up him fist with him thumb pointing behind him.

I just nodded. "Okay. I'll be right over." 

I sighed and rubbed my face. I was tired, but it wasn't even 2:30 yet. All I wanted to do was lay on the couch and do nothing, except maybe take a nap since it sounded very nice about now. 

I went in the bathroom to fix my beanie and makeup and walked back out in the main room to find myself alone. I figured they were all already in the other room, so I quickly went and got my Ipod and went into the other boys' suite. They were all plopped on the couch with the TV on some show that I've never heard of. 

I quietly just walked in and I felt all of their eyes on me. I walked over to the big spinny chair and sat down, put my music in, and pulled my legs up. I layed over on my side and closed my eyes. I didn't know if I was actually going to be able to fall asleep, but it was worth the shot. 

I think I layed there for about a half hour, and I didn't get any luck of falling asleep. I groaned and opened my eyes to sit up.

"What's your problem?" Liam asked.

"I can't fall asleep."

He didn't say anything after that since I figured that's not what he was expecting me to say. 

"So what are you going to do about what your parents?" Louis asked this time.

"What do you mean?"

"Are you going to find out who that was?"

I let a big grin appear on my face. "Oh yes. Trust me, I have a plan."

"Well what is it?"

"We're going to Detroit the day after tomorrow, right?"

He nodded.

"Well, I'm going to go to the house, sneak in, and plant a camera."

"You're going to get footage?"

I nodded. "Sure, why not? At least that way if that lady comes back, I might be able to figure out who she is."

By now, I had all of the boys attention.

"Well, how are you going to get in?" Harry asked.

"I'm not sure yet, but I'll just wing it when I get there."

No one said anything else for about the next five minutes, and during those 5 minutes, I could just feel Niall's eyes on me. I haven't talked to him at all ever since he kissed me the night before, and I didn't really want to, but I had to when he spoke up.

"Hey Cole?"

I turned to meet his eyes.

"Do you have a texting app on your Ipod?"

I nodded.

"What's your number?"

I gulped, and told him my number. He was about to say something, but thankfully the pizza guy showed up. 

I didn't really have an appetite anymore. "Hey guys, I'm going to go back to our suite."

Louis groaned. "What?! Why?"

"I'm tired and I want to try and take a nap." Liar. I just wanted to avoid the awkwardness between Niall and I.

He hesitated for a minute. "Oh alright."

I went through the shared door into our suite and sighed. I leaned up against the door, and heard my Ipod go off in my pocket. 

It was a new text message. I didn't recognize the number at first, but once I read the message, I knew exactly who it was.

We need to talk.

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Heeey... So I meant to update yesterday...but that didn't hapen :/. I know it's short.. blegghh.

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