Aloha Aloha ✩ Harry Styles (Editing)

Chapter 18

"Hurricane Ana is forming by the Pacific Ocean, making today a big storm here in Hilo. If you are out of your home, please go back in this very instant before the rain and the wind turns harder."
"Oh shit," Josie mutters.
"We need to go," Louis says.
"Yeah," Niall says, standing up and grabbing his jacket.
"We'll text you when we arrive home," Keanna says. "Josie's staying with me."
"No way," Niall and I say.
"You need to come with us to the hotel," Niall says, clearing his throat.
"It's okay," Keanna says. "It's not that far."
"Come with us," I say. We all have worried looks in our faces.
"Okay," Keanna says, sighing.

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"The streets are flooding," Liam says, driving
"Really?" I ask, looking through the windows. The rain is hitting the street hardly, as well as the ceiling of the van. The sky was impossibly darker than before. The weather was turning colder.
"Oh, a lightning," Josie whispers.
"It's... going to be okay," Zayn whispers. I could see how he didn't even believed on what he said.
"This hasn't happened since a few years ago," Keanna says, biting her lip.
"Since we were... 14?" Josie says, smiling.
"Yeah," Keanna says. "That time we were having a slumber party, right?"
"Oh yeah," Josie says, laughing. "Keanna, Madison, Tanya, Anna, and me were all gathered in my house."
"Maddie was really scared," Keanna says, laughing.
"She kept saying that the lightnings were going to burn the house," Josie says.
"So you have known each other since long ago?" Louis asks.
"Yeah," Keanna says. "It's the same with Carter and Ethan."
"And nothing ever happened between the guys and you?" Zayn asks. "Besides Anna and Ethan?"
"Mmm no actually," Josie says. "We have always been just friends."
"And the group has always been like it is now?" I ask.
"No," Keanna says, looking to the ground. "There was this boy, Cody."
"And what... what happened?" Niall asks.
"He was someone bad," Josie says. "He did something awful to her and disappeared without giving an explanation about it. No one has seen him since then."
"He's an idiot," I say, "I bet."
"You are right," Keanna says, laughing.

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Tired of staying more than 30 minutes in the traffic, we go up the stairs and lead the girls to our room. We open the door and let them pass first. Then we follow them. I take of my shoes, groan, and walk directly to the couch and lay in it, making the others laugh. My wet clothes stick to the fabric of it.

"Are you tired?" Louis asks, patting my back. I can feel he's grinning.
"You bet," I say, facing down.
"Well," Liam says, "go to bed because I want to sit down!"
"Ugh," I say, groaning. Josie and Keanna keep giggling. I stand up from the coach, but before Liam can sit, Josie lays it.
"Thanks Harry," she says, taking off her heels.
"Are we really going to fight for the coach?" Zayn asks, sitting in the floor.
"If I sit in the ground, my butt will hurt," Louis says, smirking.
"I was kidding," Josie says, sitting straight in the coach, leaving space for someone else. "Who wants to sit?"
"Me," Liam says.
"Me!" Niall exclaims, pushing Liam and sitting besides Josie.
"The Hunger Games, or what?" I ask, making them laugh. "I'm going to sleep."
"Is there another bed?" Keanna says. My eyes, within everyone else's, widen.
"There are two beds," Louis says, making his typical smirk.

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"Thank you for having us here," Keanna says, sitting in one of the beds. The door of the room was, by the way, closed.
"You're welcome," I say, brushing my teeth in the bathroom.
I could listen the rain hitting the ceiling loudly. A cold breeze slaps me and start shaking. I close the small window next to the shower and spit what I had in my mouth in the washbasin.
"Why didn't you just let us go?" she asks. I wash my mouth with water quickly.
"It was dangerous," I say, closing the faucet. "I would have been extremely worried."
"That's cute," she says.

I turn off the light of the bathroom and close its door. I sit in the other bed, facing her. She is playing with her fingertips. Her nails are no longer gold. Instead, they are blue, combining her dress.