Chapter 48 - There's nothing like a little bit of drama...
"Come on, hurry Rach! We’re never hearing the end of this if Miss finds us!" Harry grabbed onto my hand pulling me behind me rushing out of the water. I tried to run dragging behind me, very tired and very wet. What a night….
"Wait-Harry wait!” I stopped and pulled his arm back. He stopped and looked at me concerned. I crouched forward and rested my hands on my knees. “Jesus, you know I don’t do physical activity. I can’t run.” I couched a few times, and tried my best to stop panting.
"Damn Rach, we just started running." Harry poked me lightly, and wrapped a towel around me.
"Exactly. Thank you." I added covering myself up in the towel.
He stood there patiently waiting for me for a little bit. I could see him anxiously shifting in his spot. He slowly raised his head, studied me for a second and grabbed onto my hand again. “Let’s go now!”
“Oh my god!” I wailed but forced my legs to run and get this night done with.
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“We made it! Thank god, I haven’t done that much running in—oh I can’t even remember when the last time was. It was so long ago.” I held my stomach, I had the worst cramp. I shut the door behind us, and we both turned around realizing everyone in the room was up. Zayn, Louis, and Kate were all stood there, just staring at us looking confused.
"Where the heck were you two? Do you have any idea how late it is?" Kate snapped and marched towards us.
I rolled my eyes, “Actually, no we didn’t mom.” She glared at me.
"Yeah, where were you two though?" Louis wondered, but his tone was much calmer than Kate's.
I looked over at Zayn, who seemed to be just lying in his bed, reading a book. That was odd; Zayn didn’t read. "Oh, we were just out...in the water. We just went for a quick swim.” Harry quickly answered.
"In the water, at this time? Wasn't it cold?" Louis asked surprised.
"Yup, but we had fun!" l replied, hugging onto Harry's arm. I don’t know why we were trying to look shady, there was nothing to hide.
Zayn looked over and rolled his eyes.
"Umm, sorry if we disturbed you guys..." Harry quietly mumbled.
Zayn got up from his bed, and rolled off. "Nope, not a problem. Just get some sleep now. If you don't wake up tomorrow for the class tour, you're going to get in shit. Plus, you’re still wet. Get warmed up, you don’t want to catch a cold." Zayn stated with a friendly smile, as he walked off.
I nodded, and smiled at him. Although his sudden very sweet behaviour recently had been the weirdest thing, I did still love it.
"Alright babe, night." Harry leaned in and kissed me on the lips softly.
"Eww, get a room." Kate turned the other way groaning.
Louis stared at her with his arms crossed. "Oh my, can you grow up. I actually can’t stand you, just fucking go to sleep." Louis turned around and walked over to his bed. Cleary Kate didn’t piss anyone off as much as she pissed Louis off.
"I can’t when I’m staying in a room filled with idiots.”
I heard Louis groan, “Shut the hell up, bitch.” He covered himself up in his blanket and turned to the side.
Harry pulled back from me laughing at the two fighting. "Okay, now we've really got to get some sleep before some real drama starts. So goodnight." I leaned over giving him one last hug, realizing Zayn was glancing over every few seconds. He finally turned over pulling the covers over him.
Harry walked over to his bed and collapsed right onto it without even changing out of his wet clothes. Kate uncrossed her arms, and passed by me to get to her bed. She bumped into my arm intentionally, and whispered "Bitch."
"Slut." l snapped back, looking over at Louis who gave me an approving thumb up.
I smiled at him and sat down into my bed. I did just the same as Harry had, I had passed out onto my bed, in my soaking wet clothes. We were all so childish, it was quite funny. Laying down in my fresh sheets felt so nice. I shut my eyes and drifted off to sleep within seconds.
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"Rachel, Rachel, RACHEL GET UP!" I could hear my annoying little sister’s voice calling down at me again. Thankfully I had learnt to ignore it after dealing with it every single day. But today, it was just a constant call, ringing in my ears.
"WHAT!?!" I finally shouted getting up. I rubbed my eyes, preventing the blurred vision and realized it was Zayn. He backed up holding his hands up in defense. I quickly grabbed onto my blanket, pulling it up and covering my chest. My tank top was a little too tight…
"Oh geez, sorry Zayn. I thought you were Ali. Guess that long night really put me to a good sleep." I sighed, running my hands through my hair.
Zayn sat down beside me on the bed, making room for himself. "Yes, that’s understandable. But what isn’t, how do you mistake my voice for a little girls voice!?"
I chuckled and pushed him playfully. "Your voice is just that girly Zayn sorry." I got up and searched my bag for my makeup.
"Hey! I consider my voice very deep and manly actually." Zayn protested following me.
"Yeah, whatever floats your boat. That’s fine.”
He had a cheeky smug look on his face. “Where has this sarcastic Rachel come from all of a sudden?”
I raised my eyebrow. “Wow, I really hang out with Louis a little too much. Anyways, why were you waking me up? Are we going somewhere?”
He sat back down on my bed and shrugged. “Nope. I was just bored and there was no on here.”
I choked, “You woke me up just because you were bored?”
He smacked his lips, “Yup.”
I groaned and turned away, “Damn, Zayn! That was the best sleep had in such a long time. You suck.”
He chuckled and pulled his hands behind is head, laying down on my bed. “That’s what you get for getting too freaky last night with Styles in the water.”
My makeup bag fell from my hands and stumbled to the floor. “What the-what do you think we did last night?”
“Uhm, I’d rather not talk about it Rach, let’s keep this conversation PG.”
“Zayn!” I chucked a pillow at him. “You filthy minded pig!”
His mouth fell open and he shut his eyes. He slowly sat back up. “What did you just call me?”
“A fifthly. Minded. Pig.”
He threw the pillow to the other side and stood up. “Alright that’s it, get over here Morgan!” I shrieked and ran into the bathroom before Zayn caught up to me.
"RACHEL YOU GET OVER HERE!" He ran towards the bathroom, but I shut the door just before he could make it in. Except, Zayn was much stronger than me, and kept the door from shutting all the way.
"Open the door Rachel; you know I won’t back down on a tickle war. You've made fun of me more than once today and it’s only the morning. It’s WAR BABY!" He pushed onto the door, laughing at me struggling to keep it closed.
I on the inside of the bathroom pushed with all my might, but it was a complete struggle since I was mostly laughing than pushing. "Zayn, leave me alone! I'm sorry!" I laughed, trying to keep myself from sliding on the floor.
"Nope, that won't do it. You have to come out so I can torture you. A man needs his revenge.”
"What are you a child? If you were a man you would take an insult like a man!" I bit on my lip from bursting into laughter.
"That’s three! NOW THIS IS WAR! RACHEL MORGAN YOU COME OUT HERE NOW!" Zayn laughed his high pitched laughter, and continued pushing on the door.
"Umm, what are you doing?" I heard another voice behind the door. It sounded like Harry. I let go of the knob on the door and realized Zayn had pulled back as well.
"Dude, put some clothes on.” I heard Zayn mumble.
“I just got out of the shower.” Harry replied in a monotone voice.
I could help myself from imagining Harry dressed in nothing but a towel wrapped around his waist. His body-I shook my head. Focus. I leaned in onto the door, trying to listen in. I wasn’t trying to hide, I was a little curious though to what was going to happen next. This was my chance to quickly do my makeup before Zayn started bargng through the door again. But I was making sure I was eavesdropping at the same time.
“So, what are you doing here in Rachel’s room?”
Shit, was Harry really thinking like that again?
"Oh c'mon sexy. Relax a little. They were just fighting on who got to use the bathroom first." I was sure that was Louis’ voice. Thank god.
"Hasn't he ever heard of ladies first?" Harry snapped.
My eyes widened. Wow, Zayn and Harry really did have some big beef going on between them.
Zayn scoffed and I heard him walk up, probably to get closer to him. "You know, you really have some nerve talking to me like that. After what I did, you still aren’t grateful. I really shouldn't have let you take the credit. I was better off taking credit for something I wasn't a coward enough to do."
What was he talking about? Credit for what?
"Well I never asked you to do it. You’re the one who wanted to be the hero of the day; I would have found a different and safer way to save her. I think smart, you just think fast.” Harry argued back.
“That’s the last time I ever do something for you. That wasn’t even for you actually, it was for her. I knew I didn’t like you much, I was thinking right. And for future reference, just so you know, anything I ever do in favor of you isn’t actually for you. It’s always going to be for her.”
That was enough. I opened the door, and walked out. Harry’s eyes widened once he saw me.
"Woah woah woah. Okay boys, c'mon. Let's just go to the beach now and cool off." Louis cut in, trying to break the ice.
Harry's face flustered with anger and he whispered to Zayn. "You knew she was in here. That's why you were saying all that. So she would know the truth. Was this your plan from the beginning?” He sneered disgusted. I couldn’t hear what they were saying, but I was sure that was what he whispered by lip reading.
Zayn shook his head quickly. "No I swear to god, I forgot” Zayn whispered back, looking back at me and then at him, making sure I couldn’t hear. What the hell was happening?
“Yeah, okay." Harry replied back unconvinced.
"C'mon sexy, you've got some tanning to do as well to make the body of yours look even better." Louis winked at him jokingly, making Harry smile a bit.
"I'll meet you back at the beach later babe." Harry kissed my cheek, as if he didn’t need to explain what had just happened.
I just nodded. "Alright, I'll just get ready."
Harry smiled and turned around heading out the door with Louis behind him.
"Thank you!" I mouthed to Louis, and he winked. Thank god for Louis, if it wasn't for him, who knows what could have gone down.
Zayn turned around, looking all awkward and bit his lip. "Soooo..."
“So are you going to explain to me what happened?” I didn’t want to tell him that I knew there was something they were hiding from me. I didn’t want him to know I had been eavesdropping.
“It’s nothing Rach, it’s just something we really need to sort out.”
I raised my eyebrow, placing her hand on my hip. “Yeah, you've really got to sort stuff out with him. I don’t want you both to end up killing each other…”
"That’s something I can’t promise…" Zayn pouted his lips.
"Zayn!"
"I'm kidding, I'm kidding. C'mon hurry up; you're probably the last one left to get ready." Zayn called over to me as he grabbed a few bottles of sun screen, and held the door open.
"Yup, I'll meet up with you in a few." I pulled my hair back into a ponytail.
He smiled walking out the door, but then stepped back inside. “Just some advice…I think you look better with your hair down.” He smiled again, and walked out shutting the door behind him.
I grinned. I let my hair loose out of the ponytail, and let it down. It was funny how he could go from being to complete serious, to all sweet. Just some things about Zayn I could never figure out. I don’t know where along the way we had grown so close, we could literally understand each other without having to explain it. There were still some things I had yet to figure out about Zayn but still. Somehow we both developed feelings for each other, and now we were friends again. Putting our feelings aside and we had moved on. It felt like we had only known each other for the longest time when it was really a short amount of time. It was just that so much had happened in that time that made it feel so long. Zayn lost Stephanie, and I lost Harry for some time. At least I had Harry back now, Zayn was still alone. He was so broken, yet he was strong enough to force a smile when he was around me. Sometimes, I would think that if I didn’t have Harry, would I have been with Zayn? I shook that thought out of my head. I liked the way things were right now. I loved being so close with Zayn, and I loved loving Harry. I quickly applied some eyeliner to my waterline, grabbed my bag and walked out catching up with everyone else.
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"So, how did you enjoy your stay for the first night?" I asked Nat, who seemed quite her grumpy self.
"THE WORST NIGHT I HAVE EVER HAD! Man, there aren't any cute boys, and I can't talk to anyone in there either! They’re all geeks who just don’t know how to socialize. Its torture, I feel like I’m in prison." Nat wailed looking up at the sky.
"Just try harder; I’m sure you’ll have something in common with them." I kicked a soccer ball in front of us.
"You'll say, you’re staying with the best group, well excluding Kate of course. Has she done anything crazy yet?"
"Nope, not really surprisingly. Just last night she was a little annoyed that Harry and I came home so late, I could see the jealousy raging in her. It was a beautiful thing to see. Other than that, nothing yet. But it's really Zayn and Harry who are causing the most drama to be honest…”
"Really what happened?" Nat grew interested in the conversation.
"I don't know. They just hate each other. I don’t know why, I sometimes think it’s because of me. Harry and Zayn are both close to me, and I think because of the past Zayn and I have had, Harry gets a little insecure that we spend so much time together. He just doesn’t understand the kind of friendship Zayn and I have together. And then there’s Zayn, who hates Harry just because he’s never been able to stand him. Or so he says. And there’s something that they’re both hiding from me. I know it. They keep talking about Zayn giving Harry credit for something, I just don't know what."
"Well yeah I can guarantee Rachel that they’re fighting because of you. It’s pretty obvious. Zayn still has feelings for you and he can’t help but be a little jealous and annoyed when you and Harry are always being all cuddly and lovey dovey around him. And if I were Harry, I would be a little worried too. He knows about Zayn liking you and obviously he thinks it might turn into something more if you spend so much time together.”
“I don’t know, I really don’t know. I can’t force them to like each other, but I feel so guilty for being the reason for this stupid rivalry they have.”
"Yeah, just don’t get involved more than you already are. Hey, you know how you were saying about the credit thing? I just thought about it...maybe Zayn meant giving Harry credit from sav--- wait never mind." She nervously stopped, and looked away avoiding me.
I stopped walking and turned to face Nat. "Nat, what? What is it?"
"It's nothing I-"
"Hey guys!" Niall came running towards us, tugging along his surf board. Liam was tagging along right behind him with his board. Nat sighed relieved. I looked at her confused. What was going on? Harry, Zayn, and Nat were all hiding something from me? Was it the same thing? Did everyone know about it?
"Man, Louis told me about that fight Zayn and Harry had back there. They should have started to get along by now, considering Zayn help-"
"Niall!" Liam slapped him hard on the back.
"OUCH! What was that for!?" Niall whined rubbing his reaching over to rub his back. Liam popped his eyes out him nudging him as if he were reminding him to keep quiet. Niall finally realized and came back to reality.
"Oh, yeah um. I was just saying that. They should be friends!"
"It wasn’t even that big of a fight, but anyways. Guys what the hell is this? I’m honestly getting pissed off. You're all hiding something from me, and you couldn’t make it any more obvious. What happened?" I demanded angrily. I was sick of always having people keeping secrets from me. The three of them just stared at each other.
"It's nothing Rachel. Really. Go have some fun, why do you want to get involved in drama?" Liam replied calmly.
"Because if the drama is clearly about me, then I should know! Tell me!”
"Well, I'm not too sure if you want to know about this kind of drama over here. But what's over there is what you should really question." Nat butted in staring off in the opposite direction.
I looked at her lost, but then turned around realizing who she was looking at. Harry was off in the water, standing next to some girl. He was off flirting away with someone else, giggling and laughing with her. But hey, this girl looked familiar? She had long blonde hair...
I couldn't manage to make out her face from the distance, but it looked a lot like...Lauren. "I'm going to check this out, I’ll see you guys later.”
"Good luck.” They all called to me.
I jogged away, turning back once more to see the three of them arguing over something. They were all definitely hiding something. But what was it?
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END OF CHAPTER 48
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