A/N; Wattpad was trying to rate this R so i had to put some fullstops into some words.
"I'm going to a party if you want to come." Alice smiles at me when I walk back into our dorm room. I judgmentally gaze at her, her leather shorts are ridiculously short and the black crop she's paired them with shows way too much of her boobs. It almost looks like something I would wear if I was in a slutty mood, but on her it just looks wrong, she's too innocent looking.
"I think I'll pass." I groan, looking at the unpacked boxes on my floor and slumping down on to the bed with my phone in my hand. Harry has been driving for like five minutes, that means I have to wait at least another 2 hours before I'll hear from him.
"Did Harry go?" She asks, staring into the mirror on the back of her cupboard as she lines her eyes with liquid liner.
"Yes." I answer abruptly. We are not friends. I do not want to talk to you. We have nothing in common and you're an obsessive freak.
"I'm sorry if I seemed a little intense earlier, I'm really not that bad. I love one direction but I'm not some sort of lunatic."
"Look, that's fine and all I get why you like them but I don't really have any interest in being friends with you. I know what you're like in that group of fans, you share everything with everyone and I can't have details of my private life shared because it's not just my private life it's Harry's and Niall's and Louis' and Zayn's and Liam's and it's not fair on them if I say something to you and then everyone knows about it, I can't risk that. So forgive me if I don't want to be all buddy buddy with you. And don't take this as me being a horrible person, because I'm really not. I'm normally not a bitch- I can be, but I'm genuinely a nice person but I am extremely protective over Harry." I say, rather harshly. Okay so I am a bitch. "And on top of that I am in a really shitty mood today because I'm not going to see Harry tomorrow or the next day or the day after that and that makes me really on edge so I might be nicer to you in future but today is just not that day."
She bites her lip and looks away from me, probably shocked by my rude words.
"I wouldn't want to pry anyway..." She says quietly, applying lipstick and then picking up her phone and heading for the door.
"Wait, how old are you?"
"19."
"What are you studying?"
"Law."
I scoff.
"What's wrong with law?" She asks nervously.
Oh nothing, I just don't think you have it in you.
"Nothing, I have a law degree. Just warning you that it's not going to be easy."
"Yeah, I'm petrified." She gives me a small smile before walking out the door.
I stand up from the bed, putting my phone on the bedside table and putting my itunes on shuffle while I unpack some of my stuff. I tape some photos to the wall of Linda, Gem, Gab and I, and Harry and I, and Niall and I, and Perrie and I. Perrie had been on tour with the boys for a few weeks in America when I was there too, we bonded a little bit more than we had in the past, we're not close friends but we understand each other and she is an interesting person to be around. Also she hates Eleanor so that is a huge accreditation.
Once everything is unpacked, I slump back on the bed, which is really uncomfortable. I wonder how different things would be if I had agreed to move into an apartment with Harry. We basically live together when we're in London anyway so it wouldn't be that big a change, it's not the living with him part I object to. It's that I would literally be alone so much it would be so boring. Atleast on campus I'll be able to make friends and go to parties.
Maybe I should go to that party, I can hear a lot of noise from the hall way but I'm not in the party mood I don't think.
I scroll through tumblr on my phone but even that is boring so I resort to texting Gemma, Gab and Linda in our group message.
Me: Uni is shit without you all : (
Gem: Come back to London, we miss you already!
Me: I miss it already. I wanna leave. I'm so bored here its not even funny.
Gem: is H still there?
Me: Noooooo.
Gem: aw poor baby hahaha
Linda: Oh poor widdle Lola misses her boyfy.
Gab: is Lol gonna cry? Don't cry little girl!
Me: F.uck off all of you.
Gem: How long ago did he leave?
Me: like twenty minutes...
Gem: oh girl you've got some hard times ahead hahaha.
Me: tell me something I don't know, how's Ash?
Linda: can you two have this discussion in a private conversation? Sick of notifications! Taaaa.
Me: You love it bb. Besides, you'll never believe this. My roommate is a f.ucking directioner.
Gem: REALLY? HAHAHAHAHA
Linda: That.Is.Hilarious.
Gab: Oh diddums.
Me: Yep. Like she seems normal but hten she has this Niall cut out and like a poster of the boys on the wall. I'm literally staring at it right now and it's not even like that good a photo of them, it's from like 2011 and I feel a little cougar-ish for staring at H.
Gem: hahahahhaha. Oh dear god.
Linda: Go make some friends!
Me: I'm too old!
Gem: no you're not! Go have some fun.
Me: Um, people go to parties to get with people, I don't want to get with anyone sooo what's the point?
Gab: To have fun!
Me: Mmmmaybe. I don't know, I'm not feeling great about this move, like I don't know why I'm studying again?
Gem: Just quit and be a trophy wife.
Me: that would involve getting married first and that sounds like a lot of effort.
Linda; Yeah and you kind of have to be asked first hahaha
Me: puh-lease, if he thought I wanted to get married soon there would be a ring on this finger.
Linda; sure sure, keep telling yourself that.
Me: No I'm serious, we're not going to get engaged for another year at least, and not get married for a couple years after that.
Gab: If you've already discussed when you're getting engaged, you might as well be engaged, like you've decided you're going to spend the rest of your lives together.
Me: He's 21. He can't make those decisions, but yeah basically, like I don't want to marry anyone else.
Gem: SISTERS!
Me: I will be the better Styles one day....
Gem: efff off that's my title.
Linda: Des is the better styles, hands down.
Me: Harry is.
Gem: I thought I was your favourite?
Me: Get back to me when you've had s.ex with me in a hot tub, then you can get the title of best styles.
Gem: Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. I DON'T NEED THOSE F.UCKING MENTAL IMAGES LOLA YOU'RE THE WORST SISTER IN LAW EVER.
Me: I'm the worst sister in law because I'm not your sister in law yet you idiot
Linda: I think we're all sick of hearing about your s.ex life, even those not related to harry.
Gab: Preach.
Me: Well when one of you has something interesting to share then we can talk about that but for now I have to keep the conversation alive somehow...
Gab: Well I went on three dates last week and they were all losers. Its so fun being single.
Linda: I do not miss the single life at all.
Gem: Me either.
Me: Me either.
Gab: fuck you all.
I chuck my phone onto the mattress beside me after checking the time. Harry would be nowhere near home yet. I am so angry at myself for missing him already but I knew this would happen. I can't second guess my decision to go back to uni just because I miss him. I couldn't have picked a uni in London? Idiot Lola.
I grab my phone and take a photo of the poster on my wall, snapchatting it to Louis and Niall.
Flashback. July 15, 2015.
"So El arrives tomorrow, can you promise you won't be a bitch to her?" Louis leans forward, his hands resting on his knees.
"No." I scoff, leaning back in the chair and admiring the view of Miami from this hotel balcony.
"Lola." He looks at me sternly, and then to Harry.
"It'll be easy on everyone if you just be nice to her, babe." Harry squeezed my hand.
"She's a slut, and she's a bitch and I can say this now because we're sort of friends, but she doesn't deserve you Louis. She walked out on you once and she'll do it again." I stick to my convictions. I hate her and I'm not two faced enough to pretend I don't.
"Look Lol, we've tried to put everything that happened between us three in the past, and Eleanor is a part of that. If you and I are in a good place then you and her should be too."
"No, I'm sorry but I will literally never like her."
Harry stiffens beside me, his hand tightening in mine.
It took a while for the awkwardness between Harry, Louis and I to subside, but there wasn't really any other choice. We had to see each other every day if I was going to spend time with Harry while he was on tour, so there really wasn't any room for anger or resentment. Louis and I sat down, had a decent talk and agreed that we enjoyed each other's company enough to make it work as friends. We'd both fucked each other over enough in the past that it was time to call it even, so we did. But I never agreed to forgiving Eleanor for breaking Louis and I up in the first place.
"Eleanor is really nice, I'm sure you'd get along with each other if you just set aside your differences. She's not exactly your biggest fan either."
"What have I ever done to her?"
"Well you kissed me at Zayn and Perrie's engagement party, to make her jealous." Louis reminds me and I cringe.
Harry stiffens again. I can already predict the conversation we're going to have when we're alone. He's going to accuse me of being overly protective of Louis' and claim that I still have feelings for him, which is completely false. I have no respect for someone who goes back to someone who left them when they had a drug addiction. It's a serious flaw in his character that I can't look past and can honestly never see myself being interested in him again, not in that way. Harry for the most part believes me, but he gets questionable when I express my hatred towards Eleanor.
"She was there with another guy and you were broken up. I did nothing wrong. I have never done anything to her. Fuck her."
July 16, 2015.
"I think for the sake of the guys we should be friends. Harry and Louis are closer now than they have been in years and I know that's partly because of you, and we're going to have to see each other a lot so I'm willing to put the past in the past if you are." Her voice was sickeningly sweet and her stupid bug eyes were driving me insane. I wanted desperately to slap her. I've been wanting to for ages and now would be the perfect chance. I can just imagine what Harry would say if I did though. It would be all the proof he needs that I still have feelings for Louis, and we would have a huge fight and it just isn't worth it.
"I think for the sake of the guys you should walk away from me right now. I have absolutely nothing nice to say to you and we are never going to be friends. If you don't walk away you can stand here and listen to me discuss everything I dislike about you, but its your choice, I would walk away personally." I glared at her, feeling every bit the lawyer I used to be as I prepared my topic points mentally.
She didn't move. "Look Lola I admit I shouldn't have slept with Louis when you were dating but you were never serious about him anyway. I've seen you and Harry together and there was never any doubt in your mind you would end up with him, you were stringing Louis along and I'm glad I could interfere before it went any further. That being said, I understand you're angry but that was over a year ago now, you're with Harry and you're happy, it shouldn't matter anymore."
"You're so ignorant. That's not why I hate you Eleanor. I think you're a disgusting person. You broke up with Louis when he needed you the most, he was weak and vulnerable for a really brief period of your long relationship and you couldn't handle that. I have no respect for you whatsoever, I don't understand that at all. If you really loved him you wouldn't have been able to walk away. That's why I hate you and that's why I literally can't stand to be around you. I'm normally not a bitch but you don't deserve my niceties." I finish, pursing my lips and turning on my heel, walking away from her down the corridor of the backstage arena in Miami. Seen one, seem them all when it comes to stadiums.
Manchester is a big city, and University of Manchester is a big university, the chances of me seeing Eleanor are very minimal, which of course knowing my luck, means it's probably going to happen at some stage.
A/N: Hey guys, thought I'd treat you to a bit of a double update cos I was bored. I just have a few pre-emptive things to warn you about. For the sake of this story, Eleanor still goes to university, I know she has graduated in real life but we'll just pretend she's gone back to do her Masters or something, kay? Also, for the sake of this story, 5SOS will still be on tour with the boys. If you want to think 5SOS are still opening for them, that's cool, if not you can assume they're just doing a tour together, it's up to you, I feel like 5sos will be too big in 2015 to be opening for the boys so yeah, I always aim for realistic things in my story so yah, whatever you guys think, letting ya'll decide this one! xxx