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Do The Stars Shine Out For You?

Chapter Four

A week had passed since I first met the boys, a full week which involved me seeing them pop by the flat or around their building while I helped Carah with work. (Turns out, I did go back, and they did not give her the week off.) I was beginning to suspect that I saw them more than their own mothers did.

“Did you warn them off visiting when I first arrived?” I asked Carah once, and she did a wonderful job of avoiding the question.

Since I told her the real reasons for this… rift I’d been having, she’s grown increasingly protective of me while simultaneously pushing me out the door every chance she got. You’d think being aware of the problem would help make it better.

“You’re happier when you’re out and about,” She’s observed once, while we were picnicking in a park, listening to the radio and me writing for a story that would probably never be completed.

“Because I’m distracted,” I’d responded, doodling a flower in blue pen onto her palm.

The thing about being sad was that you felt better, at least a little bit, when you did things. The problem was that being sad made you never want to do anything.

Today, I was sitting on the couch wrapped in blankets and sipping a mug of hot chocolate because it was absolutelyfreezing. No matter how hard Carah tried, I would not become a tea drinker. I loved coffee too much.

I was watching Tangled on DVD, because it was one of my favorite Disney movies, ever. Rapunzel’s story had always run more true to me than the others, though in her real fairy tale she was sort of ditzy and not all that smart.

The door bell rang right when Flynn had chopped off all of Rapunzel’s hair so she wouldn’t be Gothel’s slave. Grumbling, I pressed pause and shuffled over to the door, dragging the blankets with me. Carah was out grocery shopping, she’d just left not more than a half hour ago, who could it possibly be?

I opened the door to find five grinning figures in front of me, all dressed as if they were ready for a day out on the beach.

I raised an eyebrow, suppressing a smile. “Going somewhere interesting, boys?”

“Yes!” Louis said indignantly, strutting into the flat wearing sunglasses and flip flops. “And you are, too! We’re going to the beach!”

The rest of the boys walked in, and my eyes caught hold of a pair of green ones. I stared at Harry for a brief second before looking away and down at my feet, which were hidden beneath layers of quilts.

“Who said I was going?” I teased, wrapping them up and tossing the bundle onto the sofa. I could feel the chill begin to seep into my skin, because I’d only been wearing a pair of leggings and a big t-shirt before I set in to watch the movie.

“C’mon Carly, Liam and Louis promised Danielle and Eleanor that they’d get to meet you today,” Zayn said, surprising us all with the strong and clear tone he said it in.

“How are you supposed to swim without getting your hair messed up, Zayn?” I retorted, and he only smiled.

“It’s a secret,” He replied.

I was already shutting off the T.V., shaking my head and bending down to pick up the mug when a warm hand touched the bare skin at my waist, revealed from my shirt riding up on the side. I shivered involuntarily.

“Please, Carly?” Harry’s voice said in my ear, and I could hear the smirk in his voice. Damn him.

“Alright, fine! I’ll go! Just give me a second to change and we’ll leave.” I pulled away from him and threw my hands up in the air, a universal sign of defeat. Something told me that Carah planned this.

***

We all piled into a large car, me squished up between Harry and Liam while Louis drove like a madman, mumbling something about how he got pulled over in America once, Niall gripping the arm rests of the passenger side so hard his knuckles were turning white. Don’t ask me how Zayn did it, but he was passed out in the back seat, his head leaning against the window and leaving an indent in his hair. That’d be a sight when he woke up.

We pulled into the parking lot of a special sectioned off part of the beach, where there were no people for miles in either direction, except for three girls clustered together by a car. When we pulled up, they all turned and waved. Carah was one of them.

“I knew it,” I mumbled, and I could feel the vibrations of Harry’s laughter beside me.

The group of us fell out of the car the way clowns do in a circus, as if there was no end to the amount of people. Immediately, I ran at Carah.

“I’m going to kill you in your sleep,” I threatened, smiling widely and contrasting my own words. Then I turned to the two other girls, both wearing sunglasses and bathing suits. “Hi! You guys must be Danielle and Eleanor. I’m Carly, please ignore my previous threat, it does not in any way apply to you.” I smiled, which they returned with hellos and giggles.

Danielle and Eleanor were both stunning; I had only known Liam and Louis for a week but the way they talked about their girlfriends, it was as if they saw nobody else. A brief sadness passed over my face for a second, wondering what it would be like to love and be loved like they were. I shook it off and readjusted the ear bud in my ear and my bag at my hip.

“How’d you get her to show?” Carah asked quizzically, looking like she doubted herself whether I would venture out of the flat today.

“Harry did his touch and whisper thing,” Louis said loudly, mischievously even, before dodging a slap from Harry and hiding behind Eleanor. “Help! I’m being abused!” He cried out. Everyone laughed and my face burned bright red.

“Is that so?” Carah said suspiciously, leveling a glare at Harry. He refused to meet her eyes.

“Okay! Let’s go swimming!” Danielle said cheerfully, while she and Eleanor tag-teamed me and pulled both of my arms toward the sand, which was hot and my feet nearly sank into it, flip flops and all.

All nine of us set up our towels and things and the boys ran into the water, throwing each other around and acting like the five year olds they were at heart.

The girls and I stripped down to our bathing suits, spraying on sun tan lotion (I’d become remarkably pale, it was almost embarrassing), and lying out in the sun. We kept up a light conversation, and I grew to learn that Danielle and Eleanor had to be two of the most lovely, and sweetest, people I have ever met.

During a lull, I was humming along to a song and tapping my fingers against the sand when suddenly a shadow passed over me. The light that had turned the inside of my eyelids red was gone, and all I could see was black. I opened them when I felt cold water hit my forehead. I looked directly into the two shining green eyes of Harry Styles, who was dripping with water, beads of it streaming down from his sopping and matted dark curls. His face was nearly split apart with a mischievous smile.

“Do it and I’ll castrate you,” I warned, but his smile only grew wider. I felt a pang in my chest. He reached over and pulled my headphones out, fingers brushing against my skin.

“Oi! Niall! Louis! Help me out over here, yeah?” He called out, and the boys came sprinting over to us, equally soaked. Louis shook out his hair like a damp dog, splashing Eleanor. She scolded him, but when he pouted, child-like as ever, her concentration broke and she pulled him in for a giggly kiss.

“We didn’t bring you here to sit in the sun and do nothing,” Harry said, smirking at me. He wouldn’t.

“Don’t you dare,” I warned again, as the three of them moved around me. They lifted me up off the towel. “Niall you won’t be my favorite Irishman anymore!” I said as a last-ditch effort, but he only laughed.

“I’m the only Irishman you know,” He said, and it was the last thing I heard before they threw me into the cold surf.

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