Everything Changes

Scarlett’s POV
Outfit
4:45pm, Thursday 5th September
I get in after a day at work. I was just at a new clothesline debut for forever 21 and it has been a long day as I nearly got attacked by one direction fans. Niall and I posted a pic on instagram last night revealing our engagement.

I’m guessing they weren’t happy. I know Niall went to see Jillian this afternoon and she wouldn’t let me come. Like, she’s basically snubbed me ever since the day we got back from Ireland and announced our engagement. He said he’d speak to her about this whole situation.

I lazily unlock the front door.
“Honey, I’m home” I shout, closing the door behind and dropping my bag on the ground beside the sofa.
“Hey babe, I’m in the kitchen” Niall shouts back. I strut into the kitchen and find Niall sitting at the island, flicking through twitter on his ipad.
“How was w-” he trails off as he looks up. He eyes me up and down before standing up straight.
“You look… good” he winks at me. I roll my eyes before walking over to the fridge. Two can play at this game Horan
“I always look good” I playfully reply over my shoulder. I hear him chuckle behind me as I open the fridge door and take out the apple juice. I close the door and turn around to be met with a pair of green eyes. He places both hands either side of my head so I’m trapped. He gently takes the apple juice from me and places it on the counter before leaning down and kissing me. I wrap my arms around his neck deepening the kiss. He hoists me up and I wrap my legs around his waist as he carries us over to the couch. He dropped me down before climbing on top of me and roughly kissing my neck. I was about to take his t-shirt off when my phone rang.
“Typical…” Niall mumbles. I reach down into my bag and check the caller ID.
“It’s Audrey”
“Ignore it” he replies, leaving kisses along my jaw-bone.
“It could be important though.” He sighs.
“Fine, but we’re finishing this off later” he whispers into my ear. I giggle as he drops his head into the crook of my neck before pressing the answer button. I was about to speak when I heard sniffling at the other end.
“Audrey, what’s wrong? Why are you sobbing?” I say, concerned. When I finished speaking Niall straightened up and looked at me with confusion. I put it on speaker so Niall could hear.
“Liam cheated on me” she sobbed into the phone. Niall and I give each other the same wide-eyed expression.
“Stay where you are, Niall and I will be there in 10” I hung up and Niall was already handing me my shoes. We grabbed phones, keys and my handbag before rushing to the car.

The car ride so far had been silent. We were both in complete and utter shock. Liam was always the sensible, level-headed one. I swear, I’m going to break both of legs.
“So, how was lunch with Jill?” I turn to Niall.
“Good.” He simply states.
“Well, did you ask her about us?”
“Um… yeah. She said she thought we were too young” he replies hesitantly. I glare at him. You’ve got to be kidding me???? That’s her excuse, like seriously? We’re too YOUNG!!!!!!!! She’s not talking to me because we’re too young to get married!!!! We’re legal, aren’t we?
“What did you say back?” I say, completely irritated at his lack of concern about her obvious lying.
“I said that I love you more than anything else in the whole world or something along those lines”. I smile at his choice of words but quickly hide it when I see him smirk.
“That’s it?” I say
“Yeah” Niall shrugs casually.
“What about her body language?” I question. Niall’s expression looks perplexed.
“What body language?” I roll my eyes.
“Boys are so oblivious” I mutter. Niall chuckles.
“Look, It’ll be fine” he replies taking his hand in mine. I smile sweetly and realise we’ve just pulled up outside Audrey’s building. I clamber out and run as fast as I can in my GIVENCHY platform sandals whilst Niall tries to keep up.

I bang on her door for like the dozen time.
“AUDREY CONNOR OPEN THIS DOOR RIGHT NOW!!!!!” I demand but there is still no answer. I shoot a worried look at Niall. We can hear nothing from the other side.
“Hold on babe.” Niall says before pulling me away from the door. He rams his foot into the door twice before bashing his shoulder against it. The door flies open to reveal a whole load of broken glass. We carefully climb over it and find many photo frames smashed on the floor, all of Audrey and Liam.
“Audrey, honey?” I call out but receive no reply.
“Scarlett” Niall whispers as he tugs on my arm and points to the floor. Blood. The colour drains from my face and tears stain my cheeks. I look at Niall who was almost crying as well. I hesitantly follow the trail of blood into Audrey’s bedroom with Niall closely behind. We follow the line of blood to her en-suite. The door is slightly ajar. I push it open to see Audrey sitting on the toilet with the lid down. I suddenly let the tears all flow down as I pull her into a hug. Her body was cold and emotionless against mine.
“Audrey, I thought we lost you for good” I sob, holding her close. Niall kneels down in front of her and examines the cuts on her arm whilst trying to hide the fact that he was also crying form either relief or worry.
“What happened?” I ask drying my tears.
“After I spoke to you and the others, I let all my anger out and started smashing glasses, photos, vases. I cut my form arm by accident with a sharp shard of glass. I came in here to look for the first aid kit. Then, I stumbled across some strong pain killers from when I broke my arm.” She nods to the floor. Niall and I look over and see a few dozen pills spread across the floor. Niall’s face looks alarmed and I begin crying more as horrifying images flash through my mind.
“Audrey, you didn’t………” I trail off as my crying becomes uncontrollable.
“No, but I was going to. I really was Lettie, I’m sorry, I’m so, so sorry” her voice cracks at the end and she begins sobbing into out tight embrace, which makes Niall and I cry even harder. Niall takes my hand and one of Audrey’s.
“We’re here now, nothing bad is going to happen” Niall reassures her but gives me a complete unknowing look.

8:00pm
Niall has already got a guy to fix the door and has started cleaning up the living room with me. Once I finished bandaging up Audrey’s arm, I lay out a comfy outfit for her to change into after a shower and I make sure that it covers up her arm as she doesn’t want anybody to think she was self-harming which is understandable. I plait her damp hair as Niall makes tea.
“I want Louis” Audrey says quietly.
“He’ll be here soon, he was driving back from Doncaster with J when we called” I inform her. I’ve never seen her so vulnerable in my entire life. She just looks so lost and emotionless
“What about the others?” she asks and Niall and I look at each other questioningly. Where are they? Audrey called us like nearly 3 hours ago now.
“I’m certain they’ll be here soon.”
Once I finish, we all snuggle up on the sofa with a blanket and sip tea.
“Do you two think I was overreacting?” Audrey sniffles.
“No, of course not.” Niall states.
“You’re upset, he did just cheat on you” I add.
“Suppose so”.
We jump when we hear a knock at the door.
I get up and I just turn the handle when Louis comes bursting through the door.
“Louis!!!” Audrey cries before running into his arms. He hoists her up and she wraps her legs around his waist.
“I’m here, babe.” He sooths whilst rubbing the back of her head. I look to the door to see J clenching and unclenching her fists. I smack her arm.
“Ow! What?” she snaps. I give her the you-know-what look and she immediately calms down. Then everybody else comes running through the door.
“Oh, how very kind of you to join us 3 and a half hours later?” I remark sarcastically. I receive a few apologetic glances and a few “we’re sorry” before Audrey receives everyone’s undivided attention.


10:30pm
We are sitting around in a circle eating crisps and chocolate. Audrey is sitting on Louis lap as he refuses to let her go which everybody- with the exception of Louis- can see is getting on Jade’s nerves. Niall is leaning against the wall as I’m lying on the floor with my head on his lap as he plays with my hair. Jillian also doesn’t have a problem with showing her jealousy as she can’t take her eyes off of us. Harlow and Val are talking but at a bare minimum. Kirsty is in Mexico at the moment so she’s not around, Harry and Zayn are trying to call Liam to tell him that he has screwed up big time, and obviously Liam and Lillian are nowhere in sight. But basically, everyone who hates each other in this room is trying to keep their anger in to avoid upset Audrey.
“Hey guys, Louis and I are just going to have a quick word in private.” Audrey says before her a Louis go into the kitchen. It’s an awkward silence as everybody doesn’t want to talk in case it rattles the tension in the air.
“He’s not picking up” Harry says sitting next to Niall and I.
“I still can’t believe he cheated, with one of our BFF” says Val.
“Look who’s talking?” Harley scoffs.
“In my defence-”
“Knock it off you two!” I cut Val off to warn them. “The last ting Audrey needs right now is you two acting up or anything reminding her of Liam”
“Coming from you” Jill mutters.
“Excuse me?” I shoot up.
“You’re all cozied up to your boyfriend whilst Audrey just lost hers.”
“Look, if you have a complaint, tell the complaints department” I shoot back at her.
“Who’s the complaints department?”
“ME” I snap back. I’m seriously too emotionally and mentally unable to argue with her tonight, not to mention wrecked. Jill instantly shuts up when she realizes Niall is still in the room. Louis and Audrey return and Audrey’s obviously been crying again.
“Look, we got to go” Niall says, pulling me up with him.
“Why? Private business to attend to?” Harry asks, smirk across his face.
“No! You pervert!” I slap him behind the head.
“Denise and Greg are going to France for their first wedding anniversary so we offered to look after Theo for the weekend whilst they’re gone. We have to pick Theo up from the airport at 10am” Niall says, smiling proudly at the fact he’s an uncle. He slings his leather jacket over my shoulders and takes my hand which makes Jill glare at us. However, Niall caught her and she instantly looked away. We say our goodbyes and Niall takes my hand and leads me down to the car.

Most of the car ride was discussing our plan for tomorrow morning and how excited we are to see Theo as we haven’t seen him in 3 weeks and babies tend to grow fast.
“Well, Liam’s not going to be able to avoid us forever, is he?” Niall asks, changing the subject. I scoff.
“He’s a dead man when the girls and I get our hands on him, God knows what Louis’ going to do.”

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