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Chapter 10

~Ari's Pov~

I lie in bed, shivering. It's so cold. I pull the blanket up further. Doesn't help. I can't fall asleep when its this cold. I look at Harry to my right. He's sleeping without a shirt on and he looks fine. He doesn't look cold at all. What is with me? I roll into a ball, pull the blanket over my head, anything to get warm and fall asleep. Nothing helps.

I slowly, queitly get out of bed. I unzip my suitcase as quiet as possible. I quickly find my sweatshirt and pull it on over my long sleeve, red pajama shirt. I then walk over to the thermostat and turn the heat up ten degrees. Its already set to 70 but I don't care. I'm freezing.

I lay back down in bed and wait a few minutes. The heat comes on and it starts to warm up a little. Finally its warm enough for me to get somewhat comfortable and fall asleep.

· · ·

"What the hell Ari!" Harry's voice wakes me up. I groan. It feels like I've only been asleep for five minutes. And I probably have.

"What?" I moan, I'm so tired. I just want to die.

"Did you turn the heat up?" He asks. He doesn't sound very happy.

I nod my head. "Yeah I was cold last night." I was more than cold. I was frozen to the bone.

"Well you don't need to turn the heat up to 85 degrees!" He scolds me. He treats me like I'm a child and don't know how to do anything.

"Sorry." I mumble, even though I'm not really. He can deal with it. I was freezing!

"Whatever. Get ready, the concert is in three hours." He tells me, then goes into the bathroom. A few minutes later I hear the shower turn on.

I go to get ready, but as soon as I stand up, I get dizzy and my head starts to hurt. I sit back down immediately andput a hand to my head to stop the room from spinning.

The lack if sleep must be getting to me. I stand uo again, but much, much slower this time. It still makes me dizzy, but I can live with it. I take baby steps toward my suitcase.

I unzip it and look for my black leggings with white stars. After I put those on I find my white muscle tank with the a big L.A. across the front. If you couldn't tell I like muscle tanks.

I feel lazy so I put my hair into a messy bun. I don't usually wear messy buns, just when I don't have time, or don't feel great. And this morning, I don't feel great.

I'm done getting ready after I do some make up. Harry is still in the bathroom, so I decide to lie back down. I crawl back into bed and pull the covers up. I shiver.

It's still so cold.

~Harryvs Pov~

When I come out of the bathroom, Ari is sound asleep. I look at her. At least she got ready.

I sigh and shake her awake. "Ari, come on we have to go."

She groans and slowly sits up. She looks tired. Oh well, she'll live, we have to meet Paul in five minutes.

"Come on, grab your purse and things. We need to go." I tell her.

She slowly stands up and grabs her purse and phone without a word. She follows me to the hotel lobby where everyone else is.

"Took you long enough." Zayn complains when we finally get down there. We're late.

"Sorry. Ari likes to sleep." I chuckle, trying to lighten the mood, but she doesn't say anything. She just blankly stares at nothing.

"Well let's go." Paul urges us out the door. We follow him without question and get in the cars.

The whole car ride Ari has her eyes closed and her head up against the window. She won't even talk to anyone. What is her problem? We're supposed to make people think this is real.

I grab her hand. She opens her eyes and looks at me. I smile at her. She ignores me and closes her eyes again. Geez, someone's in a pissy mood.

For the rest of the car ride I leave her alone. It's obvious she doesn't want to talk or anything.

· · ·

"Oh I will carry you over fire and water, for your love, and I will hold you closer, hope your heart is strong enough. When the light is coming down on ya, we will find our way, through the dark." We're finishing up a sound check a half hour before the show starts. We just finished singing Through The Dark.

I spot Ari sitting down at a table with a bottle of water. She takes a sip and screws the lid back on. She sees me and gives me a thumbs up. I smile at her, but she already looked away. She rests her head on her hand and closes her eyes.

We're done with the soundcheck so I go and sit by her. "How was that?" I ask trying to start a conversation.

She keeps her head on her hnd and her eyes closed, but answers, "Good."

I nod my head. "That's good."

"I really liked that last song." She says vaguely, like she's not really paying attention to anything.

"Through the dark?" I wonder if she really likes it, or just saying that because we're in public.

She nods her head and starts to lightly hum it. I smile. Maybe she really does like it.

~Ari's Pov~

The concert is about to start. I'm backstage. I feel like shit. I feel like falling over and dying. I have a headache, I'm dizzy, and I'm shivering so bad. I don't know what the hell is wrong with me.