When Nightmares Become Reality

When the car finally stopped everyone was standing at the front of Danielle’s door with their suitcases in a pile, Harry and I pushed open the doors and walked towards them and Danielle spotted me. She pushed through the crowd of boys and pulled me into a hug. ‘What’s this for?’ I placed my arm around her and rested it on her back, giving it a little squeeze.
I felt her shrug her shoulders. ‘Just for coming, I didn’t know if you would’ I let go of her and she took a step back, and smiled up at me.
‘Well, my roommate already had company over and I really enjoy spending time with you guys’ I said meaning it.
‘The boys and I have to leave anyways’ Liam walked up behind her and wrapped his arm around her waist and rested his chin on her shoulder. ‘We don’t want to be late, now do we lads’ he started to look around, Danielle turned around and wrapped her arms around his neck.
They started to grab the bags and pile them into the car. ‘Where’s Niall?’ I looked around for him, but he wasn’t in the car.
‘Behind you babe’ Zayn pointed to the door, I turned my body around and saw Niall walking out of the door with packets of food in his arms, and chips in his mouth. He saw me looking at him when he looked up and winked.
‘I thiyft we muhjt grt himftu’ shrugging his shoulders almost losing a packet of pretzels over his arms. Liam walked past me and grabbed the bags off him and started to head to the car once again.
‘Thanks Liam’ he started heading towards the van, he walked past me and reached the van.
‘Niall’ he stopped and turned around. ‘Are you forgetting something?’ he headed back towards me.
‘Oh, do you want a hug goodbye too.’ He opened his arms; smiling and I reached into my bag pulling out his phone.
‘No’ his smile dropped. ‘This’ I held it up so he could see it. ‘I thought you might want to tweet all of the girls about what you guys were doing or something’ He grabbed it from my hands.
‘Thanks’
‘It was in my car’ he nodded.
‘Did you follow yourself on twitter?’ he laughed opening twitter.
‘I didn’t actually, I thought I’d leave that decision up to you’ I turned and walked back up to where Danielle and Eleanor stood.
‘What’s your name?’
‘Jasminedancing, J has a capitol’ I looked over at Danielle and she smiled, a smile formed on my face.
‘There, you’re followed’ he looked up and placed his phone in his pocket. His phone beeped as he brought his hand out of his pocket.
‘So I’m guessing they realized you followed someone’
He nodded. ‘Yeah, I’ll do a follow spree later or something’
‘Niall, let’s go!’ Harry screamed from shotgun. He walked back to the van and climbed in, the boys said something inaudible. The door slammed shut.
'Bye Eleanor! I Love you!' Louis yelled as he drove off.
'I love you Danielle. I'll text you every minute!' Liam screamed from the back window and we waved to them as they drove around the corner.
'And just like that there gone for another few days' Eleanor said blinking away her watery eyes. Danielle hugged her and we walked inside.
I watched Niall’s face as they drove off his eyes never left mine, and mine never left his until they drove of far enough.
It was 11 o’clock and I was yawning when Eleanor spoke to me. ‘So Jazz, how’s Australia? How’s your family?’ she patted the teddy in her lap, that seemed to be wearing a blue stripped shirt and red pants.
‘Uhh, there’s not much to tell, everything’s the same except the weather, accents and cars. My family’s weird I guess’ I shrugged my shoulders. ‘My mum died a year ago yesterday, my father and I never got on along after that and I have a little brother named James, that’s about it’
‘Why don’t you and your father get along?’ Danielle walked in holding a plate of nachos.
She took a seat next to me, ‘I guess he just blames me for my mother’s death, sometimes I blame myself too. He became kind of shut off, he would drink and drink, he’d become drunk almost every night and he became more violent every time he did. He’d yell at my brother for every little thing and I’d stick up for him, because James would be too scared to even move. He’d hit the walls, but one day I yelled back at him and he drank a little more that day and he hit me’ I placed my hand under my eye, remembering the memory. I’d go to dancing classes instead of school to get away from him; I’d have to go to dance class with big glasses on.
A tear slipped down Eleanor’s face. ‘That’s so horrible, did you ever tell anybody?’
I shook my head, ‘I’d just say that I fell over and stuff, you guys are kinda the only people that I’ve told, I trust you guys it feels great to be able to tell someone.’ I placed my arm around Danielle’s shoulders.
‘I’m glad we’re friends’ Eleanor placed a chip in her mouth.
‘You know, Niall asks about you all the time’ Danielle spoke up changing the subject. ‘Has she messaged you, has she called you, have you seen her today’ she spoke in her best Irish accent.
A smile formed on my face ‘He does not! Don’t lie” I felt my face heat up.
‘No, he really does’ she pushed off the ground and headed to the kitchen.
‘So who are you dancing for next?’ I looked to Danielle.
‘Ugh, I don’t actually know, I guess we’ll s-‘ she was cut off by a scream from the kitchen, Danielle looked at me and we both ran towards the kitchen.
‘What is it Eleanor?!’ I yelled as we ran into the kitchen, my eyes followed to where she was staring and noticed why. There were 3 hooded figures with ski masks standing against the wall, staring at us.
‘Who the hell are you and what are you doing in my house?’ Danielle pushed a terrified Eleanor behind her as I looked around for something to use as a weapon, the best I could come up with was a spoon lying on the bench, I grabbed it and held it tightly.
‘We came here to tell you’ the voices were muffled but able to be understood. ‘That your boyfriends are dead and you will be as well’ I heard Eleanor start to sob from behind me.
‘Leave us alone!’ I screamed at them and threw the spoon hitting the one to the right’s shoulder. We all took this chance to turn and run to Danielle’s room, we all reached it and I locked the door behind us and we backed against the wall furthest away but before my hands touched it I heard a laugh from the corner of the dim room. I heard the footsteps come closer to the door and they knocked. I could feel my heart racing but someone laughed again. I turned to look and saw Niall standing there, laughing at us. ‘What are you doing here!’ I turned and walked towards him, ‘Niall, where are the others. Why aren’t you with them, is it true. They really can’t be dead. Tell me it’s a joke.’ Eleanor ran up to Niall and grabbed his arm, he laughed again.
‘Who’s out there?’ Danielle said walking slowly towards the door.
‘Babe it’s Liam, open the door please’ Liam shouted from the other side of the door.
‘Liam, is that you?’ Danielle reached the door and placed her hand on the lock.
‘Yeah, it’s me. Open the door please.’ She released a breath and unlocked the door swinging it open, revealing Harry, Louis, Liam and Zayn. Danielle ran into Liam and he opened his arms hugging her tightly, ‘we just wanted to see what you guys did on sleep over’s. We didn’t really have a show. I’m sorry; we didn’t mean to scare you guys this much. It was actually Zayn’s idea.’
Eleanor released her tight grip from Niall’s arms and walked to Louis, ‘You should have seen your faces though’ He mimicked our scared facial expressions and laughed, Eleanor hit his chest with a little force to push him back and stared up to him. ‘I’m sorry’ She put her head against his chest and closed her eyes.
‘Well this is enough excitement for one night, shall we all sleep in the lounge room?’ Liam spoke up.
‘Yeah, I’m really tired now’ my adrenaline rush had faded and my eyes became heavy.
‘Yay! Slumber party!’ Louis screamed and smiled down at Eleanor, Niall ran past me and out the door to the lounge room, we all followed to find him laying down with his eyes closed already.

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