Codie POV
I open my eyes, stretch my arms and roll over. Wait, there’s a person there.
“Eager are we?” he said.
“You wish Louis. I forgot you were here mate, just forgot we were sharing a bed.” I answered his question. Sometimes he could get so cocky.
“That’s exactly what it was.” He said sarcastically as he stretched out his arms, his left hand, the casted hand, crashing into my pillow. I looked at him.
“That was lucky there Lou. If I was still there you would be rushing me to hospital with concussion and possible brain damage.” I got up and went into the little room that could just pass as a kitchen. It’s one of the only things I don’t like about cabins, the smallness of them. I grabbed a bowl and opened the fridge for cereal. Then I realised, we were in a cabin, no food. Only little, teeny tiny containers of milk, some sugar (which Elysse would steal), coffee and tea.
“Louis, I’m going to Woollies, stay here and be inconspicuous. I’ll be back in a minute.” I grab my wallet, put my ugg boots on and decide to go in my pj’s. It’s not the first time I’ve done it, gone to the food store in my pyjamas. But when I get outside I realise I should have put my trackies on, with a jumper… instead of a singlet and shorts.
I get in my car and turn on the heaters to full heat. Jesus it was cold. I checked the temperature on my phone. 14 degrees Celsius, no wonder my arse felt like it was going to fall off.
I braided my hair back at a red light and continued on driving to Woollies. I got out of the car and walked in the door. I searched the isles for bread, crumpets and cereal. Also some vegemite, butter and marmite, for Louis. I get held up at the checkout and wait in the line, so I grab a newspaper and start looking through the headlines, then I see something that might be interesting. As I flip the pages, a group of the ‘cool kids’ walk past. By cool kids I mean druggies and alcoholics who think they are the top of the school peeps.
They all check me out, from head to toe. I look at them like ‘what the f*ck are you doing?’ when one of them wolf-whistles at me. I shake my head and turn to face the line when one of them starts talking to me.
“Hey babe, when do you wanna get in my bed?” The leader of the group asks like a dick.
“How about… never? I’m taken honey.” I say in a way of get out of my sight or suffer the consequences.
“Yeah, you may be taken, but I could change that.” He says. Does this guy not get it?
“Do you know who I am?” I ask, he probably had no idea.
“I know that you’re the hottest chick in this town.” He said in his stuck up voice.
“Hun, my name is Codie Badress.” I say, he should know me… right?
“Babe, my name is James Fortoe.” He says.
“Why because you have four toes?” I ask. By now we had gathered a little crowd.
“Does your name mean you’re wearing a bad dress?” WOW! That hurt… not.
“One, I’ve heard that before. Two, the spelling of it indicates that I am either wearing a ‘ba dress’ or something along the lines of ‘bad ress’. Not bad dress. Nice try though. Why are you trying so hard? The first time you haven’t asked out a slut or something? Or is this the first time you’ve been turned down? You poor thing.” He looks taken aback.
“If there’s one thing that’s happening tonight, it’ll be you and me babe.”
“UUMM, no, it won’t.” With that said he grabbed my shoulder and pulled me towards him. I look at him, I suppose the years of training I thought would be useless, won’t be after all. “You don’t know what you’re getting into James.”
“Yeah, I do.” He said, now he was starting to freak me out.
“Leave her alone” a woman said, walking towards the two of us. I looked at her with thanks. Then James decided to pull out a gun… wait, what? He pulled out a gun! Oh my f*cking god! This changes the plan a little, but not too much. The woman then took a few steps back, put her hands up and said sorry. I looked at her with worry.
He shot the gun, proving it wasn’t empty by hitting the woman in the leg. Many screams came out of that, and I couldn’t take it anymore. I eyed at someone to call triple zero, the police, someone who could help. They understood and grabbed their phone when James wasn’t looking. I judged from the fact that none of his friends had a gun out that they didn’t have one. I doubt they would be smart enough to hide them until a crucial moment. From what I gathered, they would have thought it would be cool to have a gun on them.
The police could take a while so I decided to act on my own accord. The gun was loaded, he had the IQ of a squirrel and the patience of a ticking bomb. All in all, fairly dangerous, unless I can outsmart him. Or defeat him in other means. Play along for five minutes, five minutes.
“Will you play along now?” he asked.
“Do I have a choice?” I acted out. This was going to end well, I hope. He pulled my face towards mine and he kissed me, if this was going to work I had to kiss back, so I did. I felt like I was betraying Louis for some reason, but he would understand… hopefully. I kept kissing him back until he relaxed, and his grip on the gun relaxed too. That was when I acted.
First I kneed him in the balls, as he fell down I grabbed his head and shoved it into my knee. Making him fall to the ground in pain. I kicked the gun away from his hand and knelt down next to his head.
“When I say, you don’t know what you’re getting into, it means you don’t know what you’re getting into okay. Next time, know who you’re trying to sleep with, for this you’ll get time in jail, minimal time, but still time. You have hold of a most probably unlicensed gun, you shot someone and sexually assaulted me. I can keep you down on the ground ‘till the cops get here, so don’t try getting back up again.” I stand up, as do the rest of the innocent people.
“Umm, if you want to leave, you can. I just need some witnesses to stay here so the cops know what happened and they have more than my word and the word of the lady who got shot. I hope you get home safely.” When I say that, no one leaves, and someone goes to the hospitality aisle to grab some bandages while the police and ambulance come. I go around checking that every ones alright, getting many thanks for saving them from the psycho.
Thank god dad forced me to do self-defence training for 4 years. That would have ended differently if I hadn’t. Finally the police come, with an ambulance. Shortly followed by 7 news. Great, this was going to end well with my parents and friends, not going to mention Louis right now. I knew from the way the news reporter was talking that this was live. Oh shit. This was going to be even better.
When I got out of the Woolworths store I was attacked by reporters, still in my pyjamas. Not the best look for T.V. but that wasn’t the plan this morning. The plan was to get breakfast and go back to Louis, well, that worked well didn’t it? In the middle of the questions I was attacked by someone from behind. Adrenaline still going through my veins I jumped around ready to kill them when I realised Louis had just hugged me.
“Thank god you’re okay” he says as he kisses me intensely. I knew the cameras were there, but us being together wasn’t completely new, this just confirmed it. The headline I was reading before this thing started said this:
Has Louis Tomlinson Moved On?
Louis POV
I held her in my arms, ignoring the cameras. Wait, cameras? Oh jeez. That’s embarrassing. “Are you Louis Tomlinson?” the news reporter asked me. Really? Oh man.
“You’ll find out tomorrow, won’t you?” I asked, live interview tomorrow. The reporter looked at me weirdly, but took it as a yes when she realised who Codie was. I eventually ushered her away from the cameras and into her car. I didn’t have the car, I decided to take a bus, which was really weird since I went at about eleven at night, to get to Codie, and I ran to the shop when I saw the breaking news… with her on screen.
“What did you think you were doing?” I said as she started driving off.
“Defending myself. Would you rather I got in bed with that guy, or done what I did?” she said sternly as she checked the traffic lights.
“You could have died. That guy had a gun, with bullets. He shot an innocent woman in the leg. You could have died.” I said the ‘you could have died’ twice because that bit was fairly important.
“I had it under control Louis, if you don’t trust me, then get over it. I have done a fair few years of self-defence training and karate.” She said taking a split second to look at me. her eyes were like daggers, like ocean blue, beautiful, daggers.
“Does self-defence training tell you to kiss people to save yourself?” I asked, I know that I was probably getting worked up over nothing, but, she did kiss another guy.
“Self-defence training told me to make my opponent underestimate me. To make them think they can beat me. To lull them into a false sense of security. That’s what I did, made them think they could beat me, when really they couldn’t. You have to learn to trust me Louis.” We drove back to the cabin and she got out of the car. I put my sunnies on and followed her out.
“Look, I’m sorry for cracking at you Codie, but, you scared the complete shit out of me. I change channels and there’s breaking news that someone had a gun and was deceived by a girl who made it out unscathed. I thought you were the one who got shot.” I explained.
“Sorry I had you worried. I understand, kind of. You just have to know that I’m stronger than you would think.” She said as she went to grab her bag to leave. I wrapped my arms around her waist from behind, being careful with my left hand.
“I know” I whispered in her ear. I kissed her cheek and she smiled.
“Thank god, but do you think you’re gonna get away with only a kiss on the cheek?” She said as she turned around to face me. She put her hands around my neck and kissed me on the lips. I kissed her back, and we only broke apart when we needed to breathe.
“I’ll take it you forgive me.” I said as she rested her forehead on mine. She must have been on her tip toes. I stared into her eyes, as she stared into mine.
“When did I say that?” She asked, smiling an evil grin. I knew she was being sarcastic, well, she didn’t say it, but judging from the kiss. I guess she had. “We better get going, we have to be out of here by three, or we have to pay for another day.”
“Why can’t we stay another night?” I asked as she went towards the front door.
“Because the boys would’ve ripped up the house by now, and my mum, or dad for that matter, would not be able to control them.” I nodded slowly as I understood her point. Then I realised that she wasn’t overestimating. If anything when she said they would have ripped up the house by now, that was an understatement.
I practically ran into the car and waited for Codie to in to drive us off. I waited and waited and waited. Then she finally got into the car. “What took you so long?” I asked.
“Hey, this spa stuff is awesome.” She said as she put the keys in the ignition and drove us to the reception. She returned the keys and paid for the stay, then she got back in the car and we drove back home.
***
We got back to the house and I cautiously walked to the front door. Scared of what was going to happen, I slowly opened the door and took a step backwards, waiting for a trap or the guys to come out and scare the shit out of me. Nothing happened, but I waited ‘till Codie was next to me before I walked in the door. I know it was cruel seen as she had been through some shit today, but, I wanted her next to me in case something happened. My only weapon was my cast. She had done self-defence classes, I could use this to my advantage now.
“What are you waiting for?” She asked, she could sense my fear.
“Um, for you love. I thought I’d be a gentleman, you know what they say, ladies first.” I said inconspicuously. She raised an eyebrow at me.
“Really?” She asked.
“Really.” I said happily, I was doing well here, I think.
“Well, I’m not a lady, I am a woman, or a girl. Not a lady. Anyway, men should always go first to keep their woman safe.” She reasoned. I looked at her.
“Okay, I will.” I think I sounded a bit scared. I walked into the door and looked both directions. I took a step, then another.
“Hey, Codie, I think it’s safe. ‘Think’ being the operative word here.” She looked at me, as if to say ‘where are the guys then?’. I took another step-
From the side I got attacked by savage dogs. Oh, wait, that was just the other guys. “Ha, we got you Louis.” Harry said as he stood up again.
“Yeah, that was definitely unexpected.” I said sarcastically.
“What did you get up to last night?” Niall said, nudging my arm.
“Nothing.” I say as Zayn got up.
“What is that? The safe word?” He said as he helped me up.
“We didn’t do anything I swear, we were too tired to do anything.” They all looked at me through squinty eyes.
“Sure you didn’t” Liam said slowly and very sarcastically. Why did no one believe me? Codie walked in the door, and all the guys crowded around her.
“Are you okay Codie?” was one of the things I heard from them as they kept asking about what happened at Woollies.
“It’s nice to know you guys care about me, but I am really tired, I barely got any sleep last night. I’ll tell you everything you want to hear tomorrow. I’m going to bed.” She said as she started walking up the stairs, still in her pyjamas from this morning. Harry turned to me.
“And you said you didn’t do anything.”

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