All Hidden Away

The night was full of fun. We ended up ordering pizza, the 5sos guys sang their awesome pizza song and showed me some of their other music as well.

“Wait… did you just say ‘If you don't swim, you'll drown but don't move,’?” I ask with a frown.
“Yes, it’s just… what do you think though?” says Ashton frowning and shaking his head.
“Okay… like it’s really good music… but I wouldn’t classify it as punk rock…” I say carefully frowning.
“What do you mean it’s not punk rock?!” exclaims Mikey.
“Well… some songs are more so than others… I don’t know, I guess I just prefer bands like Bring Me The Horizon.”
“Well that’s not punk rock either.” Says Cal pointing out the obvious.
“Well I know but – ” Harry cuts across me.
“Please don’t get her started on music. She will never shut up.” He says pulling a tongue at me. I roll my eyes and stand up, stretching out my back, making it click really loudly.
“What was that?” asks Liam who was standing behind me.
“Oh, my back.” I say putting down my arms.
“If anyone offers her a back massage, Harry and I will personally see to it that you will never walk again.” Says Louis who is half asleep on the couch. I roll my eyes.
“You guys are actually pathetic. I’m sure they wouldn’t have dared. They all seem like sensible adults.” I say taking off my glasses to clean them. A deadly silence falls on the room.
“What?” I ask looking up.
“Tasha? How old do you think they are?” asks Louis sitting up and laughing slightly.
“You just love making me feel stupid today don’t you…”I say shaking my head at him.
“I’d say same age as Harry.” Everyone laughs at me. I frown.
“Okay wait… how old do you think I am?” asks Luke smiling like a little boy on Christmas. I decide on some revenge against Louis.
“I’m not sure hey. Louis, stand up real quick.” He smiles and complies. “Stand up quickly Luke?”
“Oh ha ha ha… so funny.” Mumbles Louis sitting back down. “Height means jack shit.” I roll my eyes at him.
“I’d say you’re twenty two?” I say turning back to Luke. He smiles even wider.
“I’m twenty in July.” He says looking down. I gawk at him.
“No way…” he nods.
“How old are you?” he asks smiling at me.
“Turn nineteen in June.” I smile back. He suddenly jumps up and screams
“IM NOT THE BABY!!!” and does a little victory dance.
“Uhm… okay then.” I say smiling laughing at my new friends as they join him. Harry starts playing music on his phone and they all start dancing as I sit down and laugh at them
“Come on! Dance with us!?” says Niall over the loud music.
“Unless Hazza starts playing classical and I can start doing ballet it’s not happening Ni.”
“You do ballet?” Asks Luke plopping himself next to me. I turn to see him smiling and playing with his lip ring.
“Yeah, who else do you think taught Harry all the ballet moves.” I say looking over at him. He is currently dancing with Lou. “Keep it PG!” I scream at him. He rolls his eyes and carries on dancing. I turn back to look at Luke. His gaze hasn’t shifted and I feel caught off guard by his bright blue eyes.
“Your eyes are greener than Harry’s. I didn’t that was possible.” He says quietly so only I hear him. I look down and feel myself blush… for like the eighth hundred time that day.
“Thank you for helping me earlier today… I would hate to think what would have happened if you guys weren’t there.” I say smiling meeting his eyes once again.
“Not a problem. Glad we could help. And I’m sure I’m not the only one is glad to meet you.” He says smiling. The dances are randomly all doing the Macarena and I laugh at their silliness.

Suddenly the doorbell rings, I check my watch. 21:38 the music is silenced and everyone frowns. As I frown Liam goes to open the door. I look at Luke and smile before I quickly go to my room. I sit down on my bed and pull off my hoodie, replacing it with my dark denim jacket. A knock comes from my door.
“Come in…” I say standing and quickly running a brush through my hair. Louis sticks his head round.
“Modest is here… to discuss, um… ah to discuss everything.”
I nod. “I’ll be down in a second.” I quickly look at myself in the mirror. I was wearing what I wore earlier plus the jacket. I put Louis beanie back on my head for good luck. I sigh and make my way downstairs.
“Natasha.” Says Simon fondly waving at me. I smile and see that Harry is frowning but Niall looks like death. I smile and walk over to the couch.
“Heard about today, are you okay?”
“Fine, thank you.” I say with a smile. Who else had heard?
“So let’s get straight to it.” Says Louis as he pulls me into his lap protectively.
“But the Aussies are still-” Simon cuts across me.
“They are touring with us again and also need to be a part of this.” He says gently with a smile.
“Oh… okay.” I swallow. This was going to be awkward. “Well then what’s the plan?”
“We need you and Niall to go on a few dates and maybe kiss and “accidentally” get caught…” says Claire who I didn’t notice was here. I try not to shiver uncomfortably at the idea of kissing Niall; I love him I really do. But it was going to be like kissing your brother… or a pet goldfish.
“Okay and then what do we say? Like, what’s my name or how did we meet?” I don’t make eye contact with anyone as I slowly subconsciously pull at the skin around my nails.
“You’re still yourself, but you’re Harry’s cousin.” She says making Louis hug me protectively against his chest.
“Oh…okay well that’s something. I think I’d get confused with a name change…” I say trying to laugh off the growing tension in the room and look up when I hear someone cough. The 5sos guys look like they are either going to throw up or throw some punches. I haven’t had enough time with them to read them properly.
“And then we are going to get someone else and you are going to cheat on Niall and that way you can go back to how things were.” my mouth falls open.
“No.” I say loudly.
“I’m sorry?” She asks after a pause.
“Im not doing that. You are not going to destroy my or his image and say im a cheater… I am not doing that. And I am not going to go back to the way things were. Do you even have a heart? Id’ rather tell everyone the truth and never be able to go back to varsity and be normal again.” I say bluntly. I see the 5sos guys all look at each other then at me.
“I agree.” Says Harry. Louis squeezes me but I can tell he is too angry to say anything.
“Im not going to let you make her look bad.” Says Niall, fists clenching at his side.
“You guys never want to do something the easy way do you…” she says sighing giving me a death stare. There is a moment of awkward silence before Mikey steps in out of the blue.
“Does it have to be a guy form One Direction, or just someone from Tour.” My stomach drops.
“Guys-” I say warning them and shaking my head.
“Someone from tour.” She says with an evil smile understanding where this is going.
“Guy’s shut up before you can’t take it back.” I warn pulling against Lou who isn’t letting me go.
“What about one of us? We’ll just call it off after tour and everything will be fine.” Offers Ashton.
“Seems logical.” Says Calum nodding. What the fuck were they doing?!
Luke coughs and looks at Claire and Simon.

“I’ll do it.”

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