All Hidden Away

I felt someone’s hand on my face and start to open my eyes to see Luke and Nikole smiling at me.
“Good nap?” asks Luke giggling. I nod my head and sit up still feeling the sting on my side.
“I have never had someone fall asleep while I tattooed them.” She says standing and walking over to the mirror which she brings to me.
“Wow… it looks, it looks amazing!” I say looking at her and smiling. “Thank you.” I say still mesmerised by it.
“Well, you did the hard part of designing it. I’m glad you like it. You know the rules about cleaning it?” she asks and I nod my head.
“But remind me again?” I say smiling as she wipes my side with disinfectant and bandages it.
“Wear the bandage for about 4 hours and then wash it with some anti – bacterial soap. Leave it open to air but apply some Aquaphor every now and then to let it heal faster. Don’t pick any scabs, wear loose tops, like this pretty one and stay out of direct sunlight for a bit… otherwise ask Harry for my number if you have any problems.” she says smiling.
“Great, thank you!” I say again.
“No problem, can I take a pic with my first customer to fall asleep on me? I need to put it up somewhere.” She laughs. Luke took a pic of me pointing to my tattoo while Nikole was smiling and giving a thumbs up. As I walk back out I notice Cal isn’t in the room but Harry is sitting reading a magazine.
“Heelloo.” I say waving at him.
“Oh my word! Let me see, let me see!” he says getting up and all excited.
“It’s bandaged, you tart. Maybe later.” I say paying the lady and smiling.
“Not fair! Luke got to see it.” he pouts playing with his hair.
“Yeah, but he was there, holding my hand.” I shrug taking back my card and thanking her one more time before leaving out the side door. “Is everyone meeting us there?” I ask as Luke takes me hand and smiles.
“Yeah, the guys got to say hi to most of the fans which was nice, and no one tried to kill anyone which is always good.” I smile and shake my head.
As we got back to our car, Paul opened the door for us. I smiled and climbed in.
“So no one pass out or cry?” asks Paul getting into the driver’s seat smiling at me.
“Harry, she’s not normal… she fell asleep…” says Luke leaning over me and looking at Harry. Paul laughs manically from the front.
“YOU WHAT?!” Harry says in horror but laughing at the same time.
“It was just relaxing…” I say feeling embarrassed.
“Wait until you tell Cal, he will freak!” says Luke pulling out his phone and facetiming Cal.
“Lucifer! Tasha! How was it? Are you happy with it?” he asks smiling as we see him sitting in a restaurant.
“Yeah, it looks awesome.” I say in response before pulling out my phone and messaging mum to let her know how things were going.
“Calum… She fell asleep.” Says Luke not smiling. “Like while they were tattooing her…” Cal’s mouth falls open and Liam soon joins the camera.
“What?” they ask simultaneously.
“Aggghhhh.” I groan loudly before curling into Harry’s side, wanting to sleep some more. “Maybe if some idiots didn’t make so much noise this morning, maybe I could have stayed awake.” I say smiling.
“But still! That’s not okay!” Says Cal and soon Niall’s head pops up.
“Tasha! Show me show me show me!” he begs quickly making puppy dog eyes.
“I can’t Ni, it’s all bandaged up.” I say smiling sitting up from Harry’s shoulder.
“Niall, did you hear she fell asleep while getting it done? Now that just makes you look like you have no manhood, mate.” Says Harry smiling. Suddenly the phone is pulled away from Niall and Mikey looks at me in horror.
“YOU did WHAT?” he screams. “How the fuck? You’re like twelve and it hurts so much I was like, nearly dying!” he says before Ashton shushes him.
“Mikey, stop screaming…” he says sipping on a milkshake.
“Woah woah woah… Tasha, is what they saying true? You fell asleep?” asks Paul staring at me through the review mirror. I nod sheepishly. He laughs nodding his head. “Damn… that’s, different.” he says smiling.
“Tasha did what?” I hear Louis voice from the phone.
“You people make big deals out of nothing…” I say as Paul laughs some more. The boys end up talking about food and soon Paul is pulling over outside the restaurant behind the other car. Luke hangs up and we get out. There are a few more people, maybe because they all saw everyone else, but Luke is quick to grab my hand and walk inside, with Harry stopping for a few picks here and there. It’s hard to miss the bunch of unruly boys, talking loudly, all sitting together as we walk in. Ashton sees us and waves while he smiles big. He gently hugs me.
“What did Luke make you get?” he asks as I sat in between him and Luke.
“Nothing, some other time.” He says smiling. Suddenly the conversation dies down and I look up from my menu to see Niall death staring me. My eyes go wide as I look at him.
“You were meant to take a picture or call me or something…” he says making a pouty face and puppy dog eyes. I laugh at him and soon everyone is starting to talk again.
“Ni, I got a pic, but I don’t want to show the pic to you. I want everyone to see the real thing…” I say still looking at the blond Irish boy sitting across from me.
“But it’s not fair! Harry got to see it.” I feel a blush on my cheek.
“No I haven’t…” Harry says looking at Niall with a questioning look.
“But didn’t you sit with-”
“Yeah, Ni. Because the guy who introduced me as a friend would be holding my hand while I got tattooed instead of the guy who introduced me as his girlfriend…” I say shortly. I wanted Harry to see it, I’m not saying I didn’t want Luke to see it it’s just… it’s not the same. Niall grimaces.
“Sorry, it’s just-” he starts to apologise. I smile.
“It’s something to get used to…” I say smiling before catching the end of Michael’s comment.
“No I didn’t get a tramp stamp!” I say laughing. “It’s on my ribs…”
“Ahh, Tasha, you didn’t need to get a tattoo of my name on your ribs to tell me you love me!” said Cal, hand to his chest. I shake my head at the Asian looking non-Asian boy as a waiter comes forward to take our orders, clearly not a fan of either of the bands.
“Can I have Margarita, please?” I ask when it’s my turn to order.
“That’s so boring…” says Mikey laughing at me. I throw him a middle finger and sip on my Coke.
As he walks away I see Lou smiling at me.
“What?” I ask frowning but smiling at the strange boy.
“He thinks you’re cute.” He says before smiling and looking at Harry and getting his attention.
“What? Who does?” I ask looking around. Luke laughs, leaning back and looking at Lou.
“The waiter, silly…” says Harry. “I’m glad I managed to get you a boyfriend, you’re so switched off to members of the opposite sex you would hardly notice if someone even proposed to you!” I stare at my brother with my mouth half hanging open.
“I’m going to pretend like that didn’t hurt at all, and ignore any rude remarks I might think of…” I say looking down and playing with my napkin.
“Oh come on, he’s just playing…” says Luke gently putting a hand on my arm.
“Ye, and if you want to keep that hand I suggest you move it because he was joking about the boyfriend thing too.” Say’s Louis looking at him. Luke quickly removes his hand to Louis’ great pleasure. And I giggle slightly before we lapse into broken random conversation about nothing and everything.

After we finish our pizza we ask for the bill and things get awkward. I reach for my wallet to pay for my meal, but am quickly shouted at by Harry.
“You’re my guest. Put that away…” he says while making the other boys fork up.
“But, as you say, she’s my girlfriend, so I’ll pay.” Says Luke trying to get back at Louis he hands Harry back his cash. I know they are only joking but it makes me feel bad. I grab Luke’s money and shove it back into his hand.
“And I’m a modern woman who can pay for herself.” I say handing over the bills and getting up to start heading back to the car. Paul leaps up and follows quickly behind me.
“Tasha, just wait. We can’t go out just yet.” He says placing a large callused hand on my shoulder. I turn to the big guy.
“Please just take me to the car and come back for the boys? Please Paul?” I ask begging. He sighs and nods, opening the door and quickly following me out. There aren’t that many people around anymore and we make it back to the car quickly and easily. I open the door and am about to step in when I hear him talking.
“Tasha, they just… they all just not sure how to handle this. I know Luke chose to do this, but he’s now “DATING” one of his best friend’s younger sisters. And Lou is just… well Lou. But Harry feels responsible. Like if he had just done something sooner you wouldn’t have to be in this situation…” he says looking at me with pitying eyes. I nod and quickly get in. Locking the door behind me. I check the time and see it’s just after two which means I can take off the bandages in about an hour. I smile and open my phone to message Stuart to tell him about my day. As Liam, Harry and Luke climb into the car my phone starts ringing. I see it’s Stu and quickly pick up.
“Hey.” I say holding my phone up to my ear.
“Hey, how’s things going over there?” he asks. He sounds like he has his phone on a table while he works which he often does.
“Good, how was class? Miss anything important today?” I ask as I scotch over and get comfortable.
“Nah, not really. But I need to know what tattoo you got!” I frown.
“Stu… I didn’t tell you I got a new tattoo?” I say almost formulating a question.
“No, but you’re all over twitter. See you and Luke make a cute couple… Tasha?” he asks. I can feel the colour drain from my face in shock. Harry looks at me worriedly. I grab his phone out of his hand and open twitter.
“Shit…” I mumble as I open his twitter.
“Sorry, I thought you knew!” he says loudly.
“Tasha?” asks Harry placing a hand on my bouncing knee.
“She okay?” asks Paul looking back as he gets into the driver’s seat. I search Luke Hemmings and hundreds of tweets are talking about the girl on his arm. I see a picture and shakily open it. You can clearly see me holding Luke’s hand while staring at my shoes while he is smiling and looking at me. I silently hand Harry his phone back.
“No, it’s okay… just, something to get used to… Can I call back just now?”
I quickly hang up and look at Harry.
“You okay?” asks Luke looking at me. I nod my head.
“I just, not used to it…” I manage to get out. He nods and smiles gently at me.
“Any news from Claire?” I ask frowning not really wanting to deal with all of this right now.
“Speak of the devil…” says Luke as his phone begins to ring.
“Afternoon.” He says putting her on speaker.
“You idiots! You were supposed to wait for tonight! Do you know how hard this is going to be for me to correct?! That’s it. Natasha, you are having to get a stylist for tonight. You cannot go out dressed like that again, do you hear me?!” she practically screams. I frown and open my mouth.
“Why do I need a stylist?” I say quietly. I can feel the boys stares on me as my arms get covered in goose bumps.
“Because otherwise you go out looking like that!” she says. I look up to see Harry getting angry but as he opens his mouth to say something Luke cut’s in.
“Claire. This is my contract as much as it is hers. She needs to be herself or else this will never work. I thought she looked stunning and so does the majority of twitter. I will call back once we are home and can talk rationally.” He says sternly and in a business like manner. Harry smirks and Liam sits there staring at his phone.
“Twenty minutes or I will come over and sort it out in person.” She says hanging up. His words echo in my mind.
“Do I even want to know what people are saying?” I ask quietly. I see Harry’s smirk quickly disappear as his hand rests on my knee.
“Something that Bambi taught me, Tasha is that if you don’t have anything nice to say… you shouldn’t say anything at all.” Says Luke smiling.

I didn’t want to go on my phone for the rest of the drive, but soon Mum messaged me.

XX Stay positive babe – at least you spending time with people who love you!

I smile and send back a simple heart. When we got back to the house, I saw a few girls outside who screamed when they saw us. Paul opened our door and Luke grabbed my hand as we walked inside. We were silent as we opened the door and walked into the kitchen where everyone sat on their phones.
“Wow, social bunch…” I say sarcastically and jumping onto the counter.
“You okay?” asks Niall, walking over and standing next to me. I nod but don’t smile I felt like I was in shock. I dump my bag on the floor. Out of sight out of mind. “How long till you can take it off?” it takes me a few seconds to realise what he’s asking about. I check the clock on the wall.
“About forty minutes…Luke you need to call Claire…” I say my elbows resting onto my knees leaning forward. He nods and picks up his phone and walks to the door before turning around.
“Come with me?” he asks looking at me. I look up to see Harry smiling proudly. I nod and hop down but not before Niall pulls me into a bone crushing hug.
“We’ll get through this… It’s worth it if we get to spend time with our baby sister.” he says into my ear. I nod and pull away gently. What are they even saying about me? A part of me wondered, but the other part of me knew I didn’t want to know. I follow Luke out into the garden next to the pool.
“I’m sorry if you get any hate… once we speak to the devil herself, ill post something telling them to stop which they guys will retweet…” I don’t look at him while he talks. I just want to sleep. I don’t know why I am even this tired…
“Hey, look at me…” he says gently. I raise my head and look at his bright blue eyes that look so sad it breaks my heart. “We can make this fun, okay? We’re going to have an amazing time tonight and then everyone will shut up about it…” he says smiling, causing me to smile. I nod as he dials Claire’s number. She picks up almost immediately.
“Luke, is Natasha there?” she asks as she is placed on speaker.
“I’m here…” I say. There is a moment of silence. I look at Luke frowning.
“Good. Now listen carefully. I don’t know what you have planned for tonight, you can do whatever you want to be frank, but you need to have the correct image. Natasha, Lou will be round at about three to start on your wardrobe, hair and makeup.” I grimace but know there is no hope in protesting.
“Luke, just look presentable. I think I’m stupid to trust you, but whatever. What is the plan for tonight? Dinner?” she asks. I see Luke tense.
“It’s a surprise actually, but it is going to be fun and -” he is cut across by a stern voice.
“Just remember you are not actually dating the girl Hemmings… so stop putting in so much effort and just make it believable.” I gawk at the phone.
“Claire – just let us have some fun.” I say shortly rubbing my temples.
“This is business. Not fun, Natasha. Be showered for Lou but four thirty and just co-operate… We already have a record of all clothing sizes, so don’t even think about possibly saying what we give you is too big or small…I’ll check in just now.”
“Wait, Claire can I post something about the hate?” asks Luke checking while looking at me and smiling gently. His blond hair catching the rays of sunlight and his eyes reflecting the pool.
“You better or else people will be suspicious. Now I need to try stop magazines from messing this up. Good bye.” She says hanging up. I groan loudly before collapsing back onto the grass.
“I HATE THAT WOMAN!” I say covering my face with my arms.

Notes

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