~ Velvet Lips And The Eyes To Pull Me In - We Both Know You'd Already Win ~.
Chapter 10.
- THE NEXT MONTH -
Everything in my life had settled down now, Niall had been dating Georgia for weeks, Harry and Arrianne were still together, so was Zayn and Debby, Liam and Lydia, oh and most of all, me and Louis.
It was great, everything seemed to be getting better, especially with me and Lou.
I'd moved on from Niall and I'm pretty sure he did the same. I liked everything the way it was.
It was Saturday today, time relax as I had the house to myself. I swung out of bed, slipped the warmest pair of pj's on seeing as it was freezing outside and made myself a nice warm cup of tea. Ellen was at one of her friends houses and mum and dad had gone to a hotel for the weekend. The best thing about this weekend was that it was Halloween tomorrow and Georgia was having a party, I was so excited. I thought the best thing to do today was decide what to wear tomorrow, it was fancy dress obvcourse, Alice from Alice in Wonderland seemed like the only costume that suited me, so I lay it out on the chair in my room. It wasn't much, just exactly what she wore in the film, simple, but effective.
Once that had been done, I grabbed my makeup bag and fiddled about with different looks. Again, I went for more of a natural look and decided I was going to leave my hair natural. Speaking about hair, mine looked like it needed re-dying, so I grabbed the bottle of rich chocolate-brown hair dye sitting on my window, waiting to be used and headed straight to the bathroom. As I struggled to find a towel to wrap round my hair, I heard the door bell go. Having no clue who was at the door, I practically fell down the stairs, seeing as I was trying to dry my hair at the same time. I got the keys and unlocked the door, turned around and shouted "If you're friendly, come in!" (Not something that's really encouraged). I trotted into the kitchen to make yet another brew, and then realised that I'd just left a stranger standing, confused in my house. When I turned back around, I realised that the person wasn't there, I blinked a couple of times then started running around screaming "HELLO?" Sprinting into the living room, I flipped over the sofa and onto someones lap. It was Louis.
" I thought I'd make myself at home seeing as you left my in the doorway.. " He shrugged.
" Oooo, sorry. " I giggled and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
" What are you doing here anyway? "
" I came to check up on you. " He whispered.
" Check up on me? I'm perfectly capable of looking after myself! "
" Do you wanna' hear a secret? "
" Irrelevant, but go on then .. "
" I just wanted to see you " He looked down and twirled a loose piece of my hair. He was so sweet, and trust me to ruin one of those 'romantic moments'.. The phone rang, I quickly snapped out of my daze and ran into the hallway, picked up the phone, huffed and screamed "HELLO?" for the second time today.
" Frankie? Are you ok ..? " It was my mum.
" Yes, yes I'm fine, but mum, I've got to erm, go. You see ..- " She cut me off before I could finish.
" Is Louis there? Hmmmm. " She said quite sternly.
" What? Nooooo, pftt, no. Obvcourse not. " I said rather sarcasticly.
" Oh, ok then, I'll ring you back later, ok? "
" Yes mother .." I slammed the phone down, slid back across the hall and plonked myself back down on Louis' lap.
" Iya. " I smirked.
" Hi there. " He smiled back and flipped me over, eventually I landed on the floor with Louis pearing over me, tutting. He reached a hand out and pulled me back on the sofa.
" So, what time am I picking you up? "
" Picking me up, w-what? " I said slightly confused.
" You know.. tomorrow? Georgia's party? "
" Ahhhhhhh, erm, I don't know, around seven? " I said quite politely.
" Ok, I'll see you then? " He threw his jacket over his shoulder and shoved his hands in his pockets.
" Ok " I bit my lip, while he kissed me gently on the cheek and walked out the door.
The Night got colder and being home alone wasn't all it was cracked up to be, I mean sitting on your own in the dark, freezing with a cup of tea and rubbish tv. It was draining me, so I trotted up to bed and wrapped myself up underneath the covers and drifted off to sleep.
The next morning, I got up quite early, seeing as I didn't go to bed late last night. But I wasn't disapointed, this meant more time to get ready for Georgia's party.
First things first, I grabbed a bowl of cereal and ate it while watching 10 year old cartoons.
Then I showered for around 45 minutes, including the regular, sing my heart out to mumford and sons phase. After that, I wrapped a towel round me and watched yet another batch of ancient cartoons. And then finally thought it'd be a good time to start getting ready. I slipped on some fancy underwear and then my 'Alice' dress, tied with a thick black bow around my waist. I pulled up my black, knee-high socks and put on a pair of cute boat shoes (I wasn't good with heels). Hair and make-up was done in a matter of minutes and I was ready to go. There was an hour left till Louis was coming to pick me up, so I slumped down onto the bed and raided the internet to cure my boredom. I sat there playing with the ruffles that lay at the bottom of my dress and just thought to myself, what if anything bad happened at this party? Maybe I should stay away from the alcohol seeing as it clearly doesn't agree with me. Yes, that would be a good idea, I could keep an eye on other people that meant. I heard Louis walk up the drive, so I ran and slammed open the door before he could even knock. I flung my arms around him. When I looked down, I saw that he was dressed as superman, typical Louis. He had a plain white shirt and black braces on, fake glasses and with his open shirt, he had a superman top underneath. He looked so cute.
We both looked like a bit of an odd couple, walking hand in hand down the street in our outfits, but we found it rather amusing.
" Frankie, I want you to be careful at this party, ok? " Louis said rather concerned.
" Louis, I'll be fine, anyway, I'm not drinking so nothing should really happen in my case. " I could see where he was coming from, but I didn't want him to worry. We walked down Georgia's street and could already hear music coming from the house, there were people outside, getting some air. I guess that there was going to be alot of people there, seeing as Georgia had only moved schools last month, so she invited all of here old friends along aswell. As we walked in, I spotted some fimiliar faces and decided to go over and talk. Louis had already gone to get a drink, but it didn't bother me, I knew I could trust him. It was 8 o'clock and people were already practically drunk. It was a bit overwhelming, so I decided to go on a wonder. Infact, where did Louis go?
I went from the kitchen, to the conservatory, to the garden. I spotted Louis and once I knew he was fine, I decided to head on upstairs to see if anyone I knew was up there. The night progressed and all those 'familiar faces' started to disapear into Georgia's room. I peared in through the gap between the door and the wall. There must have been around 17 people in the room, all playing a game of spin the bottle. One by one, boys and girls would wonder into the closet and come back out atleast 7 minutes later. God knows what they were getting up to, and to be honest, I didn't want to know. But all that changed when more people wanted to play and I got dragged into the room with them, they sat me down infront of the empty clear glass bottle, in mid-spin. I started to get nervous, I didn't want to go into that closet, especially because of Louis. They wouldn't let me leave, they kept shouting and chanting until the bottle finally landed on me and shortly after, Niall.
It was our turn to go into the closet. I refused to even get up of the floor, but a group of extremely drunk, older boys carried me in. I shouted for Louis but, I highly doubt he could hear me. No one could help, everyone had been drinking. Even Niall. I was terrified. What was he going to do to me?
A tear rolled down my cheek, I could feel that something bad was going to happen. The boys dropped me onto the floor in the closet, it was terribly warm and dark, the wicker door slammed shut behind me, I couldn't breathe. Niall stepped forward and lifted me up. His grip was strong and over powering, I couldn't get away, I felt helpless. After screaming for Louis so loud, my voice began to fade away and I couldn't even get a whisper out, I shouted for Louis under my breath but even I couldn't hear myself. Niall placed one hand on my waist and another on my cheek, he wiped a tear away. I could feel him breathe on my neck, the stench of alcohol lingered around his body. He took his hand away from my cheek and moved my hair away from my lower neck, his lips roughly pressed against my skin as he worked his way up towards my cheek. I tugged at his hair, but he wouldn't move. My arms dropped and my knees weakened. I fell to the ground and Niall came crashing down ontop of me, his body was so heavy, my ribs bruised. He carried on kissing me, his hands landed on my thigh. I closed my eyes tight and wished for it to be over, he started biting my lip and tears were streaming down my face. He wouldn't stop, my lip eventually drew blood and the worst thing was, I couldn't do anything. I lay there and it felt like the walls were going to cave in. The clock hanging on the door ticked away and when it reached 13 minutes, I saw a hand tug on the door handle.
" Where is she? " A voice was shouting outside, the door wouldn't budge. I heard a bottle smash and the door flew open. Niall started giggling when a dark figure dragged him away from me, defenceless. I closed my eyes.
" Oh god, Frankie, are you ok? Frankie? Frankie? " Someone scooped me up and carried me out into a now, empty room. My eyes flickered from open to shut. A hand touched my chest and warm lips kissed my forehead.
" I'm so so sorry, this is all my fault for leaving you. " A tear dripped onto my lips and my eyes began to open.
" Louis? " I mumbled with my throat, sore and in pain. This was not happening to me. Louis brushed my hair in silence. He didn't want to speak, I could see that he felt bad. But it wasn't his fault.
" I should have been looking after you, I never meant for you to get this way.." He dapped my lips with a wet flannel.
" It's not your fault Louis "
" But it is, I wasn't there for you, you're are so delicate and pressious. I can't believe he did this to you. " He shouted.
" Where is he? " I mumbled.
" I don't care, he's not here to hurt you anymore, I know that. " His thumb stroked my cheek.
" I'll never leave you, frankie. "
Louis carried my the whole way home. It was amazing. The entire way back, my eyes wouldn't leave his. He knew that I was home alone so he let himself in and took me upstairs. He put me down, softly onto the bed. He held my hand and lay next to me all night.