Disclaimer: Do not own 1Direction... They're people, duh. But the plotlines and OC's I do own. Another author helps and gives me input ;)
(AN/ FUCKING LOVE ELEANOR AND LOUIS! DON'T HATE THE PLAYA!
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Wrong Turn
Vanessas alarm rang at 11am, waking her up softly. Sun beat through her dark curtain giving a light haze in the room. She moaned slightly and stretched across her bed to feel an empty space. But her hand landed on a piece of paper, almost crumpling it. Ness took it in her hand and her eyes focussed so she could read.
Morning, gorgeous,
hope you had a good sleep, I know I did, didn't want to get up this morning x
last night was good x proper good laugh too
cheers for the lovebite btw ;) officially wont be mocked by the boys later on (!)
on another note, there's a copy of the magazine on your dresser- well done ;)
we'll Facetime, skype, tweet- btw, you have a Twitter now ;) e-Mail, text, video diary
I know you'll do absolutely amazing in your exam too x
know you can do it, we'll text you before it or Facetime
love you,
Louis x x x
PS. you're beautiful. don't forget it :3
Nessa grinned at the sheet of paper and put it back onto the pillow. She rubbed her eyes and got up from the bed, straightening out her joggies and twisted Hollister shirt.
"Vanessa! Breakfast is out!" Her mum shouted up to her.
"Coming!" Nessa walked over to her dressed and saw the glossy magazine in all it's glory. It big pink letters, it read 'It's official! Louis' Lady Friend speaks exclusively to us!'. She smiled and looked at the picture used. Her sitting in the floor with her legs crossed and her arms holding them together. She was brightly smiling. She was actually laughing at the shoot because of Niall and Liams comment about her and Louis' dinner date.
Ness just shook her head with a smile and walked past her mirrors, stopping as somethings caught her eye. Pink marks. One at her side, one on her breastbone just above her heart and one just below her ear.
"It's getting cold, darling!" Her mum shouted. Nessa nodded, frantically looking through her makeup bag for some kind of coverup. Just something to last through breakfast at least. Ness couldn't find anything. the one time she needed it. She resorted to letting her hair out of her bobble and over her shoulders.
"Bloody boybands!" Nessa cursed before walking downstairs, holding her hair down, "They'll be the death of me!" She said to herself whilst taking her seat at the breakfast bar.
"Mornin', darling!" Her mum smiled, kissing the top of her head, smoothing down the top of her hair. Ness pulled her V-neck shirt together and buttoned up Louis cardi.
"It's chilly, mum" Ness chuckled. Her mu just walked back around to face her from the other side of the bar.
"Well, heating's on my lovely. Got a busy day today. Studying, then we're going to see Nana and Grandad, then you've got holiday clothes to be buying. Libby and Emma phoned saying that they'll pick you up at three to go shopping in town" She smiled, wiping down the surfaces of the kitchen. "Very nice marks, Vanessa. Very now!"Her mum noted, moving her daughters hair from her neck.
"Not what it looks like! Honestly, mum! We were just messing about." Nessa lied, smiling as she tried to cover up the one underneath her ear.
"That doesn't matter to me, Ness. I see he akes you happy. Always has and probablly always will." Her mum smiled. Her eye caught James coming down the stairs and kept on smiling brightly, "And if you're happy, honey, then so am I... But I'm happier right now." Her mum grinned, welcoming James into kitchen with a hug and a small kiss.
"Mornin', Ness" James took the seat next to her, flipping open the paper to have the SugarScape magazine fall out. Ness couldn't help but smile everytime she saw it.
"Tomato? I don't like them" Vanessa smiled. She pushed her plate towards James who picked at the fried, juicy tomatoes.
"Lush. Absolutely lush!" He chuckled, giving Ness a one armed hug as he ate.
"I'm having a little baby" Her mum said, looking at both of them across the bar. Nessa looked up from the magazine interview and looked at her mum.
"You're what?" James asked in a deeper voice, "A baby? We're having one?" His smile creeped further across his face.
"Yeah!" Her mum leaned across the breakfast bar to give James and Nessa a tight cuddle.
"I'll be back in a second. Need to do some texting" Ness pulled away, leaving James and her mother alone.
"Don't be long. Need to go to nanas!" Her mum shouted after her when she was halfway up the stairs at her. Ness just shrugged and nodded, pulling her phone out of whereever it was in her room.
"Oh, my God!" She sighed, unlocking it as fast as she could. Ness pulled up Louis' name in the contacts and quickly typed to him.
My mum's having a baby!
OMMFG!
Enjoy Holmes Chapel ;)
She pressed send with so much force and anxiously awaited his reply. Ness texted every other one of her friends, letting them know the news. All of them instantly replied.
OMG! I'm dead chuffed 4 you xx
Really? congratulations! xxx
Then, Louis replied with a cheerful picture attachment;
Does she know what she's having ?
hope it's a boy. then she could call it Tommo or something after me ;)
just woke up from the back of Harry's Range with a surprising label on my forehead,
Zayn thought he was being funny...
She scrolled down to the link and opened it up. It made her laugh so bad.
Louis. Asleep in the back of Harry's car with the word 'Peado' written on his forehead. He seemed like he was totally out of it. Zayn held the pen in his hand next to Louis and he was grinning wildly. Niall was leaning across Louis lap with his thumbs up. Liam must of been taking the picture.
She scrolled again and there was another picture of Louis with half of it smudged off, leaning over a bathroom sink. A pout was on his face.
I know you're laughing.
not nice to laugh at another persons misery ;)
not nice at all :)
Just had to spend about thirty minutes in Harry's bathroom washing it off.
speak to you soon :)
dead happy about the baby!
bring you back a present :3
xxx
Six Days Later
11 am
Nessa sat outside the exam hall at her Uni with a trembling body. Jeans, Vans and her Ramones vest top with coloured chalk and paint stains. Her hair was really just thrown up in a bobble. She hadn't slept. Her bag was left back at her dorm and the only things she held was a can of blue Monster energy drink with five 400mg caffine pills dissolved inside. The other hand held her phone. She was on Twitcam to the boys on the plane going to the USA. Her body rocked gently.
"Ness, have you slept at all?" Harry asked. She scoffed and guzzled the drink.
"Not once since two days ago. I've been busy studying for this. Studying's more important than sleep." She told them, popping more caffine pills from her back pocket.
"I think you should skip this exam, V. You don't look too well." Louis said softly to her. She just looked at him. There were fifteen minutes until the exam and her eyes followed every tick of the clock.
"I can't skip it. I'm here now. I'm shattered but I'll do this." Nessa sighed.
"Do you know what this is like? Freddy Krueger. All his victims kept themselves awake otherwise they'd die" Liam smiled, "No pressure though. He's not real" He grinned. Nessas eyes widened and Niall punched him. Vanessa looked at all the students light up before they went in. Inspiration. Since it was a practical exam, she had to; try and use all brush strokes she had been taught, use effective contrasting techniques. It was too much for her brain to take in. A rather shabby looking boy walked up to her when she was talking to the boys and put his long black hair behind his ear. The boy looked like one of those American dirtbag douchebags you see in the movies. Long hair. Spots. shabby, scuffed jeans and Converses. He took one of his hands from his green hoodie and tossed her a plastic bag. The insides looked like moss.
"I don't want this. I don't need it" Vanessa told him in a quick voice. The boy shook his head and bent down closer to her.
"Everybody else here has taken it. Even the smallest bit. They're all passing. Use it when you need inspiration." He said, patting her cheeks before walking away out of site. Out of the Arts part of the university. Louis was sitting on the edge of his plane seat. He just saw her face being touched.
"You can't use that. It'd be cheating." Liam muttered.
"I'm a bit past cheating, Liam!" She started before the professor walked out and stood at the doorway.
"Please, get your albums out for verification and take your seats. Utensils are down at the front. No talking. No texting. This is pure trust." The man said. He was a proper kind of person. A sharp suit. A propper stance.
"Oh, God! I have to go. I'll see you on the other side." She told them. Niall jumped over Louis' chair to kiss the webcam. Liam and Zayn picked up the laptop from Louis lap and hugged it.
"Good luck" They wished her. Harry just winked at her and blew a kiss at her.
"Good luck" Harry smiled. Louis was given back the laptop and she smiled.
"Promise you'll sleep after this?" He asked. She nodded.
"Promise." Nessa smiled.
"Love you" Louis said quietly to her. The boys 'Ooh-ed' in camp voices behind Louis making Nessa laugh and forget the fear of the exams.
"Love you, too" Louis let out a sigh and waved to her before closing down the laptop.
Vanessa put her Up all Night Yearbook Edition onto replay and showed the dudicator and took her seat up the back of the room.
She tossed the bag about gently in her hand and opened it up, tearing a small peice. Ness placed it on her tongue and guzzled more of the pills and Monster. She put in the other earphone and looked to the front of the room where the task was scrawled upon the board. City Nightlife!
She swallowed hard with a lump in her throat and she started to feel lighter. Floatier. She started to see things. Mad things. People she knew wern't real were there. Animals. Celebrities. Bright bursts of colour coming out of nowhere. Everything seemed brighter and in HD. Relentlessly, she picked up the paintbrush and started to paint. She went over the memory of her and Louis messing about in the street outside, absolutely off their faces. That's what she painted. The long, road. The junction. Nessa helping Louis walk home to the hotel. Niall was drawn in too. At the top of the street with his hands on his hips. Her brain was jogging over time. It throbbed. Her head began to ache and she eventually realised what she had drawn. The painting was more cartoony than anything else. thick black outlines. Very obvious shadowing.
"10 MINUTES TO GO!" The dudicators voice boomed. It was distorted and slurred. Time had flown by for her. The album had went back to the beginning. Vanessa leaned back in her seat, suddenly feeling clammy and sweaty. Everything was enhanced. The ticking of the clock outside rang in her ears. The breathing of the people infront of her exagerated completely. The chewing of gum grated on her. Her sight ended up like a camera. Zooming in and focussing to zooming out and focussing. Zoom in. Zoom out. It was like that for the rest of the time of the exam. She could hear her brain pulse and the blood rush through her veins. The pills and the drink and the weed started to mix together in her stomach and make her sweatier and uncomfortable. Nessa then started to over think. She would fail horrendously and end up living on the street with a sick dog with rabies. No food. Water. Warmth. No love. Nothing
"TIME! Paintbrushes, pencils, chalk-Stop. Make sure your name is on the back with your class, age and dorm. Then leave in a single file out the door." The dudicator instructed. The classes left row by row and the back row left last in a big crowd. She rolled the can around in her hand, pulling at the ringtop. Nessa felt her legs turn to jelly at the back of the crowd and she fell, passing out and tumbling down the stairs. She was overdosing. The douchey drug guy had appeared again and was the first to make sure she was alright. Trying to make her speak, he was slipping the Green out of her back pocket and into his bag. He wasn't a grass. He wouldn't rat her out.
She just lay there with a crowd of people around her. The clouded drink flowed down the stairs, lumps of caffiene eventually coming out from the bottom of the can. Vanessa twitched. Many people debated about if she was dead or not.
A couple of hours later in the hospital.
4 pm.
Vanessa lay still. An almost comatose state had taken over her body. The lights were on but nobody was home. Her body responded to pain but didn't physically react. Every thirty inutes, a nurse would come by with a single needle and prick Nessas skin. Everything was connected to her She had a tube coming out of her mouth and needles going into her arm. Her mother had travelled down from Doncaster to see her little girl in Intensive Care. She hadn't moved from her daughters bedside since she had arrived. Neither had the laptop on the other seat across from her mum. It had the boys Skype on it. Five different pages. One with Niall, Louis, Liam, Zayn and Harry all in their different hotel rooms. Niall had his head in his hands with his earphones in. Harry was the same. The rest of the boys were half asleep. Tried out from travelling.
"Come on, Ness. Wake up" Harry muttered, rubbing his eyes. Nessas monitor went higher then dropped. She could hear them.
"Fuckin' hell!" Louis grunted, slamming his head into his hands, "Sorry, James. Susan, sorry." He muttered. Vanessa stirred and her eyes fluttered open. She looked around at the pale ceiling.
"Mummy" Vanessa quietly wept as soon as she saw her mum.
"She's awake, Zayn! Liam! Louis! HARRY! She's awake!" Niall belted out from his hotel room. The boys flinched and Louis laptop fell to the floor. Vanessa slowly turned her head to the Macbook on James' lap.
"What are you all doing watching me?" Nessa demanded quietly, trying her best to sit up. She was brought back down with the tube in her mouth and the IV. "Why am I in here? Why am I linked up to all this crap?" She asked, pulling the tube from her mouth. "My exam! Oh, my God! I have to finish my exam" Nessa said startled as she took the IV out of her arm.
"Ness, calm down. Lie back down" Harry said, touching his laptop screen.
"No! My exam" She muttered. Her mum held her hysterical daughters shoulders.
"Da'lin'. It's finished. You finished it before you passed out. It's all done. Come on, lie back down. Come on" Her mum encouraged, gently pushing her daughter down onto the bed. Nessa never fought back really. She did notice her mums small belly.
"Mum! It's only been a week! How... ? Answer me that. How?" Ness gently smiled.
"3 months! Saw the nurse and got my scan. Three months" Her mum rumaged through her bag as she spoke. The nurse came back around and nearly jumped out of her skin.
"Oh! you're... you're awake! Surprising." She whispered to herself. The nurse put a needle back into her front pouch and reconnected the wire to Nessas arm.
"They say it's too early for the gender but they way the bone are forming and the heartbeat and stuff, they guesstimate that it's going to be a boy"Her mum handed over a picture making Vanessa squeal with delight in her bed.
"It's so small! But your belly's so big!"Nessa mooned over her little brother or sister with the biggest smile. Everything had calmed down and Nessa was back to normal. She wasn't frantic. Wasn't hyper. The doctor came and looked at her charts at the bottom of the bed. He got her mum to sign some papers of verification. Vanessa looked at the computer screen. Zayn had fallen asleep with the laptop on his knees. He gently snored. The boys just looked at her and she looked at them.
"Why am I in here?" Vanessa asked. Everybody just looked at eachother. "Somebody." She said with her lips pressed together.
"You passed out in your exam. The caffeine took its time to work though. You were barely consious during the exam. You OD'd on the pills and you ended up here." Harry said through the computer, "Well done!" he chuckled.
"The pills you were taking weren't just Caffeine. They were painkillers too. You could have died if you took another mouthful of that juice. You're very lucky to be alive" The doctor said from the end of her bed before walking away with the papers.
"I'mm so, so sorry, mum! I didn't know! I just didn't want to fail!" Vanessa pleaded. Her mother put her hand onto Vanessas knee and smiled.
"I know, honey, I know. But, you're all right now. Just have to rest."
"Yeah, they're letting you go in t'morning then you'll be going back home to Doncaster" Liam smiled at her through the screen with a cheeky wink.
"Liam... I can still see you on my screen. Just because you're in a different room..." Louis stated. Liam just looked down at his keyboard with pink cheeks. Vanessa rested back into her bed and looked blankly at the screen.
"It's quiet without you lot" Nessa smiled, her eyes watering. Niall nodded.
"Quiet without you aswell." Harry grinned, rubbing his eyes as he looked at her.
"But Louis makes up for it." Liam smiled. Louis put his laptop to the side and stood up from his bed,
"Yeah, doesn't shut up about how amazing you are" Niall grinned
"this is what V would like'. Should of brought Nessa'. 'I hate Universities'" Harry mocked in a Yorkshire accent. Vanessa blushed and her mum just smiled at the boys on the screen. Louis screen was just an empty bed.
"Where's he gone now! Always frikkin' doin' this" Niall laughing, looking deeper into his screen, "I can't see him" Niall scanned with a chuckle.
"He's disappeared- Oh, no. He's there. NIALL! BEHIND YOU!" Liam squealed childishly. Louis rugby tackled Niall on the bed and they fell to the side. Vanessa was surprised that Zayn hadn't woken up with all te shouting and laughing. They fought on the bed, Niall just mainly laughing about it all.
"There are somethings... That you just don't tell!" Louis said.
"You hit like a girl, Louis!" Niall chuckled. Harry yawned widely and Vanessa took the Laptop from James' legs.
"Go to sleep, Harry. I can see that you're tired." Nessa smiled, putting a lock of hair behind her ear. Harry nodded and waved goodbye to her before he closed his laptop down.
"So... Ness... how's the hospital?" Louis asked whilst holding Niall down. Niall faught back causing Louis to pause.
"Oh, you know... You can say it you know" Vanessa smiled. Louis stopped fighting with Niall and they both sat civilly next to eachother at the end of the bed.
"Say what? I have nothing to say just; Get well, rest, Love you, I don't like foreign countries" He said with a grin. Nessa blushed and put her head into her hands. Her mum and James got up and slowly moved out into the hall, closing the door behind them.
"Aww, Louis! Say that part again then draw me like one of your French girls" Liam giggled like a girl and rested on his hands, "Make me feel beautiful" He chuckled like a man. Louis just shook his head and Niall laughed again.
"You know; 'I told you so'? You can say it. You were right. I should of just went back to my dorm." Ness sighed, letting out a hearty yawn with watery eyes and a tingly face. Niall and Liam were watching with wide eyes. They were so engrossed at the touching moment. "Boys? Can... Can you maybe let us talk?" Vanessa smiled. Both of the boys looked directly into the webcam and nodded.
"Keep it clean. We'll be outside" Liam said, rolling off of his bed and closing the door. Niall done the same and left Louis with Ness.
"I'm not saying it. I know how much that exam was to you. I know you wanted to get it done." Louis said, taking the laptop onto his knees. Vanessa prodded her stomach and yelped quietly with pain."What? What's the matter?" Louis asked. He was on edge as Nessa pulled up the hospital nighty.
"Bastards took my bellybar out... Boo!"She sighed, putting her hand over her belly, "Hadn't even healed properlly" Nessa said whilst covering her belly back up.
"Well, maybe they had to do X-rays or something incase you broke a bone?" Louis smiled. There was a pause where he just watched her run her fingers through her hair, "I already miss you, like the lads said." Louis said shyly and sheepishly. "And there is stuff you would like too" He grinned.
"Really? Like what?" Ness queried, smiling at him through the camera. Louis pursed his lips to the side and looked out the window.
"The pool. Fucking massive... Olympic size... It's just little things like that- Room service, wake up calls... Really... quite... stupid things" He chuckled, showing her about the room. Luxurious bed. A mini bar. Real VIP stuff.
"Damn. Wish I didn't have my exam today!" She laughed, looking at everything they would have for seven weeks. "Well jealous!" Nessa smiled, "Turn it back round so I can see your face, Louis!" She told him. the laptop slowly turned to let her see Louis who had a smug, childish grin on his face. "How did you get to be so funny?" She asked, shaking her head gently from side to side.
"Brought up with the right people. Good diet. Good friends. Good education." He laughed making her laugh too.
"Lou, you look exhausted" Nessa told him with much sympathy and empathy in her voice. Louis just sighed as he dropped his facade and let his face drop slightly.
"I'll let you go to bed- You look the same as me!" He laughed gently.
"No!" A high voice chimed from one of the cameras, "Tell her she's pretty at least!" The voice squealed. Zayn just snored through and Niall and Harry were outside.
"LIAM!" Louis sighed, putting the laptop down on Nialls hotel bed and he marched through to Liams room where Liam was standing behind his laptop with a cheeky grin on his face.
"I will honestly kill you!" Louis stated firmly. Nessa just looked at the blank screens and smiled.
"G'night, Zayn. Sleep tight" She laughed, slowly closing down the laptop screen. Her hands traced over the white apple on the grey brackground with a kind smile on her face as her mum walked back in with a holdall.
"We'll come pick you up in the morning darling. 11 o'clock sharp!" James said with his coat over his hands, "We'll just be bunking in your dorm. Your roommate's given us your key. She stopped by" James explained as Susan kissed Nessas head.
"DO you want the laptop left with you?" She asked. Vanessa nodded as fast as she could. "Alright, my honey. Charger's in the holdall, phone charger too. Clean clothes. Cardigan etcetera" Her mum grinned, "Some sandwiches, Lucozade, grapes, some Boosts and a couple of magazines" Her mum brushed the top of Nessas head and James let out a bout of laughter.
"there's more in there. Believe me. She went mental in the shops in town" James took Susans hand and they waved goodbye to eachother. "Rest. You'll need it" He warned before closing the door with a smile.
Vanessa found herself alone with a laptop and a back of 'essentials'. She'd just need to wait 'til tomorrow to catch up with the boys and her mum.