Chapter 4
I woke up everything was bright too bright, I was sat on the floor I looked around me there was nothing, except a bench in the middle of a white room.
'Hello?' I called, my chest ached I stop breathing suddenly from the pain; I blew all the air I quickly inhaled out slowly, my lungs ached too. 'Is anyone here?' I was confused no one was around; I carefully stood up and walked towards the bench in the middle of the room. As I walked, I stood in something wet, I took a step back and looked on the floor, I was wearing no shoes, just my bare feet. As my eyes traced up the floor I had just walked I saw a puddle, I slowly walked to it and looked down, I was wearing a plain white strappy dress with small blue flowers printed all over it. 'Funny,' I thought, 'I don't remember having this.' I carried on walking to the bench and noticed a figure sitting on it with their head in their hands. 'Hello, excuse me, other there, person by the bench? Could you help me, I don't know where I am and I need to get back home.' I called nervously. There was no reply, so I timidly walked over. As I got closer I recognized the figure anywhere, it was Louis. I felt like a spring lamb and started to sprint over to him calling his name. 'Oi! Louis, why didn't you answer me I have been calling your name like a hundred times back there.' I said. When I came over to him I noticed he was wearing all white, white loose shirt with three buttons undone, white baggy trousers and no shoes either. 'Why are you here?' I asked trying to look at him. He lifted up his head looked at me and shook his head and looked back at the floor twiddling his thumbs silently. 'Hey, I'm talking to you.' I shoved him lightly. He still ignored me. 'Have I done something to upset you Louis?' I asked worriedly. 'LOUIS!' I cried. He got up off the bench and started to walk away. I got up and ran after him. 'What have I done? Talk to me, you freaking me out!' I yelled throwing my hands in the air.
'Nothing shall hurt thou spirit, thou spirit is clean, thou shall see that purity is good.' He mumbled ignoring me.
'What? Louis, come on let's get out of here.'
'Thou ist not here, thou has been abolished by IT,' he spat turning round glaring at me. I stood staring back at him shocked of what he just spoke, next thing I knew Zayn appeared next to Louis from nowhere, followed by Niall, then Liam, and lastly Harry who glared at me giving me evils. I gave myself a little pinch on my arm to make sure that I wasn't dreaming.
'Ow,' I whispered. Nope it wasn't a dream. I looked at the boys all of them were glaring at me but Harry was the main person who was giving me the biggest glare of all, it was clear that I was the least of all people that they wanted to see.
'What is SHE doing here?' Harry spat pushing himself at the front.
'I don't know,' Louis spat back, 'She followed me here like a sad fan.'
'Get rid of her,' Niall hissed.
'She is not welcome here,' Liam angered.
'Why is she wearing white, she is not pure, she is evil, dirty, slut!' Zayn yelled. I felt crushed, the most important boys in my life throwing abuse at me. A tear started to roll down my pink cheek.
'Don't dare cry,' Louis bellowed. Harry walked calmly towards me he still glaring at me. I tried to move my feet but they were stuck I couldn't move. More tears started to run down my cheeks, I tried to keep them in but they wouldn't obey me.
'You disgust me,' Harry whispered bitterly in my ear and pushed me down backwards making me fall on my back, I quickly curled up in a ball as they all ambled closely into me. I felt someone bend down at my level; I peeked through my fingers and saw it was Harry. He bent into my ear and softly whispered, 'wake up.' Suddenly all the boys calmly started to whisper it repeatedly, they soon faded out until all I could hear was Harry nervous voice.
'Lydia, please wake up, please, I'm so, so, so sorry I done this to you, just please wake up, knowing you're not opening your eyes is killing me, don't leave me please I need you.' I couldn't believe it he said he need me not anyone else but me. I could tell he was nearly going to break down into tears. I slowly blinked, opening my eyes, I carefully sat up and looked around, I was in my room, it was all a dream thank god, I looked down at the end of my bed and noticed Harry with his head buried in my bed sobbing, he was holding a pure white lily and one of my tops which was his favourite. I carefully moved down opposite him I put my finger under his chin and lightly lifted up his head to level with mine. He opened his eyes, they were big, red and puffy, it looked like he hadn't slept in days and had been crying since. His eyes were grey and gloomy, they didn't have the cheeky, jolly spark they normally had, as he looked up to me they turned into the amazing blue/green colour and almost sparkled and massive smile spread across his face. I leaned in and kissed him on the lips, he rolled forwards so he was on top of me on the bed, his tongue rolled lightly across my lips and entered my mouth, this was a kiss I never before experience from Harry is was more passionate and loving. He pulled away and looked at me pushing some of my hair out of my face, a tear streamed down his face. He pulled me into him and hugged me, I breathed heavily in his aftershave. I felt at home, I sunk in him and pulled him in closer, stronger holding on for life.
'I'm so sorry, I will never do that to you again, can you ever forgive me? I love you Lydia Ann Cross.' He whispered rocking me backwards and forwards.
'Don't be silly of course I can you didn't do this on purpose, I love you too Harry Edward Styles.' I sighed heavily. He hugged me tighter, I yelped in pain.
'Are you okay?' He asked panicking.
'Yeah I'm fine just my rib hurts a bit,' I replied lifting up my long white top revealing a lot of black bruises all the way down the side of my right rib. He gasped in shock and carefully ran his fingers down my rib, I breath suddenly in pain.
'I'm fine,' I protested as he gave me an apologetic hug.
'You wait here I'm going to get the boys to bring you down, we have been all so worried,' He rushed down stairs yelling on the way down, 'guys, she's awake! Guys, come on she's woken up come quick!' Then returning minutes later with the rest of the gang. There was a timid knock at my door.
'Come in,' I called weakly. The door entered the first person to walked in was Louis, as he entered his head like the others was looking down daring not to make any eye contact with me, his eyes were red a puffy too but unlike Harry he looked like he had gotten some sleep but not much, his face looked like someone had sucked all the energy and the happiness out of him, I had never seen him and the others like this before. As he walked in he quickly looked up at me, suddenly baring a beaming smile a tear rolled down his face, he ran a jumped on top of me giving me a tight hug.
'We've all been so worried about you!' He sighed with relief. 'Don't ever do that again got it!'
'Got it,' I replied struggling to breath.
'LYDIA! YOUR AWAKE!' more deep husky voices filled the air. More bodies tumbled onto me and Louis. I smelt different aftershaves but recognized them all. They all got off and hugged me individually and then sat round me on my bed.
'How are you feeling now?' Niall asked worryingly.
'I guess I'm okay my right ribs covered in bruises, I don't know why but apart from that I'm fine.' I replied perkier than earlier.
'Well the doctor said you badly bruised your right rib when you hit the bottom of the swimming pool floor when you drowned.' Zayn blurted looking shocked.
'I what?' I gasped not believing what I just heard. I drowned? But I couldn't of I felt someone pull me out.
'You didn't know you drowned?' Louis asked shakingly. He looked straight at Harry who guiltily looked down away. 'Harry you didn't tell her?' He shook his head with guilt.
'I couldn't bare to, she has only just woken up.' He mumbled looking down fiddling with his fingers in guilt. No one knew what to say at this point, we were all stunned of the topic, and we didn't know what to say back to Harry, what could we say? We couldn't yell at him for not telling me, like he said I literally just woken up and he was the main person apart from me that suffered of what happened.
We all sat there looking at Harry's face as it sank deeper into sadness and regret. He knew we were watching him, he felt uncomfortable I could tell. A tear start to fall from his face. The boys all gathered in for a group hug round him.
Harry POV
I sat there staring down at my fingers, I felt uncomfortable, I felt like I had let everybody down, it was just I didn't know if I should of told Lyds when she woke up? I felt crushed that she nearly died, I wouldn't have been able to cope without her; I love her. Seeing her lying in her bed motionless killed me inside, I wouldn't ever let anything bad happen to her again. I felt everyone's eyes stare at me for what felt like forever, I felt guiltier and guiltier. A tear started to fall down on my cheek, and then the boys all crowded in a gave me a hug.
'It's okay, everything's going to be alright,' I heard Louis whisper in my ear. We all got up and looked at Lydia, she looked healthier, I smiled down at her and reached and held her hand, a spark flew back in her eyes, her cheeks were back to pink, my heart melted. I love this girl; I thought to myself, I do love her. I bent down and kissed her on the cheek.
'Ooooo!' Niall teased making kissing noises behind my back.
'Shut up Niall it's only a kiss on the cheek no biggy!' I argued pushing him off the bed with a bump.
'OWWW!' That HURT!' He whined getting up rubbing his knee.
'Good, that will teach you for being so childish, your being more immature that Louis! And that's saying something!' I joke putting my arm round Louis and giving him a quick squeeze.
'Yeah that's ri….HEY! That's mean!' Louis sulked.
'Awww Louis, I joke, you know I love you really.' I said seductively giving him a cheeky wink.
'Oh Harry, I'm slowly being seduced by your curls.' Louis flirted.
'I know that was my plan all along.' I gave him a cheeky wink before being pushed into the cupboard by Louis who shut the door and started banging on it.
'OH HARRY!' He yelled banging his hands harder against the door.
'Oh YES HARRY MORE, MORE!' I stood there in complete confusion of what we were doing, I then realized and joined in.
'OH LOUIS! YES LOUIS' I screamed. We then stumbled out of the cupboard to find everybody laughing.
'Have a busy time boys?' Zayn joked, pointing out about our scruffy hair, our t-shirts which we purposely swapped over and put back to front.
'Yes, well, all I can say is that I am going to be looking at Harry in a totally different way now.' Louis replied in a gay voice. Everybody chuckled.
'So sorry you had to find out this way Lydia, it's just we can't contain mine and Harry's feelings for each other no more,' Louis said placing his hand on her shoulder, 'hope we can still be friends?'
'Well thanks a lot Harry; thought you were gonna save all that for me!' Lydia moaned. I came and sat down next to her putting my arm around her.
'Sorry babe, like Louis said we can't control our loves for each other,'
'Anyway if you want some Harry loving, you'll have to join me, like a threesome!' Louis said excitedly.
'Hmmmm, as tempting as that sounds, I'll just wait till when Harry's free.' Lydia winked at me, I blushed, can't wait for that to happen I thought.
'Well I think it's time you better go downstairs and say hello to the girlies, they are probably wondering what on earth is taking us so long.' Louis suggested as we swapped our t-shirts back.
'Oh yeah I forgot about the girls!' Lydia exclaimed. She pulled back the covers and climbed out of bed; she took a step forward and collapsed to the ground. I ran towards her, my heart was racing. I cradled her in my arms stroking her face, the boys huddled round me.
'Lydia? Lydia can you hear me?' I cried, I was shaking.
'Let's give them some air guys,' Louis suggested taking a step back but was still level with me, 'Lyds wake up can you hear us.'
Lydia POV
I got up out of my bed, I couldn't wait to see the girl's faces when I came down to see them. I stood up and took my first step and collapsed. I couldn't open my eyes, I couldn't move but I could hear everyone's voices calling me. Harry was panicking, now I was panicking I wanted to wake up but something was refusing me to wake up.
A few minutes later I opened my eyes and found myself back in my bed. No one was there I carefully pulled back the covers trying to ignore the stabbing pain in my chest, I shifted my feet round to the side of my bed, I looked down and saw bruises all by my ankle I carefully touched it, I flinched from the pain.
'Ow.' I whispered under my breath.
'I'm sorry,' I felt someone's breath on my neck, 'How badly does it hurt? Are you feeling okay?' I turned round and saw Harry, his face was full of panic.
'I'm fine, it doesn't hurt that much.' I insisted turning back to my ankle. I poked gently at the swollen purples bruise and flinched. I tried to get up but I felt Harry's hands around my waist pulling me back down.
'You need to rest.' He whispered gently in my ear, it sent shivers down my spine. I was too tired to disagree so I nodded a climbed back into bed.
'Before I come in with you, would you like me to get you anything.' Harry asked.
'Mmmm now that you mention it I would like to see the girls for a bit, oh and I would love some chocolate right now.' I cheekily asked, fluttering my eyes at him.
'Okay sure only cause you look stunningly beautiful at the moment,' he slowly walked out down stairs, I patiently waited for my demands thinking of what he meant by, 'before I come in with you.' Soon five nervous girls creped in, not knowing what to do. Their faces were full of worry, they looked pale. But, still they got away with looking amazing, no wonder why the boys fancied the pants off of them!
'How are you feeling?' Bexy asked nervously.
'I'm not gonna lie, I have been in better conditions than this,' I joked. 'Anyway Harry, where's my chocolate I asked for?'
'Here your majesty.' He threw a bar of chocolate at the bed landing next to me, I grinned at him and picked it up leaving it on the bedside table. All the girls were still stood round the bottom of the bed, still looking nervous and worried of what to do.
'You can come and sit down on the bed you know,' I told them.
'Uh, oh yeah we knew that.' Beth said quickly. They all sat round on the spare side of the bed, still ridged.
'Your all acting so weird around me, like I had my face or body changed with someone else!' I sighed.
'Sorry, it's just, we don't want to hurt you. We are really pleased you're okay but, collapsing after you've been in a coma isn't very good.' Bexy admitted.
'Yeah but I'm okay now!' I persuaded.
'But how can we be sure of that?' Ali asked softly, she move closer to me having more confidence to be around me. 'How do we know that later today you're going to collapse again? What happeneds if we leave you up here alone and you faint into your pillow a suffocate yourself?' She asked again more sterner. Harry was pacing back and forth, when he heard what Ali said he paced quicker while biting his nails. He did not like this conversation.
'Trust me guys, I will be fine, Louis' calling a doctor round to look at my ankle to see if it's broken, he will probably do another quick check through to make sure things like that won't happen again, but I'm fine please trust me!' I pleaded. I looked at the four of them their eyes were lifeless no one knew what to do.
'I don't know Lyds maybe Ali's right, I can't bare to see you getting hurt again, I don't think we could handle it, especially Harry, it's already killing him now, don't do this to him.' Pleaded Bexy. She reached out and held on to my hand looking into my eyes. I looked over to Harry who now stop pacing, he stood there looking at me his deep blue/green eyes were begging me, they started to water up, I really felt like I was in a swimming pool when I looked at them.
'What are you guys trying to say? I asked nervously. 'ARE YOU TRYINGTO SEND ME HOME!' I gasped.
'It's for the best, we are thinking of you here, don't worry, we will go home to so you won't feel left out.' Beth explained rubbing my shoulder. I turned my head away from them staring out to the window.
'We have only been here for six days! I'm not going home!' I exclaimed giving them evils. 'You're not really thinking of me either! You wouldn't send me home on a plane when I could be resting here!' How dare they tell me to go home! I'm not ill, I'm fine why can't they see this!
'We are thinking of you!' Bexy shouted back throwing her hands up in the air. 'HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT WE ARE'NT! WE'VE ALL BE SICK AND WORRIED ABOUT YOU FOR THE LAST 6 DAYS! WE DIDN'T KNOW IF YOU WERE GOING TO LIVE OR DIE!' She raised her voice louder and louder getting angrier by the second. 'THE BOYS HAVE STAYED UP ALL NIGHT WITH YOU! AND WE HAVE BEEN DOWNSTAIRS GETTING YOU PRESENTS AND CALLING YOUR FAMILY! AND YOUR CALLING US SELFISH!' Tears starting to stream down her rosy pink cheeks, her bright blue eyes didn't sparkle anymore, they were full of hatred. She started to cry.
'I never called you selfish.' I spoke.
'Yes, but you implied it!' She said bitterly. Tears started to stream down my face, I was full of mixed emotions. I felt guilty because I didn't know how much hard work everyone put in for me, I felt sad because Bexy said some hurtful things all I needed was a cuddle from Harry to make me feel better but he didn't say anything his back was turned from me he was sat down on my chair head in his hands, I felt angry, Bexy wasn't handling this in a calm matter every word she said made me angrier and angrier.