I pull my brown hair into a loose ponytail and pull on some black yoga pants and a Tye-dye shirt on, sliding on some fuzzy socks. I didn't need to impress Ethan. He's just my insanely hot new best dude. See what I did there? Instead of best friend I put best dude......eh....Nevermind.

I walk out of the bathroom and into the lounge room, fingering my chin. What should we do when he gets here?

Watch a movie?

Have a dance party?

Play games?

A movie, I chuckle quietly to myself  and walk into the kitchen, making popcorn and taking out some sodas. When the popcorn beeped, I poured it into the bowl and grabbed the sodas, walking to the living room. I plopped them down on the coffee table and grabbed some blankets out. Walking out of my bedroom with a handful of blankets, a knock sounds at my door.

"Coming Ethan!" I run to the living room and throw the blankets onto the couch. Throwing open the door, I freeze.

"H-hi." I stutter awkwardly.

He furrowed his eyebrows together, "Who's Ethan?"

"H-how d-did you find where my room is?" I ask, purposely avoiding the question and look at Louis.

"I'm the Swag-master from Doncaster, I know everything. Who's Ethan?"

"If you knew everything, wouldn't you know who he is?" I retort.

He shuffles his feet, mumbling something incoherent.

"What?" I pause and he mumbles something again, "You know what.....why are you here?" He snaps his head up and looks at me, hurt. I feel really guilty then and wanted to kiss him, hugging him tight. Whoa! Wait....kiss him? Hug him tight? He isn't a freaking teddy bear!!!!

"Please....please! THe boys and I want to be your friends!!"

I sigh, "This is hard for me, too. Believe me! But there's just too much drama! I can't take to much drama! I don't do good under stress. Last time, I was sent to the hospital, because my blood pressure went up too high from having too much stress." I say, not really thinking of what was tumbling out of my mouth. Louis eyes widen, "Really?"

"Hm, what? Oh...yeah." Lou raises an eyebrow and I raise an eyebrow back. I think the truth was just that I didn't want to fall for him. WAIT! WHAT?! I actually never had to go to the hospital for that.

"Dani?" I hear someone ask. I look around Louis and smile, "Ethan! Hey! Come on in!" I shoo Louis aside and guide Ethan in. Trust me, this was really hard and I felt mean and it wasn't helping that HE was here, begging and now he knows where my room is. Louis stands awkwardly by the doorway looking at Ethan then to me. Then seeing what the living room looked like, he widened his eyes and I saw....hurt? But his face quickly guarded too quick to see if I was right and he glared at me and Ethan. I must have imagined it.

I sigh, "What Louis?" Why was he glaring at us?

He just left.

He just turned and left. Just like that. I glance at Ethan and he gives me a questioning look. What was wrong with Louis? W-was he jealous? I wanted to laugh at that. He couldn't like me. He must still love Eleanor. They recently broke up from what I heard....I think the long distance thing wasn't working out or something.

(A/N: Just to let you know, I do really love Louis and Eleanor together, but I just don't have them together in this story for obvious reasons....kind of.)

I shrug and close the door, leading Ethan to the living room. He raises his eyebrows at the set up.

"What? I thought we could watch a movie after you vent to me." He smiles and I find myself smiling back.....then I see what he's wearing. He's wearing a black fitted v-neck and jeans.

"Jeans?" I ask raising an eyebrow. He looks down at his pants then back at me, " I came from my shift straight to here! Don't judge lady!"

"What is with people calling me lady, today! The girl and now you!"  I say throwing my hands in the air. He raises his eyebrows,confused, sitting down on the couch.

"I'm not going to explain." I say as I sit down on the cushion beside him and sit criss-cross-applesauce or Indian style (whatever you want to call it) and face him. He does the same. I grab a pillow and wrap my arms around it vertically, putting my head on top as the bottom of it sits on my lap.

"Sooooo...."I trail off, signaling for him to continue and vent his little heart out.

He sighs and rubs his hands through his hair, "Well, I had a girlfriend named Kelsey and, umm, apparently she got pregnant."

He paused and I nodded for him to go on and that I was listening.

"Well, I told my parents and they kicked me out and so did Kelsey's. So, we had to stay at motels and stuff and I would work full time and she'd go out all the time, clubbing or something, not having a job. It was like she didn't care she had a baby! Then one night, we had a fight about this, last week, actually, and she told me that it was my best mate's, Shane's baby. So I got really angry and we broke up. She freaking cheated on me! She lied and now my parents hate me and I got kicked out for nothing! I left then.....I LIVE A FREAKING SOAP OPERA!" He was rambling on then stopped, running his hands through his hair, frustrated, and then looking up at me. Then I realized something devastating. If his parents kicked him out, they probably dropped all contact with him.....

"Where have you been living?!" He looked at me sheepishly, "The club."

"The club?" I ask astonished. He nods.

"Okay. You know what? That ain't going to fly with me, Ethan......you're staying with me."

His eyes widen in response, "What? I can't do that!"

"Well you are, because I'm demanding it! I'll go upstairs and get some sweats from Lexi that she'll take from the boys, then you can stay in the other bedroom and tomorrow we can go to the club and get your stuff.........And you're going to shut up and be grateful." I add on second thought.

He jumps up and squeezes me in a huge bear hug.  "Thanks so much Dani! You have no clue how much this means to me! You're the best-est best friend ever!" Best-est wasn't even a word and he sounded like a little girl, but I'll let it slide......

I pull away, grinning, "I know, I know." I say, curtsying. I grab my phone and text Lexi.

ME: Hey Lexi? Can I run upstairs and you sneakily get one of the boys sweats....

I look at Ethan. Which one of the boys swewats would fit best? Why did he have to be so buff?Ugh. I continue the text.

ME:Hey Lexi? Can I run upstairs and you sneakily get one of the boys sweats...maybe Lou?

I get a quick reply.

LEXI: Yeah sure.  :)  Should be easy because Lou isn't here. Why? Also, why don't you want to be friends with the boys? They're moping.

Why wasn't Louis there? Why were they moping?  Well, I guess I was sad too. I shake the thoughts off, not replying to her text and tell Ethan I'll be right back. Opening the door, I go into the elevator and slowly ascend to the top floor to their penthouse. As the door opens, I walk down the hallway quietly, looking at the ground, humming a random song.

Now, since I was almost at the door, I look up.

"Louis?!" I ask astonished. He was slouching beside the door. Why wasn't he in the room?

He quickly looks up, eyes watering and eyebrows scrunched together, "Dani?"