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I missed you so much eeeee

Ookay on with the chapter

~Kritika~

"Liam? Hi! I saw all your missed c--"

"Why the hell haven't you been answering my calls." he cut me off mid sentence.

I blinked in confusion. What?

"Li I--"

"I've been freaking out here. You know what has been happening? Where have you even been?"

"Li.."

"I wanted to talk to you about.. God. I've been trying to call you for days now. Days. Where the hell were you?"

"Liam but-"

"..But no, your phone is switched off. It's been switched off for a week!"

"Listen I-"

"A whole freaking week. Maybe even more. I couldn't even."

"Liam James Payne." I yelled, cutting him off this time "Shut up. Gosh, you've been going on and on forever. Now just shut up and listen to me." That had the desired effect and he fell silent. "Now that we've shut up, I want you to breathe."

Suprisingly enough, he complied as I heard him let out a very audible breath and I nodded my head to no-one in particular "Good. Now.. tell me everything. What were you saying?"

He sighed "You're such a yoga instructor sometimes, woman. And..it's about Zayn."

"It is important to breathe, okay? And oh.." I trailed "..how is he? Still drunk?" I chuckled but stopped immediately when I realised he hadnt joined me "uh.. What's wrong?"

There was a long pause "Everything."

Nothing could prepare me for whatever he said next.

I sat speechless, phone almost slipping out of my hands "He did what?" I yelled, pretty sure even NASA caught my voice.

"Kriti..?" Stacey poked her head into my room "What are you yelling about? You're lucky nobody else is home or else.. I'm

"Oh hi." I said "Sorry Stace, I'm on the, uh.. phone with Liam. Sorry. Its about Z.. uh.. Louis." I mentally face palmed at my stuttering.

She took a few quick strides to me and grabbed the phone "I'm putting it on speaker. I want to talk to him too, you know." She pressed a few buttons and handed it back to me

"Whaddup Payne?" she yelled

"Uhh.. Stacey?"

"The very one." she nodded

"Uh.. how are you?" he said slowly. Liam and Stacey were all buddy-buddy now, a sharp contrast to their bickering from when we first met. He once said to me that she reminded him of his own sister.

"Exams are killing me, dude." she groaned "so.. what did Louis do this time?"

"Louis?" he asked sounding very confused

"You told me about something what Lou did right, Liam?" I quickly added, praying he would play along.

"Let me tell you, her yell resonated through the whole house." Stacey said, shaking her head at me. I rolled my eyes and stuck my tongue out at her "seriously now, what did he do?"

"Oh yeah, he.. He. You see he.. Uhh." he stuttered helplessly and I mentally facepalmed. Real smooth, Li. Real smooth.

Luckily for him, I heard Louis in the background "Who is it on the phone, Li?"

"It's the devil himself. I'll put it on speaker, wait." Liam said

"Louis." I yelled loudly

"Is it my Boo?" I heard him yell and then a loud thud followed "Oh yes it's you. Hi Kay-bear."

"I'm going to ignore that." I yelled

Stacey cleared her throat really loudly "Hey, Grumpy-bear." he teased

"Hey!" she protested "..what was that noise?"

"He tripped on the carpet and fell over, Jones." Liam said, chuckling.

"That was a ninja move, peasant." Louis said haughtily "wasn't my fault though, stupid carpet came in the way." Louis retorted "Anyway, girls, guess what I did today?"

"What?" Stacey and I asked in unison.

"I pranked Niall." he said sounding proud.

"You did?" Liam asked "I mean. Of course you did. That's what I was telling Kritika about."

"What did you do, Lou?" Stacey asked

"I toilet-papered Niall's room." he guffawed "Let me explain. Niall has been out the whole day so I had his room all to myself. And to top it all of, I was bored. I had nothing to do. And there is a saying that.."

"An empty mind is the devil's workshop?" I finished for him.

"Wifey." he sighed "You know me so well. So yep, and that's how I ended up decorating his room."

"Yeah, with toilet paper." Stacey laughed "He's going to be furious. What are you gonna do then?"

"Oh Stace, isn't it obvious." he said and I could almost hear the shrug in his voice "Im going to laugh at.. his misery, of course."

"You're going to die, Lou." Stacey warned

"Don't worry Lou, I'll happily take all your money after your death." I said sweetly "You don't have to worry about that. As your wife, I have it all covered."

"What a travesty." he exclaimed

"Still playing house, I see. And so much technicality, Louis. Such fancy words." Liam said dryly

"Saw it on the internet." he laughed

"Well you can't just slip fancy words into everyday conversations, can you..?"

"Oh yes I can."

It was like a ping pong match was going on between them. Stacey and I wisely chose to stay mum.

"And that's because..?"

"Because well, uhh.. YOLO."

There was a little pause on the line "Not using it right, Lou."

"Whatever." he huffed back.

Then they fell silent

"Wow, done already?" Stacey asked sarcastically

"I know right." I agreed "I felt it would go on for an hour at least."

"You're lucky you have us to entertain you." Louis joked.

"Yeah, right." I sighed dramatically "..lucky us."

"God. We missed you three so much." Louis yelled suddenly

"Three? Forgot math, Lou?"

"Yeah, three." he said "Stacey, you and your sarcasm."

"Aww." I said dryly "glad my sarcasm is of use to you, husband."

"No fair! She gets to be two things and I get to be just one?" Stacey protested

"You're awesome just like that, little one." Louis yelled, most definitely damaging all our ears "But seriously, I miss my two bad bitches."

"We do too." Stacey said and I nodded in agreement "I have a great idea. But wait, first tell me where's everyone else?"

"Niall's out and won't be back for a while. And the rest.." he paused "They're home. ZAYN HARRY GET YOUR FAT BOTTOMS HERE. NOW."

I almost flung my phone across the room in surprise when he yelled. A few moments later I heard two pairs of feet run into their room.

"I was shaving, Lou." I heard someone say. Harry..? I wasn't so sure

"Oh give up already. The only hair you're ever gonna have is your curly bush." Yep, definitely Harry.

"Guess who?" I said loudly.

"Obama!" I heard him yell

"Straight from the White house, baby." I whooped "my secretary Stacey is here too. Say hello to them, secretary."

She shoved me playfully and I shoved her back "Hi fam." she said happily "gosh, we missed you so much."

"Missed you too so much. Where have you been? We haven't talked or seen you in ages and--"

"I know, I know. But.. We'll have time for that later, Haz. Sorry to cut in." Stacey interrupted "Louis called you here because I have a plan. Is Zayn here?"

"Here." I heard him say faintly.

"What plan?"

"So I was thinking that.."

"TELL US ALREADY."

"Geez Louis, stop doing that. Or at least care to warn us next time." Stacey said, wiggling a finger into her ear "We'll shove a few wads of cotton into our ears beforehand."

"More like a whole cotton factory." I groaned "I can hear a faint ringing in my ear."

"Me too. Oh my god, did he really damage our ears?"

"Actually. That's the doorbell you hear. Must be Niall. Be right back." Louis said "Can't let him go into his room just yet."

"The doorbell? That was the doorbell? That loud?" I asked.

"Yeah, it's pretty-- Oh hi, Niall! Look who we have on the phone."

"What's up girls." I heard him say

"So here's the plan." Stacey announced "Let's go, drumrolls please..., camping!"

"Camping? I'm in." I heard Louis say

"Me too! Can we invite Bri and the rest of our gang too?" I asked her "Please, guys?"

"Hell, yeah!" Harry exclaimed "The more the better. Just.. Don't invite every person you know."

I laughed "Don't worry Haz."

"But there is a little problem." Stacey added

"What?"

"Where should we go?" she asked sheepishly.

"Actually." Niall said "I know the perfect place. Louis you remember that little forest clearing we crossed while driving a couple of days ago? It looked nice, right?"

"How do you happen to just... stumble across place?" Harry questioned "..just how?"

There was a pause "Oh, that cliff side clearing... Thing." Louis said as if in recollection "Dude, perfect! It's perfect. So it's decided. We'll go to this.. Place who's name I don't remember."

"I don't either." Niall laughed "But I know where it lies. So that shouldn't be a problem."

"Whoa wait up." I said "Cliff? Sounds pretty exciting but isn't it dangerous?" Liam asked "It's a cliff for crying out loud."

"It being a cliff isn't a problem to me." I said "But seriously Niall, you do know where it is right?"

"Relax,Mommy and Daddy he'll get us there in one piece."

"I'm no mommy, Lou." I huffed "Liam might be your daddy I'm no mommy."

"Hey!" Liam protested "Am not."

"Sure."

"Hey!!"

"Oh for the love of god, stop bickering you two." Louis tut-tutted "So it's settled. We're going camping on.. Sunday?"

"Sunday's good with everyone? This Sunday?" Harry asked

"Wait this Sunday?" I asked "Hell yeah!" I exclaimed in a deep voice.

"Okay I do not sound like that." Harry said indignantly

"Excuse me everyone." Niall interrupted "I'm going to my room to change and stuff. I feel filthy."

A few moments later I heard Louis chuckle "And now the fun begins. I'm going to go get my phone. This is record worthy. Talk to you later ladies."

"I'm coming wait, Lou." Harry yelled "Come on Zayn. You coming Liam?"

"In a minute." he said "I gotta run."

At that moment I heard a faint scream somewhere in the background "That's him. This is too good to miss. Laters babes."

"Bye." we said and hung up.

"What's up with Zayn? He sounded so off."

"I don't know." I lied. After what Liam told me, I was extremely worried about Zayn.

Did he really do..? No. Not drugs. There must be some mistake.Liam can't be sure. But..

"And did Liam seriously just call us babes? Wonder what's up with him?"

I fought a smile at that. Oh I think I do now. It's because Bri's gonna be there on the camping trip too.

I had to bite my tongue throughout my conversation with him to not end up blurting out about Bri's confession to Liam.
But she said she wasn't sure, a tiny voice on the back of my head said. It was right though. But what if she did?

I could feel my heartbeat quickening. Him and Bri.

"We're going camping." I heard Stacey sing "It's going to be so much fun."

"Yeah." I nodded and smiled. It's going to be so much fun.

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They're going camping!!! And I assure you, there's gonna be a lot of things happening there ;D

Ooooooooooooookay

Next update soon :'3

Poor Niall got pranked aww. Who feels bad for him? (*coughs* I don't it was actually pretty funny *coughs*)

Yeah O:-)

I do feel bad for Zayn though :/ He doesn't know what he's gotten himself into. Drugs are a horrible, horrible addiction. Why get addicted to drugs when you can get addicted to.. Say.. Chocolates? Right?

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