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Charly

Chapter 7

“Ahhh”, Charly groaned and held her head. She couldn’t open her eyes; just the tiniest bit of light hurt them. She pulled her blanket over her head and turned around. “Oh, you’re awake, Darling”, Lisa whispered. “It’s noon, you should get up and eat something”, Lisa suggested and sat down on her bed. “No, thank you”, Charly murmured into her pillow and her voice was raspy from the alcohol. “Come on, you need to eat something, you will feel better”, Lisa said again and pulled Charly’s blanket back. “I just want to die”, Charly muttered. “Because of your headache or what had happened last night?”, Lisa asked and sounded pitiful. Charly recollected her memories of her evening. She remembered that she drank A LOT of Tequila last night with Liam, but why? Because her now ex-boyfriend Ethan was sleeping with her ex best friend Dale, who was a guy. “Oh god”, she groaned and tried to crawl deeper into her pillows. She wanted to hide from the world right now. “Did this really happen?”, she asked after a few moments of silence. “I don’t know what exactly happened, but you sure got wasted last night on Tequila…with Liam”, Lisa recollected. “What do you know?”, Charly asked and slowly sat up. “When we were coming back last night, you ran to us in the lobby and happily announced that you are, and I quote, ‘a single lady’ now”, Lisa said. “Okay, and did I tell why?”, Charly kept asking. “No, but depending on how pissed you were, it must have been a though one”, Lisa said. “Nothing further?”, Charly wanted to make sure she didn’t embarrass herself even more than she probably already had. “Not yet, but I’m dying to find out. Especially what you did with Liam”, Lisa said and winked at her. “I just got wasted with Liam, he had an open ear for me just like I did for him when Sophia broke up with him. And the thing with Ethan…well that IS a tough one”, Charly said and rubbed her face. She went on to tell Lisa the whole story, the whole embarrassing, pathetic story.
“Wow”, Lisa said as Charly had ended. “Now I want a bottle of Tequila for myself”, Lisa looked just as shocked as Charly felt. “Liam just took me for a drink and that’s pretty much where my memory of last night ends”, Charly ended her story. “I go get a shower and then I try to eat something, but I can’t promise anything”, she said, got up and walked very slowly towards the bathroom.

Since the boys had their day off today in Rome, some were staying at the hotel pool like Liam, Harry and Lou. Charly and Lisa decided to go out to eat with Niall and Louis. “I’m so hungry, I don’t know what to eat first”, Lisa said while looking at the menu. “Oh shut up”, Charly grunted and rested her head on her hands. “You and Liam let it crack last night, huh?”, Louis asked and jiggled his eyebrows. “To be honest, I don’t remember”, Charly mumbled. Niall watched her closely. “You’re really not used to alcohol, huh?”, he asked her and mimed her position since he was sitting across from her. “Yeah, what happened last night? Was it your date? You told us you’re single now?”, Louis recalled last night. “Really? You are?”, Niall asked and had to remind himself not to smile that bright. “Apparently, I don’t remember telling you guys, but yes, Ethan broke up with me last night”, Charly confirmed. “What did you do that he breaks up with you?”, Louis asked. “Who said it was my fault?”, Charly raised herself too quickly and strained her eyes for a moment. “Yeah, you have no idea, what that jerk did…or better said who”, Lisa defended her friend. “Come on, now you have to tell me who he boned”, Niall said, whose interest was caught by Lisas wording.
“Go on, tell them, they’ll find out anyway. Let’s just get it over with”, Charly allowed her to spill the beans and buried her face in her hands again. “Okay, darling, you said I could. Well this poor ladies jerk of a now ex-boyfriend fucked her male best friend and had decided that now is a good time to come out as gay”, Lisa told the two and their jaws dropped. “He did not!”, Louis screamed out. “Louis, voice”, Charly said and pressed her fingers to her temple. “Oh my god, that’s a really tough one”, Niall said and felt really sorry for Charly, but this was almost too crazy to be true. “Tell me about it”, Charly grunted. “No wonder you got so pissed last night”, Louis said and also felt sorry for Charly, but it was also really funny, to be honest.
Charly skipped dinner and just watched everybody eat. Afterwards they went out to go a bit sightseeing. She fell a bit behind while Lisa and Louis took pictures and pointed at houses and sculptures. “Hey, again I’m sorry for what happened to you”, Niall walked next to Charly. “Thank you, Niall. But don’t come to close, I might turn you gay. I do this those days around”, Charly joked and tried to smile, but it wouldn’t quite come to her. “Is it this time of year again?”, Niall joined in. “Yes, apparently”, Charly said with a serious face. “Oh come on, you will have to smile at some point”, Niall said and put his arm around her shoulders. “Smile for me, Charly, SMILE FOR ME!”, he almost screamed in the middle of the street and it was really embarrassing for Charly, but also funny. So she gave him the best smile she could put on right now. “There you go!”, he said and hugged her while walking and they almost fell over. “Guys, come on”, Louis shouted towards them. He was already quite a way in front of them. Niall took Charly’s hand as they walked quickly towards Lisa and Louis.
As Charly looked around she saw that some people, mostly girls, were already staring and some got really excited. In her head appeared a countdown, going 5…4…3…2…1…”Oh my god, Niall, can I take a picture with you?”, the first girl approached him and Charly immediately let go of his hand. “Niall, me too”, the next one said. “Oh my god, there’s Louis”, another one said and scooped off, taking about 5 girls with her.
In just about 3 minutes they were surrounded by dozens of girls asking for pictures and autographs. One or two also asked for pictures with Lisa and herself, but she didn’t feel like taking pictures right now, but she also didn’t want to come off as a prick. So she kept her glasses on and was okay with looking at least just half a prick.
At night they all went out for a group dinner and Charly was able to eat again. She was actually starving. Everyone had a good time and she was just sitting there like a party pooper, looking all sad and not paying attention. Niall was sitting next to her and gave her a few reassuring smiles and pattings on her back.
Niall had hoped to get into a conversation with Charly, get to know her better and to let her know that he was there for her when she needed him, but she wasn’t really up for conversation, so he kept it low profile. Most of the group wanted to go out and get a look of the city at night, maybe grab a few drinks, but Charly said she rather stayed in her hotel room and also Liam and Lou stayed back. Lou, because she had a skype date with her daughter Lux who was at home with her daddy. “But don’t you come back gay, Lou. You know, that’s what skype does nowadays”, Louis said to her. “Ahhh, Louis, shut up”, almost everybody said at the table. “You’re such a prick, man”, Harry said to him, but wasn’t too serious about it, though he felt bad for Charly.