Great Things Take Time (discontinued)

Chapter 6

Hi everyone, first of all I would like to apologise for the long wait. I normally don't wait over a month to post a new chapter. I finally finished my first story Crazy Little Thing Called Love and can now fully concentrate on this story which you will hopefully like just as much, even though it will written slightly differently. Thank you for sticking around. All the love, Summer xxx

Kissing Niall was simple. It helped that he was a very attractive man and an experienced kisser, making it easy to forget where I was and who I was kissing. Our kisses were slowly, but surely, getting more and more heated and I found myself pressed against Niall whose hands were roaming my body, while mine were tangled in his hair. However, our moment was cut short by a hand on my shoulder which roughly pulled me off Niall. 

"What the fuck, Louis?" I asked him angry and took a step back towards Niall who protectively placed a hand onto my shoulder. "So you're making out with all One Direction members now? Is this the newest addition to your collection? Who will be next? Liam? Or your bestie Harry?" he sneered and the smell of strong liquor hit my nose. "Hey, calm down, mate." Niall tried to interfere, but he was quickly shut down by Louis. "Stay out  of this, mate. Just leave her alone, she's not worth it." Louis told him in a disdainful tone and took another step in my direction.

"Louis, mate, you're pissed, you don't know what you're saying." Niall tried to reason with him, but Louis must have had a lot of drinks in a very short amount of time and was far beyond the point of having a reasonable conversation. "Oh, shut up, Niall, you're just pissed because I ruined a good one night stand for you. But she'd have left you in the morning anyway because that's her thing." Louis replied bitterly and when I looked up, I saw a look of confusion flicker over Niall's face. I, however, had enough. "I'll be back in a bit, I just need to have a quick chat with Louis for a second." I said to Niall and sent him an apologetic look, to which he responded with a slightly confused smile, before I grabbed Louis by the hand and started to drag him with me through the crowd.

We earned some confused stares, as I dragged Louis with me through the dancing bodies down to the abandoned hallway leading to the toilets, but I was too angry to pay any attention to them. After pulling Louis into the girls toilets with me, I locked the door behind us and I whirled around, only to see Louis smirking down at me. "What the fuck was that, Louis?" I angrily demanded to know. "What is your bloody problem? First you are nice to me and make me fall for you, then you abandon me after our first night together and afterwards treat me like shit and now, when I am kissing one of your friends, you decide that it's cool to get wasted and start an argument because he was something that you want? God, is that what this is all about?" 

I was fuming and it wouldn't have surprised me if I actually had had smoke coming out of my ears. Louis, on the other hand, seemed to be completely oblivious to the whole situation. "You are sexy as hell when you're angry." he commented with a slight slur and cocked his head to the side, his lips tugged into a light smirk. "Did you listen to anything I just said?" I asked with an exasperated huff. After a couple of seconds he shook his head, a boyish grin appearing on his face.

"You know Niall really isn't the right guy for you, love." he stated in a serious tone and leaned forward. My breath hitched in my throat when he reached out and gently pushed a loose strand of hair behind my ear, which had somehow escaped my ponytail. "Oh, and why is that?" I asked him quietly, suddenly unable to move or make any effort to push him away from me. Maybe pulling him into the toilet with me had been a bad idea. "You want a guy who can give you a relationship, someone to look after you and I can guarantee you that Niall is not the right guy for that. He's enjoying his bachelor life way too much to settle down with you just now." Louis explained and almost accidentally placed one of his hands on my hip.

"Then maybe it's a good thing that I am not looking for a relationship at the moment." I whispered back, slightly distracted by his sudden closeness. My eyes momentarily flickered down to his lips and I felt his breath fan over my face. There was a short moment of silence, the only thing that could be heart was our breathing and the muffled sound of the music coming through the closed door. "Why did you leave me that morning all those years ago?" Louis whispered against my lips, his blue eyes burning into mine. If I had been sober, I definitely wouldn't be in this position right now, but as I hardly ever drank any alcohol and hadn't had a  lot for dinner, the one drink was already affecting me for than I had expected it. 

"You left me, remember?" I replied with a hint of confusion in my voice. Louis scrunched up his face and seemed to have trouble remembering what had happened. "No, I didn't." he pulled a bit away from me, without taking his hands off my hips, and shot me a confused look. "Yes, you did. I woke up and you were gone, so I left, as well, and slipped back into Harry's room. I have never felt so humiliated in my life, Louis!" I felt myself getting upset again when I thought back to how I felt that morning when I had woken up alone, feeling like a used object and I felt a tear escaping my eyes, leaving a wet trail down my cheek. Angrily, I wiped it away with the back of my hand.

"I left to get breakfast for the two of us! I wanted to surprise you! You were the one who disappeared and then acted like nothing happened." Louis' voice got louder with every word and he had let go off me. "You... I... What?!" I stuttered and angrily pushed the strand of hair out of my face again, that Louis had just gently tugged away only moments earlier. "I liked you, Abby, I really did! You acting like nothing had happened hurt like shit!" Louis said and his voice broke at the end of the sentence, making my stomach churn. "You hurt me, too, Louis. You made me feel like a worthless slut who you had left after getting what you want." I explained hoarsely and the look on his face told me that he was as surprised by this turn of events as I was.

"Well, maybe it's good thing that we never got together, I guess because it looks like our relationship was doomed from the start." Louis said dryly and pushed himself off the sink, which he had been leaning against. "I guess, I should get back to Niall then." I replied flatly and turned around to unlock the door, but a pair of hands stopped me. "Abby, wait." Louis breath sent shivers down my spin and I felt myself unable to move when a strong arm wrapped itself around me from behind, gently turning me around to face him.

His blue eyes met my brown ones and I saw his eyes flicker down to my lips, before the wandered back up to meet my gaze. "I am sorry." he said sincerely and I felt my stomach flip. I could still smell the strong alcohol in his breath and felt his strong hands on my hips. "I'm sorry, too, Lou, but you won't remember any of this tomorrow morning, so I think it's better if I just go." I whispered, his lips only inches away from my own, and gently placed my hands  onto this chest in a pathetic attempt to push him away from me, desperately trying to keep the walls from crumbling down completely which I had built around me since our first encounter.

"What if I didn't, Abby? What if we could make this work?" Louis sounded so vulnerable and I was so tempted to give into him. My whole body was aching for his touch, but my brain was telling me to walk away and never look back. He wasn't worth the pain, which was awaiting me on the other side of my carefully built walls, which he seemed to be able to break down way too easily. I gulped and opened my mouth to protest, but nothing came out.

Maybe it was the alcohol which was controlling my actions, maybe it was my body which felt like it had been set on fire by his mere presence, but a small part of me later wondered whether it hadn't been my aching heart which had made me act in that moment which would change the rest of my life forever. Within the split of a second, I almost instinctively made my decision and wrapped my arms around his neck to pull Louis down to me, until I felt his lips crash against mine, enjoying the unique taste of bourbon and cigarettes and something else that was uniquely Louis.