Rachel's P.O.V.

I opened my eyes slowly, a little confused. I was facing my bedroom door. This wasn't normally how I slept, right? I shuffled slightly , realising my head was resting on a stomach. Ashton's. I could feel him playing with my hair lightly and rolled around to face him, grinning slightly.

"You're awake" I commented as he gave me a sleepy smile.

I felt bad for him, he was still in his clothes from yesterday even though his jacket was lying on the floor next to my bed. I had offered him some of Harry's clothes last night but he had said no rather quickly. No surprises there. I had changed into just a large 'Guns and Roses' t-shirt and a pair of checked pyjama shorts after the first movie had ended.

Ashton returned my smile.

"I know. I've been awake for a while actually" he replied, continuing to play around with my hair.

"Why didn't you wake me?" I asked, frowning a little. I felt bad. It must've been annoying having me lying on his stomach asleep.

He just shrugged.

"You looked peaceful, I didn't wanna disturb that" he replied simply.

"Well you should have just pushed me off of you" I continued, sighing a little and closing my eyes, still tired.

"You really think I was gonna head downstairs alone? If Harry sees me, he'll kill me" he said, as if it should be the most obvious thing in the world.

I grinned slightly at that, my eyes still closed. He was probably right. Although mum had come into my room to say goodnight last night - and therefore knew Ashton was here- I hadn't seen Harry. Whether or not he knew Ashton was staying over I had no idea.

Sighing again, I sat up off of him, ruffling my hair. Of course it was a total state now. It always was when I woke up.

"You wanna go get breakfast?" I suggested as he too sat up.

He nodded in agreement.

"Well considering that it's 1 o'clock I suppose it'd be considered lunch" he corrected me.

I rolled my eyes.

It was weird. I normally didn't sleep in that late. Then again we had stayed up to the early hours of the morning so I hadn't really gotten too much sleep.

I grabbed my phone and slipped it into the little pocket in my pyjama shorts. We headed out of the bedroom, Ashton somewhat reluctantly. It was funny really how worried he was about Harry. As we headed down to the kitchen, I could hear voices. Ashton gave me a nervous look to which I gave him a smile. He really needed to relax.

I walked into the kitchen quickly to see just Louis, sitting on the counter, talking on the phone.

He glanced at me as I walked in and then his eyes widened as Ashton walked in behind me. He stared for a few seconds before clearing his throat and looking down at his feet which he was waving around.

"Yeah, yeah. That sounds good. I'll see you then so" he mumbled before hanging up the phone.

I was rooting through the fridge at that point with Ashton still just standing awkwardly in the doorway.

"You know Ash, I suggest we just have cereal. I'm kind of a disaster when it comes to cooking" I mumbled turning back around to find both Ashton and Louis looking extremely tense, looking in opposite directions.

I sighed.

"Would you mind turning on the kettle there Louis?" I asked, making a stab at breaking the tension.

He nodded, hopping off of the counter to fill up the kettle.

"Ashton. Cereal" I called as I opened the cupboard next to the fridge. He walked over to me slowly, still looking rather awkward and looking at the different cereals available.

We both ended up with Corn Flakes and by the time the bowls were made up, the kettle had boiled. I made myself a cup of tea and Ashton had some coffee. There was still an awkward silence and I was surprised when once again Louis broke it.

"So that was Delia I was talking to on the phone" he began, as I added sugar to my tea.

"Oh?" I asked, raising an eyebrow as I turned to face him.

He nodded.

"Yeah, there's a carnival near where she lives and she wants us to come to it with her tonight" he continued.

"Us?" I wasn't sure what he meant.

"Anyone who wants to come really. Me, you, Harry, Niall, Zayn" he explained.

"Ashton" he added though somewhat hesitantly.

I nodded.

"Well a carnival sounds good to me" I agreed rather happily.

That's when I felt my phone buzz in my pocket. It was a message from Skylar. It must be the night where she was. The time zones were completely different, right?

I opened the message quickly as the phone buzzed again, signalling a new text.


'Hey, how is Harry? Is he okay? I'm really worried'


and then directly after


'I must sound so weird. Can you please just check on him though and let me know how he is. I'm kinda stressing here..'


I sighed at that.

"Harry!" I yelled out.

Both Ashton and Louis looked at me confusedly. I ignored them, taking a quick spoon of my cornflakes.

Harry walked into the kitchen a minute later, his eyes instantly landing on Ashton.

"Why are you here again?" he seemed confused for a moment until suddenly realisation hit.

"HE SLEPT HERE?!" He yelled, his eyes darting from me to Ashton and then to Louis for a second, to which Louis just shrugged.

"Rachel!" he turned to me accusingly.

I sighed.

"Harry relax. Not that it's any of your business but Ashton and I just stayed up watching Lord of The Rings last night. Now c'mere - you really need to talk to Skylar. She's worried" I told him, holding out my phone.

He tensed up, shaking his head.

I sighed.

"Harry please? Just talk to her" I pleaded.

He narrowed his eyes but then nodded.

"Okay.. Fine" he mumbled taking my phone from my hand, clicking 'call' on Skylar's contact. He gave Ashton another glare before heading out of the room, putting the phone to his ear.

Ashton let out a breath once he did.

"So, carnival?" I continued as if Harry had never interrupted.

Both Ashton and Louis nodded slowly.

I grinned.

"Awesome. We can invite Lizzie too. And Michael and Calum" I continued, taking another spoonful of my cereal.

Louis nodded.

"Oh, Eleanor and Demi are coming too" he added.

I froze slightly.

I had no problem being around Eleanor. And now I had no problem being around Louis. But being around both of them at the same time? In the same place? I had no idea how I would handle it.

Ashton seemed to notice and moved a little closer to me.

I just plastered a smile on my face.

"Great. Sounds great.." I mumbled.

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