Taylor said she will drive as she won't be drinking, so she picked up me, Zayn and Perrie and the five of us including Louis are ready to go. I feel like I'm fifth wheeling, but I don't mind as I want to have a good night tonight.
"How was your doctors appointment?" I ask Taylor and I notice Louis shift in his seat uncomfortably. I want to find out why she has been going to so many secret appointments and not telling anyone why.
"You getting something done love? Botox, lip injections?" Perrie suggests and Zayn laughs at her and shakes his head. "I'm just kidding."
"No got forbid that." She says simply. "It's nothing El, please don't worry."
"Louis you're awfully quiet about this." I should keep my mouth shut, but I am a little nosey at times.
"Because he doesn't know you that well. Right Lou?" Taylor glances at him quickly and he nods his head and pulls out his phone.
"Yeah right. Also, Ella I'm going to watch your boyfriend fight tomorrow." Louis tells me and I almost get whiplash.
"What? He's fighting tomorrow?" I ask rather too curiously. "I mean, I don't really care it's his fault if he can't say no to his boss when he's still clearly injured."
"Is he still injured? I mean, you would know because you see more skin than us." Louis laughs and Taylor hits him. "Sorry."
"It's okay."
"You alright?" Zayn whispers in my ear and I nod my head reassuringly.
"What's the go with you two?" Taylor asks me. "You haven't spoken about him so I figured something is up."
"I'll tell you if you tell me why you've been going to the doctors."
"Oh look, we're here!" Taylor says on purpose, happily changing the topic. "My goodness it's packed already. Look at the line up."
"Are we at the right place? There's like one car and a minivan here." Zayn asks me.
"That's Ashton's van and that car I don't know who that belongs to." I point to the van that I seen at the parking lot in the party the other night.
"Yeah, that's Ashtons. He gave me a tour of it." Perrie says and I hear Zayn clear his throat from beside me. "Babe, he's a friend." Perrie shakes her head at Zayn.
"Would you like it if I looked into some girls van?"
"Babe, you spent every minute of the day with Ella, do you see me getting jealous?"
"She's my sister! You know how close we are that's different." Zayn throws his hands up. "We will talk about this more privately later."
"Good idea." Perrie snaps and crosses her arm over her chest. At times like this I am glad I am not single because Harry and I would always fight over petty little things like this too.
When we get inside the boys are on stage and shout 'hellos' and cheer. "I'm glad some people decided to show up." Ashton shouts and Perrie laughs, then receives a glare from Zayn and soon stops. "Welcome guys." He jumps off the small stage and walks towards us.
"Ella Jackson you look well." Ashton hugs me first and I can feel the sweat on his body.
"And you're very sweaty Mr Irwin. But you're cute so I'll hug you anyway." I say and he does his usual giggle which I never grow tired of hearing. This guy has a one of a kind laugh.
"Sorry about that. I'm a hard working drummer, what do you expect?" He winks at me and moves along to hug Perrie and shake Zayn's hand. I give Zayn the be nice look that you'd give your dog when you introduce it to another dog.
I walk towards the stage where Luke, Calum and Michael are. They're busy tuning their guitars or something by the sounds of it.
"Hey Ella." Luke jumps down from the stage and pulls me into a hug. He thankfully isn't as sweaty as Ash.
"Hey superstar, I'm excited to hear you sing tonight." I pat his back and we remove from one anothers embrace.
"I'm great I promise." He sends me a toothy smile and leans against the stage. "So, which guy over there is your boyfriend?"
"Oh.. about that." I scratch the back of my head awkwardly. "He and I are no longer."
"Was it because he didn't go to the party with you?" Luke asks.
"Um, well -" I am cut off thankfully by Calum wrapping his arms around me and soon after Michael joins in too.
"Your hair smells nice." Michael says into my hair as that's where it is buried in this hug.
"Thank you, it's Schwarzkopf."
"Sounds too expensive for me to know." Michael shrugs his shoulders and joins Luke leaning on the stage. Calum is standing beside me with his head on my shoulder.
"The other night was fun, we should all party together again but this time bring your boyfriend." Calum says.
"Yeah sure. By the way, this is Zayn." I introduce Zayn to the boys as he walks up behind me.
"Is this your boyfriend?" Michael asks me.
"Nope, but he's mine." Perrie says from behind Zayn and she pulls Luke and Michael into a hug, followed by Calum. "You ready boys?"
"We're stoked." Luke says happily.
I introduce Taylor and Louis to the two boys and Zayn offers to go to the bar for the first shout. Taylor of course uses the driving excuse, but I know there's something else she isn't telling me.
"What's your band called?" Taylor asks the boys as they jump back on stage.
"We're called 5 Seconds of Summer" Luke says into the microphone. "And this song we are about to sing is called beside you.
Within a minute I was all packed up
I've got a ticket to another world
I don't wanna go
I don't wanna go
The silent words are hard to speak
When your thoughts are all I see
"Don't ever leave," she said to me
Calum sings and oh my his voice is heavenly.
When we both fall asleep underneath the same sky.
To the beat of our hearts at the same time.
So close but so far away.
Luke is next and I almost stumble over how amazing his voice is. Yeah Calum's deep voice is so soothing in the way he sings, but Luke is the one I first met and I'm telling you now that I never picked him for the singing type, but the harmony in his voice just blows me away.
She sleeps alone.
My heart wants to come home.
I wish I was, I wish I was beside you.
She lies awake.
I'm trying to find the words to say.
I wish I was, I wish I was beside you.
"They're so good." Taylor says into my hear so that I can hear her over the music.
"I know right. My goodness I didn't expect this." We begin to sway side to side together as they continue to sing to us. "And they're so good at playing guitar, I can't wait to hear Michael sing."
"I know right. Ashton doesn't sing?"
"No, Perrie was telling me he can sing but he'd rather put all his focus into the drums and he's not wrong about that because that kid is talented."
"Kid? He's the same age as you honey." Taylor laughs.
"Yeah, and Luke's the same age as you. You're still teenagers."
"Stop. I'm not a kid." Taylor gets defensive all of a sudden.
"Tay, I don't mean that in a bad way alright. I'm sorry, that's never offended you when I've said it previously. I would always bug you about it when you first started at eighteen."
"I can't take it anymore. You are really adamant aren't you?" She laughs. "Alright I'll tell you as long as you promise not to lecture me or judge me."
"Taylor I would never. I could never judge anyone with a past like my own. I'm definitely not one to speak." I take her hand and we go over to the tables a few metres away from the bar.
"I'm pregnant. Twenty weeks to be exact."
"You're halfway?!" I squeal. "Taylor, congratulations why are you ashamed to tell me?"
"I'm nineteen!"
"My mum had me at nineteen. She was a great mother from what I've been told."
"But I'm me. The self centred little girl who gets whatever she wants because of her dad." She begins to cry and I move closer to her and hug her. "What am I going to do?"
"Taylor, it's going to be alright. Those big coats you've been wearing have definitely worked because I had no idea that you were pregnant." I say and she thankfully laughs, wiping away her tears. "And you will be a great mum and Louis will be a great father. He obviously knows doesn't he?"
"Yeah he does. He's not to keen on it though."
"Well it's his fault too - it takes two to tango." I shrug my shoulders. "He should be supporting you."
"We hadn't been dating that long before I got pregnant, so I don't really blame him. I'm sure he'll come around."
"I still can't believe it. I'm so happy for you." I hug her again and she thanks me just as Louis walks over.
"You alright babe?" He crouches down in front of Taylor and pulls her towards him. "Did she tell you?"
"Yes she did. Congratulations Louis." I pat him on the back as I won't hug him as he is currently supporting Taylor.
"Thank you." He smiles up at me as I stand.
"I'll leave you two to it." I say and walk back next to Zayn and Perrie. About three more people have entered the pub, probably for a drink but they seem to be enjoying the music.
"What's this song called?" I ask Perrie.
"Close as Strangers." She tells me and I nod my head. Catchy song, I like it.
A/N: Who guessed Taylor was pregnant? I didn't really mention it in previous chapters as I wanted a big surprise and I thought if I mentioned it more in the recent ones you guys would have something to guess and look forward to finding out. Let me just tell you now that the next chapter will be very interesting and worth the wait. I'm sorry that two chapters before this one took so long to upload because I've had exams which left me with no time to write, but I've written ahead and I'm excited for the chapters to come and to hear your feedback :)
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