Rumored Nights

Louis and I got back to normal and joined the rest of the guys.

“Did you find a flashlight?” Niall asked, looking up. Oh crap…we forgot to look for one.

“Um, no…nobody had one…” I lied, sitting down next to Harry on the bench. I gave him that urgent look that meant ‘I did something stupid and now I’m in trouble’. He just put a hand on my knee and gave me a look back as to say ‘It’s going to be okay. We’ll talk about it later’.

We all sat and stood close together, looking out into the woods. I’ll admit it…we were just scaring ourselves over that stupid story.

A crunching noise came from the woods. I got a little closer to Liam and Harry who I was sitting in between.

“What was that?” Louis asked, trying to sound brave and not completely scared by the story…but we knew he was actually scared by the crunching in the woods.

“What?” Zayn asked, hesitantly, as we all huddled closer together.

“That noise,” Louis was trying to listen, hoping it was just his imagination.

“What noise?” Zayn asked in a frightened voice. And no sooner did he ask, the crunching noise came from the woods again. And it did NOT sound like a squirrel.

“That noise!” Louis repeated as we all looked back to the woods in fear.

“Come on guys, stop scaring yourselves. It was just a little sound, nothing to be scared of…” Niall sighed. He was scared too, we all were.

“That’s what ZaynWillDavid thought too!” Harry cried.

“Look, you guys it was just a story! There’s nothing to be scared of!” Niall tried reassuring us again.

“Yeah right! You guys just said yourself that the story could totally happen!” Zayn reminded them, getting a little more scared.

“Yeah, but we didn’t mean to us!” Liam sighed.

“Haha, guys…look at us. We’re getting all scared over an animal or something. Nobody is out in those woods.” Niall tried to lighten things up.

“Yeah, Niall’s right. Hah, wouldn’t it be funny if it like started raining?” Harry laughed and we all began to lighten up. That was…until I felt a drop of water hit the top of my head.

“Guys stop messing around,” I said, assuming and hoping it was them trying to be funny.

“What do you mean?” Zayn looked at me.

“I just felt water on my head!” I glared.

“Uh, that wasn’t us…” Niall said.

“Oh God…that wasn’t us!” Harry began to panic as raindrops started coming down and the crunching noise in the woods became louder.

Then, as if things couldn’t get worse, it began to thunder.

“Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!” Zayn panicked. “We’re all going to die!!!”

“Zayn! Calm down! It’s just a weird coincidence!” Louis bit his lip. “We’re fine!”

“Yeah, well will it still be a ‘coincidence’ when an insane bald guy comes tearing through the woods, coming at you with a knife?!” Zayn screamed in panic still.

“Calm down guys!” Liam demanded. As soon as Liam said that a big bolt of lightning lit up the whole area.

“AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!” Liam screamed the loudest.

“OH MY GOD!!!!” I clutched onto Harry.

“HOLY SCHNIKEYS!!!” Niall yelled in terror.

“AHHHHHH!!!! AHHHHHH!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!” Harry and Louis yelped in fear.

“AHHHHHHHHHH! OH MY GOD!!! IT’S TRENTON MILLER, THE ESCAPED MENTAL PATIENT WANTED FOR MUDER OF TWELVE TEENAGERS!!!! HE’S GOING TO KILL US!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!” Zayn was by far the most dramatic as he zoomed past all of us, who were also running, and jumped on the bus, running to his seat and beginning to hyperventilate…or at least that’s what it looked like.

We all plopped down in our seats, breathing heavily, still shaken up by our little scare.

“Do you guys know how stupid we must have looked?” Niall smiled after we all calmed down.

“Hah…I know. Especially Zayn. TRENTON MILLER!!!” Louis made fun of Zayn, while he tried to catch his breath too. “But you guys have to admit…we were all scared.”

“Yeah, he’s right. I almost wet myself.” Harry laughed.

“I know what you mean. That was freaking scary!” Liam laughed along with Harry.

“I thought I was going to start crying and, like, die or something.” I admitted.

“Me too,” They all said collectively.

“I think I just had a heart attack and a stroke,” Zayn held onto his heaving chest.

We all just smiled at how silly the whole thing was and tried to calm down. Before we knew it we were back on the road again.

What an exciting evening…



After the Trenton Miller, psycho killer incident, we had all finally settled down. Zayn recovered from his so called heart attack and stroke. Now the boys were trying to decide what they were going to do as we kept driving.

I managed to calm down after my experience with Louis and get back to normally interacting with him and everyone else, so nobody, especially Liam, wouldn’t find out.

“I know what we could do!” Zayn exclaimed as a light bult went off in his head.

“What?” Louis asked, not sure if he wanted to know this idea.

“We could play Go Fish!” He told everyone his idea.

“Uh, yeah…sure we could play that if we had some cards…which we don’t so never mind.” Niall commented.

“I think I have some cards,” Harry offered. Everyone just stared at him as he reached into his bag to get the cards.

“You brought a deck of cards?” Niall asked in disbelief.

“Yeah…” Harry shrugged.

“What made you think to bring a deck of cards? While you were packing did you just go around your place throwing random things in your bag? I mean what makes you bring a deck of cards, not to mention you’re the one who brought that Frisbee.” Louis wondered why Harry always had random stuff.

“Yeah dude, who does that?” Liam raised an eyebrow.

“Well, apparently Harry does…” Niall rolled his eyes.

“What? Why are you complaining? Now we can play Go Fish.” Harry pulled the cards out.

“Yes! Yes! Let’s play!” Zayn begged.

“Okay, Haz, since it’s your deck you can shuffle,” Louis handed the cards back to Harry. Harry nodded and began shuffling the cards.

Once all the cards were shuffled and passed out the game began.

“Who goes first?” Harry asked.

“ME.” Zayn demanded.

“Okay, the selfish baby can go,” Niall joked.

“Alright, ZaynWillDavid, go.” Louis smiled and so did the rest of us.

“Hey! Stop reminding me of that!” Zayn glared at him, whining.

“Zayn! Just play the freaking game!” Niall moaned.

“Okay, fine! Louis,” Zayn smiled, “Do you have any threes?”

“No, ZaynWillDavid, I do not have any threes. Go. Fish.” Louis challenged.

“Harry does,” Niall announced, looking over Harry’s shoulder at his cards.

“Hey!” Harry cried, hiding his cards against his chest. “That’s cheating!” He pouted.

“Then hide your cards better,”

“Okay, who’s turn is it now?” Zayn grabbed a card from the pile that was on the floor between the seats.

“Let’s just go in a circle. Harry can go next.” Louis shrugged.

“Does anybody have any…”

“Threes?” Niall smirked.

“Will you stop?” Harry pouted some more. “Does anybody have any fives?”

“I do,” Liam said in a morbid tone as he sadly passed his card to Harry.

This went on for a while. It was pretty boring if you asked me. Well, until the boys started getting really competitive.

“GO FISH!!!” Liam yelled.

“NO!” Zayn screamed back. “YOU GO FISH!!”

“Zayn! Just go fish!” Niall demanded.

“But Liam is winning!” Zayn whined.

“Whatever Zayn. It doesn’t matter. It’s just a game,” Louis tried to remind him.

“Yeah, but…” Zayn grumbled.

“Yeah, but what?” Liam taunted. “I’m kicking your sorry, pathetic, fishing butt!”

“Shut up,” Zayn pouted at him as he ‘went fishing’.

“Ha Ha Ha.” Liam laughed at Zayn’s face, enjoying his victory.

“Eat me,” Zayn snapped.

“No thanks,” Liam frowned at how babyish Zayn was being.

“Do. You. Have. Any. Queens?” Zayn asked, tightlipped.

Everyone looked at each other and we knew nobody had any queens for poor Zayn.

“Go. Fish.” Louis said in Zayn’s face. We all smiled as Zayn got angry.

“Wow, this is getting intense,” Niall laughed and I wasn’t sure if he was serious or not.

“Fine,” Zayn growled as he picked up a card from the pile and it, sadly, was not a queen.

“Do you have an ace?” Liam smiled, feeling the intensity of the game. We all just put our cards aside and began to watch.

Zayn ripped one of his cards from his hand and threw it at Liam. The card was the ace he was looking for.

“Do you have a two?” Zayn asked in an angry way.

“Go fish,” Liam smiled and Zayn went fishing…again. The card he got was not the one he needed.

“Do you have a seven?” Liam asked. Zayn’s eyes opened wide as he threw that card at Liam too.

“Haha, thanks Zayn,” Liam teased.

“You’re. Welcome.” Zayn mumbled back.

“Wow, look at how HUGE my pile of cards is!!!” Liam exclaimed, rubbing it into Zayn’s face.

“Shut up.” Zayn demanded as he glared at Liam.

“Oh! Look at ALL THESE CARDS!!!” Liam taunted Zayn once again.

Zayn had enough of this.

Zayn reached up and flung his hand towards Liam. Zayn’s hand hit Liam’s ‘HUGE’ pile of cards and sent them flying into the air and they dropped across the floor of the bus. As the cards flew everywhere, everyone but Zayn tried to hold in their laughter.

“Dude,” Niall laughed and wasn’t able to finish what he was going to say.

“What was that for?” Liam asked in shock, trying not to laugh at Zayn’s childish antics.

“I felt like playing a new game,” He mumbled, still mad, “52 pickup.”

“Too bad that’s not even 52 cards,” Louis added.

“Oh well, whatever. Then I’ll call it ‘Liam’s go fish winnings pickup’…” Zayn grumbled.

“Ouch, what a comeback,” Harry laughed.

“Okay, maybe we should stop playing go fish since Zayn can’t handle it,” Liam rolled his eyes. “What can we do now?”

“I don’t know, but I’m sick of card games…” Louis sighed.

“Do you guys remember playing the license plate game? Where you see if you can find license plates from all different states or as many as you can find? Or no, we could play that game where you try to find the alphabet in the signs and stuff,” Zayn suggested all of the family road trip games he could think of.

“Yeah, and how about we have a sing along too?” Niall smirked.

“I was just suggesting,” Zayn glared at him.

“Yeah, I guess those would have killed some time, but too bad it’s really dark out and we can’t read any of the signs,” Louis reminded Zayn as he looked out the window.

“Oh right…well, that idea sucks,” Zayn sighed.

“How about something like spin the bottle?” Harry suggested.

“Um, we only have one girl…” Niall reminded him.

“And I am NOT kissing any of you guys,” Liam announced, laughing a bit.

“Well, we could get more people on the bus to play with us. Maybe we could find someone,” Harry shrugged.

“Oh yeah, great idea Harry. Let’s look at our choices.” Louis smirked and we all looked around the rest of the bus. “To our right we have Hazel. Hey she’d be good for you, Haz. Your nicknames are both spelled the same. And then there is Ethel. They seem like they’re looking for a good time,” Louis suggested, pointing to the two old ladies sitting near us.

“Ohhh yeah, they look pretty hot.” Niall joked.

“Yeah, so sexy,” Zayn laughed.

“Okay so spin the bottle is out of the question,” Harry rolled his eyes, realizing how bad the idea was in the first place.

“You finally see,” Louis laughed. “I don’t even think we have a bottle,”

“Look in Harry’s bag. He has everything else in there. I bet he has some sort of bottle,” Niall laughed as we began to think of some other idea to pass time.

“Hmmm…what about Truth or Dare?” I suggested, even though I wasn’t sure if it was such a cool idea.

“Yeah, that could be fun.” Louis’ eye met mine and a mischievous smile appeared on his face. I guess Louis was playing along to with this whole ‘nothing happened before so we don’t get caught’ thing.

“Oh God, this should be good.” Harry was getting ready for our game.

“Okay, Alex since you suggested it you should go first,” Niall said and everyone looked at me.

“I ask or you guys ask me?”

“You can ask one of us,” Louis offered.

“Okay, umm…” I looked around, thinking about who I should ask. “Harry,” I smiled.

“Oh God,” He rolled his eyes.

“Truth or dare?” I smirked at him.

“Uh…I’ll probably regret this but…dare,” Harry cringed.

“Hmmm…” I tapped my chin, thinking of a dare for Harry.

“Just pick something random and weird,” Louis smiled. Oh Lou…please don’t smile. I don’t think my heart can take it.

“Okay, uhhh…Harry I dare you to…” I had never been good at this. “Ugh, I don’t know! Someone help me out here…” I pleaded.

“Harry, I dare you to lick the window,” Zayn blurted out.

“Lick the window?” Louis stared at him.

“Hey, you said something random and weird…” Zayn shrugged, reminding Louis.

“Yeah, you’re right that is pretty, uh, random and weird.” Louis thought about it and agreed.

“Okay, Harry. Lick the window.” Niall moved out of the way so Harry could reach the window.

“Ew,” Harry sighed. “Okay, whatever. You guys dared me so if I get some kind of freaky disease from licking this disgusting window-”

“Just lick the window!” Niall smacked his back, getting impatient.

“Fine, here goes nothing…” Harry leaned over Niall and stuck his tongue out, hesitating when he got closer to the gross bus window. But Niall helped him with that one, because he pushed his head into the window and Harry went for it. He licked the window and pulled back quickly, resting back in his seat.

“Awww!”

“EWWW!”

“MAN!!”

“GROSS!”

Were the responses Harry got. But he just smiled at his dare.

“Mmmm, tasted like chicken.” He laughed.

“Awww dude. That’s nasty.” Niall laughed as he pointed to Harry’s saliva still on the window.

“Harry’s turn to pick,” Louis said moving right along with the game.

“Okay, let’s see…” Harry thought about it. “Niall.” And, again, everyone looked at the person who was about to be dared.

“Oh God…” Niall rolled his eyes just like Harry had done.

“Truth or dare?” Harry challenged.

“Uh, dare.” Niall shrugged. “But I’m not licking anything.”

“Wait, I’ve got an idea.” Zayn smiled.

“What?” Louis smiled too, knowing this was going to be good.

“How about we make it a double dare, but double as in two people are in on it…” Zayn suggested, smiling more at his idea.

“Hmmm…I like the way you think,” Louis agreed. Zayn and Louis rubbed their chins like they were thinking.

“This should be good.” Liam laughed.

“Better yet, how about we’re ALL in on it?” A mischievous smile popped up on Louis face again.

“Oh, I like the way you think, Mr. Tomlinson,” Zayn nodded, agreeing with Louis.

“OR,” Niall spoke up, “whoever comes up with the best idea first doesn’t have to do the dare.”

“YEAH!” The boys high fived each other. This was going to be good. No, this was going to be GREAT.

“Okay, anyone have any ideas?” Louis asked.

“I know!” Zayn was, of course, the first one to speak up. We all stared at him, waiting for him to go on. “We could, like, scream ‘LOOK IT’S TRENTON MILLER!!!’…”

“Uh…yeah…too bad nobody but us actually knows who you’re talking about,” Louis sighed.

“I guess you’re right,”

“Uh, plus, haven’t you done that already, Zayn?” Harry joked.

“Uhh…” Zayn tried to look all innocent.

“Whatever ZaynWillDavid, Saliva, whatever his name is, his idea’s out. Anybody else?” Niall asked as we all kept thinking.

“I have an idea,” I smiled.

“Okay, shoot.” Louis met my eyes and I tried so hard not to get lost in his stare.

“Alright, well, all five of you go running down the aisle, singing and dancing…” I began.

“That’s it?” Niall raised an eyebrow at me.

“No, there’s more.” They waited for me to go on. “You guys have to do all that stuff…naked.” I smirked.

“Naked?!” Louis stared at me.

“Well, not completely naked I guess. But in your underwear.”

All five boys looked at each other. Then, to my liking, they all smiled.

“We’ll do it,” Niall answered.

“Okay, do it.” I smiled, sort of doubting they would a little bit. But I should have known better. With these guys, you should never doubt them doing something as ridiculous as this.

“We will, but you can’t look until we’re ready.” Louis said and I couldn’t help but notice how suggestively he’d said it. But hey, I wasn’t complaining.

Louis and I stared at each other for the longest time. Before I could say anything he mouthed the words ‘I’m sorry’ to me. It kind of surprised me, but I couldn’t help but blush anyways. I looked back up to him and just nodded. It was that kind of nod that was to say ‘We’ll talk about this later’. He just flashed that perfect smile at me as I turned around in my seat.

And, of course, here I was completely lost and confused again. My feelings for Louis were starting to all come back and smack me a few hundreds of times in the face. Not only was I needing to get these feelings under control, I had to talk to Louis about this probably really soon.

“Okay, I’m ready when you guys are.” I covered my eyes so I couldn’t see the boys undress. Aw man.

I heard belts unhooking and zippers unzipping. So, of course, I had to peek just a little bit. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Liam, who was sitting next to me, pull off his shoes and his pants. I had to smile and blush at them. Over in the corner I saw Niall pull his shirt over his head.

“Ready?” Zayn asked from behind me.

“Ready,” I smiled.

“Okay, you can look.” Louis. I looked, of course.

I picked my head up to see Liam sitting next to me, his arms crossed over his chest. He was wearing dark blue boxers and normal white socks. He looked too adorable just sitting there.

Over in the seat across from me I saw Harry wearing dark green boxers and socks with different colored stripes on them. Next to Harry was Niall. Niall wore white boxers with smiley faces on them, which suited his personality very nicely. He wore white socks as well.

Behind me I just HAD to look. Zayn and Louis sat there topless and smiling. Zayn was in baby blue boxers and dark blue socks, while Louis was in red, plaid boxers and black socks. They all looked so adorable, sitting there waiting to go on with their dare.

“How do we look?” Louis asked. Even though the moment was supposed to be carefree and funny, when I looked into Louis’ sparkling eyes I felt the intensity of his stare and I remembered all the things I had to sort out and get through my mind.

“Great,” I said softly and then realized how sad I sounded and tried to cover it up. “Uh, no more than great. Very, very sexy.” I laughed.

“Good,” Louis smiled.

“Let’s shake it boys!” Zayn hooted.

“Hey! That’s my line!” Louis pouted in a joking way.

“Sorry,” Zayn rolled his eyes.

“Let’s shake it boys!” Louis smiled and said in his signature way.

“Wait, what song are we going to sing?” Harry asked.

“Dude, what’s the song Britney Spears sings about ‘I see you lookin’ at me like I’m some kind of freak’?” Niall smiled.

“Um…isn’t that ‘Do Something’?” I shrugged. I’ll admit it…I knew that song.

“YEAH! That’s, like, perfect!” Zayn smiled.

“Okay, you ready?” Louis smiled and the boys rose from their seats in their underwear, ready to play out their dare.



Mostly everyone on the bus was asleep. Well, they were until they heard the singing.

“I see you looking at me
Like I’m some kind of freak,”

Louis and Zayn sang out as the boys began to skip down the aisle, in their undies. Can’t you just picture it? It was classic. Old ladies looked up as they kept singing and dancing. To say the least, Hazel and Ethel were pretty startled.

“I see you looking at me
Like I got what you need.
Get up out of your seat.”

Niall and Harry sang the next part as they skipped down the aisle. I laughed hysterically in my seat. But by far the funniest moment had to have been when Liam broke into song and started doing a funky dance. Like when he was drunk back in New York.

“Why don’t cha do something?”

Liam sang, sounding a lot like the song. And the boys couldn’t help but explode with laughter. Well, until the bus driver noticed the boys dancing in their underwear.

“Excuse me, but can you please take your seats and put your clothes back on?” He asked, getting annoyed, but not sounding surprised what-so-ever.

All of them laughed again and it was pretty safe to say that our game of Truth or Dare was over as they made their way back to their seats and started putting their clothes on.

As the bus drove on and we got over the glares from all the old people, we decided to relax and go on talking to the people in the seats next to us.

“Truth or dare?” Liam asked me.

“Truth,” I said, not in the mood to do a dare.

“Did you really mean what you said?” He asked and I knew what he was talking about. When I had told him that I loved him.

“Yes,” I said, truthfully. And Liam just smiled to himself. I decided to play along.

“Truth or dare?” I whispered to him.

“Dare,”

“I dare you to kiss me,” I said, suggestively.

“Hey, a dare’s a dare. He smiled and leaned in to do his dare; which was the best dare I’d ever been a part of, excluding the dare they’d just completed.

Liam’s kiss was so soft and sweet and I couldn’t help but fall a tiny bit more in love with him as the kiss went on.

But as I kissed him, the image of Liam in my mind quickly changed to Louis and Louis’ lips. My heart raced as I finished my kiss with Liam and pulled away, giving him a half smile and turning my attention out the window.

The bus drove away to the next town and the next adventure. We all decided that if our adventures kept ending up like this that we would need some rest so we all decided it was time to get some sleep and wake up in the next town. One step closer to everything being figured out. Or…so we hoped…………