Louis lived about 25 minutes away from the park we were at, but the drive to his house went super quickly. He gave me his ipod so I could pick what to listen to and I was surprised at how similar our music tastes are. We were both singing (or should I say screaming) along to So What? by P!nk and joking around when we pulled into the driveway to his place. I put his ipod away and before I knew it he was opening my door for me. He held out his hand for me to take. “My lady” he said in a much more posh sounding accent jokingly and helped me out of the car.
“Oh, why thank you,” I said in a dramatic English accent back at him. He burst out laughing.
“Oh, you’re going to have to work on that accent love.” I laughed with him as we walked up to his door. When he opened it, his friends were already there, watching a movie in the living room; there were more than I expected: four boys and two girls. “Hey guys!” Louis yelled to them as we walked towards the TV.
“Hey” they all grunted in unison, not taking their eyes off the movie. I chuckled a little to myself. They were so at ease in his house.
“Here, come finish it up with us, there’s only like ten minutes left,” one of the girls said. I followed Louis to the coach and sat next to him. The movie didn’t really make much sense of course, since we’d just sat down but it was nice for them to include us. My phone started vibrating; I saw it was my mom, so I looked around and went through a swinging door that I assumed was the kitchen.
“Hello?”
“Hey honey, when are you going to be home do you think?”
“I don’t know mom, I didn’t drive here. When do I need to be home?”
“It doesn’t matter to me; you have fun. I’m glad you’re making friends. But there are girls there right, you’re not alone with a bunch of boys?” I chuckled. That’s such a mom question.
“No mom, there’s girls here. Yes, I’m fine.”
“Okay, well then I don’t care when you come home. You can spend the night there as long as you feel safe because I don’t want you trying to get home at four in the morning. But I’ll be working all day tomorrow so you’ll have to start unpacking your stuff without me.”
“Okay, I will. Thanks mom, love you.”
“Love you too sweetheart, be careful! If you need a ride home, don’t hesitate to call me.”
“I know mom. I love you, bye.” I turned around and saw Louis standing in the kitchen. “Oh, didn’t know you were here. Sorry, that was my mom.”
“Oh, is everything okay? Do you need to be home?”
“Actually she was just telling me that she’s happy I’m making friends and that she doesn’t care when I’m home.” His eyes lit up.
“Well good, then you can get to know everyone!”
“Great!” I smiled at him and turned to get some water. I was at the stink when I felt Louis’ arms wrap around my waist. I smiled to myself and said in almost a whisper, “We should get back out there.”
“They won’t notice,” Louis whispered in my ear, giving me goosebumps. I turned around to see him and he closed the space between us, kissing me. We stopped and looked into each other’s eyes before we came back together. His hands rested on my waist and my hand found its way up to his hair before I pulled apart.
“The movie’s probably over now” I said quietly, flustered.
“This is much more fun,” he flashed me a smile. I chuckled at him before walking out to the others in the living room, he followed close behind. The group smiled and me and Louis introduced me to everyone. “Annie, this is Niall, Zayn, Liam, Danielle, Harry, and Lindsey. Everyone, this is Annie.”
“Hiii,” I said awkwardly, laughing nervously. They were all very warm and welcoming.
“Well Annie, we were just talking about starting up a game of sardines, have you ever played before?” Niall asked me.
“Yeah! I used to play all the time. It’s like hide-and-go-seek, right? Except one person hides and then if you find them you hide with them until one person is left looking? Or am I thinking of something different?”
Niall smiled, “No, that’s perfect!” He glanced at everyone. “So who’s gonna be it then?”
“I’ll be it!” Louis said and he thrust his fist up in the air. We all waited in the kitchen to give him a chance to hide before going out to look. Finally, everyone went their separate ways, looking. I soon found myself in an empty hallway. I peeked in one room that looked like a bedroom and stepped inside. When I saw the suit bag for the suit Louis had gotten hanging over a chair, I knew it was his room. I checked under the bed to make sure he wasn’t hiding under it and then started looking at the pictures he had hanging up of him with his family and friends. They were so cute. I cautiously sat down on the bed and laid my head down on his pillow. It smelled just like him. That’s when I heard a sneeze coming from the closet. I quickly stood up and went to the closet to find Louis hiding behind a sweater.
“Found me.” he smiled
“Am I the first one?” he nodded and I was suddenly aware of how close we were. It was such a small closet. I tried to take a step back and my foot banged loudly on something when I hit it.
“Shhhh, we’re hiding,” he whispered to me and kissed me. It started out soft and grew more passionate, Louis resting one hand on my back and one on my thigh, my hands brushing through his hair. Suddenly, a burst of light broke through into the closet and I looked up.
A shocked Liam started to chuckle and stepped inside. “Found you.” We laughed lightly and waited for the others to find us.
The game ended up taking so long that we ended it after the first round. Danielle would have to be ‘it’ next time, although she insisted that she didn’t know bedrooms were able to be hid in, joking around with the guys. Louis turned to me, “Hey, do you want to spend the night? It’s so late and I don’t want you walking around outside at this time of night.”
I smiled at his sweet intentions. “Sure, as long as I’m not over-staying my welcome or anything!” He smiled back at me.
“Definitely not.”
After we’d all hung out for a while longer, everyone was ready for bed and went their separate ways to go to sleep. I grabbed a blanket and pillow and had started for the couch when Louis stopped me. “Where you going, love?”
“Couch,” I replied sleepily as I flopped on it.
“Oh no, you can sleep in my bed.” I gave him an unsure look and he continued, “And if it would make you more comfortable I can sleep out here. But I promise you that I wouldn’t do anything to take advantage of you.” I bit my lip.
“No, that’s fine. I trust you.” and I did trust him. I just didn’t want to make things awkward like I usually do. I walked into his room and sat down on the bed as he sat on the floor.
“So…” he started and I laughed.
“So,” I responded, smiling at him.
“Wanna play a game?”
“I don’t think you can play sardines with two people.” I replied, and we laughed.
“I was thinking more like 20 questions,” he responded.
“Okay. You can lay down if you want to though. I’m tired.”
“Alright,” he replied and he slipped inside the bed next to me. It was big enough that we could turn and look at each other without touching, so we faced each other once we were comfortable under the blankets. “Your first question iisssss” he said in an announcer voice and I laughed. “What’s your favorite movie?”
“Hmmmm… Probably… Girl, Interrupted. Is that weird?” I chuckled nervously. I should’ve just said The Notebook or something, he probably thinks I’m a freak or something. He smiled.
“No, it’s a good movie. I’m just relieved you didn’t say The Notebook or anything like that. Shows character.” We chuckled.
“Your turn. What’s your biggest fear?”
He bit his lip in thought. “Hmm, I’m not sure. One of my worst fears is losing my mom. Just the thought of that makes me cringe.”
“Me too,” I replied.
“Next question.. What was your last relationship like?” I sighed, I’d been dreading this topic.
“Um, okay you can’t laugh.” he chuckled a bit,
“I won’t! Why would I laugh?” I breathed in.
“I’ve never really had a boyfriend, exactly.” He didn’t laugh, he only replied,
“You can’t be serious.”
“Yeah,” I said sheepishly. “I don’t know, guys just never really talked to me at my old school.” He looked at me for a while and said
“Well they must be crazy in America then.” I smiled and blushed.
“Alright, your turn. What’s your biggest secret?” I asked him.
“I’m not really big on secrets. But I do still sleep with my old bear from time to time when I feel homesick.” I chuckled.
“That’s so cute!” I said, and he smiled. We continued to play the game for a few more minutes before we drifted off to sleep.
Sorry it took so long to update, I was crazy busy this week, but this one is nice and long :) Feedback is lovely! Thanks for reading! :)
