When No One is There // h.s

Chapter 15

Emily's P.O.V

~Monday~

I wake up to an annoying beeping sound. Ugh! I slam my hand down on my alarm clock to shut the damn thing up. It's only 6 a.m, it's to early to be awake. I stay under my duvet, with a pillow over my head blocking out the sounds around me.

I eventually get up not bothering for a shower since I had taken one the previous night. I trudge down the hall, on my way to the wash room. I pass by Henry's room and open it to see if he's in there.

As I open the door I see Henry sprawled out on his tummy over his dark red duvet shirt less. He wears only his basketball shorts on his kind size bed. Why does one person need such a big bed? Considering that I have never actually seen Henry's room I took it as my chance to snoop around a little.

He had a black desk to go with his black bed frame, night stand and dresser. It gave the room a sophisticated kind of look, but also just the right touch of a teenage guy. His walls were a deep blue with white lining on the edges. Henry had a window also that was to the left of his desk. There was his school flag with the university of Nevada, Reno in blue and white letters on his wall above his desk. He had a couple shelves on the walls filled with old books, treasurable memories, and old photographs that were framed.

His room was slightly messy with a gym bag with dirty clothes sticking out along with shoes thrown carelessly about. Henry snores slightly letting me know he is still asleep. I tip toe over to his night stand and slowly open the drawer. It's filled with pictures, postcards, an old watch, and other items that look like they have been there for years. As I'm about to look at some of the pictures, Henry stirs, I pull my hand back and close the drawer bolting for the door. I race into the washroom lock the door, and turn the water on to make it seem like I was in there all along.

My brown hair is slightly curly as I put it into a sloppy bun while I wash my face. After I have finished I comb out all my knots and let my hair go natural. A knock sounds from the door.

"Em hurry up I have to take a piss." Henry says groggily in his morning voice. I can picture him leaning against the door outside rubbing his eyes as he tries to wake up.

"First come, first serve Henry sorry" I say smiling laughing a bit. "Might want to go find a tree cause I won't be out for a while I haven't even started my make up yet." I add stifling a laughing.

"Ugggghhhhhh Emmmm!! Please I really have to go!" Henry wines as he pounds a fist on the door. I laugh at how childish he sounds.

"Nope sorry cuz "

"Em this isn't funny, come on I really need to" Henry groans as he tries to twist the door knob to open the door. I laugh harder at his poor attempt of trying to get in.

"EM IF YOU DON'T GET OUT OF THERE RIGHT NOW I'M GONNA PEE MYSELF!" Henry yells.

I can't control my laughter as I unlock the door and see an angry Henry standing in the hall with his legs crossed and hair sticking out from his head in all directions.

"Finally" he says as he runs in the washroom and shuts the door.

My sides began to ache as tears build up in my eyes at how hard I'm laughing. Henry comes out his face as angry as before.

" Oh, you think this is funny do you?" He says looking at me seriously.

I breathe in and out trying to control my self as I say " Yes-Yes I do" with a big smile.

"Let's see who laughs now" he says with a devilish smirk. I looked at him dumbfounded as I try to process what he said.

Before I have to time react, Henry bends down and puts me over his shoulder.

"AGH HENRY!! PUT ME DOWN!" I yell pounding on his back with my fists.

"Aww not so funny now huh princess?" He says as he walks down the stairs caring me like I'm weightless. As we reach the bottom floor he begins to poke me in my sides.

"H-Henry.. st-top!" I say in between gasps as I laugh kicking my legs up in the air.

"I'm extremely ticklish-Please!!" I plead as my sides ache from laughing so hard.

Where is Aunt Kate!?

Henry opens the front door and leads us outside. We cross the porch and he opens a box but still is able to hold me on his shoulder with one hand. He pulls something out of the box and then finally puts me down.

"Henry you jerk!" I say as I sit on the swinging bench.

"You don't know the half of it." He says as his smirk returns. He reveals what is behind his back and my eyes widen and mouth drops.

"Henry. No. I have school soon." I say slowly as I look at him.

"In my house we have to teach people lessons. This will teach you to let me go pee!"

He steps back and I grab a pillow ready to shield myself.

Squirt!

"Ahhhhh!" I scream as Henry squirts me with the wanter gun soaking my hair.

"Free pee!!!" Henry screams as he pumps and squirts me again, soaking my pj shirt.

"Stop!!" I scream and throw the pillow at Henry. He doesn't listen but turns to pick up the pillow. I look around trying to find something to defend myself with. The box he pulled the water gun out of is filled with out door toys and I quickly spot an identical water gun and pull it out and hide it behind my back.

"Have you learned your lesson yet princess?" Henry asks. I smile and bat my eyelashes, standing up walking over to Henry trying to act as innocent as possible.

"Yes I learned a lesson. A very important lesson." I said smiling.

"Good I'm glad." Henry says proudly.

"Just not the one you wanted.." I said my smile turning into smirk. " I learned to expect the unexpected." Henry looked at me baffled trying to comprehend what I was saying.

I stepped back and pulled the water gun from behind my back to see a surprised Henry. I pumped and squirted. Splashing water all over Henry's face.

I pump again squirting him in the chest. So he is just as wet as I am now.

"Who's laughing now?" I said with a smile.

"This means WAR!" He screams as he squirts me again. I scream and run down the steps noticing that I'm only wearing socks and pjs and it's about 6:30 in the morning and I'm having a water gun fight. Eh who cares.

We squirted back and forth at each other as we ran around the front yard. I tried hiding behind the mailbox which didn't work so well giving Henry an easy shot at my shirt which was now soaked. We kept going until we both ran out of water. I set my gun on the floor and Henry did the same. He walked towards me and I did the same.

"Truce?" He said as droplets of water ran down his face.

"Truce." I said smiling as I moved my wet hair behind my ear. I gave Henry a hug and started laughing. He looked at me and started laughing too. I sat on the grass and he did the same as we both laughed at each other.

"What on Earth are you two kids doing!?" Aunt Kate said from the porch as she stood in her robe with messy hair. We both looked at her then back at each other, bursting into another fit of laughter. Aunt Kate rolled her eyes and walked back inside muttering something about 'crazy teenagers'.

When Henry and I finally calmed down and stopped laughing, Henry made his way to the house saying he was going to take a shower. I grabbed both water guns that were on the grass and refilled them placing them back in the box.

Before I entered the house I looked back over the neighborhood, feeling as if I was being watched. I look across to the street to see a lone Harry Styles looking back at me. He had a mug in his hand and was sitting on his porch bench. He smiled raising his mug to me. I smiled back waving as I turned back around and went inside to get ready for school.

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