"Alice!" Niall basically yells at me. He pulls me into a hug and I wrap my arms around the silly Irish. Four other guys are with him. I've seen them around but I don't know them. "This is Alice, Alice this is Saul," Saul is mid height he has tan skin and messy hair. He has brown eyes and a friendly face. He points to the other boy "John" John is shorter then all of the guys he has red hair and freckles spread across his cheeks, with light brown eyes. Mm Jane might like him. "This is Michael" he's the tallest very light skin, black hair that's pushed to one side, he wears a cocky smile that you want to roll your eyes at. "And last but not least this is H-"
"We know eachother" green eyes pipes in. I was so close to knowing his name ugh! Why couldn't he just keep quiet? He gives me a smile and I return it shaking my head softly.
"Who's up for a game?" Louis speaks up. "Beer pong?" He questions and everyone says yes while they set up the table, lining the cups and pouring beer into each cup.
"Louis you're my partner" I say to him. He only smiles at me and shakes his head.
"Nope you are absolute s.hit at this game, love" I pout my lips at him and he chuckles at my reaction. "Oh come on here" he puts the kitty ears on my head like it's going to fix everything. "I want my partner to be Niall"
"Yes Louis me and you" Niall says from the other end of the table.
"I'm Alices partner" green eyes says. I smile up at him.
"Thank you, at least someone wants to be my partner" I say loud enough for Louis to hear.
"Hey, I'm only your partner because Niall is taken" green eyes says while laughing down at me. I stick my tongue out at him and push him slightly.
"You dork" he only laughs more and a smile settles on my lips.
"You look very beautiful tonight" he says leaning down whispering in my ear. My cheeks flush red and I'm taken back. His curls brush my face as he pulls away. Acting as if he didn't just do that or that my cheeks are heating up.
Niall throws the ball and misses by a mile while Louis gets it in the cup. I grab the cup and drink the liquid, I absolutely hate beer. My partner throw the ball and barely misses he let's out a groan. While I on the other hand make it in the cup. Their is a first for everything.
"Drink up, Lou" I say laughing while he rolls his eyes.
And that's where our luck ended. Because we lost by a lot. Niall and Louis making the ball in like they were professional basket ball players. I didn't make another one in the entire game, while curly hair was making a couple it wasn't enough. By the end I felt pretty fuzzy. The alcohol running through my body making me more light than before.
"I wanna dance Lou" I say while tugging his shirt. He chuckles while taking another shot he offers me some but I decline I don't want to vomit all over the place. "Niall dance with me?" I question him he nods his head yes while taking another shot and pulling me into the house. The last glance I got was green eyes firmly on me with a small smile on his face.
Next thing I know Niall and I are dancing on the table. Swinging our hands in the air and yelling the lyrics. Me and him are laughing at god knows what. He throws an arm around me and we dance more and sing more. We keep laughing and I start feeling light headed. I need water. As I'm about to jump off I loose my balance, I'm prepared to hit the floor but the impact never comes while I keep my eyes tightly shut. When I open them I'm greeted with green eyes smiling down at me.
"A little clumsy aren't we" he says letting my feet touch the floor again. I only giggle to him and nod my head yes.
"Thank you!" I shout so he could hear me over the music. He grips my hand gently that it doesn't hurt it's a soft touch almost like he's scared that if he tighten his grip it'll hurt me. But we come to stop and I slam into his back because of the sudden stop.
"Harry dude are you going to Craigs to-"
"Nah I can't sorry mate" he tells the unknown person. We continue to walk but I'm not focused on that anymore. His name is Harry, Harry the name fits him.
"Harry?" I ask my voice is small as we reach the outside. Their aren't a lot of people outside. Most of them are just in the corner smoking. Or couples pushed up against each other for the night.
"Yeah?" He pulls me to the side of the house where no one's at. He hands me a water bottle and I gratefully take it drinking it slowly while I keep my eyes on him.
"You're so f.ucken beautiful" he states and I almost choke on the water. I remove it from my lips and start coughing up a storm. He pats my back softly. When I finally calm down he says sorry.
"I um thank you for catching me back there" I say pointing to the house. He only shakes his head with a smile on his lips. I notice the dimples on his cheeks and I get a strong urge to poke them so I do. When my finger touches his skin he looks up at me still smiling but more of an intense stare.
My eyes move from his dimples to his eyes. His eyes a dark green now. He's wearing a snap back backwards, black skinny jeans and a black and burgundy flannel. I start to feel his hand on my face and he's holding my face while I lean against the wall. My heart starts to beat a little faster. The alcohol running in my system making me feel more light, like this is all a dream.
"I want to-"
"I'm sorry I have to go." The words stumble out of mouth fast, leaving the taste of alcohol on my tongue. I lean more against the wall trying to create some sort of distance between us. His hand drops for my face.
"Why? Did I do something?" His voice isn't harsh nor accusing. It's more of something that I can't put my finger on right now.
"Look I have a boyfrie- I just I need to go, I'm sorry" I push past him and back into the house. I could hear footsteps behind me but I don't turn around.
I move around the dancing bodies trying not to be squished. The smell of alcohol in the air making me feel sick. I look around the room trying to find the boy with dirty blonde hair. I walk to where he told me he'd be.
"Jake?" I tug his arm so he turns around to look at me. He's laughing with Joshua about something and I tug his arm a little harder.
"Alice we were about to go looking for you" he says while throwing his arm around my shoulders. "The guys wanna go to Morning," morning is a café that sells breakfast 24/7 best pancakes in town if you ask me.
"Yes and my feet hurt" I say laying my head on his chest. Jake is way taller than me he's about 5'9 and I'm stuck at 5'0.
"Okay, Josh let's go tell the guys to meet us there" Joshua nods his head and sends me a smirk that I laugh at while Jake shakes his head.
We walk towards the exit I take one last look at the party. People still dancing and playing games, living like nothing else matters but this moment right now. They aren't think about the head aches that'll be the first thing they're greeted with in the morning nor are they thinking about the questions they're going to ask eachother about what exactly happend last night. They're simply living and if you ask me it's a beautiful thing. Not worrying about any of that. Harry catches my eye and I see a girl standing in front of him while he smiles down at her. I shake my gaze from him while we reach the outside.
Jake unlocks the car and I immediately switch to my slippers. My feet feeling ten times better. Jake types away on his phone smiling at the small screen.
"Where's Joshua?" I ask Jake, making his head snap up from his screen.
"He's coming, did you see Jeremy?" He ask me. I only shake my head no. "I swear James told me he saw him but maybe he got confused he did drink a lot"
"Yeah he told me he was busy tonight so he couldn't make it." I tell Jake. "I really really need to pee"
"But we're leaving, you can't hold it for a couple of minutes?"
"No I really really need to pee and it'll only take twenty seconds I'll but out before Joshua" I say while walking towards the house already.
"Do you want me to go with you?" I shake my head laughing at his question.
"No I'll be fine promise!" I yell over my shoulder.
As I walk inside and walk towards the bathroom making it in less than 5 seconds. The bathroom is right near the stairs that leads upstairs. Lucky for me no one's in the bathroom. I do my business and right when I flush the toilet someone knocks on the door.
"Almost done" I yell while trying to keep my balance washing my hands.
When I open the door no one's there anymore. My eye brows furrow in confusion but I turn right so I could leave and Nates standing there, I jump back holding my chest. I start breathing heavy.
"You freaken scared me!" I shout at him. He only smiles a little.
"Sorry I really got to go" he points to the bathroom and I nod my head and move out of the way so he could go in.
I start walking towards the exit but stop dead in my tracks as I catch a glimpse of brown hair in the crowd. The brown hair that's pushed to one side neatly. I couldn't mistake that hair for nothing as I keep staring at the figure to see where it goes-
"Hey you left this in there" Nate walks besides me and scares me again.
"God dammit Nathan stop doing that" I say very low I think he doesn't hear me but a amused smile appears on his faces telling me he did. I see what he's holding out for me and it's my phone. I grab it from his hands.
"You left in on the counter" he says.
"Oh thank you" I grab the phone tightly between my fingers.
"So who are you looking at?" He questions and I look back at the crowd but the hair I once saw isn't in view anymore it's no where to be seen. I must be imaginating things.
"No one. I gotta go I'll see you tomorrow" I tell him while walking away. I hear him say bye to me before I completely leave the house.
As I walk outside the chilly air hitting my body. I shutter a bit and walk towards the car where Jake and Joshua are waiting for me.
"Finally let's go" Jake announces while we all get in the car.
"Put some music on" Joshua says from behind me I just pass him the auxiliary cord since he loves putting his music on. "Oh yeah let's get this party started shall we" he words coming out completely jumbled due to his drunken state. I was pretty buzzed tonight but not enough to be gone gone.
The door suddenly opens and in comes a curly haired guy. I turn in my seat to get a look at his face. He gives us all a confused look.
"Let's go? That girl Cindy is looking for me and I have precisely ten seconds to have a clean get away" he announces. Joshua laughs a really loud laugh.
"You're accent, proper English are we?" Joshua says while poking his side.
"Ali is this that guy that took you home that one time," he turns his body to me and I sink back in my seat.
"Yeah uh Harry this is Jake my brother and Jake this is Harry my uh friend?" I question it, I mean me and Harry are friends right? Or are we just acquaintances that occasionally run into each other. I have no idea.
"Harry? Eh, I guess I owe you one since you did take my sister home. Let's go" Jake says while putting the car in drive. I give Jake a death glare for saying yes so easily.
"So you from England fella?" Joshua says still persistent with the question that went un answered before.
"Yeah I moved down here about five years ago" he says. "You have a bit of an accent to what is it called the Cali accent?" Harry says sarcasticly. I chuckle a bit from my seat as I hear the conversation go on and on.
We reach Morning in no time. All piling out the car, for some amazing food. A blue Honda Accord parks besides us and out hops Liam, James and Chris. So it's six of us all together, which is way better than the other days where twelve people join us half drunk while tripping over there footing. We all walk inside while they fall into conversation. I stay silent though. Harry sits across from me while Joshua sits besides me and then it's Jake. On the side of Harry it's James and then Chris.
I pick up the menu but I already know what I want to order. It's always been the same since I could remember. My mom use to order it and I would share with her. I tear my gaze away from the word pancakes written on the top corner of the menu by my name being called.
"Alice?" I look up and Harrys looking at me with concerned in his eyes. "Are you alright?" He actually seems concerned but I shake that thought out of my mind faster than it came.
"Yeah I'm fine" I say and focus back at the menu.
"You're so frustrating sometimes" he says out loud that I look back up at him.
"And why is that Harry" I push the menu down and let it rest on the table.
"Because I can't read you I mean it's hard. You look at the menu but you haven't read a single word in the menu which means you already know what your getting which means you've been here before maybe more than once." He's eyes study my face when I don't say anything he continues, "You basically run away from me when things get a little to much for you but I don't push you I-"
"What exactly are you getting at?" I ask getting slightly irritated why does he think he knows me? "I could say the same thing to you, you know? You study everyone in the room before you even talk. You tend to stare at people almost studying there every move. Why?"
"I like to know what will happen next. You can learn a lot about people by there gestures or the way they act. And that's why you're frustrating I can't tell with you, you're almost unreadable aside from the simple things I get from here and there."
"Yeah but why do you stare at me so much? You don't even try to hide it" I point out.
"We went over this I think you're very beau-"
"Do you want what you normally get?" Joshua ask me and I nod my head yes gently. He orders my food for me and sends me a wink before turning back to Jake talking about football I guess or who knows what.
"How long have you've known Josh?" Harry ask.
"For a long time he's been Jakes best friend for as long as I could remember"
"How did you two meet?" Harry directs his question to Jake.
"This is quiet a story. So it was in fourth grade I was having lunch with my sister when this little twit walks up to Alice. He pulls a chair out to sit right next to her and starts talking to her he doesn't even notice my presence. But he starts leaning in like he's gonna kiss her and she looks over at me with pure horror in her eyes like she doesn't know what to do. He's eyes were still shut leaning in so I pushed my sister aside and pulled my pants down just a bit so the top of my bum is out his lips touches my bum and he basically flies in the air yelling and throwing water all over his face brushing his lips with his fingers" Joshua starts laughing and I do too. I remember that day so clearly he was so upset while Jake was laughing like no tomorrow.
"Yeah I told on this ass and he got bench for recess. For what a week?" Joshua slaps Jakes arm.
"Yeah about a week, that was so funny. After that we would just hang out. I keep thinking he's only close to me because he think he still has a chance with Alice here" Jake says while shaking his head laughing.
"No no I don't think I know I still have a chance with her" Joshua says while throwing his arm behind my seat. I double over in laughter while Jake punches his arm. "Owh!" He rubs his arm and throws his arms up in defense.
The food comes shortly after and we all talk laughing about things that happend tonight or the pass. The tension in the air is gone between Harry and I he doesn't ask me anything anymore but just adds into the conversation between the six of us. I dig into the blueberry crepes with strawberries. The hot chocolate keeping me warm. We walk out of the café and soon my eyes drift off in the car ride. Leaving me in deep sleep since I haven't been sleeping well. The last thing I feel is a warm blanket type of thing being gently placed on my body.