Grow Up (A One Direction Fanfic)

Chapter 31

"Merry Christmas Babe." someone whispers in my ear. 

I rub my eyes and blink a few times. 

"Where am I?" I ask. 

"In the spare bed, you fell asleep around four 'o clock this morning, all the flying you had to do yesterday must have taken it's toll." The person, who I now find is Louis says to me as he sits on the end of the bed in his pyjamas. 

"Oh. Sorry, I should get back to my new apartment now." I say to him. 

"What? No! I thought you could spend Christmas with me and the lads, they are all still here, but they are leaving to see their families this afternoon, as for my family, I'm going to see them this afternoon too, but I thought you could come along, seeing as you have no one else to spend Christmas with in England." Louis explains. 

"But, I don't want to be a burden on you!" I say, sitting up in the bed and realizing that I'm still in my pantsuit. 

"You wont be! Please stay!" Louis begs. 

"Fine, but if at any time you want me gone, just say." I explain and he nods before giving me a hug. 

"Merry Christmas to you too! Oh! And I managed to get you guys some presents, they're in the tote bag I brought with me." I say to him. 

"Awesome! But I'm just happy you're here Aria. Now, would you like something else to wear?" Louis asks and I nod. 

"I'll be right back." He says, before dashing out of the bedroom to grab something, racing back in a minute later with a base ball tee and a pair of slouch pants. 

"Thanks." I say, and like a gentleman he exits the room whilst I try to pry myself out of the pantsuit and slip on the shirt and pants. 

Then I pull my still curly hair back into a bun and head into his bathroom to clean off last nights makeup, because now that it's smudged, I kinda look like a panda. 

After cleaning my face I head back down to the apartments lofty lounge to find five boys sitting around a Christmas tree that I hadn't noticed last night. 

"Merry Christmas Aria!" the boys shout and I grin and come to join them by the tree. 

There are a stack of presents under the tree, and Louis grabs them all before passing the presents with our names on them to us. 

"Don't forget mine!" I say, grabbing five parcels out of my bag and handing them to each of the boys. 

I then look at the stack of present in front of me, one from each of the boys. 

"You guys! You didn't need to get me anything! You didn't even know if I was coming!" I say. 

"Well we got them just in case." Liam explains. 

"Wow, thanks." I reply. 

"Ok, you guys all open your presents from me first!" I say and the boys grin. 

The boys all seem pretty happy with the things I got them from Santoríni and I get a lot of hugs. 

"Ok, Aria! Your turn." Harry says and I grab my present from him. 

"Oh, before you start, all of us guys got together on your present, so they are all meant to go together!" Niall says. 

"Really?! Thats awesome!" I gasp, tearing open the present from harry. 

"Harry! Thank you!" I yell, giving Harry a massive hug when I see that he's brought me a pair of shiny white heels. 

I then open the present from Niall to see that he's brought me a pair of stunning hanging opal earrings.