Cara POV
“OOH! Let’s play hide and seek in the dark!” Lucy said, excitedly. Before any of us had time to respond, she said “Come on, I’ll count, ready?” she turned off the lights, closed her eyes and turned to the wall. “1…2…3…”
“Go! gogogogo!” Louis whispered. We were all in Liam and Sadie’s basement with the exception of Liam and Zayn. They were having a date or something at Zayn’s, whatever. Kayleigh and I grabbed hands and ran to the laundry room. I’m secretly afraid of the dark, so we always hid as a team. We went under the big laundry sink and propped a laundry basket up in front of us.
“Hey” we heard someone whisper
“Harry?” I asked confused
“Where are you? I’m scared! I was supposed to hide with Lou, but he abandoned me.” he responded
“Come on then, we’re under the sink”
“We?” he asked. I forgot he didn’t know Kayleigh was in here. Would he have admitted he was scared if he knew?
“Yeah I’m here too.” Kayleigh said next to me. He crammed in next to me and sat on his side, so he was facing me, just inches from my face.
“30! Ready or not, here I come!” Lucy shouted from the couch. Harry scooted even closer (if that were possible)
“I’m going to go see where she is.” Kayleigh offered.
“Be brave,” Harry said, putting a hand on her shoulder. She nodded once to us and crawled out from under the sink.
“Found you!” Lucy said right away
“NO! dang it Luce.” Kayleigh stuttered. We heard Lucy leave and Kayleigh peeked under the sink whispering-
“Save yourselves! I’ll hold her off as long as possible.” Harry looked at me and giggled, I started giggling too. I felt like a little kid.
“I wonder how long we’ll be under here” I asked looking to my left into the darkness and unintentionally leaned to the right, into Harry’s chest. I felt his breath by my ear. I turned to look at him and he was looking right at me. Even though I could barely see anything because it was so dark, I saw his eyes and teeth. I wanted to kiss him so bad. I wonder if he could tell. “So, um you’re afraid of the dark too, huh?”
“Yeah I guess you could say that.” He said breaking eye contact and looking down, embarrassed. “But it’s nice to have someone here to make me less scared.” He smiled a crooked smile and looked at my lips.
“My butt is falling asleep.” Was all I could say. Why did I just say that?
“Yeah, mine is too.” At the same time we repositioned ourselves and bumped heads.
“ooh””ouch” we said simultaneously and began to laugh.
“Shhhhh” I said, putting a finger to his lips. He quieted down, but we were still laughing. He took the hand that I had over his lips and brought it down to play with my fingers. I wanted to jump on top of him, oh my god, what was this boy doing to me? I bit my lip, as he traced the veins on the back of my hand, giving my goose bumps. He looked up at me right as I did and smiled. Shit. He caught me. I laced my fingers in his and looked up at him through my eye lashes. He slowly inched his head closer to mine and I arched my back, so I could be closer to him. I moved my hand to his chest and-
“AH HAH! Found you guys!” Lucy said pulling the laundry basket away. I gasped.
“Lucy you scared the shit out of me!” I yelled. I was kind of annoyed, but kind of grateful that she had interrupted an almost kiss. I was really happy that it was so dark for two reasons- 1- she couldn’t see the position we were in and what we were obviously about to do and 2- I couldn’t see the look on Harry’s face as we got up and followed her back to the couch. I needed to figure myself out. Like now.
