I wake up still holding Louis's hand. I poke him and he wakes up. "Be quiet." I whisper. We both get up. "What are we doing?" He whispers. "I wanna trick them. Let's make them think there's a mouse. Mya and Laura are afraid of mice and stuff, so it's gonna be funny." I say. He smiles. He looks at the sleeping people. "Okay, we're gonna go in the kitchen and start screaming on the count of three." Louis and I agree. We tip-toe to the kitchen. He puts up his finger meaning 1. I put up my fingers meaning 2. Then he puts up 3 fingers and we start screaming our heads off. I jump up and down. "A mouse! A mouse!" I scream. They all jump up and stay on their couches. Mya and Laura scream their heads off. The boys are freaking out too. After a few minutes Louis and I bust out laughing. "What's so funny?" Laura asks. "There isn't a mouse." Louis laughs.
"I'm gonna get you!" Laura shouts. I run out the door and around the house as she chases me. I duck behind a bush as she passes it thinking I'm still running. When she's gone I run towards the front door and go in. Niall is sitting next to Louis on the couch. Louis's still laughing. Mya is sitting on the other side of Louis and Harry is in front of him like guards. They stare at me for a second and then somebody grabs me from behind. Liam gets my arms and Zayn gets my feet. "HAHA!" Liam laughs. Laura comes in with a furry thing in her hand. "Laura what did you bring into my house?" I ask. "A BUNNY!" She yells. It surprises Liam and Zayn so much they almost drop me. They start laughing as they carry me over to a chair. Liam stands next to me, and Laura gets on the other side of me petting her bunny. Zayn gets in front of me. "What are you doing?" I ask. "We're guarding you." Harry says.
I jump seeing what Laura's bunny is doing on my floor. Zayn and Liam hold my arms. "Dude, your bunny is using the bathroom on her floor." Liam laughs. "Bad Stewart!" Laura says. "You're cleaning that." I say. Zayn pokes me. I poke him back and then we keep poking each other back and forth. Again and again. "I'm gonna win." Zayn says. "No I'm gonna win." I say. "You're having a poke war." Liam says. "Yes." I say. Zayn and I keep poking each other while Laura lets her bunny, Stewart, go and cleans up the mess he made. "CALL IT A TIE ALREADY." Mya says. Zayn and I stare at each other. "A tie?" I ask. "We'll continue later." He says. We both start laughing. "Poor Stewart." Laura says. "Poor floor." I say. We all get dressed, even though we haven't made plans to go anywhere. We stand in the living room. Laura turns on the TV to the music channel and jumps up when a new song comes on. She starts singing along with the song "Miss Independent" by Ne-Yo.
She grabs my hand. We both start singing. "She got her own thing, that's why I love her." We sing and dance. The boys stare at us and Mya laughs. "Miss Independent, won't you come and spend a little time. She got her own thing, that's why I love her. Miss Independent. Ooh, the way you shine. Miss Independent." We sing and dance. Louis smiles at me. When the song's over, everybody gets up. We decide to go outside. We run around and play with a ball that I find. "Kick it." I tell Laura. She kicks it and Mya drops to the ground and it barely misses her. "Not at Mya." I laugh. Everybody starts laughing and Laura and I are on the ground laughing. We stop laughing when we hear a phone ring. Harry answers it and motions for the boys to go over there. They each talk on the phone. They all look sad. "What do you think happened?" I ask. Laura shrugs. They hang up the phone and talk for a second. They all come over to us.
"What happened?" Mya asks. "Oh, nothing really. Just some crazy fan, I didn't know if the boys knew who it was." Harry says. Louis has a smile on his face. If you didn't know Louis then you would think he was happy. But I know Louis. I look in his eyes and I can tell he's sad. But I don't point it out. Louis will tell me when he's ready. "So everything's okay?" I ask them all, but I stare at Louis. "Yeah." They say. We play for a little while longer. Then we go in and eat lunch though it's late. Louis takes my hand. He smiles at me, I smile back. "I love you." He says. "I love you too." I say. I kiss him. "I want pizza." Niall says. "Okay, we'll eat pizza for supper." I say. They all cheer. We watch TV and laugh at cartoons. We talk and play and soon it's about two hours before we would usually eat supper. "You all go ahead and get the pizza, I'll stay here." I say. "I'll stay too." Louis says.
They walk out and go get the pizza. Louis and I sit on the couch in silence. "Did I do something wrong?" I ask. "No, why would you think that?" He asks. "You've been acting strange since that phone call. Was it the phone call or me- or what?" I ask. "It wasn't you or the phone call. I'm fine." He says. He smiles but I can tell it's fake. Something is bothering him. I look ahead at the wall and blink back tears. He pulls me into a hug. At first I hesitate but then I hug back. "I'm really fine." He says. I can tell he's lying but I don't say anything. He takes my hand and I look at him. He kisses me. "You're the greatest girl ever." He says. I smile a bit. I put my head on his shoulder. "I love you, Louis." I say. "I love you too, Aria." He says. He has his arm around me. When everyone comes home we eat. We laugh and talk and I almost forget about the phone call. I wish I knew who had called, what they said.
We all take showers. We sit down to go to bed, but sit there. It's not even that late yet. "So..." Mya says. "So," I say. "Uh..." Laura says. "Wait." Harry says. We all be quiet. He looks up for a second mouthing numbers. "That was a full ten seconds that Louis didn't talk." Harry says. Louis throws a pillow at him. I laugh. Harry throws it back and then Louis throws it. It hits Mya. Mya picks up the pillow and hits Louis with it. He grabs a pillow and hits her with it. A pillow accidentally hits Liam and then soon everyone is in the pillow fight. We're all laughing and hitting each other with pillows. After a while we calm down. We all start to lay down. "I'm hungry." Niall says. Seven pillows go up at pretty much the same time and hit Niall. Niall throws them back. "Okay, okay. Man, I was just kidding." He laughs. We all say good-night. Louis takes my hand and then I fall asleep.
