Look at Me - H.S.

~ Chapter 16 ~

"Talk to me, Goose" is how I choose to answer the call.
Don't ask me why, it kinda just came out.
I'm lazily laying in bed with the girls, Elodie trying to be big spoon even though her little arm is barely able to reach over me but I hold onto her forearm with my right hand while my left arm that was draped over Bailey is now holding my phone to my ear.

"Pah! Good Morning to you too!" Harry exclaims through the phone. "Wait, why am I Goose?" he whines, "I'm clearly the Maverick in this friendship".

"Yeah" I sigh dramatically, rolling my eyes which makes Bailey giggle and Elodie lift her head from behind me inquisitively, "you're definitely the main character in this and probably every other friendship, to be fair."

"Obviously!" he agrees, a little too easily, choosing to ignore the obvious sarcasm in my tone. "Anyway, I was wondering if you're free today?"

"As a bird, why? What do you need?"

"Do you and the girls fancy coming for a drive? I'm going to see Mum and thought I could surprise her with a visit from you three too."

"Aww yeah we'd love to! What time you thinking of leaving?"

"I can be at yours in like an hour? We could be there by lunch time. We'll stay the night too, if that's ok with you guys?"

"H, you can't just invite us to stay there without checking first, you bloody maniac. Poor Anne might not want us for the whole night. Don't worry, go stay with your mum and we'll come another time."

"Nope."

"What do you mean, Nope?"

"You've already said you'll come now, no take-backs allowed" I don't need to see his face to know that cheeky little smirk is present.

"Little shit", I mumble under my breath.

"Hey! I heard that!"

"Heard what?" I feign innocence, "Never said anything." I can't help the smirk on my face now.

Damn him and his superior hearing abilities.

He hums in response, "Hmm...Yeah Okay, whatever you say Cassandra." Ugh, he knows I hate being called Cassandra! But he doesn't give me a chance to respond before he continues,
"Anyways, get your arse out of bed and I'll see you in an hour. Oh and packanovernightbag. OKloveyoubyeeee."
He rushes out the last parts so I don't have time to argue and with that, the line goes dead.

Guess I'm getting up then.

"Are we seeing Harry today?" Elodie asks with glee. "Sure are" I confirm with an excited nod. "Sweet!" Bailey adds.

"Right, we better get ready then, huh?"

Elodie decides she needs to express her excitement a tad more by bolting up to her feet, clapping her hands together with an "Eeeek" and jumping around on the bed a couple of times before she composes herself and heads off into her bedroom. Bailey and I share a glance, we're just as excited but choose to keep it to ourselves a little better than Elodie does. With a small giggle and a shrug, I hop out of bed - Ok, there was no hopping involved, more like a gentle slide with an added grunt – and start to attempt to make myself look somewhat presentable.

We're all ready shortly after and I'm waiting patiently on the sofa with a cuppa when an idea pops in my head. Chuckling to myself I pull up a photo app on my phone that Bai showed me the other day. It was hilarious using all the different filters on ourselves, we had tears in our eyes and soundless laughs falling from our mouths by the time we'd actually finished and now, staring at my favourite mug, I can't help myself. I snap the photo and send it to our group chat, knowing Harry can't read it because he's driving.