Erm... So... Basically (One Direction Fan Fic)

Chapter 15

   We were about 20 minutes into the movie, Lyla and Louis were seated on the couch seat on the right, snuggled into each other, Liam and Zayn each had their own Lawn chairs and I was seated next to harry on the couch seat on the left. All the chairs reclined to where we could put our feet up which rocked, and everyone had blankets over them. So far I wasn’t scared or anything, I was just sitting there enjoying the film, and all my friends. Harry and I made a few funny comments at times which also calmed me down a little. The candy and popcorn also helped.

    Suddenly, a scene that makes the audience jumped happened, and I lunged to the left of me into the side of harry and held him desperately. When I grabbed onto him he released a surprised gasp, and didn’t move for a moment. I had my eyes close while my head was dug into the side of him, I genuinely was afraid. Just when I didn’t expect it, I felt his body shift slightly towards me and his arms wrap around me, pulling me into him. I was somewhat cradled into Harry now, I couldn’t resist the urge of looking up at him, and when I did, he looked at me and smiled the most welcoming of smiles.

“I got you.” He told me, his eyes shining.

    I was cuddled into Harry for a good 30 minutes until the others actually noticed. Two best friends cuddling isn’t weird in my opinion, but the others felt necessary to tease.

“Oh la la” Louis said, while Lyla giggled along next to him.

“If Niall were here it’d be a 1D sandwich.” Liam added.

“I want in on the action…” Zayn chimed in.

Shush up boys..

When they said that Harry and I separated contact and I looked over at the others with a very hurt face and said, “Look everyone, Harry’s like my new best friend, and I was only being a good person by holding him during the parts the little guy was afraid. I’m a saint.”

Everyone laughed including Harry, his cheeks appeared a little red as well.

“We’re just messing around.” Liam said, he was to nice, he just had to apologize.

I told him I knew and we all continued watching the movie. All the warmth I had now was the blanket, I really liked the time I had snuggled in with Harry.

Right then, I felt his arm reach behind my waist and pulled me closer to him again, but now no one could see.

“Shhhhh.” He said, then winked at me.

Oh that boy…

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Harry’s POV

    Right when we were all saying our goodbyes, I couldn’t help but notice Marilyn standing by the stairs nervously in the dimly lit house, with a blanket wrapped around her. Her body language showed she was anxious, and a little fidgety. Everyone had already hugged goodbye and we all walked out the front door proceeding to go back home. It took me about 2 seconds until I decided I wasn’t going to leave Marilyn alone. She was clearly scared from the movie and I didn’t want my friend to be up all night.

ha.

Well not that way.

So I told the boys I’d meet them home later.

    I walked back inside to see Lyla and her hadn’t gotten very far, they were still in the same places. They both gave me cute, confused looks.

“… You’re scared, aren’t you?” I looked at Marilyn, half frowning.

Her wandering eyes caught mine, and she nodded slowly.

“Alright, well… come on.” I said, quickly walking to her, grabbing her hand and leading her upstairs, leaving Lyla to herself, I knew she was fine. I wandered to find Mary’s room but It wasn’t too hard, the larger one just seemed like it was hers, it felt like her vibe. When we got into her room I shut the door behind us, and immediately turned the lights off.

“No no Harry turn them back on, I’m afraid…” She said worried like. I ignored her and walked over to her giant window, covered by heavy blinds. Quickly, I pulled the blinds away, to where the room was immediately filled with moonlight and shining stars.

“Not too scary anymore, huh?” I turned back to her and smiled.

“I… I guess not.” She responded, walking fast to me. I don’t think she wanted to be far from anyone at the moment. She stood next to me and the two of us looked out the window, enjoying the night. I looked at the stars every night, it’s when I did my best thinking, usually I had my iPod playing, and everything was perfect. I often noticed this one star in the sky, I had been watching it for awhile now, but lately it’s been getting brighter and brighter. It was my favorite. It’s crazy how no matter where I was, I was able to spot it.

After awhile of comfortable silence, I turned to my right to look at Marilyn. She looked so beautiful in the moonlight, I couldn’t help but stare at her. Then I began to smile. Her eyes were so big and emerald green right now, while her cute lips were perfect and open a tad, and she held the blanket around her. Right then, she turned and looked at me,

“You’re doing it again!” She laughed.

“What am I doing?” I said very flirtatiously and playfully, I didn’t mean for that, but it was just an initial reaction.

“Looking at me like that…” She said like a little innocent girl.

“It’s because you’re just so-” I started. I didn’t want to say something to freak her out, I knew she didn’t like me in that sort of way.

“So… so what?” She asked, eyes wide.

“Uh… nah it’s nothing. I’m just so lucky to have you as a friend, that’s all.” I saved myself.

“Oh.” she said, then went to sit on her bed, looking away from me.

She still seemed a little bit afraid, and I knew she wouldn’t get any sleep alone, so… I decided to stay. It seemed like the right thing to do.

    “Tell you what, I’m going to lay with you until you fall asleep. That’s what my mom did with me when I was scared as a little kid, just so you know i’m here to protect you, ok? And we’ll keep the blinds open!” I said with a large smile, to cheer her up.

“You don’t have to Harry-“

“No no!” I said, then walked to sit next to her. “I want to.” I finished, looking into her eyes.

“Ok. Well. Let’s just go to bed then.” She said, smiling slightly. We were already in pajamas, so the two of us just rolled onto the bed, got comfortable, and closed our eyes. the both of us didn’t go under the covers, she had her blanket, and I was fine. Her back was facing me for a couple minutes, as I stared at the ceiling, until she turned over to face me.

“Harry…” her little voice said. I then turned over and looked at her, our bodies were rather far, so I decided to roll over until I was directly against her, so our eyes met and our noses would soon touch.

“You rang?” I said playfully.

Then, instead of saying anything else, she looked at me vulnerably, then wrapped her arms around me and held me.

“Goodnight.” She said, cuddled into me.

She was the absolute sweetest, perfect, beautiful, talented, funny, amazing, stunning girl I had ever laid my eyes on. When she relaxed her arms, and snuggled her face a bit above my chest, I brought my hands over to her bangs on her head, moved them away, and gently placed my lips onto her forehead, a fragile kiss.

Afterwards I wrapped my arms around her pulling her against me, I felt her heart beat fast.

That’s when it hit me.

Maybe we weren’t “Just friends”

Maybe… just maybe… we were too blinded by our feelings to realize what we had was something more.

Or maybe it was just me.

Maybe…