Simon's Secret (One Direction FanFiction)

Chapter 12

Zayn's POV

  Harry looked absolutely gobsmacked after we announced that we had made a treasure hunt out of his gift for Alex. He just stared at us blankly, jaw gaping, while Alex raised a curious eyebrow. Louis beamed at them both, seeming really happy about the hunt, as it had been his idea. I couldn't help but smile too. Today had been a really happy day, and it looked like everyone else thought so as well.

  I dug into my pocket for the first slip of paper that Alex would need, and handed it to her explaining, "This right here is your first clue. We each wrote one, except for Harry-" Harry scoffed at that "- and Lou wrote this one."

  Biting back laughter, I watched her expression become that of a confused person as she read the paper. Louis had been very creative about that one.

  "Your next clue is found where Harry likes his women most? What the heck is that supposed to mean?" she frowned. Everyone but her and Harry burst into laughter. I glanced over at him, and saw that his eyes were bulging and his cheeks flaming red. That renewed my laughter, causing me to clutch at my sides. Niall was basically rolling on the floor at that point.

  Alex noticed Harry and finally seemed to get what Louis had meant when writing that. She joined Niall, Liam, Lou, and I in the giggles, and Harry started blushing even brighter.

  "Um, Zayn," Alex said, still red from laughter, "Where's your bedroom?" Unfortunately that caused us all to start cracking up again. Eventually we managed to get ourselves under control and I led Alex down the hall to my bedroom. Lying on my unmade bed within was another piece of paper.

  After some time, Alex managed to find the gift. It was quite small, wrapped in elegant, flowery paper. None of us actually knew what it was, we had just decided to hide it - kind of as a prank on Harry, and kind of just to liven up the party.

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Alex's POV

  I lifted the little present out of the bathtub, where the boys' clues had led me. Sugar was held in my left hand as I used the right one to carry the gift into the living room, everyone else following close behind.

  Instead of sitting at the table, I set Sugar on it and gave her a pat on the head. She meowed sweetly just before Louis scooped her up and began to make faces at the kitten. I laughed, seeing that he had scared her into hissing. Lou put on a pouting face and put Sugar back on the table, where she curled up into a ball under my hand.

  "Well, get on with the unwrapping!" Zayn urged. The rest of the boys nodded eagerly and Harry smirked at them. They really had no idea what his gift was, did they?

  Being that this gift was much smaller than the rest, I didn't take nearly as long to carefully remove the wrapping paper. What I found inside was a little pouch, not much larger than my hand. It was a drawstring bag, but a very small one.  I raised an eyebrow at Harry, not quite understanding what the gift was.

  "I think the idea is to look inside the pouch, babe," Liam suggested. "You know, just an idea." I blushed lightly and looked to Harry, who nodded in agreement with Liam.

  I slipped my hand into the pouch and tugged out two slip of paper, frowning in confusion as I did so. All of the boys but Harry looked just as confused as I felt. I looked down at the papers, carefully scanning over the text printed on the front. I felt my eyes widening when I realized what I was looking at, almost bulging out of my head...

  "L.A.?!!" I shrieked. "WE'RE GOING TO LOS ANGELES!?" I swirled around to face Harry, plane tickets held tightly in my hands, who was smirking brilliantly. He paused a moment before nodding, causing me to squeal and flung my arms around his neck and tucking my head onto his shoulder.