Falling In Love

Chapter 17 - The Moment

Unforunatley I had to go to work the next morning so I set off early and grabbed a coffee from Starbucks along the way. 

Work was okay, I ended up telling the whole nation about my ummm 'incident' at the supermarket the day before... 

When I got back to Dougie's he was still asleep so I decided to make a cake to say thank you for letting me stay. I set about finding the ingrediants needed. I decided I needed some music, so I put my IPhone into the docking station by the toaster and scrolled through my music. Hmmm so much choice! Oasis? na, Green Day? na, Red Hot Chilli Peppers?, na. Oooooo High School Musical! I haven't heard that in agesssss, why not! I put High School Musical on shuffle and began to make the cake, which I decided would be chocolate.

15 minutes later I had successfully finished mixing up the cake mixture and put it in the oven. I looked around the kitchen. It was a bit of a mess.... There was flour all over the floor, cooking utensils littered the worktop, egg shells were scattered around the kettle and cake mix was splattered up the tiles. Oops.... 

I turned the music up, grabbed a wet cloth and began to clean the kitchen; happily singing along to 'We're All In This Together'.

"High School Musical? Really?" Dougie said entering the room. 

"Yeah...." I replied putting the sugar back in the cupboard.

"Right... What have you been doing?!" He asked taking in the mess (which wasn't half as bad as it was before I started cleaning up).

"Well I've made you a cake to say thanks for letting me stay and kind of made a mess in the process...." I explained

"Awww you didn't have to do that! Let me help you clean up."

Once we had finished cleaning up and the kitchen was sparkling clean, I turned the music off and put the tea towell down. 

"Oh you've got a bit of flour just there." Dougie said pointing to my left cheek. 

"Gone?" I asked rubbing my cheek with my hand

"No it's just there." He took a step closer and brought his hand up to my face. He lightly brushed his finger across my cheek, but left it there , near the corner of my lips. I looked up and our eyes met, causing my heart to skip a beat. It was already noticeable that his finger was kept there unnecessarily long, but I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to speak and ruin the moment. His face was drawing closer and closer with every second, I could hear his heart beating fast beyond his t-shirt.  He opened his mouth as to say something, finger still on my cheek, when suddenly...

"Yo Doug!" Danny's voice echoed through the house followed by the sound of the front door shutting. Dougie quickly pulled away from me just as Tom, Harry and Danny entered the room. 

"That smells good." Danny said looking in the oven. Tom eyed us up suspicously as I walked over to the oven and looked inside. "It's probably ready now." I said grabbing some oven gloves, taking the cake out, removing the tin and placing it on a cooling rack.

"Oh wow can I have some?" Danny asked eyeing it up longinly. 

"Yeah sure!" I replied finding a knife to cut it with. "Do you all want a bit?" 

"Yes please." Tom and Harry said at the same time. 

10 minutes later we had all eaten a slice of cake each, maybe even 2 slices for some people. "So why did you guys come round?" Dougie asked

"Oh we want to practice the new song." Harry replied

"Ahh okay, let's go practice it then!"