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six

"Are you sure you don't want to come?"

"Positive. I'll feel like a third… well… a ninth wheel… I'll just feel like a spare part!"

"You can have my date and I'll go with Louis!" I suggested, but Polly laughed and shook her head, telling me to go and have fun. I leaned over in my seat, wrapping an arm around her neck and hugging her. "Thanks for the lift Pol!" I smiled, jumping slightly when the car door was yanked open.

"POLLY!"

"Hey, Harry," she giggled at him as he dived over me and attacked her with hugs. "Will you get off me Curly, I have a reputation to uphold! I doubt my parents would like it if they saw me plastered across a gossip magazine!"

"Yeah, and you're squishing me you big oaf!" I huffed, pulling on his hair to get him out of the car. He laughed and crawled out, helping me stand up and pulling my small suitcase out of the backseat. "Thanks again Pol, and I'm sorry about this fool."

"It's fine," she chuckled. "Have fun guys, Cassidy let me know if you want me to pick you up?"

"She won't, I'll bring her back… Well. I'll make Louis bring her back. See ya Pol!" Harry called, waving as she pulled away from the curb. "Cassie you want to see our room, it's AMAZING! I fluttered my eyelashes at Simon and he forked out for a bit more and got us a better room, it's so awesome! The others have claimed it as their own though…"

"The others are here already?" I asked, allowing him to take my hand and pull me towards the lifts. My eyes widened as I took in the lobby of the May Fair Hotel. "Wow."

"Wait til we get upstairs!" he giggled, pulling me inside the lift. "And yeah, the we've been here for ages waiting for you!"

"I know, I'm sorry!" I tutted. "I know we said 1, but I woke up late and had shit loads to do… I had a late night!"

"Funny that, so did Louis," Harry smirked. "Where did you go anyway? He came strolling in, ignored me when I asked if he'd had a nice time and went right into his room. Ignored me this morning as well, fucker."

"He asked me if I had feelings for him last night."

"WHAT?!" Harry stuttered, his eyes widening. "What did you say?!"

"Uhm, I denied it?" I laughed.

"What?! Why?! Cassie that was the perfect opportunity for you to go 'yes Louis I'm madly in love with you, let's get married and have lots of sex and babies'!"

"Err," I raised an eyebrow at Harry. "I think he'd run if I said that. It wasn't- I don't know, he seemed to get arsey when I told him me and you were going to the party together-" Harry interrupted me with a snort of laughter. "He started going on about my 'feelings' for Niall, he asked if I'd ever had those feelings for you or for him… I just denied it all!"

"Hmm."

"Oh, he asked if I'd slept with you, too."

"And? What did you say?"

"What do you think I said?!" I laughed. "I told him the truth, I said no!"

"Shoulda told him we had, would've been funny," Harry shrugged his shoulders. "He might have gone purple and his head might have exploded."

"He might have told Liam."

"…So we'll just stick with the truth, then," Harry coughed, and I laughed at how scared he was of my brother. "Go on," he pushed me out of the lift and pointed further down the hall. "We're in the one at the end, on the left."

"I'm gonna need to start getting ready like, right now you know? So I'm kicking everyone out," I told him, stopping in front of the door and waiting for him to open it. He rolled his eyes at me and muttered something about girls taking ages, before swiping the key-card and pushing the door open. "Hey guys!" I stepped into the room, my mouth falling open as I looked around. "Wow…"