Harry Baby

Chapter 11

"Hey, Cassie, do you want to make a gingerbread house, or carousel?" Harry says chuckling a bit.

"Sure," I laugh.

"Come on," he nods in the direction of the kitchen. I pick up both if the empty mugs and follow him to the kitchen. Harry starts taking everything out of the box while I rinse the mugs and place them in the sink.

"Wow, they give you everything. They even made the reindeer for you," I comment walking over to the table.

"And they give you directions," Harry says taking out a folded sheet of paper. He flips it back and forth and puts it back in the box. The kit literally came with everything; gingerbread cookies, icing, gum balls, jelly fruit slices, mini quins, and candy sticks.

"Now how exactly are we supposed to put this together?" I ask him.

"One second," he says pulling the instructions out of the box again.

I giggle and start putting icing where the instructions say to. It takes about twenty minutes, but we finally get it right. The candy sticks where used as poles and the reindeer where in place of the horses. All we have to do now is customize it. We use the fruit slices and gum balls to makes a fancy design at the top.

"I'm guessing you were in charge of decorating cakes," I tell Harry referring to when he worked at the bakery.

"Actually I worked the counter," Harry answers. "But I always loved baking," he adds.

"You would be really good," I comment.

"Why thank you," he says flirtatiously. Then he starts dotting icing along the bottom and up the sides of the carousel.

"Can you start putting the quins on," Harry says. I sort them by color before adding them on. I follow the basic pattern of red, orange, yellow, blue, green. For the sides, I put random ones on.

"I think it looks nice," Harry says admiring the finished carousel.

"I agree," I say taking a picture for Instagram.

"Good idea," Harry says copying my action. "What's you'd username so I can tag you," he asks.

"Crsassy," I answer. "Yours?"

"Harrystyles, no underscore," he responds.

'Just built a gingerbread... carousel with @harrystyles' is my caption. Harry's is 'fun time building this carousel with @crsassy.'

"What's next?" I ask him after we both post our pictures.

"How about some music?" Harry asks.

"Ok," I say with a small smile. Unfortunately, he puts on Christmas Canon.

"Can we listen to any other Christmas song?" I whine.

"Come on, I like this song," Harry says taking my hand and pulling me to the center of the room. He slowly spins me under his arm.

"I really don't want to dance," I whine some more.

"Suck it up. It's just one song," Harry practically whispers in my ear. I give in and we start swaying in

circles to the quick tempo of the song.

For the past six years I've hating this song. But somewhere in the dance, I start humming along. Humming turns to singing quietly. Somehow singing "on this night/ on this night/ on this very Christmas night" turns to enjoyment. Like I said, I've hated this song for the past six years so I haven't really listened to it in those six years. All it ever did was make me think of my mom.

Now it feels different. The song doesn't make me think about my mom. All that is running through my head right now is Harry. The way he has his hands on the small of my back, the way his emerald green eyes are shinning brighter than stars, the way his body moves so perfectly in sync with the music, and I way follow, that's all I'll be able to think about next time this song comes on the radio. That's I'll be able to think about when I try to learn it on the guitar again.

This night in general is all I'll able to think for a while. Not just is the holiday starting to fall into place, but it's the time I've been able to enjoy myself in a long time. And it's all thanks to him. Harry spins me around another three times before the song comes to an end. I never thought I would say this, but this is starting to become one of my favorite holiday songs again.