the girls of the boys

louis' flat and morning kisses

We finally landed and unboarded leaving a slightly disheveled cabin. Harry walked off the small drop down stairs and turned to help and wait for Kirsten to descend them.

We all arrived at Louis' flat around midnight and the boys promptly retired to Louis' room each leaving one of their extra T-shirts for us to wear to bed. Also leaving pillows and blankets. We flicked on the TV and had it on mute the bright screen flashing across the room and bouncing off the walls illuminating the whole living room. It only felt like 5 P.M. because of the time difference. We periodically checked our phones for updates and I eventually nodded off to the animated voice of a wannabe British game show host and the smell of Louis shirt.

I felt someone nudging my shoulder as I made an inaudible grunt and rolled to my other side. Another nudge was followed by a third and eventually a blatant shove. I picked up my pillow and threw it at my assailant. I heard a strangled laugh and heard Louis whispering in my ear, "get up," dragging out the "up." I made an angry humph and pushed his head away from mine.

"How dare you," he said in a mock anger. I could picture the pout he was giving me with the little worry lines marring his perfectly perfect face so reluctantly I rolled over to face him. He sat there, just as I had imagined, with a big pout on his face. I reached up and touched his worry lines and pretended to flatten them out pouting at him, which he returned with a smile. Becca was second to awake. Glancing out my peripheral I saw Zayn sitting cross-legged to her right and smiling adoringly at her.

"I've been waiting for you to wake up, beautiful," he said smiling at her. She gave a little laugh-snort and rolled back over turning her back towards him. I looked towards my feet at Kirsten where Harry sat by her head in a ratty band T-shirt stroking her hair and gazing at her. I smiled to myself and looked back at Louis who was now on his feet and offering me a hand up, which I reluctantly take, climbing out of my cocoon.

Taking my hand Louis leads me to the kitchen and lifts me with ease onto the cool marble counter.

"So, what'll it be for breakfast?" he smiled at me and glanced at Liam noisily making a health shake and Niall hungrily raiding his fridge and cupboards. He responded by rolling his eyes at me and giving a little laugh.

"Whatever you're having," I smiled at him and kissed nose. He batted his eyelashes and went to find us something to quelch our hunger. I turned around and looked over my shoulder out into the living room and saw Harry still playing with strands of Kirsten's hair but now she was awake and conscious on her phone sitting in his lap while he showed her something on his phone.

Becca had sat up but Zayn laid on the edge of her make-shift bed gazing at her while they talked about something. Sunlight poured into the flat bouncing off the fake wooden floors and reflecting to illuminate the whole house. Apparently someone had brought up the Wii and Harry and Zayn were setting up MarioKart for Becca and Kirsten who had their steering wheels poised to drive.

Louis walked up to me and tapped my knee, glancing at him I saw him, propping his elbows up on the counter with a small plate of eggs that were so watery and crumbly they nearly slid off the plate.

"How'd I do?" Louis asked expectantly.

"mmm" was all I could say while I mustered up the most believable smile I could. Hopping off the counter I took Louis' hand and pulled him into the living room so we could watch MarioKart with the others.

"So what's up with today?" Becca asked Louis while racing across bouncing mushrooms.

"um, Harry, you said Gemma texted you?" Louis said inquisitively looking at Harry who was busily texting someone.

"Uh yeah, if it's cool, Gemma asked us over, her house isn't far," he said not really directly addressing anyone imparticular.

"Okay girls, Gemma's?" Louis asked us all but looked intently upon me. I was still trying to force-swallow his eggs and didn't know if I would be able to answer for a while, luckily Kirsten piped up that she would love to meet Gemma.

"It's settled then, Gemma's in twenty!" Louis piped smiling.

"Wait twenty . . . minutes?!" I asked nearly losing my eggs I had just finished.

"Yeah?" Louis said looking at the other boys quizzically as to why this was a shock. Becca looked at him with a look of shock and disgust.

"Twenty minutes? Are you seriously Louis?" she asked her mouth hanging open at the thought.

"Yes! Why is this so unaccomplishable?" He asked genuinely confused. Kirsten and Becca dropped their controllers leaving Toad and Waluigi to drive themselves off a waterfall. Standing up h=they helped me and and we walked into the bathroom without a word.

We quickly rubbed off yesterdays music, threw our hair up into semi-approachable messy buns and put on some fresh mascara. We all crinkled our noses at our reflections but shrugged, there wasn't much we could do now.

We all re-entered the living room shyly and saw they had switched the game to GTA 5 and Harry was in the process of stealing a police car. We rolled our eyes and Becca stamped her foot. Zayn and Louis set down their controllers and stood up to greet us, however Harry was on apparently a winning streak and not a single police officer had caught him yet.

"Fine, some game is more important than me huh?" Kirsten said in mock-disgust. Harry hit "shut-down" and stood up hugging Kirsten.