The Best Days (ON HOLD)

CH 9: A pinch of Salt

Nov-12-13 HOPE'S POV

 

"Alright. What movie will it be?"  Louis asked his guests. Louis wanted to hold a party. We were all in his basement sitting on the couches in front of the TV. Louis was bent over in front of his movie selection. The guest list was all of the One Direction boys, Little Mix, me, Emmie and Talia.

"What do you got?" Leigh-anne chanted.

"Um... 'Finding Nemo', 'Peter Pan', a early copy of' This is us' but you all know us plenty!" Louis chuckled. "And netflix." We all exchanged looks. I looked to my right, at Talia.

"I vote Peter Pan!" Niall cheered. Louis rolled his eyes.

"You all sure? It's a childs movie," He complained. Everyone nodded and chimed in words of encouragement for the movie to play. "Fine!" Louis put down his sass and popped the movie in. I grabbed a bowl of popcorn off the table and took a handful out.

"So why couldn't Eleanor come again?" I asked. Eleanor was now a close friend of mine.

"She had work." The trailers began and Louis took a seat at my left. Talia was next to the armrest on the couch with me, Louis and then Niall at the other end. Perry and Zayn were spooning under a blanket in a recliner, Liam and Harry sitting on the floor in front of the couch. Emmie was sitting in front of me, Leigh-Anne, Jade and Jessie were all squeezed onto another smaller couch. It was all quite adorable.

Louis pressed play on his remote and pressed it's tip against his lips as he focused on the movie. All we heard were munches, whispers and occasional laughs. About halfway through I got sleepy and Louis being a close friend, I layed my head on his lap. Then I looked up at him as if I was going to ask if he was ok with it. He just gave me a smile and we turned our attention to Wendy as she storms away from Tiger Lilly, jealous that she took Peter.

All I remember after words is closing my eyes for a second or two and then falling asleep.

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"Psst Hope." I opened uup my heavy eyes and saw Zayn sitting in front of me. Perry was asleep on the couch and so was just about everyone. Even Louis. Louis mumbled something, I tried not to laugh and wake him at his behavior. 

"What?" The words just barely made it out.

"Your mum's been trying to get a hold of you." He handed me my ringer. It was vibrating and tickled my tender palm.

"Thanks." I whispered and took the call. "Hello mum."

"Hey sweetheart. When will you be home? It's midnight and I'm worried."

"I'll probably stay all night. Nothing will happen I promise. It's kind of hard to have anything wrong happen with One Direction and Little Mix sitting in the same room."

"Alright. But next time you see them I have to meet them."

"Bye mum." I said and hung up. I tossed it across the carpeted floor so it landed next to the TV. "Thanks again Zayn." I said again and he crawled back into his and Perry's sleeping spot. I shut my eyes but they snapped open as soon as I heard Louis faintly whisper, singing.

"Oddowada gum gum..." he sang unconsciously. One of his hands was on his face while his elbow was on the armrest and the other hand was laid on my ribcage.

"Louis?" I whispered making sure that he wasn't awake.

"Don't take TigerLilly." He said softly. "Wendy's better." I furrowed my eyebrows and shut my eyes to sleep once more. He surely was asleep. 

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I peeled open my eyes and saw that in our sleep Louis had layed down behind me and was holding my waist. I gasped loudly after this discovery knowing Eleanor would be furious and I didn't even try. I ended up falling off the couch waking up Talia who was in front of us now and Louis.

"What time is it?" He asked with a deep raspy morning voice. I reached for my phone and turned it on. It was 10:13 in the morning.

"Ten-fifteen." I said and stood up. Louis and I were consciously aware of what had happened last night but we refused to talk about it and it's as if we knew we weren't going to tell anyone about this.

"Haha. Good morning." Louis chuckled. Talia grabbed my leg and tripped me. I fell ontop of Liam. He let out a wheeze as I got off him.

"Ohmigod I'm so so sorry!" Talia gushed and helped Liam sit up.

"That's alright. You didn't know... did you?" Liam said jokingly and sat up against the couch. This all woke Emmie and Harry up. Soon everyone was up, in the kitchen and helping with breakfast. We were all making french toast.

It was aflurry in Louis's kitchen but eventually breakfast was prepared with many dirty dishes left after it was all done. Everyone slowly left. Me, Harry and Liam were the last ones left at Louis's house. Emmie had a job interview (finally!) and Talia had a date. Me and the boys decided on washing all the dishes. Liam washed them, I dried, Harry put away and Louis sat at his table and joked with us.

"I'll say last night was pretty ok. I like having everyone over. Though we were missing a few beers..." Louis chuckled. Liam snickered a bit. "Hope do you drink?" My eyes widened and I handed Harry the newly dried plate and fork.

"No." I replied.

"You don't drink, swear or have tattoos. You make me sound like a criminal!" Louis laughed. I gave him a weak smile.

"I hate the taste of alcohol first of all and I easily get drunk." I explained. Harry came back to me for another dish and Liam placed 2 cups on my towel.

"You've gotten drunk before?" Liam asked surprised.

"Once and I hated it! Hangovers are the main reason I don't drink."

"You wouldn't dare say anything naughty but what if we took you to get a tattoo?" Harry suggested. Were these boys out to make me like them? I guess a tattoo wouldn't hurt... as long as mum didn't know. It would have to be small and in a hidden but not private place. I could get a peter Pan design on the back of my neck to remember last night. I'm 20 and still chained to my mother, I needed to move out. 

"Would you?" Louis said curiously.

"I guess. I'm just scared of the whole 'permanent' thing."

"You scared? We could have it behind your ear or something." Said Harry.

"Fine. I'll do it. What should I get?" I gave in. Louis smirked. 

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"I would like this done. Right here." I handed the lady a sheet of paper and pointed to the inside of my upper forearm on my right arm. Where Louis had his stickman on the skateboard tattoo. On the sheet of paper was a filled in black line of Peter Pan, Wendy, Michael and John flying vertically. It was all black silhouettes.

"Alright. Filled in?" She asked. I nodded. She had piercings on her nose and ears and her arms were soaked with ink designs. Fire, snakes, dragons, anchors, the typical sleeve tats. She sat me down in a chair.

"Best quality you can please." I said. Louis and Harry were in the other room waiting for me while playing a game of pool. They glanced up at me and I gave them a nervous smile. Louis gave me a thumbs up.

"Here we go." She said. She held my arm up. She set it on a table. "Don't move now hun." She obviously smoked, it showed in her voice. I didn't look down at her tattooing my arm but gripped the armrest in pain and stared at the boys through the glass. Harry was the first to look up and see how I was. I mouthed: 'It hurts!' to him and he laughed. Then he mouthed back 'You'll get over it.' I stuck my tongue out playfully and then and winced as the burning sensation became more intense.

"No wonder my mum doesn't like these." I said thinking about my current situation. I felt like Mrs. Candy Pants coming in for a pinch of salt. I was slowly becoming more daring by these boys. I think I need to get out more and become less, sweet.