"So, you guys are back together, now?" Marie asks, excitedly.
"Yep," I reply with a smile.
We're in the lobby of my apartment building helping the boys move in. Since my building manager sucks, they only allow three people 18 years and up to live in an apartment. His reasoning is, 'It'd be too cramped if it was five people in one small apartment.' So, Harry, Liam, and Niall are living in the apartment right next to mine, and Zayn and Louis are taking the one next to them.
"Push! Oh my god, you're so weak! Start working out, Jer!"
"I do work out! These boxes are freaking heavy!"
"If I can push them to the elevator, then you can too! God, we definitely know who wears the pants in this relationship!"
All of us turn around to see none other than Jeremy and Michaela, struggling to get heavy boxes into an elevator.
"Michaela!!" Marie exclaims, running over to them. "I haven't seen you in so long!" She embraces the petite blonde girl in a huge hug. "You're moving in?" Michaela nods with a smile.
Jeremy scoffs. "What am I, Marie? Chopped liver?"
"Yes, you are, Jeremy," Marie replied with a hint of sarcastic sassiness in her voice. Jeremy frowns. "Oh, I'm just kidding. Come here, you butthead." She gives him a hug, too.
"Hey, whoa, whoa. I thought I was your butthead." Harry, who's now standing behind Marie, puts his hand to his chest in mock offense.
"Harry, you are my butthead." She gently places a kiss on Harry's lips then skips off back to Emme and I, followed by Michaela.
"Hey, Cass! How've you been? I heard about your job at Fad Magazine. That's got to be, like, amazing, right?!" Michaela says after she gives me a small hug.
"I'm just on the janitorial staff. It's no big deal." I shrug.
"Actually, Cassie," Niall cuts in, wrapping an arm around me. "It is a very big deal. I mean, I brag to my friends because my girlfriend works for Alexis Walters. Can you imagine how much bragging rights Cassie's got?" Niall smirks. "But she's so humble, 'It's no big deal.'" He mocks in his 'girly' voice.
I slap his chest. "I do not sound like that!"
"Aww, you guys are so cute," Michaela gushes.
"Thank you," Niall replies, rather quickly. He places his soft lips on mine and kisses me hard, putting his hand on the back of my neck.
"Hey, lovebirds! We've got work to do!" Louis interrupts us. We both pull away, giggling slightly.
On the elevator, cramped between people and boxes, Niall whispers in my ear. "Guess what?"
I smile. "What?" I whisper back.
"I love you."
"I love you more."
"I love you most."
"I love Tangled more than you love me, though." I smirk.
"Ha ha. You'd have to love that movie so much, you want to watch it on repeat for the rest of your life to for it to even compare to how much I love you."
"All right. You win." I place a small kiss on the tip of his nose, making his face crinkle adorably.
"I always win." He wiggles his eyebrow at me.
"Keep thinking that, Blondie." I giggle.
We arrive at the floor that we coincidently are all living on and/or moving into.
"Our first apartments, boys!" Liam exclaims.
"I'm gonna paint the walls," Zayn pipes up, a proud smile on his face.
"Yeah, we'll see about that." Louis pats Zayn's shoulder.
"Dammit, Marie. Let's move in," Emme suddenly blurts out.
"What? Emme, we don't have that kind of money. Neither of have jobs," Marie points out.
"Yes," Emme replies. "But we applied for a waitressing job at the Broadway Café down the street. We'd be able to pay rent if we split it three ways." She looks at me expectantly, eyes wide, a small smile plastered on her face. Marie mirrors her look.
I think about it for bit. "Well, the apartment has been getting kinda lonely lately-" Emme and Marie don't allow me to finish my sentence before they scream for joy and envelops me in a group hug, causing me to fall over onto my bum.
Niall helps me up. "Yay, all of us, except Jeremy, sorry, dude, living together in the same apartment building! This is like Friends!"
"Niall, babe, there's too many of us for it to be an episode of Friends," I point out.
"Don't crush my dreams, Cassie." I roll my eyes and he kisses me once more.
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HEY GUYS I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY A HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS EMME (aka @upthenarry) I LOVE YOU SO MUCH
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