Man of my Dreams

Chapter 4

I must’ve looked like a total idiot back there. I just stood there, gaping at him until my brother coughed and gave a quizzical look at me, bringing me back to reality. Or is this reality?

I cleared my throat and my mom introduced us to our guests.

“these are our children, Adam and Mia. Guys, these are the guests we were telling you about. I guess, Mia, by the look of your face a while ago, you already know them.” I glared at my mother and slowly nodded. Why does she have to bring that up?

“so, how does dinner sound like?” my dad asked. Niall started bouncing up and down. I chuckled and so did my brother.

“I’m sorry about him. He’s gets hyper when he hears about food.” Liam said. My dad just laughed.

“That’s fine. Mia’s like that as well.” I turned crimson and faced my dad.

“Dad! That’s mean!” I pouted and he laughed.

“Now, now, Mia,” my mother interrupted “it’s true. Anyways, let’s go to the dining room. We don’t want the food to get cold, don’t we?”

“Food!” Niall shouted and I laughed. I turned to the direction of our dining area but I still can’t shake the feeling of someone watching me. And I might know who that someone is.

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Dinner was fun, as always. It was full of happy chatter and embarrassing stories (don’t ask me). Dinner finally ended and my mom called our attention to announce something ‘very important’ as she called it.

“Adam, Mia, the boys are staying here in the U.S. for a while. And Niall’s mother is a very good friend of mine back when we were in Ireland. So I decided to give her a favour.”

“Okay mom. But what are the sleeping arrangements?” me and Adam asked at the same time. We quickly covered our ears and tried grabbing or each other’s ear. The boys found this amusing and started laughing.

“Do you always do this?” Louis asked, eyes glinting with interest.

“Yes, and we’ve gotten used to it. They catch each other’s ear when they say something at the same time.” My mom answered for us since we were too busy catching each other’s ear. Finally I won and stuck my tongue out at my brother who folded his arms in his chest and pouted. I just laughed and faced the others.

“You were saying?” mom gave us that ‘really’ look while dad and the boys tried hard to cantain their laughter.

“The boys will be occupying the two bedrooms. Zayn, Liam and Niall on the room baside yours and Louis and Harry on the room beside Adam. Could you please lead them there?” I nodded as I motioned for the to do the same and follow us. We toured them around the house before finally leading them to the bedroom.

“This room has its own bathroom but as you already know, there are two more down the corridor. I guess I’ll leave you here then?” I said smiling at them. They nodded and said their thanks. I smiled and walked away.

When I was already in my room, I locked the door and slid to the floor. Sigh. I guess he doesn’t get dreams like I do. It’s just a one-sided dream, a one-sided love. I was awakened out of my reverie by the sound of knocking from my door. I sighed and got up to open the door, half expecting my brother to be there.

“Hey, can we talk?” a familiar voice that is not my brother’s said. My head shot up and the breath got caught in my throat.

Standing in front of me was Zayn Malik, looking quite unsure of himself.