video games // h.s. au

chapter seven

Harry

"Guys! Hurry up!" I yelled down the hall, trying to erase the eagerness from my voice. If there's one thing I knew about my brothers, its that they were big on making assumptions. And if they assumed I had a thing for Marley, they wouldn't give me a break.

"I'm ready, Dylan's just being a gay little prick!"

"Shut up you dick! I'm not gay cause I want my hair to look nice. You should try it!"

"It's going to be dark out anyway!" I groaned, leaning against the wall. I checked my phone, seeing two notifications. A text from Marley, and a SnapChat, also from Marley.

'are you on your waaayyy'

The SnapChat was a selfie she'd taken with Hadley, both of them pulling conventionally unattractive faces but still managing to look amazing.

Especially Marley, I thought with pink cheeks and a smile I fought hard to keep off my face before the twins saw me.

"If you pricks don't get in here within the next two- finally," I breathed, ruffling Dylan's hair for the sole purpose of pissing him off.

"I'm driving!" Jake yelled, running towards the car I had the keys for.

"I'd rather not die tonight," Dylan and I said in unison, causing Jake to groan and slip into the passenger side.

On the way there I explained the rules, which I figured would be fairly simply to follow.

Don't be a dick to girls, don't drink, don't buy drugs, stay together, and keep your phones on.

Simple enough.

I passed my phone to Jake and told him to ring Marley as I looked for a parking space. I thought we'd arrived pretty early, but every allowing business within three kilometers of the field Marley had texted me the address of was filled to the brim with Bonfire Night patrons.

"Hey Marley, its Harry," Jake giggled, trying his best impression of me that resulted in his voice cracking and me snatching the device from his hands.

"Hey, Mar, sorry," I apologized, ignoring the twin's knowing looks and eyebrow wiggles when I used her nickname. "We can't find parking, where did you park?"

"Uh, we walked here, but you can park at our hotel and walk down here. Where are you?"

"At the field, where's your hotel?"

It took lots of confusion and driving in circles, but in the span of only fifteen minutes we'd parked and walked over to the field.

"Marley?" I called out, looking through the darkness for two brightly colored heads.

"Is that them?" Dylan piped up, pointing to a pair of girls waving glow sticks in the air. I nodded, clapping him on the shoulder, and ran towards them.

"Hey!" Hadley greeted, wrapping her thin arms around me and squeezing me. "You finally made it!"

Her eyes traveled from me to the twins, and she grinned and enveloped them in a massive hug.

"Hi," Marley spoke, her voice quiet, then gave me a quick, timid hug. "Thanks for coming. Are these your brothers?"

I pulled the awestricken boys towards me, hearing Dylan whisper "boobs" to his brother and smacking the back of his head as discreetly as possible.

"Shit," Dylan muttered. "Hey, I'm Dylan, this is Jake. He's lame."

"Shut up." Jake shoved him before holding out his hand to Marley. "Jake. We're twins."