More than this

More Than This : Chapter 23 : Midnight Movies

“Hey, Zayn can you hand me some popcorn? Yeah, put it on the bowl” I said, looking at him, pouring some popcorn to a small bowl.

“Here” he said, handing the bowl of popcorn to me.

“Thank You!” I said, as I popped one on my mouth. Mmm... I haven't eaten popcorn in awhile, I thought to myself.

Me and the guys were watching a movie that I picked, which is Jurassic Park! Yep! You heard that right! They suggested a horror movie, but I wasn't in the mood to watch one right now, but thankfully they like the movie too.

Ting! The microwave beeped again. Oh no, they made another one. Don't they ever get full? We just finished dinner a couple of hours ago! You wouldn't believe me, but – they heated 27 packs of microwavable popcorn in different flavors, but since one was added, in total it's already 28. Good thing the stocks in this house were endless.

“I miss this movie! Thanks for picking this Ari!” Louis said.

“No prob Louis!” I replied, while he continue to watch the movie.

“And oh Ari?” Louis said, looking back at me.

“Yeah?” I replied, after I finished swallowing my popcorn.

“Just call me Lou okay?” he said, while I nodded in agreement.

All of us watched it till the very end of the movie without no one going into their rooms, but once the movie was finish. I looked around me to find that Zayn an I was the only one left awake. Niall, was at my left side, with his big bowl of popcorn on his lap, his head faced up to the ceiling, Liam was sitting on a chair, his head bowed down, Harry and Louis were at the carpet cuddling with each other, which I find quite adorable, Justin was at the front of the TV lying on the floor, while Zayn was on my right side of the couch, with me yawning. We really were the only ones awake.

“Zayn” I said, poking him.

“Yeah?” he said, looking at me.

“I think everyone's asleep, except us.” I said, pointing at the other guys.

“I know, I noticed it a while ago.” he said.

“Oh – well then, let's wake them up?”

“We're still going to watch 13 going to 30 right?”

“Oh yeah, but let's just wake them up so we could watch it all together!”

“Okay then”

We started waking the guys up by pushing them, poking them, messing with their hair, even tickling them! But no one would wake up!

“Harry!” Zayn said, raising Harry's arm from Louis. I looked at what Zayn was doing and walked towards him.

“Do you still want to watch 13 going to 30?” I asked him.

“Mmm... Are you sleepy?” he said, asking me.

“Umm a little bit, but it's okay if – ”

“Then let's not watch it, you really do look sleepy already.” he said, smirking. “How about, you go to your room and I'll handle this”

“Oh okay, but wait – what are you going to do?” I said, asking him before I go upstairs to my room.

“I'll carry them upstairs”

“What?! There are like – 5 of them!” I said and he nodded. Look, it's not like I don't think that Zayn can't carry them all to their rooms. It's just that I looked at him and I knew he was also as tired and as sleepy as I am.

“How about – I help you” I said, going back to him.

“No way Ari – go to your room, I can handle this by myself” he instructed.

“No I'm not until I help you” I said, staring at him.

“Okay then, fine!” he said, throwing his arms up in the air.

We started carrying Liam and he sure was heavy, but there wasn't a problem carrying him up to his room. Next was Justin, he wasn't that much heavy and he slept like an angel, well not literally. What I was trying to say is that he slept silent. I was really surprised that he doesn't snore. We went back downstairs to pick up Harry. Well he was heavy and was tall, so it was kind of hard for us to take him to his room. There were a couple of times that his elbow or his foot got hit and me and Zayn would start laughing, but when we felt like Harry was about to wake up, Zayn would put his finger to his lips to tell me to be silent and by that I was really convinced that he really can do this on his own. I mean – for a couple of seconds he used one arm to carry Harry without even making him heavier for me. I wasn't actually having a hard time, it was like he was the only carrying them all along. Once we were finished with Harry, we got Louis and didn't have that much problem and lastly, which was Niall was pretty much easy to carry too, same as Justin. There was just a time when we almost loose our grip to Niall, we couldn't help laughing, because he kept on saying the whole menu of NANDOS.

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“Well that was – great!” Ariana said, smiling a little bit as she clasped her hands.

“Yeah” I said, smiling as I ran my hands to my hair.

“So – let us go to bed also?” Ariana said.

“Yeah – Umm Goodnight Ari!” I told her, putting my hands on the pockets of my pants.

“Goodnight to you too Zayn! So I'll go” She said, pointing to her door on the other side of the hallway.

“Okay, me too – see you tomorrow” I said as I walk towards my room and go inside.

Well that was an enjoying experience, I thought to myself. Never had Perrie offered to help me whenever this kind of incident happen, but a while ago I had Ariana here who insisted on helping me carry the lads to their rooms.

Maybe Niall was right, she was more than what we think she is. I mean, she's pretty and everything but – we really thought of her as someone who's really girly and – you already know what I mean. She really was different, in a good way.

I went to the bathroom, brushed my teeth and changed into something comfortable. Once I got out of the bathroom, I went straight to my bed a lie down. I took my phone from the left side of my bed and checked if Perrie had left a message, but found nothing. So I called her to talk to her, but she won't pick up, I guess she was busy or sleeping.

I positioned myself to my bed and pulled up the comforter. Although we were in Vegas, it was really cold due to the air conditioner. I closed my eyes and tried to think of Me and Perrie when we were together because I already miss here, but someone was just popping inside of my mind. No, it wasn't Perrie, it was Ariana.