"get home," anne kissed me on the cheek, "safe" she kissed harry on the cheek.
"yes ma'am," he rolled his eyes.
"and please promise me you'll drag him over for Christmas," anne smiled at me.
"oh he'll be here, bright and early. might even force him to sleep over on christmas eve," I smiled at harry. he jokingly rolled his eyes and walked towards the door.
"bye gemma!" i waved while walking out the door.
"bye girl!"
we drove back to the house and it was already 5. Harry's "important" dinner was at 6:30 so we had to be quick.
"wow you're already ready?" i teased zayn while walking into the house. he usually waited until five minutes before leaving to get dressed.
"lauren made me get ready, she wants to take pictures before we leave." he laughed.
"of course she did," i laughed.
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Lauren's POV
after forcing zayn to take a billion pictures with me we were finally on our way. everyone looked great and i was surprised to see this family dinner party was larger than expected.
familiar faces greeted me left and right, so many from college and even more from high school.
"lauren? lauren jauregui is that you?"
"brad?"
"wow.. what a pleasant surprise." he smiled giving me a hug, "and you must be the boyfriend." he turned to zayn who's grip on my waist was getting tighter by the second.
"yeah, zayn." he spoke and reached his free hand out to shake hands with brad.
"nice to meet you, and nice to see you lauren. I'll see you two around," brad smiled before walking away to another group of people.
"who was that?" zayn turned me to face him. I rolled my eyes not wanting to deal with this right now.
"just a friend from high school zayn."
"a friend? or a boyfriend?"
"can we just talk about this later please? this is Harry's welcome home dinner thing okay."
"fine," he held his hands up in surrender and placed them in his pockets.
I looked around the room to see an uncomfortable normani sitting by herself in the corner. I walked off without even telling zayn where I was going and sat next to her.
"hey this is great right?"
"I thought this was going to be a family dinner, at Olive Garden.. like we always do. not a freaking high school reunion dinner at a community center."
"well you know Harry has a lot of friends, so nothing he ever puts together is small." I laughed. she nodded her head, agreeing with me before sighing.
"now what's really wrong with you?" I turned my body to face her.
"everyone here has a boyfriend or girlfriend and then there's me.." she looked at me with a straight face, "the single one."
"you mean the most gorgeous girl in this room," I wiggled my eyebrows up and down.
"lauuureeeen," she whined, "I just want to go home."
"well we can leave in an hour, I'll drop zayn off at home and then we can sleepover at my moms and have a girls night, how's that sound?"
"hi!," a voice squeaked loudly, interrupted our conversation, "you must be normanzi and lindsey,"
"it's normani and lauren.. who are you?" i rose my left eyebrow at the over excited brunette.
"I'm Kendall, Harry's girlfriend?" she cocked her head to the side confused. I almost chocked on my spit and looked at normani who's eyes went wide.
"girlfriend?" normani coughed out, "he never mentioned a girlfriend."
"oh well maybe I wasn't supposed to tell you guys.. shit." she pouted and looked around the room. on cue harry walked over with the most guilty look on his face.
"mani, lauren.. i see you met kendall," he chuckled nervously and put his arm around her waist. normani's eyes were on his arm and moved up to his face.
"we did," I smiled, "you forgot to mention anything about her on the ride home this morning." I took a sip of my drink.
"yeah. harry how come you didn't tell us?" normani chirped in, standing up to be eye level with them, "I mean we are your best friends right?"
"of course, of course. I just uh.. it was going to be announced during the little toast." he smiled at his girlfriend.
"right, well I'm not feeling to well so I'm going to head home." normani grabbed her purse.
"what?" harry took his hands off of kendall.
"yeah must've ate some bad fish or something," mani shrugged, "coming lauren?" she walked into between the new couple leaving me with them.
"yeaaaah, it was nice meeting you candace?"
"it's kendall.." she frowned.
"oops," i shrugged with a quick smile and walked past them shoving harry in the process. I texted zayn that I'm leaving with normani and walked out to her car.
ok lauren is my spirit animal
this was short and crappy but at least i updated right? :/
*sigh*
I'll try hard to update again soon. I've been so sad lately it sucks. sad, lazy and completely unmotivated lol
but ily guys <3
