Eighteen

College and Cookie Platters

"Love? Are you awake?"

My eyes shuttered open at the sound of Louis' voice. I closed them again, ignoring him, and tried to go back sleep when I felt the side of my bed dip.

"I know you are, and I have a pretty good reason for you to wake up, other than the fact that you have class in an hour."

I groaned. That's when I smelled something. It smelled amazing, and I just had to figure out what it was. I started guessing in my head of what it could be. That's when I felt something jabbing my lips.

My eyes shot open.

"Open your mouth" Louis commanded, repeatedly hitting my mouth with the fork. I opened my mouth to realize what had been smelling so good. The taste of french toast warmed my taste buds, making me actually want to wake up. Only to eat more, of course. That's the whole reason to wake up, right? To eat.

When I finally sat up, Louis placed a plate on my lap. I immediately started eating the food, not even acknowledging Louis once until I was finished.

"Thanks babe." I said, hugging him really tight. He was taken aback at first by my sudden movement since all I had done was sat in bed and moved my arm from my food to my mouth, but he slowly wrapped his arms around my waist and kissed my cheek.

"Anything for my lovely girlfriend"

I hugged him again before getting up. I immediately walked over to my phone and checked the time.

9:09 A.M.

No human should ever be functioning at this time. So why am I up? College. The wonderful thing grownups are forced to do, after twelve years of other schooling.

I checked my text messages. None. I was hoping Casey would've texted me by now. I certainly wasn't going to text her after the way she treated me. Two could play at the game.

I set my phone down and walked over to my closet. I picked out an over sized sweater and a tank top to go under it. Then I walked over to my dresser and picked out dark wash jeans. After choosing everything, I changed in the bathroom and took a shower. Louis had never seen me undressed, and the first time was definitely not going to just be before class.

After my shower I put on some simple makeup and put my long brown hair in a side fishtail braid. I took one more long look in the mirror before stepping out of the bathroom and walking downstairs.

Louis was sitting at the breakfast bar talking to my mother while she cooked herself some eggs. Louis glanced over at me and smiled.

"Well, I better get going. See you later Theresa!" He waved to my mother and received a smile in reply. He then walked over to me. He placed a gentle kiss to my lips, whispered 'I love you', and walked out the door.

I walked after him with my purse and school bag, and shut the door behind me. We then shared a more passionate kiss, one that we would never do around my mom. When we finally broke apart, both of us were out of breath. Louis then planted a light kiss on my cheek, before getting in his car and driving off.

I then got into my car- my parents had bought it for me for getting a 4.3 GPA through all AP classes. I set my bags in the passenger seat next to me, before driving to Kennesaw State University.

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When I got back from class, it was about four. I immediately walked to the kitchen, to see the glass cookie platter that Harry had brought over. It was clean, and Harry was probably expecting it back at some point. I decided to take it over to his house to return it.

I checked myself in the mirror, making sure my makeup and hair were alright. I flattened out my sweater before walking out the front door and walking over to Harry's house.

I rung the doorbell and stood there with a grin plastered on my face. The door opened and a woman looking in her late thirties smiled at me.

"Hello lovely, what can I help you with?

She had a British accent too, just like Harry.

"Uh, Harry came over to my house a couple days ago with a platter of cookies. I was just bringing it back." I held out the plate in front of me to hand it to her.

"Thank you, love!" She exclaimed while taking the glass platter from my hands.

"Come in, come in!" She didn't really give me a chance to argue, so I stepped inside her house. It was amazing, which I was not expecting. When we first moved into our house, there were boxes everywhere for weeks.

"Harry is my son, by the way. He's out right now. Can I get you some tea?"

"Sure, thank you, Mrs..." I led off, waiting for her to tell me her name.

"You can just call me Anne."

"Well sure, Anne, I would love some tea. I'm Aria." I sat down at the kitchen table.

She filled the teapot with some water and set it on the stove. I watched her while she took the tea off of the stove once it started whistling and poured it into a cup. She stirred a little bit of honey into each mug before setting one in front of me and setting the other mug in front of her seat and sitting down.

We both made small talk, when the door opened. I glanced over at the door, and my eyes immediately met Harry's.

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A/N Hey guys, fourth chap is up! I'm currently sitting in the car, on a 10 hour car ride. Doesn't that just sound fantastic? Anyways really hope you guys liked this chap. Sort of left it off on a cliff hanger. What's cool is that I have no idea what Casey is going to do with the next chapter, but I'm sure it will be great!

Happy holidays. Christmas is in 5 days! It's pretty unbelievable but I'm excited to be on Christmas vacation. I'm supposed to be writing an essay right now but hey, that can wait. This is more fun to write anyways, ha.

I was just informed that we have 5 more hours of riding in the car left. Great.

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