Perfect Now [l.t]

What a party ⛅️

LOUIS' POV
I turn around and see Jay stood by my side. "Hey Jay."
She opens her mouth to speak but is interrupted by Lottie. "So this is Jay?"
"What do you mean 'so this is Jay' ?" I glare at her.
"Well, I have eyes , I see instagram and the boys may have mentioned something," she smiles, "nice to meet you Jay."
"Nice to meet you too Lottie , nice to meet all of you actually aha." Her cheeks turn a light pink colour.
"Awh, lovely to meet you! I hope Louis looks after you well!" My mum smiles at her.
I look over at Jay with a panicked expression but before I can say anything Jay smoothly replies. "Oh ! If you mean as in boyfriend way then no he doesn't , but in a friend way for sure! Although I like to think I can look after him too." She laughs and my mum joins in.
"I'm sorry Jay, I just assumed you and Louis were a thing because of the way he look-"
I cut her off, "ahaha mum,  isn't it funny how you and Jay have the same nickname!"
My change of subject was very noticeable but everyone seems happy to go with it thankfully.

Fortunately the rest of the conversation continued without any other blips or slip ups. Maybe I'm overthinking it , but you can never be too careful.
Jay seems at ease with my family , which usually could be very overwhelming , what with all the big personalities.

Eventually everyone merges and then splits off into little groups. Lottie and Fizz go off with the twins dancing on the floor , mum is with the other boys parents sat on a table together, May is with Niall and his brother by the food, Esme is with Harry in the photo booth, Zayn and Liam are chilling on a table with a few random people and I'm with Jay looking at the photos on the photo wall.

"I love that photo, you guys all look so cute."
I look at the photo she's pointing at and look at her with disbelieving eyes.
"What? You do!!!" She insists.
"But just look at the outfits." I raise an eyebrow whilst staring at the outfits we wore for the judges houses on the X factor.
"They're cute!" She giggles.
"Then why are you giggling."
"Because they're cute."
"If you say so , love"
"I do say so actually , love!"
I tickle her in the ribs and she leans back against me. "Lou, stop!" I laugh and surrender my hands.
She's still stood in front of me, slightly leaning into me so I wrap one arm around her waist and continue pointing out pictures with the other.
I wonder if I've done something wrong as she goes still but then relaxes as she places one arm on top of mine and points with the other , like me.
We continue looking at the pictures for a while until she suggests getting some food. I agree and we walk over to the food table, side by side. 

At the table we meet one of Harry's friends. She introduces herself as Eleanor and Jay steps closer to me almost as if she's being protective over me. I laugh out loud at the gesture and Eleanor looks at me confused. "Did I say something Lou?"
I don't like the way she calls me Lou even though I don't know her , but I shrug it off and reply. "No , I'm sorry , I was just thinking of something Jay did."
"Who's jay?" She asks.
"Umm that would be me." Jay raises her hand as I laugh again. She elbows me in my ribs and glares at me.
Eleanor speaks to us a bit longer whilst we collect our food and then I wrap up the conversation. "Well Eleanor, it was lovely to meet you love, but me and Jay are going to go sit with my Mum, so maybe I'll see you around. Enjoy the party." I flash a smile and grab Jay by the waist and walk away.

"God, she was annoying" I say sighing.
Jay bursts into laughter.
"What?"
She's still laughing but when she calms down she answers with, "You know , you're allowed to say you found her attractive and that you thought she was sweet."
"But I didn't think she was sweet , she may be attractive but she isn't sweet, she is annoying."
"Give her a chance Lou."
"A chance? For what?"
"To get to know her, you never know, she might be the love of your life."
I snort. "I doubt that , love."

We find an empty table and sit down, eating our food.
"What happened to sitting with your mum?" Jay asks laughing again.
"You know that was just an excuse to ditch Eleanor."
"You're so mean." She smirks at me and I flip her off.
"Point proven."
She takes her phone out and snaps a pic of the food and then a pic of me with mine, she does this without warning and it takes me off guard.
"Why do you do that sometimes? I'm not mad, obviously I'm used to people taking my picture but I'm just curious as to why you do it randomly."
"Well , I've only done it twice actually so I don't know what you're on about but I do it so then I can look back and be like oh my god I hung out with my favourite person on earth and I was actually considered his friend for a little while. Also just because I think you're cute." She shrugs and takes a bite of a cupcake with my face on it.
"Firstly, you're going to be my friend for a very long while, no matter what happens because funnily enough I like you and enjoy your company so that's now an invalid reason as to why you can snap my pic all the time." I smirk.
"Okay fair point, so say I am your friend for a long while , I'll need cute pics of you to post on your birthday and it's still for memories, regardless of whether I still hang out with you or not."
"You also have a fair point."
"I know." She grins and I roll my eyes but laugh.