Moments || H.S

Forty Nine ; act my age

(Directly follows the last chapter, as in literally the same night!) 

"Harry.. no!" I laugh as he gently pulls on my arm.

"Come onnn Avery, you love this song" I give in to his demands and walk into the lounge room and see the boys yelling the song and laughing in the lounge room. They aren't even drunk yet, they just ask like this with each other, enjoying their moments with each other. They have a brotherly bond that nothing can break, not even time or distance. They're always going to have each others back. 

I'm hit with a wave of nostalgia watching them together acting like this again, 10 years ago we would have been 19 and touring, singing and making memories. I remember watching the boys muck around backstage and then screaming the lyrics back at them from the crowd of girls. 

"I won't act my age!" The boys yell their own song, Louis jumps off the couch and walks towards me, arms open and singing to it blaring through the speakers "No, I won't act my age! No, I'll still feel the same around you" 

"Sing this part!" Louis encourages as the boys dance to the music and Liam hits Niall with a pillow, causing Niall to trip and spilling his drink on himself. I laugh and watch Harry join them in laughing at Niall as he tries to clean himself off. Pure chaos. 

"When I'm fat and old" I sing with a confident grin and listen to the boys join in, arms around each other "and my kids think I'm a joke, cause the stories that I told, I tell again and again" 

"I can count on you" Harry sings standing on his coffee table and pointing at me with both arms "After that all we've been through, cause I know that you truly understand"  

He jumps off the table and wraps me in a hug. A pillow hits him in the back of the head and he yells and joins them again, beating Louis with a couch pillow as they both laugh. 

You want to go some where quieter?

A text appears on my phone from Zayn and I look up to see him shoving his phone back into his pocket and I nod my head. 

Together we walk out into the backyard and I sit on the couch across from him and kick my legs up on the table, taking my shoes off and chucking them on the ground. I'll get them later. 

"It's nice to see you all you boys having fun again" I say and watch him take a sip from his drink. 

"It's nice to be with them" He says thoughtfully, nodding his head "I was worried when I left the band things would be awkward, that I would get ignored hanging out because they made memories without me. But it's the opposite, they want to talk to me and tell me about the things they did after I left, like i'm still their brother"

"You are still their brother" I tell him and he smiles "You'll always be brothers, you spent a huge part of your lives together, nothing can change that" 

"You're right" He says, and the door opens and Harry comes out. 

"Everything OK?" He asks and stands in the door way

"Yeah, we just needed some fresh air and silence" I laugh and look at Zayn who nods his head, still smiling. 

"Well, don't take too long, Louis just ordered more drinks, it's gonna get interesting" He says to Zayn and then turns back to me "You're not having any" Gesturing to my stomach. 

"Of course I'm not" I laugh and he grins, running back inside. 

"I always forget how close you guys actually are" Zayn says when the door closes "He really loves you, Ave. I know he's a pain in the ass but the way he looks at you speaks so much volumes. Not romantically or sexually, but with so much love in his eyes. It's so rare to see platonic love like yours"