Eighteen

Pointing Fingers and Meaning Nothing

So this is going to be an extra long chap because you guys had to wait so long, and I also don't know when the next chap will be up. Everything will be explained in the authors note in the end.

Everyone cheered, but that's not what I was thinking about. Harry's lips smashed into mine, as his tongue quickly slid across my bottom lip. I slowly opened my mouth, and I swear it was if our tongues were dancing. I had never felt something like this before. I begged that it would never stop.

The kiss eventually stopped. Harry pressed his forehead against mine, looking deeply into my eyes. He smirked, and I could feel the blush slowly creep up my cheeks.

"Happy new year," he said.

I just grinned back, hoping that my smile would show that this was, indeed, a happy new year.

Until reality hit me. I took a step back from Harry, thinking about what I had just done. I had cheated!

"Oh my God, no! I didn't kiss you! This never happened."

"What? Aria you can't be serious"

I looked at him before looking around the house, trying to see any sign that Louis saw that happen. And he definitely did.

The angry Louis stormed towards me.

"What the fuck just happened? I come to this idiotic party for you to kiss someone else? I can't believe you."

I looked back and forth between Harry and Louis. Between my boyfriend and the boy I just kissed. Between the angry mess and the hurt mess. Then Harry spoke up.

"It wasn't her, I practically forced her to kiss me. It was completely my fault."

"Harry, don't say that-"

He stormed off, leaving Louis and I. I watched him walk out he door. I then faced Louis. I decided to go with Harry's story, to save my ass.

"Harry smashed his lips into mine," that was sort of true. "I was looking around for you when he kissed me," that was also half true. "I didn't enjoy it at all," that was just full on lying right there. But maybe I could sell it. "All I could think of was you during the kiss, and how I only wanted to be kissing you." I basically sat on a throne of lies at this point.

Louis sighed.

"You promise that's true?"

"I promise. I only want to be with you, Louis"

"Okay, babe."

I was extremely surprised how easy-going he was with this. Did he really trust me that much? The thought of him trusting me so much only made me feel much more guilty.

"Do you still want a New Years Kiss?" I said, trying to look as sad as possible and looking down at my feet.

Louis put it finger under my chin and slowly lifted my head so that our eyes just looked at eachother. It was a picture perfect moment until someone hip bumped me on accident, completely spilling their drink on me.

"Oopsss, sorry!" The girl giggled. It took me a second to realize that it was not just a random girl, it was Lou. And she was hammered.

"Lou, is Lux here?!" I stressed, hoping that she wasn't lost in this crowd of wasted people.

"What, no silly," she said, pointing at me. "Are you drunk?" She asked me.

"No, Lou, I'm not. Are you?" I asked, pointing my finger back at her.

"Just a lil'" she said, showing me how much she was drunk using her thumb and her pointer finger.

"Uh huh, okay! Well I'll be back. You stay right here."

"Okay," she said, grinning. Even if she wasn't drunk, I would easily be able to tell how hammered she was by her drunken grin.

When I turned back around, Louis was gone. I decided to go outside and call Tom, Lou's husband, to come pick her up. I didn't want her doing things that she would regret.

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After the phone call, I decided to sit on the front porch. Surprisingly there were only a couple people outside, and both were just having a quick smoke I assumed. One being Zayn, another being some girl I had never seen before. I could not understand what they were saying, but I could see their mouths moving, and the girl giggling like crazy.

I heard the seat next to me creak, and I looked over to see Harry sitting next to me, just staring at me.

" We need to talk"

"No Harry, we don't. The kiss meant nothing to me. It never meant to happen.

"You can't say that Aria. You're the one that always says that everything happens for a reason."

"Harry, I'm tipsy, okay?! I did something that I should've never done. I have a boyfriend that cares about me. Hell, we probably are close to him being my fiance! This isn't okay. The kiss was never supposed to happen. It was the alcohol. You didn't kiss me. You kissed the alcohol. It meant nothing to me."

Hurt flashed in his eyes, but it was quickly replaced with anger. I had never made him angry before, and to see him like this scared me.

"I- I'm going to go to bed. Goodnight Harry. Hopefully everyone will be gone by tomorrow."

" I'll handle them, don't worry about it. Goodnight Aria."

I gave him a small smile and went back inside. I passed Louis, and told him that I was going to bed. He again seemed understanding, not even questioning why I had went to bed so early on New years day.

Luckily the upstairs was vacant, probably because I locked all the doors to keep unwanted people out of the beds. Once I got to my door, I reached up and grabbed the key that was sitting on top of the doorframe. I unlocked my door, placed the key back, and walked into my room.

The smell of alcohol slowly disappeared from my nose, and I sighed of relief. I could hear fireworks outside, and I looked outside my window and watched them. The house slowly got silent as everyone started walking outside to watch the fireworks that I bought, that Louis was setting off for me.

I pulled my phone out of the hidden pocket in my dress, as it kept going off with all the notifications that people were sending to wish eachother a happy new year. I watched a couple of snapchat stories before changing into my pajamas and getting into bed. Tonight was a long night. The last thing I thought before I went to bed was Louis never got that New years kiss.

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A/N ahh we're back. Well actually I never left ;). It's still Jaide. Basically Casey has been crazy busy and she has writers block so I did this chap for her. Hopefully you liked it! It took a while to write but I introduced four more characters so that's pretty cool. Don't forget to vote and comment ❤️.