Aloha Aloha ✩ Harry Styles (Editing)

Chapter 13

"Want me to play a song?" Niall asks, laughing. He ran back to the hotel a few minutes ago and brought the two ukeleles Louis and I bought at the airport.
"Yes!" Josie exclaims, excited.
"Which?" he asks, smiling to Josie. We all think.
"Stereo Hearts," Josie gasps, staring at Niall. Her eyes sparkling. Niall looks at her and then smiles to the ground.
"That brings such good memories," Zayn says, smirking. Niall nods, grinning and starts playing the song. It sounds so much tropical with the ukelele.
"My heart's a stereo, it beats for you so listen close," Niall sings, patting his heart. "Hear my thoughts in every note."
"Make me your radio, and turn me up when you feel low," Madison continues.
"This melody was meant for you, just sing along to my stereo," Liam sings, playing the other ukulele, showing off his skills as well as Niall.
"If I was just another dusty record on the shelf, would you blow me off and play me like everybody else?" Ethan sings with a rough, rapper voice, making us laugh.

Everyone keeps singing the next lyrics until we get bored of that song. And the same happens as we play and sing much more songs.

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"Tell us a story Harry!" Josie exclaims, covering herself with the quilts.
"Yeah, man," Louis says, grinning.
"About... what?" I ask.
"About horror," Keanna says in a creepy voice.
"The first scary story that comes to your mind!" Madison exclaims from the other side of the circle. Each of us now carry our own flashlights as the wind blew the fire. The sky is completely dark, leaving just the slight light of the moon and the stars. I look at my feet and then to Keanna. There's a small sparkle in her eyes which waits for me to tell something really amazing.
"I think I got one," I say.
"Tell it!" Niall exclaims, followed by some whispers telling the same.
"Okay, but turn off your flashlights," I say, smirking.
"Creepiness is starting," Carter blows out and turns off his light, following everyone. I can't see their faces clearly now.
"Okay," I said, smirking. I clear my throat and start. "Jane. A young woman, with dark blonde hair, deep blue eyes, shiny white smile and gentle personality. She also wore a yellow ribbon around her neck everyday. But literally. Rain or shine, whether it matched with her outfit or not. It annoyed many people. One of them, was her best friend, Ethan."
"No!" Ethan exclaims, laughing.
"Ethan," I continued, grinning, "was her next door neighbor and classmate, and knew Jane since she was three. When they were young, he barely cared about the ribbon. But now that they were in high school together, it bothered him. He would ask her a hundred times why she wore it, and she would never answer. Still, in spite of this aggravation, Ethan tought she was cute."
"Who the heck is Jane, Ethan?" Anna jokes. She is sitting beside Ethan, both hugging each other. Maybe they are a couple.
"Nobody, babe," Ethan says, laughing. He then kisses her forehead and motions me to continue. I smile.
"He asked her for a date at a Starbucks. He asked her to watch him play in the school football game. He asked her for going to the movies. And when the spring came, he asked her to the dance. She always agreed. As he and Jane were going steady, Ethan tought of asking her again why she always wore that ribbon. "Maybe someday I'll tell you," she'd reply. Even that the answer annoyed him, he shrugged it off.
"And the time flew past, as it always does, and one day Ethan proposed to her and was accepted. They planned a big wedding, and Jane still wore her ribbon. And Ethan shrugged it off again.
"After a year or so, the happy couple had already a small baby boy. Sometimes the baby would try to untie the ribbon, but softly, Jane always removed his hand. Ethan asked once or twice about it, and he got the same answer.
"On their anniversary, Ethan planned giving her a precious diamond necklace. With that, she would take of that ugly yellow ribbon! When Jane opened the green velvet box, a tear sparkled through her face. Ethan placed the necklace around her neck and started untying the ribbon, but she stopped him. "I can't take off my ribbon," she said. She placed the necklace in the box and smiled.
"That answer was still annoying him. That night, thinking of the ribbon, Ethan couldn't sleep. So he decided to solve the long mystery. Tiptoeing, he walked to the side of the bed were Jane laid asleep, and with his shaking fingers, he finally untied it."
"And?" Carter asked impatient.
"And..." I said. "Her head fell off."
"Oh my goodness," Zayn says. "How insane!"
"Her head fell off?" Tanya asked, surprised.
"I wasn't waiting that," Keanna says, laughing.

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"How was I?" I ask Louis.
"Creepy," he says. I glare at him. "But nice! You were nice!"
"Really?" I ask.
"Yeah," he nods. He takes the empty cooler and starts walking toward the bridge. "Are you coming?"
"Later," I say, and he smirks.
"Harry!" Keanna shouts. Louis widens his eyes and grins. He turns around and goes straight away. Then Keanna stands in front of me, breathing through her mouth and no longer having her glasses on. "I saw you were going and... I just wanted to say thank you."
"For what?" I ask.
"For coming, and for telling the story, and for meeting my friends," she says. Her smile widens and her eyes turn to the floor. She pushes a lock of hair behind her ear and begins blushing. She looks at my eyes and I smile. She looks so pretty. "Thank you."

Then my brain starts fighting the idea of whether doing or not what I am thinking to do. But I do it. I take a step closer and she looks slightly up to see my eyes. I finally leave a small kiss in her right cheek and slowly separate.

"You are welcome," I reply after a few seconds, making her cheeks turn red again.
"Don't look at my cheeks, I look like a tomato," she says, laughing. I look down, grinning.
"Can we go out again tomorrow, I mean like... you and me?" I ask. She rubs one of her feet in the grass and laughs again.
"Where do you plan to go?" she asks.
"You are the one who lives here," I say, smirking.
"Mmm..." she thinks. "I know where!"
"Where?" I obviously ask.
"Rainbow Falls," she says. "We can go there at 10:00 am?"
"I'll see you at 10:00 am," I say, smiling. "But I need to call you before, in, like..."
"You want my number?" she asks, giggling.
"Yeah," I sigh. She laughs and takes a notebook out of the recycling bag she was carrying. She grabs a pen and her unlocked phone and looks at me. "Turn around please."

I turn around, laughing and she supports the notebook with my back. After a while, she rips a page, folds it twice, and gives it to me. I then tell her mine and she surprisingly memorizes it.

"See you in the hotel reception," she says, smiling one last time.

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The note had her phone, Madison's, and all of her friends' phones.

"Just in case that you need all the gang," she wrote. "I will give them yours, too. Don't worry, Josie will not spread it."

I smile and open the hotel room. Fresh air conditioner slaps my face and I sigh. The guys are talking around the sofa. They look at me, and then to the note.

"Somebody's got a number!" Niall shouts, making the rest of the guys turn crazy. They ask confusing questions and laugh.
"One by one!" I exclaim, feeling like a teacher. "Liam?"
"Did you got her number?" he asks.
"That has already an obvious answer, dumbass!" Louis exclaims, kicking Liam legs as a joke. "I got one intelligent question."
"What?" I ask, laughing. I take a chair and sit with them.
"Did you kiss?" he asks. The boys' eyes widen.
"I gave her a kiss in her cheek," I say. The guys face palm their own faces.

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