Lana's POV

"Food is here!" Niall yells as there's a knock on the door. We laugh as he runs to open it.

"Oh." He sound disappointed. Must be Lou and El.

"Well, don't get too excited, mate," Lou jokes, stepping around him and into the house. "Hello, everyone. I come bearing gifts." He holds up a box of presents as El steps in behind him. "El didn't bring any. She's a terrible friend. These are all from me." He laughs as she smacks his arm.

"Mine are in there too, don't worry," she says to us, eyes narrowed at Louis. He gives her a peck on the cheek and comes into the living room where Harry, Brooke and I are sitting.

"I'm so hungry," Niall groans, closing the door and taking his place beside Brooke on the love seat.

"Some things never change," Harry says, shaking his head. There's another knock on the door and he jumps back up to answer it. Harry laughs and stands as well. "You need the money, Niall."

"So get some!"

"Why am I paying for you to eat eight tonnes of food?" Harry and Louis bump fists as he walks past Lou and into the kitchen to get the money Anne left out for us.

They pay for the food and bring it into the kitchen and the rest of us follow. Harry gets out plates for everyone and Niall is the first to start shovelling food onto his.

"Chinese food isn't very Christmas-y," El says, laughing at the sheer volume Niall plans to consume.

"It is for the Chinese," Louis says. We all laugh and El shakes her head.

"You guys only encourage him when you laugh."

We all take our food and go back into the living room. When we're done eating we start opening gifts; most of them are gag gifts. Just fun things like weird christmas themed socks, hats, and the ugliest sweater I have ever seen: Louis' gift to me. We laugh the whole time. I can't remember a Christmas when I've had this much fun. When we're done we decide to watch a movie.

"Okay, I have chosen three Christmas themed ones," I say, holding up the selections. "Home Alone, It's a Wonderful Life, and Home Alone 2."

"So we all know what Lana wants to watch," Niall says, sitting on Brooke who is laying across the couch.

"Home Alone is a classic, alright. Everyone agrees? Okay, good." I put the disc in before anyone can argue and sit on the love seat next to Harry. El and Louis squeeze onto the couch beside Brooke and Niall.

By the end of the movie Brooke and I are the only ones still awake. I look beside me to see Harry not just taking a nap, but completely passed out. I smile and move a stray curl away from his face before gently removing his arm from my waist and getting up. I wave for Brooke to follow me upstairs so I can give her her gift.

We go into Harry's room and I take the gift off the bed. I turn to see Brooke has a small bag in her hand as well. We sit on the bed and I cross my legs and hand my bag to her. "You first."

"If you insist," she says, smiling at me and pulling the small box out of the bag. She unwraps it quickly and opens it to reveal the ring I got her. "Oh my gosh, Lana. This is beautiful."

"Do you like it?"

"It's..." she shakes her head and looks up at me. "I love it. Thank you so much." She hugs me.

"It's nothing. Just a little something for my best friend," I say as she pulls back. She smiles and holds her bag out to me.

"And for mine."

I take it and take a larger flat case from the bag. I open it slowly and see a beautiful necklace.

"It's a symbol for eternal friendship." I run my finger along the metal.The symbol is white gold with a looped figure going down the centre of an infinity sign. It's attached to a long link-chain.

"I love it. It's so pretty. And unique, I've never seen something like this before."

"Me neither. I was looking at that place where your friend Carter works and he showed this to me. Said he thought it would be perfect for you, and I obviously agreed. I remember your dad got you that white gold necklace years ago and you were devastated when it snapped."

"You remember that?"

"Of course! You were in tears you were so sad."

I remember the time she's talking about; it was my favourite necklace and my first real piece of jewellery. My dad gave it to me when I turned 10. He said all women need something pretty to wear. I loved that necklace. When it broke I was so upset.

"Thank you so much, Brooke. It's perfect." I hug her and feel a small lump in my throat; this girl has always been there for me since I came to England. A lot of people say the friends you make in high school won't be there forever, but that just isn't possible with Brooke. Or Eleanor.

"Okay, you're going to make me cry," I say, pulling back and standing up. "Let's go back down."

"What are you guys doing?" El walks into the room and puts her hands on her hips. "You are not exchanging gifts without me!"

"Come in, come in," I say, ushering her over to the bed.

"I'll get my gifts, hold on." She runs downstairs and Brooke follows. I assume she's getting her gift for El. I get mine off the floor and put the bags on the bed. They come back up and we all sit in a circle on Harry's bed. "Okay, let me see what you two got each other."

Brooke holds out her hand where she placed the ring. El takes it and does a small squeal. "This is so pretty! Well done, Lan. What did you get?"

I give her the case that the necklace is in and she opens it to look. "This is so cool...what is it?"

Brooke laughs. "It's some sort of symbol for eternal friendship."

"That's adorable. Okay, here you go!" She excitedly holds a box out to Brooke. She rips the wrapping paper off and takes the lid off.

"Holy shit! El! How did you get this, it must have cost a fortune!"

"My dad has some connections, he managed to get one for me. It wasn't a big deal."

"It's gorgeous, I love it!" She holds it up for me to see; its a Chanel bag. I remember when we were shopping online for things we would never afford and Brooke just fell in love with it. They hug and El gives me a box. I rip it open to find another Chanel purse.

"You didn't think I would forget about you, did you?" she says as I hold it up.

"This is incredible, El, thank you so much," I say, hugging her as well. I give her my bags.

"Ooooh, two presents?" She takes the paper out of the first one and pulls out the purse I got her. She squeals a thank you and opens the second one to reveal the scarf. "These are amazing! Thank you so much, I love it!" She hugs me and Brooke hands her a box. El looks like a little kid right now; it makes me smile. She opens to box and takes out a beautiful jacket El had seen months ago. "What! You remember me wanting this? That was forever ago, Brooke."

"I bought it that day. You can be so oblivious sometimes, my friend." They laugh and hug and we all examine our gifts again. "Okay, let's go back down."

She walks to the bathroom and I laugh. "That would be the bathroom, Brooke. Stairs are that way."

"We need some supplies first. You have makeup here, right?" El and I exchange a confused glance and follow her into the bathroom.

"Yea...why?"

She digs through my stuff and pulls out a bunch of lipstick, brushes, blush and eyeshadow. "I say we have some fun before we wake them up."

"I like the way you think," I say, taking some stuff form her hands. El does the same and we walk downstairs. They're all still asleep. "Are we doing our own boyfriends or should we switch it up?" I whisper. They shrug. "Alright, I'll take Louis. Brooke, you do Harry. El gets Niall."

"That sounds so weird," Brooke whispers, walking over to Harry. I laugh quietly and kneel on my knees next to Louis. He's leaning his elbow on the arm rest with his head on his hand. How does he sleep like that? His neck is going to hurt when he wakes up.

We all giggle quietly while we put eyeshadow, blush and lipstick on their faces. I stand and examine my work, putting my hand over my mouth to keep from laughing. None of them have woken up yet, which is surprising to me. I look over at Niall, who's laying on the other end of the couch, then at Harry on the other side of the room. They all look absolutely ridiculous. We hide the makeup and start clearing dishes. Niall wakes up.

"Woah, how long was I asleep for?"

We all shrug and look at each other. All three of us are trying not to laugh. He shuts his eyes again and rubs his eye with the back of his hand. His makeup smudges, but he doesn't notice at first. He looks at his watch that's on the same wrist and I watch as he sees what's on his hand. He rubs the powder with his finger and I try not to laugh while he puts two and two together. He looks at Louis and his eyes go wide, then at Harry. His head swivels back and forth between the two of them and he suddenly smacks Louis, jolting him awake.

"What are you doing!" Louis whines, waking up.

"Louis, look at my face." Louis looks at him and looks away, then does a double take. He starts pointing and laughing.

"You look ridiculous! Harry! Wake up, mate, you've got to see this. Harry!"

Harry opens his eyes and slowly sits up, running his hand through his hair. My hand flies to my mouth when I see what Brooke to him. He looks at Niall and starts laughing. "What happened to your face, Niall?"

Louis and Harry both start laughing harder, then go silent when they look at each other.

"Yeah, you both look like idiots," Niall says, wiping his eyes again. More of the powder comes off. Harry and Louis point at each other and then the three of them look at us.

"Lana."

"Yes, Harry?"

"What have you done?"

I smile innocently. "I don't know what you're talking about, babe."

"Please tell me I don't look like those two."

I shake my head. "Of course not."

"Harry, you look like a drag queen," Louis says, wiping his face on his sleeve.

I look at Brooke and El. We all burst out laughing, unable to contain ourselves anymore. They look so funny. They all look at each other and nod before standing and walking back into the dining room. I stop laughing and watch them. What are they doing?

My questions are answered when the three of them come running back out with massive water guns. I scream and duck behind El and Brooke, who clearly weren't paying attention. They start spraying us and the girls start squealing and running around the room. They block all the doors and we try and hide, but it doesn't work very well.

"Stop!" I yell, hiding behind the couch. "Harry, I'm not kidding!" The door opens and they stop. Anne, Robin and Gemma walk in.

"Harry Edward Styles, what do you think you are doing to my living room?" Anne says, walking in and placing her hands on her hips. "Are you boys mad? Niall, I didn't think I would have to tell you not to play with water guns in my house again after the time when you guys were 11." He smiles innocently and puts the gun behind his back. Anne shakes her head and looks at Louis. "And you, Louis. I haven't met your mum, but I know she raised you better than this. As for you," she says, looking at Harry, "What makes you-" she stops short and looks quickly between the three of them. Gemma comes in as she opens a can of pepsi and stops short when she looks at Louis standing by the stairs. She looks at the other two boys and smiles.

"Well, well. What do we have here?"

"They did it," Louis says, pointing into the living room where the three of us are hiding. We come out of hiding. Anne and Gemma look at us, then back the boys.

"Sure they did." Gemma winks at me and goes up to her room. I laugh and look at Harry, who is rubbing his face with his shirt to get the stuff off. I walk over and stop him.

"That's not going to do anything, Harry." I take his hand and lead him to the stairs. "Follow me, boys." The six of us go up to Harry's room and we show them how to remove all the make up. I'll have to replace Gemma's bottle; we really caked it on.

"Geeze, it's almost midnight," Niall says as we finish up. "I'm going to head home, I think. Brooke, you want to go?"

"Yeah, I'm about to pass out," Brooke says, getting up off the bed. El and Lou agree and we al go downstairs. They collect their gifts and we all say our goodbyes. I stand in the doorway after they walk out and Harry wraps his arms around me while I wave goodbye as they drive off. We go back inside and I start cleaning up.

"I think I'll go get a towel," Harry says, walking to the bathroom.

"Yeah, that is probably a good idea." After we've cleaned everything and dried up most of the water we fall back onto the couch. "That was fun."

"It was. I never did anything like that with my friends in Bradford."

"Really? Why not?"

He shrugs and wraps an arm around me. "We just didn't do this kind of stuff. By the way, when do I get my present?"

I laugh and turn to see Anne coming down the stairs. "We can do that tomorrow night at my house."

"What's tomorrow night?" Anne asks, sitting on the recliner.

"Oh right. I forgot to tell you," Harry says. "Lana invited me to open presents with her and her father tomorrow night."

"So you won't be home on Christmas Eve?"

"Mum."

She sighs and smiles at both of us. "I'm just kidding. Of course it's fine. Actually, I wanted to ask you something, Lana." I nod and she continues. "We would all love it if you and Stanley join us for Christmas dinner on wednesday."

"That's really nice, Anne, but we don't want to impose. That sounds like a family thing."

"Nonsense, you practically are family. And I would love to get to know your dad better."

Harry squeezes my arm. "I'd really like it if you came."

My heart melts when I look up at him. There's so much love in his eyes. "Okay, I'll talk to my dad. Thanks, Anne."

"Of course, darling. I'm going to bed. Goodnight you two." We say goodnight and she walks back upstairs.

"You're coming, right?" Harry asks when she's gone.

"I have to ask my dad first, but I'm sure he'll like to." I lean against him and close my eyes. He speaks after a few minutes.

"Are you mad that I didn't invite you to open gifts with my family?"

"What?" Truthfully, it hadn't even occurred to me.

"It's just that Gemma doesn't come home very often and I think she would like it if it was just us."

"Harry, you don't have to explain. I'm not mad. I hadn't really thought about it to be honest. It's Christmas, of course you want to spend time with your family."

"But you invited me to your thing tomorrow night."

"Because it's just me and my dad. It's different." He looks worried and I laugh a little and put my palm against his cheek. "I'm serious. Don't worry about it."

He sighs and lays back on the couch, pulling me down with him. "Are you sure?"

"Positive." We lay like that for a while and I feel myself starting to fall asleep. I lift my head and see that Harry's eyes are closed. "I'm going to go home," I whisper, kissing his cheek and getting up.

"What? Why?"

"It's late and we're both falling asleep."

"You can just sleep here, Lan."

"My mum is in a hotel now, she's not at my house. I can sleep there."

He follows me to the door and I put my shoes on. I stand back up and put my arms around his neck. "But I like it when you sleep here," he says, smiling down at me.

"I'm sleeping in my own bed tonight, Harry. Deal with it." I smile and he kisses me. "Goodnight." I pull back and open the door. "Shit, my presents!" He laughs and I go to the pile in the living room and put them in a big bag, then get the rest from upstairs. While I'm up there I grab Harry's pillow.

He raises an eyebrow as I come back down. "What are you doing with that" he asks, pointing to the pillow.

"I told you I was going to steal it."

"I didn't think you were serious."

I kiss him again before opening the door. "I hope you don't miss it too much."

"If I say you can keep the pillow will you stay here tonight?"

I laugh and start walking to my house. "Goodnight, Styles."

He laughs as well. "Goodnight. I love you."

"Why wouldn't you!" I joke, making my way across the street. I hear him laugh behind me and I look back at him before going into my house. I wave and he returns it, then goes back inside. I do the same and go upstairs to go to bed. I cuddle up with Harry's pillow, breathing in the scent of him. Do I actually miss him right now? That is just sad.

It's scary how much I love this boy.

My phone suddenly starts vibrating and I pick it up off the side table.

"Are you serious? Harry I just talked to you like three minutes ago."

"I miss you," he says innocently. I smile. He's so cute. When I don't say anything he continues. "Well, I was kind of hoping you would say you miss me too, but that's fine."

I laugh and roll my eyes. "So needy."

"I am not!"

"You understand what's happening right now, right?"

"I see your point."

I laugh and hug the pillow against me. "Plus I've got this pillow, so I don't really miss you that much."

"If that pillow is going to replace my in your bed we are going to have a problem," he says quietly.

"I don't think there's much you can do about that."

"Oh yeah? We'll see if it's still around after I come over tomorrow."

"Is that a threat?"

"That pillow should be afraid." I laugh and hear him chuckle into the phone. "Goodnight, love. Sleep well."

"I love you, Harry."

"Why wouldn't you," he says, copying my earlier response. "See you tomorrow."

"Goodnight."

Notes

just so you guys know i picture Lana with blonde hair. I know ive used pictures with the outfits that have brown hair, but i pick them for the style not for the colour. probably should have mentioned that earlier :P

also theres a lot of them and it would have been a struggle and a half to think of gifts for everyone to get everyone, so i just skipped that part so i wouldnt have to describe all of them. i had a hard time coming up with gifts for Lana and Harry to buy when they went shopping i dont even know what i would have done for the rest of them!

this is the symbol in the necklace brooke gave lana:http://static.artfire.com/uploads/product/9/459/32459/5732459/5732459/large/eternal_friendship_
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its white gold so it looks legit dont worry :P


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