Best Friends Forever

Iris' P.O.V.

"That was by far the best night of my life", I said while I plopped down on my bed. I was actually so tired. "Do you think Niall likes me?", Lucie suddenly asked. I looked at her and I saw she was dreamy staring at nowhere. "Are you kidding me? I'm 100% sure he does. He looked at you several times at the concert and you should have seen the way he was sitting beside you in the bus. You would be the cutest couple in the world", I said certainly. "Thanks", Lucie said smiling. "Let's go to sleep", I said while walking to the door to switch off the light. I laid down on my bed again. I was too tired to change into my pajamas and so Lucie was. "Goodnight", I mumbled before falling asleep.

That night I dreamt about Harry. We walked hand-in-hand, as a couple, through the streets of London. I had never been in London before, so he showed me around. I was totally in love. In love with Harry and in love with London. "Can we go eat something?", I asked, "I'm hungry." He smirked, "We're almost there." "Close your eyes", he said after a few minutes. I did what he said and I felt he lead me to somewhere. "Can I open them already?", I asked after another few minutes. "Almost." "Yes you can right now", he said. I slowly opened my eyes and looked over the skyline of London. I gasped. We were standing on a rooftop and in the middle of the roof a dinner table was standing. The roof and table were decorated with candles and lights. From the roof you could see everything of London: the Big Ben, the London Eye, the Tower Bridge. It was amazing. "What do you think?", Harry asked me, grabbing my hand again. I turned around to look him in the eyes. "It's perfect", I whispered and leaned in closer to kiss him. At the moment our lips were about to touch each other, Lucie woke me up.

"Why did you that?", I asked a bit surly. I told her my dream, "I was in the best part of my dream, but then you had to wake me up." "If you kiss him in your dream already, it's no surprise in real life anymore", Lucie joked. I threw a pillow at her. "I could kiss Harry all the time", I said. "How do you know? Maybe he's a really terrible kisser", she laughed. Another pillow flew over to her. "You're being really annoying this morning, do you know that?", I laughed. "I'm always annoying", she said with a grin. "True." "C'mon, let's go have breakfast. That's why I woke you up", Lucie said. "Oh. You woke me up so you could have breakfast because you are hungry?", I asked while I put the emphasis on 'you'. "Practically, yes...", she said. "Please don't throw a pillow at me again!", she immediately exclaimed after while she stood in a defending position. I laughed. "You really fit with Niall", I said, still laughing. She breathed relieved. "Let's go!", she exclaimed while taking lead to the elevator. "Will you ever become normal?", I wondered aloud. "Nope", she said popping the p. "At what floor are the boys staying?", I asked suddenly. "Why?", Lucie asked. "Let's bring them room service", I suggested smirking. "Yeah, me likes the idea!", Lucie exclaimed. "But how?", she asked. "We have to sneak in the kitchen...", I said. We took the elevator downstairs and walked to the kitchen. When we saw no one around, we sneaked in. We saw a food cart standing and grabbed it. "Now let's go to the breakfast area", Lucie said while walking to the doors. As inconspicuous we came in, as inconspicuous we walked out. When we were at the breakfast buffet, we grabbed everything we knew they liked. After 10 minutes we had everything and walked to the elevator with "our room service". "They're staying on the top floor", Lucie said. "Shouldn't we get Jennifer as well?", I asked. "I don't know where she is. I've already knocked on her door, but I got no answer. Maybe she's already out with her parents", Lucie answered. "Well, then it's only the two of us", I said with a grin. When we arrived at the top floor, we noticed it was a penthouse. "Are they all staying here?", I asked. "Guess so", Lucie said while walking over to the door. "But what if a security guard opens and he won't believe us?", I asked. "What if Harry opens? Half-naked, messy curls and with a low raspy voice", she said to me with a smirk. My eyes widened. "Oh c'mon, let's do this!", I exclaimed. We were standing in front the door right now and I knocked on the door while shouting "Room service!". "Who has ordered room service?", I heard Niall shouting from inside. "I have no idea, but I'll go", Harry said. I looked at Lucie and we smirked. At that moment the door opened. Immediately when Harry saw us, he started to laugh like an idiot. "Good morning mr. Styles. Here's your room service", Lucie said, trying to be as serious as possible. "I like this room service", he said with a grin. "What is happening there?", I heard Niall asking. Two seconds later Niall was standing at the door as well. He also started to laugh, "Awesome!" "Do you wanna come in?", Niall asked. Lucie and I looked at each other before nodding smiling. With our food cart we walked in their penthouse. "Let's wake up the others", Harry said before he walked over to one of the bedrooms. I walked over to another bedroom which turned out to be Zayn's. I walked over to his bed and started screaming "WAKE UP! PERRIE'S HERE!". Immediately Zayn jumped out of his bed and ran to the living room. "WHAT WHERE IS SHE?", he shouted overexcited. I walked back to the living room while laughing really hard. Zayn turned around to me. "YOU LIED T...", he shouted, but interrupted himself. "Hey, what are you doing here?", Zayn asked confused. I was still laughing. It was so funny to see. "Room service", I said with an angelic voice. "Nothing can exceed Perrie. Not even breakfast", Zayn said with a disappointed voice. "Aw c'mon Zayn. We have pancakes, donuts, cornflakes, chocolate, burgers and scrambled eggs", Lucie said - who just came back from Louis' room - with puppy eyes. "Okay okay", he mumbled. As soon as we all sat around the breakfast table, Niall grabbed two donuts, tree pancakes and a bowl of cornflakes. We all laughed at him. "What? I'm hungry", he said shrugging. "You two brought a lot. Join us", Liam said to us. We didn't let us say this twice. We grabbed a donut and pancake as well and started eating. After 30 minutes everything was in our stomachs and the table was a mess. It looked like something had exploded. "Let's clean up the mess and play Truth or Dare?", Louis suggested. "You sure we can stay here?", Lucie asked uncertain. "Of course!", Niall exclaimed. When we were done cleaning, we all sat down in a circle on the ground. "When you don't want do to a command, you have to...", Harry said while thinking. "Then you have to take off a piece of clothing each time you refuse!", Niall said while finishing the sentence. "Okay, we can do that", I said certainly. "Also bra and underwear?", Lucie asked. "No, you can keep that on", Liam answered laughing. "Let's begin! I'll start", Zayn said, "Iris, truth or dare?" "Truth", I said determined. He started thinking. "Who is your crush?", he asked. Oh shit I could have seen this coming. "My crush at this moment?", I asked. Zayn nodded. I started to blush. I didn't want to say this in front of Harry. But if I do say now, he knows and maybe he's into me as well. I decided to tell. I would save my clothes for heavier commands. "It's Harry", I slowly said while blushing. Luckily I wasn't sitting next to Harry. I saw the other boys looking at Harry with a significant glance. Now it was my turn. "Niall. Truth or dare?", I asked. I hoped he'd say truth. "Truth", he answered. I had my question ready. "Are you in love? And if you are, with whom?", I asked with a smirk. He must say it's Lucie. Or else I'll kill him. It's so obvious. "I'll pass", Niall said while pulling off his shirt. Of course I didn't mind seeing his body, but I wanted a real answer. "Aw c'mon Niall! You're a pussy! We all know it's Lucie!", I exclaimed. I looked at Lucie and Niall and they both started to blush. The rest of us laughed. Louis was sitting next to me, "I like you", he whispered laughing, "It's too obvious that Niall is in love with Lucie." "That's what I thought as well", I responded laughing. We continued playing Truth or Dare. After 30 minutes no one was wearing all his clothes anymore. I was left in my tank top and of course my bra and underwear. I had refused to run to the lobby naked and questions like "Are you a virgin?". These boys really know how to play this game. They come up with the craziest and meanest commands. Now it was Louis' turn again to ask someone else. He turned to me. "Iris. Truth or Dare?", he asked. "Dare", I said certainly. "Read your last received text message to us", he dared me. I grabbed my phone to see what my last text message was. I saw I had just received one and I hadn't read it yet. When I was done reading it, I started to laugh. "I have the perfect text message, and it's the last one I received", I said with a grin. I took a deep breath before reading the text message to them. "It's from Jennifer. I'm quoting her message:
Ohmygod, Liam is so cute! I'm falling head over heels in love... I don't know if you had noticed, but I'm gone already. Unexpectedly I had an audition for a movie in LA. I'm about to step on the plane right now, but I'll be back tonight or tomorrow again! Make sure Liam is still single when I come back. Kiss, Jennifer." Everyone was looking at Liam right now. "I told you she's into you as well bro!", Zayn said while patting his shoulder. "As well?", Lucie asked. "Liam has a crush on Jennifer?", I continued. Liam's cheeks turned redder and redder. "But that's so cute!", Lucie and I exclaimed at the same time. "Well, a lot of secrets are being revealed this morning", I said laughing. "Who has another one?", Lucie asked grinning. Zayn raised his hand. "I'm going to ask Perrie if she wants to marry me", he said like it was the most normal thing in the world. Everyone fell quiet before Louis shouted indignantly, "Why didn't you tell us this before?" "I wanted to make sure everything is right. And you guys know now. I'll ask her as soon as we see each other again", Zayn responded. "But that's so cute! I'm sure she will say yes!", Lucie exclaimed. Zayn smiled. He turned to Harry. "Truth or Dare?", he asked him. "Dare", Harry answered. "Play seven minutes in heaven with Iris", Zayn said with a huge smirk. I widened my eyes at him. "Can I refuse as well?", I asked. But actually I didn't want to refuse. Firstly, then I had to take off my tank top, but I'm insecure about my body. And secondly, who doesn't want to play seven minutes in heaven with your crush? I looked at Harry. "I accept", he said. I started to blush. I stood up from my spot and walked with Harry to the closet. When we were in there, I felt a bit uncomfortable. Harry suddenly grabbed my hands which gave me butterflies. "I like you. A lot", he whispered. I felt his warm breath and I smelt his perfect scent. "Do you want to go out with me tomorrow? ", he asked. "I'd love to", I responded whispering. I felt Harry's hands touching my face. Two seconds later I felt Harry's lips touching mine. I shocked a little - I didn't expect this - but I didn't mind at all. I answered him by kissing back. It was absolutely the most perfect kiss ever. He kissed me softly and slowly. Harry wasn't like these boys who only want a girlfriend to make out heavily with. No, Harry was sensitive and careful. I stroke with my fingers through his curly hair. They felt exactly as I always had imagined. "Seven minutes in heaven are over!", I heard Louis shouting from the living room. We slowly pulled apart and I looked Harry in the eyes. The butterflies in my stomach were absolutely going crazy. I had never felt like this before. We gave each other a quick peck on the lips before opening the door and walking outside like nothing happened. We both sat down on our own spots again. They all looked at us, hoping we would tell them something. "Lucie, we gotta go. We haven't seen my parents yet", I said while standing up again. We both walked to the door. "Wait, we should hang out more often. It was fun", Zayn said with a grin. "Yeah, I definitely agree", Lucie said smiling. We said goodbye and walked out of the door to the elevator. As soon as we were in the elevator, Lucie exclaimed "And how was it!?" "How was what?", I asked, trying to act like I didn't know what she was talking about. But of course I did. She pushed me. "You know what I'm talking about", she said. I started to laugh. "And you're not going to tell me nothing happened, because I know that's not true. I want to hear every single detail", Lucie said certainly. "Okay...", I began slowly, "We might have shared a kiss... Or two..." "I knew it! I knew it!", Lucie exclaimed. "Let's go to my parents, fool", I said laughing, "We haven't seen them since yesterday." "No you have to tell me how it was!", Lucie demanded. "Better than I could ever imagine", I said a bit mysteriously. I pulled Lucie out of the elevator when we arrived at our floor. "Just come. I'll tell later", I said laughing. We walked to my parents' room door and I knocked on it. Less than a second later my dad opened the door. "Where the hell have you two been?", he asked angrily. That was a nice welcome. He immediately ruined my mood. "Says who. You were the one who didn't show up at the area to pick us up", I shouted while defending ourselves. "I don't want any comments. You worried the shit out of us. You guys have to stay in the hotel tomorrow", he demanded. "What!", I shouted, "You can't ground us on a fucking holiday!" "Yes I can", he said calmly. "You asshole! I hate you! I hate you!", I shouted angrily and walked away. I was so so so mad at my dad. I was going out with Harry tomorrow! How could he do this to us while he's the one who's responsible for all this. At that moment I got a text.

From Harry:
Still wanna go out? Tomorrow 11h in the lobby? I have the perfect idea.
.xx Harry

Ohmygod bad timing. I didn't want to do anything rather than hanging out with Harry, but this was just definitely not the right moment. I hate my dad. I walked with my eyes focused on my phone to the elevator. I felt the tears stinging behind my eyes. I took the elevator to the main floor, walked outside and breathed in the fresh air. Luckily, it was great weather again. I walked to the park which was in front of the hotel, sat down on a bench and closed my eyes. I listened to all the noises of Chicago. The birds, the planes, the cars, the people on the streets, the siren call of an ambulance, the barking dogs in the park, everything. The sun was shining bright in my face and all this made me feel a little better. "Hey, do you mind if I join you?", I heard a voice asking. I opened one eye to see it was Harry. "What a coincidence", he said with a grin. "You liar. You knew I was here", I said. "Yes, I bumped into Lucie and she told me she was looking for you. So I suggested to look outside", he explained. "No one has to look for me", I said shrugging. "So, what really happened?", Harry asked. I told him about what had happened before. "It's all his fault", I said. "And I'm not going to stay in the hotel tomorrow. I want to go out with you", I said while blushing a little. "We can always sneak you out", Harry responded with a grin. "How?", I asked. "You have to be downstairs totally ready before your parents wake up", he answered. "But at 11 they will be awake", I said. "Then we will meet each other in the lobby at 9", Harry said with a smirk, "C'mon, let's go to the hotel. Lucie is still looking for you." He stood up, grabbed my hand and pulled me upright. While I was standing, I let go of my hand. Harry looked at me while pouting. "People will think we are together, but we aren't", I said. "But what if I want to be together with you? I am in love with you", he whispered. At that moment my heart melted. He was spilling his heart out to me in the middle of a crowded park in Chicago. "Me too", I whispered back, "But we know each other for one day right now. Let's just see where it will go", I continued little smiling. Together we walked to the hotel and immediately we bumped into Lucie. "Where were you?", she asked worried. "I'm fine. I was in the park and Harry found me there", I said. "Let's go back to our room", Lucie suggested. With the three of us we walked to the elevator and when we arrived at our floor, we walked out. "Have fun at the show tonight, Harry! See you tomorrow!", I said smiling and walked to our room. "Tomorrow?", Lucie asked when we were in our room. "Harry already asked me this morning to go out tomorrow, but I'll still go. I'll be gone before my parents wake up", I explained. "I got a text from Niall where he asked the same...", Lucie said slowly. "Just do it! You're not going to let this chance slip away, right? It's not our fault. Leave my dad for what he is. I don't care", I said certainly. "You're right. I'll text him to meet each other in the lobby at 9 as well", she said while grabbing her phone. The rest of the day we stayed in our room watching movies, listening to movies and gossiping. It was nice and it wouldn't be a punishment if this was what we had to do the next day, but I was not going to cancel my date with Harry. Never in a million years.

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