Big Hot Mess (A One Direction Fan-fiction)

-Emily-

The few next days with the girls had gone by so fast. We’d been to the National Gallery, sunbathed in Hyde Park and walked around in Camden Market. We’d even been to the Westfield Shopping Centre at least two times, and spent most of our evenings in Shoreditch where we found our new favourite restaurant. Now, it was Friday already. We’d all been invited to Niall’s for a BBQ this evening and I have been dreading this the whole week.

After Maria came back from her ‘hang out’ with Liam the other day, it was like she wasn’t sure anymore if our whole idea about Harry was fair. She’d said something about Liam telling her that Harry felt sorry for what happened that night in Soho, although that he wasn’t sure what he had done wrong. Sarah on the other hand, still wasn’t convinced that he was worth all the trouble, even though she told me that Louis and Niall were shocked to hear that Harry had kissed someone randomly and how he wasn’t usually like that. And me? I was a complete mess. I really had no idea what to think anymore, and it felt like this whole thing had been blown up to unnecessary proportions. I didn’t even feel like it was a big deal anymore. I just wanted to forget about it already… I agreed to go to the BBQ, but decided to try to stay clear from cheeky, curly headed boy band members. Not because I was angry with him or didn’t want to see him, because I did, I really did … but I’d had enough of the drama and just wanted to have a good time.

“So, how do I look?” Sarah said coming out of the bathroom dressed in a pair of high waist-denim shorts and a cool top. Her long hair was curled at the ends and she had accessorised with several silver necklaces.

“You look really nice!” Maria said turning around from the mirror where she was applying her makeup.

“I love it! You look amazing,” I said looking up from my iPhone, trying to pick which song to play next. I decided on playing the new song from Lorde - ‘Team’. I had this summer-feeling inside of me and the song fit my moon perfectly.

“Thanks, so do you guys!” Sarah then said looking back and forth between the two of us. Maria was wearing a simple pink wavy skirt and a white top. I was in my favourite shorts and put on the hat Maria had on the other day. We all looked like we were actually going to a BBQ!

After we’d taken some pictures to post on instagram we figured it was time to go. We walked over, since Sarah told us it was only like 10 minutes away from here. The weather was perfect for an outside BBQ, the sun was shining and it was about 25 degrees outside. Which is quite hot for London I might add.

When we arrived, Eleanor was the one to open the door and she welcomed us each in by giving us hugs and kisses. She was so cute in her white wavy skirt; very similar to the one Maria was wearing! Louis and Liam had joined us in the hallway moments later, and to everyone’s surprise, Liam kissed Maria on the lips as he said hello. We all just stood there, Louis making kissing noises before Liam elbowed him. “Very mature, Louis!” he said embarrassed.

We all laughed and started to move inside the house as Eleanor told us to. “…We’re all sat out in the backyard. Niall has started making the food,” she said while rolling her eyes. “That guy needs help with his eating habits… He’s always hungry!” This surprised me a bit. They all looked so fit. I guess they must do a lot of working out. That would explain it.

When we got in the backyard I saw a few people I hadn’t met before. The first I got introduced to was Perrie, Zayn’s girlfriend, sorry, fiancée... I’m still shocked how someone could be engaged so young. Then Louis introduced us to four guys, whom I didn’t catch the name of to be honest. I was too occupied watching a curly-headed guy standing next to Niall by the grill. Harry. He was wearing a simple white t-shirt showing his tattoos, a pair of denim shorts and a pair of sunglasses. Why did he always look so mind-blowingly hot?! I tried not to get noticed as I kept my eyes locked on him, watching from a distance. ‘God, he’s hot!’ I thought to myself… ‘This is okay isn’t it?’ ‘I’m allowed to look at him?’… ‘Who am I talking to?’… ‘Of course I’m allowed to look at him’.

I suddenly heard someone trying to gain my attention as I kept on looking. “Emily??? Are you okay? What are you looking at?!” I heard Louis said, or Liam, I wasn’t sure… Then, Harry turned around and looked straight at me. Straight into my eyes, I couldn’t read his expression. He was too far away. I suddenly forgot all about what had happened the other night. I only remembered his lips on mine. Those soft lips… I felt my cheeks turning bright red, and looked away before embarrassing myself even more.

“Yeah? What? Sorry, did I miss something?” I said a little bit confused as I looked back at the guys standing in front of me. “What?”

Louis looked at me with a smug grin. “You okay there, babe?” You’re drooling.” What?!...

Liam, Louis and the four other guys laughed at my shocked face. “Calm down, he’s only joking around,” Liam said with his hand on my shoulder. “Would you like a drink or something?”

“Uhm, yes please. That would be great.” I said still embarrassed, concentrating on not looking back over to the grill.

“What can I get you? Soft drink? Whine? Beer?”

“Oh, a cold beer sounds really nice,” I said back now smiling.

“A girl with good taste!” Louis said, still showing his smug grin. I wasn’t sure if he was referring to the beer of the green-eyed hottie on the other side of the backyard. I rolled my eyes at him anyway and followed after Liam over to the bar set up near the seating area.

I really needed that beer if I was going to get through this night. I had promised myself to stay away from Harry… and I regretted my decision already.

-Niall-

“…Man, you should have been there! She’s so fit! And she doesn’t seem like other girls, ya know? She’s into sports and stuff… and doesn’t care what others think of her. She’s perfect.” I know I was rambling, but I could trust Harry. He wouldn’t joke around with personal things like that, unlike Louis would. I told Harry everything, and now I was telling him about her. Sarah. God, I know I just met her like a week ago, but I hadn’t met anyone like her before. We had so much in common. The only problem is, that she doesn’t seem a tiny bit interested in me. “Do you think I have a chance? I mean, do you think I should make a move?”… I waited for Harry to answer me while I kept on turning on the meat on the grill. No answer… “Harry?” I said looking at him. He was somewhere else. Well, he was still standing next to me, but he clearly hadn’t been listening to a word I was saying. “Man! I’m talking to you!” I said before turning around to look at what he was so distracted by. Of course… Emily. The girl he wouldn’t stop talking about. “I’m clearly not the only one fascinated with these Norwegian girls,” I said a bit louder making him listen this time.

“Sorry, what!?” Wow. He’s back!

“I was just sayin’ how it doesn’t seem like I’m the only one fascinated with these Norwegian girls…” I said one more time now back to turning the meat on the grill.

That’s when I felt him slap the back of my head. “Heeey!” I said jokingly while laughing.

“It’s not funny, Niall. It’s nothing.” He then said now looking at me.

“Yeah, well… It sure doesn’t seem like nothing. You weren’t listen to a word I was saying a second ago.” I said a bit hurt.

“It’s not what you think…” I heard him say in a low voice, not sure what he meant.

“What do ya’ mean, It’s not what I think? It’s obvious isn’t it?” I said looking him in the eyes while he looked at me trying to look confused. “Really??... Well, it’s obvious that you like her, man. You should go talk to her,” I said before turning my attention back to the grill. “It’s not like you’re listening to what I have to say anyway,” I continued before looking back. He’s gone. Great. Like I said, he’s not listening to what I have to say anyway…

I guess I’ll figure out what to do with Sarah on my own. Like always… “Thanks, Haz…”

After the meat was done I had summoned everyone to sit down at the table. Liam and Maria sat next to each other holding hands. Luke, Callum and Michael sat on their right side, eating bits of the garlic bread already on the table while talking to Emily sitting next to them. ‘Nice, guys!’ Louis and Eleanor sat next to Sarah and Ashton. Wait what? No… ‘Go away, Ashton’ I thought to myself. I wanted to sit next to Sarah, and being the charmer that Ashton is, he was flirting with her already. Great. Just great. I sat down next to Harry who sat all by himself, even though Perrie and Zayn sat right next to him.

After we’d all eaten and had a few drinks, Louis turned the music up and called for everyone’s attention. “Listen up!” he said while standing on the chair. “It’s time to play a little drinking game. Those of you don’t want to play have to do the cleaning up”… no one said a word. “That’s what I thought, …” he said smiling content with himself. “Does everyone know how to play truth or dare?”

The 5SOS lads sitting across from the table started cheering while making noises like they were at a football match. Everyone else just sat back taking a drink before Louis sat down in his seat. I saw Ashton give Sarah a look and I immediately thought to myself that this was the perfect opportunity to get to know or speak to Sarah, and I wasn’t going to let Ashton take her away from me. “Great! Who’s first?” I said, looking around the table.

“Me! Do me!” Perrie shouted even though she was two feet away from me.

“Good! Truth or dare, Perrie?”

“Dare!” she said too quickly. ‘Shit… what do I say now?’

“Alright then. I dare you to kiss Zayn three different places, only not on the lips.” I then said.

Everyone started laughing and cheering as Perrie first kissed his nose, his forehead and then his left cheek. Then everyone started boo’ing, not satisfied with her choices. That was a bummer…

“Niall, you suck!” Louis shouted from the other side.

“What? Do one better then!” I said pretending to be hurt.

“No problem. Who’s next…” he said looking around the table. “Sarah!” … What, no! … “Truth or dare?”

Sarah looked around embarrassed before saying, “uhm, dare.” No, no, no, this could not be good…

“Okay, then I dare you to kiss one of the guys!” I froze looking at Sarah. Who was she going to choose?

She rolled her eyes at Louis who seemed like he was enjoying himself, before turning around to face Ashton. No, no, no… please don’t kiss one of my best mates… But she did. It was quick, but she did. She choose Ashton, and he was now smiling from ear to ear. Everyone was back to cheering again, except me. “Right, who’s next?” Sarah said ignoring all the noises. I lost my chance…

After playing this game for about ten more minutes, Michael had eaten a whole bottle of ketchup, Zayn had done a lap dance for Perrie (after a lot of convincing from everyone), Liam had kissed Maria and it was not Luke’s turn to tell everyone which member of the our band he found the most annoying.

“That’s a though one, I love all of you…” he said looking away.

“Come’ on, Luke! We don’t bite! Tell us…” I said now laughing and enjoying myself. I knew it wasn’t me anyway. I spent more time with the 5SOS lads than any of the other boys.

“Fine, “ he started, looking at all of us. “It would have to be Harry,” he said while looking at Harry carefully.

“What??” Harry said getting up from his seat, trying not to laugh. “Why me?” he said raising his hands. I tried not to laugh.

“Come’ on! Don’t tell me it’s not you who have been trashing our dressing room every time we’re on stage. We all know it’s you, Harry!” Luke said now holding his hands up while laughing. All of the 5SOS lads joined in and started agreeing with Luke.

“Fine…” Harry said, with a smug grin on his face, clearly not sorry. Everyone started laughing.

“Come’ on mate. Next one!” Louis said to Harry while signalling him to get a move on.

While Harry was contemplating on what to say next, I nudged him, urging him to pick me and saw him smile with the corner of his mouth. “Niall Horan! Truth or dare, my friend?” he said looking at me flashing his cheeky grin.

This was easy. “Dare!” I already knew who was going to be my victim, no matter what the dare was.

Harry’s smile got even wider as he continued; “I dare you to throw someone in the pool.” What? No!

Everyone of the lads around the table started laughing at Harry’s suggestion, while all the girls looked around nervously. Well, if I had to pick someone to throw in the pool I still wanted it to be Sarah. I smiled as I got up from my seat, while walking around the table, everyone looking at me, waiting for me to pick someone. When I got to the far end of the table where my victim was, I picked her up bridal style, while she started screaming.

“Nooo! Niall! Please… I don’t want to get wet. I don’t have any clothes with me.” She said while moving around in my arms. She wasn’t going anywhere.

“It’s time to cool down, Sarah. You’re looking too hot over here.” I said while carrying her over to the poolside.

“Please! ....” she was now holding her hands in front of her face while kicking with her feet. She was really stubborn and I was beginning to loose hold of her, when she finally got her feet to the ground. I was still holding on to her by her waist, pulling her towards the water.

“Come’ on, Sarah. Give up!” I said. Then, suddenly I felt my foot slip on the wet poolside while I was dragging her towards it. I lost my balance and tried to pull myself up, only to make us both fall into the water.

With a big splash, we were both soaking wet. Everyone started laughing and cheering. The girls saying stuff like, ‘poor Sarah’, ‘aww, Niall, you didn’t…’. The lads however, had cracked up, only this time they were laughing at me.

“Well done, Niall you tosser” I heard Liam snicker.

Harry had lost it and was now on his back laughing hard. Louis had joined him on the other side of the table while clapping his hands.

This was not my finest moment.

-Harry-

I was still rolling around laughing when Niall got out of the pool, walking towards me. I felt the water dripping in my face while he was leaning over me. He bent down and gave me a wet hug, making my white t-shirt soaking wet, but there was no way I could stop laughing. That was epic.

“I think that’s enough of the drinking games,” Eleanor said while standing up. She didn’t look too pleased as she walked over to Sarah who was laughing while getting out of the pool.

“Aww, please El. We’re having so much fun,” Louis said clearly still laughing.

“You can still carry on drinking, but I’m taking Sarah up to get some dry clothes on. It’s getting kind of chilly out here,” she then said. Moments later the two girls had disappeared inside the house.

“Alright then. Louis, turn up the music would ya?” Liam said with Maria on his lap. I suddenly felt the envy creep back, and lost all the urge to laugh. I stood up from the ground and saw everyone were now up from their seats. Some changed places and started talking amongst themselves, while others moved inside the house.

I looked around trying to find Emily, but she was nowhere in sight. ‘Maybe she’s inside the house?’ I thought to myself. ‘This is your opportunity, Harry.’ ‘You have to go and talk to her…’ 'Am I talking to myself?' … 'God, maybe it was a good thing this drinking game ended.' I’d clearly had one too many beers. Still, I really needed to speak to her. I wanted to speak to her as soon as she got here and we made eye contact. She looked stunning as usual, and I still had problems staying away from her. I really don’t know what it is about her.

On my way inside the house I felt an arm on my shoulder. “Where do you think you’re going, mate?” Louis said facing me, making me stop in my tracks.

“Uhm, nowhere. I’m going inside the house.” I lied.

“Well, the party’s outside and Niall’s about to open the keg.”

“I just need to do something first. I’ll be right back,” I said trying to move around him.

“Harry. I don’t think that’s a good idea. We’re having so much fun. Please don’t ruin tonight too”.

“I’m not going to ruin anything! I’m trying to fix something!” I said feeling the heat build up inside of me.

“That’s exactly my point.” He went on looking at me.

“What’s going on?” Zayn said joining us.

“Nothing!!” I snapped. Why couldn’t they just let me be? I wasn’t going to do anything wrong.

Louis sighed. “He’s on his way inside to try and talk to Emily, and I know for a fact that she doesn’t want to speak to him” he explained to Zayn like I wasn’t standing right there.

“How do you know that?! I haven’t done anything wrong,” I said to both of them.

Zayn looked like he regretted coming over. “Sarah told me. Please, Harry, let it be for now” Louis went on.

This is so unfair. How on earth did Louis take Sarah’s side instead on mine? He’s supposed to be MY best friend. I haven’t done anything wrong and they’re all jumping to conclusions. I’m not staying here letting them feel like they can just tell me what to do. Before I knew it I turned around and headed for the backdoor of the yard. I needed to get out of here.

I walked around for about twenty minutes, feeling the alcohol make my head dizzy. I regretted leaving as soon as I made it to the road. But there was no way I was going back inside. That would be too embarrassing. I might have overreacted, but so was everyone else doing! I really needed to speak to her.

I grabbed my phone from my back pocket and started to text Liam.

Please, can you do me a favour? Ask Maria what Emily’s address is? I really need to speak to her.

It took about five minutes before Liam’s name appeared on my screen. ‘Yes!’ I said to myself. I knew I could count on Liam. He knew that I wasn’t planning on doing anything stupid. I dialled the address into the GPS on my phone I started walking. No one could stop me now.

-Emily-

“Bye, guys! See you soon!” Sarah and I both said while walking out the door. Tonight was so much fun! More fun that I’d had in ages. I felt a cold breeze running up my body, luckily Eleanor had let Sarah borrow some clothes.

On our way home, Sarah and I were laughing and chatting about all that had gone on through the night. After I had finished the kebab we bought a couple of blocks back, I could see my building. “I can’t believe Maria’s staying at Liam’s place.” I said to Sarah laughing.

“I know, right!” She agreed, and then we both started laughing some more. “I hope for her sake that they get some privacy and that Harry isn’t home” she went on.

It was then that I stopped in my tracks making Sarah look back at my shocked expression. “I don’t think that’s going to be a problem,” I said slowly. “Because Harry is here…” I went on while pointing towards my door where one peaceful-looking Harry had fallen asleep. What on earth was he doing here?

Notes

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