Elliot's POV

“Got everything ready for the trip?” Joe asks as he puts more stuff by the front door.

“Yeah, I'm so excited for this trip.” I sit down on the couch kicking my feet up.

“Harry is coming then?” He asks.

“Um, yeah. He's actually coming tonight to bring his stuff over.” I tell him.

“Oh yeah? Interesting. He staying the night then since I'll be gone?” He teases.

“Probably not. We're just friends Joe.” I tell him for the millionth time.

“Yeah, keep telling yourself that.” He smirks at me as he takes a load of stuff out to his car. “See you tomorrow cuz!”

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Harry knocks briefly before letting himself in, “Honey, I'm home!” He shouts.

“In the kitchen!” I tell him as I finish cutting up some meat for the stir-fry I'm making.

“Smells delicious Lettie.” One of the many nicknames I go by. El, Lettie, Lottie, Lot quite a few, just whatever people want to call me apparently.

“Well thank you. Hope stir-fry is okay for dinner.” I ask him rhetorically because I don't really care if he doesn't want it, it's already made.

“Anything I can help you with?” He asks.

“Well you can start by taking your shoes off.” I look down at his feet as he slips them off and places them on the rug by the back door. “And get the bowls out please.”

He obliges and reaches in the cupboard to pull out the bowls.

“So how was your day?” He asks me.

“It was good. Only two classes today, pretty easy going. Yours?” I ask.

“A chill day. I video chatted with my mum and sister, wrote some lyrics, packed for this little camping trip and here I am.” He throws his arms up as in show.

“Are you ready for this?” I ask him, he has no idea what he's in for.

“Yeah, I can survive a little trip in the wilderness.” He takes a seat at the kitchen table watching me cook.

“You know we fish right? You ever fish before?” I ask.

“Yes, I'm not invalid. I can do stuff.” He defends himself.

“I'm just teasing. What movie did you bring to watch?” I ask as I add some sauce to the meat and veggies.

“I brought a few of them. Um, Saving Private Ryan, Monster's University, and Divergent.” He rattles off.

“Well I have yet to see Divergent so I think that's the winner of the three.” I grab a scoop out from the container of utensils for the stir-fry and then another for the rice. “Serve yourself.” I tell him.

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We settle in for the movie after dinner and after I pull Harry's stuff that he's bringing for our camping trip tomorrow into my jeep.

“Where's Joe?” He asks.

“Oh, he left already. He always goes the day before with a few of our other cousins and sets everything up.” I inform him as I search for the remote.

“How many cousins do you have?” He asks me curiously.

“Um, well it's my moms side of the family, and she's from a family of seven. She has three brothers and three sisters. They all got married, all had kids so my grandparents have 25 grandchildren, I have 24 cousins.” I turn to Harry and see his mouth agape.

“That's a huge family.” He tells me. “They're all going to be there?” He asks.

“I don't think so, but you never know. I know Sabrina won't, shes on the east coast for school. And David won't be there because he's getting married in a few weeks and his fiance is kind of a psycho. Not everyone will stay the night, people will come and go. And people will bring other people, like I'm bringing you.” I tell him as he's laughing. “But we always have fun.”

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Soon enough the movie is half way over and I decide to make some popcorn. “Hey can you pause it for a second. I'm going to make some popcorn.” I ask.

“Yeah. I have to take a wee anyway.” He pauses the movie and walks down the hall as I travel into the kitchen to make some popcorn. By the time it's finished, Harry is impatiently waiting for me in the living room, I quietly walk back in and go to sit back on my chair.

“So you're not going to share?” He pouts. I let out a sigh as get back up and sit next to him on the couch. “Thank you.” He presses play and we start the movie where we left off as I grab a blanket from the back of the couch and spread it over myself. “Again with the not sharing?” I laugh as I untuck it from my legs and throw it over him.

“Anything else princess?” I tease him as he smiles.

“Nope.”

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The movie continues for a while and we finish the popcorn, I put the bowl on the table and lean back into the couch. I find myself gravitating towards Harry, before I know it, his arm is around me and I scoot closer.

The movie ends and I notice Harry is sleeping. I know I should get up and wake him up so he can go home but I have a selfish moment, put my legs over his lap and fall asleep next to his chest.

I wake up win the darkness with a jolt, still tangled in Harry's body. I turn to move when I hear Harry.

“Don't get up.” He whines, still sleeping and trapping me in.

“Harry, wake up.” I try to gently nudge him.

“No.” Is all he responds. I take the time to look at him, peaceful in slumber.

“Harry, it's late. You should go home.” I glance at the wall and notice it's a little after two a.m.

“Can't I just stay here? I'll sleep on the couch.” He lays his head back obviously too tired to move.

“You can stay with me.” I tell him before I know what I'm saying.

He jolts his head up and looks at me, “Like in your bed?”

“If you want to. No pressure. It's better than the couch.” I force myself away from him and stand up to stretch my back as I start walking towards my room. “Or you can stay here and use the blanket on the couch. Good night Harry.” I tell him as I nervously walk away from him. What if he doesn't follow me? what if I just made a huge mistake in our friendship? I try to clear out the questions in my head and strip my sweatshirt off, throwing it on the floor as I climb into bed, tucking myself against the wall leaving room for Harry just in case.

Minutes pass by and I hear nothing. I take a deep breath and realize he's not coming. I can't help but feel a little heartbroken. When I'm almost asleep I hear footsteps. I take a deep breath as I feel the bed shift when he sits on it, I tilt my head and see him take his socks off and his pants? I know he likes to sleep naked as he has told me but I'd rather not sleep with a naked Harry, yet.

I try to hid my smile as he lays next to me. If possible my smile gets even bigger when I feel him scoot closer to me and wrap his arm around me pulling me towards him. “Good night Rain.” He kisses my hair and we drift to sleep.

Notes

So everything should be fixed! If you didn't notice, I skipped a chapter...so I deleted the last three chapters in the story, put the chapter I skipped on, and then re-added the last four chapters. This chapter is a new one. The chapter I skipped is from when Elliot and Harry went to Disney!

Sorry if its confusing! I confused myself to be honest.

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