Harry's POV
"Stephanie! Come on!" I call as I knock on her bedroom door. "Your parents are leaving." I add as I hover over the handle.

"I'm coming in, we're going in your car aren't we?" She asks as she opens the door and looks at me smiling.

"Yes but I'm supposed to be following them.." I say and she nods and quickly walks back in her room, I follow her and I can't believe how many bags she's got.

"Steph, we're going away for one night. Not a week!" I laugh as I look at her and shake my head in disbelief as I count five of her bags.

"Do you think I've got too much?" She asks and I nod as I pick two up and I leave the room. I carry them downstairs and I load them into my car boot.

"What's she doing?" Ryan asks as we walk back in the house and meet Susan by the door. "Steph come on!!" He shouts.

I make my way upstairs and I meet her at the top. She passes me two more bags and I just carry them back down, she's got way too much but I can't be bothered to argue with her.

"How many bags do you have love?" Susan asks as she looks at Stephanie who carries the last one down.

"Never enough!!" Steph says and I roll my eyes as we walk outside and load these bags into the boot. "Thanks Hun." She smiles as she walks back inside.

"No worries, my dear." I say sarcastically as I shut the boot. I wander back in and I grab my coat, Susan and Ryan are doing quick house checks -where you check every switch is off- I put my phone in my pocket and my wallet.

"I'm excited for London." Stephanie says as she puts her coat on and she opens the door again.

I follow her out and we wait in the car for her parents, it's not long till they walk out, lock up and get in the car. We decided we'd drive down as well incase we wanted to go off and explore London and we needed a car. Plus I hate being a passenger when I can drive myself.

I look over to Steph and smile as she puts the address in her phone just incase we lose her parents. As I begin to pull off out the drive behind Ryan, I start to think about how great Steph and I have been lately.
We've connected more now we are officially going out, everything doesn't seem so tense. Plus we're a lot more comfortable together after we've finally slept together. The problem is I can't keep my hands off her, it seems to be what ever chance we have of being alone, we seem to have sex.

I know so many people would just say we are at the honeymoon stage in our relationship, but I think otherwise. We've been through so much shit a couple shouldn't go through until a few years down the line at least. We've had time to learn each other and the more I learn about Steph, the more I fall in love with her.

"It's good we have our own hotel room." Stephanie says as she looks at me. I glance to her and I wink. She laughs as she shakes her head and looks away. "You and that dirty mind.." She smirks.
"You make me think this way, it's what you do to me." I answer as I look back at the road. I know she secretly likes me saying this to her.

"Well I think we should slow down Harry.. We're being a little reckless." She says and I look at her again and laugh as I think she's joking, her serious face confirms she isn't.

"What's there to slow down? We are two people in a relationship who are having sex.." I answer and she looks at me. I look back ahead at the road.

"I guess." She answers and the conversation falls quiet. I turn the radio on and play the mixed cd in the background.

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Stephanie's POV
I look out the window in awe at the sights of London. How can this be our capital city and I've never been here before? I'm actually taken away by the red double decker buses, they actually exist. I know I sound like an idiot, but when you only see them on TV, you start to wonder if they actually did have these.

"I wanna see Big Ben, Buckingham palace, House of Parliament, the London eye.." I say excitedly as I look to Harry. He looks at me and laughs.

"How in one day? We've come to London for Jed's birthday, we can probably do one of those ideas.." Harry says as he rains on my parade. I look away as I wish we were here longer than a night.

"It sucks.." I mumble and I can feel Harry's eyes on me as we stop at a red light. I watch several people, all ages, all sizes wandering through this city thinking how lucky they are to just roam about.

"One day we can do a tour of London." Harry says as I look at him, I smile in appreciation to his suggestion. He looks away as the light is now green. We turn into a quiet street and I have no idea where we are. Harry's following my phone as we lost Dad's car about ten minutes ago.

"Are we close?" I ask as I double check my phone as Harry studies the road.

"I'm not sure.." He says slowly as he tries to find street names. I scan the signs and none of them match the ones on my phone. 'There's your Dad's car!" Harry says as he points to our left.

"Oh, this phone didn't pick up the street names." I say as I thought technology is supposed to be advanced these days? We park up outside and I look at the tall block of flats. It doesn't look too bad and it seems a quiet little area.

"See we got here in the end." Harry laughs as he steps out and closes the door. I copy him and grab my bag as I close my door. "I think the hotel is just around the corner." Harry says.

We're checking in at 4pm as apparently that's the earliest you can have your room. So that's why we've met at Jed's flat before we go to our hotel.

"Hello love birds!" Jed grins as he walks out and puts his arms out. I look to Harry as he laughs, as Jed pulls us into a three way hug. "Good drive?" He asks as he looks to Harry.

"Wasn't too bad mate. Happy birthday!" Harry smiles and Jed puts his arm around him. I've never seen my brother this happy before.

"Yeah happy birthday.." I say and Jed looks at me and smiles.

"Thanks. Come on in." Jed says as he opens the door for us and we follow him up to the third floor. "So have you missed me Sis?" Jed asks as he closes the door behind is once we step inside.

"Of course.." I smile. It's a small white lie because I haven't really had the time to miss my older brother, I've been to caught up in drama.

"What took you so long?" Dad says teasingly as we walk into the small living room. It's smart and everything looks pretty modern. I never expected the place to be clean, seeing as my brothers wasn't tidy at all when he lived at home, we both lacked in keeping our rooms tidy.

"We don't all speed.." Harry jokes and my Dad smirks. "Nice place mate." Harry says as he looks around. I do the same as I start to feel little emotional that this is where my brother lives, it's never really in that he moved out until now.

The walls are painted cream with one feature wall which is black. The furniture is a dark wood that blends in with black leather sofas. It's very manly in here but obviously that works well with Jed. I walk into the kitchen and I'm surprised, I was expecting a dark room but it's full of colour and life.

The cabinets are a deep red and the look brilliant blended with silver appliances. His microwave is purple and his toaster is yellow. I have to laugh to myself as this is so Jed, he's so random and he's one person I know who just doesn't care if things match. The only thing he's wore that matches is his football kit.

"Anyone want a drink?" Jed asks and I nod as I could quench my thirst. I take a seat at the small dining table in the corner, it's quite cosy in here and with all the colours I think this would be my favourite room.

"Oh, Jed. Don't you guys know how to cool our co ordinate?" Mum asks as she walks in the kitchen and looks around, she actually looks a little horrified.

"Where are your flat mates?" I ask interrupting and Jed looks over to me.

"At work.." He answers as he starts to turn on a coffee machine that's tucked away in the corner. He has a coffee machine? I never realised he liked coffee that much.. "Cappuccino, latte or just a boring coffee?" He asks as he looks at me then to Mum.

"Oh, latte please!" Mum answers and Dad calls out for the same. He looks to me.

"Boring coffee please." I answer and Jed frowns. "What?"

"You can have a cappuccino.." Jed says and shakes his head at me. Why did he ask me if he's going to change it? Brothers. "Harry mate, what drink?" He asks as Harry walks into the kitchen, I don't think we can fit anyone else in here now.

"Think I'll have a cold drink this time please." Harry says and Jed opens the fridge and prepares his drink. Harry looks to me and smiles a silly smile showing all of his teeth. I shake my head and smile.

"So you love birds have finally got together. Took your time." Jed says as he hands Harry his drink and looks to us. Does he have to bring this up now? Mum leaves the kitchen to join my Dad and I really don't blame him.

"We've always had something going on mate.." Harry says confidently and I look at him with my eyebrows raised.

"She's just stubborn mate, takes her time to realise what she wants." Jed smirks as he looks at me, I look away and pretend to ignore them as I look away at a painting on the wall. It looks a little odd, it's just colours splashed together but in a shape of a vase. I don't understand art at all so I look back away.

"Better late than never.." Harry says as I look at him he's currently looking at Jed, who is agreeing with him. This feels a little awkward, as if I'm not here.

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Harry's POV
It was finally time to go to the hotel and check in, I couldn't wait to arrive just to see what our room is like. Some may find that sad, but I always find quite exciting never knowing what you're going to open the door to. Hopefully it's a nice room, but whatever we get I'm grateful I'm experiencing this night in London for the first time.

Jed's in his parents car as he's all ready dressed for tonight, so I think he's come along to see where we are staying. Whilst Ryan is checking us in, I'm on Stephanie's bag patrol. I seriously don't get how this girl thinks it's necessary to have this amount of stuff, it's just insane.

"I'll take these." Stephanie says as she takes the two remaining bags and shuts my boot. I lock the car and we carry the bags inside.

"Right, you're number 108" Ryan says as he hands us our hotel key. Stephanie takes it as she's the only one out of us with a free hand.

"Let me take a bag.." Jed says as he takes a bag and we make our way behind Susan and Ryan. So far this hotel looks impressive, it actually looks a little bit posh. "108, here you are." Jed says as he drops the bag on the floor. Ryan and Susan are in the room opposite us.

"Thanks mate." I say and Jed salutes me smiling, Stephanie opens the door and she walks in and I can tell she's smiling from the side of her face. I follow her in, picking the other bag up and the door shuts itself.

This room is massive. It has a TV with a dark leather sofa and small bar in the corner of the room. There's a double door and I open it up to see our bedroom. It's a kingsize bed and I seem to think we must be in the wrong room. What if this is Susan's and Ryan's room?

"Look at this bathroom!" Stephanie says excitedly. I leave and turn around to open the other door and I see Stephanie stood in the middle of this huge bathroom. Woah. Shit.
The bathtub is free standing in the middle of the bathroom. With a walk in shower in the corner and toilet and sink across the other side of the room, in the other corner. "Isn't this incredible?" She asks as she turns and looks at me.

"Yeah.." I grin as I put my arms around her. She looks up to me and bites her lip.

"It just seems a waste being in a room like this for one night.." She says as she kisses my cheek. She's right, it does seem a little bit of a waste. But still, we are grateful to experience this night in this room.

"What time are we heading out?" I ask as I look down at Steph. She looks so beautiful, I can't believe she is mine.

"Probably around sevenish." Stephanie says as she looks at me and smiles. Her arms lift up and drape around my neck. "I love you Harry.." She says out of the blue.

"I love you too.." I say as I lean down and kiss her. I could stay in this moment with her forever, so far London is having a good effect on me. The hotel is good, the room's are brilliant and I'm with the person I love the most.

Notes

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