Annie

Holy.
Shit.
Is this happening?
Harry not only just grabbed my boob, but he growled at me and then told me he wanted to rip my clothes off and fuck my brains out. What the hell? Where did that come from? Is he being serious? I’ve never seen him be anything but polite and kind and here he is, in my bed, with his hands gripping my hips so tight that I was positive his thumbs would leave bruises.
“I’ve never see you be anything but sweet or cheeky. This is different.” I started to move my hips again when his grip tightened even further.
“Are you sure you are ready to make that move, Sugar?” His eyes locked on mine. It was like he could see through the exterior I put up and saw me. The nerves, the excitement, the desire and the fear. It was intense to say the least.
“I just might be,” I responded. I took a deep breath, gaining the nerve I needed and pulled my shirt over my head. I saw him suck his bottom lip between his teeth. I heard a cell phone vibrate on a table top somewhere in the bedroom but ignored it.
“Fuck. Thank you. I really, REALLY want to be a gentleman but you’re also making it really hard where you’re sitting right now.” I bent down to kiss him. My hands moved down from his chest, which was still bare from our tattoo show and tell earlier, to the jeans he had put back on after his shower. I unzipped them and slid my hand in to the front groping him through his boxers. I heard the sharp intake of breath as I felt him harden in my hand. He slid my bra straps down my shoulders before reaching to my back and skillfully unhooking it completely. “Fuck. Please don’t let this be a tease.”
“Not a tease,” I said. He sat up and started to kiss across my breasts and taking a nipple between his teeth. He pulled my leggings down leaving me in only the black lace boy shorts that matched my bra. There was suddenly loud knocking on my bedroom door.
“Annie,” Kim called. I tried my best to ignore her. “Annie. Your Mom is calling.”
“Tell her I’ll call her back.” I felt Harry mouth move up to my shoulder and he bit down a bit. “Yeah, I’ll call her back.”
“She is on her way to your brother’s to babysit. She said she needed to talk to you. So you should stop whatever you are…or aren’t…doing in there.”
“Just a second,” I called. I leaned down to kiss Harry. “I’m so sorry. It will be just a minute that I’m gone.” I kissed him again. “She has the worst timing. I’m sorry.” I stood up and headed towards the door.
“Baby, put a shirt on,” he called from the bed. Did he just call me baby? That’s new. Hmm…I think I like it. He tossed me his plaid shirt from last night that had ended up in my room with all of his other clothes. I slipped it on and buttoned up a few of the buttons. I saw my sweatshirt on the floor and tossed it to him. It landed perfectly over his open jeans. “Thanks.” He laughed quietly. I opened the door to see Kim standing on the other side. She took one look at me and started to laugh.
“Shut up,” I said taking her phone from her hand and shutting the door to my bedroom. “Hey Mom.”
"Are you okay? The weather alerts I have on my phone told me that a blizzard has hit London."
"I'm fine Mom." Kim just started to laugh harder.
"You're far from fine right now," Kim said through her laughter.
"Shut up," I mumbled at her. "I promise Mom. I'm fine. We've got more food than we need. And if all else fails I've got the keys to the pub and Frankie told me I could take anything from there. He and Lizzy offered to come get us but we're okay. I've lived through some blizzards. Kim will survive. She's who everyone should be worried about."
"It's cold Joy," Kim yelled. I went in to the bathroom sitting on the toilet while Kim climbed on to the cabinet opposite it.
"Well promise me you'll call if you need anything," Joy said.
"I will. Not that you can do anything from Iowa. But I'll let you know if things aren't okay."
"Okay, well I'm heading to your brother's. I'm babysitting Gigi today. Should we FaceTime later? We all miss you."
"Sure Mom. FaceTime me later this afternoon. I miss you guys too." I felt bad. For being pissed at my Mom for ruining my moment and for leaving Harry in such a terrible position in bed alone. "Love you Ma."
"Love you too." I hung up the phone.
"Could she have worse timing?" Kim started laughing really hard.
"Need a cold shower?"
"Potentially. I feel terrible. Poor guy is gonna hate me."
"No he won't," Kim replied. "Though his balls might." I giggled a bit.
"Ugh. Stupid stupid timing. So close. So close!"
"So close you could touch it?" I flipped Kim off and bent forward putting my elbows on my knees and my head in my hands. I caught a glimpse of myself in the bathroom mirror. I looked like a hot mess, a sexually frustrated hot mess. My hair was all over the place from his hands running through it and grabbing it. My cheeks were flush. My lips swollen. And I felt like someone detoxing from drugs. Every nerve was buzzing.
"Shut it. But yes. Ugh. Did she not get that I could hear the phone vibrating on the nightstand and chose to ignore it? I mean it's not like I haven't been waiting patiently for six fucking months for this moment."
"So go back in there!" Kim said.
"How does one recover from that? Hi, I'm totally an adult, nearly 30 years old and my mother is calling me and freaking out because there's snow in London. Sorry that I left you in bed at full mast ready to go, please don't hate me."
"Like that exactly." That's when I heard his voice and the footsteps coming out of the bedroom.
"No, I promise I'm alright. I'm at a friend's flat actually." He was on the phone. He mouthed out to me 'my mum' so I knew who he was on the phone with. I could hear the faint sound of her asking a question. "Yes, the friend has food Mum. Niall would've starved hours ago if she didn't." Another question. "Yes Mum, she. It's two friends of mine and Niall's. We all went out last night and because we'd been drinking I stayed here. By the time I woke up on the couch my car was already plowed in so she told me to stay." The question seemed a bit more panicked this time. "Yes Mum I'm safe. She's not going to kill me." He shot me a glare at that point. Leaving him in the state he'd been was close to death. Without being able to contain it Kim and I both started laughing loudly. The sound echoing off the bathroom wall. I realized his mother probably heard us and I shut up. Kim must've realized the same thing because so did she.
"I'm sorry," I mouthed out to him, pouting a bit.
"It's okay," he replied quietly as he kissed the top of my head from where he was standing next to me now. He started to run his fingers through my hair trying to correct the mess he'd made of it. That's when I realized that his jeans were still unbuttoned though his pants visibly looser than they had been when I hurried out of the bedroom. I rested my head on his stomach, wrapping my arms around his hips. "I'll call you later Mum. Tell Gemma if she needs anything to call and I'll figure out how to get through the city if I have to." Another brief pause. "Alright. Love you. I'll talk to you later." He hung up the phone. "Mums have terrible timing." Kim started to laugh hard enough I thought she was gonna fall off of the cabinet she was sitting on. "Sugar, how about we go get you dressed? Niall doesn't need to see you in this state."
"Okay," I said standing up and following him back in to my bedroom. As soon as the door shut he pushed me up against it kissing me roughly. His hands slid past the shirt picking me up and wrapping my legs around his waist before running one hand back up underneath the shirt and grabbing my breast. I moaned in to his lips at the sensation. There was a knock on the door.
"What?!" We were practically yelling.
"You should probably come up to check on the meatballs. It's at the point where I get nervous I'm gonna f it up. So either do it fast or don't get him excited." We heard Kim's footsteps on the stairs before we started to laugh. I untangled my legs from his waist and stood on my own two feet. I rested my head on his chest as his hand retracted from the spot where it rested on my breast.
"I'm so sorry," I said standing on my tip toes to try to kiss him. I was still too short so he bent down to me. "I feel terrible. Are you okay?"
"Could've been a world record setting case of blue balls but nothing a phone call from my Mum couldn't cure instantaneously. It's probably for the better. I was trying really hard to be a gentleman but you and your hips had a different idea entirely."
"Technically your fault. You grabbed my boobs first. And I sort of like that you're trying to be a gentleman but you don't need to be. You've been one for the last six months." He kissed me again, this time sweet and slow. As soon as it ended we quickly began getting dressed and heading back upstairs. The minute we reached the landing Kim and Niall began laughing at us. Harry flipped them off as he fell in to the couch. I quickly checked the meatballs and then went back in to the living room. I glanced at Kim and Niall on the other couch. He looked like he was in a peaceful, drug induced state resting his head on Kim's chest and watching a movie on TV.
"How long until dinner will be ready?" Kim asked.
"Another hour maybe and we can eat it. Longer we wait the better it will taste."
"True," Kim replied. Harry lifted the blanket up as I approached him and climbed under laying down on top of him and resting my head on his chest.
"You could move to the side so I could lay on the couch."
"You're fine here," he said. His phone started to ring.
"Your pants are vibrating," I mumbled in to his chest. He pulled his phone out of his pocket and I saw a picture of he and Gemma, his sister, appear on the screen.
"Hey Gem," he answered. I was close enough that I could hear what she was saying to him.
"Hi. Mum said she called you and you're okay."
"Of course I'm okay. It's a blizzard. Stay inside and I'm good. You alright?" he asked.
"Yup, saw we were supposed to get some snow so I got groceries yesterday. Didn't think we'd get this much but I'm glad I stocked up for the apocalypse."
"Very good because my car is plowed in and unless the tube is still running I'd not be able to come save you.”
"Yeah, Mum mentioned that you weren't home."
"I'm not," he replied. "Niall and I are snowed in at a friend's place."
"And this friend is a girl."
"She is a girl."
"Is this the girl I think it is? Is it bookshop girl?" I smiled hearing her mention me. He'd told his sister about me. Not something I thought about. I didn't realize he told anyone about me.
"It is."
"Aww little brother, I'm so proud."
"Thanks?" He sounded like he wasn't sure if she was kidding or not.
"How did you finally get her to agree to go out with you? I know you've asked her to drinks like 20 times and she always said no. Wait, why are you still there today?"
"Umm I don't know how I finally won her over but she was going out with her flatmate and said I should come. We met up at a pub in Camden last night by her flat. Niall got a bit pissed so we crashed at her place. Woke up to a blizzard. So she told me I was staying here."
"That's sweet of her. When do I get to meet her?"
"Not sure. Hopefully she doesn't have to work and can come out for my birthday. Sugar, do you work Saturday?" he asked.
"No," I groaned, still speaking directly in to his chest.
"Will you come out with me for my birthday?"
"Sure." He was absentmindedly running his fingers through my hair again and trying to lull me back in to sleep.
"She said she'd come out. Maybe we can get together before then so you aren't meeting her at my birthday."
"She and I can plan your party together."
"Ummm."
"I was kidding Harry." I smiled. I was pretty sure I would like his sister. She was giving him shit over the phone.
"Okay. Well I'm suddenly realizing that everyone in this apartment but me is asleep and Annie is in the midst of making homemade Italian for dinner."
"Well aren't you just getting spoiled in the midst of this blizzard. Call me soon."
"I will. Let me know if you need anything. Annie lives right by the Camden Town station. I can get on the tube to come to you if I can't get my car out."
"Okay. Thanks Harry." He hung up the phone.
"Sugar, are you asleep?" he asked.
"Yes." The word came out in a monotone, tired voice that vibrated against his chest.
"You don't want to burn dinner do you?"
"No," came my reply.
"Why don't we wake up and open some wine?"
"Okay," I said not moving.
"I want wine," Kim said from the other couch. She was almost completely under the blanket that covered she and Niall.
"Me too," Niall responded and then came a giggle from Kim.
"Stop making out under the blanket," I said in to Harry's chest again. I moved towards his lips kissing him lightly and standing up going in to the kitchen. I opened a bottle of wine and started on the rest of dinner. It was still relatively early but I knew Niall and Kim would be getting hungry and then later we would be able to eat the cupcakes and any leftover meatballs. I put water on to boil and started to make grandma's cream cheese frosting. Harry came in to the kitchen taking a glass of wine and sitting on the counter again.
"We should get off the couch," Niall said. His voice deep and gruff and loud enough to carry to the kitchen. I laughed a bit. "Go hang out with Annie and Harry."
"I know but you're kissing my neck. I'm distracted."
"I'll stop. I smell food and it sounds like she's making frosting."
"Cream cheese frosting," Kim moaned. I was feeding a spoonful to Harry as they appeared in the kitchen.
"That's delicious. Taste's perfect."
"Taste testing is my job," Kim said taking a spoon and going over to the frosting. "More vanilla."
"That's what I thought," I replied. I added another splash of vanilla to the frosting, mixed it in and grabbed clean spoons for taste testing.
"Perfect," Kim said. I popped the bowl off the mixer and put it in the fridge to stay cool while I focused on dinner. I put noodles in the boiling water and started the bread I was putting in the over. Kim and Niall both poured themselves glasses of wine and sat on the other side of the counter on the stools. Harry turned and put his back against the cupboards so he didn't have it to his friends. "So what are we gonna do tonight?"
"We could watch movies," Niall said.
"We could listen to music," Harry added.
"We could find some game to play."
"I like that. And it could be a drinking game. Something to get to know each other," Kim said. She grabbed my iPad off the counter and started searching. "I've found some questions. I'll just go through the list. Hesitate or laugh because you don't want to answer and you have to take a drink. Refuse to answer and you have to take a shot."
"I'm game," I said. The boys nodded their agreement.
"Okay, would you rather diet or workout?" Kim asked. "Workout, I love food too much."
"Ditto," Niall said.
"I like working out but I also healthy food. Though admittedly I've had to work out more since meeting her because her damn baked goods are going to make me fat," Harry said laughing.
"Neither?" I replied.
"What you just keep that figure by doing nothing?" Harry asked not believing me evidently. Not sure what figure he was talking about. Sure in my adult years I'd lost a lot of weight but I still felt like the overweight girl from my youth. I did go to the gym and I had learned to enjoy it a bit but I didn't really want to go ever.
"Working out though I'm not really a fan," I finally said. "I truly only go because she makes me and my ass is huge as it is. If I didn't run on occasion I'd look like every Kardashian put together." I didn't want to admit that it was also because I feared if I stopped I'd balloon back up instantaneously.
"What do you wear to bed?" Kim asked. "T-shirt."
"Boxers," Niall answered.
"Cut up t-shirt. I hate crew necks. Feel like I'm being strangled," I said.
"Nothing," Harry replied. "I like being naked."
"He's not lying. I've seen him naked more times than should be legal,” Niall said laughing. His laugh was infectious and soon all of us were laughing.
"Why are you clothed now?" Kim asked. Niall hit her. "I was asking for her. If he gets naked maybe they can finally go downstairs and bang the sexual tension out of themselves."
"Kim!" I yelled. Harry turned a bit red and Kim thankfully moved on quickly.
"When is the last time you cried?" Kim asked.
"Bad football match," Niall said shaking his head and fake crying.
"Mine was last weekend. Annie and I watched old One Tree Hill episodes when we were napping the hangovers off on Sunday. Definitely cried a few times."
"So did I but that's not mine," I admitted. "Gigi told me she missed me and loved me on FaceTime the other day. I bawled like a baby."
"I was on the phone with Mum the other day. She was saying shit that made me cry. I'm a Mumma's boy."
"Aww," Kim and I both said.
"Shut up."
"Do you like tattoos or body piercings?" came the next question.
"Yes," Harry and I both answered quickly and I giggled remembering our tattoo show and tell from a short time before.
"Yeah," Kim said.
"I don't mind either way. Though Kim's tattoo is pretty hot," Niall said.
"You have a tattoo?" Harry asked Kim. She nodded. "Can I see it?"
"No!" Niall answered. "It's not in a place you should be looking."
"Where is it?"
"About where her birds are," Kim replied.
"I wouldn't care if you saw her bird tattoos. Why can't I see Kim's?"
"I don't share well with others. Got in trouble for it in school," Niall said making everyone laugh.
"How much PDA is acceptable?" Kim asked.
"I'm very affectionate," I said smiling. "I love hand holding and hugs and snuggles and kisses. Don't care who sees me unless it's my Dad. I feel that the world should see happy people, it makes other people happy. Though I don't believe in like devouring someone's face in public. That can just be a bit too much sometimes."
"I am affectionate too. Try not to be if I think there are people with cameras because I want to keep some of my life private, but if I didn't think someone was taking pictures I wouldn't care. I like the people I care about and love to know that," Harry said.
"I'm okay with PDA. I mean there's a time and place but I like to hold hands and I don't really let someone being around me prevent me from kissing someone if I want to," Niall answered.
"If I'm drunk yes. If I'm not then no."
"You've been affectionate today," Niall said to Kim.
"Yeah, it's just those two. Take me in a public place and I'm not really that affectionate. Hand holding is okay. But couples on the same side of the booth. Gross."
"Worst thing ever," I added.
"Why sit next to them when I can look at them?" Harry asked. "And play footsie."
"You kick my shins when you play footsie," Niall said to Harry.
"Favorite movie," Kim said trying to change the subject. She typically wasn’t overly affectionate with people. This weekend was such a major change. Part of me hoped it was for good but a larger part of me wasn’t going to hold my breath. She didn’t change easily. "Easy, Father of the Bride."
"Love Actually," Harry said.
"Aww, that's cute." I smiled at him as I drained the noodles from the water. "I tend to answer that with The Godfather but I have to be in a mood for it really. I worked at a video store in high school so it's hard to pick. I can pretty much say every line in The Breakfast Club and sing all of Nightmare Before Christmas."
"Grease," Niall said.
"That's a terrible answer," I barely got out through giggles. "You should have a stock answer of something cool. Like Boondock Saints or some shit."
"Harry gets a 'that's cute' for Love Actually and you say mine is terrible. You're mean." He was now pouting.
"It is cute. I love that movie. Grease is just bad. Love Actually is a favorite of mine too. Hugh Grant for the win."
"She's got a thing for the accent," Kim said taking her turn to laugh at my expense. "That's why it was easy for me to convince her to move here."
"True story," I added as I put the pasta in the dish and everyone moved to the small table we had in the living room.
"We need some racier questions," Harry said stealing the iPad. This night was about to get interesting. Thank god I bought extra wine.

Notes

Racier questions huh? Well I wonder what Harry has up his sleeve. A new chapter should hopefully be coming soon as I am finally not coughing constantly, just most of the time. Anyone have ideas on what kind of questions Harry is going to ask everyone?

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