Nicoles POV
After the movie, it was starting to get dark outside, so I assumed that the boys had to go soon. “Hey, when are you guys leaving?” I asked, stretching my arms out in front of me.

“Never” Louis said rather creepily, giving me a scary smile. I chuckled awkwardly.

“Funny, but I mean, it’s getting late” I said, pointing at my wrist even though I wasn’t wearing a watch.

“But..I don’t wanna leave” Liam said beside me, giving me puppy dog eyes. My heart fluttered at his cute expression, surrendering myself to him. I really didn’t want them to go.

“I don’t want you guys to leave either” I confessed, looking into Liams milky eyes.

“Then we won’t” Zayn said, slightly shrugging.

“Dude, SLEEPOVER!!!” Louis yelled, jumping up from the chair he was sitting in. Everyone else cheered and I looked over at Anjelica who seemed perfectly fine with it.

“Yeah, that’s cool with me” Anjelica said, not even needing to ask me if I was okay with it.

“Is it okay with Simon?” I asked to no one specifically.

“Oh, he already thinks that we were sleeping over..” Louis said, acting as if it was no big deal.

“Really? But wouldn’t Simon be a little more cautious considering that it would be a sleepover with two girls?” I asked, tilting my head to the side. Simon is a really nice guy, it’s just that he could be a little strict, especially when it involves girls.

“Well...I might have told him a little white lie to convince him to let us sleep over..” Louis said, biting his lip.

“And just how little was this lie..?” Anjelica asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Oh never mind that. We have all night to party!” Louis said, changing the subject. “I say we hit up a club” Louis cheered and so did Harry and Zayn.

“Woah woah woah, a club? No way” I said, shaking my head. “Besides, you have to be at least 18.”

“You’re a party pooper” Louis said, sticking his tongue out at me.

“Told you that she was a saint” Nick murmured to Zayn.

“I heard that” I grumbled.

“Well, at least we should get out. I mean we’ve been inside all day” Harry stated, and he did have a point.

“There’s a park not too far from here” Anjelica suggested and it didn’t seem like a bad idea. I’ve always wanted to go to a park in the evening, when it was getting dark. For some reason, I think that it would be fun to go to the park at night, probably because I’ve seen way too many romantic movies about couples going to parks at night.

“That doesn’t sound bad” Niall happily agreed. He’s been agreeing to anything she has been saying, which is utterly adorable.

“I like parks” Harry said and I smiled over to him. It would be nice to walk in a park at night with Harry, joke around like people did in the movies. Harry returned my smile and my heart fluttered again, but more furiously than it did with Liam. I completely got lost in my thoughts to even register that everyone was getting ready to go. I didn’t realise that Liam made my heart flutter. Harry’s the one who makes my heart flutter, because I like him. Do I like Liam because he made my heart flutter? He’s attractive and sweet and just amazing, but he’s my best friend. I don’t know what to think about Liam..but I do know what I think about Harry.

“Love?” Liams soft voice slithered into my thoughts and I snapped back into reality. Everyone was gone and it was just me and Liam.

“Where’s everyone?” I asked, looking around for them, but specifically Harry.

“They all are waiting down in the parking lot” Liam said, holding out his large hand. I placed my hand in his and he pulled me up close to him, feeling his breath tickle my nose.

“Oh” I idiotically said, swimming in his brown orbs.

“You know, you’re really pretty” Liam said, leaning down a little closer to me. I couldn’t reply, my throat became dry and I could find the words to speak.

“Oi! Hurry up will ya!? Don’t make me write I love Nikki in your leg hair!” Louis said, appearing out of nowhere. I jumped back, completely shocked.

“Louis! You scared me!” I said, slightly blushing because of how close Liam and I were.

“I know, finally!” Louis joked and walked out. I looked over at Liam who was also blushing.

“Shall we?” Liam asked, rubbing his head. I gave him a shy smile and nodded before grabbing my keys and walking out with him. I locked the door and rushed down the steps with Liam to the parking lot. I was taken back at how Harry looked so upset.

“Alright, follow the leader!” Niall said, following Anjelica already heading down the sidewalk. The rest of us caught up to the speedy walkers and I tried to start up a conversation with Harry and Liam since Zayn and Nick were chatting away, but they seemed a little tense. I wish Louis wasn’t talking with Niall and Anjelica because then he could be cracking jokes to lighten them up. I sighed, looking down as I we walked. I don’t understand why they get so tense around each other. Maybe their going through male PMS. By the time we made it to the park, the lamp lights on the street and around the park were on. When the playground came in view, we all sprinted towards it, claiming things such as swings or slides.

Nick and Zayn ran off to slide down the slide together. I must say, those two are just so cute. I’ve never seen Nick smile so big and I’ve never seen Zayn beam so much. They have a great bond, and I hope that Nick can work things out with Zayn, since he’s gay. Anjelica and Niall went off to swing on the swings, blushing while exchanging shy glances and admiring words. Louis, I don’t even know what he’s doing. He’s running around mad, bombarding into peoples conversations. It made me a little sad for him because he could have Harry or Liam to be with, but they were too busy clinging to me. It made me feel like Louis was the one left out, and I didn’t want him to feel that.

“Harry, I dare you to go tickle Louis” I said, whispering to Harry.

“Are you finally using one of your dares?” Harry asked, raising his eyebrows at me and relaxing a little.

“Yep, now go do it” I smirked, lightly pushing him toward Louis. Harry smiled before running full on into Louis to tackle him down. I grabbed Liams hand and dragged him over to the monkey bars. I wasn’t sure why I basically forced Harry away, and I wasn’t sure why I was pulling Liam to be alone with. All I know was that Liam was my best friend. I “gracefully” climbed up on the monkey bars and balanced my bum on the bars. Liam, who actually gracefully climbed up, balanced next to me.

“I don’t know why they call you mermaid, they should call you monkey” Liam joked, starting up a conversation.

“It’s only because my favorite movie of all time used to be The Little Mermaid, and I used to have red hair and talk like Ariel” I said. ‘But now, my all time favorite movie is A Bugs Life.”

“Oh my gosh I love bugs life! But it’s not my favorite movie. My favorite movie is Toy story. I know all the words” Liam proudly said.

“Well, I know all the words to A Bugs Life” I smiled proudly.

“Really? Recite a line for me” Liam challenged. I smirked and cleared my throat.

“It's a bug-eat-bug world out there, princess. One of those Circle of Life kind of things” I gestured with my hands like they did in the movie “Now let me tell you how things are supposed to work: The sun grows the food, the ants pick the food, the grasshoppers eat the food-” I then changed my voice into a weird tone to show that I was changing character “-And the birds eat the grasshoppers. Hey, like the one that nearly ate you, you remember? You remem- Oh, you shoulda seen it, okay?” I would have continued on, but with all the hand gestures and body movements, I slipped backward right into the space between the bars. Luckily, my legs hung on tight to the bars, so I just hung upside down, squealing from shock. Liam chuckled, but then screamed. I craned my neck around and saw Liams back, hanging upside down like I was. Liam strained his neck to look over at me and we burst out laughing. The blood rushed quickly to my head and I started to get a slight head ache. I crunched my abs and reached up to the bars, but I couldn’t reach them. I sighed and just let my arms hang.

“Liam? Can you get down to help me?” I asked, looking straight forward at Nick and Zayn still sliding down the slide.

“I wish I could, Nikki” Liam said and I groaned. I really didn’t want to land on my head, and I’m sure Liam doesn’t want to also, so we had to call for help.

“Can somebody help!?” I yelled, starting to get a little dizzy. Everyone walked over to us, snickering at me and Liams swaying bodies. I glared at their upside down smiles, looking a little like frowns.

“Not funny” Liam mumbled, causing them to laugh harder.

“I can see your belly button” Louis said, poking my stomach. I wiggled and giggled a little. Louis found one of my ticklish spots. Louis poked my sides and I giggled more, begging him to stop.

“Louis stop and just help us down” Liam said, a little frustrated.

“Alright, Harry, help Nikki down” Louis said, moving out of my line of sight. Harry stepped forward and looked up and down me a few times.

“Harry!” I said, impatiently waiting for him to help me down.

“Okay Okay” Harry smirked. “Reach up for the bars again” he instructed, and I tried again. As I was reaching up, I felt arms cup just below my boobs and cup just below my bum, then slightly pull. I released the tight hold on my legs and let them slip from the bars. I landed safely in Harry’s arms, Harry now carrying me bridal style.

“Thanks” I said when he set me down on my feet.

“No problem” Harry said, cockily bowing. I smiled and looked over to see Liam safely in Louis arms, being carried bridal style.

“My hero!” Liam joked and Louis smiled boldly.

“My love, I finally have you!” Louis said and Niall made kissy noises. We laughed when Louis leaned in to kiss Liam and Liam pushed away from Louis.

“Sorry mate, I prefer my men with mustaches” Liam joked and Louis gasped.

“How could this be!?” he exclaimed, flinging his hand to his chest. “If I grow a mustache, will I then win over my lady?” Louis asked, kneeling down on one knee.

“If you catch me then maybe!” Liam said, tapping Louis shoulder “Tag! You’re it!” he yelled, running of into the large playground. Louis smiled over at Nick, reaching out towards him.

“Will you be my lady?” he asked, smiling creepily.

“No thanks!” Nick said, running off with Zayn. Niall and Anjelica took off after they did, leaving me, Harry and Louis.

“Nikki...?” he asked, taking a step towards me. I squealed and ran off, climbing up the nearest stairs on the nearest play structure. I ran around poles and looked around to see Harry running to me.

“I thought you were Louis” I sighed in relief, but Harry reached out to me. I quickly understood that he was now it and slid down the slide next to me. I heard Harry laughing crazily behind me and I giggled as I ran around, trying to get away from him. Soon, everyone was running from each other, not knowing who was it. I bumped into Niall and we both fell to the ground.

“NIALL’S IT!” I yelled, scampering away from him. I giggled as I heard him groan and climbed up a tree rather than running back into the playground. As I was climbing up, I grabbed onto something that didn’t feel like a tree branch and instantly let go. I was about to fall out of the tree, but pairs of arms grabbed me and pulled me up. I sat down on the branch and could barely make out Nick and Zayns smiling faces.

“Great minds think alike” I said and they both nodded.

“That and I like climbing trees” Nick smiled and Zayn and I chuckled.

“I love trees, they’re fun to hang on” I said, moving over to another branch.

“Be careful, don’t want you to fall” Zayn said and I scoffed.

“I’ll be fi-” I didn’t finish because I fell out of the tree trying to jump to another branch. I landed on someone and they screamed high pitch.

“Sorry!” I said, assuming that it was Niall or Louis.

“Get off me!” I heard a familiar, disgusting voice snap. I rolled off her and she sat up, fixing her blonde hair.

“What are you doing here Taylor?” I asked, not wanting to talk to her right now.

“Nikki!” I heard Anjelica and Liam yell. Taylor stood up and glared down at me.

“I was taking a nice walk and you just so happen to land on me out of the blue sky!!!!” Taylor screamed at me and I felt arms loop under my arms. Liam pulled me up and wrapped his protective arms around me.

“Back off” my sister said, already cracking her neck and knuckles.

“I’m not afraid of you. I could sue you for hurting me” Taylor snarled and Anjelica dropped her hands, considering the fact.

“Taylor?” Harry said, finally joining the party.

“Oh Harry!” Taylor said and almost pretended to fall over. Harry caught her and looked at her with a confused face. “I seem to have hurt myself, again because of Nikki” Taylor said and we all rolled our eyes at her. We could tell that Harry didn’t really like her, but he still would hang around her at times. I admit, it bothers me, but I try to ignore it. Harry looked up at me, then visibly froze when he saw me snuggling into Liams arms and Liam kiss the top of my head. His eyes darkened and he spoke without even looking at Taylor.

“I’ll take you home” he said. I looked at him a little hurt. I don’t want him being with her. Alone.

“Harry” Zayn sternly said and I just now noticed that Nick and Zayn weren’t not in the tree anymore.

“She’s hurt, so I’m taking her home” Harry said, looking at Zayn.

“Mate, she can walk just fine” Louis said, taking a step forward. I hate how good times can easily turn to upsetting hard ones. Lately there’s been little things like arguments and tension.

“I’m taking her home. I’ll see you back at Anjelicas” he said and I frowned at how he said Anjeilcas pace rather than something like Nikki and Anjelicas. With that, he turned around and walked down the sidewalk with Taylor, practically carrying her.

“Wow” Nick growled, obviously not agreeing with Harry’s choice.

“We can have fun without him” Louis said, marching back towards the condo with determination. When we got back to the condo, we tried to have a good time, but it was hard when we all were thinking about the same conflicting thing. Harry and Taylor. Around 2 A.M., Harry isn’t in sight, but we get a call on Nialls phone. Harry was calling. It was weird how he didn’t call Louis, his best friend of all time, but we didn’t mention it.

“Hello?” Niall said, putting his phone on speaker.

“Hey man, Louis was right, we should have gone to the club!” Harry yelled over loud music.

“Harold Edward Styles, what are you doing at a club!?” Louis said, frowning at the phone.

“You guys gotta come!!!” Harry said, answering his questions.

“Harry, are you drunk?” Zayn asked and Anjelica, Nick and I all looked at each other with wide eyes.

“Drunk? Pshh, naw” Harry slurred and Liam face palmed.

“What club are you at?” Niall asked.

“I dunno, it’s smelly outside and there were old stuff and stuff” Harry mumbled and laughed.

“I know where he’s at” I said, remembering the old part of town I lived in with my mother before moving in with Anjelica.

“Harry, we’re coming to get you” Louis said.

“No no! Come to party, not take me! Tell Nikki and Anjelica to wear something...nice” he said, and I could hear the lust and cockiness in his voice. Anjelica and I gasped and Liam and Niall fumed. I don’t know what to think...I never thought that Harry would say such a thing.

“Bye Harry” Louis snapped, ending the call. “Nikki, come with me. I need you to show me how to get there” Louis said and I nodded.

“I’m coming too” Anjelica, Liam and Niall said, alll about to stand up but I motioned them to sit down.

“It’s okay, stay here. We all don’t need to go to get him” I said, standing up with Louis. They all looked conflicted, but I pleaded them with my eyes. I feel like it’s my duty to go and get him.

“Take care of my sister” Anjelica said, looking at Louis. Louis gave her a reassuring nod and grabbed my hand. The car ride was pretty silent, the only talking coming from me to give instructions. This night was turning into a disaster...We pulled up to the club and Louis stormed out, walking straight up to the guard in front of the door.

“I.D” the big, bald headed guard said, squinting down at us.

“I don’t need a bloody I.D!!!” Louis yelled and the guard instantly got mad. I pulled Louis back a little and stood up tall.

“Sir, please let us in” I asked politely.

“No I.D. No entry” he said, glaring down at me.

“Si-”

“No” he cut me off.

“Bu-”

“Get lost” he interrupted me again. Louis was getting angrier and was about to burst, but my sudden anger beat him to it.

“YOU WANT AN I.D?! AN I.D!!!! HALF THE FREAKIN SLUTS IN THERE HAVE FAKE I.D’S!! HERE WE ARE TRYING TO EXPLAIN TO YOU THAT THERE IS A SITUATION AND THAT WE AREN’T EVEN HERE TO DRINK OR DANCE!!!” I screamed in his face. I was on my tippy toes so I could be face to face. The guard looked pissed, but suddenly opened the door behind him.

“Go” he frowned.

“Thank you” I purposely said rudely and marched in with Louis. I was instantly hit with the smell of smoke, alcohol, and sweat. I coughed and covered my nose and mouth. Colorful lights were flashing all on the dancing bodies and my chest started to sink at the thought of trying to find Harry through all these people. Louis pulled me close to him and yelled over the music.

“Stay with me!” he said and I nodded, liking the idea of sticking close. He pushed through the sweaty bodies, some women grinding on me. I cringed and tried to shake off the feeling on wet bodies. Louis and I stumbled over to the bar and Louis sat me down on a stool. “Look around for Harry” he instructed before asking the bartender if he’s seen a man with curly hair. I looked around in the crowd, but there was no sign of Harry. I looked over at Louis next to me who was frowning at the bartender shaking his head.

“No luck?” I asked and he shook his head. “I mean we just got here, so it’s not like we’re going to find him right away” I said. Like god trying to prove me wrong, Harry came stumbling over to the bar with some other girls.

“Harry!” Louis shouted and Harry gave him a lopsided smile. Taylor was tipsy, but she still managed to scowl at me.

“Hey!!! You brought Nikki!” Harry said, looking at me with drunken eyes.

“Harry, we need to go” Louis sternly said.

“What’s the rush?” Taylor asked Louis and giggled as Harry nibbled on her ear. It was gross, the sight of them. It makes me think, why did I ever like Harry? Oh yeah, because he’s gorgeous and deep down he’s the cute, fun guy I really like.

“Harry” I said, reaching out and touching his arm. He looked down at my hand and suddenly became mad.

“What do you see in liam!?” he barked, staring into my eyes.

“W-wha-”

“Don’t ‘what’ me!” Harry said and I was utterly confused. Why was Harry doing this? I thought that he wanted to be my good friend. We talked a little before, and it’s obvious that we have a bond. I just stared at him, not wanting to do this, not wanting to be here.

“HARRY!!!” I yelled, surprising myself and Harry. “We are leaving, NOW!” I demanded and Taylor frowned.

“No, I want him to stay” she slurred a little, looking at Harry. Harry smiled down at her and Taylor seductively licked her lips. That’s it. I raised my fist and swung, bone crashing against bone.

Notes

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Such a cute gif :) Ni and Zayn