Nicks POV
“Nick” I heard Zayns voice whisper in my ear, his breath lightly tickling my ear. The involuntarily shivers that went down my spin roused me from my sleep. I let out a sigh and slightly shifted on my side, not exactly wanting to be awake.

“Nick” this time Louis whispered, warm air fanning over my cheeks. My eyes darted back and forth underneath my closed eyelids, the darkness behind them gradually getting lighter. “Wakie Wakie” Louis whispered, and once again I felt warm air brush my face. I held back the groan and swallowed it down as I clutched the fuzzy blanket tighter around me. I don’t want to leave the comfort of my bed and the safety of my dreams. I try to plunder back into my dreams, but Louis nagging whispering isn’t helping.

I urge my eyes to open, tightly squeezing them before I fluttering open with sleep-matted eyelashes. After roughly blinking a few times, my blurry vision cleared. My blue eyes focused on Louis face creepily close to mine. My eyes widened in shock and I scooted back to create more space between us.

“Ah!” I squeaked in my scratchy morning voice when my back came in contact with something hard. I tumbled off the bed and landed on the hard floor, getting tangled in the blanket. I heard Louis loud cackle and rolled my eyes. “Ugh” I groaned and closed my eyes. I frustratedly thrashed around in the blanket wrapped around me.

“Are you alright?” Zayn asked in his low, british accent, sitting up next to me. That’s probably what I hit.... My eyes practically rolled out of their sockets Zayn looked incredibly good today. He hovered over me, his brown eyes searching my blue eyes and patiently waiting for an answer. I gulped, hoping that it would be enough to lubricate my dry throat. It seemed like with every day that passes Zayn gets extremely sexier and I get extremely more stuttery.

“U-uh” I stuttered, my cheeks able to turn pink even after just waking up. I was wide awake now.

“Happy Birthday!” Louis cheered, popping his head over the top of the bed. He smiled brightly down at me, stray, brown hairs falling in his face.

“Oh yes! Happy Birthday!” Zayn said, giving me a side smirk.

“Thanks” I awkwardly said, not exactly knowing how to reply to them.

“Well don’t just sit there! Get off your lazy bum!” Louis chimed in his high pitch voice and disappeared out of sight. Zayn helped untangle me from the blanket and I slowly sat up. I caught Zayn intently staring at me and I gave him a nervous smile. I instantly became self-conscious of my morning breath and hair even though he has seen me like this multiple times already.

“C’mon!” Louis said, startling me as he appeared out of nowhere. Louis tends to do that a lot, like he wants to make a dramatic entrance. Louis grabbed my hand and hauled me to my feet. Me being my clumsy self, tripped tripped over the blanket pooled at my feet and fell right into Zayn who was standing up.

“Woah” Zayn chuckled.

“Clumsy” Louis said before grabbing my hand again and towing me out of the room. I stumbled over my own feet and almost tripped down the steps thanks to Louis rapid feet. I knew Zayn right behind me, his presence always felt.

“Did you guys do something for me?” I questioned, noting Louis speed walking. I huffed when he didn’t reply. “Lou, I told y-” I stopped talking, for my mouth erupted in a wide grin at the sight in front of me.

Pizza boxes were piled on the island in the middle of the kitchen. Anjelica tried to distract Niall from eating the pizza by cracking ridiculously weird metaphors and similes as Liam hummed while stuffing a gigantic pinata with a various kinds of candy. Harry helped Nikki tied off balloons and hang them up.

“Harry, I think I can-Hey!” Nikki said, averting her attention away from Harry and smiling at me. Harry looked over and mimicked Nikkis smile, both of their dimples displayed on their cheeks.

“There’s the birthday boy” Harry remarked, letting go of the balloon he was in the middle of tying. It shot out and darted all around the room, screeching loudly as air rushed out of it. It limply landed on top of Nialls blonde head. We chuckled as Nialls face went from startled to just adorably giddy.

“Happy Birthday” Liam said, walking up to me and embracing me. I gladly accepted the hug, wrapping my arms around my waist and squeezing lightly. Liam definitely gave the best hugs, well, besides Zayn. Liam rubs your back soothingly while Zayn just buried himself in your hair, giving you a perfect angle of his neck. Liams chest was firm, but Zayns will always be solid. Zayn would squeeze the daylights out of you, and I didn’t mind. I like the feeling of Zayns arms around me.

“Happy Birthday” Nikki said as I moved away from Liam and gravitated towards her outstretched arms. I went around, giving hugs to everyone, savoring Zayns the most. Gosh, I’m starting to feel like a creeper. Taking extra whiffs of him and what not.

“Guys, I told you not to do anything” I said, taking a step back to look at all of them.

“Hey” Anjelica said, holding her hands up in defense, “In our defense, we really didn’t plan anything. We just thought about doing simple, little things like getting pizza and batting a pinata around” she said. I smiled and enthusiastically nodded in approval.

“Sounds good to me” I said, walking to the pizza boxes and opening a box. “So, pizza for breakfast?” I asked, raising an eyebrow but not minding the idea at all.

“Actually, more like pizza for lunch” Zayn chuckled and I looked over at the clock on the microwave.

“11:50?” I asked in amazement.

“Yes, 11:50. I don’t know how you’re able to get up and go to school. We tried waking you earlier but you just waved us off. Finally, Niall couldn’t take it anymore and I came to wake you” Louis said.

“Well, pizza for lunch then” I said, picking up the greasy pizza and taking a bite.

“Finally” Niall said, eagerly taking two cheesy pizzas and biting them both at the same time.

“I swear, pizza is all we eat” Harry joked and widely grinned as Nikki giggled in agreement.

“But you know, I’m okay with that” I said, shrugging.

“We’ve been through this already, I could live off of just pizza” Louis said through a mouthful of pizza.

“Aw Lou, you spit on me” Liam whined in disgust.

“What are you a germaphobe?” Louis sassed and open his mouth to show off the partially chewed pizza in his mouth to Liam.

“Lou” Liam whined, covering Louis mouth with his hand. While Louis messed with Liam, Anjelica and Niall teased each other by biting each others pieces of pizza and Harry and Nikki cutely talked about something I couldn’t quite stick with.

“Oh Nick” Zayn said tapping my shoulder. I smiled, thanked god for granting me my wish to get attention from Zayn and turned around.

“Yeah Z?” I asked, looking up at the taller boy.

“Your mom called earlier, so you might want to call her” Zayns said. I didn’t let the frown outline my lips. I forced it down with a strained smile. I was hoping that he wanted to talk to me or something other than telling me that my mother called. I love my mother and of course I want to talk to her, but not right now.

“Thanks, I’ll make sure to do that later” I said, looking down at my bare feet and we both fell into silence.

“Nick” Zayn said after a few more agonizing beats of silence.

“Yes?” I said, looking at him.

“You got pizza sauce on your cheek” He smiled and I blushed, probably a darker red than the pizza sauce. Zayn licked his thumb and took me by surprise. He slowly rubbed his thumb on my cheek, butterflies having a parade in my stomach. His smile grew as he stared at me, his thumb still rubbing on my cheek.

“Did you get all of it off?” I asked innocently. Suddenly, Zayn snapped his hand back and I could barely make out the faint pink appearing under his tan skin.

“Uh y-yeah” he said, and I’ve never seen him so embarrased.

Nikki’s POV
“How about Titanic?” Niall suggested, holding up the DVD.

“Are you trying to make me cry on my birthday? Nick asked, curled up on Zayns side.

“How about Pirates of the Caribbean?” Zayn suggested and Nick looked so overjoyed.

“Oh yes! I love Johnny Depp!” Nick said.

“Really? Me too!” Zayn said, smiling at Nick.

“He’s just so cool” Nick said.

“The coolest” Louis agreed.

“But not as cool as you” Zayn whispered, but audible for Zayn and NIck to hear. And me, since I was sitting close to them. I on the floor close to the couch they were sitting on in Simons living room. Niall popped in the movie before quickly taking his spot sprawled out on top of Anjelica on the other couch and Liam and Louis sat in the loveseat, Louis joking around with Liam often. Harry sat close to my legs and I could tell that he was looking back at me.

I sighed to myself and found some courage. Enough courage to scoot over to Harry. Harry smiled and I tried to pay attention to the movie, but that wasn’t happening. I kept looking at Harry or admiring Zayn and Nick. At some point, Zayn yawned and did the stretch-shoulder thing that boys would do at the movie theater. It was utterly adorable. Nick was so enjoying all the attention.

“Okay, I can’t wait anymore” Nick said after the movie was over. “I want to smash that pinata so bad” he said and Liam chuckled.

“I knew that it was a good idea to get it” Liam smiled and stood up. “We can do it now if you want, I mean, it’s your birthday” Liam shrugged.

“Yes!” Nick exclaimed then apologized to Zayn for practically screaming in his ear. Harry stayed close to me as we followed Liam into the kitchen.

“Okay, um, Louis? Do you know where rope is?” he asked, looking around.

“For one, I don’t think that it would be in a kitchen” I giggled.

“I’m not sure” Louis said.

“Alright, scavenger hunt. Whoever finds rope first gets to hit the pinata first” Nick proposed and we all agreed in excitement. It actually seemed kind of fun.

“On the count of tn” Louis said, and we gave him a puzzled look.

“Ten?” Zayn asked, raising his eyebrows.

“Yes, 1. 2-”

“10!” Niall shouted and sprinted out of the kitchen, pulling Anjelica with him. Probably not even going to look for the rope. Just make out somewhere. I’ve seen the looks they’ve been giving each other. I imagine Harry looking at me the same way..hey don’t judge.

Nick scampered away with Zayn and Louis with Liam. I feel like that we are in teams. And I’m stuck with Harry. The boy I’m crushing hard over.

Nicks POV
Zayn and I decided to first look in the most logical place rope could be.

The garage.

Zayn opened the creaky door and held it open for me.

What a gentleman.

It was dark and I couldn’t see anything as I wandered around, looking for the light switch. And it didn’t help that the only light source was the open door, but Zayn closed that.“Zayn?” I loudly whispered.

“I’m here” Zayn said. “Look for the light switch” he instructed and I nodded. But then quickly face palmed, realising that Zayn couldn’t see me.

“Okay” I replied. Suddenly, the door opened and two figures walked into the darkness, quickly shutting the door behind them.

“Rope has got to be in here” I heard Harry say.

“Ah so dark!” Nikki squeaked. I’m pretty sure that Harry and Nikki didn’t know that we were in the garage. I wasn’t sure if I should tell them that. we were in here, but part of me wanted to scare them.

“Nikki?” Harry asked.

“Harry? Where are you?” Nikki asked. I waved my hands out in front of me and stumbled in the darkness. I let out a squeal when I hit the side mirror of a car.

“Was that you?” Harry asked, but Nikki didn’t reply. I backed away from the car, blindly stepping around.

“Ah!” Nikki screamed and there was loud crashing noises, causing me to scream.

“Nick?!” now it was Zayns voice. Suddenly, I was roughly pulled into someone, their cheek smashed against mine,

“Zayn..?” I whispered.

Notes

Sorry for such another long wait and I apologize for such a weird ending to a chapter.
I just wanted to have Nicks birthday stretch into two chapters, since then next chapter drastically changes from light playing to some heavy bizarre birthday.
Get my drift?
Anyways, please don't hate me! I have go reasons why I couldn't update! My birthday is coming up, so there preparing and hanging out with friends and family, and I really need to get my grades up as much as I can before finals, or midterms. And my moms been needing my help a lot lately and blah blah blah
Thanks for being such loyal readers and please please comment! Tell me what you thinks going to happen next or tell me if you are still interested in this story! I love you all oh so very much! You guys are my beautiful flowers! ;)