Niall's POV
I roll over and reach for Juniper's warmth but only find cold sheets. I sit up and look around, realizing I'm still in her room. I glance at the clock and see that it's around 10:00am. Juniper's probably been up for an hour or so. She's an early riser. Well early compared to me.
I stand up and stretch, picking up my clothes and depositing them in my laundry hamper when I get back to my room. I throw on a pair of sweatpants and my American Flag tank top and make my way into the living room where I hear laughter.
I stand in the doorway and smile at the chaos in front of me. Louis is holding Juniper upside down by the waist and jumping up and down, chanting "I am the best" over and over again. I don't know what happened but it makes me laugh right along with upside down Junie. El is sitting on the couch giggling her head off at Louis and Harry and Katie are laughing in the doorway of the kitchen.
"L-Louuuuiiiiss!" Juniper laughs. "Put me down!" She squirms trying to get away but he holds her in place. She punches his leg and he lets go of her. She catches herself on her hands just before she hits her head and her feet crash to the floor.
I'm moving to help her, but she's already on her feet, sticking her tongue out at Louis. He smirks and starts running at her, making her scream and run around the couch and into the kitchen, pushing Katie and Harry aside. Louis follows hot on her tail.
I suppose they'd gone from the kitchen into the dining room, because Junie comes barreling out of the dining room doorway at full speed and straight at me. She crashes into me giggling and we are thrown backwards. Thankfully there was a chair behind me or we would have been doomed. She turns and sees Louis coming toward us and she screams and buries her head in my chest. I laugh, wrapping one arm around her and extending the other to stop Lou. He glares at me, but moves to sit on the couch by El, who has tears streaming down her face from laughing so hard.
Juniper sits up and smiles at me, kissing my cheek. "Morning, sleeping beauty."
"Morning, gorgeous," I say back, kissing her on the side of the head. I hear Katie grown and Harry makes a gagging noise. I flip them the bird.
"Come on, guys, don't be rude," El, the ever so sweet household peacekeeper, says. "We were all gross and mushy when we started dating. Cut them some slack."
"It's disgusting to watch," Katie says, winking at us.
"Love you too, Kay," Junie says, smirking at her.
"What all the giggling and screaming about?" A very tired Liam says as he and Maiya make there way into the common room.
"I beat Louis at Mario Kart and he claimed I cheated and that he was still the best," Junie explains, tying her hair back in a messy bun. "I denied it and he held me upside down, then dropped me, then chased me around the condo."
Liam and Maiya nod like it's a regular occurrence, which, honestly, it is. Louis and Juniper are in some sort of constant competition with each other. Anything and everything is a game to them. I think that's why they get along so well. They understand each others' strange worlds more then anyone else in the house.
"Let's go do something adventurous today," Louis says, standing up and acting like and adventurer as he puts his fists on his hips and hit foot up on the coffee table.
"We could...go swim under tower bridge and pretend to be deep see divers!" Junie suggests, dropping off my lap and onto the floor, pretending to swim, making us all laugh.
"Ooo! Ooo! Orrr...we could go to the museum and pretend there is a bomb somewhere in there, getting everyone to evacuate and leaving the whole museum to ourselves!" Louis shouts, accepting Juniper's high five.
"Or we could do something a little less illegal," El says, smacking Louis lightly upside the head.
"Heeyyyy!" Louis shouts, grabbing El by the waist and pulling her onto his lap and tickling her. We all immediately start laughing. El's laugh when she gets tickled is more of a squeak. It's probably the most adorable thing on the planet. Oh wait, no that's Junie.
When El finally squirms away, Maiya says, "Let's go out to the country home we went to over the summer! We can spend Christmas there!"
"Yeah!" Everyone agrees, dispersing into their rooms. Liam said he'll call Simon and arrange for the house to be rented again.
When I'm done throwing everything in my suitcase, I make my way to Juniper's room to help her and see her doing the weirdest thing ever.
She's trying to fit herself in her suitcase. she's curled up inside it but can't get her head in all the way. I laugh and make my way over to her.
"Whatcha doin?" I ask, kneeling down next to her bag.
"I wanted to see if I could fit," She says smiling. "I used to lay in my dad's suitcase so he couldn't pack up to leave. I wanted to see if I could still do that."
Her smile falters a bit when she mentions her dad, but the it springs right back up as she climbs out and makes her way to the pile of clothes on her bed. She throws them into the suitcase along with her toiletry bag and a couple chargers. She goes to the bathroom to grab her makeup bag and puts it in as well. then she sits down on the suitcase to get it to shut and I zip it up for her, like we do every time.
"Thanks, babe," She says, kissing my cheek.
"You guys ready?" Liam asks, peaking his head in Juniper's doorway. We both nod.
"Good. We managed to get Perrie and Zayn out of bed and packed. It must be a miracle or something," He says, rolling his eyes and walking back to the common room. Junie giggles.
We roll our suitcases out and Paul loads them in the van. Junie and I take the very back seats and snuggle up together.
I kiss her head and think about all the possibilities ahead of us, now that she's mine, and we are going to one of our favorite places ever, for our favorite holiday ever.
I can't wait.

Notes

Short chapter I know! Had to write it really fast though. Enjoy! More coming soon!
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