The Misfits

The second we entered the party there was a large eruption of cheers as the boys were welcomed back home. I stood by and giggled with Maeve as unknown faces fell into conversation with the boys.

“Look at Kenz,” I heard Maeve whisper into my ear. I scanned the room and found her with Niall, his arm wrapped tightly around her waist as he talked with a friend. Maeve and I exchanged a look before bursting into a fit of giggles.

“Thalia! Mae!” We both turned to see a tall brunette standing next beside Harry. Harry snaked his arm around my waist and pulled me over, sending butterflies through my stomach. “Loves this is my good friend Nick, Nick this is Thalia and Maeve.”

“Finally I get to meet you!” Nick cried. “He hasn’t stopped talking about you birds for months!”

“Oh really?” I shot harry a suspicious glare before turning back to Nick. “And what’s he been saying?”

“Nothing bad!” Laughed Harry, giving me a playful squeeze. I turned back to Nick before I lost my train of thought.

“Is that true?”

“Only good love, I promise,” beamed Nick. “He told me you were in school? And an artist?”

“I’m studying art, I’m no artist yet! Maeve’s in Uni too, she’s a photographer.”

“They’re both artists and they’re both amazing,” Harry cut in.

“Well let’s go grab these amazing artists a drink shall we?”

Maeve and I were pulled further into the house and back into the kitchen. Nick began making us drinks as we chatted with him. The house was pretty packed and I saw some familiar faces, though they were only the ones you see on a magazine at the store but never in real life. It was pretty bizarre to see how normal they all really were.

“THALIA!” I turned in time to see a mane of bushy brown hair before I was pulled into a tight hug.

“ELEANOR!” I gasped. She held me back at arms length so she could survey me. “I can’t believe you’re here! How have you been? How’s life?”

“Oh the usual,” she waved, as Louis appeared at her side. “How are you?”

“Good!” I giggled. We quickly fell into conversation and I was beginning to feel the effects of the alcohol. “Where’s Sophia? I haven’t seen her!”

“Shh!” Eleanor said, throwing her hand over my mouth and lowering her voice. “Her and Liam are off again. They haven’t spoken in weeks!”

“Oh Boo! Why didn’t anyone tell me?”

“He still gets upset whenever her name comes up.”

“Who gets upset?” Louis asked, breaking into our conversation.

“You will when I steal your girlfriend,” I replied, wrapping my arms around Eleanor and giving him a smile.

“Um excuse me? I thought I was your girlfriend?”

I turned and let out a scream. Perrie was standing there smiling at me and looking as beautiful as ever. We quickly embraced and began talking. Even though I had only met twice, I felt like I had known her all my life and it was easy to connect with her.

“Care to tell me why Harold hasn’t taken his eyes off of you all evening?” Perrie whispered after a while.

“Louis tells me he’s smitten,” chimed Eleanor, a mischievous smile on her face. Oh dear lord.

“Oh. My. God.” Perrie gasped before jumping up and down. “Thalia!”

“No. No. And no—”

“Hazza’s in lurve!”

“It’s not like—”

“Oh! And you like him too!”

“I do not!”

“Don’t you even try to deny it, look at that grin on your face!”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“You have to tell us all about it!” grinned Eleanor. “Did you sleep with him?”

“I am not having this conversation right now.” I said, taking a step back and thankfully being saved by the boy in question.

“Tootles.”

“Walt?” I replied as Harry appeared next to me. He broke into a smile at my nickname for him.
“Come on I want to introduce you to some people.”

“We are not done here missy!” Perrie cried out as Harry took my hand and pulled me to safety.

“Do I want to know what that was about?”

“Nope,” I smirked. He sighed before giving me a smile and kissing the top of my head. Great. Way to add fuel to the fire Hazza. He pulled me over to the sitting area where Liam, Elaine, Niall, and Mackenzie sat with another face I didn’t recognize.

“Sup sista?” I said, sitting on the edge of the sofa and playing with Mackenzie’s head affectionately.

“Thalia!” She beamed.

“Oh Thalia! Hey Josh, this is who we were tellin’ ya bout,” Niall said. I looked over to the shorthaired brunette. He looked familiar.

“Josh is in our band,” Harry whispered in my ear. I frowned in confusion and Harry laughed before adding, “He’s on drums.”

“Oh! I thought you looked familiar! I’m Thalia.”

“Nice to finally meet you!” Josh smiled. “These idiots wouldn’t shut up about you girls the entire leg of the tour!”

“So I’ve heard.” I shot Harry a glare before turning back to Josh. “So, any juicy tour stories?”

“And that’s enough of that,” Harry said, grabbing my waist and dragging me away.

“Nice to meet you Josh!” I waved as Josh and the others burst into laughter. I turned to Harry with a frown. “Why’d you do that? He was nice!”

“And you are evil.”

“And you love it,” I whispered. He pinched my side in response causing me to jump and let out a squeak. Harry let out a loud laugh and pulled me closer to him as my heart rate picked up.

“Aye! It’s Harry! And a very pretty girl…hello babe, what’s your name?” said a blue haired boy. He was our age and wore a ripped Metallica t-shirt with hair that looked like he had just gone through a wind tunnel. I liked him.

“Thalia,” I smiled. “And you look so familiar. Have we met before?”

“Lil’s this is Michael, he’s in Five Seconds of Summer,” Harry laughed, pulling me a little closer to him.

“No shit!” I cried out as Michael gave me a crooked smile. “How did I not realize! My little sisters love you guys. I took them to go get your album when it came out.”

“That’s awesome!”

“Where are the others?” Harry interrupted before I could say anything else. Michael frowned.

“They’re around here somewhere! Oh LUKE! ASHTON!” Two sandy-haired brunettes made there way over. “I found Harry!”

“AYE! What up mate?” They laughed, pulling Harry into a hug. But someone else quickly caught Harry’s attention so I turned to the boys of Five Seconds of Summer for conversation. The boys were hilarious and I was slightly insulted that I hadn’t been introduced sooner.

“THALIA!” I turned to see Mackenzie appear by my side, Niall next to her keeping her upright. She wore a pout on her face. “Thal. Will you please tell Niall—oh my god. You’re…you’re Five Seconds of Summer!”

“Nice to meet you!” Ashton smiled, amused by my friend. “What’s your name babe?”

“Mackenzie,” she breathed. Then she turned to me, “We have to tell Tilly. She would die. Our little sister loves you guys.”

“Thalia told us,” Michael smiled.

“I thought Tilly loved us,” Niall pouted.

“Ni, a girl can love more than one band,” Mack said before turning back to the others and falling into a conversation with them. However, I wasn’t paying attention. Across the room Harry was talking with an older guy and a very attractive blonde. She was leaning into him, laughing at something he had just said.

“Don’t worry bout it.” I heard Niall whisper in my ear, his gaze trained on the girl as well. I frowned and he added, “She is an ex, but they’re just friends now.”

“And you’re telling me this because…”

“Because I know you like him,” he snorted. I shot him a glare and he added, “It's not my fault Kenzie like’s to talk when she’s drunk.”

“She also likes to convince people she’s from Spain and stared in a soap opera.” Niall frowned and I whispered, “She can’t be trusted when she’s drunk.”

He let out a loud laugh and I patted his head before wandering off to find Maeve. Great, Niall had already suspected there was something, but now he had proof thanks to Mackenzie. The party had grown since we arrived, and it was a struggle to make my way through the crowd.

“Thalia!” cried Eleanor, pulling me to the side. “We have to get a picture together!”

I sat in the corner with Eleanor for a bit, drinking, taking pictures and acting like idiots while the party continued on around us. She was pretty tipsy from the alcohol and it was hilarious. I briefly wondered where Louis had gotten off to when I saw him in the kitchen talking to Harry and Liam. Thankfully the blonde had disappeared.

“What’s up babes?” Ashton and Michael fell into the couch next to Eleanor and I, effectively halting our conversation. Eleanor’s face lit up when she realized who they were.

“I didn’t know you guys were here!”

“Yeah!” Laughed Ashton. “Only for a bit. What are you guys up to over here? You look very secretive.”

“We are. We’re plotting,” I replied. Both boys raised their eyebrows in curiosity.

“Plotting? May I ask what your plot is?”

“We’re bored,” groaned Eleanor. “We’re trying to figure out how we can escape.”
“I heard there’s a trampoline outside…”

Eleanor and I exchanged looks before quickly standing up. I looked over at the boys to see if they were coming. As we all made our way to the back door I ran into Maeve and Perrie and pulled them along with us.

“Where are we going?” Perrie asked once we had stepped outside.

“There it is!” Cried Michael. He ran down the steps and jumped onto the trampoline. We immediately chased after him and soon all six of us were jumping like five year olds on the giant trampoline. It was the most fun I’d had that night.

“OI! EL! Get your ass off that thing before you kill yourself!”

All six of us froze when we heard Louis voice yelling from the porch. Eleanor quickly climbed off the trampoline as Louis made his way down the steps.

“Kill joy,” Maeve muttered under her breath. The rest of us broke into a fit of giggles before falling onto the trampoline.

“Thal? Mae? Are you out here?”

Uh oh.

“Down here Harold!”

“Are you on the trampoline? Girls you’re drunk, you could have killed yourselves.”

“We’re fine!” I giggled. Harry appeared at the edge of the trampoline looking annoyed. He grabbed my feet and started dragging me towards him. “Ah! Harry let me go!”

“Come on you,” He said. With one swift motion he had pulled me off of the trampoline and flung me over his shoulder.

“MAE HELP!” I screamed as Harry started back inside. But Maeve was too busy laughing to be of any help. Harry didn’t put me down until we were inside the house in one of the back hallways. “You ruined my fun.”

“It wouldn’t have been very fun if you died.”

“At least I would have died laughing.”

“You’re horrible,” He said shaking his head, but giving me a small smile nonetheless.

“Ha! There they are,” I said, poking his dimples. He took my hands and held them to his chest to keep me from poking his face again. His eyes were boaring down on me, but in my drunken state I could only process one thing at a time. “Did you know that the reason people have dimples is because they’re missing a muscle in their mouth?”

“Is that so?”

“It is.” I began to nod my head, but stopped abruptly when it hurt. Harry watched me with a cocked eyebrow and an amused smile. I tried again, “Wanna go jump on the trampoline?”

“No.”

“Want to…”

“No.”

“Well what do you want to do Harold?”

His lips were on mine within seconds. Soft, sweet, and irresistible. My hands instinctively moved to his hair and he let out a moan, pulling me closer. After a few minutes he broke the passionate kiss and leant his forehead on mine. I felt his hand sliding lower, as my heart rate continued to climb.

“I missed you so damn much.”

“I missed you too Harry.”

I gave him another kiss then stepped out of his reach before I fucked him right there. I spent the remainder of the party in his arms, exchanging secret looks and hidden touches, anticipating the night ahead of us.

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