All Hidden Away

Calum’s POV

“Heya,” says Lou walking into the kitchen. “She’s coming now.” She is talking to Harry who is following behind her. I was making myself a cup of tea when everyone piled into the kitchen waiting to see Tasha. I felt sorry for her, clearly not used to being the centre of attention.
“Just please tell me she is wearing pants?” begs Luke. He had a whole date planned for them, which was sweet, but for me dinner and a movie would do… you know? I smiled and shook my head at my friend with his crazy plans.
“You’ll see her in like two -” she didn’t get a chance to finish before Harry and Louis looked at Lou.
“But we agreed no skimpy!” says Harry raising his hands and pulling a flabbergasted face at the stylist. I move to sit down next to Ash and hand him his cup of coffee.
“Bet you ten bucks they going to make her change…” mumbles Mikey joining us and indicating to Louis and Harry. Liam sit’s playing with Lux. She’s such a cute little girl…
“They her older brothers… of course they will. If my sister wore anything I didn’t like she would change.” States Ashton simply sipping on his hot drink. I think about my sister and smile. The boys and I agreed to go home for a three week break after tour, it’ll be good to catch up with family.
“You’re on.” I challenge before hearing Lou and Harry heaving a fake heated argument. Niall came over and joined us while Luke ran around trying to find his phone before they had to go.
“What are we talking about?” asks Niall smiling.
“Just saying that Tasha is going to have to get changed if Louis and Harry aren’t happy.” Explains Mikey smiling at the Irish lad.
“You have no idea.” He responds looking to the three arguing.
“It’s my job, Harry! You can’t expect me to tell my boss that.” Says Lou laughing.
“Well if we…” Louis goes silent, and then we all turn to the doorway to see her standing there. Fuck… she definitely will have to get changed…

Tasha’s POV

Everyone is silent as I look around the room. Louis and Harry are standing there, looking like I’ve just told them I’m pregnant… or worse. Niall’s eyebrows are approaching his hairline, as are Liam’s, who is staring at me with wide eyes and an open hanging mouth, holding a sleepy little Lux.
“Fuck…” I turn to see Mike looking like he just about pissed himself, while Ashton and Cal are smiling like idiots. I take a step forward and grab the bottle of water off the table before turning around to see Luke staring at me. His face gives the least away but soon Harry coughs and I turn to look back at him. His face immediately tells me he’s not happy. I smile innocently and look back at Luke.
“Nearly ready to go?” I ask taking a sip from the water bottle. I make eye contact with Lou. She is just standing there taking pictures.
“Uh…da… uhmm… yeah…” says Luke swallowing his words and blushing slightly.
“Uh, no you’re not…” says Louis pulling his classic eye roll before taking a step closer to Harry who is just staring at me. His eyes a dark green. His nostrils are flaring and his eyebrows, unlike his friends, have moved in the other direction, closer to his eyes.
“Natasha, Mum would kill me. You know that right?” he says sternly before looking at Louis for his back up.
“Why? She looks fit.” Says Mike clearly not thinking about his life at this point of time. I nearly start laughing as Liam gives him a death stare and telepathically telling him to shut the fuck up. Niall is slowly shaking his head in shock.
“You actually… I agree with Harry… Sorry Tasha.” He says, his role as my big brother and my brothers best friend quickly taking over. He then scoots closer to Calum who is still staring at me.
“Mate, close your mouth. You don’t want to catch a fly.” Louis’ approach is much simpler walking over to Luke and simply smacking the back of his head.
“Ouch! Hey! I didn’t even say anything…” he protests rubbing the back of his head. Louis and Harry both just raise their eyebrows at him. He clearly gets the message and turns a shade darker.
“Besides, didn’t you have laser tag down as a plan for tonight?” says Liam quickly jumping on the bandwagon. I smile and quickly turn to Luke, excitement building in me.
“Well yea, but we can just have dinner if –” he says looking at me still a slight shade of pink.
“I strongly suggest you do not carry on that sentence…” says Louis pulling his bitch face in our direction.
“Harry, do you have such little faith in your stylist? I was never going to let her wear that, I just needed to see your face.” Says Lou moving forward and pulling him into a hug. The tension in the room visibly lifts.
“Well, if you don’t want to get changed, you know, it’s okay we can, you know just adjust plans and…” says Luke making awkward hand gestures to me. I smile and shake my head.
“Nah, lasertag sounds like fun.” I say smiling before turning to Lou. “You better have gotten that on camera! Thanks big bros for all the faith in me not being slut…” I say raising my eyebrows and turning around before heading upstairs.
“You will be the death of me. I swear to god, Natasha.” I hear Harry mumble.

“I think you just ruined Luke’s night…” says Lou walking in behind me and closing the door, smiling.
“Hey, it’s not my fault! You put me in this dress!” I say quickly taking off the shoes and shrinking back down to my normal size.
“Okay… true. But you will look just as stunning in these…” she says turning to the big bag she brought with her. She quickly pulls out a jacket to die for. It’s pure leather, with small details. I fall in love with it immediately. She also pulls out a black pair of ripped jeans, a very pretty galaxy print shirt and a set of jewellery.
“I have a pair of jeans just like that…” I say smiling and picking up the pair.
“I thought you might… would you rather wear yours?” she offers smiling as she still digs around in the massive bag. I nod my head and go to my draws. I open them up and find my jeans. I slip out of the dress and quickly pull them on, enjoying the comforting fabric on my over exposed legs.
“Those are nice… we need to go shopping sometime, maybe invite Gem?” she offers.
“we can talk about that once tonight is done…” I say running my hands through my hair.
“Little nervous are we?” she hands me the shirt and I quickly pull it over my head. I nod and grimace.
“I know it’s not a real date, but I haven’t been on a date I just under a year… and you know… it’s casually with Luke Hemmings, so I might just get daggers thrown at me.” I say putting my hands on my hips and sighing.
“Oh come one… it’ll be fun.” I nod and turn to look in the mirror.
“At least its laser tag and not some hectic restaurant or something…” I mumble. I love the shirt. There is a small patch of my midriff showing, but not too much. The galaxy is mostly purple and its loose fitting and just perfect. I tilt my head and let my long hair fall down. Definitely going to need to tie it up if I’m playing lasertag…
“What shoes am I wearing?” I ask looking at her. She goes to my cupboard and looks around before pulling out my black and white Vans. I laugh and quickly pull them on.
“My best friend calls these my lucky shoes…” I say standing back up. She giggles slightly.
“Why would he do that?”
“Because I wear them during exams, and I’ve never failed once, while he has. I tried explaining it was most probably the fact I studied but he’s got a thicker skull than Louis…” I say shaking my head.

After a few more minutes of casual conversation, me falling in love with the jacket the minute I touched it, and her plaiting my hair… I was ready to go.
“Wait, hold on one second.” She comes forward with a baby wipe and removing my lipstick she applies a softer, pale pink in its place. “There you go…” she smiles and makes me turn around and check it again.
“Okay so the jacket is yours – so just-” she indicates to it.
“It’s mine?” I ask confused. She nods and hand me my small bag which I slip my phone and some cash into. We walk downstairs and I hear a heavy sigh of relief.
“Oh thank god!” says Harry now smiling like a crazy idiot.
“You have no trust in me…” I say giving him a hug before getting pulled into another set of arms.
“You can’t grow up too fast… okay?” says Louis sadly into my ear. I laugh at him but nod. “Oh, and you need to wear this…” he says handing my an all too familiar grey beanie.
“Thanks, Lou…” I say before turning to see Luke dressed in an Iron Maiden T- shirt, and basically a men’s version of my jeans and shoes. His hair slightly quiffed. I smile.
“You look lovely, Tasha.” He says smiling and handing me a small ticket for the laser tag. “It’s so sad that being pretty won’t help you win tonight.” I laugh at his cockiness and turn to Harry.
“Care to explain to the poor lad that I don’t lose at laser tag?” I say cheekily. Harry shakes his head and hugs me once more.
“Call if there are any problems… okay?” he says suddenly looking nervous. I step back and pull on Louis beanie. And nod at him. Mikey and everyone else walked in, including Niall.
“Ahh, there is the Tasha I know.” He says smiling. I pull my tongue at him and start heading out, saying a quick good bye to everyone and thanking Lou for the millionth time.
“THEY GROW UP SO FAST!” screams Louis into Lou’s shoulder pretending to cry, making me and Harry shake our heads. I turn to Luke, who smiles, opens the door for me and we head out for our first date.

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