2am

I was startled from my sleep by the sound of a blaring alarm, naturally I thought it was my alarm for work so reaching out I smacked my hand down on the digital device by my bed but when the ringing continued I came to the conclusion that it was something more important. There was loud banging on my apartment door before someone yelling ‘Fire’. That was enough to sober me up.

Kicking my blankets I grabbed my phone from my bedside table before weaving through my trashed apartment room and pulling the front door open watching as people hurried down the hallway towards the staircase. Finding a gap I fell instep with them as we all hurried out of the building.

By the time we were out there were four fire trucks, three police cars and an ambulance, each vehicle had their red and blue lights flashing, blaring colours on my still sensitive eyes. There were women and men in uniforms asking if everyone was alright. There were scattered yes’s and nods from exiting residents as Firemen raced inside to check where the fire was.

“Hey,” a masculine voice came from beside me startling me. Turning I looked at the male, he loomed over me making me bend my neck to meet his eyes. Fuck he was tall. He wore a smile that was somewhere between tired as hell and slightly worried.

“Hey yourself,” I greeted back even though I had absolutely no idea who he was, obviously he lived in the same apartment building as me but I was sure I had never seen him before.

“Well this is pretty dramatic isn’t it?”

“You could say that,” I nodded my head in agreement. His eyes glinted as they flicked down to look at the device in my hand.

“See you grabbed the essentials.” I felt my cheeks flush with embarrassment.

“You didn’t?”

“I was lucky enough to put pants on let alone grab this blanket here,” I had to bite my lip to stop from laughing, but seeing the playfulness in his eyes I allowed it to slip past my lips.

“That’s a bit more information then I needed to know… and your name is?”

“Harry.”

“Nice to meet you Harry, I’m Aria.”

“Nice name, suits you.” I smiled and thanked him before turning my attention back to the building in front of us. I watched as a few more people filtered out from the top storey. I saw Alice Young filter out, she had a glass vase in her hands, why I had no idea, next was Mia Harlow, she was dressed in a dressing gown and flannel pyjama bottoms and a batman shirt two times too big for her. Next was Nora Miller she still looked half asleep and was being led out by a taller dark haired male who looked just as dazed.

They all wandered off and found a spot to stand until we were allowed back inside. I looked at the building, the longer I looked the more I realised that it wasn’t on fire and some twat had set off the alarm, and not just that I was standing outside in a singlet and shorts freezing my tits off.

Thanks a lot! I thought to myself. I wrapped my arms around myself trying to keep my warmth, but it wasn’t working. My eyes lingered over to the curly haired male, more specifically the blanket that was wrapped around his body. I really wanted to ask if he wanted to share but that seemed rude, looking up I was startled when his eyes locked on mine before he winked. Quickly I turned my head away and pretended to be interested in the windows of the building.

God I wanted that blanket! I wouldn’t complain if Harry was up for exchanging body heat either. He was definitely easy on the eyes. My eyes trailed back to the male who had a smile on his face while his attention was on our building. His blanket looked so snuggly and warm.
NO! Aria stop.

“You know, I have enough blanket here for two… If you want to share,” I snapped my head around to look at him but his attention was still on the building in front of him. I went to say something but stopped myself. That was when he returned his attention to me, chuckling he walked over and wrapped his blanketed arms around me.

Well this wasn’t what I had in mind when he said he had enough blanket, because clearly he didn’t. No use complaining he was keeping me warm on this freezing night. Smiling I allowed myself to melt into his arms.

“You are freezing.”

“Well done Einstein,” laughter ripped from his lips, as he drew me closer encasing me in his arms and the blanket around us. I couldn’t help but smile at how comfortable I felt.

“Well, this is better then what I thought would happen,” both of us turned to see a blue eyed male buzzing with energy and fully dressed a cheshire cat grin on his face.

“Louis? What are you on about?” the male wagged his eyebrows and it dawned on me what he was getting at.

“You set the alarm off?”

“Yep, Curly over here had been wanting to talk to you for ages, he just wouldn’t shut up about you but he was too goddamn scared to do anything about it so… I took it into my own hands.”

“By setting off the fire alarm at two in the morning.” Jasper snapped.

“Hey don’t snap at me, you finally got to talk to her and not only that the two of you are sharing a blanket… anyway gotta run you can thank me later lover boy!” with that the male ran off laughter ringing from his lips. Once his laughter disappeared it left the two of us in an uncomfortable silence.

“So…” I began breaking it when I couldn’t deal with it anymore. “You wanted to talk to me?”

I felt the male tense around me, “Uh… yeah… but…”

“But you were too scared? Why?” I asked slowly snaking myself out of his arms turning to look at him, his face was a deep red and his eyes were downcast as if the grass was suddenly interesting.

“Well uh… you intimidate me,” he winced as he said it, arching one of my brows I waited for him to continue but when he didn’t I prodded him with another question.

“How do I intimidate you?”

“Well uh…” he stumbled over his words he cheeks flaming a scarlet red, “You’re really pretty… beautiful… and I just… girls like you intimidate me… I mean I am a shy guy… and…” I felt light and fluttery and couldn’t help the wide grin that spread across my face. He was adorable, and he was stumbling over his words it was nothing above cute… he was like a little puppy. “God… I am such a mess… I am so sorry…”

“Will you be quite please?” he closed his lips and hesitantly looked up at me scared of what I was going to do next. “Would you like to grab dinner together say Wednesday night?” as soon as the question was out I saw his eyes light up and a wide grin broke across his face, like a child at Christmas, before he spoke.

“I would love to.”

“Seven?”

“I’ll pick you up,” the two of us laughed before we were all informed we could enter the building again. I shot a smile back at the male before heading into the building still feeling all fluttering inside.

Notes

Hello there hey, this is my first story on the site... I hope you enjoy it.
I do not own Harry Styles or any of the other boys but I do own Aria and the plot
Till next time
Cheers :)