Always Yours

“I smell food!” we heard a loud voice along with the slam of the front door along with footsteps of the rest of them.

Of course, it was Niall and that Irish accent of his. Harry and I turn to each other and laugh a bit at the crazy Irish boy. Just as I was about to open the oven to check the brownies with a toothpick, Niall walks in along with Claire and the other three boys who had four or five bags each.

“What did you make, Aves?” Claire asks with a smile as she sets two bags down on the counter. The boys follow behind her and begin to put stuff from the other bags away. I smile and tell them one big ‘thank you’ as I turn back to the oven.

“I made brownies, Harry and I decided to make the whole box since we didn’t want ‘em to go to waste,” I tell the rest of them over my shoulder as I stick the toothpick in the chocolate goodness to see if they were done.

“Are they done yet? I want some!” Niall calls in excitement.

I pull the toothpick from the brownies and set the barely touched toothpick on the counter. They were practically done, since the toothpick was clean. I grabbed the nearest oven mitts so I could pull the pan from the oven and set it on the counter to cool.

“They’re done but really hot, Niall. Can’t you wait for them to cool down a bit?” I joked with a hint of a laugh.

The boy lets out a somewhat frustrated sigh and pouts a bit. “Fine,” he huffs, crossing his arms over his chest in defeat. The rest of us chuckle at the pouting boy who was whining for some of the brownies we made.

Harry and I talk about a million different things that come to mind. Every so often, Niall would ask if they were done yet. Harry would shake his head making the blonde boy frown, his arms still crossed over his chest in defeat. I laugh a bit. Niall was too much, him and his food. He was hungry all the time. I didn’t know how Claire puts up with that.

After a good ten minutes or so, I reach in the nearest drawer so I could grab a small spatula along with a knife, to cut the brownies of course. It takes me a few minutes but I cut them into even enough squares, all thanks to the dull knife I pulled from the silverware drawer.

“Are they done yet?” the impatient Irishman asks as he walks into the kitchen, Claire a little ways behind him. The other three boys walk in a few minutes after the two lovebirds did. I nod my head and chuckle a bit and motion for him to go forward and grab one. He grins widely before hurrying forward and grabbing himself a brownie or two.

“Don’t eat ‘em all, Nialler, save some for us, mate,” Louis joked with the younger boy as he stuffed his face with the baked goodness that was brownies. Each of us went and got ourselves a plate with a brownie or two and began to eat them.

“Oh my god, these are the best brownies I’ve ever had!” Niall exclaims loudly, his mouth full of food.

“Don’t talk with your mouth full babe, it doesn’t look nice,” Claire mutters to the boy beside her, laughing a bit.

“How ‘bout we go watch some movies and have some more of these?” Zayn suggests gesturing toward the living room after pointing to the half-full pan of brownies, swallowing the last bit of brownie from his plate that he held in his right palm.

We all agree with him and soon make our way into the living room after getting another brownie or not if we wanted one. Claire and Niall were seated in the recliner, which left the other four boys and I to sit wherever on the roomy leather sectional couch that could surprisingly fit us all.

Louis, Zayn and Liam were already sitting on the couch in a comfy position, while I stood awkwardly next to Harry, whose eyes I could feel on me as we look at the rest of them.

“So, what do we all want to watch?” I ask looking at the other boys and then over at Claire and Niall, who was paying no mind to me, his eyes focused elsewhere, on Claire or the food in front of his face. A few of the guys called out random movie titles I wasn’t quite sure we had, like Insidious and some others like that.

“Sorry to rain on your guys’ parade but I don’t do scary movies, they give me…nightmares, like really bad,” I tell them with a nervous laugh.

“Awe, you’re no fun, Avery! It isn’t really that scary, love,” Liam replies with a slight laugh and a hint of a smile on his face. I give him a small smile in return and roll my eyes.

“Yeah, you’re no fun!” Niall exclaims with a chuckle as he looks over at me and Harry.

“Harry, come help me pick one out, yeah?” I question in a somewhat British accent best I could.

“Sure thing love and your accent was quite rubbish but alright for a Cali girl I suppose,” Harry replies with a smile as I lead him to the cabinet where all of our movies are.

I just laugh and push him lightly. “And you’re rude,” I call out in faux-irritated fashion and cross my arms over my chest like I was at him, like Niall was doing earlier when he was pouting about the brownies.

A few minutes go by and we get to the cabinet where Claire and I kept all of our movies we own. It takes us a few minutes but we don’t find anything good to watch. I let out a sigh and look at Harry who stared back at me.

“How ‘bout we scroll through Netflix instead and find something? There’s bound to be something for us all to watch there, ya know?” he asks looking at me with a small smile.

“Yeah, we could do that, don’t know why I didn’t think of that,” I reply with a small hint of a laugh as I look at him. He just smiles in return and grabs hold of my wrist, dragging me back toward the living room. I manage to shut the doors of the wooden cabinet before he pulled me away. as we walk in the living room, we look at each of them before I begin to speak.

“How ‘bout we find something to watch on Netflix instead? Harold came up with the idea,” I smile and ruffle the tall boy’s curls a bit earning a chuckle from his mouth. His laugh; it was too damn cute.

“Sure!” was a reply from Liam and Zayn in unison.

“Sounds good, love,” Niall replies happily. Claire nods in agreement along with her boyfriend who sat beside her.

“Let the search begin!” Louis calls out a bit loudly.

Harry and I sit down on the couch, a little ways away from where Louis sat along with Zayn and Liam on the other side of him. Claire grabs hold of the remote and turns the flat screen on. After pressing a button, the screen for Netflix comes up. She types in her information which takes a few minutes but not too incredibly long. Once she is logged in, we begin to find something good to watch.

“Who wants popcorn? Might go make some while you lot search for somethin’ to watch,” Niall pipes up in a loud manner, earning a laugh from the rest of us, Claire included.

“You proper serious, mate? Just a few moments ago you had brownies you were goin’ crazy for and now ya want popcorn? Unbelievable,” Liam mutters his eyebrows creased in confusion as he looks at the blonde boy who was sitting beside my best friend.

“Problem, Li?” Niall questions his friend, a cheesy smile on his face.

He was too much; Niall and his food, always with food on his mind other than Claire, obviously. He gives my best friend a kiss on the cheek before getting up and running off to the kitchen. While Niall was off in the kitchen making his snack, the rest of us went through a bunch of the lists with all the movies that were recommended to Claire’s likes.

After a few minutes of looking through some of the movies, we find one; Super 8. Just as we picked it out, Niall walked into the room, a bowl of popcorn in his hands. Claire starts the movie and we all begin to watch it. Every so often, I could feel my fingers brush against Harry’s.

I couldn’t help the blush that crept onto my face. My eyes caught a glimpse of Harry’s cheeks that were darkened a shade of pink and I couldn’t help but blush even more. He was too adorable when he was embarrassed, he really is. I avert my gaze from his and focus them back on the flat screen before me. I had a feeling someone would ask one of us something sooner or later by how we were acting. But obviously, nothing had happened between us yet.

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