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"Well well well, if it isn't the famous Lily that Niall has been telling us so much about," Louis said in a voice that immediately made me embarrassed when Niall and I walked into the kitchen side by side. I looked at the floor at Louis' statement but I stayed next to Niall because I didn't know where to go.

Harry was sat on the counter near a coffee machine munching contently on a piece of cheese pizza. He nodded at me when I had walked in but he hadn't said anything which I was grateful for. Zayn was sat on the island counter throwing an apple in the air while eating a mozzarella stick that made me unbelievably hungry by just looking at. He hadn't looked away from the apple when I'd walked in which was fine with me, I didn't like getting any more attention that I already had. Liam was perched on a white bar stool looking through all the food when we had walked in. He'd given me a quiet hi that I had only just heard before going back to the food in front of him.

"Seriously Lou, I've barely told you guys anything about Lily," Niall protested.

"Oh yeah?" Louis cleared his throat, "I wish we got more time off so I could see Lily more. She's just so amazing I want to spend all day, everyday with her forever. She always makes me laugh and I never get annoyed when I'm with her. Most of the time I just forget about everything else cause the only thing that matter when I'm with her is her," Louis said in his best Irish accent. I couldn't stop myself from smiling at what Louis had said. Niall was running his hands through his hair like he always did when he was nervous or awkward so I knew it was true.

The rest of the boys started laughing and Niall cursed at them before grabbing 3 pieces of pepperoni pizza from one of the boxes and going to sit on a small black sofa that was underneath one of the windows just outside the kitchen area. I giggled and skipped over to him. He smiled even though he had a mouthful of food in his mouth when I plonked down next to him and snuggled into his arm to make him feel better. Once again, his amazing scent took over me and I melted in it. It was musky but also sweet like vanilla at the same time and it was my favourite smell in the world. Nothing would ever beat it, never.

The boys watched us for a minute or two and when we didn't do anything they began talking amongst themselves as if Niall and I had all of a sudden turned invisible.

"Not gonna offer me any pizza?" I said quietly.

Niall held out a piece to me and I bit a tiny bit off the end and smiled innocently at him as if to say hehe.

"Never mind then," Niall said with a smirk. He knew what I was going to do so he moved the pizza towards his lips watching me out of the corner of his eye. I waited until the very last second before I shot up and ripped a big part from the pizza slice away and gobbled it down in possibly the most unattractive way possible but Niall still laughed. I began giggling which made chewing the pizza quite difficult and I had to look away from Niall to be able to finish the bit of pizza I had stolen.

When I turned back around Niall was still laughing a little bit so I waited until he'd stopped completely to speak.

"Did you really say all that about me to them?"

I knew he had by the way he had reacted by Louis' impression of him but I had a strange feeling that made me want to hear him confirm that he did say all the things Louis had said he did.

Niall nodded and I smiled. He looked at me and I noticed his eyes lingering on my lips. I knew he wouldn't kiss me, he had tried earlier and I'd pushed him away, but I wanted to kiss him. So I did and for a second the whole world became irrelevant to me before I heard laughs and noises from the rest of the boys. I had forgotten that they could still see us.

I pulled away from Niall and he smiled at me quickly before standing up and walking over to the boys. Zayn was rolling around on the island making moaning noises which caused the other boys to hoot with laughter. Zayn only stopped when he physically couldn't carry on because Niall had shoved a slice of pizza onto his face and moved it around to make sure his entire face was covered in tomatoes sauce. More laughs came from the boys, Niall included this time, as Zayn grabbed a tea towel from a draw near him and whipped his face, revealing a pissed off look that said I'll get you back.

I made my way over to the island and sat on a bar stool a seat away from Liam who had started on a cookie. I dug into a not yet started, meat feast pizza and managed to finish nearly all of it by myself. None of the boys said anything about how much I ate which surprised me because I ate a lot that night: 3/4 of a pizza, 4 mozzarella sticks, 1 and a half cookies, an apple and a pack of smokey bacon crisps that I found in one of Niall's cupboards.

Somehow, all 6 of us ended up in Niall's living room at about 10:30 playing a game of truth or dare. It was childish and not something normal 20-22 year olds would do but it was fun so we did it anyway. Louis and Harry were snuggled up next to each other at one end of the sofa. Liv had told me all about the Larry Stylinson predictions and rumors and looking at the two of them in the position they were in, Louis perfectly molded into Harry's side and their legs all tangled together, I could understand what people meant. Liam was sat in a large, grey, love seat that he'd turned slightly so he was facing the rest of us with a blanket covering his legs. He kept burping which gave Niall much amusement and made him shake with laughter each time.  Zayn was sat in the center of the sofa with a dark red blanket covering his legs. Niall and I were sat close to each other but not as close as Harry and Louis. I kept feeling Niall's eyes on me but whenever I looked over at him he snapped his head away fast, but not fast enough because I always caught a look at the small smirk that was on his face.

"Right my turn to ask someone something!" Louis said loudly and he straightened himself up a bit. I watched him as he scanned the room looking at everyone and eventually his eyes stopped on me and I felt my heart rate begin to quicken.

"Lily, truth or dare?" he said and everyone looked at me.

"Truth," I said quietly. I had never liked truth or dare as a game but I didn't want to be a party pooper so I decided not be annoying and just pick one.

"Hmm..." Louis stayed quiet for a second before beginning to say, "Will you ever forgive Niall for cheat-"

Harry's hand clapped over Louis' mouth before he could finish his sentence. I swallowed the lump in my throat which had formed just from the word cheat. It seemed whenever anyone said that word, images of Niall and the red haired girl that I had tried so hard for months to forget would spring into my mind and the moment of me walking in would play over and over in my head.

"Shit, Lily I'm sorry. I forgot Niall told us never to talk about that day," Louis said as soon as Harry had removed his hand from Louis' face.

"It's ok," is all I said. Louis did sound genuinely sorry but Niall didn't seem to buy it.

"I bet your well sorry aren't ya. It's not like you deliberately said that just so you could have a bit of fun huh?" 

"Niall back off, it was an accident ok?" Louis defended himself.

"Whatever, I'm going to bed," Niall said and he stood up from next to me. I watched him as he walked out of the room, leaving me alone with the 4 other boys.

I saw Liam about to say something when a loud sound of a door slamming echoed into the room from upstairs. 

"I'll go see if he's alright," I said quickly and walked out the room, not bothering to hear the responses of the boys.