I apologize for the late upload! A lot of excuses I'm not going to bore you with. I also apologize for the switching of POV. There's more than I would have liked, but I needed to with the way I wanted things to happen. So sorry if it's a tad confusing. Thanks for reading lovelies! xx
Ella's POV
I sent a flirty wave and a smile to where Harry and Liam were standing, looking straight at me. I looked behind me and saw Melanie and Meike nervously walking behind me with their heads down. I touched their arms lightly in reassurance before I went inside.
The house was already pumping with music. The lights were dimmed and there was a multi-colored disco ball flashing from the ceiling. It reminded me of one of my school dances, but better.
With Mel and Meike trailing behind me I headed straight up to the boys.
"Hey guys!" I greeted cheerfully.
Niall, who I hadn't noticed standing there because his back was turned, turned to face me and enveloped me in a huge hug.
"ELLA!" he yelled over my head.
"Nice to see you too, Niall." I smiled as I pulled out of his embrace. Melanie forgot her nervousness and hugged Niall after me, introducing him to Meike. I turned away from them to Liam and Harry, who were standing awkwardly in silence.
"Hi!" I smiled, batting my eyelashes at both of them and flipping my long hair over my shoulder before pulling them each into a tight hug. My stomach did somersaults when I wrapped my arms around them, but I ignored them, for now.
"I'm glad you came." Harry said with a smile, his dimples popping out.
"Me too," I said honestly. "You guys really know how to throw a party." I surveyed the room. Groups of people were still showing up, others were crowded together talking and laughing, and the rest were on an area in the huge living room dancing.
"You wanna go meet some people?" Liam asked suddenly, slinging an arm around my shoulder.
"Sure," I giggled, wrapping an arm around his toned waist.
Harry sent Liam a look, but didn't say anything before he turned and walked in the opposite direction.
"Now, I must warn you, there on some pretty famous people here, so you must be on your best behavior!" Liam instructed, a teasing gleam in his eyes.
"Yes sir!" I laughed, snapping into a soldier solute.
He walked me around, introducing me to apparent famous people. Half of them I had no idea who they were, the other half I only had heard their names a few times. But I smiled and pretended I knew who they were and was psyched to meet them.
"There's only three more people I think you should meet," Liam insisted as he towed me around by the hand. He kept looking nervously over his shoulder like he was trying to avoid someone, which I find odd, but I didn't say anything. I could just be interpreting something wrong.
He brought me up to a red haired boy, a black haired boy, and a petite girl with short mousy brown hair.
"OH MY GOD!" I exploded, unable to keep my calm. These people, I knew very well.
"You're…Are you…Am I really here right now? Is this real life?" I stuttered, star struck.
They and Liam laughed at my bewildered response. I stared, utterly shocked that I was standing in front of the stars of Harry Potter. I had a bit of an obsession with the whole series. For years, I had had the biggest crush on Daniel Radcliffe. I still do. And he's standing right in front of me.
"This is Ella, guys." Liam introduced me when they stopped laughing. I remembered telling him about my obsession when I was texting him last night. This boy.
"Hi Ella." Daniel smiled, offering me his hand. I ignored it and pulled him into a hug. After years of staring at posters of him in my room, I was going to take this opportunity to touch him. He laughed in kind of a shocked way, but hugged me back. I pulled the other two into a hug as well.
"You're really pretty." Emma complimented me. Oh, my, god! Emma Watson just told me I was pretty!
"Oh my gosh! Thank you so much! It seriously means so much coming from you. I think you're like so gorgeous!" I babbled in excitement.
"Thank you." She smiled, super calm.
Oh my lord, I was talking to the cast of Harry Potter! Oh my god oh my god oh my god.
"Would you mind if I got a picture with you guys? This probably sounds awkward, but I'm a huge fan!" I asked hopefully.
"Of course," Rupert smiled kindly.
"Here," I handed Liam my camera and posed with them, me and Emma in the middle, Rupert and Daniel on the end, our arms around each other's waist.
Liam snapped the picture.
"Now make a silly face!" Emma insisted. We obeyed and Liam took another picture.
We stepped out of each other's arms and I took my camera back.
"If you don't mind me asking, what was it like being the stars of the biggest movie in the history of the universe?" I asked.
"Oh it was absolutely amazing. Nothing can ever compare to it." Rupert said earnestly.
Liam's POV
I watched Ella as she talked animatedly to Daniel, Emma, and Rupert. Her face shone with happiness. I was glad I had waited until last to introduce her to them. I could tell she had no idea who half the people I had introduced her to earlier, though she was very sweet about it.
"Well, we need to get going; we have another party to get to." Dan said after about ten minutes.
"Alright," Ella said sounding disappointed. "Well it was so nice to meet you!"
"Yeah it was really nice to meet you too!" Emma said, hugging her quickly. Rupert and Dan hugged her goodbye too.
"She's a keeper," Rupert said, winking at me.
Ella looked down at ground, smiling and blushing. I had no idea what that simple act meant. I would probably sit up half the night analyzing it. I grinned at Rupert and winked back.
"Oh my gosh!" Ella said looking up at me, her eyes wide. "I can't believe I just met them! That was crazy! Thank you thank you thank you!"
"It was my pleasure." I smiled. "You're reaction was certainly worth it."
"You should have warned me!" she scolded, slapping me lightly on the arm.
"Oh, but then I would have never seen your reaction, which was pretty priceless." I joked, slipping an arm around her shoulder and pulling her towards where I spotted Zayn, Niall, Louis, Melanie, and Meike.
"Whoa, you look happy." Melanie said when we reached them.
"Well, I'll tell you later." She said, with a grin.
Meike looked at my arm around Ella's shoulder and raised an eyebrow at her. I felt her shoulders shrug under my arm, but noticed she was smiling slightly. What did that mean! This girl confused me to no end.
The song changed from a slow Adele song to a Cyclone by Baby Bash and T-Pain, a seriously old song.
"Oh my gosh! It's 'Cyclone'! THIS IS MY SONG!" Ella exploded, grabbing Meike and Melanie by the wrists in a swift movement and heading off to the area where everyone was dancing.
Ella immediately joined the crowd and started grinding to the beat. After a few seconds hesitation Melanie and Meike joined, swaying to the beat. I watched Ella in awe as she completely let the music take her body over.
"Someone's falling hard…" Zayn sang, punching me on the arm.
I nodded. There was no denying it.
As I watched, Harry appeared out of the crowd of people directly behind her. He pressed his body against her back and moved his bother with hers. I glared enviously as they moved together to the pounding base. Harry was turning out to be some serious competition for me.
Harry's POV
I watched Ella grab her friends by the arms and drag them over to start dancing. Liam was watching her from across the room. I was a bit mad when he had snatched her away right in the beginning. Looks like I finally had my chance to steal her away.
I pushed through people and walked straight up to Ella. I was behind her, so she didn't see me. I closed the distance between us. I put my hands on her tiny waist and started moving to the beat with her. She tensed slightly, but when she looked back and saw it was me, she gave me a cheeky smile before returning to her dancing.
The song ended and changed to Swagger Jagger. I was almost positive she didn't know it, but she didn't miss a beat, just continued dancing away.
Unfortunately, when that song ended, it changed to a slow song, which wasn't as fun to dance to. She turned around to look up at me, a slight smile on her face.
"Wanna go outside?" I raised my voice over the music.
"I'd love to." She smiled, accepting my hand as I pulled her through the mass of people. She looked over her shoulder at Melanie who just smiled and winked.
We got outside and the cool late night air surrounded us. Nobody else was out here, so we were alone. Finally. I hadn't been able to talk to her in person without the other boys there.
"Whoa, the stars look so pretty without the moon." She said in awe, looking up at the sky. She led me over to the grassy area next to our in-ground pool, and plopped flat on her back, kicking off her shoes. I followed her lead, sprawling down on the soft grass next to her.
"I love the sky at night. It's almost unreal. Like little sparkles all over the place." She whispered, as if not to disturb the stars. She raised her arm in front of her and started tracing patterns out of them.
"I like it when there's a full moon. It makes everything look so real." I whispered back.
She nodded. "I like the moon too. It makes me feel so close to everybody in the world. Cause there's only one moon, you know. I look at the exact same moon everyone else on the planet does, just at a different time each day. I don't know, I just think it's so cool."
I turned my head to look at her, extremely fascinated. I had never met anyone who thought like that. She was just mesmerizing.
She turned her head and met my stare.
"What?" she asked, scrunching her nose in a confused way, which made her look irresistible.
"You're just not like any other girl I had ever met." Shit, I hadn't wanted to say that.
"I hope that's a good thing!" she smirked.
"It is." I assured her.
We returned to casual talking after that, which was good for me because I didn't want to blurt any other stupid things out.
"Ready to go back in?" I asked after a while. I could have stayed out her for hours talking to her, but it had been about 45 minutes, so we should probably go back in.
"I guess." She said somewhat reluctantly.
I stood and brushed the dirt off my pants before offering her a hand to help her up. I yanked her off the ground in a quick movement so she was momentarily off the ground.
"Whoa!" she gasped, when her feet hit the floor. She stumbled, not expecting the impact, and fell onto my chest.
"Careful there, clumsy." I teased, putting a hand on her waist to steady her. Just then two girls came out of the house, laughing. I turned to see Danielle and Cher Lloyd emerging from the house. Hmmm… I bet Liam hadn't done the honor of introducing Ella to his ex-girlfriend. I would certainly do it for him. Grinning evilly, I pulled Ella over to them.
Ella's POV
Harry walked over to the two girls who had just came out of the house, towing me behind him.
"Hey guys." Harry greeted them.
"Hi Harry." They synchronized. I surveyed them. One was a dark girl with medium length hair of perfect corkscrew curls. The other was a gorgeous thin girl with dark hair and big eyes.
"Ella this is Danielle," he pointed to the curly haired girl, "And Cher." He pointed to the other girl. "Girls, this is Ella."
"Hi, Danielle. Hi Cher." I gave them a friendly smile.
"Hello Ella." Cher said sweetly.
"Danielle is Liam's ex." Harry blurted randomly.
"Uhhh…" I mumbled, not knowing what to say. Danielle sent a look to Harry, but ignored the comment.
"It's nice to meet you." Danielle said kindly. "I like your dress."
"Thank you! I like your hair." I always wanted curls like that.
"Thanks!" she smiled warmly at me.
"Well, it was really nice meeting you, but I really should find my best friend and my roommate. I hope to see your girls again sometime!" I waved to them as I pulled Harry into the house. I looked up at Harry. He looked a little disappointed, though I'm not sure why.
Most of the people had left, but there were still a good twenty or so people there. We found the other boys along with my girls, all lounging on the floor. I plopped down between Melanie and Louis.
"Well look who's turned up." Melanie joked.
"Oh shush."
I pulled my phone out and opened the camera.
"Smile!" I demanded. Louis and Mel obeyed, pressing their faces to mine and beaming.
"I want a picture!" Niall said. Soon enough we were all crowding around my phone, cramming ourselves together so we could fit in the small box.
"Let me get a picture with the boys!" I said. I stood up and the boys followed suit, standing on either side of me and posing. We took a picture of all of us smiling, then a silly one of us making ridiculous poses and stupid faces.
I looked at the time. It was nearly 4 in the morning.
"We should probably head out." I said, disappointed.
We all hugged goodbye, I held onto Liam and Harry a bit longer than the others. I promised to text them all, and headed out. I couldn't wait to get back to tell Melanie and Meike everything that had happened and hear their stories. Plus spending time with Liam and Harry tonight had helped me sort my feelings out, which I knew Melanie would want to know about immediately.
London was just looking better with everyday I was here.