Danielle and I walked into chaos in the main room. Eleanor and Louis were nowhere to be seen, Zayn and Harry were engaged in some kind of fight about movies, or something, Liam was trying to calm them down, and Niall was whining loudly from the kitchen about the lack of food in the house. Everything quieted when we walked in.

Danielle eyed Liam suspiciously. "Where are Lou and Eleanor?"

"In Louis' room!" Harry responded, gagging.

She wrinkled her nose and changed the subject. "What are they arguing about?" She gestured to Harry and Zayn.

Liam rolled his eyes. "Zayn says Repulsion is the best horror movie, while Harry just has to disagree, with the thought that Dead Man's Shoes is the best horror movie." He shook his head.

Danielle glared at them. "Knock it off; it's annoying." They protested, and she joined Liam in lecturing them.

Shaking my head, I made my way to the kitchen, where Niall had gone back into once the arguing had started again. He was digging through cupboards, frustrated, but looked up when I walked in, and smiled at me.

"Hey, Cassie."

I waved slightly. "Looking for something?"

He just scowled. "Everything we bought today requires cooking and I'm too lazy to cook right now."

My head turned to the side. "Well, I would help you, but I don't know how to cook."

He shook his head, and shouted, "DANIELLE!"

Instead of shouting back, like any of the boys would have done, she came into the kitchen to see what he wanted for herself, like a civilized person. "What, Niall?"

He just pouted at her.

She scowled, but sighed. "Fine..."

I raised an eyebrow at her. She shook her head. "He's like a baby; if you don't feed him every two hours, he will go berserk and rip you to pieces."

Niall frowned at her, his face red. "Not true."

She laughed and nodded. "You know very well that it's true. Do you remember the last time you went half a day without eating? That was-"

"Don't bring it up again, Danielle!" Niall whined, interrupting her; his face bright red.

Danielle went to grab ingredients for what I now know is spaghetti, laughing, when Louis suddenly barged in the room and tackled me in a hug. I laughed at him, hugging back, before he pulled away and grinned at me. "Did you get your new phone?!"

I nodded. He looked at me seriously, before asking, "Do you know how to use it?"

I just laughed again and nodded.

Lou smiled. "Good!" and took my phone from me, as I had been holding it.

I sighed and shook my head.

"Cassie; help me?" Danielle called, while Louis went and grabbed a seat next to Niall at the kitchen table, focused on my phone.

Sighing again, I went over to Danielle. "I don't know how to cook."

She just smiled. "Well, this would be the perfect opportunity to teach you then." She said, smiling brightly.

"Alright; what would you like me to do?"

She handed me a pack of what looked like long, thin, sticks. I may know what things are now, but I'm still not all too sure what everything looks like...

"Noodles." Danielle said, nodding at the package I was holding, as if she could sense my confusion.

"Okay..." I nodded my head slowly. "And what do I do with it?"

"Get a pot, fill it with water, put it on the stove, turn the stove on, wait 'till the water is boiling, then pour the uncooked noodles in the pot and stir them occasionally until they're tender."

I just stared at her blankly. She sighed and took the pack of uncooked noodles from me, smiling. "How about you go find something that doesn't need to be cooked for Niall to eat? He doesn't normally look thoroughly."

I nodded slightly, still dazed from Danielle's impossible-sounding instructions, but went through cabinets and what-not, searching for something Niall could eat. Laughing, I unearthed a bag of 'crisps', is what I think they called them, and plopped them down in front of Niall.

He grinned up at me before opening the bag.

Lou pouted, "I'm hungry, too." Just then, before I could respond, Eleanor walked in and threw a bag of carrots at him, He grinned at her. "Never mind!" He shouted, still grinning.

I just shrugged and went into the main room when Eleanor sat down, engaging Louis and Niall in conversation.

Harry, Zayn, and Liam were on the couch watching a movie. This was slightly difficult for me to determine at first glance, seeing as THE LIGHTS WERE OFF.

Liam looked back at me when I walked in, and smiled. "Come join us, Cassie. We're just watching a movie." Figuring that it was better than doing nothing, I agreed easily, joining them, sitting with my back against the couch.

Before I had a chance to ask what movie they were watching, I heard Danielle's voice: "Hey, guys; what are we watching?" She asked, plopping down on the floor beside me, her back against Liam's legs.

I stared at her, confused. "What?" She asked, looking back at me.

"I thought you were cooking...?" I responded curiously.

She laughed. "I am cooking; it just doesn't require full attention. When cooking some things, you can go do other things while the food, well, cooks." She said, before turning her head back to the movie. I had yet to figure out what movie it was.

I was about to ask Liam, eyes on the screen, when I saw someone's head being chopped off, and heard an ear-piercing scream. Harry laughed when I jumped. I felt sick.

Deciding I didn't want to watch whatever they were watching, I dragged myself off the ground and went back into the kitchen. Eleanor and Niall were gathered around Lou, laughing at something on my phone, which he was holding. Wait... My phone!

"Lou, can I please have my phone back now?" I asked, scowling slightly.

Louis' head jerked up. "This phone?" He asked stupidly, holding up my phone.

I sighed, feeling as if I was talking to a child. "Yes, Louis; that phone."

He smirked maliciously. "Why, of course you can have your phone back, love."

I narrowed my eyes at him, taking the phone from his outstretched hand cautiously. But, before I could ask what he had done to my phone, Danielle burst into the kitchen, heading straight to the stove. "Spaghetti's almost ready." She informed; Niall whooped.

Taking this as a chance to see what Louis had done to my phone, I sneaked out of the room quietly and into the main room. I winced, hearing another shattering scream. Rushing to my room, I shut and locked the door behind me.

Brows furrowed, I unlocked my phone and checked my contacts first. Nothing different there, other than the fact that 'Louis Tomlinson' was now 'Sexy Tommo'. I rolled my eyes at that. Were all boys so childish? I changed the name back to 'Louis Tomlinson' and, clicking out of my contacts, I checked Facebook next. Nothing out of order there, so I went to Twitter. Once I got over the fact that I had about a million more followers than I'd had the last time I had checked, which had not been too long ago, I went to my tweets, curious; it said I had tweeted once, yet I was positive that I had not yet tweeted. Cue the horrible moment when I finally figure out the horrible deed Lou had done to my new cell phone.

' Cassie_Tomlinson: Louis_Tomlinson is the best brother ever and NiallOfficial is a sexy beast.'

The anger and humiliation didn't seep in until I checked the thousands of replies:

' _: Louis_Tomlinson stop hacking your poor little sister, Lou.'

I won't mention the rest because I wouldn't want to scar you innocent people. Let's just say... I'm now disliked by the majority of the Twitter population. I'm used to being disliked, of course, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt. I do have feelings, you know. Even though no one cares about them.

Exactly three seconds later, I had made my decision.

Putting on a calm expression, I walked out into the main room, where the lights were now on, the TeleVision was off, and everyone was eating spaghetti and laughing loudly at something.

Louis jumped when I came in, and everyone quieted.

He was looking at me with wide, pleading eyes. "I'm so sorry, Cassie! I wasn't thinking; I shouldn't have done that. Please forgive me?" My heart clenched as he stuck out his bottom lip in an adorable pout, and I was about to give in when I caught Eleanor's eye behind him. She shook her head at me, mouthing 'No.'

I frowned at Louis, trying not to smirk at his expression. "No; I don't think I will." I retorted, before going to sit next to Niall, who was leaning against the couch.

Everyone but Eleanor and Danielle gaped at me. Danielle shook her head in amusement and Eleanor grinned, giving me two thumbs-up.

Lou's eyebrows scrunched together in confusion. I tried not to laugh; it was too hilarious, though, and a small giggle involuntarily escaped my lips.

That just caused more confusion among the boys.

Everything was silent for a moment, then Louis finally spoke up. "Eleanor, Danielle," he addressed his and Liam's girlfriends. "What have you done to the poor creature? She left an innocent seven-teen year old girl and came back-" he stuttered for a moment before settling on a word. "Different." He finally said, satisfied.

I sighed, before mumbling, "I'm not different, I'm just a LITTLE less shy..."

"Yes!" Lou whooped, fist pumping the air. "Now she'll be more fun!" He grinned at me; I smiled shyly back at him.

The grin disappeared faster than it had appeared, replaced instead by a horrified look. "Do you still love carrots, Cassie?" He shouted, looking scared and worried, as if I had just told him that I hated puppies, or that I ripped the wings off of butterflies for a living.

I giggled slightly. "Of course I still love carrots, Lou!" I said, smiling.

He grinned lazily before plopping back down on the couch next to Eleanor, saying "Good," and returning to his spaghetti.

As Danielle went to get me spaghetti, I gazed around at my new friends with a lazy grin much like Louis' on my face.

There was no more thinking that maybe my life would be different, better, now. I just knew it would be.