The sound of a key in the lock signalled the last addition to the house entering. After James and Lilly arrived it had taken a couple of hours for the rest to show up with Liam being the last… as always.
Lilly was just coming down the stairs when Liam closed the door. She creeped down the hall and threw herself on Liam's back "SURPRISE!" she shouted as she wrapped her arms and legs round him so she didn't fall off. Liam stumbled forward but caught himself on the door, as payback he took one of her feet and tickled it; she instantly released and fell to the floor with a thump.
"Still as ticklish as ever" Liam laughed, turning to face Lilly, slumped on the floor like a sulking little kid.
"Still a big, fat meanie." Lilly said trying hard not to smile.
Liam faked pain as he said "I'm not fat" he laughed though and held his hands out to help her up. "I'm sorry Lils but it is your own fault, you should know me well enough by now to know I would do that."
"Yeah true. But its still mean." Lilly giggled
"Silly" Liam laughed
James walked into the hall just as Liam had helped Lilly right herself. He looked at the two of them and couldn't help but smile. He walked up behind Lilly and looked at Liam "you being evil again, huh?" Liam looked back at James, "Me. Evil. Never." He laughed.
"You. Evil. All the time." Lilly laughed too as she took the two guys hands and dragged them into the living room and one by one pushed them onto different sofas. Liam slumped directly opposite James after both were over dramatic with their falls. "Now you two better wait here or you don't know what will happen" Lilly said over her shoulder as she left the room
"Oooo, I'm so scared." Liam called sarcastically after her before a giant red cushion hit him in the face. Once the cushion had fallen off his face he looked at a James acting innocent, James looked up at Liam "what?" he asked as innocently as possible, which wasn't much because he couldn't help but laugh. The red square came flying back at him at high speed. He stuck his feet up and sent the square back across the room again, only to stop with Liam's face imprinted in it again.
"Geez man, you have fast reactions." Liam laughed, pulling the cushion away from his face and tossing it to the middle of the room.
"Well, what can I say, I've been waiting to hit you in the face all summer." James laughed and waited for Liam to make a sarcastic comment but he didn't, he just laughed.
Lilly walked back in with Matt, Suzan and Chrissy in tow. The four of them looked at each other in confusion then looked back to the two laughing boys. Lilly cleared her throat "Ahem, what's the joke?" she asked. Liam and James looked at each other, then to the group in the door way, then back each other again. "Erm. Nothing" both of them said as they sat up straighter on the sofas. The four in the door way went to join the two guys on the sofas as they stared telling each other about their summer and things that happened in the dorm house before and the friends that had already left. Soon they were all laughing and reminiscing on past memories.