Replace Me (Sequel to No Foundations)

I'm not ready - Chapter 5

"What!?" She says, an almost frustrated tone in her voice.

"I'm accepting my present. Will you hear me out?" I ask.

"Fine. Let me put a shirt on." She says, getting up and putting on my shirt before returning to the bed. "Shoot." She says, smiling.

"God you know how to kill a moment."

"Can I go shower now?"

"REMI!" Now I'm the one getting frustrated.

"Fine I'll go first. This is the mushiest you'll ever hear me, beside like... if we get married or something..." she trails off thinking.

"Watch you not cry." I joke, killing the moment. I guess I'll have to wait to hear her get mushy.

"Probably." She smirks.

"We've had a lot of marriage talk today..." I state.

"Yeah, a little too much." She agrees, looking over at the wall. I move her face with my hand so that she has to look at me.

"I'll stop. I'm sorry." I say, pouting my lower lip. She pokes my lower lip back into place.

"It's okay. I just don't understand how it doesn't scare you off." She confesses, looking down again.

"Does it scare you off?" I ask.

"No. Well, maybe. No, because I cant imagine being with anyone else for the rest of my life. But yes at the same time, because we're only 21. We aren't supposed to be talking about marriage. Do you know what the next step after marriage is?" She asks me and I look at her, waiting for her to tell me. "Babies." She whispered.

"I like kids." I state and she shivered.

"NOT AT 21!" She said with a panic look in her eyes.

"We wouldn't have to have kids right after we got married."

"Can we drop the subject of children? It's freaking me out."

"You're the one that brought it up." I teased her.

"Just to explain why I'm afraid to get married." She pointed out.

"So it's not because of me?" I clarify and she laughs.

"No. I'd rather die than live without you." She smiled.

"Look who's getting sappy now." I tease, and she hits me with a pillow.

"You're ridiculous. I'm going to take a shower." She rolls her eyes as she gets up.

"You're so fit babe." I say and she pulls the t-shirt off over her head so that she's naked as she walks the rest of the way to the bathroom. I whistle and she giggles.

"That's right." She turns around to wink at me quickly, before disappearing into the bathroom and closing the door. I smile to myself, lying back on the bed with my hands beneath my head. I look up at the ceiling and get lost in my thoughts for a brief moment before I hear a knock at the door.

"WAIT!" I yell as I get up to find my pants. I slip my boxers on and go to open the door. Louis is standing there. He stares me up and down and laughs.

"Will you guys be quieter? We can hear you from across the street." He teases and I roll my eyes.

"You jelly bro?" I ask and he gives me a 'really now?' kind of look.

"Don't ever say that again." He shakes his head at me and I laugh.

"Noted." I say, opening the door for him to come into our room.

"Where's Remi?" He asks, looking around the room.

"Shower, but anyway, what's going on?" I ask, wondering what must be so important that he'd potentially interrupt Remi and I having sex.

"Grimmy's going out tonight. He invited all of us. It's at G-A-Y I guess, lots of people will be there. What do you think?" Louis asked, smiling. I thought about it for a second.

"I'll have to ask Remi. I think she wanted to go to dinner or something..." I trail off.

"I think this party will be much more fun." Louis points out, smiling his genuine and contagious smile.

"Probably." I say, "Let me ask her when she gets out of the shower. What time do we have to go?" I ask. Louis looks down at his watch.

"Um... Like an hour?" He guesses.

"Is it, just one of Nick's parties or?" I ask, wondering how I should dress.

"Technically he invited us to a birthday party for Rita Ora, so we should go."

"Oh um, okay sounds good. Didn't she have a party last weekend?" I asked, confused. He just shrugged.

"She likes to go all out? I would too if it was my birthday!" Louis says and I laugh at him.

"I guess that's right." I say, and then I hear the shower turn off. "Stay here quick." I say to Louis. I go over to the bathroom door and knock. "Babe! Warning: Louis is here." I say and she opens the door, wrapped in a towel. She mouths 'thank you' to me and then turns to Louis.

"What's going on Lou?" She asks, walking into the closet.

"It's Rita Ora's birthday tonight at G-A-Y. We should go, because she's our friend and we should go out." Louis tries to convince her. She sticks her head out of the closet, wearing jeans and a black bra.

"Sounds like fun. What do you think Harry?" She asks me.

"I think you need to put a shirt on, or Louis needs to turn away." I say, neither of them listened to me. I sigh, "But I also think it'd be fun. If you'd like to go we can, otherwise I have no problem with just going to dinner." I say.

"All our dates include dinner. Forget dinner. Let's go have some fun." She smiles, walking back into the closet.

"Awesome!" Louis beams. "Get ready! Harry seriously take a shower." He winks at me.

"Yes sir." I say and he walks out of the room. I walk into the closet to find Remi looking through dresses.

"Are you not going to shower?" She asks, obviously not hearing Louis' advice.

"No I will. I was just hoping to catch you changing." I said, a little too honest. "That sounded less creepy in my head." I explained.

"Yeahhhh... go shower." She laughed at me. I hang my head.

"Good idea." I say, turning to walk toward the bathroom.

"Harry wait!" She said and I turned around, she took 3 hop steps over to me and kissed me on the lips. "I love you." She smiled.

"I know." I say, pecking her lips again. "I love you too." She smiled, caressing my cheek quickly before giving me a light shove over to the bathroom