Once again the alarm bought Louis to life with a horrible jolt that he felt right through to his core. It definitely sounded louder than yesterday and he grabbed his pillow from beneath him, rolled onto his front and shoved it over his head. It did little to drown out the noise but he didn't care. His eyes were heavy and he really just wanted a lay in for once.
He could hear people starting to get up and talking together and felt Harry and Niall stir and start to get up beside him. He was just contemplating staying in bed all day and wondering if he'd eventually tone out the noise of the alarm when his whole body was being lifted from the bed.
He dropped the pillow from his face as his back hit a chest and as he sleepily looked behind him to see who was walking him off the bed, his eyes found Harrys and he dropped his head onto Harrys shoulder and closed his eyes.
"Bad Harold." He muttered into the room. Harry simply chuckled into his ear and put Louis' feet down gently on the floor. "You're not going to throw me in the pool are you?"
"I was thinking about it, " Harry said, "but I prefer to have you as my partner in crime instead of a rival, so" He shrugged with a smile before he moved to step back but Louis leant his weight on him instead, he actually didn't think he had the energy to keep himself up anyway. Harry didn't seem to protest and wrapped his arms around Louis' middle tighter and walked them both into the living room.
"I'm making pancakes," Harry said to the room and he got a few cheers from the people who had heard. As he moved into the kitchen, He lifted Louis onto the counter and sat him down and continued to put his hair up, wash his hands and get things he needed out to make the pancakes.
Louis watched on in amazement as he measured the ingredients like a pro and fished out the sieve.
"Wanna whisk it as I heat up the pan?" He said handing Louis the bowl.
"How do you whisk?" Louis asked, He looked at the bowl and back to Harry to gauge his reaction and saw him giving Louis an unreadable expression.
"Uh," Harry said as if not sure Louis was being serious, Louis continued to look at him with a straight face and Harry raised an eyebrow, "just mix them together in the bowl?"
"Okay," Louis said and grinned as he began to stir the things together trying not to slop it about.
"Did you cook much growing up?" Harry asked getting out the battered frying pan.
"My mum thought the further I was away from the kitchen the better." Louis said sticking out his tongue as he whisked it up, his arm aching slightly as he did. "I tended to touch things that had just come out of the oven or make too much mess. Then moving out, I found it easier to have pot noodles or simple pasta dishes."
"I can imagine that actually," Harry laughed and started to heat up butter in the pan on the oven. "Hows it going?" he moved to look in the bowl, his forehead touching Louis' as he did and Louis tried to ignore the heat rising up his neck.
"It's all bubbly," Louis said instead and scrunched up his nose. "Did I whisk wrong?"
"No, it's supposed to have some bubbles, it makes it spongier and better." Harry said taking the bowl from Louis and stepping away to go over to the pan. Louis leant back against the wall on the counter and watched Harry ladle some batter into the pan, forming three circles. They seemed to cook quite quickly and he turned them over. once they were done he put them onto a plate and started on the next batch.
Louis was enthrawled by it and watched as Harry made them all, teasing Harry when they weren't all complete circles. As Harry made the last batch he turned to Louis who was giggling at the shape of the last one and smeered batter along Louis' cheek.
"Hey," Louis said wiping at his face. "Rude."
"Yes, yes you are."
"You're obviously the rude one here, Haz, you made a pancake in the shape of a penis." Louis said and he jumped off the counter and grabbed one of the pancakes. Harry went to hit his hand away but Louis managed to grab it and run away towards the sofa where Zayn was sitting eyeing them with a smirk.
"That was the most domestic thing I've ever seen," He said as Louis fell beside him on the sofa and began eating the pancake. It was pretty amazing and he smiled at it.
"Dude this is so good, i'm going to have to hire him as my personal chef." Louis said.
"Or marry him and you'll get that for free along with a lot more, eh?" Zayn winked at him. Louis rolled his eyes but didn't say anything. After all, that wasn't such a bad idea. Although marriage was a bit too far given it hadn't quite been a week of knowing Harry yet. Boyfriends however, Louis was pretty sure he wouldn't mind that if he still felt the light feeling around Harry in a couple of weeks.
"So have a good chat with Perrie last night?" Louis asked Zayn putting his legs up on the sofa and therefore over Zayn. He obviously didn't care because he didn't push his legs off or even seem to have any reaction at all. Louis liked most of the people in the house simply because they were all just as okay with his overly friendly kind of behaviour and most of them seemed just as happy to put their feet up on him too.
"Yeah mate, we chatted quite a bit and flirted some." Zayn said smirking slightly. "was a pretty good evening."
"Nice to hear it mate," Louis grinned. Just then Harry walked over handing them each a plate with pancakes on it and Louis took his grinning at Harry before ruffling his hair.
"Thanks H, You're a star." He said. Harry beamed before walking back to the kitchen and Louis turned back to Zayn who smirked down at his pancakes.
"Housemates, please make your way to the sofas." The house called.
"It's learning manners." Louis said to Zayn as he stuffed more pancake into his mouth and moved to sit properly beside Zayn so he wasn't taking up too much space. Niall sat on his other side already almost finished with his pancakes and Louis poked his stuffed cheek. He looked a little bit like a hamster and Louis chuckled.
"If you don't marry 'im, i will." Niall said through his mouthful. "He's a good cook."
"Louis already proposed." Harry said sitting on the other side of Niall. Niall hummed and gulped. Louis felt oddly pleased with himself for some reason because of Harrys response. Even if it had been a joke.
"Okay, but you're inviting me over daily for food." Niall said before moving onto the last pancake and stuffing it in hole. Louis rolled his eyes and ate more as the rest of the housemates sat down around the sofas.
"Todays challenge is set up on the stage. It's a game of Giant Jenga and there is a line on the wall the tower must cross. Each brick also has a truth or dare on and you are to perform these in order to pass."
"Oh I love Jenga." Perrie said excitedly.
"We need to keep Tom away from it," Zayn muttered next to him.
"You must each pull out at least a block each, good luck." With that the house went silent and Louis raised an eyebrow at Zayn.
"Reckon he'll knock it down?" He asked.
"Probably," Zayn sighed, Louis nodded before finishing off his pancakes. It seemed everyone else had this idea because no one moved until all the empty plates where piled on the crate.
"That was amazing," Caroline said patting Harrys shoulder.
"Thanks, Lou helped." He said smiling around Niall at him, Louis scoffed and stood up, he'd mixed up a few things in a bowl, if he had of actually helped cook everyone would have just been eating ash.
"The stage has been revealed again." Perrie said and pointed over to where the wall had moved once again to reveal the stage, the wooden blocks stacked on it already. Louis followed the rest of the housemates into the garden and sat down on the grass in a patch of sunlight.
James and Ben decided to go first and everyong held their breath as they each pulled one out. James' had him hopping while patting his head and rubbing his stomach while Bens had him try and do a hand stand. They both hopelessly failed but it was funny to watch.
Slowly the tower grew. Zayn had to wear Jesy's top as she was stood to his left at the time so they ended up swapping tops. Zayn in an almost bralette style top while Jesy sat in a t-shirt laughing at Zayn. Perrie had to bite into a raw onion while Niall had to tell his most embarrassing story which involved him knocking himself out at a go kart ring on a sign.
Tom went with James and everyone was ready to jump up and save the tower. As if he knew he'd be fucked over if he screwed them up, he simply put the block on the top of the tower and went to lay upside down on the bench for a minute alone.
"Thank fuck for that." Louis said as he and Harry got up to go have a go. Louis nervously pulled a block out and was relieved when the tower didn't move at all and he looked at the thing written on it.
"Pour freezing water over yourself."
Louis groaned and put the block on the top, having to stretch up on his tip toes. He heard Zayn and Harry snicker behind him and as he went through to the house to get a pucket of freezing water, he eyed them both sassily.
He filled up the bucket and took it outside, everyone watched as he sighed before tipping the water over his head. The cold hit him immediately and it almost burnt his skin. He screamed and turned and jumped into the pool knowing it was warmer than the bucket. He broke the surface shivering and everyone started laughing at him.
"That was horrible," He said pulling himself out of the pool, his clothes feeling heavy on him and his fringe ducking into his eyes. He fell back into the sun shivering slightly and was joined by Harry again a moment later.
He was playing with Louis' hair and Louis was sure it would dry all over the place but he couldn't care as he quite enjoyed Harry running his fingers through it. They watched in silence as the others continued pulling them out and stacking them everyone simultaneously holding their breath and gasping everytime the tower moved.
Liam it seemed was amazing at the game and so they sent him in again to get the last block. It stood standing and they all cheered. They'd won something new for the house and Louis was hoping it was something for the kitchen, maybe a bigger fridge so they could have different foods to eat.
The house made a loud party popper sound and there was the sound of cheering and every single one of them jumped and eyed the house. Louis stared directly at one of the cameras scathingly for having given him a heart attack for something that really was not necessary.
"You have completed this challenge and your new item will be installed over night. Congratulations."
"Yes!" James cheered before he ran and barged into the tower making blocks fall all over the place as James war cried.
"We need to celebrate!" Jade said as she stood up from the grass.
"How, we dont have alcohol or music." Zayn replied.
"What did we used to do before we had alcohol or constant access to music?" Jesy asked. Everyone stayed silent for a moment and Louis looked back to what he'd do with his sisters.
"What about a massive blanket fort?" He asked. There was silence for a moment before everyone whooped and jumped up to run inside. Mary rolled her eyes fondly at them and Louis grinned. He needed to get changed firstly.
He made his way into the bedroom and pulled his shirt off as Harry, Niall and James walked in. He looked through his clothes and grabbed one of his hoodys and he changed into some jeans before dropping the wet clothes onto the floor. Harry eyed him as if to say 'really' before he picked them up and took them to the washing pile.
Louis smirked at him as he walked back over and shook his head slowly.
"They'll go smelly and creased and leave water all over the floor." Harry said walking past Louis to grab a blanket.
"Okay, mum." Louis said grabbing another blanket and following the others to the to the living room where the girls had moved the dining room taable to the sofas and were piling chairs up to create some height.
As they all worked on it together, they ended up with what looked like a massive teepee with the sofas still under it to sit on and the table, on its side made for more space and darkness. Louis knew the house would be pissed off since the cameras would not be able to see them.
"We've defeated the point of the show." Louis said to Harry, resting his head on his shoulder and pulling a cover around them. "For the first time since we've arrived they can't see us and I can't imagine they'll be too happy."
"You've got a point." Harry said. "But it's actially quite nice to have some privacy for once in here."
"Can scratch our butts without the whole world seeing." Niall grinned as he walked past.
"Lovely image, Niel." Louis said rolling his eyes and Niall grinned.
"it is, isn't it Lewis." he fell oppoiste them on the sofa and Louis stretched out his legs on the sofa while they all sat about in blankets.
"They'll probbly take it down tonight." Harry said thoughtfull looking up at the top.
"We probably will, after all it's made out of our blankets." Louis replied and he didn't want to sleep without blankets on, after all, the nights weren't boiling hot even though it was the end of July.
"True." Harry nodded and smiled down at him which Louis returned. Harry, Louis, Niall, Liam, Zayn, Perrie, Jesy, Jade, Leigh-anne and James all ate their lunch in the blanket fort while the others seemed to go about their own business. It was a lot of fun and it took Louis back to times spent with friends and family in the past.
He felt close to these guys and the fact they were all near his age just made him feel like he was at some sort of weird party, but also he knew he'd keep in contact with at least everyonte in the fort.
When Louis' legs began to get numb, he crawled out from the fort and walked into the garden to stretch his legs out. Niall joined him a moment later walking extremely weirdly. Lifting up his knee and extending his leg out in front of him before doing the same to the other leg. It reminded him a bit of Mr Bean.
"You alright mate?" Louis asked with a laugh.
"I can't feel my arse, I was sitting weirdly and it's all tingly." He said and Louis couldn't help but laugh. Niall really didn't care what other people thought of him and said whatever came to his mind. Louis found it sweet and admired Niall for that.
"What do you think they'll give us for winning the challenge?" Louis asked. Niall looked at the house and hummed.
"Hopefully a new house?" He said grinning as Louis agreed with him, that would probably help out a lot. He couldn't help but wonder what they'd lost out on by loosing the golf challenge too. It was probably the fridge and they'd be stuck with the tiny one for the rest of the show.
"I think that's pushing it. We'll probably get a chair or something."
"Do you think we have to do a challenge per chair?" Niall asked suddenly with a look on his face like he'd smelt something bad. Louis thought for a moment because that was sixteen challenges all just for a chair.
"I hope not, that's a lot of work just for something to sit on." Louis said
"Maybe we can bargain with them and say we only need fourteen since someone's leaving soon and you'll happily sit on Harrys lap." Niall grinned. Louis rolled his eyes but smiled all the same and they both sat down on some plant pots having stretched out their legs.
"Why not say thirteen, Perrie can sit on Zayns lap." Louis said and Niall hummed thoughtfully.
"Good point, we can get out of three challenges that way."
"What about beds too?" Louis questioned. "Do we do one per person or one per mattress?"
"See, the house is so confusing!" Niall groaned and Louis nodded solemnly to him. They were joined a moment later by Jade who dropped down onto the grass by their feet and looked up at them.
"What are you on about?" She asked.
"If the challenges will be per chair and per mattress." Louis said and Jade rose her eyebrows.
"I was wondering that too, and what about things for the kitchen do we do a challenge per bowl, plate, spoon and knife or what?" She said. As she finished Harry sat down too and seemed to have heard what they were saying.
"Maybe they'll do a challenge where we all have to win our own set of kitchenware and those that wont win will have to stick with plastic stuff while the others get their set." He said and Louis nodded, that sounded like it would work. Although nothing the house had done so far had been anything but normal in any way.
"I think that would be the best way to do it, but will the house think so or will they try and humiliate us further?" Louis asked and the others all hummed and nodded.
"Who wants another game of Jenga?" Niall asked after they'd been pondering for a while. Louis looked over at the collapsed game and shrugged, he didn't see why not.
They all stood up and began stacking the bricks and ended up pulling them out and stacking them so high, Harry was having to lift them up higher to put the blocks at the top.
"Cannon ball," a voice called out loudly before Liam and Zayn went straight into the jenga tower and knocked it over.
"Dude," Niall groaned. "We had that so high!"
"We were told to tell you dinner was ready."
"Wow I didn't know talking was so non verbal and so demolishing nowadays," Louis said with a fake gasp. Niall it seemed had got over his distraught that the tower was knocked down with the mention of food because he ran off into the house and they followed him in shaking their heads fondly.
Once again they ended up eating inside the fort and ended up talking about television shows they were recording for when they got out. Louis was surprised about how little he missed watching television. He missed his phone a lot because he'd call his sisters and mum all the time at home. He tried not to think about them too much because every time he did his chest tightened and he felt the need to cry.
He wasn't home sick at all, he didn't miss his little flat or many of his friends really having met everyone here and because there were so many of them, he hadn't thought much about his other friends. He just wished they'd be able to call family. After all, even prisoners got to use a telephone.
Each of them started going to bed, and Louis hadn't even realised it had gone dark but Louis crawled from the fort to get ready for bed knowing that it was eviction day coming up and he should rest up for the emotional rollercoaster that was coming. He got himself into bed, although there was no blanket and luckily was joined with Niall and Harry not five minutes later, their blanket with them.
"Night guys," Niall said. "Lets hope Tom goes tomorrow."
"What if he doesn't?" Louis whispered with a shiver. "We'll be stuck with him for another week!"
"But he'll sabotage challenges and then we'll never get a full set of chairs." Harry replied with a pout. Louis smiled at him and Niall chuckled sleepily.
"Night," Louis breathed out and turned to Harry and closed his eyes.
"Night Lou," Harry returned quietly.
A/N
I fell into a bush today, I was on a little stool trimming up a hedge for my mum and because i'm seriously the clumsiest person ever, I seemed to slip on nothing and fell straight into the bush.
It was like it ate me, I couldn't find the right way up for ages and when I finally battled my way out, I found out my mum and next door neighbour had come to watch me struggle.
It was fun,
Note the sarcasm!
Anyways, I'm no longer in a bush and so to celebrate that fact, here's the second chapter updated today. Enjoy :)
Lana x