"Those bastards!"
"What?" I cried, nearly poking my eye out with the eyeliner pencil I was using to draw fangs onto my pale face, in a bad attempt of a vampire.
"My parents!" He roared.
"What now?" Niall sighed from his perch on my bed next to Louis.
"They aren't letting me go to the party!" He huffed.
"What, why?" Louis whined, dipping his hands into the bag of chips he had helped himself to from my cupboards.
"My grandma's sick," he groaned flopping back onto his bed, "So she can't watch Lily and Gemma is at her boy toy's house."
"Get a sitter." Niall suggested.
"Yeah," Harry laughed, "On Halloween night?"
"Well," Niall sighed, "We'll bring you home a candy apple."
"Gee thanks dicks," Harry huffed rising to his feet.
"Hey," I said slowly, "What if we took turns watching her. I have to take Lauren and Harry trick or treating anyway, I could take Lily with me and then we could switch off later."
"Would you do that?" Harry cried.
"Sure," I sighed, "what are friends for."
"Oh my god!" Harry cried, "I would like let you top I'm so happy right now."
"Excuse me!" Louis choked, earning a whack on the back from Niall.
"Just kidding boobear," Harry chuckled, "you're my one and only,"
"Damn straight," Louis grunted.
"Twinks," Niall muttered under his breath.
"You wanna say that to my face horan?" Harry cried.
Niall rolled his eyes, "T-W-I-N...."
Letting out a feral grower deep in his throat, Louis lunged for Niall spilling the chips all over the fake puke stained carpet, just as my door opened and Harry (my brother) and Lauren walked in dressed as Thing on and thing two from the cat and the hat.
"Are you guys fighting?" Harry yelled eagerly.
"No," I said firmly, sending the other two boys a warning glance.
Looking disappointed Lauren turned to me, "What are you doing?"
"Getting ready for the Halloween party I'm going to later," I sighed.
"You can't wear that." Lauren laughed.
"Why not?" I asked, looking at my reflection in confusion.
"You have to be the cat."
"The what?" I demanded.
"The cat in the cat," Harry ( my brother) laughed.
"Oh hell no!" I cried while Louis, Niall and Harry burst into peels of laughter.
"Please!" Lauren begged.
"No!" I whined, "I'll look like an idiot!"
FOUR HOURS LATER
"Again! Again!"
Looking down at Harry's two year old sister who was sitting on my hip I sighed, then nodded at Lauren.
"Cat!" She cried, dragging her sack of Halloween candy on the ground, "You ruined Mom's dress!"
"Honey," I cried, using a loud, high pitched voice and snapping the fingers on my free hand, "It was ruined when she bought it!"
Throwing her head back so far I very nearly dropped her Lily cackled, smacking my cat painted face with her tiny palms.
"Yeah, laugh it up," I sighed pulling my phone out if my pocket and texting harry what felt like for the hundredth time.
"This is so fun!" Harry cried.
"A blast," I muttered.
"What's wrong?" Lauren asked, looking up at me, "You're stuck babysitting instead of sucking face at a party."
"Pretty much!" I cried, earning a laugh from Lily, who seemed to find any type of emotional distress hilarious.
"Why don't you go then," she replied.
"In case you've forgotten I'm stuck with you." I huffed.
"Bring us with!" Harry cried.
"As if!" I laughed.
"Assff!" Lily shrieked.
Earning disgusted glances from an elderly couple who must have assumed I was some kind of teen dad, Lily fitting the part in her fish in a tea kettle costume Harry had put together.
"You could drop us off at someone's house." Harry suggested.
"Who?" I sighed, "Everyone's busy."
"Everyone?" Lauren demanded.
Suddenly a lightbulb went off in my mind. And twenty minutes later I was standing on the front porch of Charlotte Yu.
Taking a deep breath I knocked on the. Front door which was immediately opened by the small Asian girl, her legs slightly bow legged as she looked up at me in surprise.
"Ashton?" She asked.
"Hi," I mumbled.
"Hi," she replied tucking a strand of her black hair behind her ear, "uh.... What's up."
"Uh.... How are you?" I asked, "you haven't been in school."
"Yeah," she chuckled, "Michael tore me up."
"What?" Lauren laughed.
"He wanted to do it on the stairs," Charlotte shrugged, "I fractured my tailbone."
"Damn," I breathed.
"Yeah," she giggled, "he's good, also did a number on my... You know.... His wiener is like a lethal weapon."
"Um, good to know," I mumbled.
"Yeah," she sighed leaning on the doorframe, "So anywhoozie, what's up?"
Looking around at the kids looking expectantly up at me I sighed, "What are you doing right now?"
"Licking my wounds," she answered with a shrug causing my eyes to immediately widen while she burst into peels of laughter, "It's a figure of speech I'm not actually... Licking myself you sick shit."
"Oh," I giggled.
"Do you want to come in?" She asked suddenly, "I was just about to order pizza and Evil Dead is starting in like five minutes."
"Um....." I hesitated
"What about your party?" Lauren asked.
"Paty!" Lily shrieked.
"Oh," Charlotte said quickly, her face falling as she crossed her arms awkwardly over her Green Day t-shirt, "I should have known you'd be going to Erin's party, sorry I asked. I'm pretty busy anyway I have homework and like a shit tone of....."
"I'm not going," I interrupted.
"What?" She questioned looking up hopefully.
"I'm not much of a party guy," I replied, "pizza actually sounds great."
Grinning Charlotte opened the door wider and ushered us inside.
"My parents are out till late," she rambled, "some work party thing so we have the house to ourselves. The kids can chill in the kitchen there's like a TV in there is gets all the channels so there's bound to be one of those dumb Disney Halloween movies on."
"Okay," I replied.
"Cool!" She gushed smiling, "And if you want I could get you some of my brothers clothes to change into. He's at college but his stuff should fit you well enough."
"That would be great, thanks," I answered, looking down at my car and the hat costume.
"I'll be right back," she giggled, darting up the stairs not stopping to call over her shoulder, "You can like sit. Make yourself at home!"
Still carrying Lily I shuffled into he living room and sat down on the couch while harry and Lauren plopped down in the floor dumping out their candy excitedly.
Picking up a ring pop, I slipped it into my finger then offered it out to Lily who went to town greedily, clutching my larger hand with her small ones.
Wondering how Harry could possibly complain about such a good kid I was just starting to relax when suddenly my phone began ringing in my pocket.
Pulling it out, I scanned the screen and seeing that it was Niall calling pressed it to my ear and immediately regretted it.
"Oh my GOD NIALL YESSSSSS!"
"What was that?"
"Yes Niall harder!"
"Like that?"
"Oh my God!"
"You're so hot Nialler."
"You too.... Uh yeah... Just like that Erin."
Pulling my phone away from my ear I closed it abruptly feeling sick.
"What's wrong Ash?" Harry asked.
"That prick," I muttered, "He knows I like her."
"Who knows you like who?"
Startled I looked up to find Charlotte holding a pair of basketball shorts and a t-shirt.
"Um...." I mumbled, "I....I...uh....Luke loves you!"
"What?" Charlotte laughed, "Luke Hemmings?"
"Yeah," I replied, blushing furiously.
"I'm not into him at all," she giggled.
"You're aren't?" I asked.
"No," she replied, "There's someone else I have my eye on."
"Really?" I questioned, "Who?"
Looking down at her hands she blushed furiously before looking back at me, "Niall."
A/n
Hello, I just wanted to thank you guys so much for reading and commenting and tweeting about this story. I see all of it. No lie, I creep on twitter and I read every single comment.
I was feeling kind of crappy since someone, decided to tell me I should "kill myself like the other larry shippers" and to cut, (thanks for that whoever you are) (also, not a larry shipper said that in chapter 1) but the rest of you guys make writing this story fun.
I literally check my email every five minutes just to see if I've gotten anymore comments. Anyway I'm getting mushy but thanks for everything.
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