*Hannah’s POV*

Yesterday, I couldn’t believe what the boys had bought me. I loved it all, and them all, dearly, but it did seem like a bit much. El and Dani gave me their presents first. Between the two of them, I had enough makeup and nail polish to restock my vanity. Louis gave me some very pricey sunglasses and a scarf and Zayn bought so much Bath and Bodyworks that I was surprised that I didn’t now own the store. Liam gave me a gift card to a beauty salon with enough money on it to keep until I was thirty and Niall gift wrapped a candy basket for me. There was every candy bar known to man inside and it was laced with layers of Kit Kats.

I hugged them all as Harry handed me his present. Tearing back the paper, the first thing that I saw was the word ‘Nerf’. I don’t know about any body else, but I actually got legitimately excited. I ripped off the paper and began working on the ties to the loaded gun. Looking up, all of the boys, along with El and Dani, were laughing at me in disbelief.

“Hey, babe?” Harry came over, attempting to move the half wrapped gun out of my way. I pouted a little bit. “You know that this isn’t really your present, right?” I reddened darkly. I guess that a part of me knew that everyone else wouldn’t get me something extravagant if Harry wasn’t as well.

“I guess I kind of knew.” I shrugged my shoulders and allowed him to steal my fun and put it on the other end of the coffee table that we all sat around.

“Close your eyes.” He smiled.

“What if I don’t trust you?” I raised my eyebrows at him.

“Do you really not trust me?” He smirked and squinted his eyes. I huffed and rolled mine before crossing my arms and closing my eyes. I was slightly surprised when I felt warm hands on my neck, brushing my hair off of my shoulders, but I did trust Harry. I felt something hit my neck, and not long after, he told me that I could open my eyes. I grabbed the chain of the necklace, as Harry had let it fall down into my cleavage. Seeing that it wasn’t anything too showy, I was relieved. I loved Harry, but there was no way that I could accept something like that from him.

Instead, there were two things on the necklace that fell on my shirt, between my boobs. One was a puzzle piece. I picked it up and turned it over in my hands. There was writing on one side and it said ‘his only’ in cute little letters with a heart coming after them. The next thing that I picked up was orange with white polka dots and it took me a second to realize that it was a key.

“It’s the key to my heart,” he whispered huskily into my ear from behind me.

“Don’t be a sap Harry!” Louis interrupted childishly. He looked more directly at me. “It’s also the key to the flat.” Eleanor and Dani squealed and I wasn’t quite sure how to react. I sat there, looking sort of astonished at Harry, while he looked like he was about to kill Louis. He was asking me what? To live with him? Surely not, not yet. There was no way that we were going to be able to jump into something like that so soon, there was just no way. As he noticed me, he found that my eyes had gone wide in slight horror.

“Babe, don’t worry, it’s not to move in.” I blinked a few times, just to show him that I was at least processing what he was saying. “It’s so that you can come over any time you want. I’m not saying that I won’t want to live together eventually, but that’s a little bit away, isn’t it?” I nodded in agreement, letting a smile come over my face. Everyone else in the room had managed to avoid hearing this, but my cheeks had gone red anyways. Harry was talking about me coming to live with him. I had the key; I took another look at it. “I know that orange and white are your favorite colors, so I had it custom designed.” Some people had dog tags that they wore around their neck; I had my boyfriends marking and his house key around mine.

“I have one more present.” Harry walked over to his bedroom and silently walked back to where we were sitting around the coffee table. He handed me the box and it was fairly small. I looked around at everyone and they all looked at me, the girls more excited than the guys. Timidly pealing back the wrapping paper, I saw the Pandora symbol on the top of the box. The most shocked and happy look came over my face as my mouth dropped open. Opening the box to the bracelet, I became even more excited. There were already so many charms on it. They were the letters ‘H’ ‘N’ ‘Z’ ‘E’ ‘D’ and there were two ‘L’s for Louis and Liam. On the end separating the ‘H’ from the clasp, there was a charm that had diamond hearts all over it. Harry knew that I didn’t like for my jewelry to be lots of colors, but it was too perfect, silver and black and white was exactly how I wanted it to be.

Standing up, I first threw myself into Harry’s arms. He easily caught me before pulling me back to help me clasp the bracelet around my wrist. Afterwards, I went around to everyone, hugging them all and thanking them for the best birthday ever.

Everyone stayed at Louis and Harry’s flat for the rest of the day. After dinner, everyone went out and bought a Christmas tree, since there wouldn’t be any time to do it tomorrow. Christmas has always been my favorite time of the year, but I was way too tired to function, so Harry and I stayed home instead of rushing out into the cold, and it was already 10:30 pm the night before Christmas Eve.

Once everyone was out the door, Harry’s arms were around my waist and I was being pulled backwards onto the couch. I was basically lying on Harry’s but it was comfortable all the same. Harry stretched his arm back to grab the remote off of the end table. I couldn’t help but laugh once he turned on the telly.

“Really Harry?” He looked down and smiled cheekily.

“Well, it is days before Christmas and they don’t allow fire places in flats so…” He shrugged his shoulders before putting the remote down and pulling me tightly to him. I got up once to turn off the lights, at Harry’s greatest protest, so that the continuous flames from the screen were the only things lighting the room.

He swiped my hair to the side and gently traced his lips along my neck. The hot breath that escaped his lips sent chills through my body. He smiled into my shoulder as the goose bumps arose on my arms. I tilted my head upwards and he needed no further cue. Harry began to close the gap between us. He moved slowly as I stayed frozen, waiting for him to make the move. It wasn’t until his lips were just barely touching mine when I became impatient.

I eagerly leaned further into the kiss, and tried desperately to keep from laughing as I could tell that I had surprised Harry. He quickly recovered and began to slide his hand up my waist. Shyly skipping over my breasts, I could feel his hand come in contact with the skin on my collar bone, heading up my neck. Slowly, I began turning over, not letting our lips come apart. I put my knees on the outside of either of his thighs as his hand went up into my hair, messing it just a little bit. My hands were on his chest as his free hand found my lower back and pressed me forward, so that I wasn’t quite lying on top of him, but our bodies were pressed together.

His tongue had long been inside my mouth and I was perfectly alright with it. Our mouths battled for dominance and his hands roamed my butt and my thighs. He knew every inch of me. Being pressed so close to Harry, I began to feel what was going on. He slowed down and finally kissed me once more before he let our lips part. I smiled at my accomplishment and cleared his throat, furrowing his eyebrows but attempting to smile none the less. I giggled and kissed him once more before sitting up on the couch and waiting for him to sit with me. I was very pleased with myself, but I knew that everyone would be home with the tree soon anyways.

Harry retrieved his mobile from the coffee table before sitting next to me and putting the arm that wasn’t holding his mobile around my shoulders. I contently snuggled into his chest. He cleared his throat once again and I couldn’t help but fidget with the smile that was on my face.

“What’s so funny?” He sounded quite serious and I almost felt bad… Oh well.

“What’s so funny is that I can frustrate you so easily.” He scrunched up his face and twitched his nose before responding.

“So it’s great fun for you to sexually frustrate a guy?” I paused, the smile slowly falling from my face. “You know what,” he shook his head and let a smirk come onto his, “not tonight. It’s your birthday, so today isn’t the day to do this.” I gave him a small smile. “Do you know what time it is?”

“No, what time?”

“It’s midnight and they’re still not back with our tree.”

“God, knowing Louis they probably stopped somewhere on the way home.” Harry smiled and kissed my temple before climbing up from the couch and heading into the kitchen. I pouted slightly and realized that he was no where near to see me, so I followed him. When I stepped through the door, Harry already had two glasses out and was reading the label on a bottle of wine.

“You want a glass?” He turned to me, advertising the brand.

“Is this going to become a regular thing? Wine at midnight?” I began walking forwards, lifting myself to sit on the counter.

“Do you want it to be?” Harry began pouring the wine into the glasses and then put the cork back in the bottle and put it in the fridge.

“I think that that sounds nice,” I said sweetly as he handed me my glass. I looked into Harry’s eyes as he tapped our glasses together and something hit me. I didn’t care what Harry did, there was nothing that would make me stop loving the piercing emerald eyes that were staring back into mine. Nothing could ever change that.

For a moment, I thought back to the morning not too long ago when we woke up in the same bed. I woke up that morning angry; at him, at myself, at the possibilities of what may or may not have happened. All signs pointed to that I no longer had my most precious gift, but maybe it didn’t. At this moment, I didn’t even care if I did. I knew that I was safe with Harry and there was nothing that could ever break that apart.

Harry and I finished our wine and he put the rest of the bottle back in the fridge. It was about that time that we heard something in the hallway that might as well have been a heard of elephants. All four boys trudged through carrying one of the largest Christmas trees I had ever seen. Where was Louis expecting to put this?

“Harry!”

“Yeah Lou?”

“From now on, we’re getting this damn thing like a week before Christmas!” Harry and I laughed as we made our way to the living room. The boys had the tree set up and a fifth of the top was hunched over and parallel against the ceiling.

“Why did you get such a big tree?”

“It was the last one that they had and there aren’t many places selling trees at midnight on Christmas Eve.” We laughed at Louis as Niall, Zayn and Liam slowly backed away from the tree, making sure that it wouldn’t fall over. Not a moment after, the girls walked in through the open door and they were carrying shopping backs.

“We got everything fairly basic,” El said. “Oh, and we got your message about the extra large tree so we picked this up from the hardware store.” She pulled a saw out of one of the bags, and took the protective cover off of it.

“What’s in the rest of the bags?” Eleanor pulled out boxes of lights and ornaments and then a star to put on the top. I smiled and went over to help the other girls with the bags, seeing as to how they didn’t seem to know when enough was enough.

The girls and I piled onto the couch, sitting back as the men tried to figure out how to cut the tree to a desired length. Eventually, I pitied them and proceeded to go over and help them, solving the problem in about five minutes. They all looked at me, some looking thankful and others looking overpowered.

Harry and I put on the lights and everyone helped with the ornaments. When we were done, it was two in the morning and Louis and El had long gone to bed. He had been complaining about being up early on his birthday and El had seductively told him that she would have to find a way to shut him up. We all knew that he wasn’t getting any when we heard him whining from his bedroom.

When it was all said and done, Harry picked me up, sitting me on his shoulder, so that I could set the star on top of the tree. Afterwards, everyone stood back, mesmerized before they decided that it was time for them to go back to their reserved flats. Harry and I sat awhile longer before going to bed. Being a tad bit tipsy from the wine intake, I didn’t even bother putting on pajamas. I stripped to my bra and panties and Harry to his boxers. Climbing in bed, I felt Harry crawl in behind me after turning off the light. His body was so warm against mine. It felt nice.

“Goodnight, Babe.” I was too tired to say anything intelligent. I mumbled to him and he chuckled in response, nuzzling his nose into my hair as I drifted into a peaceful sleep.

Notes

Okay, so her name's Hannah :) I hope you guys are liking the story. I'm a little worried because I'm not getting a whole lot of feedback :/ Where is everyone???!!! Let me know what you think. Do you like it? Do you not? What's good about it? What sucks? What's your favorite part? What grade would I get (A, B, C, D..... F???!!!?!?!?!?!!??) Let me know!
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