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Holly
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| 9PM |

Everyone's just had a big Christmas feast out in the rose garden. It was delicious, thanks to Dakota's delightful baking and Liz's amazing cooking.

The real party has just started. The alcohol is out, loud chatter fills the air, and by Ara's begging request, The 1975 album blasts out through the speakers.

People are already starting to drink, and obviously, Juliet being Juliet, is already pissed drunk.

Everyone has arrived; Louis and Ara, Liam and Janet, Niall and Fran, Clive and Maxine... But no sign of Zayn and Elsie.

"Holly," Dakota taps my shoulder, "do you know where Elsie is?"

"Her and Zayn haven't arrived yet" I turn around.

"Yet? It's like nine?"

I sigh, "I don't know, Kota"

"Hey, look at Lola" Dakota points to Lola.

I look at Lola. She's sitting at the bar with Louis, they're both laughing.

"What about her?"

"She's with Louis!"

"Right..."

"Lola has a crush" Dakota nudges me.

"Well, at least she's not being her miserable self"

Dakota stares at Lola and tilts her head, "I'm gonna go over there."

I get Dakota's arm, "No! Leave them alone"

"What? I'm the oldest in The Dollhouse and Lola is the youngest, gotta watch out for my little girl" Dakota pouts.

"Lola isn't the youngest?"

"Yeah? She's, like, your age. Eighteen."

"Macy only turned seventeen, like, two weeks ago."

"Who cares, I'm still going over there"

"Don't. You're so nosy"

"Bye, little sis" Dakota says before walking away.

Stuck in boredom, I search for Harry until I find him sitting comfortably in front of the heater in the smaller living room with Niall.

"Mind if I chill with you guys?" I say, sitting down next to Harry.

"I thought you were with Ara?" Niall asks.

"She went off with Maxine"

"What about the other dolls?"

"I dunno, I think most of them are playing Just Dance upstairs. I know Juliet's with Fran and Dakota's with Lola and Louis, though"

"Hey," Niall takes a bite from a brownie, "who made these? They're delicious!"

"They're disgusting." Harry says.

"I like them..." Niall says, putting the brownie plate on his lap.

While Niall stuffs his face with the Christmas brownies and while Harry and I are in conversation, the doorbell rings. It must finally be Zayn and Elsie.

"I'll get the door" I say, standing up.

"I'll come with you" Harry says, standing up next to me.

"I'll eat" Niall says.

Harry and I walk to the front doors of the house.

I unlock the door and open it. Only Zayn stands before my eyes. No Elsie...

"Where's Elsie?" Harry asks.

"I let her go."

"You... Oh" Harry says, nodding slowly.

"Merry Christmas" Zayn nods, coming in.

I close the front door, "So, that's it? She just went?"

"Well, yeah. She wanted to be an artist and I loved her enough to let her free. I trust her with everything I have"

"Artist? I thought she wanted to be an athlete?" Harry says, confused.

I step on Harry's foot, "Haha, what're you talking about?"

"Hey, where's Liam? I need to talk to him" Zayn asks.

"I think he's at the bar" Harry says. And with that, Zayn leaves.

"I'm gonna go with Zayn and Liam. I'll see you later" Harry winks before leaving to meet Zayn and Liam at the bar.

Bored with nothing to do, I decide I'll just go upstairs and see what some of the other girls are up to.

As I'm walking through the upstairs hallway, I can already hear the loud blasting music coming from the girls and I's bedroom.

I slowly open my bedroom door and peak my head in. I see barefoot Ara and Macy versing in a dance battle to 'Moves Like Jagger' in Just Dance. Liz is sitting on her bed cross legged, laughing and Janet is cheering Ara on.

I walk into the room and close the door behind me.

"Holly!" Liz yells over the loud music, walking over to me.

I chuckle, "Hey!"

"We should verse next!"

"Totally!" I nod.

The dance is over and Ara is puffed out from dancing, but Macy, being the most sporty, fit and athletic girl I know, didn't even break a sweat.

I see Ara, Macy, Liz and Janet have let their hair down and taken their uncomfortable heels off. I do the same thing. As soon as I take off my shoes, I see the blisters the high heels have created.

"I'll get you some band aids for your blisters, don't worry" Liz says, rushing into the bathroom to get the first aid kit.

Liz returns shortly with some band aids and hands them over to me.

"Thank you, Liz" I say, putting on the band aids.

We hear a knock on the bedroom door, and Macy goes to answer it. The person behind the knocking door is Juliet, holding five wine glasses, I'm guessing for me, Janet, Liz, Ara and herself.

"Hi, Jules" Liz says, opening the door further for Juliet to step in.

"Hello, girls! What are we doing?" Juliet says, sitting next to me on her bed and putting the wine glasses on the bedside table.

"I'm kicking these girls asses in Just Dance" Macy says, laughing.

"Hmm. I'll have to verse one of you guys" Juliet says.

Macy walks over to Juliet's bed, where Juliet and I are sitting. Macy quickly snatches a wine glass from the bedside table, some wine droplets spilling out from how fast she grabbed the glass.

"Is this for me?" Macy smirks, with one hand on her hip.

"No," Juliet gets the wine glass from Macy, "you're underage."

"Why do Janet, Holly, Ara and Liz get wine?" Macy crosses her arms.

"Well, Janet and Liz are both twenty one, and Holly and Ara are eighteen"

"Whatever, go get drunk. But when I make my hot cocoa, you can't have any. Because you guys are... Overage." Macy says.

"Good for you, Mace" Juliet says.

"Okay! Who wants to verse me in a Just Dance battle?" I say.

"Me!" Juliet says, taking her pink heart hairpiece out of her curled hair and taking off her black wedges.

Juliet and I decide on picking 'The Ketchup Song' for our dance. Well, Juliet picked the song... And possible the most annoying song to ever be created... Oh well, this will be fun versing a drunk Juliet in a Spanish dance song.

The song starts and Juliet and I are already in motion, laughing at the dance moves were required to do.

Halfway into the song, Juliet is beating me and is already on five stars. Macy and the other girls cheer her on as I can't help but laugh seeing Juliet do the dance moves so perfectly.

The dance battle is over and quite obviously, Juliet absolutely thrashed me.

"I'm hungry, I'm gonna go downstairs now" Macy says. Juliet, Ara and Liz follow her.

I stay in the bedroom and fix my hair before I leave.

I walk downstairs. I see Lola is still at the bar with Louis, they're both still talking and laughing. Liam, Zayn and Harry aren't at the bar anymore though, instead they've been replaced by Macy, Liz, Juliet and Ara.

I walk into the kitchen to grab a glass of water. In the smaller living room in the kitchen I see Liam, Harry and Zayn on a twister mat in what looks like the most awkward and uncomfortable positions to be in... They look like they're about to break their legs. Niall is spinning the spinner, purposely taking a long time to spin just to torture the boys.

"Hurry the fuck up Niall!" Zayn says in pain. Zayn's leg is literally over Harry's head.

"I w- Oh! Hi, Holly!" Niall waves to me.

"What the hell?" I laugh, walking over to them with my glass of water.

"Okay," Niall spins the spinner, "Zayn, right hand green"

"Um, Harry, left foot red" Niall says, chuckling.

"Fuck." Harry says, trying to spread his left foot to the other end of the mat.

"I can't do this anymore!" Liam says, collapsing on the mat.

"Okay, Harry you win" Zayn says, his leg shaking from his position.

"I want to play now!" Niall says, giving the spinner to Liam.

"Me too!" I say, joining in.

"Holly, right foot blue" Liam says. I put my foot on the blue.

"Zayn, right hand red"

"Harry, left hand blue"

"Niall, right hand yellow"

Two minutes into the game and Harry, Zayn, Niall and I are already in the weirdest positions possible. My left hand is under Harry's chest, my right foot is next to Zayn's face, my right hand is next to my right foot, and my left foot is next to Liam's hand. My body is uncomfortably under Harry's hovering body, and if he falls, he falls on me.

"I can see up your dress, Holly" Zayn says. Harry slaps him from behind.

"I was joking, Harry" Zayn laughs.

"Harry, right foot green" Liam instructs Harry.

"Jesus Christ." Harry groans while trying to move his right foot. In a failed attempt, Harry falls right on top of me.

"Yay!" Niall says, jumping on top of Harry. After that, Zayn jumps on top of Niall and I'm literally squashed.

"Get off!" I scream and laugh. We all stand up.

"Sorry, darling" Harry laughs, nudging me.

"I'm gonna go to the bar" Zayn says, leaving with Niall and Liam.

I sit down on the couch with Harry.

"Bet you didn't know I was so flexible" I say, proudly.

"Actually, I did. You did gymnastics for, like, thirteen years, didn't you?"

"How'd you know?"

"You told me once"

I look outside the large window, "Oh my god, look at the snow outside!"

"You wanna walk outside with me?"

"Yeah, okay" I say, taking Harry's hand and going outside from the sliding door.

It's pitch black outside, but I can still see snowflakes sprinkling down along with light, spitting rain.

Harry and I talk about random things as we blindly walk through the deep snow. With every chilling breeze that flies by, the air gets colder and colder.

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Lola
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Louis and I are sitting in the shower in the large bathroom upstairs, were both fully clothed, just talking and laughing. We got sick of yelling over the loud music at the bar, and then yelling over conversation that was happening around.

"Haha, that wouldn't be the first time she did, too" Louis says, continuing our conversation about some girl he dated.

"Does she have a job?"

"Yeah," Louis says, "she's a news reporter, you know, Mackenzie Patterson?"

"Oh... She reported Sarah's death"

"Yeah, and good she did. She kinda knows everything that's going on"

"Really? Do you keep in touch?"

"Eh," Louis shrugs, "we're friends, I guess. The last time I saw we was, like, a month ago"

The atmosphere turns silent for a few seconds, but it's not awkward... It's just silence.

Almost like déjà vu, Louis leans in again, ready to kiss. Of course I lean in as well.

As our intended small kiss turns into a full makeout, we both stand up.

I run my fingers through his messy brown hair, as he keeps his hands at my waist.

As things get more heated, he starts to unzip my peplum top, he takes it off, revealing me just in my plain white bra.

The shower curtains shoot open, and I scream in surprise. But what I see is even more surprising, two people kissing.

It's Ara and Zayn.

A/N: oh shit bruh