A few weeks later, Amanda walked into the apartment and her phone started ringing. She knew it was Niall, he called every morning right around the time she would be getting in from work. It was close to Thanksgiving and they hadn't seen each other in weeks. "Hey babe." Amanda said answering and putting her things down.

"Hey Princess. How was work?" Niall asked.

"Busy, but relatively normal night." Amanda said making her way to the kitchen. "Do you know when you are going to be able to get here yet?" She asked. She asked every morning. Neither Niall, nor Harry knew when they would actually be able to come. They just knew it would be sometime before the Thanksgiving holiday and that was in only days. She was getting impatient.

"Not yet. We should know soon, we were promised we would be able to get there to celebrate Thanksgiving with you." Niall said. They continued their conversation for a bit longer when Amanda heard Harry interrupt Niall. "Hey Princess Harry wants to know if JJ's sleeping because she isn't answering her phone."

"No, she's still at work. She's been picking up extra hours during the day. I don't know how she does it half the time." Amanda said.

"I'm going to put you on speaker ok? Harry apparently needs to have a conversation and since he can't talk to JJ he's going to bother us." Niall said.

Amanda laughed. "That's fine, I like Harry."

"Thanks Amanda." Harry said laughing. "Why is she picking up extra shifts so much?"

"Well, she's going to kill me if I tell you guys, you know that right?" Amanda said.

"Why?" Both Harry and Niall asked at the same time.

"Well, between her medical bills from Vegas and her student loans and the bills and rent from our unpaid time off with you guys she's having a hard time. Plus, our dream apartment opened up in our building, and we had been saving for that, because it's much bigger, but she's had to spend some of that. And if we don't come up with the security deposit, plus first and last months rent for that, we won't get it.  And they only gave us until the end of this week to come up with it. I told her I could help her with this apartment's rent but of course she wasn't having it. There's no way we can come up with the money for the other apartment though." Amanda explained. Oh, JJ was so going to kill her.

"And why are we just hearing about this now?" Harry asked. "Why wouldn't she, or you for that matter, let us know? We told you we would cover whatever you needed if you came to London with us."

"Have you met your girlfriend before? Do you think her stubborn ass would ask anyone for help? I'm doing ok, I don't have her medical bills or student loans. She didn't even let me know how bad her medical bills were until she had to tell me she couldn't come up with her part of the security deposit in time. Apparently, the hospital in Vegas is out of network for the insurance we have, so she has to pay a lot out of pocket. And that's when I figured out why she was working 16-20 hour days so much." Amanda said.

"Well how come you never told me you were thinking of moving?" Niall asked.

"I don't know, we've been thinking about this apartment for so long I guess it just didn't seem like something to bring up. We weren't sure we were going to get it. It's not that big of a deal. We are fine where we are." Amanda said. It got too quiet on the other end. "Um, what's going on?"

"Oh, nothing, we have to go though, gotta be on our way to another interview." Niall said.

"Alright, I hope you find out soon when you get to come here, I'm going crazy. I love you." Amanda said.

"I love you too, Princess." Niall said. "I will call you later."

A few hours later, Julie came walking into the apartment building exhausted after yet another 16 hour shift. She was dragging her feet, head down. She looked up when she heard her name. It was the building manager.

"I was just going up to your apartment." He said to her.

"For what?" Julie asked. "Is there something wrong?"

"No just to give you these." He said handing her a set of keys.

"What are these?" Julie asked confused.

"The keys to the apartment that opened up you guys wanted." He looked at her strangely.

"Why would you give me these?" Julie asked.

"Why wouldn't I? The payments came in today." He went over to the desk, took out the receipt, and brought it back to Julie.

Julie looked at it and her jaw dropped. The security deposit, last and this months rent and then rent paid for an additional 6 months showed on the receipt. She looked at him. "This has to be a mistake."

"No mistake. The apartments yours. You guys waited a long time. Congratulations." He said walking away.

Julie stared at the paper a little longer and then went up to the apartment and straight to Amanda's room.

"Amanda wake up." She said sitting down on Amanda's bed.

Amanda turned over. "What? What's wrong? Why did you call me Amanda?"

"What did you do?" Julie asked her.

"JJ, what in god's name are you babbling about." Amanda sat up and looked at her.

"What did you do, Amanda?" Julie asked again. "Why did the building manager just hand me the keys to the bigger apartment and a receipt with everything paid for including 6 months rent in advance?"

"Stop calling me Amanda!  I didn't do anything." She said. "I couldn't afford to do that." Then it hit her. "Oh."

"Oh? What did you do?" Julie asked her again.

"Harry may have asked why you were working so much. And I may have told him and Niall about everything, including us wanting the new apartment." Amanda said looking at her. She watched Julie get up. "I'm sorry JJ. Really, I am I didn't think they would do this. They were upset we didn't tell them we needed more help after they talked us into going to London. But I definitely did not know this would happen."

"I know how much you want this apartment Amanda but this is just a lot. I don't know if I can just accept this. He needs to stop just doing stuff like this." Julie said. She was frustrated. It was a wonderful gesture but it was just so much.

"I didn't ask JJ. And I wouldn't. I'm just as surprised at this as you are. Could you please stop calling me Amanda, though?" Amanda said.

"Sorry Panda. I wish you wouldn't have told Harry though." Julie said to her.

"He was concerned why you were working so much. Why he never gets to talk to you anymore. Hell, I'm concerned you're working so much. I did tell them we were fine in the apartment we are in though. Apparently, we have boyfriends who don't always listen." Amanda said to her.

"I guess I have to deal with him, and this, later. I have to shower and try and get some sleep I'm hoping to pick up another shift tonight." Julie said going towards Amanda's door.

"No, you will not. JJ, you have worked 10 days straight and most of those were more than 12 hour shifts. Enough is enough already. And if I have to sleep with you today in order to make sure you don't answer your phone and make sure you sleep, I will." Amanda said to her.

"Alright, alright. I won't take a shift tonight. Although we have off like 4 or 5 days in a row with them coming for Thanksgiving. I miss out on all that and double time. I should just take this one more shift." Julie said.

"No. I don't care if we don't take the apartment or if we never get it. You get some rest. Please." Amanda said. "And we will deal with Niall and Harry together because I know Niall is not innocent in this either."

Julie just shook her head. They meant well but she was still very uncomfortable taking Harry's money or gifts especially only 3 months into the relationship. "They are trouble. I'm going to bed. I don't even think I'm going to shower first." Julie said walking to her room.

About 3 am Amanda woke with a start. She swore she heard a knock on the door. What the hell. Who was knocking on the door at 3 am. She got out of bed and went towards the door when she heard the knock again. She looked through the peep hole and then whipped the door open and threw herself into Niall's arms. "Oh, my god what are you doing here? I didn't expect you."

Niall laughed. "Hi Princess. It was supposed to be a surprise. We didn't know until earlier today so we just decided to surprise you."

"I'm so happy to see you." She said kissing him.

"Can we come in?" Niall asked her since she still hadn't let go to go back into the apartment.

Amanda laughed. "Yes, of course." She hadn't even realized Harry was there she was so excited to see Niall. She didn't let go though so Niall practically carried her into the apartment. "I still can't believe this. It's like a dream come true. I think I was actually dreaming about you being here." Amanda laughed again.

Niall kissed her again and held her close.

"Sorry to interrupt." Harry said. "Is Julie here or is she working again?"

"She's supposed to be here. I threatened her so she wouldn't take another shift tonight, she wanted too." Amanda said.

"Well I'm hoping she stops working so much." Harry said.

"Yeah, I gathered that when I saw the receipt where all of a sudden, we got the new apartment, everything paid for and 6 month's rent in advance. You two wouldn't know anything about that, would you?" Amanda asked looking from Niall to Harry.

Both Harry and Niall just looked at her.

"Yeah that's what I thought. But oooooohhhhh are you guys in trouble. The building manager caught JJ coming in this afternoon and gave her the keys and receipt. She came directly to my room and asked what I did and called me Amanda like three times. I had to ask her to stop because I didn't do anything." Amanda said to them laughing.

"Yes, you are." They heard and turned around. They saw Julie standing in her bedroom door arms crossed leaning against the doorframe.

"Oh, come on, you can't be mad." Harry said smiling and walking towards her.

"My boyfriend needs to start treating me like a big girl and stop thinking he can just come in and fix all my problems." Julie said looking at him.

"My girlfriend needs to accept that I want to help fix her problems. It's what I'm here for." He said stopping in front of her.

"No, it's not. You're here for many other things. Spending money on me unnecessarily is not one of them." She said looking up at him.

"It was necessary. You guys need a bigger apartment. You got me and Niall who are going to be here as much as we can." He put his hand on the side of her neck.

"Harry, you have a huge house in LA. You need to come up with better excuses." Julie said reaching up and clasping her hands behind his neck.

"My house doesn't have you in it. So, it's not as welcoming anymore." He said leaning down and kissing her. "Hi."

"Hi." She smiled. "I'm not done with this yet. You are not out of the woods yet. You or Niall." Julie said glancing at him.

"Oh no, Amanda can deal with me." Niall laughed. "I don't want you to yell at me. I'm scared of you." He took Amanda's hand. "Sorry Harry." He grabbed his bag and went to Amanda's room with her.

"Don't hurt him too badly JJ." Amanda said laughing and winking as she shut her door.

Harry took her hand and walked into her room with her and set his bag down. He put his hands on her waist picked her up and set her on her bed and slowly climbed over her making her lay back on the bed. "You really wanna talk about this right now?"

"We need to talk about this." She said looking into his eyes.

"Ok, we can. Later." He said kissing her deeply. He pulled back slightly so he could look at her. "You have no idea how much I've missed you."

"Oh, I have an idea. I missed you too." She reached up and played with his curl. "Your hair is getting so long. I love it."

"I love you." He said kissing her again.

"So shut up and show me." Julie said running her hands over his stomach. When he gave her a look she laughed. "I love you too, now will you shut up and show me?"

He kissed her and bit her lip. He basically ripped her shirt off of her.

Julie laughed when he did. God, she missed him. She helped him out of his clothes and laid back again as he laid over her. There was no more talking.

Niall pulled Amanda directly to him. "We need to figure this out better. I can't handle being away from you for weeks at a time."

"I know the feeling love but right now I don't think there's much we can do about it." She said to him.

"Well we will just have to work on it." He said to her kissing her.

"Let's just be happy we're together now. And we have days." Amanda said running her hands over his shoulders and back.

"Did you have anything particular in mind?" He asked running his hands under her shirt and over her stomach.

"It involves us being naked how you like it." She said laughing.

"Well what are we waiting for then?" He asked starting to take off her clothes.

She laughed. "Oh, lord I missed you." She said helping him undress also.

He walked her back to her bed picked her up put her on the bed and climbed over her. He kissed up her stomach, chest, neck and to her lips. When her nails dug into his back he pushed into her. The weeks were too long. This was exactly what he needed.

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