Well today was the day. Homecoming. Something that didn't even really excite me back in Portland. Sure, dressing up was fun and dancing the night away with your lover of even a random stranger, but I was honestly okay with sitting in my dorm, shoving food down my throat and watching some weird show on Netflix. But, you know it isn't everyday you get to go to homecoming with a bunch of Brits.

Not much happened during the day in all honesty. Danielle was all giddy and walking in and out of our room getting new things and tlaking to other people. Perrie came after a while to come and get ready with us. I just sat on my bed and scrolled through my tumblr like a bajillion times waiting for something exciting to happen, but to be honest I was bored out of my mind. The dance wasn't until 8 and it went all the way to midnight. Soooo I did a lot of sitting until about 6 when Danielle and Perrie started yelling at me.
"GIRL! It is 6 and you don't have your hair, makeup, nails, or anything done!" Danielle exclaimed first.
"Yeah! What have you been doing all day?!" Said Perrie shortly after.
"Guy guys guys, it's alright, I know what I'm doing, it is just homecoming. You don't need to be THAT fancy." I giggled.
They just looked at each other
"...but don't you want everyone to be like 'yeah ew girl yeah she's hot'. " Perrie said.
"I guess, but everyone's opinion of me doesn't really matter. I'm only here a year and then I go back home right?"
"Don't say that! But that is exactly why we need to make every moment memorable, so we will do the pampering for you since all we need to do it change." Danielle said as she grabbed my arm and plopped me into her vanity chair.
"Alright alright." I said.

I let them do the pampering for me, and thankfully it only took an hour. I didn't want anything fancy anyways. I had a simple navy dress with a little silver sparkle on it. It was strapless, but didn't make by boobs look smaller than the barely B's they already were. It also accented my awkwardly shaped hips. So I was content. I also had these silver heelish shoes to match that I absolutely love. And I say heelish because they have slight heels because Niall is only so much taller than me, so I didn't want to tower him or anything. I just sat on my phone and scrolled through twitter, looking at pathetic posts from girls back at home, and a celebrity here and there.
We listened to music, and I made them listen to my ipod because I am a bitch and think my music is awesome. I mean, I'm open to new stuff, and I love all kinds of music, but I prefer listening to my ipod or pandora or whatever if i have the chance. I was looking at my phone while Danielle and Perrie gossiped about people I had no idea about, when my phone buzzed.

Hey babe, I'll see you in a half hour. I can't wait to see you even more beautiful than you already are. :):)
-Niall xoxo

I smiled at my phone, not really paying attention to what was going on the background, when Perrie started snapping in my face.
"Hey! I saw that text. Now you cannot deny that you're not even a little excited."
"Okay, I'm pretty excited, it's just actualy getting here is the hard part. I hate waiting around all day."
"Tell me about it.." Danille said, as we all gave an agreeing giggle.
We all put our dresses on, and holy shit Danielle and Perrie could be models, I kid you not. Like damn, I felt like a fat ass. But of course being girls, we all complimented on how pretty each other looked. At this point, the excitement was really settling in. I was so excited to see Danielle and Liam look all cute together, and see Perrie go with Zayn and be public about it (finally!), and to see my ever cute little boyfriend in his dressy clothes. We were all so giddy and were basically pacing around the room until they knocked on the door. Danielle opened the door and one by one they walked in. Nothing but maybe a hello was said, we were all to busy marveling at how fantastic our dates looked. Liam and Danielle looked stunning in their black and red, Perrie and Zayn had all white with a light blue, and thank god Niall was wearing gray with his navy blue tie. I was so excited, and Niall looked absolutely adorable.
After he was done being starstruck with me, he walked up to me and said, "You, look absolutely stunning." As e proceeded to kiss my forehead.

He grabbed my hand and took me out of the room, everyone followed. We went by the fountain to take a couple pictures with each other for memories sake. We were being cute but that eventualy turned into becoming stupid embarrassing pictures of each other.
That's when Satan came into the picture. (No pun intended.)
"Weellllll wellll look what we have here." Kelsey. Yay.
"What do you want Kelsey?" I asked her.
She walked up to us, Harry dragging behind her. She was wearing a rather... revealing sparkley gold dress that make me wonder how she got her boobs in there and if they were going to pop out soon. Harry although, looked verrrrryyyyyy nice. He was just in all black. No sparkley gold shit. Just sleek and refined and.. Yeah you get the picture.
"Oh well, you know, just going to snap a few photos. I've been walking around comparing everyone's dresses before the dance. So far, I'm winning." She said as she played with her nails.
"Man, I haven't heard that much narcisism in a looonnnggg time. It's somewhat refeshing to hear it from the queen narcisist herself." Perrie said. Sidenote: Perrie and Kelsey can't stand each other. They are both top dogs in their respected activities. So of course there is rivalry. Perrie likes to keep it civil though.
"Wow Perrie, I'm actually very shocked. Here I thought you were so nice."
"Usually, just not to bitches."
"My goodness Perrie! Such language. You probably shouldn't do that with your date around, I mean you want to make a good impression, becasue I'm still surprised he even would even go out with someone like you in the first place."
"Hey now, that is pretty low, even for you Kelsey." I said. I couldn't let her say something like that to Perrie, or anyone for that matter. She is a truly awful human being.
"Oh yeah, and what are you going to do about it?" Kelsey said, stand offish.
"Nothing. I'm going to do nothing to retaliate." I said.
"Well.. Then.. I.. Harry! Say something to her!" She said as she tugged on his sleeve, kind of like a 5 year old child begging for a new toy at Walmart.
We all stared at Harry, the ball was in his court. He could either help this situation, or make it worse. Depending on if he decided to do what Kelsey asked or not.
"Have a nice time at the dance, guys. Let's go Kelsey." She huffed at him and they walked away towards the venue.
"...Well that was unexpected. I thought he was going to do something way worse." Niall said.
"Maybe you should give him a chance. You never know." I said to him, grabbing his hand.
"Ehh, I'm not sure. It oculd be just ike a one time thing, but it's better than it could have been." He said.
"Hey guys, this just popped into my head, where's Louis?" DAnielle said as she giggled a little bit.
"Oh! He got Eleanor to agree to go with him tonight, so this is his one chance to make it or break it with her." Niall said with a little bit of a grin.
"Oooooohhhhhh!" Everybody said at the same time. We all laughed a our stupid selves, and headed over to the dance venue.

As we walked, I noticed Perrie and Zayn not as close to each other, and they definitely weren't talking. What is going on? Perrie was so excited to be public with Zayn. I just won't say anthing.. "Okay Zayn. We need to talk." Perrie burst out.
Welp. Looks ike I didn't need to say anything."What?" Zayn said confused.
"Well, I thought we had this great thing going on, but as soon as Kelsey steps in bashing me for being with you, you don't even stick up for me!" Perrie nearly shouted. I could tell she was pretty upset about what had just happened.
"I'm sorry! I'm not really good with my feelings, or even really speaking out either, I didn't know what to do, I choked up."
At this point it was pretty awkward. Liam and Danielle weren't saying anything now, and neither was I or Niall. We all just walked, and kept our gaze forward.
"If that's how it's going to be Zayn, then I would rather not publically be with you than to be your secret." Perrie said. She was welled up with tears at this point and walked ahead of us and went inside to the dance before any of us even hit the stairs to enter.
Zayn didn't say anything, no one said anything. It was just flat out awkward at that point to say the least.

We walked into the venue, which was just a decorated ballroom that was located on campus. But man, did the dance committee do a fantastic job. There were Christmas lights everywhere: the ceilings, the walls, even outlining a path on the floor. It just felt magical like we wern't at a school, or even on the planet. It was like we entered a new dimension of light, and all I wanted to do was have Lux Aurumque by Eric Whitacre playing in the background, because that is the music that would appropriatel describe the look of the place. Unfortunately, the music I could hear was the fabulous Mr. Worldwide coming from the dancefloor itself. Niall looked at me all excited and grabbed my hand and dragged me onto the dance floor. The majority of the people in there were grinding hardcore, but what would you expect in a room ful of hormonal teenagers, let's be honest. Niall instantly took us to the center, where we started with the usual fun dancing where you jump around like an idiot and add your own flare to it here and there. But eventually we got to the grinding part which was the best part I must add. Our bodies were so close, and they way we both in sync to the rhythm of the music, I felt like I could fly. It was amazing.

I looked around and saw Danielle and Liam not for from us, basically in the same state. I say Perrie with a group of friends, trying to cover up the fact that she was pretty hurt from Zayn. I saw teacher standing on the sides, wishing they were at home doing a sudoku or soemthing. But most hilariously, I saw Harry and Kelsey. To sum it up, Kelsey was trying to dance all stripper on Hary's crotch, and Harry was not into it. Part of it was because unlike most, I knew that he couldn't stand her. I think another major part of it was that he isn't a very good dancer. That's a different story. But I saw two worlds collide when Perrie, who wasn't exactly watching where she was going, bumped into Kelsey. To make it even more dramatic the music wasn't as loud. So a lot of people could hear what was going on.
"Uhmm, watch where you're going bitch. Just because you're date ditched like I predicted, doesn't mean you have to run into me." Kelsey shouted at her.
"Kelsey, I am surrounded by two-hundred plus people right now. Yuu are literally the last thing in my mind tonight."
"Riiiiiight. Not the fact that Zayn doesn't actually like you, but just feels sorry for you. You know he only asked you out because your little friend over there convinced him to." Kelsey said and pointed to me. The bitch got me involved. Fantastic. "Alright Kelsey, that is just ridiculous and you know that. It isn't true Perrie!" I said.
"Oh pish posh. I saw you talking to Zayn before you gave that note to Perrie."
"... Is it true Reyna? Did yo convince him to go out with me just because you knew how I felt about him?" Perrie said to me, looking really upset at this point.
"Perrie, I would never do something like that to you!" I said to her.
"Please. YOu haven't known her that long Perrie, she most definitely could be lying." Kelsey said with one of the bitchiest faces I have ever seen in my life.
"Or you could just ask me since I probably know more than all of you."
At this point everyone was watching, and everyone turned to face the person who just added in. None other than Mr. Zayn Malik himself.
"Perrie, I was talking to Reyna, becuase I wanted to know you felt the same way, and I wanted her to give the note to you. You mean a lot to me, and I would never do that to you." He said.
Everyone had that in sync awww you hear in TV shows. It was really sweet, and Perrie ran up to him and gave him a most deserving hug. He had proved himself to her, which I think is all she ever wanted from him.
"Are. You. Kidding me?! Are you really going to let your best friend talk to me like that Harry?!"
Now all eyes were on Harry, here we go again.
"Kelsey, I believe Zayn and what he says. I also believe Reyna because I know how honest of a person she is. You on the other hand are a liar. And I cannot stand up for someone who does nothing but put people down, including myself. So were done Kelsey. Have a nice rest of the time at the dance." He said with more emotion than I expected. Everyone got really silent. They were like the couple at Preston Academy. It was like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie broke up. Kelsey ran off crying with the cheerleaders quick to follow. And Harry walked to the edge of the dance floor, followed by girls who were ready to pounce on him. After all of that blew over a slow song came up, and Niall faced me and put his arms around me.
"Wow, tonight Harry has proven a lot to me." He started.
"I told you, maybe he's different, maybe you should give him a chance."
"I don't know about that, what he has done to me these past couple of years is pretty awful. It's going to take a lot. Plus, now that I kow he has been coming on to you, I don't know what to do about that."
"He hasn't in a while. We are just friends Niall. Nothing is going on there. You know that right?"
"Yeah, but I can't help but feel jealous. He could get any girl at this school, and that doesn't exclude you."
"Well, I am whole heartedly and completely yours." I said as I kissed his heek and put my head on his shoulder.
"Yeah..." He trailed off. WE danced through the rest of the song. Then faster ones came around and it was a giant party again.
I finally saw Louis and Eleanor after forever. I guess Louis did a good job, because she looked totally into him. And they never separated the whole night. Which made me happy, because they were happy, and really cute together.
When another slow song came on, Louis ran over to Niall and I.
"Niall, I have to talk to you, it's important. Mind if I steal him Reyna?"
Yes. "No, it's fine, have your bro talk." I giggled.
"Thanks! You're the best!" He said and they walked out.
Well now this is shitty. I'm in the middle of the dancefloor and everyone is being all coupley and my date left.
"Mind if I have this dance?" A familiar voice said behind me.
I turned around to see none other than Harry Styles.
"I don't know, my boyfriend might get pretty jealous. "
"Come on, just one?" He said.
I thought about it. What will one dance hurt?"Alright, let's do it." I said to him chuckling.
He smiled at me and put his arms around my waist. We were silent for a while, just swaying to the music together.
"I want to thank you, for earlier. It really meant a lot. ANd I even think that Niall is opening up to you more." I said to him
"That's good. I meant every word. As much of an asshole I come off as, I really do care about you Reyna."
"Harry, you know I'm taken."
"I know, but I can only hope you know?"
How optimistic. I like that. Stop."Yeah.."
"If you had a song to describe this moment, what would it be?"
"Hmm.. probably Stay by Artist Vs Poet."
"I'll look into it." He said smiling at me.
"Why do you always want my music sugestions? Just curious."
"Well, because you say there's a deper meaning to them. And I know you would tell me are some of your favorite, so I think maybe if I listen to them, I'll get to understand and get to know you better."
It was probably one of the sweetest things anyone had ever seen to me. No one really cared about my imput that much, or what it was like in my mind. Unfortunately to say not even Niall. So it meant a lot.
It got really quiet for a while and the song ended. The dance was over now, and the lights were turning on and everyone was leaving. I looked around but couldn't find Niall anywhere. Or Danielle, or Liam or Perrie or Louis or anyone. I was really confused. I guessed they just decided to leave a little earlier than me. Oh well.
"Want me to walk you back to your dorm?"
"I guess I'm going to need you to." I said.
We walked out of the building and headed back towards my dorm. We talked a lot. Mainly about traveling and all the places we wanted to go. All around Europe and South America and Australia, and everywhere in between. Neither of us knew how that was going to happen. But we could dream, and we just talked about what we would do in the places we've wanted to visit the most.
"And I would end my day in Florence walking along the river eatig a nice gelato." I finished.
"Sounds perect." He said to me.
"Thanks for walking me back. It means a lot since Niall is no where to be found, and won't answer his phone."
"It's no big deal, anytime. I had fun with you Reyna." He said.
"I had fun too Harry."
"I'll see you on Tuesday for our first tutoring session?"
"Yes, of course!" I said.
"Alright sounds good. See ya later." He said and started walking away.
"Byyyeeee." I said as I gave a small wave. He maybe took three steps before he turned around fast and gave me a peck on the cheek.
Usually I would be really upset about something like that, but with Niall nowhere to be found to end our night together, a peck on the cheek from Harry was probably the best way to end my night.