“Wow”

“What?” I said while eating my third slice of pizza.

“You really eat as much as me” Niall said laughing.

“Excuse me, I hadn’t eaten since last night” I said with a sassy tone

“It’s okay, I just ate two hours ago, and this is my fourth slice” He said giggling

I laughed so hard I choked on my food so I started coughing. Niall started laughing at me so hard that he choked on his food too!

We were both laughing and coughing at the same time until Paul arrived with a serious face

“Why aren’t you ready Niall?” He told him.

“Sorry bud, I was eating, I’ll be ready in a bit” Niall said relaxed

“Oh hey Sophia” He told me noticing I was there

“Hi..hi..Paul” I said nervously. Honestly meeting Paul was the best thing ever; I was even more excited than when I met the boys.

“Niall, go to the dressing area now, you’re the only one missing. The boys are ready, and Lou is waiting for you”

“Kay Pauly, I’ll be there in five” Niall said eating the last bite of his slice of pizza.

“See you there” Paul said walking to the dressing area.

“Wait Paul” I said excitedly

“What’s the matter?” Paul told me smiling

“Can-can-can I hug you?” I said with a big smile

He giggled a little “Of course you can” He said opening his arms.

I ran to where he was and hugged him, he was so big and I was so small, it felt so sweet, like if I was hugging Santa Claus.

He let me go and Niall was staring at us

“Aww, Pauly you’re so sweet” Niall teased Paul

“GO. TO. THE. DRESSING. AREA” Paul told him really serious.

“Okay okay, I’m going” Niall said still giggling a little

He walked to the dressing area and I stood there with Paul

“So, is Lou here?” I asked

“Yeah, she’s helping the boys getting ready for the shoot” He told me

“Can I meet her?”

“Yeah” He answered smiling

“Thanks”

I was walking to where the dressing area was when I saw Niall ahead of me walking there too.

“Bud, wait me” I shouted

He turned his face and saw me walking to where he was standing and stopped.

When I arrived, we continued walking together

“So, is everything fine with the boys now?” He asked me seriously

“Yeah, I love them” I said smiling.

“And what happened with Harry? He was really serious when we arrived”

“I’d talked to him, we’re fine now” I answered

“What did he tell you?” He asked curious

“Run Horan, run” I shouted staring to run as fast as I could

He laughed, and then chased me running.

When we arrived where the boys were, we both were out of breath, we can hardly breathe and the boys gave us strange looks

“You’re a bad runner Horan” I said laughing

“Not more than you” He fought back

“You’re both really bad runners, I’d seen you both running” Harry interrupted.

We started laughing until I heard someone said

“Hey Irish boy, I’m waiting for you”

“Sorry Lou, I was eating” Niall told her

“Why it doesn’t surprise me at all?” Lou said rolling her eyes

“Hi”, I interrupted smiling

“Hey, who are you?” Lou gave me a little smile

“She’s Sophia, a friend” Niall told her

“Oh, nice to meet you” She gave me a lovely smile and a little hug

“Nice to meet you too” I said with a really really big smile

“Let’s make you look pretty” Lou told Niall laughing

“Ha-ha. ‘pretty’ So funny Lou” He said rolling his eyes

“You’ll be the prettiest princess ever Nialler” She said teasing him.

We all laughed, and Niall giggled.

“Ready” Lou said to Niall as he turned his face to me.

He really looked perfect.

They were wearing matching outfits, the colour was lavender; Harry was wearing light blue jeans, a white t-shirt with a light grey blazer with lavender details and obviously white Converse. Liam was wearing dark blue jeans and a lavender and blue plaid shirt and black Converse. Zayn was wearing khaki jeans; a white dress shirt and a lavender vest with dark brown boots and Louis was wearing lavender jeans with a white shirt, light blue suspenders and white Toms. They were all gorgeous, but Niall, he was breath-taking. He was wearing light blue jeans, a lavender polo and white Suppras. He really looked like an angel, his eyes were brighter than ever and his smile lighted up all the room.

“Well let’s go” Liam said walking to where the photographer was standing.

They all followed him and I stayed in the dressing area with Lou

“How’s Luxie?” I asked her

“All great, she’s sleeping in the car right now” She told me smiling

“Really? Oh my god, can I meet her when she wakes up?” I asked enthusiastically

“Yeah, sure”

“She’s the cutest baby ever” I told her, fangirling a little

“Thanks” She said.

“C’mon let’s watch the boys” Lou said walking to where they were standing

“Sure” I followed her

When we arrived, the boys were in the middle of the garden posing randomly, doing stupid stuff, and just acting naturally.

The photographer kept telling them what they should do, but they just ignored him, and after a while he gave up, and led them do whatever they wanted.

Niall kept doing weird faces at me, and I kept laughing the entire shoot.

“We’re done” The photographer told them.

They came running to me and I could tell they were really excited.

“How were we?” Liam asked happily

“Awesome” I said laughing

“And why are you laughing? Weren’t we extremely sexy over there?” Said Tommo the sassmaster.

“Of course you were, even better than Calvin Klein models” I said sarcastically

We all laughed and then heard Paul calling the boys; they walked to where he was standing with the photographer, and some guys from management.

“We’re done” said Zayn walking over me

“We can leave now” Harry said smiling

“Bye guys, I’m leaving, I’m really tired” Liam said yawning and walking to where his SUV was parked.

“Yeah, we’re leaving too, I need to shower, I’m going out tonight” Harry said and Louis nodded.

“Little Harold is getting some girls tonight” Zayn teased him.

We all laughed, except for Louis, which was really weird because he’s the first laughing at any joke, even if it’s bad. Harry looked at him and they stayed staring through each other eyes for a little until Zayn broke the moment “Can you drive me home Harry? I arrived with Liam and he’s already gone”

“Sure, we’re going to the complex anyway” Harry said shaking his head.

OH MY GOD! That was a true Larry Stylinson moment, I’m not a hard shipper, I really don’t care, I mean, I’d love them to be a couple, but I think Eleanor is really lovely and besides if I ever dare to say I want Larry to come out, Samie would kill me. I know all the ‘Larry Stylinson’ thing is getting into Louis’, and Harry’s nerves, and after what he told me, I think I shouldn’t mind if they’re a couple or not, but what just happened was indescribable, I could really feel a deep connexion between them, but I think is their business and not mine.

“Hey” I felt Niall hand waving in front of me breaking my bubble of thoughts

“Sorry I was gone” I said.

“Bye Sophia, see you soon” Zayn said waving me goodbye “Bye Zayn”

“See ya later, babe” Said Louis walking to the parking lot.

OHMYGOD Louis told me babe. ASDFGHJK I can’t.

“Bye Louis” I shouted smiling.

“Bye Sophia” Harry said hugging me slightly “Thanks for the talk” he whispered into my ear. “My pleasure” I gave him a smile.

He walked to where Zayn and Louis were waiting for him waving me goodbye.

“Well, time to go” Niall said walking to where Preston was waiting for us.

“No wait” I said

“What?, we’re done” He said confused.

“Yeah I know, but I don’t want to go right now, can walk a little in the garden?” I asked smiling

“Okay” He said starting to walk to where the fountain was.

“Bye dudes” We heard Lou calling and heading to her car

“Wait Lou, can I meet Lux now?” I asked her

“Yeah, come here” She told me

I ran to her car and opened the back seat door; Lux was in her baby seat waking up.

“Awww” I cooed

She giggled and kept staring at me with her big blue eyes.

“She’s so lovely” I told Lou

“Thanks” She gave me a smile “Well I gotta go now” She said hugging us, and getting in her car.

“C’mon let’s walk” Niall said

We walked through the entire beautiful garden; we were messing around and laughing of everything.

“Look at this tree” I told Niall, it was a huge one, it seemed so old but it was really beautiful.

“Wow, it’s really big” He said with his eyes wide open

We approached it and were touching it, as the weirdos we are, when Niall suggested

“Let’s climb it”

“Are you crazy Horan?” I told him seriously

“Yeah, a bit” He said laughing and starting to climb it. “C’mon let’s go” He gave me his hand to help me climbing the tree.

“I’m going to fall” I said nervously

“Shut up, you’re doing fine” He said sitting on one of the branches.

I slowly climbed to where he was sitting.

“See? It wasn’t that bad” He said smiling.

“Yeah”

We kept there quiet watching the garden. We could see everything from there and the view was really amazing.

“Wow” I broke the silence. “The view gave me goose bumps”

“It’s really beautiful, isn’t it?” Niall said without unlocking his gaze to the view.

“Yeah” I said looking at him “Thank you” I told him softly.

He turned his face to me “Why?” he asked concerned

“Because this is perfect, I wouldn’t be watching this without you” I told him smiling and returning my gaze to the perfect view.

“You were the one that came to find me, thanks to you” He said grabbing my hand.

“You don’t have to thank me, you were fine without me, I was the one with the shitty life before this” I said without looking to his eyes.

My eyes were locked on the blue, pink and yellow flowers.

“You wouldn’t guess” He said more to himself than to me

“What?” I turned my face quickly to meet his eyes.

We were staring through each other eyes, when.. oh shit.

“AAAA” I screamed

“Ouch” Niall moaned.

The fucking branch broke and we fell to the grass, we were there lying on the floor groaning and sobbing when I hear a little buzz that became harder.

I opened my eyes “FUCK! Niall get up!! Run” I said freaking out when I noticed the thousand bees that were getting out of the broken branch

“Why?” He groaned still lying on the floor. “Bees” I shouted helping him to get up

“Fuck” He said starting to run

We ran as fast as we could, “Ouch Niall, I can’t run anymore, I think I broke every single bone when we fell to the floor” I said fighting through my tears

“C’mon Cinderella, you can” He said grabbing my hand and helping me to run

“Don’t call me like that ‘Captain Potato,’ ” I shouted at him

“Shut up, and keep running if you don’t want those bees to kill you” He said hardly breathing

“Yeah, cause climbing that tree was a good idea” I fought back still running.

He tried to say something but couldn’t handle his breath.

We were still running and I couldn’t run anymore, I was absolutely out of breath, and so was Niall, we were running way more slower when I felt a drop in my shoulder…

“Niall” I didn’t finished, when it was already raining.

We stopped running when we noticed the rain made the bees flew away…

“We’re safe” Niall said fighting through his breath, lying on the grass.

“Yeah” I told him lying beside him

I felt the rain all over my skin, we were soaking, but I didn’t mind

“That was awesome” Niall said smiling

“What? We almost die over there” I told him, who was still smiling

“Yeah, ‘Almost’ is the keyword” He said.

I burst into laughter and Niall joined me.

We were there, lying on the grass, in the middle of a beautiful garden, getting soaked with the rain and laughing hysterically; it was just perfect.

“Get up” I told Niall getting on my feet.

“Why?” He asked me

“Get up” I told him again. He groaned and then got up

“Let’s dance” I said smiling

“What? You’re a loser” He laughed

“Let’s dance” I said stubbornly

“Okay” He said starting to shake his ass like Shakira; actually he did it great.

I laughed really hard and he kept shaking his hips.

“Should I dance more?” He asked me with a weird voice

I gave him a sarcastic look, and he laughed.

“I’m Cinderella and I want to dance with a prince” I joked

“Well, let me call one, we’re alone here, I don’t see any prince around” He teased me

“Niall!!!” I shouted at him. He started laughing and I joined his laughter.

We were laughing and the rain was falling into our skin, when I felt Niall’s hand touching mine, and the other one placed on my waist

“Let’s dance” He said starting to guide my feet

“Ouch” I groaned when he stepped on my right foot

“Sorry, not a great dancer” He said giggling

“No shit, Sherlock” I joked

We kept dancing and I nested my head into Niall’s shoulder.

“Maybe you’re lovable, and maybe you’re my snowflake” I started to sing

“and your eyes turn from green to grey in the winter, I’ll hold you in cold place. And you should never cut your hair cause I love the way you flip it off your shoulder… and you would never know just how beautiful you are to me..” Niall continued singing

“Enough dancing Cinderella?” He asked laughing

I smacked him in the arm softly “Niall, you’re ruining the moment” I laughed

“You’re stupid” He said joking.

We laughed and then I nodded “Okay let’s go, I’m freezing”

We headed to the dressing area where we had left our stuff; we grabbed it and then walked to where the guys from management and Preston were.

When we were walking Niall asked me “Do you think they’ll mind I just spoiled the new clothes?”

“Oh shit Niall! You’re fucked” I started laughing

“I will blame on you!” He joked

“You were the one with the brilliant idea of climbing the tree” I confronted him

“Well, yeah, you were the one who wanted to go for a walk” He said fighting back

“Don’t be a baby” I laughed

“Niall what happened? Are you okay?” We heard Preston really worried when he noticed our clothes were soaked and dirty.

“Yeah bud, everything’s okay” He said still laughing.

“Well, let’s go, it’s almost 10 pm, and tomorrow you have an interview with Radio 1 in the morning” He said walking to the car

We got in, and I was really freezing.

“Hey come here” Niall said when he noticed I was shaking, I sat beside him and he approached to hug me.

“Jesus, you’re really cold” He told me. “Yeah, I’m not used to this weather” I answered

He nodded and continued wrapping his arms around me.

I started yawning, and so did Niall. I was falling asleep when I heard Preston said

“We arrived guys”

I got out. We thanked him, and headed inside Niall’s flat.

“I’ll take a warm shower” I told him

“Okay, I’m going to eat something, and then I’ll go straight to bed” He said yawning

“Niall! You should take a shower too, if you don’t, you’ll get a cold” I told him serious

“Shut up” He cut me off and walked to the kitchen

I headed to my room, took out my pyjamas and took a long warm shower. After I was ready I went out of my room, and walked to the kitchen; Niall was still there.

“I thought you’d be sleeping by now” I told him

“Yeah, I was just thinking” I said serious.

“Of what? If I may know” I asked curiously

“Nothing important” He said shaking his head, and smiling a little

“Okay” I said. I took an apple and I started eating it.

“Night Nialler, I’m really tired, please wake me up before your interview starts, I want to hear it” I said getting out of the kitchen

“Soph, wait” He told me before I could walk to my room

“Sup?” I asked. “You never told me what you and Harry talked about” He said curiously.

“You’re a nosy boy” I teased him. “Seriously, what did he tell you?” He asked this time more serious.

“We just talked about random things, he said he was sorry for the things he told you yesterday, and that he wanted to be my friend” I told Niall

“Oh” he answered with a smile

“It’s late bud, I’m exhausted, today I ran like a marathon” I said yawing

“Night, barefoot Cinderella” I heard him say, while I was walking to my room.

“Don’t call me like that” I shouted and heard him laughing.

I went inside of my room, and fell asleep almost immediately.

Notes

This is one of my favourites chapters!! Hope you like it!!!

Btw, this is the view from the top of the tree, of the rest of the garden.