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-Tigerlily’s POV-
After the date when we got back to the hotel room I went back to my room to figure out whatever the hell I was going to do; I couldn’t just hitch along with them until whenever, no matter how much I want to, I have school. But I don’t want to leave; I want to stay with him. I have no idea what I’m supposed to do. Maybe I can just say with them until I have to go back to school, and maybe I can convince him to fly out for prom.
I heard a knock on my door then Niall peeked in, I motioned for him to come and sit by me on the bed. He came and sat down beside me. “Uh, Niall, we really need to figure whatever the hell we are going to do. I mean seriously.”
“I know, that’s kind of why I came in here.”
“Well, school starts soon but I can probably stay here until about a week before.”
“Yeah, we can do that,”
“But then I was wondering if you would be willing to fly back out for prom? Because I wouldn’t be able to go with anyone but you.” I smiled, still feeling sad though.
“Babe, of course I will.” he smirked and me, I blushed.
“Are you sure? I really don’t want to make it a hassle for you.”
“Yes, I am absolutely positive. I would do anything for you.”
“You’re the best.” I said kissing him on the lips. I only intended it to be a short one but he held me in place for a while until we were both out of breath. He pulled away, taking a deep breath making me blush again.
“I know; you are too.”
“Wait, why did you come in here?”
“I wanted to talk to you… about us…” as he gestured towards “us”.
“What about us?”
“I want us to come out to the boys and be official. What do you think?”
“Already? I realize that I’m going to over analyze this like I do with everything, but doesn’t this still seem a little rushed? I know, I know; you say I’m your princess and all but we just met last night and just had our first date.”
“I know that they will understand, they’re my best friends, if they have any criticism they will tell it to my face.”
“If you’re sure they will understand, then yes, we can be official.” I smiled at him.
“To make it super official, I need to ask you right. Tigerlily, will you be my princess?”
“Yes, Niall, I will be your princess.” I giggled.
He kissed me, this one being a long intended one. Now, I have no idea what I loved about this kiss so much whether it was the situation or what, but I know that this was the best kiss that Niall and I have shared, for me it was the best kiss in general seeing how he was my first kiss. One that definitely left both of us breathless. “Babe, am I a bad kisser?”
He looked shocked at my question. “Of course you aren’t, why would you ask that?”
“Because you’re the only one that I have ever kissed. I’m not experienced.”
“Well, you know what?”
“What’s that?”
“You’re the only one that I have loved kissing, when we kiss, everything else in the world stops, you leave me breathless every time; when I look at you, get butterflies in my stomach; when you smile at me or even look at me, my heart flutters. I have never had this happen to me before; this is a brand new feeling for me. I can’t believe how lucky I am for going into that store last night, babe.”
“Awwwww… God you’re sweet, I can’t believe how lucky I am! I get to be Niall Horan’s girlfriend!” I kissed him again; he’s like a drug that I can’t get enough of. We stayed there for what seemed like forever until it changed. He grazed my bottom lip with his tongue, this took me by surprise, I released the kiss, leaving him in shock and he also looked sort of sad at the same time.
“What’s wrong, bae?”
“It’s just… Being that I’ve never kissed anybody but you, and that being said, I really don’t know how.”
“I will lead; you just kiss back when you’re ready, okay? Just like your first kiss.”
“Uh, okay.” I said with hesitation in my voice.
He kissed me and our lips moved in sync, his tongue gently grazed my bottom lip, and I assumed I was supposed to open my lips a bit for him to slip his tongue in. At first it was just him guiding my tongue, showing me what to do. I finally was able to catch on and move along, of course he was the dominate one, since I had little experience. We stayed like this for long enough for me to lose track of time. I am assuming it was somewhere between twenty minutes and half an hour. All of a sudden, the door swings open, we instantly stop what we were doing and look towards the door, there stood Liam and Zayn with shocked but somewhat happy expressions on their faces.
“Uh, what were you two just doing?” Zayn asked sounding completely confused.
“I think they were just, uh, snogging.” Liam assumed.
“Yes, we were, and speaking of which, we need to have a talk, with everybody.” Niall looked at both of the boys standing in the doorway. When he spoke there was a hint of anger in his voice. Was it from them interrupting our moment? “By the way, why the hell are you guys even in here? What did you need that was so important?”
“We came to see what the hell was up. You’ve been home for like two and a half hours and the first thing that you did when you got back was go straight to your rooms. We thought you guys got mad at each other or something; we did go to Niall’s room first but he wasn’t there. We didn’t hear any noise and we did actually knock, but I don’t think that you two heard over your lips smacking together.” Zayn said with attitude in his voice.
“Okay, okay fine. Come, on, let’s go out there, we all need to talk. It’s best to do it now than any later.” Niall said getting up, holding his hand out for me for a lift.
We all walk out to the living room to see everybody else. Niall makes his way towards the love seat that was open. I followed him, taking the seat beside him.
Once the boys sat down Niall started talking getting everyone’s attention. “Okay, we need to talk.”
“What about Nialler?” Harry asked
“About us.” He gestured to “us”. “We’re together.”
Louis choked on the beer that was in his hand. “Like dating?”
“Yes, like dating Lou. Now, if you’re going to judge, criticize, or anything like that, I want you to do it now rather than later.”
“Well, honestly, isn’t she a little young?” Lou asked.
“Hey, I can’t help if I fall for a girl who is younger than me, its not like you can choose who you like, it just happens, no matter how young they are, right Lou?” Niall laughed as the—somewhat—accusation came out. Calista slapped Lou’s arm smirking. He choked on his beer again.
“Now, just because she is younger than me by a few years doesn’t mean we can’t date, the only few things that are different is that she’s a minor so she can’t come to the bar with us, and that the paps will have a different reaction to her, but right now we’re are not coming out to the paps right now.” Niall confirmed.
“Uh, Ni, don’t forget, we’re in the US meaning you can’t drink, but you can go to the bar, you just can’t consume any alcohol.” I reminded him.
“Damn, that’s right.” He mumbled. He started staring at me but I didn’t mind much. He was so adorable when he did things like this. He didn’t blink for longer than normal; I think he might have fallen into a blinkless daze.
“Any other criticism you guys would like to state?” I asked them.
“I mean, you guys did just meet last night.” Zayn tried to get Niall to snap out of his daze on me.
“Yes, but we already went on a date, and I am absolutely sure that she’s my princess, so honestly, it doesn’t really matter.” Niall assured them.
“Okay, well, it seems like you really don’t care much about all of the criticism that we had, so are we done here?” Harry stood up grabbing the empty water bottle that he had been drinking out of just a little bit ago.
“Yes, I think we are done talking, Harry.” Niall said with some irritation in his voice.
My phone started to ring; it loudly and clearly rang Niall’s solo in More Than This.
Niall looked at me and smirked.
I reached into my back pocket to find that my mom was calling me. I wonder what she wanted—note the sacasm.
I slid the unlock button across the screen and held the phone up to my year.
“Hi, sweetie.”
“Hi, mom. What’s up?”
“Just wondering when you were planning on coming home? If you plan to stay longer than today, you should probably come get some clothes and necessities from home.”
“Okay mom, I will try to head out there as soon as I can to pick up some things.”
“Love you!”
I sighed. “Love you too, mom.”
With that our conversation was over. I admired my screensaver and then locked my phone. I slid it back into my pocket and looked towards Niall to see him smirking at me.
“What?”
“You know, I probably look a lot better in person than on one of those pictures, they also aren’t very recent, and correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure I’m actually current.” Let out a soft chuckle.
“I know, I’m looking at you right now.”
“So that was your mum?”
“Yeah, actually, and it wasn’t for the reason I expected.”
“Well, what did she want?”
“She just said that if I planned on staying long that I should probably come and pick up some necessities from my house.”
“Yeah that would probably be a good idea,”
“Yeah, if we don’t, I have no clue how long I would be using your pajamas.”
“Well, that wouldn’t be a problem, the main thing is that you don’t have much clothes. Do you want to go in like an hour or two?”
“Sure, thanks, Ni.” He gave me a short-ish but still sweet kiss.
While we were still kissing he started twirling some of my hair around his finger. I giggled into the kiss. I felt him smile against my lips.
Finally we parted, to hear someone gagging purposely. We looked towards the sound; it was Harry standing in the doorway the kitchen with a disgusted look on his face.
“Ew, gross! Get a room!” He yelled from the doorway. ‘Don’t people do that mainly if they’re jealous?’
We started laughing; Niall changed his position to where he was no longer facing me. He directed his body towards the television that was in front of us. I followed his suit and changed my direction to the screen. I rested my legs on the ottoman in front of me; he placed his legs next to mine, hooking our legs together, causing both of us to turn a little bit more towards each other. He snaked his arm around the back of my waist, pulling me a little bit closer to him. I rested my head on his shoulder; after a while of cuddling like that I felt something weird going on with my hair as if there was wind blowing it. I soon realized that my boyfriend ‘man, I loved calling him that. Never in a million years would I think that I would be calling the Niall Horan from One Direction, my boyfriend.’ was breathing in the scent my hair, ‘wow that’s new’.
“Niall, babe, why are you smelling my hair?” I whispered to him, my head still resting on his shoulder.
“You smell good; do you have a problem with that?”
“Nope, not at all.” I giggled.
“What?”
“Nothing, you’re just adorable.”
“Well, thank you. You are too.”
I yawned.
“Tired?”
I nodded, snuggling my head into the crook of his neck and he kissed my forehead. I closed my eyes. I got used to him breathing in the smell of my hair. I soon fell asleep cuddling with him on the love seat.


“Babe, you should probably get up, if you want to leave we should probably go pretty soon.” He whispered into my hair and then kissed my hair which woke me up a little bit more.
“How long was I asleep?” I asked sitting up and stretching. I looked back at him, he looked sad that I had moved from my spot beside him. I’ve been cold ever since I moved away from him. Even though its summer, I still want his warm, comforting body snuggling next to mine.
He took my hand and gently pulled back to the position I was in before. “Probably about an hour and a half.”
“Shouldn’t we be going?”
“Not right now, we still got about half hour.”
“Does that mean we’re going to spend the next half hour cuddling?—not that I have a problem with that.”
”Yeah, and possibly a little kissing, I don’t know, I mean, do you want to leave now? If you do that’s fine.”
“No, I’d rather stay a little longer, I like this alone time snuggling with you. I don’t really want it to end.”
“Me neither, I wish we could stay like this forever.”
“You know, we actually could, I mean not forever, but just until tonight. We don’t have to go to your house tonight, we can go tomorrow.”
“Do you really want that? I would have to use your pj’s again and I would be using the same bottoms and either the same shirt as yesterday or today, or one of yours.”
“I don’t mind, but you might, and also your mum might mind because she is still expecting us to come by today.” He started to rub the small of my back with his thumb, barely moving his hand.
“Yeah, I guess we should go, I’m assuming that she’ll want to meet you anyways.” I smiled at him.


After about twenty minutes of snuggling, and just a bit of kissing, Niall got up figuring we should leave soon. I got up, interlocking my fingers with his. We both made sure that we had our keys and we headed to Paul’s room to get him to drive us to my house. Niall knocked on his door and Paul opened the door seconds later.
“Hey, Niall, who’s this?”
“This is Tigerlily,”
“Okay, but what is she doing here, with you? Where did she come from?” he looked a little frustrated.
“Paul, just hear me out okay? She’s my girlfriend; I met her last night when we were in Banks and the boys sent me into the store to get some food. When I met her, I knew instantly that I had to have her, if that doesn’t sound too conceded and spoiled,” Paul chuckled a little bit, frustration that he had a few seconds earlier was soon gone and replaced with amusement and relief.
“It does a little but I know what you mean. Okay, that’s fine if you date, but management would kill you if they found out, so just try to keep a low profile until you’ve been dating for a while. If it gets brought up in an interview, say your just best friends that haven’t seen each other a while, or something along those lines. Don’t tell management.”
“Thank you Paul for understanding.”
“You’re welcome, now why did you two come down here?”
“We came down to see if you drive us to my house to pick up some things.” I pitched in.
“Yeah, that’s fine; you live in Banks, right?”
“Yup,”
“Sure, just let me grab my things.”
“Thanks, Paul.” Niall said with sincerity.
“No problem, but we shouldn’t be gone too long because you guys have to hit the gym.”
Paul grabbed his things then we headed to the elevator, then the parking garage, which thankfully was a back exit. We got into Paul’s car, Niall and I in the back seat and Paul driving. When Niall got in he contemplated which seat to sit in, the middle next to me or the other side seat. I secretly wanted him to sit next me, probably wasn’t really a secret because we were dating and really wouldn’t matter. He took the seat next to me and I laid my head on his shoulder. I re-interlocked our fingers. I felt him smile.
“Babe, do you think you could help me, with my weight?”
“What do you mean, Princess?”
I lifted my head from his shoulder; I looked at him to see him already looking at me. He had a confused look spread across his beautiful face.
“I’m not comfortable with my weight, I’ve wanted to change for so long, but have never had the motivation, or the help. Now that I have you, I think that I might be able to accomplish my goal with yours, and possibly the boys’, help.”
“You know that I think you’re beautiful the way you are, right?”
“Yeah, but this is really thing that I want to change about myself.”
“I understand that but can I tell you something that might change your mind? It doesn’t matter if it does or not, I just want you to know it.”
“What’s that?”
“I want you to know that once we come out to the world, I know that there will be so many girls who will look up to you once they know your story. If they are one of the girls who feel the same about their body as you, they will think ‘wow, she never liked her weight either but Niall still fell for her, he showed her that she was beautiful. And I may want to change my weight now, but there is a guy out there who likes me for who I am and doesn’t want me to change.’ Girls will look up to you for that, along with being able to be a Directioner yourself, and meeting me, and of course me falling head-over-heals for you, will show them that anything and everything is possible, and that anything can happen.”
“Wow, I never thought about it that way. Thanks, Ni, for making me realize that. Although that tells me that I could be a role model to your fans, I still want to work on my weight, just get fit, nothing too extreme, I don’t want to be super skinny, I just want to get rid of some fat.”
“We can definitely work on it, babe.”
“Thank you, Niall.” I pecked him on the cheek.
Instead of saying “your welcome,” he gave me a quick ‘you’re welcome’ kiss on the lips.
I smiled at him and he returned with another.
“You’re awesome, you know that?”
“Yes, I’m fully aware of this, but I’m going to ask you yet another time, but are you aware that you are the most beautiful girl in the world, and always will be?”
“I’ve been told a few times,” I giggled. A soft chuckle came out of him.
I returned my head to the crook of his neck. He started rubbing his thumb across my fingers that were still interlocked with his.

We stayed like that for the entire 30-minute drive, there wasn’t much traffic to extend the ride, even if there was, we wouldn’t mind the slightest.
We pulled up to my house and Niall and I got out of the car, Paul staying seated. We told him that we would be out in a few minutes. Niall kept our hands together.
My mom eagerly opened the door to greet us. As soon as we got into the house she gave us a huge bear hug.
“Hi, Niall, I’m Leah, obviously Tigerlily’s mom. Is there anything I could get you?”
“Uh, no thank you.” He seemed kind of nervous.
“Okay, well if you need anything I will be in the kitchen.”
Suddenly my little brother, J.P. who is about four, comes running into the room, lunging himself at me. “Hey, J.P., how are you?” I asked him as I pick him up. He gives me a huge grin as I start tickling him. He laughs like crazy, like usual.
“Do you want to hold him, Niall?”
“Sure, but we should probably get your things because we don’t want to make Paul wait that long.” I handed him the toddler.
“I’m already on it.” I said guiding them to my room. It was the same way I left it last night. My room was small, it cluttered easily, so I always made sure to keep it clean. I had a few posters of them on my walls; I really didn’t have much at all in my room. “How much stuff do you think that I will need to pack?”
“Erhm, probably about a week’s worth; along with the stuff I just bought you today you should have enough clothes, if not I will buy you more.”
“Are you sure that you’re okay with me staying with you guys for a while? I really don’t want to be a bother; I can stay here, babe.”
He shook his head. He set the toddler down and J.P. ran off into another room. Niall went behind me and wrapped his arms around my stomach. He set his chin on my shoulder. “Babe, I’m absolutely positive. I want you to stay with us as long as you can. And of course you wouldn’t be a bother; I don’t know why you think that you would be. You can stay here if you want, but I’d rather you not.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll go back with you.” I leaned my head on his. “I should probably get packing.” I said trying to escape his hold on me. He didn’t loosen his hold.
“Yeah, you should, but in a minute.” He held me a little tighter and took a deep breath.
He finally released his hold on me. I turned around to see him smiling at me.
“Do I want to know why you’re smiling at me like that?”
“You probably already know the answer.”
“Yeah, that’s what I thought.”

I packed my bags and gathered all of my stuff. Niall grabbed one bag, conveniently the heavier one, and I had the other, my laptop bag. We got the bags in the trunk of the car and I said goodbye to my mom. Somehow, the sad goodbye moment with my mom went to totally awkward and wanting to die almost instantly. Why? Because my ex boyfriend, Dylan, was walking towards my house. This was not going to go well. I broke up with him because he was distant, and always super wierd around me. I really would rather not ignite old flames.
“Hey, Tigerlily… um, who’s this?” he asked as he scratched the back of his head.
“Uh, hi Dylan, this Niall, my boyfriend.” I looked over towards Niall, who was now wrapping his arm around the back of my waist protectively, tense up.
“Wait, you mean the guy from One Direction that you would mention in your Spanish homework, they guy who you had a huge crush on?”
I nodded, blushing. I looked towards the ground.
“Okay, so what are you doing here?”
“Other than being at my house, I was getting some of my things if you must know; what were you doing?”
“I was going to visit Andi.”
“Okay, well, bye Dylan.”
“Bye, Tigerlily.”
He walked towards Andrea’s house, disappearing from our sight.
“So, who was that, bae?”
“That was Dylan, the guy that I told you about yesterday, he's my ex, he was distant, and we didnt talk much, so I ended things between us.”
“Okay, well are you ready to go? And I'm sorry about that.”
“Yeah, all ready, and it's fine, I'm over it; I'm only focusing on the present right now.”

We hopped into the car and Paul drove away from my house, and headed back to Portland.
The boys worked out most of the day; I didn’t tag along because I thought that I might have passed out, and because I had to unpack, even though I didnt even end up unpacking, I just laid around on my laptop the whole time.

Notes

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QOTD: What's your favorite song off of Midnight Memories?
Mine is You & I, Happily, and Better Than Words.

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One more thing, I just wanted to let you know that the reason there is and will a lack of frequent updates is because I moved last month and we haven't been able to get internet yet, but occasionally we go to my grandparents' house, who have internet, and I will be able to update, this might cause a double update once in a while.

-Much Love,
Tigerlily