”Niall…” I sighed relieved, but the sight of him made it all become too much for me and the tears that had now threatened to leave my eyes for a few moments by then was now not hesitating one bit with streaming down my face. He’d agreed to pick me up and spent time together this afternoon, since it would the only one for the entire week that we both would have off from everything else. “I’m sorry, I…” I don’t know why I felt the need to apologize, I had done absolutely nothing wrong, but before I got to say anything else Niall interrupted me as he quickly walked towards us.


“What the hell do you think you’re doing?!” he yelled at Eric. He was pissed. Really pissed, I could tell that by the intense and burning glare in his normally calm eyes.

Eric on the other hand was still looking a bit befuddled from the slap that I’d given him a minute earlier and at that point I suddenly noticed how my palm was pounding slightly. But it felt so incredibly good at the same time.


“Relax, we were just hanging out…” he began but once again Niall was too quickly firing back at him:

“No, you weren’t. That was sick of you.” He pointed at him only standing a few inches away. “Piss off.”


With one last hateful look he turned back towards me and instantly wiped my cheeks with his thumb. His touch felt like a drug to me, it made my heart beat slower and calm me down, but at the same time I felt the electricity wave out from the friction between his and my skin. I barely noticed Eric leaving, his brown eyes didn’t feel pretty and charming in any way at all, like they used to. Now they made me wince every time they would meet mine from behind Niall’s shoulder as he walked away.

I took a deep breath of relief and leaned in to Niall’s chest.


“I’m so sorry,” I almost wimped as he laid his arms around my shoulders.

“No, I’m sorry. I overheard the entire conversation. He really is a dick, that Eric,” he mumbled in to my hair.

“You were here?” I asked confused while quickly looking up at him when he nodded. “Well, why didn’t you come to me before?”

“I don’t know, I guess I wanted to hear what he was acting like and if my fear of his feelings for you was true. Turned out they was. And I’m sorry, that couldn’t have been a good experience for you at all, it was selfish of me.”

“Hell yeah, it was!” I exclaimed before restraining myself the tiniest bit. “I mean, could you please not stay away another time? It was really uncomfortable.”

“I know, I’m sorry,” he said probably not aware of how frustrated I was feeling. Kissing Eric was not something I had wanted to re-experience in any way and it wasn’t only because I was with Niall, it was mainly because I really thought he was my friend. A friend that I could talk to. A friend that I could dance with. A friend that I could play music with. Oh God damnit, the band! What about it?!

“I just needed to know that what I sensed wasn’t just a result of some weird kind of jalousie, but actually true. Even though I now know that it was really unnecessary.”

“It was,” I admitted.

“I guess, I also needed to know that you weren’t attracted to him in any way as well.” He looked down at his feet a bit insecure of how I would react to his honesty.

“I understand.” My hand travelled to his cheek before I knew of it and brushed it lightly. “But you know that now, don’t you?”

“Well, apparently you got pretty pissed off. What a slap.”

I couldn’t help but smile feeling a bit proud of myself, my palm was still aching, reminding me of what I’d just done a few minutes earlier.

“Did you know he would be here?” I asked.

“No, not at all, it was a coincidence, but I decided to take a terrible advantage of it,” he admitted.

“Asshole,” I said but I was smiling so it didn’t come off the slightest bit harsh. He smiled back down at me and kissed me, which was when I suddenly realized that we hadn’t got the chance to do that yet, despite the fact that he’d been with me for several minutes.


We sneaked back towards the small street where Niall had parked his car in order not to get mobbed by girls and paparazzi’s. I was starting to get quite amazed with all the tricks that he knew to avoid any kind of attention, the fact that it was now winter and time for beanies, scarfs and thick coats made it all much easier, I guess. He even corrected my beanie as well, pulling it further down my head when he immediately spotted a few girls staring at me for a little too long apparently. If I got discovered, he would get discovered and God knows what hell that would break out if that happened.



We arrived home at my place before Aida and Em would be home yet and the fact that we both knew we would be alone in the apartment made us both practically stroke each other as our mouths didn’t seem to want to leave each other’s before Niall tugged at the hem of my shirt to get it off above my head.


“Want to play some music?” Niall suddenly asked when we were cuddling in my bed after a sweet session of sex that as always lasted way too short a space of time, in my opinion.

“Yeah sure,” I smiled as he got up to put on his boxers. He went out in the living room to get Aida’s guitar from its holder and bring it in here, while I put on his big and soft grey sweater.

“God, I love when you wear my clothes,” he smirked eyeing my body up and down when he got back inside and I blushed a bit glancing down at the sweater as well.

“I love wearing them,” I smiled back at him. “So what do you want to play?”

“I don’t know, just jam a bit. You sing, I play,” he said before sitting down next to me.



We had so much fun finding different songs to play and sing, we ended up doing it the way that he mostly sang the melody as I came up with different second voices. It actually sounded really great, if I had to say so myself, our voices were quite similar, both soft and comfortable listening to and the combination between his deep, masculine one with my light and girly sound somehow blended in with each other in a beautiful way that I had never imagined happening.

I think we were both a bit surprised with the sound of the two of us, cause none of us seemed to want to stop singing, even Aida complimented the music when she arrived home around five o’clock. The fact that she didn’t put on one of her beloved vinyls as she was preparing dinner in the kitchen but instead apparently enjoyed the sound of some live music had to be the biggest compliment ever.


“Hey, I had fun earlier,” Niall said to her once we were all about to sit down in the kitchen and eat some more of that diet vegetable soup. Em had joined us as well by that time and so we were now really closely spaced around the small table.

“Yeah me too,” she smiled widely and also… blushing at the same time.

“What happened earlier?” I asked feeling a bit curious of the source to that blushing of hers.

“Uhm… I have news,” she began with a huge smirk on her face making both Em and I lift our heads waiting eagerly for what she had to say. “Something… happened today.”

She took an artistic break to drag the tension for us girls as much as possible, but after about two seconds Em found her to do it a bit too long and so she exclaimed:

“For God’s sake, spill it out!”


Niall’s face only made it even more exciting as his smile was almost wider than Aida’s, which shouldn’t be unnoticed since Aida’s mouth was huge.

“Please!” I yelled along.

“Well uhm… Do you remember I told you I had a photo shoot for an upcoming band this morning?” she asked but she didn’t even have to finish the sentence before Em and I would both nod eagerly in order to make her continue as fast as possible. “So Harry had offered to give me a ride to the place and I found it a bit weird that he would actually follow me all the way inside the building, I was about to get pissed at him for being possessive or some shit, but then the rest of the guys showed up as well…” She gestured to Niall with her hand.

“God, I hope it’s not porn…” Em blurred out revealing this crazy mind of hers that wasn’t always shown, but deep down I think Aida and I knew that she was the one in our group with the most twisted sense of humor, it really was hilarious. And this time wasn’t a failure, we all cracked up and the sound of Niall’s sincere and bright laugh only made it last longer.

“No. Uhm… Not porn,” Aida said still laughing a few seconds later. “No, it turned out that they’d given my portfolio to the editor of Glamour Magazine…”

“Oh…” I gushed. This excitement was quickly starting to remind me of the evening when she told us that Nick Grimshaw had called her to ask if we wanted to be on his show.

“And she really liked the style in my photography…”

“My…” I kept gushing.

“So apparently I was about to do a photo of the boys for next issue of Glamour Magazine.”

“God!” I screamed the last word so loud it actually blocked the sound of Em’s squealing. Niall was smiling at us in amazement as the three of us jumped around the kitchen in each other’s arms doing some weird hand gestures that honestly looked more like hand spasms, and maybe it was but it was just a way of reacting to crazy shit like this.

“What! When?! How many pictures?! Will you get paid?!” were all questions flying through the air when we’d caught our breath’s to speak again.

“The February issue. It was a shoot for the cover and then a shoot for an interview as well, I think it was like 6 spread or something.”

“That is sick!” Em yelled. “6 spread!”

“So what about that up-coming band you were talking about this morning?” I asked confused.

“Oh that turned out to only be some shitty lie that Harry had thrown at me. I did find it a bit odd that he would be the one to get me jobs and so on,” she answered. “I also couldn’t help but get a little pissed at him.”

“Why?” Em asked.

“Because. I don’t want any of you guys to use your position in any way to help me. And us for that matter,” she said making the three of us nod in agreement. “A photo shoot for Glamour Magazine of One Direction is a big mother fucking thing and that wouldn’t happen if it hadn’t been for you guys. I don’t want any special treatment, there are plenty of other photographers who deserves that opportunity more than me.”

“Hey girl, relax,” Niall interrupted her and now all of our eyes turned to him. “None of us recommended you at all. All Harry did was to give your portfolio to the editor. We didn’t say a word, she just happened to love your photography. You bet, you fucking deserve this.”


His words made all of us jump slightly, but as he spoke I couldn’t help but get completely infatuated by his beautiful eyes that would only show you what you would get; an honest and sincere person that happened to have a great sense of humor, the brightest mood and an endless row of dirty skills in bed. And he was with me. He really was with me.


You say that if a guy wants you to like him he has to make her girlfriends like him as well. Which was exactly what Niall had managed to do just by simply being his pure and incredible self. I glanced around the small table and saw that Em was just smiling proudly like a fool and Aida was blushing like hell but at the same time also looking a bit surprised with the slightly commanding words that Niall had just thrown at her.


“Uhm…” she stuttered slightly. “Thank you.”

“No problem,” Niall smiled back at her.

“Are you absolutely sure you didn’t say anything about me being with Harry, or friends with you guys, or being a poor dirty photographer struggling to get enough jobs to pay my rent or something?”

“Absolutely not. Harry didn’t tell us he gave her the portfolio, until you actually got the job. Then he just called me to tell me not to mention anything to Maja, he wanted it to be a surprise for you. And that was the only interfering he had with the job, he just made sure to act like your manager for one time. He knew you wouldn’t approve if he had used his connections in any way.”


His explanation made Aida’s smile widen until it literally almost reached both of her ears. She was happy. It was easy to tell. We all were.

Here I was sitting with my two best friends and my boyfriend, all getting along with living in London on our own and more importantly, all getting along with each other.


Suddenly, for a brief moment, the future didn’t look as scary as I had feared until then.

Notes

So this is the last update for an entire week. I'm really sorry, but I will be travelling until then, so you're all going to have to be patient with me and just wait until I come home and then start to write the next chapter for you guys!!
I love you, have a nice weekend xx