Jess P.O.V
As were getting ready to walk into the arena, Katie and I are suddenly stopped by a security guard.

“Is there a problem sir?” I ask with a surprised look on my face.

“You are Jessica Reilly, Correct?” He had a smile on his face and I was quite confused.

“Yeah……”

“Well after the concert, you and your friend have been personally invited backstage by Niall”

“Oh wow! Well thank you!” I say taking the passes.

As we are walking to our seats, Katie and I just let loose and scream out of excitement, but hey it’s to be expected. Our seats are right in front of the main stage as well as the little walkway where I take the boys will be running up and down during their performance. The stage was the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen, it definitely suited them.

As the arena started to fill up, all I could hear were little girls screaming. In my opinion, there shouldn’t be fans under the age of fourteen because honestly the lyrics to some songs are not so innocent. It is very clever. The time was near, the lights started to dim down and all of a sudden a giant screen starts to come down.

After the video intro, the music for ‘That’s What Makes You Beautiful’ starts to play. Unfortunately I got stuck next to some snotty twelve year old that starts to scream at the top of her lungs. I mean come on; they haven’t even come out yet, shut up.
The boys sing a whole bunch of songs and I will never understand how they can perform night after night because that has to take a lot of effort. Of course during the whole concert, this little girl next to me was a little too obnoxious and I wish she took a chill pill but other than that the concert was great.
During the concert, I couldn’t keep my eyes off of Niall and I saw him looking at me and I think he might have even winked at me but I wasn’t getting my hopes up because that would just be too good to be true.


They boys ended with their audition song ‘Torn’. It is amazing to hear them sing it now and then think back to how they sang it in the beginning.

Once most of the crowd had begun to flow out, a security guard comes over to escort Katie and I backstage. This was it, I was actually going to get to talk to Niall again and maybe have a personal conversation with him. This is a Directioner’s dream. As we were walking, I had Katie make sure that I was still looking cute and I did the same to her.

When we got back there, I was told that we were going to be the last visitors so we were to take a seat on the couch and the boys will come out when the other fans had left.

While we were sitting there, some of the girls spotted Katie and I and ran over to ask for our autographs as well. We didn’t protest, anything for our fans. It gave us something to do as well because quite honestly we had been siting for at least an hour. Finally Harry and Niall showed up. They told us to follow them back to their “Chill Room”, which we easily did.

We walked into this rather comforting room that looked like a temporary living room. It had couches and chairs and a giant flat screen telly with a couple of game systems. We ended up playing video games with all the boys for a while and it was a blast. After a little, Niall taps me on the shoulder and whispers in my ear for me to follow him outside. I really didn’t know what to think but I just went with it.
When we got outside there was all kinds of big boy toys with wheels and motor. Niall runs over to a golf cart and starts it up. He then taps the passenger seat and I walk over to sit down next to him.

“Well now that we can finally uhm, have an actual conversation” He started kind of nervously with his hands tightly gripped on the steering wheel.

Niall P.O.V.

Holy shit was I nervous. She was wearing a shirt she obviously made, it was actually quite cool. It was orange and green tie-dye on a white shirt and then she must have found the goofiest picture of me out there and put it right in the center. This shirt was a crop top as well but yet she wasn’t showing off her stomach because her high-waisted shorts covered up the rest of her stomach.

She wasn’t saying anything, she was just quiet and smiling and blushing. She was adorable and before I could even stop myself from making myself sound stupid, it was too late.
“So do you like Nandos?”
“Uh,” she giggles. “I do like it but I don’t eat it often because you know, it’s not exactly the healthiest”
I just love her laugh. I really don’t know where I am driving, I am just kind of driving into the dark.
“So you are pretty good at soccer but I bet I am better,” I wink at her.
“Oh Mr. Horan, I would like to see you try!”
“Well I am going to drive you over to a nice patchy area of grass and I would like to see some of your best moves…..but brace yourself because I will just take the ball away from you. I’m not going to take it easy on you either.”
“Well good because I wasn’t going to take it easy on you either.”
We pull over and I pull out a soccer ball from my bag that was behind my seat. I walk over to Jess who has taken her shoes off and pulled back her hair in a loose ponytail. I hand her the ball and she just smacks it out of my hand and the ball is spiked to the ground. She just has a smirk on her face.
After getting I attempt to take the ball from her too many times and fail miserably, it’s time to start cheating. She fakes me out yet again so I end up just picking her up and lifting her away from the ball.
“CHEATER!” she giggles and tries to fight out of my grip.
We play this game for a little longer before we just both sit down to just talk for a little and star gaze. It’s a little chilly out and I see Jess shiver a little so I give her my jacket I had on.
“So do you remember me from when we were younger at all?”
“Well, I wasn’t exactly a person someone would talk to and I wasn’t a person to go and talk to someone so, unless you bullied me, I don’t remember you.”
“I definitely didn’t bully you, I was always the one to get bullied. I was the boy who always I am pretty sure who creepily watched you juggle your ball every day.”
“Well, now that you have specified, I think I do remember catching you watching me from a distance. You know that was kind of creepy right?”
“Hey now, I was hoping you would ask me to play with you but you never did!”
“Well I don’t know if you remember how many soccer balls that had been popped and how many times I got shoved to the ground, made fun of or had my ball kicked in my face, I never really wanted to talk to anyone. I mean I was constantly humiliated…”
“Oh come on, you cannot tell me you don’t remember the stories about the kid who got the classic swirlies, wedgies, “peed his pants” or always had his lunch spilled all over him all the time.”
“Okay…. Now I remember you kind of!”
“Thought you would” I laughed.
“Funny how we got bullied all those years and now we are like famous…. Well you are”
“Uh you are pretty famous yourself, Ms. Fancy Feet”
We ended up talking about how we both got our starts. I told her how I left school after I went out for the X-factor and she shared how she got homeschooled so she could join essentially the mini pros soccer team where she eventually worked her way up to the National team.
After we got caught up on each other’s lives, I told her that I had a confession and I regretted telling her. She wouldn’t let me just drop it either. So instead of just telling her, I just flat out kissed her.
“Honestly Jess, I have always had a crush on you but never could bring myself to tell you and by the time I thought I had the guts I was gone and you were off playing soccer.”
She leaned in and we kissed again. It felt too good to be true.

Notes

Potatoes.