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His Princess

10. Before Noon Food Break

The SUV ride was amazing. It turned out to be a good thing Sparrow didn’t come because with the two security team members they sent with us, there wasn’t any more room. Something about this ride was better than the last SUV ride we all took, and it might be because we knew each other better. So much had happened since then that it didn’t feel like it was just yesterday.

At one point, Harry and Louis were standing up through the moon roof waving at fans passing by. That got fans trying to figure out where we were going, and with the crazy Sunday morning traffic in the middle of Manhattan, it wasn’t hard to keep up.

The security guard sitting in the passenger seat turned around and politely asked them to get back in as the fans began pounding against the side of the SUV, and they just listened, did what they were told. When they did, it was super fun inside of the limo. While they were waving, it was incredible to see from the inside.

For the first time in my life, I was on the inside. Countless celebrities came through Manhattan with fans eagerly chasing behind, and while I watched from a distance, wondering what they said on the inside . . . for the first time, I was on the inside. I got to hear them talking to each other, talking about how unreal it all was. I got to see their faces as they watched as their fans screamed and begged for them to roll the windows down. Just to see them in person.

And nestled in the backseat with Niall and Liam on both sides of me, I got to see it. It was absolutely mind blowing.

Niall leaned towards the front so everyone could hear him. “Okay. Can the first part of New York we see be another place with food? I’m starving.”

Zayn rolled his eyes but laughed at his brother. “I, for once, agree with Niall. In the madness of this morning, I forgot to eat.”

“Oh, I ate,” Niall said, not that any of us doubted that. “I’m just hungry.”

My stomach growled in agreement at just the mention of food, and we all laughed. It was sort of like a mutual agreement between everyone, the unspoken, “Yes. Food.”

So the security team took us to McDonald’s because it was a universal go-to place. The security team had to drive around the block a few times to lose the fans, and when they did, they pulled off to the side and helped me get out without looking too out of place.

While the security team worked to clear the top floor of one of the only two-story McDonald’s I had ever seen, I got everyone’s food. At first, the guy at the counter didn’t seem fazed at all when I listed all the food I wanted, but when I said, “For here,” he looked at me like I was an alien.

So, I paid for it—do you realize how unreal it is to be holding Niall’s debit card?—and made four different trips to get it all up there.

If Niall hadn’t hidden my bag, I would’ve paid for my own. He refused to let me, however, and insisted he had it.

Stupid adorable as hell fucker.

When I got up to the top, I noticed how uneasy the people felt as the security team reserved each empty table and stood around, just watching. They picked up the speed they ate, and within five minutes, everyone was gone.

The boys were let in after that. Some people still tried to get up there, even when they saw the two large men guarding the top of the stairs, but security wouldn’t let them.

Before everyone even got settled into their seats, fans found us, and they started screaming for the guys to wave at them. Harry and Louis did, but Niall was too busy eating. Liam was on the phone, and Zayn was . . . watching me.

I was just eating away when I noticed, and a part of me feared he noticed my face, but he didn’t look mad or upset or even confused. He was just observing me for whatever reason.

“Don’t hurt him,” was all he said when he realized that I noticed him looking, but I had no idea what he was talking about. He didn’t explain either, but Niall heard him and looked over towards Zayn as well. With just a look, they shared some sort of silent communication that explained everything I didn’t understand, but it didn’t help me any.

Ah well. I could always ask later, I suppose.

Zayn excused himself so he could go call Perrie, and with Liam already on the other side of the second floor, it sort of gave Niall and me a moment to talk, even if the floor wasn’t very big.

“I need to ask you something,” he whispered, eyes moving away from the place Zayn had been sitting and over to Harry and Louis. Whatever he wanted to say, he didn’t want them to hear. “About your face.”

“I fell down the stairs,” I lied on the spot, remembering the painful truth that I had forgotten to finish my cover story.

If there was one thing I was bad at, it was lying to someone I cared about, and Niall must’ve noticed the way I avoided looking at him. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see that he wasn’t buying it.

He let out a soft breath. “We’re friends, right?”

“Of course we are.”

His eyebrows pulled together. “Maybe we’re not good enough friends yet, and maybe this is personal, but what really happened to your face?”

I didn’t have a brilliant lie to tell him, like I always did. Like the day Sparrow found out, there wasn’t really a good enough cover story I could’ve come up with that she would’ve believed anyways. She could see that I was lying and wouldn’t believe anything but the truth.

I just didn’t want to ruin the day, nor did I want them all to know. Niall knowing was bad enough. The secret I had managed to keep from my own father was falling to pieces around me. This new friend threw me off my game . . . and that was disastrous.

Still, I realized then that it was unavoidable, so I didn’t even bother coming up with another lie. “Can I just tell you later?”

He seemed to like this idea, so with a tiny smile, he nodded. “That’s fine. I just . . . already worry about you.”

My heart pounding against my cracked ribs was painful, especially at the speed it was going. Though I was starving, the thought of eating and disrupting the butterflies in my stomach didn’t settle well, so I decided to wait for the feelings to settle before I tried eating.

I tucked some curls behind my ears and smiled. “Well thank you for that. Most people don’t.”

“Most people don’t realize what they’re overlooking,” he said. “I don’t understand why they do, but you have no reason to be insecure.”

“You’re insecure,” Liam randomly started singing to me from across the room where he stood, no longer on the phone. “Don’t know what for. You’re turning heads when you walk through the do-o-or. Don’t need makeup to cover up. Being the way that you are is en-ou-o-ough.”

Girls below me were screaming, making yet another rush to try and get up here, but the security team held strong. I was moved over further to stay out of view, but despite the chaos, Harry didn’t miss a beat coming in for his part.

“Everyone else in the room can see it. Everyone else but you-ooh.”

Everyone joined in for this part. “Baby, you light up my world like nobody else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed, but when you smile at the ground, it ain’t hard to tell you don’t know-oh-oh. You don’t know you’re beautiful. If only you saw what I can see, you’d understand why I want you so desperately. Right now, I’m looking at you, and I can’t believe you don’t know-oh-oh. You don’t know you’re beautiful. Oh, oh, oh. That’s what makes you beautiful.”

“So c-come on,” Zayn continued on, which surprised me. I didn’t expect them to go any further, as the fans were actually being told to quiet down or leave by management. But Zayn continued anyways. “You got it wrong. To prove I’m right, I put it in a so-o-ong. I don’t know why you’re being shy and turn away when I look into your e-ey-eyes.”

It was true. As they were singing to me, I was looking directly at the table with rosy cheeks and a massive smile that made me feel good just being able to wear it. Thankfully, they couldn’t see me blushing due to the excessive makeup on my face, so I felt a bit less embarrassed.

“Everyone else in the room can see it,” Harry continued on, loud enough for the fans down below to hear it, too. “Everyone else but you-ooh.”

“Baby, you light up my world like nobody else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed. But when you smile at the ground, it ain’t hard to tell you don’t know-oh-oh. You don’t know you’re beautiful. If only you saw what I can see, you’d understand why I want you so desperately. Right now, I’m looking at you and I can’t believe, you don’t know-oh-oh. You don’t know you’re beautiful. Oh, oh, oh.”

For this part, Niall, despite the fact that he didn’t normally sing it, sang it to me directly. “That’s what makes you beautiful.”

I knew I had tears in my eyes as I looked around at them, seeing their smiling faces that infectiously lit up the room, but I didn’t care how stupid I looked. Honestly, if I didn’t have the tear resistant makeup, I still wouldn’t have cared.

I had to text Sparrow. They just sang What Makes You Beautiful to me. My life has been made.

Niall continued to wear that infectious and gorgeous smile, something I felt he had over the others. All of them had really nice smiles, but there was something about Niall’s that just melted my heart.

“Really, Emmit,” he said. “I mean it. There’s no reason for you to feel insecure, and these guys clearly agree with me. You’re beautiful, and we all think you’re incredible.”

“The best,” Harry input, so now at this point, we knew they were all listening.

Niall actually seemed a little nervous to realize this and stopped talking about that. “Um, wow. That really hit the spot. Not to say I’m not hungry anymore, but I can wait an hour or so before eating more.”

The security team must’ve heard him say that because he immediately turned back towards us. “If everyone’s done, I think it would be best for us to head on out. The girls are getting out of control down there.” Then, he smiled at me, despite how tough and scary he had previously been acting. “That’s what makes you beautiful.”

While my mouth hung open and the guys all fell into fits of laughter, I took a second to marvel and this man’s deep and rather awesome voice. Could my life get any better?
Honestly, I wasn’t sure if that was possible, and if it was, how?

After that, we all huddled up and prepared to rush to the limo while one of the security members cleared a path for us—relatively anyways. The girls didn’t leave, but I wasn’t sure the guys really wanted them to because they headed back rather slowly to sign autographs for them. I felt a bit out of place, but I walked between Niall and Harry, with Niall’s hand protectively around my arm so that I didn’t get lost in the crowd.

I was grateful for that. Girls started swarming, and I had never realized it before, but I was claustrophobic. At least in that moment I was. Still, I focused on Niall’s hand around my arm and simply followed their slow walk out to the SUV.

Louis turned around and put his arm around my shoulder, which shocked more than just me a little. While fans began loudly freaking out about the fact that Niall and Louis were touching me in some way, I focused in on the way Louis chuckled to himself and looked down at me. “Did you know that I think you’re really pretty?”

Once again, something someone said left me unable to look at them, and my eyes shifted down to my feet while heat rose against the skin of my cheeks. “I didn’t, but thank you.”

“She really does it!” Louis exclaimed as the security team opened the SUV doors up for us. “Guys, she really won’t look at you when you compliment her. And she blushes too. It’s kind of cute because it only happens on one side of her face.”

Niall was quick to change that subject. “Did you see her when we were singing? It was like her burger was the most interesting thing in the world.”

I felt my cheeks heating up even further as Niall and I followed Liam into the back of the SUV. “I’m sorry. I’m just not used to this. Remember? I’ve gone my whole life unnoticed.”

Liam was looking me directly in the eyes as he said this. “I don’t know how. Your eyes were enough to surprise me. I had to look at you again just to get a full grasp on you and your beauty.”

I didn’t answer simply because I really didn’t know how to, so I just smiled and leaned back against my seat with a sigh. “If I were to die today, I think I would die happy.”

“You think?” Niall asked, eyebrows raised.

“There is my bucket list I still have to do,” I said, but as soon as I did, I sort of regretted it. Really, I didn’t want to talk about my bucket list, especially in front of these guys.

From the looks on their faces, though, I realized I wasn’t going to have much choice.

“What’s something on your list?” Louis insisted eagerly, eyes wide with anticipation.

So, I just decided to go for it and tell them the first thing that came to mind. “I don’t want to die a virgin.”

Harry began looking at his phone and playfully looking around. “We have time. We could pull over, you and I go upstairs, eh?”

Niall just rolled his eyes while everyone else laughed. I, on the other hand, couldn’t believe it. Harry was clearly kidding, but Harry Styles just playfully suggested we go upstairs and have sex.

That would be something else I told Sparrow. Wow.

Notes

The lyrics are from I Must Be Dreaming by The Maine. :) I adore this band and pretty much every song they've ever made. <3

Anyways, hope you guys enjoy! I have a lot more chapters edited, so when I get a review, I'll post as soon as I can. Let me know what you think? :)

Comments

TO THE READERS!
I thought I would inform you as the sister of the author that this story will be on hold for a long time as she just gave birth to a little baby boy a little over 2 months ago and is busy being a full-time mom. Sorry and I hope everyone can understand!

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6/22/16

Yasssss!!

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1/8/15

This was so worth the wait!!!


... After the wait was over lOl kehe I love this update!

A Chance A Chance
12/27/14

OMG an Update!!!! I feel like it's been a gazillion years ☺

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12/23/14

This story is amazing af, I'm so excited to read it every time you update! :))