Something Good Can Work

Friday night had quickly approached and I was headed to Anatomy, one of the few classes I didn’t share with the boys. I found my seat, next to Alison who was already seated and pulling out her notebook.“Hello lady.” I say as I sit down and begin unloading my backpack.“Hey there! How has your day been?” She asked sweetly, crossing her legs toward me. “Can’t complain. I’m excited about this weekend though.” I tease, hoping she’ll take the bait.“Oh? Why’s that?” Her eyes squinted slightly. “Oh, Harry has a show and we’re all going. You know, if you’re not busy… maybe you should come with us?” I offer, looking over to her with a grin.“Oh, um…who all is going?” She hesitates. “Louis, Lucy, Harry, me, and Niall.” I say the last name slowly. I can see her face light up unintentionally. I knew it, she’s smitten. “Niall?” A hint of hope in her voice. “Yeah, he’s always kind of the odd man out, I’m sure he’d love it if you went.” I say with a shrug, opening my text book.“Yeah, I’ll go.” She said with a new found confidence. I give her a grin. “Great, you can come over to mine and we’ll get ready if you want? Lucy will be there too.” Look at me, collecting girlfriends. “Okay, I’ll be there after school?” She offered. “Sounds great.” After class I walked to my locker, my favorite person was waiting for me. “Hello gorgeous. I texted you.” He said with a fake pout. “Sorry dear, I didn’t check my phone in class. Why are you texting me anyway? Couldn’t wait to see me? Stalker. I’m telling you.” I say as I opened the metal door to place my items in. “Because, my show has been cancelled, Zayn has some ailment that apparently is quite contagious and he denied when I suggested it was Chlamydia but whatever, I wanted you to know before you invited Alison.” He gave me a glare. “What? No! This is a disaster.” I say closing my
locker louder than intended, resulting in a few stares. “Sorry…” I mouth before looking back up to the handsome brunette who was towering above me. “I already invited her. What are we going to do?” I ask as we begin walking toward the exit.“Relax crazy, I’ve got a plan. I need your help though.” He said with a grin. “And how?”“I need you to convince Lucy her house is a perfect setting for a little shindig tonight.” “How do you expect me to convince her?” I ask.“No so much you as your cousin, she’s like a puppet. She’ll do whatever he asks.” He popped his brows and gave me a wink.“Gross and misogynistic much?” I say with a roll of my eyes.“So is that a no?” He completely ignored my comment. “I’ll ask, but you should really rethink your motives sir.” I scold. “Fine. Sorry, maybe you could try then? It’ll be fun.” He said with a grin, wrapping his arm around my shoulder as we walked out to his car.
“Okay, I’ll do it.” I say as I rummage in my purse, looking for my cell.
I ignore the texts from Harry and go straight to Louis’ contact info, pressing call.

“Hello?”
“Louis, we have a slight dilemma.”
“What’s wrong?”
“Well, it appears Zayn is ill and the concert is off….”
“Oh no! That’s bullshit, I had this all planned out…”
“I know, but we were thinking of a plan, where are you?”
“I’m about to walk out of school, you?”
“Meet me at Har’s car.”
“Right o.”

We hang up and I look to Harry, “Lou is on his way.” I lean against the car and let out a sigh, wondering if this will actually work. If not we could all just go get dinner or something, I just hate seeing Niall sad.
“What’s the plan?” I hear Lou ask as he comes up behind me.
“We need you to convince Lucy to have a party at her house this weekend.” Harry says with a cheeky smile.
Lou shoots us a look, shaking his head.
“I don’t think she’d go for that.”
“She would if you suggested.” I offered, batting my eyelashes innocently.
“You two are trouble together…” He said as he looked at us. He wasn’t wrong, I’d definitely felt more adventurous – maybe even a little more edgy since being around Harry. Hell, I’d almost gone all the way with him and he wasn’t even my boyfriend.
“Fine, I’ll ask. Let me text her.”
“C’mon, let’s go back to yours.” Harry said as he opened the door, Louis climbed into the back and I sat in the front.
“She said she’s unsure because she doesn’t want to have to clean up.” Louis spoke from the back.
“Tell her we’ll help.” Harry glanced in the rear mirror at him.
“Yeah, it won’t be a ton of people anyway.” I add “Just a few friends. I’m sure Harry can get party favors.” I say nudging him.
“Yup, I have that covered.” He confirmed.
“Okay, wow. That was easy, she’s in.” Lou said with a celebratory grin.

Louis left early to help Lucy get prepared, Harry went to since he was basically providing all the alcohol and other assorted party favors, which left me alone with Alison. Lucy clearly wouldn’t be getting ready with us.

“I like your room.” She said as she looked around, her eyes stopping on my vanity. “You have lots of makeup.”
I could tell she was a little nervous, she’d been clutching her bag to her side.
“Oh, yeah … I am a self proclaimed makeup artist, youtube is my favorite. I used to make videos when I was younger, haven’t really had time lately…” I say as I look over my spread.
“Anyway, Ali – Can I call you that? Anyway, we’ve had a slight change of plans. Harry’s gig got cancelled and we’re actually going to be going to a party at Lucys.” I say as cheerfully as possible.
I see her eyes widen, probably feeling a little bombarded, but a party is a lot less people than a pub.
“Oh, um. Okay…” She said giving me a smile.
“So, what did you bring to wear?” I ask before walking into my closet, looking through my clothes. I didn’t really want to dress too dark tonight, I was feeling bubbly.
“I brought some jeans…” She said slowly, pulling a pair of faded denim from her bag. I frowned, we needed her looking good to catch Ni’s eye.
“How about this?” I say as I pick a red and black plaid dress from my rack and hold it up to her.
“Oh, wow this is way cute.” She said with a grin, holding it against her body.
“It’s settled, you’ll wear it. I’ll do your makeup too if you want?” I offer, I was not one to turn down a makeover.
“Yeah? That would be great.” She said grinning.

It didn’t take us long to get ready, she wore the dress and I gave her a perfect smoky eye partnered with a nude gloss. We straightened her hair and it looked silky against her frame.
I straightened my hair too, might as well use the heat while it was on, simple eyes with a bold red lip, and a rosy blush on my cheeks. I picked out a tight black dress from my closet, pulled a red belt around my waist that clasped in front with a bow and slid on a pair of red pumps.
“I think we look quite nice.” Ali said looking at me.
“I agree. Ready to go?” I say before looking at my phone.
Sir Harold:
Party is ready, Niall is already here – where are you!?
I laughed.
“Let’s do this.” She said determined.

Notes

Sorry this is kinda anticlimactic. More to come tomorrow if I get a chance to update at work!
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I used Camila Cabello for Alison because she and Niall would be uber cute together.
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