“Excited?” Lo asked while putting on her snow boots. “Yeah, I guess,” I lied. I don’t really know how to ski well and Niall wanted to go on the hardest path. “I’m not, I can only snow tube not ski,” Lo exclaimed. I nodded in agreement and picked up my stuff and headed to Harry. “Hey babe, you ready,” Harry asked hugging me. “Of course,” I lied again. “Ok, cause we are going to race,” he winked and walked up ahead to tell Louis and El something. What? Racing? Well shit. I walked over to Lo and Niall, who were throwing snowballs at each other. “So… who brought up the idea of racing?” I questioned looking directly at Niall. “It wasn’t me! It was Louis, he likes to compete a lot,” Niall inferred. “Hold the fuck up, we are racing? Oh foshizzle I’m defiantly going to get injured.” Lauren announced. “Just like last time we were in Canada visiting your grandparents,” I joked. “Don’t bring that up.” Lauren shot me a glare. “Tell me Cayla,” Niall begged. Lauren rolled her eyes and walked away, “Ok well we were having a ski competition against her cousins. Losers have to do the polar bear jump.” I laughed at the thought. Niall shrugged, “What’s that?” “It’s wear you jump in the lake, but we said only in our underclothes… let’s just say Lauren lost because she was about to run over a snow bunny while she was in the lead,” I snickered. Niall began to laugh, “So she jumped in the lake with her bra and underwear on?” “Yup,” I responded popping the P. “Let’s do that bet again!” Niall teased. “Come on Cayla and Niall we are heading to the ski lifts,” Perrie called after us.




“Oh I am not jumping off this lift to start skiing Niall…” I trailed off looking down. “Cayla we are going to be stuck on this, we are getting lowered. Now ready one… two… three,” Niall jumped off but I stayed on hugging the seat. “Want me to get Harry? Hurry up and jump down before you get too high,” Niall said opening his arms. I turned around to see Lauren and Harry jumping off. Lauren looked at Niall and saw his arms under my seat, “Oh my gosh Cayla, jump already or you’re going to be stuck on it. You’re getting higher every second,” Lauren called after me. “Cayla, jump and I got you,” Harry yelled skiing under my seat. I looked at Harry, I got to trust him and I am getting pretty high. “Cayla, now,” Lauren and Harry said in unison. I hesitated and flopped off my seat falling. I am going to die, I thought as I fell. “I got you,” Harry murmured. I closed my eyes and waited for my landing, suddenly I felt a coldness creep upon my face. I opened my eyes and realized I landed deep in the snow, I sat up and wiped the snow off my face. “Are you ok?” Lauren asked from a distance, I nodded. “Where’s Harry,” I questioned. Niall began to laugh and fell face flat on the snow. “What?” “You landed on him…” Lauren giggled. I rolled to a side and saw Harry take a deep breath, “At least, I broke your fall…” Harry inhaled and exhaled heavily. The others walked over and Niall told them what happened; now everyone is laughing. Lauren and Perrie help me up to my feet while Liam and Zayn helped Harry.




“Okay so I think we should do girls verses boys,” Louis snickers in excitement. “You’re on boo bear,” El says slapping his bum. We all line up and Liam calls out the countdown, “FIVE… FOUR… THREE… TWO… ONE… GO!” We all lifted up our poles out of the snow and began the race. I looked back to find Perrie and Louis falling at the start line, “Let’s go Perrie,” I hollered as I skied down hill. I looked around and I was right by Eleanor, she gave me thumbs up and crouched lower. I did the same and we both started going faster, I looked back and Harry and Niall were on our tail, “El they are on us.” “Time to split up, I’ll go with Lauren and you can grab Perrie. Be a distraction but make sure you two know where you two are going…” El said skiing over to Lauren. I looked back and the boys were smirking. “PERRIE FOLLOW ME,” I yelled crossing over into a forest. “Cayla, wrong path…” Niall said trying to slow down. “I know where I am going,” I gave a cheeky grin and swerved around the trees and bushes. Not knowing where we will end up, I began to slow down to the point where Perrie caught up with Zayn. We all kept skiing following Niall who was in the lead, “Guys, we need to turn around…” we heard Niall yell from a distance. Please Nialler you just want to win, I thought while I skied towards him. Just as I was about to pass him, he grabbed my jacket and threw me back. “What the hell Niall,” Harry said picking me up. “There’s a cliff we have to go back,” Niall announced pointing at the dead end. “Well… come on lets get a move on. Race is still on,” Zayn said. The boys helped us go uphill and we followed our tracks back to where I cut us off. “One, two, three,” Niall murmured and we all skied down. I looked at Perrie and Zayn was chasing her, Perrie stopped letting her arm up and Zayn ran into. She chuckled and kept skiing, “Sorry babe.” I began laughing, I looked to my side and Niall was in the lead laughing at what Perrie just did. “Cayla look out,” I hear Perrie holler from behind. I peeked over my shoulder and Harry was tailgating me, I crouched and slowed down. “Shit, Cayla,” Harry mumbles as he tripped over me, taking me down as we started tumbling down for the rest of the ride.



As soon as we stopped multiple hands we lifting me up. “Dang were you and Harry making out or something, and fell over?” Lauren teased. “My head…” I whined. “Who won?” I hear Harry asked. “Me and Liam tied…” Lauren trailed off. “Where’s El and Lou,” Niall questioned. We all looked at Lauren and she gave a light laugh, “They got tired of racing and wanted to go ‘sit down’.” I watched Liam make quotation marks as Lauren said sit down. I see what they were doing, once everyone gave it to thought we all laughed. “So I guess now we got to wait for them…” I hesitated rolling my eyes. Everyone groaned in annoyance that we had to wait for the couple that obviously having a sexy moment in the snow. “No, you all go have fun. Zayn and I will wait for them. We can meet up at the small café in the ski lodge for lunch,” Perrie said smiling. “Aww you sure Perrie,” I asked. “Of course, now go and spend sometime with…” Perrie looked around her and whispered in my ear, “Your boyfriend.” I stepped back in shock. How does she know about Harry and I? “How did you,” “I have my ways haha now go!” she laughed and said goodbye. “Lauren make sure Niall doesn’t get lost,” Zayn joked and I saw Niall giving a poker face at Zayn.


After an hour of walking around with the others, we all decided to go back to the ski lodge and see if Lou and El has finished their session. “Hey look, they finished,” Liam smirked sitting down by Louis and Niall. “Had fun Lou?” Harry joked. I looked over at El who was blushing and I gave her the ‘give details later’ look. Eleanor nodded and went back to drinking her soup. “Have fun shopping?” Zayn asked taking off his coat. “Yeah, until Niall broke the bear statue in a store…” I exclaimed rolling my eyes. “Hey it looked like that bear needed a hug,” Niall inferred. Lauren gave him a playful punch and giggled.




After minutes of sitting, eating and talking Lauren spoke up, “Now what?” “I saw a sign earlier saying snow tubing…” Liam responded. “Yes I love snow tubing,” Lauren and I said in unison.




*Lauren’s P.O.V.*


“How heavy are these tubes,” I whined dragging this giant ass tube. “Lauren, you carried Annie up the high school hill for swim… why are you complaining about carrying this?” Cayla asked holding Harry’s hand. HELL YEAH THEY ARE DATING! I wonder why they haven’t told us yet… “Because Niall is in my tube,” I groaned, looking back at Niall chuckling. “I know you love me Lo,” Niall teased. “Mhmm yeah sure Ni, in your dreams hun,” I joked. I am actually surprised they invited me on their trip… I mean I’m not dating Niall, oh well I’ll figure that out later.



We finally got to the top and I dropped my tube with Niall in it, “Hey.” He said hopping up. We started walking towards the line to go down, “Hey guys over here,” Louis said pointing to an open area. We waddled over there and it was huge space all the way down, “Nice eye Lou,” Liam patted Louis’s back. We all lined up side by side and we all glided down at once. The cold air kept hitting my face, which made me, put my ski mask on. I looked back and Niall was laughing hysterically, he is so cute with his red nose and blue eyes shining. I looked around and everyone’s hair was flying all over the place, once we stopped Harry walked by me and I couldn’t stop laughing. His hair, oh lord his hair was sticking out in every direction. Cayla noticed and began laughing with me too, “What are you two laughing about?” Harry asked. “Nothing Haz,” we said in unison giggling. He shook his head and kept walking. “Hey Cayla I know you and Hazza are dating…. Mind to explain?” I asked. She sighed, “We just didn’t want y’all to tell everyone, we don’t want the media to know. I’m not ready for that, but we will tell y’all at dinner!” “Haha ok, I’m so happy you are finally dating your crush,” I congratulated. “Awh thanks, but now you and Niall eh eh?” she nudged me. “I don’t know Cayla, I don’t want to cause any drama and I don’t want him to get distracted from his career…” I sighed. “Lo he likes you, it’s so obvious. Give him a chance, don’t over think stuff.” Cayla pleaded. “Ok fine haha it’s a habit,” I said. “Lauren, Cayla come on we’re about to tube down now,” Perrie said grabbing our tubes.



We stood at the top of the hill, it’s been hours of tubing and we aren’t tired yet. We all gotten impatient and decided to tube down on our own time. Of course I got up here last and watched everyone slide down, I placed my tube behind me and watched all of my new best friends have fun. Should I date Niall? I do really like him, but would management like that? I’m not ready for media’s attention… maybe we should wait like a month later after Harry and Cayla tell media. Someone grabbed my waist scaring the shit out of me, “Come on tube buddy!” I looked and Niall threw down his tube and he pulled me on top of him as his tube was sliding down the hill. “Holy crap Niall,” I stated closing my eyes. All I heard was his adorable laugh and all I could feel was the cold air and his arm wrapped around my tiny waist. “It’s ok Lauren, we stopped.” Niall breathed. I didn’t realize my head was buried in his chest until Louis made a comment on it. “Aww I see a new couple…” I propped myself up and rolled off of Niall’s lap. Everyone chuckled while Niall helped me up, “Sorry if I scared you…” “Oh it’s fine. I actually had fun,” I said shyly. “Follow me,” Niall said. “Don’t take your tube,” I sat my tube by his and followed him. “So we are we going,” I asked hooking arms with him. “You’ll see,” he smiled and started skipping, I followed in confusement. We walked into a cute antique store and he walked me over to a history section, I passed by this skinny aquamarine bracelet and admired it. “Lauren?” Niall called after me. I looked up and I walked to him, “Sorry,” I mumbled and followed him. There was a history of Ireland section and Niall began telling me Ireland history. I watched him closely; his eyes shine when he talks about his homeland, that smile no one has seen when he brings up Ireland. He was interesting to watch when he talks about Ireland, I feel my body go numb and I feel my heart beating, I haven’t felt like this in a long time. After a couple minutes Niall stopped and looked at me smiling in a very cute way which could make me melt any minute. “Niall,” I whispered and ran up to him, hugging him. I could feel his big arms wrap around me and lay his head gently on my head.



We stood there for a good five minutes, “Oh my gosh, it’s Niall Horan from One Direction,” we heard girls screaming after that. “Run,” I whispered and secretly and quickly made our way to the front of the store and sprinted our asses to the tubing area. “They will soon find us heading towards the others,” Niall breathed as we ran. “True, but what are we going to do?” I asked watching him cut across me and into the snowy woods. “Follow his footprints,” one girl yelled from a distance. I watched Niall climbing the tree, “Niall I can’t climb trees…” I called after him. “I’ll help you,” He said sitting on the lowest branch. I tried to climb and almost fell back, Niall threw out his arm and grabbed my hand before I let go of the tree. He pulled me up as I climbed and once I got on the same branch as him, we kept climbing higher and higher till we were covered. “They won’t find us.” Niall whispered and I grabbed on him tight because I am scared of heights. We held our breaths as the fans were running directly towards our tree.

Notes

Sorry it took FOREVER to type this chapter! I'm also writing three other fanfictions so yeah...

Hmmmm will the Directioners find Niall and Lauren? How will the two get down from the tree? Is anyone worried for them? Will Cayla and Harry tell everyone that they are dating at dinner? Will there be a dinner? Will the Directioners find the others instead? How long do you think it will take Niall to ask Lauren out?

You just got to wait ;)

Thanks for waiting patiently for this chapter!
xx Lo