One Shots

Ali&Zayn

"You're finally here!" a voice cries out behind me. I manage to turn around just in time to get mowed over by a blond haired boy scooping me up into a crushing hug. I let out a laugh as I push against him to get him to release me so I could breathe.

"Just like I said, as soon as I'm done with school I'm moving to Ireland,” I say with a grin as I look at the boy in front of me.

"Because your bestest friend ever lives here" he says jokingly causing me to laugh.

"Of course" I say agreeing with him to make him happy.

"It's good to see you again Ali. How was your flight?" another voice asks and I look behind the boy to see a blond haired lady standing there. I smile and give her a quick hug.

"It's good to see you to Maura" I say

"You to darling" she says with a smile. "How's your mom"

"She's good, she told me to tell you that you two need to get together soon,” I say with a smile. She nods her head.

"That would be good, I don't think I've seen her since the college reunion two years ago" she replies. We chat for a few more minutes before she excuses herself to go run some errands. I turn back to Niall with a smile on my face. "

"So when am I going to meet these band mates I've been hearing so much about?" I ask teasingly. For the past two years, whenever we had talked, he had just gone on and on about these boys. I'd swear he was in love with them.

"Tonight" He says with a grin "We are having a Horan House party" I chuckle. Horan House parties were legendary. Every time I'd come to visit, they'd had one and something memorable happened every time. Like the last time the night had ended with Niall, Sean and I "borrowing" our neighbor's donkey and taking it for a trip through the center of the town where it had decided to stop moving. It had taken 2 dozen carrots and a lot of pushing to finally get it back, just before dawn when the neighbors went to tend to the animals.

"Awesome" I say with a grin nodding my head. "I can't wait."

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I drive up to Niall's house and see that the party is already underway. The music was blasting and there were people spilling out onto the lawn. I hop out and head in, figuring I'd find Niall fairly easily. They'd be the ones in the center of the crowd. I push through the crowd, shoving some people desperate for their attention aside as I spot Niall's familiar blond hair through the throng.

"Ali" he calls, throwing an arm over my shoulder, a goofy grin on his face letting me know he was quite drunk already. "These are the boys" he says turning back to the people he was with. "This is Harry" he says pointing to a curly haired guy who was chatting up a girl, "That's Louis" he says pointing to the boy doing some weird dance, "That's Liam" he says nodding at the guy holding a coke can who smiles and nods back, "And that’s..." he says cutting himself off with a frown. "Where's Zayn?" he asks doing a 360 obviously confused at his missing band mate. Liam shrugs.

"He disappeared like 15 minutes ago" Liam says. Niall nods and starts talking to a few of his friends that were surrounding us. I excused myself to get a drink a pushed back through the crowd of people eager to take my place beside Niall and made my way to the kitchen. I was amazed at how many people were here. I could tell just by looking around that a bunch of people were party crashers that were only here because of the band. I grab a drink from the fridge and head towards the back door trying to get away from all the fans that had snuck in. I let the door slam shut behind me and lean against the wall with a sigh.

"Kinda crowded huh?" a voice asks and I jump, looking over in surprise to see a boy sitting on an upturned crate a few feet away. I nod and watch as he takes an inhale of the cigarette in his hand. "You get used to it after awhile" he says after breathing out the smoke.

"Is it really that bad? I mean, I understand the band gets it, but I'd think they'd leave his friends alone" I say with a frown wondering how many people bothered him about being Niall's friend. He looks up at me and I see amusement in his eyes, almost as if he knew something I didn’t.

"Nah, it won't be that bad for you, probably get more twitter followers but that's it" he says with a grin sliding over on the crate, giving me room to sit down next to him. I smile sitting down in the seat next to him, taking a moment to examine him. He was wearing a pair of dark jeans, a white t-shirt, with a black leather jacket thrown on top. His hair was pushed up and when his gaze turned to meet mine, I found myself staring into a pair of soulful brown eyes. I feel my stomach jolt as I take in just how attractive this stranger was. I realize he's giving me an expectant look as if he's just asked me a question.

"What?" I ask snapping out of my daze, and the boy smirks as if he knows why I had been distracted.

"I asked how you knew Niall"

"Oh. Our mom's were friends from college,” I say with a shrug "We used to come visit all the time. How about you?" He chuckles slightly flicking the cigarette in his hand off into the grass.

"Oh I know the band,” he says with amusement. And I get the feeling I'm missing something.

"Ok then" I say awkwardly, looking back down at the drink in my hand. I look up as two people spill out the door, giggling and being very handsy with each other. I raise an eyebrow at the two watching as they ignore us and the guy presses the girl up against the house.

"Wanna get out of here?" he asks and I nod quickly, really not wanting to watch the couple get it on. I set my drink down he stands up, offering me a hand. I take his hand and he pulls me off and we walk around to the front , staying along the edge away from the people. As we walk down the street we start talking about our families and our interests. I tell him how I love writing stories and he tells me how he loves drawing. Listening to him describe his family is really sweet. It was quite obvious how much he cared about them, which hinted that this stranger was a lot deeper than his leather-clad self would lead you to believe. I find myself growing more curious about this stranger, wanting to know even more about him. There was something mysterious about him, something that was slowly drawing me in. Before I know it the sky began lightening. I look up in surprise from where we had eventually sat down at the park. Had we really been up all night?

"We should probably get back,” I say, a yawn slipping out as I begin to realize how tired I was. He nods and helps me up again and we head back to the house.

"I had a lot of fun tonight" he says when the house comes in sight. I nod, glancing up at the boy with a smile.

"Me to" I agree.

"Maybe we could do this again sometime?" he asks "But maybe during the day?" He adds with a chuckle "We could go get a bite to eat or something." I nod, feeling a blush creep up my cheeks, thankful for the bad lighting hiding it.

"That would be great' I say with a smile.

"Zayn there you are. We've been looking for you all night! We were about to call Paul" Niall says bursting out the door as we pause outside the door. "Oh" he says pausing, seeing the two of us there. "Oh Ali, I see you finally met Zayn" he says with a grin, looking between the two of us an amused look in his eyes. I ignore the look Niall's giving me as I look over at the boy besides me in shock as I realize the stranger had been the missing fifth member of the band. The mysterious Zayn Malik.