Jay Cee El

Seventy One // That's Not Even The Best Part

"Who? Please tell me it wa-"

"Niall." I cut her off. "It was Niall that gave me it, her name is Horsey and I'm never going anywhere without her." I said.

Natalie squealed, hugging the stuffed unicorn and bouncing up and down on the bed. "Oh my God, I can't believe that I'm touching something that he touched. This is so amazing. This so beats the time tha-"

"He asked me out." I cut her off again. Natalie stopped moving all together and stared at me.

"What?" She asked.

"Niall asked me out on a date. I don't know when and where but I'm going to go on a date with him." I said.

Natalie squealed and threw Horsey, wrapping her arms around me, causing us both to fall backwards. I laughed loudly as she sat back up, still squealing and saying things that I could not understand. She grabbed my hands and pulled me up so we were both standing on my bed, before jumping up and down. I laughed as I jumped with her.

"I can't. Oh my God... how in.... why.... you're going on a date with Niall Horan!" She squealed, throwing her arms around me again. I laughed and nodded, hugging her back.

"There's one more thing." I said, pulling away and getting ready to jump again. "He kissed me. On the lips. In his hotel room. Twice." I said.

Natalie's mouth dropped open and she was quiet for a few seconds before really screaming and jumping up and down. "Jesus Christ this is big news! I'm hearing wedding bells and seeing children. My best friend has been blessed with the lips of a God." She said.

I laughed as I fell onto the bed again, sitting crisscross. "Oh Nat, it was amazing. He's amazing. You're going to love him even more, I swear it." I said.

Natalie sat down across from me and she opened her mouth to reply, but her eyes widened and she slapped my arm again. "You can set me up with Liam! He has to dump Danielle but we could date." Natalie joked.

"We'll see about that. God, I can't believe that this is my life. I'm going on a date with the guy I've been crushing on since two thousand ten, I'm moving to London, my favorite city, and I've been signed with Sim-"

"You're moving to London?" Natalie asked, her smile dropping. My smile dropped too and I realized that I had let it slip that I was moving. I haven't told anyone yet and I wanted to tell my parents first.

"Uh... yeah? I know it's going to be such a change and I'm sorry for that, but either way I would have been moving. And you'll be so busy with school that you'll hardly notice I'll be gone. And you can come visit anytime and I'll pay to fly you out and everything will be paid for and I'm sorry." I said.

Natalie was quiet for a minute, such a drastic change to just a few minutes ago. She opened her eyes and stared at me for another few seconds before she spoke. "I'm happy for you. I'm so fucking happy for you. Everything that you've ever wanted is falling into place and now you're living your dream. I'm not going to take that away from you. It sucks that you're moving so far away, but we'll get through it. I'll come visit and you'll come visit home." She said.

I smiled, wrapping my arms around her shoulders. "You're so amazing Nat, you know that. I honestly never could have done any of this without you." I said, pulling away from her.

"I know," Natalie replied cockily. "Now tell me everything about the X Factor. I want all the details."

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I sat down at the kitchen table, setting my phone next to the plate as the smell of salmon filled the air. The table was full of conversation as my family sat around it. I smiled as I looked around at all of them. It's been a while since I've had a family dinner. Being that my parents were the only ones that could fly out for the finals, I haven't seen my siblings in a while or been with them all at the same time for a while. I hadn't realized how much I missed them until I was with them again.