No strings attached

Chapter 5: Headlines for tomorrow's paper

He opened the door of his very slick and modern range rover and sat me in place. I reached for the belt but he got there first. Brushing our fingers together, I felt my cheeks hot. Not knowing why. And when I looked at him, he wasn't staring but he was red as well, he cleared his throat and helped me with the seatbelt.

He jogged towards his part.

"Ready?" He asked as he got in.

"Y'know, why won't we just go straight to Harry's flat? He's having a party remember?" We both laughed and remembered our master plan to get Harry and Sheen together.

"It won't start until ... about an hour. The concert ends in about 40 minutes."

"Oh, yeah. Wait, speaking of the concert. What are you gonna say to your fans?! I probably wrecken the whole thing right? and you leaving, that's ... that's just a new headline for the news to printout and gossip about." I panicked.

"Don't worry about it, the boys probably worked some excuse and pulled it off and with my fans? Well, I could always repay them with follow backs and doing a twitcam more often, our girls are always understandin'. I love them." Niall said. It's so .... different to see someone with a huge fanbase still got his cool about the fan problems. He must really love what he's doing.

I smiled and nodded.

"..and with the media, well don't they always have rumors?" He smiled,I smiled back.

We drove in silence and ordered take out at Mcdonalds. We both had cheesebrugers and extra fries. I wasn't fully satisfied and ordered a vanilla sundae. I got outside and saw Niall leaning against his car, with his feet crossed and arms crossed infront of his chest, waiting for me.

The icecream started to melt and I licked them off, oh how I love sundaes.

"..this is so good, you should try it." I placed the cone infront of his lips. Niall grinned and took a small pouting-style suck at the side of the icecream.

"You're right." He said and I leaned in his car beside him.

We started to talk about nonsense of things, and suddenly handing the cone back and forth to each other, not realizing that we were sharing it.

"Wait," He said before handing me the cone back.

"Yeah?" I licked.

"...isn't ... isn't this like kissing itself?" My cheeks turned red. Realizing that it was infact practically kissing, exchange of salivas through the creamy coating of vanilla icecream.

"It's like snogging already, minus the vanilla." He grinned and I continued to turn red.

I chuckled shyly and said: "Yeah, it is isn't it?"

We continued to pass the ice cream back and forth, now awkwardly. Now I'm thinking what Niall's mouth would taste like? Would be sweet? agh. I'm getting flushed again. WHAT IS THIS?!

I suddenly felt like being watched. Well some girls from the inside saw me with Niall and probably gushed. But something was bugging me even more, like, something bigger.

It happened incredibly fast, it felt like a second ago me and Niall were laughing at something and being attacked my hundreds of strong, blinding flashes.

"So you guys are really dating?!"

"When was this?"

"Why are you revealing yourselves now?"

"So Niall, you were the one with the secret gal?"

"Hey miss, how did this all start?"

I blacked out, from all of the questions being asked at the second and the flashes I received blinded me, until I felt Niall's hand crept into mine, I dropped the cone as he pushed pass the photographers and paparazzi. He opened my door and ran towards his side.

We drove for what seemed like a long time when he finally said:

"Whoah," he sighed.

"I know," I said.

"That was ..... intense. I never had that much paparazzi before, individually."

"Sorry," I whispered.

He looked at me for a slight second.

"Don't. I regret nothing. We're friends, friends eat out right?" He tried to make this into some kind of joke which I appreciated but, I was sorry.

I smiled.

...and I lost the smile again when my phone made the clinging sound it does when you have a notification online.

Niall Horan, lost for words?

-Us weekly

Who's that girl?

-J-14 magazine

 Eating buddies or more.

-TMZ

. . . and more.

Their twitter accounts sent me this, with the magazine picture and TMZ's gonna do a show tonight and videos of us will be there. How the hell was this even possible? So fast!. Hardly minutes passed and we were in the headlines already. Oh God.

"What?" Niall asked practically seeing the worned frown on my face.

"Huh? What? Ah, nothing." I lied, closing my phote 

"Stace," He said, and with his tone. I know he knows that I'm hiding something.

"Its ... well, our pictures are out. And they ... gave me the pictures and the headline titles."

Good thing we stopped and he read the feedback. He grinned.

"WHAT?!" I punched his arm playfully as he started to laugh.

Oh that laugh, I'm dying. I started ot laugh with him.

"THat's like .... way fast. They're pretty smart, those cunts." He kept reading.

"What?" I asked as he stopped at one post in my phone interactions.

"We looked .... we looked like a real couple. Like those hiding it, but eventually turns out to be in a relationship." I looked at my phone, we did. We actually did.

I thought for a second about how we would be if we were in a relationship.

I leaned in to get my phone but he did something else, which made me tear up and loosen up a little inside. I felt my stomach turn and churn.

I felt his lips attached to mine perfectly.

I closed my eyes.