Chapter 16: 5/5 Of One Direction
Kat Starr
I opened the door to my room.
Nothing that Hazel can get for me is better than an iPhone.
There's nothing here anyway.
I looked to Hazel. She was smiling.
She put on 'What Makes You Beautiful' by One Direction.
I love that song.
But what does that have to do with anything?
Suddenly someone walked out of my closet.
"You're insecure. Don't know what for... You're turning heads when you walk through the door-or-or" he sang.
No way!
"Don't need makeup, to cover up, being the way that you are, is enou-ou-gh." he sang perfectly.
Liam Payne?!
"Oh my-" I could hardly speak.
Harry Styles just walked out of my closet.
"Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else, but you-ou.."
"Ahh!" I squealed.
Harry Styles!
Suddenly Louis' and Zayn's heads popped out from under my bed and
Niall jumped out of my closet.
"Baby, you light up my world like nobody else! The way that you flip your hair gets overwhelmed! But when you smile at the ground it ain't hard to tell, you don't know, oh oh! You don't know you're beautiful!" They all sang.
Holy shit!
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Hazel Starr
Niall was always looking at me directly in the eye when the chorus came along and Harry would sometime give me a sneaky wink during his solos. Does that mean something?
Of course not! What am I thinking?
When the song was finished, Kat screamed.
"Oh my gosh!" Kat shouted and ran up to hug them.
She chose Harry first, of course. She seemed so happy.
"What's going on?" She whispered while crying.
Oh my gosh. Too happy.
"It's okay, love. Don't cry." Harry said, and pulled her in for another hug.
Last night the boys told me that they didn't like the fans to cry, because they didn't like the thought of making people cry.
It's cute.
But I was still kind of mad at Harry for being a douche this morning.
I'll just have to forget about it for today, and just be happy that he's here.
Kat hugged me.
"How..?" Was the only thing that she could manage to say.
She was so confused about how I got them to come.
"I'll tell you after we get settled." I said to her. By saying "we", I actually mean just her.
It's gonna take a while to get her to.
I walked up to Niall and asked him to come with me. We walked over to a private corner in the room.
Of course this corner had to have a life-size poster of Niall on the wall.
Awkward.
He laughed.
"Is this why you brought me over here?" He said, pointing to the poster.
"Not quite. I just wanted to thank you." I giggled.
"Thank me for what?" He asked.
He seemed like he had no idea what I was talking about.
"How 'bout I start by saying: Thank you for bumping into me yesterday, for making me feel better about myself, for inviting me to Nandos, for taking me to meet the boys, for letting me stay the night, for jumping into the pool for me, for catching me this morning and helping me calm down, for walking me to the guest room, for helping me with the ladder and thank you for doing this for me." I said as I nodded at Kat and the boys.
"You don't need to thank me for that." he smiled innocently.
"You're so modest, Niall. That makes me want to scream 'thank yo' in your face." I said to him, smirking.
"But really, you don't have to thank me." Niall said.
"But I want to. So thanks for everything." I said smiling.
He smiled back.
"It's fine." he said and pulled me into a hug. I savored every sweet moment of it.
When we pulled away, everyone had already stopped talking and staring at us.
How did we not notice that?
That hug must've been longer than we thought...
"Someone's got a boyfriend..." Kat sang in a taunting voice.
"Someone's got a girlfriend..." Louis sang in unison with Kat, and in the same tone as her.
Me and Niall both blushed.
"I do not!" I said straight back to her.
"No!" Niall said back to Louis.
"Alright! Alright!" They both laughed.
Niall smiled. "Sisterly love..." He said.
"Nouis-ly love..." I said as we walked back to the group.
"What..?" He asked.
"Nouis. Like, Niall and Louis... The names are smashed together... To... Ya know.. Show your bromance..." I said awkwardly.
"How do you know that..? You said you weren't the biggest fan?" He smiled.
How do I know that?
"Kat..." I mumbled.
"Hehehe..." She chuckled.
We walked down stairs to my family's big living room. Some of the boys gasped.
"Woah..." I heard Zayn say quietly.
Why are they gasping?
Their house is just as big, but just packed with...
Junk, I guess.
My mum set out delicious party food on the table.
The boys scoffed a lot of it down, especially Niall, of course. He must love food.
Kat pulled me to the side.
"You like Niall. I can see it." she said confirming.
Wait, what?
"I don't know what you're talking about..." I said shyly. I just gave it away...
"You do! You think I wouldn't notice!?" She said in a low voice so no one would hear.
"Does anyone else notice?!" I said.
Oh god.
What if Niall finds out?!
"Haha! Yeah right. Come with me." she said and dragged me along.
"Where are we going?" I asked.
Has she gone crazy because 1D are here?
"You have to get changed into something nice" she said.
Wait, what?
"Well thanks... Why?" I asked.
I'm kinda confused...
"Because its a birthday party!" She said in a high pitched voice.
"And..?" I said.
"... And because... One Direction are here..." She said innocently.
Knew it!
But she's still hiding something.
I can tell.
"And..?" I asked.
She looked up at me.
"And because I want you to go out with Niall!" She bursted out.
"Why? Do you know how much hate I would get?!" I said.
Seriously, if I went out with him, I would get tons.
"Well... A lot, but you would still be with someone you like!" She said as we walked into my room.
She opened up my walk in wardrobe.
"Okay.." She said and went through it.
She pulled out a nice navy blue dress.
"Here! Put this on!" She squealed.
She was really excited.
"Why do you want me to date Niall so much?" I said.
"Because Harry's too old for me to date and he's mine!" She answered.
Heh...
"Trust me. I don't want Harry." I chuckled as I walked to the bathroom.
I put the dress on and looked in the mirror.
I knew this before, but for a sixteen year old, Kat knows what's good in the wardrobe and what's not.
The dress was strapless, dark blue and ended just before the knees, tightened around the chest and flowed down afterwards.
I checked my hair. It was still straight since Liam let me use his pink hair straightener before.
Good enough, I thought and walked back into my room.
Kat was wearing a nice peach coloured dress that ended just above the knees and had a flowery pattern on it. Nice.
"You look so beautiful! I wish I was as pretty as you!" She said and dragged me out.
I didn't even have enough time to thank her.
We walked down stairs and the boys and my mum were chatting.
Tommy was sitting on Harry's lap, playing with his curly hair.
Harry was laughing at him.
Cute..
They looked up at us.
Niall's eyes widened.
What's he gonna say?
Harry looked up as well and gasped. He looked taken aback..
"Hi..." I said quietly.
I looked around.
Zayn and Louis were sitting on a couch together, my mum and Liam were sitting and chatting and Niall and Harry sat together. Damn.
The couches were all taken up.
I can't sit on the floor in a dress!
Niall and Harry instantly got up when they realized there were no seats.
Tommy went to go sit on Zayn and play with his hair.
Oh dear.
From what I've heard, Zayn doesn't like people to touch his hair, but luckily he started laughing out how cute Tom was.
Phew.
Harry and Niall looked at each other.
They looked at me and Kat and pointed to the couch that they had been sitting on.
We sat down and they sat on the arm rests of the couch.
Harry sat next to Kat cause he knows she likes him.
Niall sat on my side.
"Hazel, how did you get them to come? And how did you guys meet?" She said.
Everyone stopped and stared at me.
"Yeah Hazel, why don't you tell us the story about how you and Niall met" Louis said in a weird tone and was staring at me.
He knows I like Niall.
I blushed.
"Uh... I guess it started when I was running away from Jes-" I stopped.
Niall was the only one who knew the whole story about the bullying.
"- Away from someone." I said.
"And I was running from fans. And that's when we bumped into each other- Literally." Niall answered for me.
"We apologized and wanted to keep talking so we went to-" I said as much as I could before Niall butted in.
"Nandos for lunch." he finished.
"Awww. They're already finishing each others sentences!" Kat grinned.
Seriously Kat.
Stop.
I saw Harry squirm a bit.
Seriously, what is up with him?
It's not because he's uncomfortable on the couch because he's fine there.
Maybe he was uncomfortable about what we were talking about?
Why would he? Me and Niall only went to lunch.
"And then I invited Hazel back to the house to meet the boys" Niall said.
Exactly.
"How was meeting the boys? Fun? Awkward?" Kat asked me.
"It was fine. Except meeting Harry. That didn't turn out as expected..." I trailed off.
I don't want to tell her or my family why it went bad.
"Why? What happened?" Kat asked curiously.
Uhh shit.
"Uh..." I didn't really know what to say.
Harry coughed awkwardly.
"Well, um... Lets just say he ran down stairs at the wrong time" I suggested.
Kat was eyeing me suspiciously.
I turned away from her.
Just forget about it already! I wanted to scream in her face.
Kat turned to Harry.
He looked away from her and blushed.
"No way!" She said.
Everyone looked up at her.
How does she always figure out everything just by looking at people?
She should be a detective if she keeps heading this way.
I looked at her pleadingly, trying to get her to not say what I think she's gonna say, out loud.
"You saw Harry Styles naked?!"
Dammit!