Nikki POV
Our lips locked and he wrapped his arms gently around my back.
He was kissing me!
Harry was kissing me!
My best friend!
My cousin's best friend!
Alarm rang through me, and my mind screamed at me to run away.
But you want to hear something funny?
I couldn't.
I couldn't force myself to leave.
As much as I hate to be saying this, I liked it...
I relaxed and what happened next was what surprised me the most.
I kissed him back.
He was surprised too at the change of events. His eyes opened from where he had squeezed them shut and his emerald eyes stared at me.
I have would never have dreamed of kissing Harry, but now that I actually was...
I don't know it was weird.
I put my arms around his neck and we just stayed still.
Dang this was a long kiss.
Was this supposed to happen like this?
I don't know! This is very confusing to me.
All I knew was that I felt a rush going through me and it was amazing, but unfamiliar....
Harry shifted his hands to the back of my head and pulled me slightly closer.
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!" A voice shouted and pulled us apart.
Harry stumbled backwards slamming into a wall and in between us was Zayn.
I forgot he had been standing there.
"What just happened?" He demanded, his eyes wide with shock.
"I don't know..." I breathed out raggedly.
Harry was just looking at the ground, guiltily, his breath coming out in quick segments. He was leaning against the wall, shaking his head slightly to himself.
"What did happen, Harry?" I said firmly.
He looked up at me with distant green eyes. "Zayn dared me to kiss you."
I glared at Zayn. "What? Is this true?"
"Yeah, but I didn't know you would kiss him back!" Zayn's eyes were getting wider. "Why did you kiss him back?"
"Why did you kiss me back?" Harry echoed him.
"I... I... I don't know!" I gritted my teeth. "It felt right I guess! You both knew I hadn't kissed anyone before! How was I supposed to know how to react!"
"I thought you would pull away and slap him." Zayn pointed out the common sense.
"I was about to..." I murmured.
"Then why didn't you?" Harry sounded hurt. He was looking at me with sad, sad eyes.
"I... don't know." I admitted.
Suddenly, the front door opened.
Liam, Louis, and Niall walked in. Niall and Louis were laughing their heads off. And Liam was sweaty and annoyed.
"I got it on video!" Louis chuckled. "You guys should watch it!"
Silence came across the room as me, Harry, and Zayn didn't reply.
"Is everything okay?" Louis asked us slowly.
Harry looked like he was about to cry. He put his head against the wall, looking away from us.
"You know what?" I mumbled, pretending to yawn. "I'm really tired. I... I'm going to bed."
"Are you sure?" Niall asked puzzled. "We just started the game?"
"Me too." Harry stood up and walked past us.
He walked up the stairs and disappeared as he went into his room and closed the door.
I just looked at them all sadly and my eyes rested on Zayn.
Zayn was giving me an apologetic look and I just shook my head at him softly before walking up the stairs too.
Anger pulsed off me and I pushed the door close a little too hard. The door slammed and I flinched before collapsing on my bed.
What had just happened to me?
My best friend kissed me and now he was angry.
He should have never had done it if he was going to be upset about it.
Did he even want to kiss me or was he just doing it because he was dared to?
Ugh! I don't know! He's got me messed up inside!
I felt like screaming! I gripped my hair and punched my pillow.
Why did it have to be Harry?
Why couldn't have Niall done it?
At least I know Niall wouldn't have been mad and storm off after wards.
I felt like crying again, but I bit my lip and clenched my fists.
No more crying Nikki.
Tears are a sign of weakness.
And I'm not weak.
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Harry's POV
When our lips connected, it felt magical.
Sure, I'd kissed other girls before, but this was different.
This was Nikki Nothington. My best mate's cousin...
I saw Nikki tense and I squeezed my eyes shut, prepared for the stinging sensation I would have when she slapped me. But that didn't happen.
I felt felt a slight gentle pressure being delivered back onto my lips.
She kissed me back!
I blinked open my eyes in surprise as she wrapped her arms around my neck.
What the heck?
She wasn't supposed to kiss me back!
This was not supposed to happen!
I tried to pull back, but my body was locked.
My mind was telling me that this was a bad idea, but my heart...
It kept doing little backflips....
Maybe....
Maybe I liked kissing her.
Maybe I wanted to kiss her!
It felt right to kiss her!
A weird feeling was in the pit of my stomach and I mentally smiled.
We stayed frozen there.
She was so beautiful. Her brown eyes were sparkling and her soft reddish brown hair was tucked behind her ears.
For her first kiss, she was doing pretty darn good. She was kissing me back gently and I was returning it just as gentle.
Then she shifted.
My hands went to the back of her head and I pulled her closer to my face. Since she was so short, it was kind of hard.
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!" I heard Zayn cry.
Oh crap!
This was going too far.
I wasn't able to pull back.
I couldn't stop myself.
Fear rippled through me at all the bad things that could possibly go wrong at this moment.
And Nikki would go with it because she was enchanted by the thought of this being her first kiss.
I was her first.......
Zayn's hands gripped my shoulders and he shoved me back. I stumbled backwards, off balance, and slammed into the wall behind me, gasping for breath.
I looked up at Nikki and she was staring at me with shocked eyes.
"What just happened?" Zayn was panicking.
He should. This is his fault.
"I don't know..." She blinked and looked at me. "What did just happen, Harry?"
"Zayn dared me to kiss you." I managed to say.
She snapped her head at him and they started yelling at each other.
My mind was literally spinning.
"What did you kiss me back?" I said just after Zayn asked her the same thing.
She looked flustered and confused. "I... I don't know! It felt right! You two knew I hadn't kissed anyone before! How did you expect me to react?"
"I thought you would slap him." Zayn said my thoughts a loud.
I wished she had slapped me.
She's got my feelings all mixed up and confused. I thought I had might have had a small crush on her before, but now my heart was beating for her and that kiss had NOT helped!
"I was about too..." She said softly.
"Then why didn't you!" I said too quickly, my voice cracking.
Zayn shot me a surprised look.
The slap would have changed everything. I wouldn't be feeling guilty or wouldn't be feeling hurt or sad or in love.......
She looked at me with surprised eyes.
"I... don't know." She stuttered.
Suddenly, the front door opened.
Liam, Louis, and Niall walked in. Niall and Louis were laughing their heads off. And Liam was sweaty and annoyed.
"I got it on video!" Louis chuckled. "You guys should watch it!"
No one said anything.
Zayn shot me a quick look and I swallowed.
Louis and Niall were going to kill me...............
"Is everything okay?" Louis asked us slowly.
Tears flooded my eyes and I saw Nikki staring at me through the blur.
"You know what?" She mumbled, pretending to yawn. "I'm really tired. I... I'm going to bed."
"Are you sure?" Niall asked puzzled. "We just started the game?"
"Me too." I stood up and walked past them.
I went up the stairs and slowly went into my room shutting the door.
I plopped on my bed and buried my face in my hands.
The slam of a door made me jump, but it also signified me that Nikki was in her room too.
Why did I have to be curious and ask her about her first kiss?
If I hadn't Zayn never would have come up with the dare....
There was knock on the door, and Zayn stuck his head in.
Speaking of the devil...
"Hey." Zayn closed the door.
"What?" I asked dryly.
"Look, I'm sorry." He stood in front of me and I stood up to meet his height. "I didn't know Nikki would... you know..."
"You don't understand." I grumbled and started walking towards my bathroom so I could lock the door and hide.
Zayn grabbed my arm and I flinched and spun around to look at him angrily.
"What don't I understand?" Zayn asked, confused, but keeping his voice steady.
"You just don't okay." I said bitterly, trying to pull away.
"Tell me!" Zayn pleaded. "Harry.... do you..."
"I like her Zayn." I said quietly.
Zayn froze.
"More than a best friend." I sighed, relieved to finally tell somebody.
"Harry..." Zayn blinked sadly.
"I was hoping to get slapped." I admitted, sitting on my bed slowly. Zayn sat beside me. "I was hoping to get rejected. I don't want to ruin what we have... But then.... she kissed me back...."
"I'm sorry. I didn't know..." Zayn started apologizing.
"You don't know how badly I wanted to..." I cut off and looked at him. "I wanted to.... I want to call her mine."
"It's okay." Zayn told me. "Don't..."
"It's not okay." I told him. "I couldn't control myself. My body wouldn't move! I tried to pull away, but I couldn't! I could have taken advantage of her right then and there, and she wouldn't have known!"
I ran my hands through my hair and let out a long breath.
"But you didn't..." Zayn said.
"Wha?" I blinked.
"You didn't take advantage of her." Zayn blinked at me. "You did control yourself."
"You had to push me away!" I pointed out.
"Yeah, but it was a nice clean simple kiss." Zayn said softly. "Not a passionate, entergetic, meaningful one."
I thought about that.
It had been a lovely kiss.
"I suppose you make sense." I tried to grin.
Zayn laughed and padded me on the back.
"Good." Zayn said. "Now let's go talk to..."
There was a crash that sounded through the house followed by a scream.
"NIKKI!" There came another shout, sounding like Niall's voice almost.
I jumped to my feet and dashed out of my room, Zayn hot on my heels.
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Nikki's POV
Sitting on the bed with my head propped up against my hands, I heard Zayn's voice drifting down the hall followed by a door closing.
He must be talking to Harry.
I let out a hefty sigh.
There was a knock on my door.
"Come in!" I groaned.
Niall poked his tiny blonde head through the door.
"Hey Potato." I gave him a small smile.
I was so over feeling sad and angry.
I needed to feel happy for once.
"Hey." He said in a deep voice as he entered the room.
I rolled my eyes at that nickname.
"I just came up to make sure you weren't crying or anything like that..." Niall sat on my bed next to me.
"I'm done with crying." I said with no emotion. "I want to relax."
"Anything I can do to help you with what just happened? What did happen?" Niall asked, curious.
"Me and Harry got in a fight." I sighed.
Well technically it wasn't lying because we kind of are in a fight. Over a kiss.
A kiss we both returned to the other and had to be separated by Zayn...
Ugh! Why was Harry upset about it?!
It was just a kiss!
It didn't mean anything!
At least I hope it didn't....
Yeah, I mean, he did get my feeling jumbled up for him and stuff, but..... well... I guess it meant something....
I wish it had been Niall I had kissed....
"I'm sorry." Niall gave me a sad look.
"Niall." I blinked. "This may be awkward for you, but... what does a true kiss feel like?"
"A true kiss?" Niall raised his eyebrows.
"Yeah, like the kiss that you get butterflies in your tummy and sparks fly and stuff..." I explained.
"I don't know." He blinked. "I haven't had a true kiss before."
"What?" I said in confusion. "I mean you must have kissed several girls and stuff before..."
"I mean yeah." He said like it was common sense. "The kisses I've had have given me adrenalin rushes and stuff, but I've never had "sparks fly" if that's what you mean."
"Oh." I sighed.
So maybe the kiss didn't mean anything. At least not to me.
"Why?" He laughed.
"Well..." I came up with a lie. "I just wanted my first kiss to be the last one."
That's how I wanted it to be...
But I guess that would never happen.
I knew for sure, Harry wasn't the one.
"What?" He chuckled confused.
"Like, you know, your song "Last First Kiss"." I grinned at him. "I want the first person I kiss to be my last one..."
Maybe I could switch this around.
Harry had kissed me....
So it wasn't MY first kiss.
I had kind of been forced into it.
"Well maybe that will happen." Niall smiled at me. "That boy who gets to be your first kiss will be a lucky one."
I blushed. "Thanks. And I will be lucky too, I guess. If I find the boy of my dreams... Somebody who will always be there. Who has something to with music. Who is smart and funny. Who knows how to make food." Niall laughed at that one. "A boy who will make money and be able to support me. Who will never argue." Scratch Harry off that list for sure. "Who will always listen. Who will care..."
Irony spread across my mind as Niall listened to me ramble on.
All of these things described... well Niall.
He did everything he possibly could to help me. He was rich and famous and made money and could sing.
He was perfect.
He practically was the boy of my dreams.
"So picky." Niall rolled his eyes.
"Hey!" I jabbed him. "I'm picky? You have millions of girls practically throwing themselves at you! Some of them are drop dead gorgeous. Yet, you refuse them all...."
"I'm waiting for the right person." He told me. Sort of like you. I'm waiting for the girl of my dreams too."
"Well," I smiled. "Hopefully we both will find them soon."
"Very soon!" Niall agreed then hesitated. "Nikki.... I need to say something."
"Yes?" I blinked, hoping he wouldn't admit his crush for me.
Not yet.
I... I needed to think....
"I..." He started to say when suddenly, something came flying at the window.
The glass shattered and went everywhere and something hard slammed into my head.
I shouted in pain and fell backwards, my head luckily landing on a pillow.
"Nikki!" Niall shouted.
"I'm okay...." My voice was shaky as I tried to sit up, but something wet trickled down my head.
I put my fingers up to it to wipe it off and saw thick red blood on my my finger pads.
Oh god.....
Harry and Zayn came running through my door.
"What happened!" Harry exclaimed.
Zayn's eyes rolled to the back of his head and he fell to the floor.
"Zayn!" Harry exclaimed and bent down beside him.
"So... much... blood..." Zayn murmured.
Louis came in. "What the heck happened?!" He exclaimed in shock.
Liam was behind him.
"Someone threw a rock in the window and it hit Nikki!" Niall had his hands pressed to where I had gotten hit.
I got very dizzy all of a sudden.
"Help..." I murmured as I struggled to keep my eyes open. "Help... me..."
"Nikki!" Louis ran over and squeezed my hand. "You'll be okay. Stay with us!"
"I... am... so.... dizzy...." i breathed. "Help...."
Then I slipped into blackness with the sound of Louis shouting at me drowned out in the background.
Then silence.
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A/N: Silence.... :) I feel like being mysterious today.
Okay, something made me think that you guys didn't like the Harry kissing her thing.
So that's why I put in this Kiall scene for all you Kiall fans because obviously all of you want them to be together.
So...... That's that.
And Nikki got hit in the head with a rock.... hmmmmm... I wonder who did that......
I just can't figure it out...... ;)
This scene reminds me of a story from my life.
You see, I'm really clumsy.
So I was walking in the dark and I hit the top of my eye on a dresser edge.
Yeah, it was bad.
In my luck, it happen at like 11 at night so I had to tell my grandparents to take me to the hospital because my parents weren't there.
AND it took like 45 minutes to get to the freakin hospital...
So over all I got home around 3 AM.
I got five stitches in my eye....
Not fun....
Then I had to get a professional surgeon to rip them out of my head because he couldn't figure out how they came out....
If you don't believe me, I've got scars to prove it.
Yeah it sucked....
Lesson of the day: Don not walk around at night with the lights off.....
Hahaha.
And anyone interested in joining that movie trailer competition I'm having for this book? See, I added a new one. It's still crappy like my last one, but at least it's better. And I know you all can do better than me.... So can you help me out? :)
If you want to enter, you have until September 24 (#NikkiDay) to submit the tailer. You can email me or tweet me or Facebook me.... Whatever floats your boat....
Anyways! Thanks for reading and I will talk to you all soon!
TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE UPDATE:
Which member of One Direction went to the park with Nikki and got mobbed by fans?
First person to get it right who HASN'T gotten a dedication yet will get the prize. :)
But if no one else answers then I will give you the dedication.
I just want to give everyone a turn.
Thanks for the understanding! :)