Ashley's POV:
I woke up to a fully lit room and actually wondered how I got here since I distinctly remember falling asleep on Niall in the lounge last night, if he had put me in my room then he wasn’t that organised to set my alarm or close the curtains either, he would have to get used to this routine since I have a habit of falling asleep in anywhere but my own bed.
I could hear people talking downstairs but it wasn’t as noisy as usual probably because half of them had hangovers, Louis was already pissed at 10 so it must have been quite a night since I never heard them come back.
I showered and changed, curling my hair and applying natural make-up. I dropped a few essentials into my bag and checked my phone I had 4 new messages, 1 of which was from Faye and the other 3 were mainly Louis drunk texts and one from Zayn checking that Ellie was alright which slightly concerned me as I thought she was with them, even if she was under-age to drink Liam would have taken care of her.
I opened the message from Faye.
From: Faye Edmunds
Harry’s coming over this morning; he wants to talk with me, if he doesn’t have a fucking good explanation than we’re done. He’s kept me in the dark all week and I don’t think I even care anymore. I don’t like playing games and I would of thought he’d figured that out by now, people don’t seem to understand how fucking hard it is for me trust now.
I sighed, in some respects they were both as bad as each other. Sure Harry shouldn’t of kept her in the dark for this long Faye deserved to know somewhat was going on but Faye needs to learn how to listen if he has a good explanation and not assume that he’s the same as every other guy who it hasn’t worked out with. I felt for them both and I really didn’t want to see me and Niall in this situation anytime soon but it’s still early days, there’s no telling now.
A knock came at the door as the Irish accent spoke.
“Babe? You almost ready?”
“Yeah, I’ll be down in 2 minutes”
“Alright”
I heard him walk away down the corridor. When I opened the door to go downstairs somebody’s argument was spilling out down the corridor, it was Harry and Zayn, I listened carefully.
“Harry, I’m just saying it’s not fair! If you can’t treat her right then I will!”
Zayn shouted at Harry obviously not really caring who heard.
“I haven’t even spoken to her yet!”
“That’s my point! If you had been a bit smarter then you wouldn’t have to!”
“That’s not fair; you know it wasn’t my fault!”
“Yeah, that’s what you always say!”
Zayn retaliated. An annoyed Harry emerged from Zayn’s room slamming the door behind him and with his hand in his Jack Will’s hoody pockets walked down the hallway towards me. I just stood there looking at him; he looked up at me his eyes filled with anger.
“For your information I am going to talk to Faye and we are going to sort things out”
He murmured to me as he passed, I wish I could believe him but Faye’s stubborn and from the sounds of her text she’s pretty damn pissed at Harry.
I waited for a little bit then walked down the hallway and down the stairs, when I got downstairs Harry was grabbing his car-keys and without a word he slammed the door not replying to the guys farewells.
I watched the door from the halfway point on the stairs and when I realised that he wasn’t coming back, I entered the lounge to find Niall doing what Niall does best, eating. He looked up at me with a mouthful of pancakes, smiling. I grabbed a fork as he shot me a look when I took a pancake shoving it in my mouth.
“This is my breakfast you know!”
I said, letting him know this was the first thing I had eaten all day.
“Err not the only one”
He complained.
“Shut up and let me share your food”
“Well that’ll be something new”
Louis commented as Niall narrowed his eyes at Louis jokingly and pulled me onto his lap as we finished off his pancakes.
“Ready?”
He asked me, kissing my cheek.
“Yep”
I said nodding as I slid off his lap and made my way to the door, pulling on my heels while he held the door open for me as he waited.
“Thank you”
I said nodding at him as he smiled at me sweetly.
“Oh by the way, you look beautiful, as always”
He said kissing my cheek as I blushed as we walked hand in hand down the street.
After a few hours of shopping we decided, well Niall decided, that we needed to go and have something to eat so we went to Starbucks. I ordered a Chocolate Frappuccino and some fruit and Niall ordered the same but chocolate cake instead of fruit, obviously.
We sat down in a booth in the corner.
“Hey isn’t that…Harry over there?”
Niall asked me, and I looked up from my phone to see the curly headed boy talking and laughing with a girl, the girl wasn’t Faye I’d recognise Faye miles off and it wasn’t her at all.
“Yeah…looks like it”
“Come on”
Niall said grabbing my hand and pulling me over to them, not really giving me the chance to protest.
The girl had bleach blonde hair with dark roots and her mascara was so thick I was surprised she could see, jet black eye-liner had been applied many times around her eyes and her skin had a slight orange tinge to it her top was low showing a rather high amount of cleavage in my opinion she wasn’t pretty at all.
“Hey Harry, care to introduce us to your friend?”
Niall said confidently taking one look at the girl and then whipping his eyes straight back to Harry. Harry’s face dropped and the girl stared straight at me looking me up and down, our dress sense obviously different, she stared at me making me feel like I was something she had just scraped off the bottom of her 7 inch heels.
“Um this is Lindsey, that’s Niall and Ashley”
“I see”
Lindsey spoke, her bright pink lipstick had stained the bottom of her teeth which I had no intention of telling her so. This was a serious down-grade from Faye.
“No Faye then?”
Niall asked staring straight at Harry and ignoring Lindsey who was now checking Niall out looking him up and down and I felt a pang of jealously and she twirled her hair around her finger while saying.
“Niall, cute name”
Niall pretend he hadn’t heard her and Harry seemed slightly taken a back at Lindsey’s attempt to flirt with Niall right in front of him.
“No”
Harry said like Niall had asked the most stupid question in the world.
“Whatever have fun”
Niall said sarcastically as he grabbed my hand and I followed him back to our booth.
“So I take it things didn’t go too well with Faye then”
Niall stated.I put my IPhone down onto the table while stirring my Frappuccino with a straw mixing the cream slightly.
“Well judging by the text she sent me, I take it not”
I showed Niall the text which read-
From: Faye Edmunds
I’m done. Done with boys, done with Harry, done. This is the last time I’m ever letting a guy in, I trusted Harry and looked what happened, I’m better off single.
His eyes widened as he shoved a piece of cake in his mouth chewing rather quickly and I spun my phone back around and typed a reply to Faye telling her that I’d go and see her later and maybe have a word with Harry later get the low down on if he really liked this girl or what.
“Wow she’s pissed”
Niall stated the obvious.
“Yeah but I bet she’s not out with some other guy, unlike someone”
I said gesturing to Harry and Lindsey who were now leaving, Harry shot a look our way but then looked away when he saw me watching them, we watched as they walked off back into the busy streets of London and Lindsey slid her arm around his waist and placed her hand on Harry’s bum, I felt for Harry and what the tabloids were going to say later but in all honesty it was his own fault and maybe I should stop being so sympathetic.
“He doesn’t like her, I can tell”
“Well then why is he with her?”
I asked, sticking up for Faye like a good best friend.
“He probably got angry that Faye wouldn’t I dunno accept what he was trying to say then wanted to get back at her by being with someone else, he’ll regret it later but there’s no point trying to talk him out of it now, he’ll realise later”
“Not really fair on Faye though is it?”
Niall shrugged.
“No point us judging we don’t know what happened”
He did have a point.
I shrugged and finished off my Frappuccino then began on my fruit shoving diced pineapple in my mouth.
“What’s with the sudden health kick?”
He asked. I shrugged.
“Faye eats this kinda stuff all the time, how she keeps so in shape”
His eyes darted up to meet mine.
“Don’t tell me you think you need to lose weight Ashley…”
I moved the fruit about in my bowl with my fork I could feel his eyes boring into mine waiting for my reply.
“No it’s not that… I’m just starting being healthier, that’s all”
I half lied.
“Okay, if it’s just that…”
Niall said not quite convinced.
“It is”
I replied a bit too quickly and he looked up at me again. He opened his mouth to speak but we dismissed the subject and went on to talk about performances and appearances they had in the coming weeks and how he wanted me to come but I didn’t like being in the spotlight and stuff like that.
“Wanna head back now?”
Niall said, wrapping an arm around me and kissing my temple. I nodded and we headed back through the streets Niall satisfied with not being recognised today, we spoke too soon.
“OH MY GOD IT’S NIALL HORAN!”
A girl’s voice erupted into the busy street and practically half of the people in the area erupted into screams and a group of girls started hurtling towards us cameras at the ready.
“Shit”
Niall said grabbing my hand dragging me behind him as we dodged crowds of people gaining a few funny looks we darted into an alleyway and Niall rested against the wall panting, I adjusted my shoes my feet now slightly sore from running in heels. Niall looked down at my feet then back up to me.
“Oh, I’m sorry, I forgot you were wearing heels”
“It’s alright, all those days in high school where I forgot my trainers and had to do P.E in heels must have paid off”
I stated, strapping my heels back up and fixing my dress, he smiled. We looked down the alleyway and Niall frowned as we watched a girl talking suspiciously with a tall man, they looked around them before exchanging something then with a hand-shake they parted.The girl began walking towards us head down, she looked about our age maybe slightly older, her long jet black hair reached her waist and she was wearing a tight crop top which was rather low and a tight pencil skirt with really high heels, she looked dressed for a night out, not to go shopping, as she got closer I could see how fake her skin tone was, she looked up finally her eyes widening when her eyes fell upon Niall.
“Fuck my life”
Niall whispered to me as the girl smiled at him, he wrapped his arm around my waist pulling me close to him protectively as I looked at him confused, he just shook his head un-able to say anything now the girl was stood in front of us, rather close to Niall.
“Niall!”
She exclaimed, I studied her face, her make-up similar to Lindsey’s but somewhat worse.She smelt of a bad perfume mixed with smoke and I could smell stale alcohol on her breath, she placed a perfectly manicured nail on her hip as she looked me up and down then returning her glare to Niall.
“Chelsea”
He said un-enthusiastically then I realised who she was, his ex. I felt sick in my stomach knowing all too well that she’d have a major problem with me if she found out that I was his girlfriend as she was obviously still interested in him.
“You never returned my calls Niall, how come?”
She raised a perfectly drawn on eye-brow at him and he squeezed my hand tightening his grip on my waist.
“Oh, you called? I’ve been very busy”
He replied, she didn’t seem to like his answer.
“I see…with, this?”
She said referring to me.
“Ashley has a name and she’s far more important than returning your petty little begs for me to take you back”
Niall shot back and Chelsea’s eyes widened at Niall’s rudeness, now I see why he didn’t want to call her and I immediately regretted telling him that he should have that day.
She looked me up and down once again as Niall stared at her angrily.
“I can’t believe your dismissing me for this fat and ugly slut Niall, thought I knew you but obviously not”
I said nothing, Niall was taken a back and opened his mouth to speak but was cut off by Chelsea.
“What’s the matter Hun? You mute?”
She said a wicked smile spread across her lips as she continued to stare at me dis-approvingly.
“I suggest you leave right now before I do something that’ll make you regret ever daring to speak to me or Niall like that, those insults were rich coming from you, because guess what? I could out-bitch you any day so I suggest you scurry off back to whatever complete and utter whore bag place you came from”
I shot back at her and she looked taken a back a smile spread across Niall’s lips but I kept my stern stare straight at her and just like that she walked away her heels clicking against the concrete as she did so. Niall smiled at me turning to face me.
“You told her babe”
He whispered to me as his lips lingered on mine and began kissing them softly, my arms found his neck as he wrapped his around my waist, I was now almost the right height with my heels on. He smiled into our kiss our fore-heads pressed together he stared into my eyes wrapping a lock of my loose blonde curly hair around his finger his other hand laced with mine pressing our palms together.
“You make me so happy”
He whispered to me. I smiled.
“You make me so happy too”
I replied and he kissed the tip of my nose as we reluctantly broke apart, picking up our shopping bags and heading home.
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I pressed my back against the cool cream wall of Niall’s bedroom as he played with my hair much to his entertainment. He moved some from my eyes and tucked it behind my ear brushing the area where Owen had hit me on Monday.
I let out a small “Ow”.
“Sorry love”
He said kissing my cheek.
“It’s fine”
I replied.
“You know you’re beautiful right?”
He said kissing me on the lips for a few seconds. I shrugged.
“Well you are”
He pressed his forehead to mine and I pecked his lips quickly before pulling away and getting underneath his covers.
“I’m going to sleep, here, I’m tired”
I told him as he looked at me confused since it was only 10 but I really was shattered, he stripped down to his boxers and got in next to me.
“Please stay up with me”
He pleaded.
“And do what?”
“Talk to me”
“About what?”
“About how everything Chelsea said about you today was completely un-true”
“Good night Niall”
I stated and I felt his body mould around mine as he placed his arms over my hips pulling me close to him.
“Fine then, tomorrow”
He whispered to me as I closed my eyes relaxing into his arms.
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A/N.
Next chapter as promised(y)!
Tell you what, okaay. If I get to 50 fans by this time next week I'll start giving out some dedications to regular voters and commenter's;D Because I feel that if there's a dedication button sat right there then I should use it...
Strangely looking forward to my surgery so I can have a few days off school simply sitting here and writing for you guys while everyone else is at school mwahaha.
-Emily.