Words [Niall Horan] AU

Chapter 6: Football Game and Niall's Pool

"So what usually happens at these?" I ask Dawn as we sat down after buying a few snacks.
"Well to be honest we usually go on our phones until the end and occasionally look and cheer for a bit usually until the end when the game actually gets exciting. But the boys are coming second at the moment and were versing the people coming first, if we win then we'll be on top of the leader board so it should be a good game," Dawn explains.
I nod in response before looking around, there was a lot of people here to my surprise, and a decent amount were from the other team. I recognized a few people from my classes and just from looking around when I went to classes. Peyton and Dawn were already tapping away on their phones probably texting or on social media of some sort.
I nibbled on popcorn as I began 'listening' in on people's conversations because to be completely honest there wasn't anything else to do. It was really easy for me to do it because I'm really good at lip reading, well I better be after all these years of doing it. A hand waved in front of my face distracting me from the girls a few rows ahead who were having a nice bitching session about whoever Jessica, Kelsey and Dylan were. The one who pulled me out of listening to the conversation was Peyton who for some reason moved to my left instead of sitting next to Dawn who was on my right.
"Yeah, sorry what did you say?" I ask as I turn to face her.
"Do you want candy floss? I'm going to go get some," Peyton asks.
"Yeah sure, do you want me to come?" I ask in return.
"Its fine you can say here with Dawn, I'll be back in a minute," she shrugs before walking down the steps towards to snack bar.
About two hours and a half pasted quite quickly in my opinion. I watched most of it besides when Dawn and Peyton talked to me or asked me random questions. It was near to the end and the score was 2-2 so we were tying and it has been a really close game from the start. Soon enough there was a minute to go and it looked like they were just going to tie the game because both the teams were still going strong.
I turned around for a few seconds before turning back to shockingly see Louis sprinting with a few people hot on his tail. Louis got a touchdown before the crowd and team went wild. The crowd was cheering and yelling in excitement including me while the entire team basically spirited to Louis causing him and everyone body else following to tumble down with him. Peyton and dawn were cheering also and calling out their boyfriends names who actually blew kisses which was really sweet.
We had to wait for the boys to come out of the change rooms and since Peyton had the keys we sat in the car. They were blaring the music so loud that I could actually feel the vibrations of the music from the speakers. They were also screaming the lyrics to the songs and dancing I their seats and before you ask, yes they were getting weird looks and yes I was laughing at them.
I think the song they were listening too finished since they stopped singing and the vibrations stop for a few seconds before the next song came on. This time however they turned the volume down which I saw and could physically feel and see. Since I was sitting in the back and they were in the middle at the moment they turned around to face me.
"I hope this isn't weird but since you're part of the group now and think we should all learn some sign language," Dawn suggests.
To be honest I was quite shocked and surprised in a good way of curse. Usually people who I hang out with already know ASL or don't bother learning which is fine too but it was nice knowing people besides my family and Harry were willing to put the effort in.
"It's not weird at all! In fact I'm really happy you want to do," I smile.
"So first things first, um how do you say 'hi my name is Peyton'?" Peyton asks.
"Well 'hi' is just like waving but you start from the side of you head and go out once kind of like saluting if I think about it. Then 'my' is placing you hand on our chest and 'name' is keeping your pointer and rude finger out while tucking your thumb, ring finger and pinkie in on both hands and kind of tapping your middle finger on onto you pointer finger sideways like a cross twice," I explain while doing the actions and both of them followed.
I then taught them both how to spell out their names which was quite easy for dawn considering she only had four letters.
"But that's so long! Can I shorten it?" Peyton asks causing me to laugh.
"Actually there is, a deaf or hard hearing person can give you a sign name which is basically a sign which represents you and your name. They can be the letter of your name in certain spots of your physical features, personality traits mixed with physical description, something to do with activities or clothing you wear or anything like that, but someone who is part of the deaf community has to give it to you. For example mine was given to me by my elementary teacher who assigned the students in our class who didn't already one from their parents one. Over a short period of time she knew and thought I was really creative and liked art so mine is 'art' starting from my mouth cause I smiled a lot as a kid," I explain and show them.
"So does that mean you can give me one?" She asks curiously.
"I guess, hm well your eyelashes are really pretty so the letter 'P' flicking out from you eye seems appropriate and Dawn since you have long straight hair yours can be 'D' going straight down where you hair is," I show them.
"This is so cool!" Peyton squeals causing me to smile since she was excited about learning sign language.
"We need the whole group to learn how to use sign language and it can be like our secret code," Dawn giggles.
Before we could continue our conversation and learning the boys were back. Lucky for us they were all showered and changed cause I don't think we could deal with beings get in the car with all their sweat mixed together is the car. They were also really happy and hyper of course since they won and Louis seemed like he was on top of the world at the moment because of this last touchdown. Dawn moved to the back so the boys could all get in easily without having to struggle to get one in the back over Peyton.
It was a pretty fast drive to Niall's house and once we arrived we all piled out of the car. Louis was already on the phone ordering pizza since he was complaining about how hungry he was while Zayn and Liam picked up their girlfriend's bags which was really cute. I guess Niall felt bad for me and offered to take my bag but I insisted on taking my own because he was already inviting me to his house and it was really light anyways.

"Who wants to go swimming?" Liam asks.

Everyone cheered and agreed so we all took turns changing in different rooms; I was one of the first ones because when I came out to look for someone I only found Liam raiding the kitchen for snack and drinks.

"Hey Liam, you need help with anything?" I ask.

"Yeah there's an eski outside with ice already can you start to take these drinks and just put them in?" He asks pointing to the drinks on the counter.

"Of course," I nod and began to fill my arms with as many bottles and cans as I could before taking them outside.

I placed all the drinks and in the eski before returning to the kitchen to get more. This time however Zayn and Niall were down too and Zayn helped me bring the rest of drinks out while Niall and Liam brought out some snacks like chips and candy. Louis came down with the girls cheering about how the pizza should be arriving shortly while the girls had already sat by the pool dunking their feet into the water so I decided to join them.

Just as I sat down Niall and Zayn had jumped into the pool causing a massive splash to erupt from the pool. Both the girls squealed of course while I burst into laughter at their reaction. Like we're not sugar, t's not like we're going to melt and weren't they planning on get into the pull at one stage anyways. Before I could even blink Liam came from behind and wrapped his arms around Dawn before dropping into the pool which once sent Peyton squealing while Dawn resurfaced and playfully hid Liam.

Zayn came out of nowhere and grabbed Peyton's leg before pulling her into the pull tauntingly though she was screaming and trying to grip onto whatever she could which happened to me. So we both tumbled into the water and when I resurfaced I saw Peyton hitting Zayn while he was laughing and trying to restrain her. I swam to the shallow end and sat on the steps just to observe my surroundings.

"Louis, why aren't you in the pool?" I ask confused, it's not like he has his period or anything.

"I'm waiting for- PIZZA!" Louis changes to a yell.

I'm assuming her heard something like a door bell or car park. I wouldn't know of course but he sure spirited fast to the door. When he came back outside he was already eating well more than halfway through a slice of one of the like six boxes of pizza. He was really hungry because by the time it reached the table he was on his second piece.

"Pizza's on me!" He yells as he places the pizza's down.

Everyone cheers in response before grabbing slices of Pizza and sitting near the pool together in a circle. They were all talking but I kind of got tired of trying to keep up with the conversation and lip reading so I kind of dazed off. I still need to find a date for Gemma and Derick's graduation. Maybe I should ask Louis or Niall to be my friend plus one kind of thing... Louis loves my brother which means Derick will love him but I think I'm a little closer with Niall. Or will that make things awkward and send mixed signals? I was snapped out of my endless trail of thoughts when someone waves there hand in front of my face.

"Sorry what happened?" I ask Niall who was sitting on my right and waves his hand in front of my face.

"Are you okay? You kind of zoned out," He says.

"Yeah all good, just thinking cause I have to sort something out," I shrug finishing my second piece of Hawaiian pizza.

"Anything you want to talk about or need help with?" He asks taking a sip out of his cup.

Well since he asked maybe I should ask if he wants to come.

"Actually wou-" I cut myself off when Louis jumped into the pool causing everyone who was eating pizza's to become covered in pool water.

"LOUIS!" They all yelled in sync when I turned to see their reaction.

As usual I laughed at their reactions because luckily it wasn't my pizza getting pool water on it. Once I calmed down Niall lost track of our conversation and decided to join Louis in the pool.