That's When I Saw You {Neth Fanfic}

42. Night Changes

Beth's POV

As he had previously said, we had all gone out to eat to celebrate 'Tamsin not dying' in Harry's words, but really it was just so we could all have a break from everything that was going on. Harry had booked out half of 'Funky Buddha', much to Liam's delight, and had also decided that we were all seeing a film afterwards too.

Anyway, for now, we were all enjoying our food and just having a chat. Currently, the topic of conversation was style of clothing for the new tour, due to kick off in a few weeks.

"Bandana or no?" Harry asked, taking another bite of the burger he had gotten.

"Depends, the American flag one yes, but that's the only one I really like." Josie commented, wiping her mouth after she spoke.

"Nah mate, you look good in all of them, its fine." Louis assured him, smiling as he ate his chips.

Josie muttered something to Tamsin afterwards, to which she glared angrily, and Josie simply laughed. I know exactly what she had said.

"How's Jack?" Tamsin asked me, her face still tense and slightly annoyed.

"Good, he's probably gone back to sleep again." I laughed, "Actually him and Niall always sleep in the living room together if I leave them long enough. It's the cutest thing."

"Hey." Niall warned jokingly, "It's not my fault he crawls on top of me when I'm trying to watch match of the day."

We all laughed, but I suddenly noticed Tamsin looked slightly unnerved, staring over at the door. I looked over as well, looked behind Niall's back as the bell that hung over the door chimed with its opening. A tall, well-built man with blond shaggy hair walked in, followed by a few of his friends, and similarly dressed in dark leather clothing. Their leader seemed to look directly over at Tamsin and Harry, to whom Harry shot a threatening glare.

I shook Niall's arm wearily, pointing over to them once he looked up and wiped his mouth with his napkin.

"Hmm?" He hummed, before catching sight of them, "Oh."

He turned to me, frowning in concern.

"It's fine, just ignore him, he shouldn't cause a problem."

I looked down, trying to avoid the envious glare of my ex-boyfriend, Edward. He sauntered over, closely followed by his 'bodyguards' who I now recognised to be his best friends, Jonathon and Zack.

"Beth, honey." He said, and I could tell from his voice that he was smirking, "I see I've interrupted a ladies night out."

Niall growled under his breath, putting his hand on mine on the table, squeezing it reassuringly.

"I see your lap dog is a bit possessive." He sneered, "Wouldn't want to start a fight now, would we?"

"Beat it, Ed." I warned, "You've caused enough trouble."

"What're you going to do about it?" He jeered, laughing dryly.

I was about to stand up to face him myself, when I heard someone else's chair screeched against the wooden floor. Surprisingly, it wasn't Niall, Zayn or even Harry, but it was Tamsin. He stood directly next to him, glaring down at him angrily.

"Edward, darling." She spat, "I would say it's a pleasure to meet you, but the thing is, I heard about the things you did to Beth, and to be quite honest, there is nothing stopping me from punching you out right now."

He didn't even seem slightly affected by Tamsin's threat, just laughing in her face.

"You? You think I'm scared of you?"

He looked down at her, standing far too close to her and made Harry stand up to separate them.

"You wanna back up?" He snarled, glaring at him threateningly.

I didn't hear the next thing he said, as I had already made my decision. I patted Niall's hand reassuringly, standing up myself and straightening my shirt. I cracked my knuckles as Harry and Edward kept throwing insults back and forth, Tamsin occasionally making an input. Zack watched me approach, but just looked on, unsure of what I was planning.

"Edward." I called sweetly, making them stop arguing and Edward to look over at me.

He grinned in such a way that I felt sick, and he moved towards me.

"Ah, I see you've made the right decision." He smirked, reached his arms out towards me.

Before he could reach me, I tilted my right shoulder back, coming back with full force and punching him square in the nose with a loud crack. He cried out in pain and stumbled backwards, holding his nose. He took has hand away from his nose, to see there was blood dripping steady out.

"Now leave before I do something you and I will both regret." I warned, smiling in achievement as Jonathon and Zack had already legged it, the sight of me possibly breaking Edwards nose being enough to convince them to leave.

"You little bitch." He snarled, but Harry stepped towards him again, making him shrink back and quickly slink out of the restaurant without another word.

"Are you okay, Beth?" Niall asked worriedly, stroking his index and middle finger over the curve of my jaw as he checked me for injury.

"Fantastic." I breathed through a smile, "That felt great."

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Now I'm imagining you fighitng people O.O