The Bad Date

Chapter 2

Niall got to the small diner ten minutes before the arranged time of the date. He immediately began to fiddle with his outfit and his hair feeling a bit nervous about seeing his date.

Scratch that. He was terrifed about seeing his date because he could meet the love of his life tonight. Then all of a sudden horrible thoughts started to fill his mind.

What if he didn't like him? What if he's one of those crazy people online? What if he wasn't appealing to Ryan? Niall had a infinity of 'what if's?' running through his head in that moment.

"Hi there. Are you Niall?" Niall turned around to see a decent looking man a least a couple inches taller than him.

The man who looked to be about 24 years old, had short black hair that was styled up towards the side of his head, along with brown eyes and pale skin. The man also wore a fancy black button up with a purple tie and some khaki's, making Niall feel a bit underdressed, with just a simple black shirt and a semi casual jacket and jeans.

"...Yeah..I'm Niall" He stuttered out his nerves getting the best of him.

After a moment of delay he stuck out his hand for Ryan to shake. But Instead of shaking his hand, Ryan grabbed the outstreched hand and pulling him into an awkward hug.

This in return made Niall make an embarrassing squeaking sound, making his cheeks burn up.

"Sorry I'm not really a hand shaker" He said with a laugh.

"Yeah I can see that" Niall said awkwardly rubbing the back of his neck feeling like his face was on fire.

"Shall we eat?" Ryan motioned his hand towards the desk and Niall nodded in answer, he was starving. They then walked up and were taken to their assigned table.

Their waitress's name was Rosie and she led them to their table that was towards the middle of the resurant where a couple of other couples were seated, and some families as well. She laid them out two menu's once they sat down and then was on her way to her next customer.

"So Niall tell me something about yourself" Ryan said with a wide grin on his face that made Niall feel a bit creeped out, but he decided to ignore it and answer anyway.

"Um I have a brother named-"

"Oh I have a brother too his name is Carter and he works at the zoo nearby" Ryan interupted.

"-Greg" Niall barely got another word in before Ryan interuptted once again talking about how he had a friend named Greg once until he ran away and didn't come back. He was about to say he was sorry but then their waitress Rosie interupted him this time asking their orders.

They placed in their orders and then they continued chatting, most of the statements coming out of Ryan's mouth seeing as Niall could barely get a sentence in without being interupted once again by Ryan. Niall could barely take it anymore, half the time he was staring out the window while Ryan talked. He knew it was rude but he just couldn't stop himself from almost being bored to death. Not literally of course, but close enough.

Niall glanced over to see their waitress come over with their check for their meals, and instantly he perked up a little at the thought of leaving this date that had not been going all that well. Ryan had then taken the bill and five minutes later they were free to leave.

He had no clue what to do since this is one of his very few dates he's had in his lifetime of 22 years. Niall decided to try and bid goodbye to Ryan and try to scramble out of meeting him again. They reached the exit of the resturant and Niall decided to make an advance at saying goodbye. "Hey uh Ryan...it was...very..n-nice to meet you but I have to get going".

Finally. Niall thought once he was able to get a full sentence out of his mouth, however it was like Ryan hadn't even heard it, he just dug through his pockets trying to get something.

Niall instead just waved his hand trying to get him to pay attention to him. "I'm sorry what?"

He let out exasperated sigh before replying "I said I have to go" before waving and turning around walking a bit faster than normal keeping his head down as he went.

Once he was a good 50 feet from where he left Ryan when he heard yelling, and after a second he reconized it as Ryan's voice so he sped up a little bit pretending not to hear.

The sidewalk was far more crowded then Niall had anticipated and he kept having to sidestep, slow down, or speed up just to keep in the rhythm of the crowd. It was all going well until he crashed right into the chest of a man taller than him.

Niall was immediatly hit with the heavenly scent of this man. 'Jeez I'm creepy..' he thought. Then he was pulled out of the way of the crowd by the man and he fianlly looked up and man this man was gorgeous. Insanely gorgeous. Niall's gaze was instantly fixed on him

When Niall came out of his daze he finally realized the yells had gotten closer, in fact very close. He did the only thing he could think of to make sure he wasn't recognizable.

"I know we just met.. and all but could y-you please do me a huge favor.." Niall stammered still in the embrace of the gorgeous man.

"Sure, anything for you beautiful the man replied, licking his lips.

"Kiss me"