Fall for you

Part 8

Michael's pov
"Where are you going?" I asked panicky as I was woken up by Y/N stumbling into the end of the bed pulling on a pair of jeans.
"Go back to sleep" she hissed
I sat up fully awake now. She laughed. "Seriously Michael go back to sleep I'm only going to go quit my job" I said.
"No, I told you I'd come with you I'm not letting you go by yourself" I demanded getting up and changing as well.
"Fine" she said pulling on a pair of converse.
We walked in silence to the pub and I could tell she was nervous of having to face Jake. Once we were outside of the small pub she stopped, staring holes into the door. She was hesitant I could tell, her hands were shaking and her berthing was deeper than normal.
I silently took her small hand in my bigger one and squeezed lightly showing her I was there to support her. With a sudden boost of confidence she knocked on the large front door.
We waited a few minutes before Jake opened the door. He looked surprised to see her before his eyes darted to Me glaring.
"I quit" she said bluntly
"what?" He asked shocked
"I said I quit, I'm never coming back to this bar." She said strongly.
"Look Y/N, I'm really sorry, I don't know what I was thinking, I understand why you're quitting but I just want you to know how sorry I am" he sighed disappointed in himself.
"Right you're still a twat, and if you ever come near her again I will beat the shit out of you some more got it?" I growled at him
Jake nodded slightly scared.
"Now that's all cleared up we can go. Bye" I said dragging her away.
"Thank you for coming with me" she said quietly.
"You know it's no problem" I reassured.
She started laughing making me confused.
"What?" I asked chuckling as her laugh was infectious.
"D-did you see his face? You messed him up real good" she laughed. I didn't even realise I had gotten that carried away so fast. Jakes face was a wreck, he had a black eye and bruises littered over his cheeks and his face was red raw.
She was still laughing and soon I joined in. Tears were falling down her face as she was in hysterics and I was basically the same.
"So shall we look for a new job today or tomorrow?" She asked.
"Tomorrow, I want to do something today" I said. Tomorrow I was going to take her to the music shop where I worked and see if I can help her get a job there because we needed extra Staff.
"Like what?" She asked
This was it. I was actually going to ask her out. This could go really bad or really good. Here goes.
"There's a -a fair in town tonight" I said awkwardly "d-do you wanna go with me"
"omg I love fairs, yes, yes and yes again" she said squealing like a little child. "Are the other boys coming?" She asked hopefully.
Crap, she didn't gather that I was asking her on a date. I guess she only really wanted to be my friend.
"Um no, but I can ask them" I mumbled taking out my phone and sending a text to them all.
We were walking to the flat when I remembered we had to go food shopping so I changed our course leading us further into the local towns shopping area. We passed the music store so I took Y/N in there. Might as well get her a new job today as we're here.
"Michael" Joey greeted "what are you doing here on a Friday?"
"Just dropping by, is Mark in?" I asked
"Yeah he's upstairs" he said as I made my way up them to Marks office leaving Y/N with Joey. I'm sure he would talk non stop to her, he was just that type of person.
Y/N pov.
"So you're the famous Y/N Michael's always talking about?" The guy behind the cashier asked.
"Yeah I guess... And you are?" I asked curious as to why Michael had brought me here and left me downstairs.
"Joey, Michael's work buddy" he laughed "nice to meet you" he said doing a little bow making me chuckle. I liked him, he was funny.
"What's Michael doing upstairs and who's mark?"
"I have no idea but Marks the owner of this place" he said gesturing around the music shop where CDs and records where stacked. I loved it, it was so cute. Like one of those cool, vintage music shops you see in a film.
"Ah so this is the famous Y/N you're always running on about Michael"
A deep manly voice brought me out of my trance of the hundreds of CDs.
"Hi" I smiled looking nervously and questionably at Michael. He winked at me silently telling me to go along with it.
"Hello Y/N, I'm Mark, I've heard you like music" he said. I nodded in confusion. "Well we've been looking for staff for a few months now and Michael mentioned you needed a job, so how do you feel about stacking shelves with CDs?" He laughed as he made it sound not very appealing. "What I meant to say was there's a job going and it's yours if you want it" he said
"Really?" I asked surprised
"Yes" he laughed
I was extremely happy and appreciative and it seemed that my luck was changing as before I could never get a job and now I'm just getting offered one on the spot.
"I'll take it!" I basically shouted
A three of them laughed at my enthusiasm.
"Well then, welcome aboard little one" he said "Michael will give you more information and nah questions you have ask me or one of the boys"
"Okay I will, thank you" I smiled
"No problem he said retreating up the stairs. As soon as he was out of sight I squealed loudly in excitement before jumping on Michael and hugging him tightly.
"Woah, someone's happy" he said hugging me back. I was ecstatic." Anyway we should be going now" he told me.
"Bye Joey see you at work" I said as he laughed loudly.
"Byeeee" he called
"Thank you Michael" I said when we were out of the shop.
"For what?"
"Helping me get that job"
"you did that all by yourself" he said
"Yeah but if it wasn't for you telling him I was looking for a job I wouldn't have been offered it" I said leaning up to place a small peck on his cheek before pulling away and laughing. I finally felt happy again.
We were now in the supermarket shopping, picking up random food that looked good and throwing it in the basket.
"Is the money good? At the music shop?" I asked
"I didn't think you'd care as long as it was a job, but it's good pay" he said
"It's not that I care about the pay it's just in wondering how long it will take for me to save up enough money to buy or rent my own place" I said
Michael's pov.
Well that was a stab in the heart. She really wanted to move out that badly?
"Oh" I replied trying not to show that her words had affected me.
"Anyway what time are the boys meeting us at the fair?" She said changing the subject.
"6" I replied bluntly. I knew I was being quite harsh as it wasn't her fault. She didn't know how I felt about her.
She looked taken a back by my bluntness and became considerably quiet.
"Um... I don't think we need any thing else" she said in a small voice.
"Let's just pay and go home" I sighed.
The walk home was silent only filled with the knocking of the bags against our knees as we struggled to carry them and the rustling of the plastic bags in the wind.
Once we put the shopping away she retreated to her room mumbling about how she was going to get ready for the fair. I felt bad acting this way and I would try and be nicer to her tonight but I couldn't stop the feeling of hurt running through me and I didn't like it so I had put up my guards and defences to stop any further damage. Everything had started to build up within me and any moment it could explode, triggering an outburst of my stupidity.
I sat down on the sofa waiting for her to come down stairs to go.
She came down minutes later wearing black skinny jeans and a cute knitted sweater. She looked adorable and I wanted to hug her and apologise for being a dick but my guards wouldn't let me and I walked out of the front door grabbing my keys on the way and as she trailed behind me in silence.
I got into the drivers seat waiting for her to walk around to the passenger seat and get in. Up close to her I could see her eyes were red and puffy indicating she had been crying. Well done Michael. You promised you wouldn't hurt her anymore.
Pulling into the fair car park. I got out of the car and was hit with the noise of screaming children on the rides and the smell of candy floss and hotdogs floating around the air. The bright colours of the fair rides stood out against the darkness of the sky, I looked over to Y/N seeing her mesmerised by everything as she looked up at the Ferris wheel in awe. The neon lights illuminated her face and her eyes were full of excitement.
"MICHAEL,Y/N" I heard someone yell both our heads snapped round as Ashton came running at us. He ran full pelt at Y/N and I thought he was going to knock her over but he picked her up spinning her round.
"Are you ready to go on every ride until we feel dizzy and sick to our stomachs" he laughed like a giggly school child. Y/N's face matched his as she noises and laughed along.
"Well what are you waiting for let's go" he said dragging her by the hand and further into the fair leaving me behind in the darkness as I slowly followed.
I watched as her and Ashton went on nearly all the rides. Me, Luke and Calum were all sitting at a bench watching them. She looked so carefree and happy with Ashton I didn't want to admit it but I was jealous.
"Is everything between you and Y/N alright?" Calum asked
"Yeah why?"
"It's just I thought this was meant to be like a date for you two" he said
"Well, when I asked her... She thought it was just as friends"
"And you didn't tell her straight after that, that you wanted more?" He asked
"No... I couldn't I didn't want to make things awkward" I sighed
"Well, there's no point mopping around here, go and tell Ashton to piss off and get some candy floss for us and take her on the Ferris wheel or something" he said making.
"I can't"
"Why not? You're being stupid. The chance is right there just go and talk to her, tell her how you feel, we can also see you're so madly in love with her" Luke said joining the conversation.
"I just can't okay now drop the subject please" I said
"Seriously?... Michael, you're going to lose her to someone else if you don't go and tal-"
"SHUT UP FOR FUCK SAKE I ALREADY KNOW THIS" I shouted before storming off to the car and driving home leaving Y/N with the other boys.
I'm such an idiot. I just couldn't do it. I can't do it. I know that in the end I'll end up destroying her, she deserves better than me. Someone like Ashton. As soon as I got home I got in the shower turning it to the hottest setting until it burned my skin making me forget. It didn't last long because as soon as I got into bed the covers smelt like her reminding me of how horrible I was being towards her.
Y/N pov.
"Where's Michael?" I asked smiling as if on a high from the fairground rides. I sat on the bench with the guys while Ashton went to buy me some candy floss.
"He um went home" Calum said quietly.
"Oh" and just like that my pretend high came crashing down. Just like real ones did.
I tried to smile but it came out really fake. "Why did he leave?" I asked
They shrugged in response.
I knew it was because of me. Although I don't know what I've done wrong. Maybe he was finally realising that he didn't want me around. That he couldn't stand being around me anymore.
"Here you go" Ashton said handing me a bag of candy floss.
"Thank you" I smiled at him as he sat down next to me opposite the other boys.
"Where did Michael go?" Ashton asked looking around the fair.
"Home" I mumbled
"Oh" he said clearing seeing I didn't want to talk about him. "What should we go on next then?" He asked
"Waltzers" I said excitedly as began to get the fairground buzz back.
"Okay let's go" he said dragging me over to them.
"Hang on wait" I said stopping and running back to the two bored boys at the bench and pulling them with us. Four people could fit in one of the seat things on the waltzers, they were my favourite ride, they spun so fast that the adrenaline rush you got made you feel so alive.
All for of us squished together in one of the karts me wedged in between Luke and Ashton with Calum next to Luke. The ride started slowly but in seconds it was spinning faster and faster making me grab onto one of Likes arms and one of Ashton's as the three boys hands took up the whole of the bar in front of us. My head whipped round as we sharply spun around and the force made all our heads bang against the cushion behind us. We were all laughing and gasping for breath as the ride came to an end. I was extremely dizzy and all of us couldn't walk in a straight line acting like we were drunk and laughing at everything. It was funny how moods can change so quickly.
Luke had fallen to the floor still recovering from the ride as we all were so we all payed next to him on the grass. We ended up laying there watching the stars and talking about everything, mainly music and our favourite bands. I told then how I had a new job at the music shop where Michael works and they told me they wanted to start a band.
"We should head home soon" Luke sighed. "I have work early in the morning"
"Fine" Ashton sighed
"I guess I'll see you guys soon then" I said about to hug them and leave to walk the long way back to Michael.
They all started laughing.
"What?" I asked
"You seriously think we're going to let you walk all the way home in the dark?"
"Jesus, anything could happen to you" Luke said
"We'll drive you, you are our friend as well" Ashton said smiling as we walked to his car.
"Thank you" I said
"No problem" he winked. The car ride home was filled with joke and laughter. These guys made me laugh so much and I was so happy they classed me as a friend. Ashton pulled up into Michael's driveway. I sighed before getting out thanking the boys for everything they had done.
"Good luck with Mr grumpy" Calum called. Ashton waited until I got in the door before waving and driving away.
I took a deep breath as I closed the front door dreading to face Michael. I crossed my fingers hoping he was asleep.
To my relief he was. When I opened the bedroom door I saw he was splayed out on his side his back facing me. I quickly did my nightly routine brushing my teeth and changing into pyjamas, which consisted of one of Michael T-shirts and slid into bed beside him.
I really wish I knew what I had said or done to make him so mad at me.
Michael suddenly turned around in his sleep making me jump. I looked at him only to meet his eyes. Okay maybe he wasn't asleep.
"I'm sorry" he whispered brokenly as he pulled me to him in a hug. But I didn't return it making him pull away sadly.
"Why are you so mad at me?" I asked sitting up so I was sitting cross legged.
"I'm not mad at you" he sighed
"Well why are you being so horrible?" I snapped
He was silent and didn't reply. "Have you had enough of me already? I-I can leave if you want, you should have just told me to leave, oh god I told you when you wanted me to leave to tell me and I'd go. I told you I didn't want to be a burden." I started rambling.
"Y/N... I-I-" he started but I cut him off
"You made me look like an idiot! Why didn't you just tell me you wanted me to go?" I kept repaying myself as I felt humiliated as he's kept me tagging along with him when he didn't want me there."I knew this was a bad idea, I should never have come to you, I knew you still hated me and I know I messed up by telling you I loved you but you should have told me to go if you didn't want me arou-" I was cut off by Michael's lips coming into contact with mine, I kissed back not hesitating. I came to my senses and pulled away quickly pushing him away from me. "I'm not doing this again Michael" I said quietly.
"You don't understand" he sighed "I... I think I've fallen for you"
My heart stopped. He what? He thinks he's fallen for me. I knew I shouldn't get my hopes up. He thinks he's fallen for me; key word there 'think'.
"You think you've fallen for me? You think?" I said unbelievably. "You can't just say that to me" I cried
"No"
Oh, he probably regretted saying that and only now realising he hadn't fallen for me.
"I know. I know I've fallen for you" he whispered taking my face into his hands.
"Please don't be messing around." I a sobbed
"I'm not. I've fallen for you Y/N and there's no going back." He said
"I-I'm still in love with you Michael" I whispered against his lips before brushing them with mine to show it was okay to kiss me again. It got heated as more passion was put into it. I rolled over so I was now laying on top of him and smiling into the kiss. I started to grind down on to him making him moan. God I missed that sound. I forgot how his touch made me feel alive, how it made me feel as if electricity was flowing through my veins.
"Not tonight" he said stopping me.
"Why?" I asked
"Because we have work in the morning, I don't want to wear you out to much" he winked making me chuckle as I slowly feel asleep on top of him my head buried in his neck and his arms wrapped securely round my waist.