Dared Love

Chapter 20

Marissa's pov: *knock knock*

"Go away", I said. "It's me", Angela said through the door. I wiped my tears away and opened the door. She came in and I closed the door behind her. "Angela what are we doing here?", I asked. "Well on the day of the photo shoot Lou, their stylist liked my work and asked me to join them on tour."

"She asked you, not me", I said. "I knew summer would be boring if we stayed home, and I didn't want that to happen to either of us. If you want we could go home", she said. "You're right but you can stay, I'll just go", I said. "If my best friend goes, then I go too." I sighed. "Thank you! Angela as much as I want to go home right now, I know I can't. I can't let my best friend miss out on her chance. I'll stay." Angela squealed and hugged me saying thank you. "But you should of told me he was going to be here. " "I know I should of, but I knew that you would get nervous thinking about what will happen. I didn't want you to have some sort of panic attack before we even got here." "You're right, you rather me have the attack in front of everybody", I joked. "It's better to have it in front of a lot of people, I'm pretty sure you'll get the help you need." We laughed and talked until Angela said, "Marissa you should go talk to him." " I..I..I..I , I don't know if I can, well not right now. The time is just not right for me. I needed some time to figure out what I'm going to say. It might take some days, I don't know, but right now I can't. I'm sorry." "It's okay hun, just take your time." "Thanks Angie", I said. "Anything for my best friend", she said. We hugged and she then asked if she should stay with me. I told her no. I needed some alone time to think. She understood and went to the living room. Once she was gone I whispered to myself. "What am I going to say?"

* 3 days later (Sunday)*

Still Marissa's pov: I woke up. I looked beside be to Angela's bed. It was empty. I looked at the time on my phone, it was 11:30. I went to the bathroom to freshen up and change. I got out of the room and saw them sitting on the couch. "Sleeping beauty finally woke up", Louis joked. The rest laughed. "Haha", very funny Louis." "Here ya go love", Harry said handing me a plate of blueberry pancakes. "Eeeep, thank you Harry", I said hugging him. "They're my favorite." "I know", he said. I was confused and said,"How did you know?" "Zayn told me." I looked at Zayn as he bit his lip. "Thank you",I said. He smiled and nodded. "After we're finished, we are going to the carnival. It's our last day before the tour starts, lets do something fun", Liam said. We all agreed then headed to go change. As I was walking toward our room someone ruffled my hair, I turned around to see Niall. I did the same to him. He laughed. During the 3 days I've gotten to know the boys, I talked to them and they are sweet,goofy, and very playful. I talk to Niall the most. But,I still haven't talked to him... "Come on", Angela pulled me towards the Ferris wheel. We've gone to almost all the rides already. Luckily, there wasn't much people at the carnival. The boys were following us. of course wearing disguises. We were currently at the carnival where Zayn and I had our double date. It was awkward knowing that we shared something special here. While heading towards it Angela stopped at a stand that had teddy bears. "I want to play this first", she said. We all laughed at her excitement. She got the balls and played. She didn't knock any. "I'd like to give it a try", Niall said. I smiled at him. After Niall received the balls, the guy was looking at me. He had a mustache and longer hair. It was the same guy that hit on me. Niall knocked them down and handed Angela the big teddy bear. She hugged him. It was cute. As we were walking away I felt someone tap on my shoulder. I turned around to see the guy. "Hey babe, I see you don't have your boyfriend with you anymore. How about I take you out sometime?", he asked. "No thanks", I said trying to walk away. He pulled me back towards him. "Sure about that", he smirked while holding my wrists tight. "She's very sure", a voice said. I turned around to see Zayn. "Hey man, I'm sorry please don't do it again", he said letting go of me and heading back to his stand hiding behind a desk. Zayn chuckled.

I wanted to say thank you but couldn't make the words come out of my mouth. All I could do was give him a weak smile. We joined the rest and finally headed towards the Ferris wheel. We were in line while Harry was next to the girl who was operating it. He said he wanted to go "talk to her." "Next", the girl said. I hopped on the seat and looked out at the view. "Hey Angie, do you want to go get ice cream after this?", I asked still looking out.

"Umm sure", a different voice said. I turned around and saw Zayn.

"What are you doing here?" "Sitting next to you", he said. "Where's Angela?" "I'm right here", she said below us. I looked down and saw her next to Niall. Behind them was Louis and Liam. "We're not getting off until you two talk", Angela said. "You can't do that", I said. "Oh yes I can", she said looking at Harry. She got me. I gulped. "Well I know you don't want to talk, but I just want to let you know that what happened between us was something I loved. On that night when you broke up with me, I was planning on telling you that I loved you. Marissa I loved you. I still do. You probably still hate what I did and I understand if you do but please talk to me. I'm really sorry for all the trouble I caused. I hope you can forgive me", he said. I sighed, closed my eyes for a moment then opened them again. A tear escaped from my eye. Zayn wiped the tear away. "I'm really sorry, please don't cry, I don't like seeing a pretty girl shed tears."

"Thanks." I laughed a bit then sighed again. "Zayn, I'm sorry for ignoring you for the past years. I just didn't know what to do or say. All I knew was that I didn't want to see you anymore. Seeing you made my heart break. Looking back at the times we had were no longer memories I wanted to remember. And when I saw you again I felt weird. I had mixed feelings. The words you just said made me feel better, it reminded me of the good moments we had. I love you too.......... as a friend. I forgive you", I said. He hugged me. He smiled and screamed. "Lets start fresh and clean." I laughed, "Shhh Zayn this isn't a cleaning advertisement", I joked. "You're right lets just start all over again." "Agreed", I said. "Hey my name is Zayn, what's yours?", he asked sticking out his hand. "Hi I'm Marissa", I said happily accepting the handshake. "Did you two finish talking?", Angela asked. We nodded our heads. She notified Harry to tell the girl to get us off the ride. As the ride was coming to an end Zayn asked, "So Marissa would you like to go get some ice cream and afterwords go on a walk, so we can get to know each other?" "I'd like that", I said smiling. He smiled back and we finally got off the wheel.

"How did it go?", Niall said nudging me. "It went good, how was your ride with Angela, I saw that you were sharing a cotton candy together", I said nudging him back. "It was nice and sweet", he said. "Awww", I said. He blushed and I pinched his pink cheeks. Angela looked over at me and I mouthed to her "we're going to talk." She nodded her head and also began to blush knowing what we would be talking about.

We headed back to the bus and I immediately pulled Angela to our room. "So you and Niall?", I said closing the door. " What about him?", she said innocently. "Do y'all have something going on?", I asked curiously. "What?, No, we're just friends", she said then sighed. "Why did you just sigh?" "Oh umm. I'm just really tired", she said nervously. "Angela, i know thats not the reason.I'm your best friend, you can tell me anything." "You are, and I guess you should know, but I kinda have a crush on Niall. I think he's a really cute and nice guy." I squealed at what I was hearing. " ohhhh Angela", I said. "Shhhhh,quiet down, then can hear you, you know?" "Sorry." "Anyway how was your talk with Zayn?" Before I could answer there was a knock. We told the person it was opened. Zayn stood by the door and asked, "Marissa are you ready?" "Ummm-" "yes she is", Angela said for me. I stood up and mouthed "i'll tell you later." She nodded and shooed me out the door and joined the rest of the lads. Zayn and I left the bus with him wearing a snapback and some glasses.