Once Upon A Wish

Chapter 10

Chapter 10

The best way for me to describe the moment directly after Bay and I opened the door is like this: We looked so beautiful and hot that we generated an invisible wave of sexiness that literally knocked Hazza and Niall off their feet. LITERALLY.

I was the most precious/funniest thing I’ve ever seen. Harry's mouth dropped open and he had to grab the portable ivy carrier. That was a disaster in and of itself as it started to roll and take Harry along with it. Niall fell into the overstuffed chair, dazed. At the same moment they both said wow.

Bailey and I started to giggle at their reaction. Brilliant Bailey laughed as she smartly remarked, "Was it worth the wait?"

Harry started walking towards her. I felt like I was witnessing a noble knight finally retrieving his princess after a long lost battle and he had lost the battle but he had won her heart. He held out his arm to escort her. "More than you would ever know," he whispered into her ear. Harry led her out to the hall.

As I watched them leave I suddenly felt awkward. I started to freak out. I didn’t know where to put my hands. I finally resolved to place them in my pockets of my cardigan. Niall was blushing and looking down at his scuffling feet.

 AWKWARDEST MOMENT OF MY ENTIRE LIFE.

I didn’t want Niall to feel obligated to have to take me somewhere or do something with me. He probably didn’t want to anyway. He probably didn’t want/like me to begin with.

As my thoughts swarmed me I could feel a hot tear roll down my cheek. I quickly wiped it away. I wasn’t going to show any feelings towards him just so that he can break my heart.

Just as another tear started to go down my cheek I heard Niall clear his throat. “Would you ummmm… like to…ummmm... go out to lunch with me?”

This question allowed me to breathe. “I would love that! Hmmmmm... How about Nandos?” He perked up at this and a big smile crossed his face. “Only if you want to though...”

“Well… I’ve never actually been...” I looked at the ground suddenly really disappointed in myself.

“YOU’VE NEVER BEEN TO NANDOS!!!!!” He grabbed my hand before he even finished his outburst.  The next thing I knew was that we were running down the hall very quickly.

“Niall wait!” He stopped and turned around immediately. I ran into him. We hit the ground extremely hard. As the back of my head hit, it felt as if it had exploded into a thousand pieces.

I sat up, tears running down my face in buckets. I touched the back of my head and immediately pulled my hand away. The tears kept coming. I couldn’t stop them.

Niall was laughing that beautiful laugh! I was trying to laugh and smile like I usually would’ve been doing but I was in so much pain. He looked at me and immediately stopped and crawled over to me. He wrapped me in his arms. I was suddenly comforted.

The pain was still there but it was vague.

We sat there. My head buried in his chest.

Slowly the pain started to diminished. Niall gently grabbed me by the chin and looked at me with those genuine eyes. They were staring into my soul. “What hurts?” He asked with all sincerity.

I smiled through the tears.

*Niall’s Perspective*

She’s beautiful. The tears made her eyes glow and become deeper. They almost took you to a different dimension.

“It doesn’t hurt as bad anymore, not as bad as it was at first…” She said this smiling through her tears.

WOW. This girl took my heart right then and there. “Kylie, listen to me. I am your friend. Tell me if you need anything. You understand?”

Her smiled widened and then she laughed as she nodded her head yes. Her laugh was beautiful. I smiled at the sound of it. “Now what in the world is it that I need to know that made me knock you to the ground and cause you pain?!” She giggled again. “We need to get Bay and I’s luggage you silly!” She playfully touched my nose, “Bailey would be very angry with you if she knew you put your stomach before her clothes!”

She was right. I got to my feet and stretched out my hand to help her up. She graciously accepted.

“Soooooooo,” I started to ask a question that has been haunting me since I saw her on the airport floor  but I wasn’t sure if it was a good idea to ask. But I needed to know, “Why was it such a rush to get you here?”

She tensed up. SNAP. CRACKLE. POP. Exactly what I was trying to avoid. “Ohhhh you know….. Bailey just really freaks out at things like this….” I knew she was lying. For one you could tell and for two I knew that it wasn’t just a ‘Bailey reason’ why she needed to get here so quickly. “You sure?” I asked again, wanting the truth.

We had reached the room by now. She headed into the bathroom and I followed her. “Kiki come on… I really need to know!” I wasn’t going to let this one go. She snapped up immediately from where she was folding clothes and looked at me with intense questioning eyes. AHHH!! What did I do?

She broke out into a smile; I was relieved just a bit.

“Kiki?”

Oh no. I didn’t say that did I?!

“Ummmm ya… It’s an Irish term for….. ummmmmm…” She laughed again! She laughed a lot, but I liked that about her…. A LOT. “You’re ridiculous!” she giggled. I smiled, I can play this game.

“I’m ridiculous?! You’re ridiculous!”

“Well I’m not the young gentleman standing around watching a lady work.”

Dang. She got me on that one. I knelt down beside her and helped finished putting away the last items of clothing. “Is it ok that I call you that? Kiki…..?” I really liked it; had a nice ring.

“Hmmmmm well it’s cuter than Kyles but childish…. I like it! Go ahead!”

“Kyles….?” This was the strangest thing I’ve ever heard, a girl being called by a boy’s name.

She giggled, “That’s what Bailey calls me, and I call her George.” She smiled with pride at this.

This time it was my turn to laugh, “Alright little missy, I can see Bailey calling you Kyles but you calling her George…? There is no relation between George and Bailey….”

“Well I couldn’t think of a ridiculous name for her so I settled on George.”

“Well I’m pretty cheeky with that but you still haven’t answered my question.”

She zipped up the giant bag and took it to the main room as she kept whispering the word question, teasingly acting like she didn’t know what I was talking about. As she left I hurried and grabbed the few straggling items left. Then I heard a crash.

I dropped everything and ran to her.

I found her sprawled on the ground on her stomach, the bag a few feet away from her. I picked her fragile body off the ground and looked her straight in the eye. “There is something seriously wrong here! People just don’t constantly fall like this even if they are clumsy!”

She took a deep breath and huffed, “Fine.”