One (Niall Horan FanFiction)

Chapter 10: Day Off

Maggie

I wake up to the ringing of my alarm. 7:00 am. Why did I set my alarm this early in a Saturday morning? Isn't it supposed to be my off today? Oh shit! Today is the Derby game!

I go straight to the bathroom as fast as I could hoping that I will make it there at 8:30. After shower, I search for an outfit and I decided that I will wear a gray pull over shirt and a pair of skinny jeans and brown boots and bring scarf since the weather today is a bit cold. I know, I have the worst fashion sense ever.

"Good morning Maggie!" Aunt Nans greeted me when she saw me went out of my room and stopped to take a look at me. 'Why are you dressed this early, isn't it your day off today?"

"Yeah" I said as I take a sit at the table "But I'll go out today to watch football game."

"Are you with Joey---" she said but she realized that Joey isn't with me anymore so she didn't finish her sentence. "Oh, dear I'm sorry. I'm glad you're still doing those stuffs, it shows that you are on the process of moving on now." she smiled then she take the seat in front of me.

"I know, I don't need to stuck myself in him cause there are lot more things to do out there." I said as I take a bite of my bacon.

I saw the clock and it says it is already 8:00 am. I finish my breakfast as fast as I can and stand up from the seat to give Aunt Nans a goodbye kiss on cheek. "I gotta go now or I'll be late. See you later, bye!" I said as I walk towards the door.

"Don't go home late okay? Take care and have fun."

"I will!" I said shouting cause I am already out of the flat.

When I reached our meeting place, it is already 8:30 and obviously it is a bit early so I ordered a coffee since I wasn't able to drink one earlier cause I am in a hurry. I took the seat by the window so that Niall can easily see me here.

God, I can't believe I'm doing this right now. I am going out to watch a football game with a popstar? My goodness Maggie, are you out of your mind?

It seems like it went fast cause a few days ago, I was standing there at the counter, and Niall saw me then he talked to me and I am denying that I know him, but now here I am, sitting in a coffee shop, waiting for him to fetch me.

What if the paps are here again, or someone will see us together again? We said that we just met that night and now we're friends? Maggie, who are you kidding, you know that media and fans will lose their shit if they found out that you two are seeing each other now. You know that they won't believe that you guys are just friends even if that's the truth.

I check my watch, 8:50 am. I still have 10 minutes to go home now and text Niall that I will not make it today. I still have time to change my mind and save my life from publicity. I still have time to decide if I will let Niall enter my life and change everything.

I know all he wants is for us to be friends, and honestly it is a very easy thing to do, but for his situation it is so hard. Everything involved to him is public's interest, and I already had a taste of that when people saw me getting inside his car the night I messed with myself. And I never want to experience that again.

I am staring at my watch waiting for it to hit 9 o'clock and thinking very hard if I will go back now or stay in my place. I don't know why this is such a big deal to me knowing that our friendship may not be really that deep. Maybe once they started with touring around the world, he'll completely forget about me. Right. I'll just let whatever happens and enjoy the moment. I will not be overly attached to him cause I know that this is not permanent. In that case, I will never lose anything.

It is already thirty minutes past nine and still Niall hasn't showed up. I am watching every car that stops in front of the shop hoping that he will come down in one of them. Did he already forgotten about our meet up today?

Oh boy, this is what I've been saying...please tell me that what I am thinking is wrong, please, the next car should be Niall or else I will give up waiting for him now.

A black Range Rover stopped in front of the coffee shop. The door open and a blonde guy with shades went down the car. He saw me staring at him then he waved at me. My hopes didn't failed me. It's Niall.

"Hey," he said as soon as he got to my table. "I'm really sorry Maggie for being late, some unexpected thing happened and I need to attend to them."

I just smiled. "Yeah, it's fine, the important thing is you showed up."

"I'm really sorry. But don't worry we won't be running late, the venue is just in the outskirts of London and I think it's just a thirty-minute drive so we will still make it. Shall we keep going then?" he nodded to me as I stand up from my seat.

During the thirty-minute drive, we talked about a lot of things like what club is the best, who is the best player, which country is the best team and all about football. I told him that I'm from Manchester, and obviously I am supporting Manchester United. Then he told me that he's a huge DFC fan that he never missed a single game of them. He's really obsessed with football that we never run out of topics to talk about.

"So, why do you love football? It is not usual that a girl like you is into this stuff." He asked when I think we already talked about all sides of the game.

I cleared my throat for the answer. I don't know if I can bear mentioning the real reason why I love this sport.

"M-my..." I looked out of the car window hoping that I can find all the strength to say it."My ex-boyfriend and I first met in a football game, he's a fan of that sport. I am already watching games before, but he really influenced me to love football."

"Oh yeah, sorry about you and your boyfriend." He said.

Then awkwardness started to fill the air inside the car. I don't know what to say after that. First, is because the topic is now leading to Joey, and second, it that I really don't know what's the right thing to say. What if the things I want to talk about doesn't really interest him? This is why I don;t have that much friends, I really don't know how to handle conversations.

We both went silent for the rest of the drive until we reached our destination.

"The game is about to start, c'mon Maggie, I can't miss the first goal!" He said excitedly as we walk inside the venue.

"That's exactly what we're doing right now!" I said keeping up with his pacing cause he really can't wait to be in his seat. This boy is unbelievably excited about this game.

We take our seats which is on the upper part of the stadium. It's not that I am expecting but I can't believe that his tickets were not VIP. With all the money he had, maybe he can buy all the seats here. It is shocking that he doesn't always indulge himself with all the luxuries on earth.

"Let's make a bet. I'll go for Derby and you will take the opponent's side, whoever looses will be the other one's servant for 1 hour. Deal?" He said after we comfortably settled.

I thought of the deal to be biased cause he already know who will be the opponent but who knows, this is football, we can't predict what will happen in the next 90 minutes.

"Deal." I said.

I smiled to myself thinking what will I ask him to do once I won.

The opponent better win or else.

AN: (I know, you guys are getting tired of my ans, I'm sorry!)

I'm so sorry if this is the best I can give as of the moment, I know this is so shitty, but I am so busy with school these past few days. It's midterm now in our university and I need to deal with tons of exams!!! (please pray for my poor little soul to survive the hell week, thank you very much)

Anyway, what do you guys think will happen with the bet?

See you lovelies on the next chapter, I will update as soon as I can :) xx