Settle down

Chapter 45

"Are you kidding me!?" I yell when Sally comes out of the bathroom in her pajama. That piece of clothing is way sexier than anything I own. Can you call that a pajama? Does she really sleep in that?She's wearing a small light purple silk dress with lace at the bottom. It goes mid thigh on her and she looks like she could go to an Oscar festival or something in it. It hangs beautifully on her curves. She's been wearing braids all day and now she's taken them out and her hair is now cute and wavy.

"What? Is it too much?" She ask and looks at herself.

"No! No, no I just.. I mean... You look amazing. Just look at me." I say and look at my ugly and childish pajama. It looks like something my grandmother would wear. I actually think I got it from her...

"What are you talking about Lola? You look very..." She pauses and turns her head to look at me. "....cute?" She says and smiles lightly.

"I think ugly is the right word to describe me!" I say and sit down on her bed. I'm starting to think that we're expecting male company and here I sit looking like a fool. The shorts are nice but the shirt that goes with it is way too big and so it hangs over the shorts.

"Nah! You're overreacting, but if you want you can borrow a t-shirt to wear with your shorts." She says and opens the door to the closet. I get a plain white        t-shirt and I immediately look a lot better.  I however don't care too much, since I'm pretty sure that the one I "like" won't be coming to see me in this.

We sit on her bed and talk about how big mr. Johnson's nose is when the doorbell goes off. Sally jumps off the bed and runs down the stairs. I follow her and right before opening the door she turns to me.

"How do I look?" She says with a nervous expression.

"Like a million dollars, now open the door. I want to know who's hiding there." I say and she relaxes slightly. She opens the door and a familiar face is revealed behind the door. Niall walks in and greets Sally with a hug. I'm not too surprised that he's the one she invited. The fact that last time Harry was with him on the "date" I get a few butterflies and I look out the door, but no one's there.

"Sally you look great!" He beams and Sally blushes like crazy. I can't help but to smile at them. He looks around and sees me. His face looks surprised but happy.

"Hey! I didn't know you would be here Lola, what's up?" He says and also gives me a small hug.

"Same here. Sally refused to tell me who was coming." I smile.

"Oh by the way. I'm very sorry about last time. He can have quite a temper." He says and I immediately understand that he's referring to Harry.

"Excuse me?" Sally cuts in and looks like she's seen a ghost. Both Niall and I turn towards her.
"Do you know each other?" She asks.

"What are you talking about? You introduced us, remember?" Niall asks and  takes a seat in the sofa.

"Yeah, but yo didn't say a word to each other all night!" She says and looks questioning at me.

"Ah, we've met after that a couple times. He comes to the pool quite often." I say and Sally gets a look that says "ahaaa".

A few minutes pass and we just have time to start a conversation about that children's TV was so much better when we were young, before the door bell goes off again. Sally smiles at me and whispers "here comes your date." She jogs up to the door and I follow her again. Who can it be? The door opens.

"Are you ready to have some fun, because the party just arrived." The voice that I've already have had enough of says. Oh no, not Paul! Anyone but Paul would have been great. Sally greets him and gives him directions to the couch and the snacks. As he passes me he grins and grabs my bum.

"Hey babe." He says and walks towards Niall. Seconds later I hear his voice again.

"Hello there. I'm Paul. Nice to meet you. Aah, sick tattoo you've got there." I feel sorry for myself and Niall. Sally walks up to me and looks extremely guilty.

"I'm so sorry Lola. I wanted to invite Harry, but then you told me that you had broken up and I couldn't find anyone else in such short period of time. Paul was the only one available." She says and looks at me. Fuck! I have to start telling Sally stuff. I'm not used to this best friend thing. I've always kept everything to myself.

"It's okay. I'm your support with Niall. Don't care about me tonight okay? Just have fun." She hugs me and I wish so bad that Harry was the one coming through that door instead of Paul. Sally walks to the living room and starts telling the guys about the plan for tonight and I run up to Sally's room to get my phone before joining the others. When I get there I see that I have one unread text.
Having fun? The text reads and it's from Harry. I smile at the phone and reply.
To be honest... Not too much. I type and press send.

I walk downstairs with my phone in hand. I join the others and I see that Niall and Sally are in the middle of a very interesting conversation and so they don't notice me. Paul however notice me.

"When Sally asked me to be your date, guess what I thought?" He says and puts his hand on my thigh. I want to puke and I therefore move it.

"I have no idea Paul. Tell me." I say with no feeling in my voice.

"I thought that any chance to be with you is a chance to be happy...." He looks at me and I don't know what the hell I did to deserve this.
"I don't know if you've noticed but I really like you Lola and I want you to like me to." He says just as my phone gives away a sound meaning I got a text.
It's not too late to come here you know...;). If he only knew what I was doing.
You have no idea how much I wish I could. I send and look up at Paul again.

"You know what Paul? Girls are weird, and I know another girl that likes you and she liked you before me and that means that you kind of belong to her..... What I'm trying to say is that if I do anything with you I'm breaking the rules and I will loose my friend and I don't want that. So really it doesn't matter how much I like you because we will never become a thing. Or love is forbidden." I say and feel very proud for making that speech up on the spot. He looks upset and I excuse myself to go to the bathroom.
In there my phone goes off again.
Where are you. I'll pick you up! I laugh to myself. I love that he wants to be with me too.
I'm sorry. I'm third wheeling for Sally. She has a guy here and I can't leave.
I say. I purposely leave out Paul or else I know he would be here soon to beat Paul up.

When I get out of the bathroom I see that my friends (and Paul) have set up a game of spin the bottle. Oh no. Big no!