Two Against One

Chapter 20

"Get your lazy ass up!" Jenna yells as she playfully smacks my bum. "We're going for dinner, come on!" I lazily lift my head up from its comfortable position on the pillow. Looking at the clock it reads 5:47pm and I groan. I was hoping to nap for at least another hour.

"Where are we going?" I half mumble to Jenna who's putting on lipstick in the full-length mirror.

"Dunno but hurry up and get dressed, the boys are expecting us to be ready by six," Jenna replies. I let out another groan and go into the bathroom so I can get ready. About twenty minutes later Jenna and I are knocking on the boys' door. Rachel and Lizzy had been there since lunch, hanging out. The door opens and we're greeted by a smiling Zayn.

"Hey guys," he says cheerfully. "Ready to go?" Jenna and I both nod. "Come on guys, time to go," Zayn calls into the room. They all exit and last to come out is Niall who happily kisses me on the mouth and grabs my hand.

"Hey," he says.

"Hi," I reply with a smile. I look around at our group, and notice that Harry's missing. "Where's Harry?" I ask to no one in particular.

"Harry? Oh he went into the town at around eleven this morning. Been gone all day, but he says he's meeting us for supper," Lizzy says from next to Louis.

**

As we step out of the bus we took to the city, we decide that since our reservations are for seven, we'll just walk around and just do things time consuming. "Can we go by Starbucks?" Rachel asks. "I'm craving coffee."

"Starbucks sounds good actually," Liam agrees with her.

"And what can a get for you?" the chirpy, black-haired cashier asks me.

"I'll have a double chocolate frappacuino," I tell her beforeI'm instructed to wait by the counter for my drink. Looking down to put my change into my wallet I run into someone who seems to also be waiting. I look up to find a girl standing there, glaring at me.

"Mind watching where you're going?" she asks in rude sarcasm. Her hair is long and platinum blonde but her choppy layers make it obvious they're extensions. Her eyelashes are long and fake as well and the amount of makeup she obviously had on made it look like she'd melt if it started raining. And don't even get me started on her horrendous outfit.

"Sorry," I say apologetically. "I wasn't watching where I was going."

"Clearly," she says snobbily.

"Um, are you in line?" I ask her, trying my best not to lose my temper.

"No, just waiting for my boyfriend," she replies, emphasizing "boyfriend" as if I've never heard the word.

"Alrighty," I say sarcastically and stand in front of the counter. Niall comes over probably seeing me talking to the Barbie look-alike.

"Is there a problem here or something?" he asks as he protectively wraps his arm around my waist. Barbie puts on her most charming and seductive smile.

"No, no problem at all," she says as she continues to smile at him. I take my drink that's just been placed on the counter and give Barbie a dirty look before joining the others outside.

"Thank you Niall," I say to him.

"No problem. I could tell there was something up. What was the problem back there?" he asks.

"Oh she was just waiting for her boyfriend," I tell him. Niall scrunches up his face.

"Boyfriend? What kind of guy wants to date someone like that? She wasn't even remotely attractive and her shitty personality didn't help," Niall says.

"True but did you see her boobs? That's what some guys go for. That, or they're just desperate," I tell him. As we join our group that's sitting on the edge of a fountain, I tell them what happened.

"Wow," Lizzy said as she shakes her head. "I hate people like that. Is it really that hard to have some decency? I mean come on."

"Agreed," Rachel says, nodding her head.

"You should have seen her though," Niall tells them.

"She looked like a stripper Barbie except not as pretty. Platinum blonde with extension, fake eye lashes, caked on makeup and practically no clothes. Best part was, she said she was waiting for a boyfriend too," I explain to them.

"Well some people are just born like that I guess," Liam says through sips of his drink.

"Poor parents," Louis mutters under his breath. We all burst out laughing as Louis smirks as if no comment was made.

**

"Do you have a reservation?" A handsome waiter asks us as we walk in.

"Yeah under Liam," Zayn informs him.

"For how many?" the waiter asks.

"Nine."

"Okay, come right this way," the waiter says, giving us a charming smile. "Is this table okay?" It was a wrap-around booth.

"Perfect," I tell him. We all squish in and he takes our drink orders and hands us our menus. As he hands me one, he gives me a cute wink and I can practically feel Niall heat up as he sees this. He puts an arm around my hips and pulls me close to him.

"Must have been something in his eye," Niall growls before taking a sip of his drink.

"Yeah, there's always dust in the air," I try to assure him without laughing. I turn away and quickly smirk at Jenna who gives me a wink. 

We all started talking about random stuff like movies that had just come out and things like that. We were in the middle of conversation as Harry enters the restaurant with someone who I couldn't see clearly because of how far we were from the entrance. When he comes closer I see it's Barbie from Starbucks who's with him and I can't help but do a double take. When he's right at our table, they sit down. Harry gives us all a grin but when he looks at me I see the same glint in his eyes from before. Fuck you.

"This tables only booked for nine," Louis spits, clearly no more happy than I am.

"I'm sure it'll be fine," Harry replies. "They'll understand."

"What makes you so sure?" I ask him, raising an eyebrow.

"Becasue," he says, "this is my girlfriend."