Last First Kiss {A One Direction Fanfic}

Chapter 12 - Getting To Know You

Chapter 12 - Getting To Know You

*Niall’s P.O.V.*

The boys and I walked into SYCO and into our recording studio. I was hoping that Cas would be there. It seemed like she would be after our messages yesterday, but I just couldn’t be sure. We opened the door to the studio and went in.

“Hey Mike!” Harry greeted him.

“Hey Harry, you right?” I looked around the studio but couldn’t see her anywhere. I guess her mind was made up then.

“Is Cas not coming back?” I asked her Dad slowly as a frown began to appear on my face.

“Oh don’t be such a cry baby Niall! I’m right here!” I turned around and saw her standing behind all of us. We all ran to her and gave her a bug group hug. She returned the hug giggling before struggling to breathe. “Can’t. Breathe. Get. Off. Me.” We all pulled away and smiled at her.

“So you are staying for good?!” Louis asked excitedly.

“I’m not sure yet. But I do know that today isn’t going to be a recording session for you boys.” We all looked at Cas and tilted our heads. We then looked at each other, then to Mike and then back to Cas.

“Ahhh… Cas… we have to record today. We have a deadline – “ Liam began but was cut off by Cas.

“I cleared it with Simon and my Dad. You lot are coming with me back to my place.” she smiled and began to walk out the door. We continued to look at each other confused. Unsure as to what we should do. “Well come on then, we don’t have all day!”

We followed her out of the building and into Paul’s van.

~*~*~*~*

“Cas I have to ask, why are we here? Are we writing instead?” Harry broke the silence that was beginning to get uncomfortable when we got to Cassidy’s.

“No we aren’t writing.”

“Do you have a song to show us?” Zayn asked quite confused.

“No.”

“Are you kidnapping us?” Louis asked suspiciously.

“No, well yeah kind of, from your work that is.”

“Huh?” We all looked at Cas confused, hoping for an explanation.

“Well, I don’t want to work with you guys without getting to know you. I mean I know what the papers have written. And I know how you were the last time we were around each other. But I want to get to know you better than that. Like the way you guys know each other.” She completed her explanation and smiled.

“So you want to get to know us. How?” I asked, intrigued in what she wanted to do.

“Well I have this game that me and my friends used to play whenever we met someone knew. We would play it so that we got to know them better. It just has all these random questions in it. Basically, you pick a card and read it out. Everyone has to guess what your answer would be and then you say whether they are right or wrong. It’ll make more sense when we start. Come on.”

She led us to the lounge room where she had the game set up. We all sat in a circle. Cas was next to me on my right and Louis was on her other side, then it was Harry, Zayn and finally Liam next to me on my left. Cas picked up the first card.

“If you had to fight zombies in a zombie apocalypse, what would be your weapon of choice?”

“That is the most random question ever. How does that tell us anything about you?” Liam asked, confused at the question.

“Well, you learn whether I will pick a violent weapon, a funny weapon, a smart weapon.” We all looked at her and then realised it would actually teach us a lot about her.

“I reckon you would use a cheese grater.” Louis said satisfied with his answer.

“Ummm… ok?” Cas replied, clearly not her weapon of choice.

“A shotgun!” Harry blurted out.

“I actually thought you would have gone for some stupid answer Harry. I’m impressed.” Cas smiled at Harry and he smiled, proud of his achievement.

“A sword?” Liam asked.

“No.” Cas replied simply.

“A hose?” Zayn piped in.

“Hose?” We all looked at Zayn confused.

“Yeah, well they’ll be dirty and all…” Zayn trailed off and we all started laughing.

“That’s. Actually a really. Good answer.” Cas said through fits of laughter. After we all calmed down everyone looked at me. I thought for a moment and then spoke up.

“Ummm… a plane so you can fly away and live on a deserted island, where you wouldn’t be surrounded by zombies.” Everyone thought for a moment before we all started laughing again.

“No! They are all great guesses, well besides Louis’, I don’t quite understand that. But if there was a zombie apocalypse my weapon of choice would be night goggles so I could see at night. And when I needed to fight them, I would just use random things I found on the ground around me.”

“That’s really smart!” Louis exclaimed and we all nodded our heads in agreement.

The game went on for a good 3 or so hours. We laughed and pondered on different questions and had debates on different topics. We learnt so much about one another through such a simple game.

~*~*~*~*~*

After a few movies and some more questions about one another it was around 7pm. Cas’ Dad and Mum returned home from work before going out to dinner straight away. We ordered pizza and decided to go out the back and sit around the fire pit and sing some of our favourite songs. Cas grabbed two guitars and handed one to me and she kept one.

I started aimlessly strumming the guitar and before I knew it, I was strumming Kiss You by Ed Sheeran. Cas joined in and we all started singing. We played a whole array of songs from Elton John to The Beatles to Amy Whinehouse to Green Day.

We sung for what seemed like hours. Sitting under the stars around a campfire. I smiled at all the lads and they smiled too, remembering the time we spent at Harry’s Step-Father’s house. It was one of the best times we have spent as a band, but I think it’s safe to say, this is coming very close. That’s how our friendship started, that’s how we truly became One Direction. And I think this is how Cas is finally meeting, not One Direction, but Harry, Louis, Liam, Zayn and me, and I think she likes it.