Expect the Unexpected (A One Direction & Emblem3 Fan Fiction)

Chapter 38

Ed's POV

"What do you mean, you don't want to sing at Simon's release party?" I gasped.

Skylar shook her head. "You bonehead, you didn't hear me properly." She shifted her gaze to Simon. "I don't want to sing my song at the party."

"And who's were you planning to sing?" Simon asked.

Skylar shrugged. "I just...since Niall and I have reconnected, it doesn't seem right to sing a song I wrote about how I want to get back with him. I can still release it as a single, I'd be more than happy to do it. I just want to sing something else, especially since he'll be there."

"All right," Simon said. "By the way, here are the two portfolios that the company sent back to me in terms of your album covers." (slideshow on the side. pick the one you like best).

I took the folders from him and handed them to her. The two of us poured over them.

"Hm, I like this one," I said, pointing to one of her looking a bit like Avril Lavigne.

Skylar shrugged. "I don't know. I don't want to look too simliar to anyone. I want to look like...me."

"I see what you mean," I nodded. "Why don't you go with these three then?"

She glanced at them thoroughly. "I like them."

"Which one?" Simon asked.

She bit her lip. "I don't know, I like 'em all. But definitely not this one." She put the Avril Lavigne one back into the folder and glanced at the remaining four."

Simon sighed. "Well, I'll leave you two to look those over. I'll be back in about an hour. If you're finished before them, just leave the one you've chosen on the top of my desk and stick the rest of them inside the portfolios."

"Thanks, Simon," Skylar and I chorused as he left the room.

Skylar leaned over and picked up the phone. "Could I get an order of sushi? 24-piece, please, thanks."

She hung up and grinned sheepishly at me. "I'm hungry."

"You are so much like Niall it's not even funny," I said, shaking my head.

She flushed and focused extremely hard on the pictures in front of her.

"What's going on between the two of you now, anyways?" I asked.

She shrugged. "Well, Niall was late to our date two days ago, but only by a few minutes. He picked me up late."

I shook my head. "Stupid Niall."

Skylar shrugged again. "Doesn't matter. We're rebuilding, and that's the point. At least he showed up."

"Yeah, but you should never keep a girl waiting," I pointed out.

Skylar was silent. "I guess."

"Listen. Niall may love you, but he's got to learn how to treat a girl right, because how he's treated you these last few years would make any guy cringe."

Skylar's eyes went wide. "WHAT?"

Then I realized what I said: Niall may LOVE you.

Uh-oh. The secret was out.

The jig was up.

Sorry, Niall.

Sorry for the shortie.

Slideshow on the side of all of Skylar's album covers.

YOU GUYS CHOOSE WHICH ONE YOU THINK SHE SHOULD USE. 

So which one is it?