Like Before (Niall Horan)

Chapter Thirteen: Can I... Kiss You?

The first couple of nights the boys were here went fairly smooth. Andrew left the second night they were here. Tia was spending as much time as she could with them and Steph and Harry had gotten together the first night, to which I had teased her about every chance I could. I had not yet told her that Niall asked me on a date and I wouldn't have if I didn't need her help to pick something out. Niall had told me to plan on going tonight, as it was the night Harry told Tia he would watch movies with her and that him, Steph, and Louis would take her to get ice cream. Liam, Zayn, and Jaesin wanted to play video games all day and thats pretty much what they had done every night.

"Steph you have to help me." I told her as we left her locker to go to mine at the end of the day.

"Whats going on?" 

"Niall asked me on a date." I sighed to her and she smiled. 

"Really? Is that what he asked you that first night?"

"Yeah and I need your help. He said its casual but to dress up. I don't know what that means. You have to help me. I was just going to wear jeans but he said casual and dress up in the same sentence and I have no idea what that is."

"Alix, calm down. I'll help you. It would be my pleasure to casually dress you up." Steph grinned and I knew I was in trouble. I was thinking a skirt or a dress. I didn't have anything against them, just I knew that it was going to be from Steph which meant it was going to be really uncomfortable for me. "We have to go shopping first so we can buy you a dress." I rolled my eyes but smiled at her anyway. Jaesin joined us and gave us weird looks.

"Did you know about this too?" I asked and glared at him. We had found out he knew Harry liked Steph for a while and he never said anything because Harry made him promise not to. But still, best friend code really. He scrunched his eyebrows together. "Niall asking me on a date?" I asked. He looked away from me and that gave me my answer.

"Are you serious?" Steph and I asked at the same time, her putting her hands on her hips and me crossing my arms over my chest.

"Sorry." Jaesin said shrugging. "Its just like me not being able to say that you guys liked them." We glared at him and then walked to my car. Before we told Jaesin where we were going we made him get in the car. We got Tia and then turned to go toward the mall. "You know your house is the opposite way, right?" He asked.

"You have to go shopping with us now. Because you broke the best friend code, you get to help us pick out a dress for Alix to wear on her date with Niall." Steph turned and glared at him.

"So I keep a promise and you guys torture me?" Jaesin asked.

"Yeah, thats pretty much how this is working." I nodded at him and pulled into a parking spot. I took Tia's hand and we walked into the mall going into various stores. The three of us girls tried on tons of dresses and other clothes and we ended up each getting something. Jaesin even offered to pay for it all because he had just gotten his money from his father's paycheck. It was sort of Jaesin's deal to stay with his gambling parents. 

"It's to make it up to you guys. For not saying anything." Jaesin said handing the money to the cashier. 

We got back out to my car and I drove to my house. Steph dragged me and Tia both up to my room before we even said two words to anyone. 

"Alright, lets get you ready for your date." Steph said before starting her work on my hair and makeup. I told her to keep it more natural than anything. She had me put the dress on and she finished clipping my hair back and handed me shoes and told me to look in the mirror after forty-five minutes of sitting.

"Alix, you look so pretty." Tia was very excited and I smiled at her. Then I stood in front of the mirror and smoothed my hands down the dress. 

"Wow. Steph thanks." I told her as I took in everything about myself. She had only put makeup on my eyes, doing a dark liner and mascara, curling my eyelashes while highlighting my lids with a little shadow. She had pulled a bit of my hair back, leaving it curly and pinned it back with a small clip. The dress was a tank top with a white bodice and the skirt was blue with red floral print. It had a brown leather belt around the bottom of the bodice. A charm bracelet hung around my wrist and my shoes were a pale pink color, almost white, and looked almost like a mix of sneakers and flats together. "Wow," it was all I could say.