Tongue Tied (A Niall Horan Fanfiction)

Chapter 2 'A Lovely Dinner"

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~Isabella

Chapter 2 'A Lovely Dinner'

"Jack! Niall! Kenzie! Rosie! Dinner time!" My mother yelled from downstairs.

"Ok so Kenzie, like we planned. You just brush your foot against Niall's and see what he does back. You never know, this could be a lovely dinner." Rosie said with a wink.

"I don't know Ro, I mean he'll probably just think I'm a freak for brushing my foot against him."

"Or a heated game of footsy could start."

"Oh hush. But, I guess i could try, I mean he does have some hot feet.."

"Who has hot feet Kenz?" My brother said while chuckling.

"Oh just this boy. Ypu don't know him." I said thinking on my toes.

"Yeah okay, Mum wants us downstairs for dinner."

"I heard Jack I'm not deaf." I spat.

"Jesus someones fiesty, you always get like this whenever Niall is over. Does someone have a wittle cwush?" He said while pinching my cheeks.

I quickly slapped his hand away, "I do not Jack! Jesus Christ stop it already!"

"Alright, alright. I'm just playing around."

"Whatever Jack. C'mon Rosie let's go."

The four of us walked downstairs and sat at our usual seats ready to chow down on my Mom's famous ravioli.

"I just love your ravioli Mrs. Hughes." Rosie said. "It's so cheesy and good."

"Why thank you Rosie, it's an old family recipe." She smiled sweetly.

"Of course Mrs. Hughes, I-" I cut her off.

"Oh uhm I dropped my fork." I said while staring right at Rosie.

"Oh yeah, uh I did too."

That was always our code at dinner for 'we need to talk.'

Rosie and I awkwardly climbed underneath the table to talk.

"Really? Right when I was talking to your mom?" She whispered.

"Sorry, I just don't know if I can do this."

"Kenzie, you never try to make a move on him. And if you never do you'll never know if he likes you."

"He probably doesn't there's no need to check." I said quickly.

"Kenzie, get over your fear and do it. Do something you wouldn't normally do."

"But Ro I don't know.."

"I'll take you shopping." She blurted out.

"Ugh fine." I was always a sucker for a good shopping spree. "You really need to not be so good at talking me into things."

"Sorry Kenz, but it's what I do best." She said while we crawled out from underneath the table.

"Is everything ok? You girls were down there for a long time." My mom questioned.

"Oh yeah uhm it was just hard to see under there that's all." I said awkwardly.

"Ok, but would you eat your dinner please, I don't want it to get cold." My mom said.

"Sorry Mum."

"Yeah sorry Mrs. Hughes." Rosie added.

"It's alright girls, just eat up"

As we were all eating Rosie gave me a look, and I knew exactly what she meant. Now was the time for me to brush Niall's foot, this was going to be the most awkward thing I have ever done.

If he doesn't mind maybe I could keep doing it, but if he realizes what I'm doing and takes his foot away I'll just be sitting here like a complete fool. If I don't at least try I'll never take a risk, so here I go..

I quickly glanced over at my brother who was in the middle of shoving a big bite of ravioli in his mouth, barf, just to make sure he wasn'y paying much attention. Once I was sure he wasn't I looked over at Rosie who was making faces of encouragement, I guess it was my time to shine.

I started to move my foot towards Niall while my heart was beating prefusely, I can't believe I was actually going to do this.

My foot lightly brushed against Niall's and he looked up quickly.

"Oh sorry Niall my foot slipped." I said embarrased.

"Oh it's fine Kenz don't worry about it." Niall said pulling his foot away.

For the rest of dinner I just sat there completely embarassed and utterly heartbroken. Part of me had hoped that Niall would have gone along with it and we could have played a 'heated game of footsy,' but oh well right?

So this chapter has a lot of dialogue, i hope you enjoyed!