The Neighbors

Chapter 22

"Yeah, I can give you a ride anytime you need," Niall says and we start to walk to his car. Noah dropped me off at work today but he couldn't pick me up because Harry took the car to go to the movies with his friends.

"Thanks, I hope I'm not too much of a pain," I say and open the passenger door to his truck and climb in.

"You're never a pain, don't worry about it Shea," he says while he starts up the car.

"I'll drive you if you ever need me to," I offer.

"I'll take you up on that," he says as we pull out of the parking lot. Country music is playing quietly on the radio.

"You want to hang out tomorrow?" He asks. I've never actually hung out with Niall. Yeah, he was at my party, and I see him at work, but we've never hung out.

"Sure, what do you want to do?" It sounds fun. He's pretty cool and I think I could be good friends with him.

"Want to go to West Virginia Pins?" He asks. West Virginia Pins is the local bowling alley. We don't have too much in this town, so a lot of kids from school hang out there.

"That sounds like fun," I say because it does sound like fun. I haven't bowling in a while. Actually, last time I bowled it was with Zayn and we were making out most of the time. It would be fun to do something as just friends.

"You sure you don't want to invite Jane?" I tease him.

"Oh god, please dot talk about that!" He says and I laugh. His face is in a bright red blush.

"You sure seemed to like her at my party," I tease again.

"That was so awkward, I don't even know her," he says and tries to cover his face with one o his hands while he drives, making him swerve a little in the empty road.

"She's one of my closest friends, she's not that bad," I say and now that I think about it, Niall and Jane might even be a cute couple. I don't know, Jane is a lot more wild than he is.

"You're probably right, it was just akward," he says.

~

Ding dong.

I open the door and smile when I see Noah standing there with his charming smile.

"Shea James, your chariot awaits you," Noah says and gestures to the impala in my driveway. I do a fake curtsy in my jeans.

"Why thank you, kind sir," I say and we both laugh. He sticks out his elbow for me and I wrap my arm around it so he can escort me to his car. He opens the passenger door for me and runs around to climb in the drivers seat.

"Where are we going?" I ask.

"The movies and then out to dinner, is that ok?" He says.

"Of course it's ok," I say.

~

"Shea, give me some popcorn," Noah says and tries to reach into my popcorn bucket.

"No way! You had your own," I say and hold it away from him. We're watching Monsters University. I know, it was his idea.

"Please Shea, just handful," he says quietly so he won't disturb the other audience members.

"No," I say and stuff some into my mouth.

"Shea," he warns.

"What are you gonna do?" I ask.

"I can.. Tickle you!" He says and holds up his hand.

"Don't, were in a theatre!" I say.

"Then give me some popcorn!" He says. I miss it when he was shy around me.

"Noah, this is definitely my popcorn," I says.

"I will tickle you," he says. I cross my arms and look back at the screen.

Shit.

His hand pokes me in the side and I squeal and throw my popcorn all over the people around us.

"What is wrong with you?" One guy with his kids says.

"I'm so sorry," Noah says.

"I really didn't mean to do that," I say and two guys with flashlights walk up the stairs.

"Excuse me, but did you throw this popcorn?" One of the men asks.

"I didn't mean to I just-" I start.

"We're going to have to ask you to leave please," the second man says.

"That's not really fair," Noah says kind of quietly.

"We paid to watch this movie!" I say, suddenly upset.

"You are causing a disturbance to the other viewers, ma'am," the first man says.

"I won't do it again!" I accidentally shout. There is a crowd watching us an I look at Noah who has his head in his hands.

"Ma'am, you need to come with us now," the first man says again.

"Your making me miss the fucking movie!" I say. I know I sound mean, but they are pissing me off and I told them it was a mistake.

"Are we going to have to carry you out of here?" The second guy asks.

"Your not goin-!" I start but get cut off by Noah.

"Yes.. We will leave, I'm sorry sir," he says and stands up. I sigh and stand up with him.

'Thank you young man," the man says and I roll my eyes as Noah and I walk out of the theatre.

We walk silently to the car and climb in. We take a silent pause and then look at each other. We bust into laughter.

"Holy shit Shea! I can't believe you did that!" Noah says as he tries to catch his breath.

"You made me fucking spill my popcorn!" I say through my laughs.

"I had no idea you'd throw it all over the theatre!" He says and holds his stomach.

"I didn't either!" I say and we both laugh so hard we can barely breath.

"I guess well go to dinner a bit early," he says and starts the car.

"I guess we will, where are we going?" I ask. I'm starved anyways. I didn't get much popcorn.

"That diner.. Um .. Mama Jays?" He says as a question.

"You mean Momojies?" I ask. I know most of the restaurants in town.

"That's the one!" He says as we drive. He plays some music and I carefully bob my head along.

"Try not to get us kicked out of here, too," he says as we drive and we both laugh again.

"You looked like you could have crawled into a hole and never came out," I say and remember how embarrassed he was.

"That's because I could have! I'm quite shy, if you haven't noticed," he says as he pulls into the Momojies parking lot.

"Oh, I've noticed," I tease.

"Be nice!" He says and pokes me in the side, making me squirm in my seat.

((A/n I'm sorry this took a little long, I've been a little busy. I will upload whenever I can, bare with me. [im not even sure that's the right term]. I have been writing whenever I can! Sorry if I ant upload tomorrow))