Forever Young (One Direction)[completed]

Chapter 16- Surprises

Raven POV

“Niall! You don’t have to!” I groaned as Niall went on and on. He had just found out it was my birthday next week and was obsessed with the idea of a party! I’d told him at least a zillion times that I didn’t want a party or any presents, but he just wouldn’t listen.

“C’mon, 16’s a big birthday Raven! You gotta let us throw you a party!” pleaded Niall

I heard Zayn mask the word ‘legal’ in a fake cough, and Niall glared daggers at him. Little did Niall know that I was actually coming up to my 72nd birthday, but I obviously wouldn’t let him know that!

The car parked outside the Hotel we were meeting the journalists at and we all got out. Niall and I walked hand in hand, smiling brightly at the cameras flashing at us. He even leaned down and kissed me on the cheek, forcing at least half the paparazzi that were there to erupt into ‘Awwhs’. Niall looked into my eyes, and he was as nervous as I was. We entered the hotel, and were lead to the cafe on the second floor, followed by professional photographers. The occasional pap got through, and started asking us questions, but our security shooed them away quickly. I mentally prepared myself, and took a few steps forward in my jewelled gold sandals into the cafe.

“Hello!” Said a woman in a black pencil skirt and white blouse. “It’s very good to meet you all! I’m Lana Wilson”

“You too!” said Harry, sitting down on a squishy leather sofa. We took his lead, and some of the hotel staff brought us coffee.

“So,” Said the woman, pulling out a Dictaphone, she clicked the record button and continued “Raven, Ella, how has it been travelling with 1D, and filming their new video?”

“It’s been great! The video was really fun to film, and I hope everyone likes it as much as we enjoyed filming it!” exclaimed Ella happily.

“Good, good, and are you good friends with the boys?” said

“Yep,” I replied, popping the ‘p’ “They’re all great guys! Really good friends,” Niall took my hand, and Lana’s eyes seemed to zoom in on our intertwined fingers.

“Are you all just friends?!” Lana asked, pulling her fingers through her blonde bob. Louis opened his mouth to speak, his blue eyes flicking over to me and Niall, but Niall cut him off by saying

“Actually Raven is my girlfriend!”

“How did that come about?!” said Lana eagerly, and I replied

“We both liked each other, basically since we met, we fell out for a while, but a few weeks ago we were back to normal, and now here we are, months later, and were boyfriend and girlfriend,” I looked into Niall’s eyes, and we both smiled widely.

“Who asked who?” Lana questioned, and Niall answered,

“She asked me,”

“Awwh isn’t that sweet!” Lana cooed.

After this, the interview seemed to drag on for hours, and I began fidgeting in my seat. The questions all seemed to be the same. I could see Ella was slightly on edge the whole time, worried Lana’d start asking about her and Harry/Liam, luckily, she seemed not to have heard those rumours!

It was great when we finally got to leave. We walked out of the hotel proudly, hand in hand, even answering a few of the annoying paparazzi questions!

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Two days later, the interview was published, and my phone was flooded with texts from my friends, and enemies, back at school! They seemed to be the same messages over and over; they all said things like ‘Wow! You’re dating Niall Horan, lucky thing!!!’ one from my friend Monty simply said ‘You go girl!’ and one from Maddy read ‘Get in there! Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do, and that gives you a lot of room! Grrrr! LOL’