Falling Too Far

Chapter 3. Party Time

A/N: Wow. Sorry I’ve been gone for so long. I’ve been busy and I haven’t been motivated, but I’m back. Hopefully this chapter doesn’t reflect my laziness right now. It’s gonna take me a while to re-find Niall and Louis’ ‘voices’ but I’ll get there. Also, TELL YOUR FRIENDS! If you have fellow Nouis lovers in your circle of friends, tell them!

Louis’ POV:

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Mr Holmes decided to keep us in detention due to our behaviour earlier but the creepy old bat is asleep. Ha all was well; it gave us time to plan Zayn’s ‘Small Gathering of Friends and Acquaintances’ for Friday night. Zayn always throws the best parties; it might have had something to do with his high-tech sound system or games room or the pool or just the freakin’ huge house itself. We were just going to invite only the coolest of cool people. But then….well, the party would be pretty small; just Zayn, Harry and me.

Instead, we would invite everyone. And I meant everyone. Even the nerd herd. Even that weirdo gay boy, Niall. But they were just for the laughs. After discussing some of the finer points of the plan, the nine of us in detention whipped out our cells and started texting everyone in the school.

Somehow, the job of inviting Niall via text fell on my shoulders. Georgia, one of our best female friends, and Zayn’s future girlfriend, snickered as I groaned to the others and complained about how I didn’t want to invite the homo boy. She told me to suck it up and text Niall. And so I did:

Niall. Party at Zayn’s place on Friday Night. 7:00 start. BYO Non-Alcoholic drinks. I almost gagged as I typed out the next part; Hope to see you there. Louis.

I pressed send, needing to get rid of any connection to him ASAP. Ugh. I tossed my phone on the desk and quickly walked out of the room, I needed to get out of there. Even texting him felt wrong. It felt disgusting. After recovering from my state of repulsion I walked back into detention and, glancing at the clock I grabbed my phone and walked back out. Detention was due to finish in five minutes anyway. That old fart, Mr Holmes wouldn’t notice I wasn’t there anyway.

***TIME SKIP TO THE PARTY***

The hot, sweaty mass of people I knew as my classmates pressed in against me as Jason Derulo’s Talk Dirty pounded through our skulls. The annoying voice of the Asian girl alerted me to the end of the song. ‘What? I don’t understand!’ her incessant giggling filled Zayn’s house as I made my way off the dance floor to my circle of slightly drunk friends. Georgia’s giggling almost matched the Asian girl’s volume as Zayn said something in his slurred voice.

‘Great’ I thought, ‘We’re at Zayn’s place and he’s already off his face…’

I was met with a few smiles and drunken chuckles as I sat down. As soon as my back hit the back of the chair a bottle of beer was passed to me. I took a long drink before passing it to my left then noticing with interest how close Harry was sitting to Juliett, one of our other girl friends. Just then Georgia called out in her sing-song voice.

“Hey look guys,” she called rather loudly to us, even though we were all sitting right next to her, “The gay boy actually showed up.”

I glanced towards the door to see Niall cross the threshold. The blonde was wearing a plain white v-neck with a denim jacket with a pair of skinny chinos.

‘Wait…what?!’ I thought to myself, ’Why do I care what he’s wearing? We invited him for laughs!’  Right as I was about to announce that we should do something I discovered that Harry had had the same thought.

“Let’s play Truth or Dare,” Harry slurred; he was seriously drunk now. Zayn started.

“Juliett. Truth or dare?” he asked the petite blonde hanging off of Harry’s arm. She picked truth, which wasn’t a surprise to me. Zayn just asked her who her crush was, to which she brazenly declared Harry as ‘the love of her life’. I almost gagged on her answer but managed to contain myself. The game went on like that, a few more rounds passed before I zoned back into the game to find the others staring at me.

“Sorry. What?” I asked which drew a couple of chuckles from my circle of friends.

“I said ‘truth or dare’,” Harry replied with a slight smirk on his face.

“Uh….D-dare,” I stuttered out drawing even more chuckles from my friends. Harry seemed to be thinking, but judging from that familiar gleam in his eyes I knew he had a plan. And while I was expecting something brash and stupid what he said next shocked even me.

“I dare you to make Niall fall in love with you,” he proclaimed loudly; loud enough for the entire group to hear clearly over the thundering music. My breath caught in my throat. I tried to choke out a refusal but fear clamped down on my vocal chords.

They couldn’t possibly know… I thought. There was simply no way they could know about my secret. And there was no way I could refuse Harry’s dare without making myself seem like a wuss. So, hardening my eyes and my stomach I turned on my friends while they guffawed drunkenly.

“Fine,” I snapped, “I’ll do it. Place your bets ladies and gentlemen because your lives just got interesting.” I staggered away from my group of friends hoping to appear more than a little tipsy. I sought out Niall in the crowd, his gay-boy bleach-blonde hair stood out in the crowd. I walked up to him and leaned heavily on him, breathing into his face as I spoke to him, the scent of the beer I was just drinking carried on it.

“Heeeeey Niiiialll,” I slurred. He leaned away from me, apparently hoping to escape the smell of alcohol on my breath.

“Uh…hey Louis…” he replied, unsure of what I was doing. I leaned in closer, getting up in his face hoping to fully convince him I was past the point of no return to sobriety.

“You’rrre soooo preeeetty Niaaaaall,” I whispered in his ear, making him blush. I chuckled inwardly at his discomfort.

“Uh…maybe we should get you upstairs Louis. Before you do something stupid.”

Again I chuckled inwardly, and almost outwardly, at how uncomfortable he was. He even cared about me as a ‘drunken’ jock off his face. He put my arm around his shoulders and put his arm around my waist. I shivered at the close contact, in repulsion of course, as he half carried half dragged me upstairs to the second storey of Zayn’s mansion of a house.

Niall kicked open the first door on the left…which was a very bad idea. It was dark inside but the sound of moans, groans and the words ‘oh yeah’ and ‘harder baby, harder’ told me all I needed to know. Niall quickly walked us both back out of the room. I glanced up at him to see his cheeks burning a bright crimson. This time I couldn’t contain my chuckle and Niall scowled down at me before taking off down the hall again, dragging me along with him.

This time when Niall opened the door only the sound of a ticking clock and running water from a water feature in the corner greeted our ears. Niall sat me down on the edge of the bed, keeping me propped up with cushions. He knelt down and began to take off my shoes.

Wait! I thought, Is he going to undress me?!

Apparently so because after my shoes were off, he went to work on the button on my jeans, keeping his eye fixed on the wall behind me, making sure he didn’t see any more of me than he wanted to. After tugging my shirt over my head, the smaller blonde boy pulled back the covers on the double bed that filled one side of the room. He pushed my under the covers and pulled them up to my chin.

Okay, here’s your chance Tomlinson I thought make him fall in love with you.

As he walked past me, I reached out and took hold of Niall’s wrist. I whispered loudly to him

“Stay here with me? Please?” I asked in my best baby voice, trying to keep up my ‘drunk’ act. He sighed and, seeing that he wasn’t going to win this round, slipped off his shoes and crossed to the other side of the bed where he pulled back the covers, slipped underneath and covered himself with them. He lay stiff, avoiding all physical contact with me. I pulled him closer to me, right into my chest. All the partying that night had left me more tired than I had thought and I slipped into darkness with the smell of Niall’s cologne filling my nostrils.

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A/N: Oh. My. Glob. Did I really just write that? Wow. Okay. Enjoy guys. Vote, comment, tell your friends. Hopefully with the school term winding down I’ll be able to write a little more frequently now so…look out for more chapters soon!