Stay. (A Niall Horan FanFiction)

Chapter 21

Mikayla came over early the next day with bags of clothes. She was going to help Sarah get ready. Thank the heavens her and Sarah were the same size everything so they could share. Sarah was always grateful for having Mikayla in her life. They only thing she could share with Avery were shirts. With Mikayla they could share shirts,pants and shoes. Sometimes Mikayla was like Sarah's little mall when she needed clothes as soon as possible, and Mikayla always liked the idea of helping someone get ready for something important.

"So it's a barbeque?" Mikayla asked tapping her index finger on her lips while looking at the clothes sprawled out over the bed.

"Yeah, and I have to get his friends approval." Sarah replied.

"Sarah they would like you no matter what you wore. You're amazing, but you're just gonna look even more amazing in what we put you in!" She winked.

"You showered last night right?" She added.

"Yeah."

"Ok good, this way your hair will stay better when we curl it."

Sarah had a lot of hair. It was long and sort of thick. It would take her forever to do it on her own, that's why Mikayla came over at 8 this morning.

"Thanks again for helping me. Avery slept over Chris' house so she wouldn't have been able to help me." Sarah sighed.

"Hun, you don't have to thank me I live for this." She rubbed Sarah's shoulder. "So what a colour are you feeling today?"

Sarah just stated blankly at Mikayla.

"You can feel like a colour?" Sarah asked.

"No Sarah. I meant what colour do you feel like wearing today?" She rolled her eyes at Sarah's obliviousness.

"Uhh blue?" She wasn't sure, anything colour was fine.

"Actually, I see you in something red."

"So then why did you ask me what colour I wanted?"

Mikayla just shrugged. She was unzipping a dress bag the revealed a red halter dress with a sweet heart neck line that synchs at the waist, and had an a-line skirt. It was pretty.

"Woah, you want me to wear that?" Sarah gawked at the dress.

"Sarah relax, this isn't an extravagant dress. You're gonna break Niall's jaw when he picks you up and see's you in this! Plus it's gonna show off your legs and skin tone."

"Are you sure?" Sarah asked a bit nervous. She had to admit she loved the dress. It was gorgeous. Red was a good colour on her too. She decided to try it on and see if Mikayla was right.

When she emerged from the bathroom, Mikayla gasped.

"Oh..my..god.." She covered her mouth.

"W..what? Does it look bad? Should I..."

"No! Sarah you look hot oh my god!"

"Really?" Sarah blushed. She went straight to her stand up mirror to look.

Wow. Mikayla was right. Sarah felt amazing in this dress. Her skin looked a little darker in the dress too.

"You just wait until we do your hair and makeup. Then you'll really be a knock out."

Sarah took off the dress so she wouldn't get makeup on it or risk anything spilling on it. Mikayla made her feel better about the whole thing. She calmed her nerves by assuring her that everything would be fine and that she was going to have fun.

The girls went to the bathroom to do Sarah's make up and hair.

"So uhh, apparently Justin is in town." Sarah said. Mikayla's face instantly went pale. Mikayla has known Sarah for about 3 years now; the whole Justin situation happened 2 years ago. She knew what happened between them, and along side Avery, got Sarah safely out of the situation.

"Why?" Mikayla said putting bb cream on the back of her hand. She didn't look up as she grabbed her brush to spread it all over Sarah's face,ears and neck. "More importantly, how do you know?"

"Niall saw him. He was talking to someone on the phone about me. That's partly the reason Niall came over yesterday. To warn me."

"Niall knows?" Mikayla asked.

"Yeah."

"Well I'm just glad you have Niall around now so he can't get to you. But enough about him! We have to get you ready!"

Mikayla did a thin even layer of bb cream followed up with a little powder so she didn't look shiny. "You're so lucky you don't have to cover your face in this shit."

"No one has to, everyone just chooses to." Sarah glared at her.

Mikayla just rolled her eyes.

"We're not going heavy on the eye shadow and eye liner bc I want your eye lashes to be what stands out."

Sarah just nodded her head in agreement. Mikayla put some champagne coloured eye shadow all over her lid and lightly rimmed her water line with black eyeliner. She then curled Sarah's eye lashes and applied mascara.

Mikayla just went on and on about how little make up Sarah needed. Sarah didn't really know what to say, it was her parents who gave her clear skin. Just before Mikayla finished her makeup she turned on the curling wand. She applied some light pink lipstick and completed the look.

"Time for hair!" Mikayla clapped her hands.

"You're happy now but when we're half way through my head you're going to be annoyed." Sarah crushed her vibe. For the tenth time today, Mikayla rolled her eyes.

Mikayla curled Sarah's hair every which way, switching them up so the curls wouldn't stick and it would look like Sarah had more hair. Although she had enough hair already.

"So are any other girls going?" Mikayla asked.

"Yeah, Zayn's girlfriend Alyssa, Harry's girlfriend Hailey, and I'm not sure about Liam and Louis." She answered.

"You haven't met them before, have you?"

"Nope, this would be the first time I met all of them."

It took Mikayla a good 40 minutes to complete her whole head. Sarah giggled as she made faces in the process. She had warned Mikayla how much hard work it was to do her hair.

When she was finished fixing pieces here and there, she sprayed it lightly with hair spray so her hair wouldn't look and feel like cement.

Once the hair and the makeup was done, Sarah slipped her dress back on. She was going to wear her black flats and a jean jacket with it. She also put on small stud earrings that Mikayla made her wear and a small white ring on her middle finger.

"What no necklace?" Sarah asked sarcastically.

"I would crucify you if you wore a necklace with this neck line. It makes your boobs and waist look phenomenal so if you wear a necklace it'll take away from that." Mikayla explained.

Sarah checked the time it was almost 12. She helped Mikayla pack up the clothes she brought over. Mikayla also went over things for Sarah to do so she wouldn't embarrass herself. Like wear invisible deodorant, stay calm, go with the flow of the conversations, and if the girls there are rude to her then still be nice because it looks better on her. This was great stuff.

After Mikayla left, Sarah wandered around the apartment.

"Oh shit perfume!" How could she forget that? She sprayed the vanilla scent and went right back to pacing back and forth when she heard her phone buzz.

*On my way up :) x*

Shit. Sarah ran straight for a mirror to double check the way she looked. She wondered again if it was too much, but she really wasn't dressed up at all. She just looked really good. Sarah needed to stop stressing before she passed out.

There was a knock at the door.

"Hey!" Sarah greeted Niall with a kiss.

"Wow.." Niall's jaw hit the floor.

Sarah scanned herself as well, and when she looked up at Niall her face said it all. She was scared he didn't like what she was wearing.

"Jesus Sarah."

"Crap.." She muttered.

"How am I supposed to bring you around my friends dressed like this?" Sarah's heart sunk, she looked down at her shoes. "My friends are all gonna want you now."

Her head shot up and she grinned.

Niall looked perfect. From his hair to his shoes. He was wearing his famous black jeans. Sarah was convinced owned black jeans. His outfit was almost the same as the one they wore on their first date. Except his jean jacket had patches on the side. Either way he looked hot. They both did.

"You look stunning Sarah." Niall added.

"Thank you,"she said while locking the door, "you look pretty good yourself." She winked. Niall couldn't help but blush. They were just standing at the door.

"So we should get going then?" Sarah asked shyly.

"Uhh yeah." Niall was still speechless at the sight of Sarah. He meant what he said about his friends. Sarah looked fantastic, and he knew the moment one of them saw her their eyes would scan her perfect body in that red dress.

Sarah took Niall's hand and they made their way down. In the elevator, Sarah leaned her head on Niall's shoulder. He couldn't help but smirk. But he suddenly got nervous. He didn't know Sarah was going to look this good. She always looked good, but this time she looked a thousand times better.

When they got to the car, Niall didn't want to seem nervous because he could see it all over Sarah's face that she was.

"Don't be nervous. They'll love you I promise." Her shot her a smile.

Sarah felt at ease almost. She didn't think she would be fine until she got there.

Harry didn't live in an apartment. He lived in a small townhouse further into town.

"His house isn't too big," Niall started, "but the back yard is nice. He has a patio heater so if the weather starts to get chilly we'll put that on."

Sarah just nodded at the things Niall said. Soon enough they were there.

Harry house was cute. It was certainly big enough for one person. Once they got out of the car Niall and Sarah walked hand in hand to the front door. Niall reached for the handle and started to open the door.

"Niall you can't do that!" Sarah scolded.

"He left it open for us. He always does." Niall defended.

Sarah was iffy about it but went along with Niall. She remembered what Mikayla said about keeping calm and cool.

"Harry!" Niall shouted.

"Yeah?" A deep voice called out from what sounded like it came from the kitchen.

"It's Niall!"

Out from the kitchen came Harry. He was tall and some what lanky. He had a mess of hair on top of his head, that matched he's brown green eyes. He was dressed in a flannel shirt and black jeans. Niall had an attractive friend.

"Hi, I'm Harry." Harry leaned in to hug Sarah.

"I'm Sarah." When they pulled out of the hug, Sarah quickly turned to Niall who had an unpleasant face on. She ignored it. "You have a nice house." She smiled at Harry.

"Thanks love. Louis and Zayn are already out back." Sarah and Niall followed Harry to the back yard.

Niall pulled Sarah's wrist slightly to slow her down. "See I told you they'd like you too much." Niall looked concerned. Jealous?

"Niall relax, all he said was hello." Sarah secretly loved how Niall appeared a tad jealous.

They continued the short walk to the back door. There were two girls sitting at the table who looked Sarah's age, and Louis and Zayn.

"Hey guys!"Niall said a general hello and headed straight to Louis and Zayn who were standing by the huge barbeque."This is my girlfriend Sarah." Niall put extra emphasis on girlfriend which made Sarah smirk. She could already tell how today was going to go.

The two girls were sitting at the table, but got up to meet Sarah. She knew one of them. Her heart stopped as soon as she saw her face.

"I'm Alyssa, Zayn's girlfriend." She gave Sarah a hug. She was beautiful. She had blonde hair and bright blue eyes. She wore a dress too, but hers was floor length, black and white stripped, and strapless. Sarah could just tell she would like this girl.

"Hi, long time no see huh? I'm Harry's girlfriend." She also greeted Sarah with a hug. She had brown red hair, green eyes, freckles, and was tall. She wore a high waisted circle skirt with a white tucked in Tshirt. Sarah felt like she was going to throw up. Hailey was Justin's sister. When Sarah told Hailey about what Justin did to her she just yelled at her for accusing her brother of that. They never really got along, even when things were ok between her and Justin.

"Can I talk to you for a second Sarah?" Hailey asked. Shit. What could she possibly have to say?

"I know things were always so rocky between us, but now that all this time has gone by, I think we should just forget the past and start over?" Hailey suggested. Sarah didn't want to start a scene by yelling at her so she just agreed and walked over to Niall.

She grabbed onto his arm. He mouthed what's wrong to her, and she just whispered later in response.

"Hey there, I'm Louis." Louis stuck out his hand. His eyes were so nice.

"And I'm Zayn." Zayn also stuck out his hand. Damn Niall had good looking friends. Even if Niall was right about them wanting her after today, she wouldn't leave him. Not for anyone.

When Harry came out of his house, he walked right up to Sarah and started up a conversation with her Niall, Louis and Zayn. When Sarah looked over at the girls to see if they would join, Alyssa got up and stood next to Zayn. He immediately put his arm around her. Hailey got up slowly and glared at Sarah. If looks could kill, she'd be dead.