Apartment 12 | Niall fanfic/ Larry.

4: where's the silver lining on this cloud?

***Cassie's POV***

The trek to Starbucks was interesting with Niall, new. I'd seen all the videos from the fans points of view...meeting him. But from his side, waw, it makes you wonder who you are. But I'm glad he took me away from the tension in that apartment. He took me out just before I would have broken into tears myself.

"Cassie...what name you gonna put on your cup?" Niall said pointing at the stack of cups behind the counter.

"Urm....what are you putting? Ahaa! Some people put your name down and pretend it's because you're waiting for them outside you'know" i said...i was warming to the idea of being Niall's friend.

"I never thought of that, ahaha" the laughing didn't stop till we got to the ordering point "hi" he turned and greeted the woman standing behind it, she was blushing. "Can I please have..." He went on to order his drink and then said "and my names Cassie" he looked at me and said "so what are you called?"

When the woman asked me for my order, i told her and said "and my names...."

"Her names Mrs.Horan" Niall interrupted...but i didn't mind, this was basically a proposal right? He laughed to himself again until we took a seat in the corner, I'm guessing so we wouldn't attract as much attention.

"Mrs.Horan!" A man yelled from the same direction as the woman "and Cassie?"

Calling our cups names out brought back Nialls laughing, so I stood up in a tiny bit of an embarrassed huff and went to go and get our drinks.

When I got back he was just calming down, but his eyes were still watering. I took my seat and handed him his drink and he said thank you then apologised for laughing.

"So Mrs.Horan, how's your day going?" He ends with yet another giggle, so I let my laughs slip too.

"It's been full of events hasn't it" I stare down at my cup.

"Well, there's a silver lining to every cloud isn't there?" I don't look up to these words because I feel like the lining to these clouds are completely separate... My mum almost died and I'm living with One Direction and being called Mrs.Horan from Mr.Horan himself!

***Niall's POV***

"Oi, we'll go and see your mum as soon as we can" I felt so bad that I couldn't make her feel better...the beautiful smile I'd seen stuck to her face this morning just...gone. Woosh, paw, shizam.

"It isn't just my mum though, it's you and Harry..."

"I thought you wanted to stay with us?"

"I do, but that's just it...I haven't woken up yet. Things like this don't happen to me, people like you don't just become my friends" Cassie was trying to hold in some tears, so before they escaped her I took hold of her hand and told her just what I thought about her, finally Zayn would say.

"Well girls like you don't just become friends with me either." That was an understatement, I don't even think Cassie belongs in a 'people like you'...she's different. In a really, really good way. I love the little quirky facial expressions she does and the little things she does before she sits down anywhere, and the way she does things in twos...I wonder that if I kissed her now, she'd want to kiss me again, just for safe measure.

"You better be careful with lines like that, you're gonna end up breaking some girls heart" she said, slowly looking up to meet my eyes and I did not look away. Not this time, just incase she could somehow feel the fact that I was trying to fix her heart, with no plans of breaking it.

Some paparazzi brought their cameras out of their bags sitting on some tables with a perfect view of mine and Cassie's hands interlocked... "You see them over there?" I say to Cassie tilting my head to them, then waiting for her to respond.

"You could get into trouble for this" she says concerned. But I didn't care, I didn't care that people would think we were dating...because that's what I want. I never thought I'd feel this way about anyone, but I do and I don't want to loose it, she should know that. I'm not the type of person to let feelings like that flow out poetically, unlike Harry so I left it with

"I don't care about them, I care about you!" I pick my drink up with my other hand and slowly loosen my hand from hers while standing up and she does the same. Once we're both standing up I take her drink from her hand and tell her quietly to text Liam from my phone to say that

it's best for you to wait outside of the Apartment when you get there, we'll explain soon

We make our way out of Starbucks well and the paparazzi take their pictures...I'm not sure if they knew that we knew that they were there, either way they had tomorrows magazine front covers in their cameras now.

After taking a few smelly back alleys to the secret location we waited outside the back of our complex for Liam to arrive and Cassie and I finished our drinks and I don't know...I made her laugh and she made me laugh...a lot.

I wonder if she thinks my accent is cute, I hope she does.

5 minutes went past and Liam's blacked out car pulled in, Liam rolled down his window and I had to go over and tell him about what Louis told me

"Liam, urm...Modest kind of, urm" I didn't know how to put this lightly at all, it was hard on all of us, we were all so close and we'd watched Louis and Harry grow together, we all thought they'd get through this.

"They can't be together, I know" Liam stole my words.

"You know?"

"Yeah, I just went to a meeting and told them how ridiculous this all is but they weren't having any of it. We can't loose our jobs, we can't let the fans down like that..."

"So you gave up, and so did Louis." Liam's shocked face was hysterical but I couldn't laugh.

"Louis did what? I just walked out because I thought there was no point in fighting but Louis..." He opened the door, shoved me out of the way and staggered into the back entrance.

"I think we should go after him" Cassie said to me, I hadn't realised that I was jut standing there.

"Ah, yeah...of course" my accent was really coming out now, probably because I was stressed. I walked up to Cassie, pulled her into my arms and took a deep breath into the top of her head, she held me back and her hair smelt better then I thought it would have. As I pulled away I looked into her eyes and a tear fell out of my own eye. I don't know where it came from but I had to

I kissed her.

And she quickly kissed me again...

It wasn't a big deal, but it was. It didn't last long at all but it happened. And in the second where our lips were touching, I knew that I couldn't loose her, and when she kissed me again, I knew that if anyone stood in our way i would push them and their stupid rules out of the window.

"Come on then" I placed my forehead on hers and took one last breath, and so did she, she had frozen a little bit, kind of cute.

"Yeah, we should go" Cassie said, taking us both back to reality, or whatever this was.