Little White Lies

Chapter 2: "no one has before"

Liam’s POV

“Yeah, uh babe these are the guys I was talking about, you know from back home?” What the hell is going on?

“Oh hi, it’s so nice to finally meet you guys, wait let me guess you’re Harry, Liam, Zayn and Louis?” she was close,

“No I’m Louis that’s Liam.” Louis pointed to me,

“Right, sorry.  Wow it’s so nice to finally meet some of James’ friends.” She said, James? Who the hell is James!

“And you are?” Harry held out his hand for her to shake.

“Oh sorry I’m, Ashley…James' girlfriend.” She said whilst shaking all of our hands.

“Girlfriend?” I almost choked on the air I sucked in. She went back to Niall’s side, her tan skin tone was a pleasant contrast to Niall’s white Irish skin, she had long curly hair (a/n I picture her hair like Danielle Peazer), she was probably half an inch taller than Niall’s shoulder.

“Hey Ash I forgot to ask for a stirring stick. Do you mind grabbing me one?” Niall said to the quite fit girl.

“Not at all, do you guys want anything?” She asked us.

“No they're fine.” Niall said in a rush

“Speak for yourself, how about we grab a bite in there; we could get to know each other.” Louis said, Niall’s eyes glared at Louis.

“That’s perfect! Could we James please, please.” She jumped

“What about our plans?” Niall tried his best to get out of it but Louis hooked his arm around the girl,

“Nonsense, it’s okay James what do you know about keeping to plans.” Louis said as we entered the small café.

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“Ashley, tell us about yourself.” I said as we sat down with our drinks and small sandwiches.

“Well I’m 19 and I’m a waitress at Hix,” So that’s why Niall didn’t want to come with us the other day.

“So how long have you and Ni-James been together?” Harry catches himself.

“We met at the iTunes festival in July (a/n sorry I forgot when it actually was) and I guess from there that’s where it all started, so about 4 months next week, right?” she turns to Niall, the way she smile at him and how you can see the glow in his eyes as they scoot closer to each other showed us a diffrent side of Niall we hardly ever saw.

Four months, 4 months of Niall keeping this from us! Her phone went off and she excused herself outside.

“Niall what the hell is going on and why does she keep calling you by your middle name!?” I harshly whispered.

“Will you keep it down," he paussd looking to see if the girl was out of the cafe. "look I’m tired of always being the single one and always making people think I’m happy being single. When I met Ashley she didn’t know who the hell I was, that night we had dinner like normal people. I felt like I could be myself around her and I don’t have to worry about her seeing me like the paparazzi sees me. I feel normal around her and if that means I have to fake my name then so be it. Don’t ruin this, not her.” I could see his emotions spill out on the table.

“You really like her don’t you?” Harry said, he really didn’t have to ask we could already see it when he looks at her.

“Yeah, I do.” He smiled down picking at the top of his coffee cup cap.

“Well then James, you have our support.” Louis jokes making us all chuckle.

“But you’ll need to tell her sooner or later.” I hated to ruin the fun but it needed to be said.

“I know.” Just as he finished Ashley came back in.

“Who was it?” Niall asked as she came back frowning.

“It was my boss, I just got fired.” She said looking at her phone.

“What why?” Niall asked, his voice gave me a sense he already knew.

“They said somebody called in and complained I was rude or something.” She leaned against Niall’s shoulder.

“There must be a mistake you don’t look like the rude type.” Zayn said making her smile.

“Thanks um James I think I should go home but you can stay and hang with your friends.” Ashley gets up,

“Are you sure?” Niall asked

“Yeah just call me later. Bye guys it was so nice to meet you.” With that she headed out.

“Okay Niall explain.” I pressed, he let out a long breath and closed his eyes.

“I just wanted to be with someone who liked me for me, now I can trust she likes me for Niall Horan and not Niall Horan from One Direction.”

“But Niall you don’t understand-,” Zayn said

“She doesn’t like you for Niall she likes you for James.” Harry cut in. It took Niall a while to get what we were saying.

“You really like her don’t you?” I asked

“She’s different; she doesn’t care about money, clothes, material. I finally found a girl that can make me laugh till I can’t breathe, smile till my cheeks hurt, she makes my heart skip a beat like no one has before, she’s… she’s the one.”