Moments

Christmas

It's just a few days to Christmas, everyone's coming back to England tonight. It's a pretty massive gathering, what with both One Direction and Little Mix coming as well as Paul's family. More Irish people than Asians there, too. I'm quite familiar with everyone who seems to be coming, except Little Mix. There's Perrie who I'm quite friendly with, but the other three I haven't even seen in years. Come to think of it, I haven't actually met Paul's family either.

"There's no way in a million years we'll have Payzer over again, right?"

"I don't think so."

"That's no good, innit?"

"We're talking about Felix Felicis strength here."

"And we ran out of that after Max George thought he'd rather not risk fighting Liam instead of Zayn."

"Or maybe he thought he'd lose to a girl. Because, remember, by then they know about me but not that I knew Louis before the band."

"But they never knew you did all this crazy ass boxing and stuff, did they?"

"Nah, but you look at the size of me for an Asian from my area and you know I have some freak gene or exercise and I look strong compared to the rest of 'em. Stronger than Louis, certainly."

"Well we know you're stronger than Niall, I wouldn't be so sure about Louis. He can get berserker strength at times." We know you're only saying that because we think you're gonna settle down for good. That was my guess on things.

"Not so sure after management seems to have forced him to work out. I've got strong fingers if that's anything useful."

"So we've got the crazy asses, whoever ends up with Harry gets a cupcake and then there's Payne who we can't decide."

"One minute he's Captain Sensible, the next he's Mr Payngerous."

"You never know with that boy."

"Ah, we do know. When he was with Dani he was Captain Sensible, pull them apart and you've got Mr Payngerous with a jumper around his butt at performances," I recount. "So what's the deal with him these days? I haven't been particularly updated with what the band was doing in my few uni years. Spent all my time out of class either looking up cases for assignments, at group study or looking through all the messages I get in a day. Of which, I got updated recounts of what they did from Louis and Niall. As you know, El, and as you don't know, Perrie, I didn't actually read Niall's messages until a week ago. And only because the twins almost forced me to," I finish casually.

"So tell me," Perrie asked. "What is the exact stage you're onto with Niall?"

"I don't understand your question."

"What's the most daring thing you'd do right now?"

"Uh… I dunno, there's a whole list of things. Starts with not being able to snog to save my life."

"So every time he starts you just avoid it?"

"Last time he did that was around 4 years ago, mighta been my birthday or something. You remember that time, El?"

"You texted me saying that you got angry at him: now what do you do," she quotes.

"So that's what you got upset at. Zayn got everything jumbled." Either he squeezed it out of Niall or Niall blabbered everything to him and it was jumbled already from the minute Niall opened his gob.

"That boy's copping it. Spreading what was supposed to stay between me and Niall."

"He's told me a million times you're like his little brother and he didn't know how to help."