Not So Normal

Chapter 5 ~ Food Babies and Photo Shoots

   I wake up in the morning to my phone vibrating under my pillow. I scramble to see who texted me and I smile when I see it's from Niall. Do you want to go get breakfast with me? Of course I do! I tell him I'll be ready in five minutes and then I jump out of bed to get ready. I quickly put on a cute outfit I bought yesterday (a gold sparkly pencil skirt and a maroon tank top with a cool white arrow-head thing on it) and put my hair up in an awesome messy bun. I leave a note on Lindsey's phone telling her where I am, and then I quietly go out into the hall.

   Niall is leaning against the wall looking at his phone when I come out of the room, but he looks up and puts his phone in his pocket when he notices me.

   "Shall we?" he asks, gesturing to the elevator. I smile and we head downstairs to breakfast. The hostess seats us and for the first couple minutes we're silent. I, being the shy person I am, wait for Niall to speak up first.

   "So... How's the trip been so far?" Niall asks after we order our food.

   "Um, it's been pretty great. Yesterday was honestly the best day of my life so far," I say shyly. Niall smiles and it makes me melt on the inside.

   "What was the best part of yesterday?" he asks. 

   "Hanging out with you guys," I answer immediately. Niall looks surprised.

   "Not going shopping?" he asks, a little shocked.

   "Of course not! I could go shopping any day, maybe not at such a fancy store, but being able to spend a day hanging out with One Direction? I'm living millions of girls' dreams right now. You guys are so amazing, and I feel like if you guys weren't famous and lived in my neighborhood we'd probably be really good friends," I say, amazed he would even think that shopping would be more fun than hanging out with him and the guys.

   "Wow. Well, uh, we could still be friends," Niall says awkwardly.

   "Definitely," I say with a smile. We manage to keep conversation going when our food comes and while we're eating. Niall tells me a little more about what we're doing the next few days and stuff he thinks we should on Sunday when we're just supposed to be hanging out. Niall says he thinks we should go to the pool again, and when I cringe his face falls.

   "Are you okay? What happened yesterday at the pool?" he asks the inevitable question. I sigh.

   "It's something I just really don't want to talk about," I say quietly. Niall lets out a quiet 'oh' but drops the subject. The rest of breakfast is fun, though.

   When it's getting close to the time we're leaving for the photo shoot, we go back upstairs and Niall drops me off at my room.

   "That was really fun. Thanks for coming," he says before I go into my room.

   "Thanks for inviting me," I say, probably blushing. We say goodbye and I shut myself in my room. As soon as the door is shut I get attacked by Lindsey.

   "YOU WENT TO BREAKFAST WITH NIALL HORAN! WAS IT AMAZING? WHAT DID YOU GUYS TALK ABOUT? DOES HE LIKE YOU?" she asks a million question.

   "Calm yourself, child! We just talked about the next few days and just some little things about ourselves, like favorites and stuff like that. Nothing really happened," I tell Lindsey, leaving out the part where he asked about what happened at the pool yesterday. She freaks out about my little morning adventure until the guys come to our door and tell us it's time to leave.

   We use the same transportation arrangements as yesterday, so I'm sitting next to Niall in the car again. Lindsey talks to him the whole way about asking me to breakfast.