First Dance *Niall Horan Love*

Chapter 1

"PLEASE don't set me up with anyone!" I begged my friends, Nina and Jaz.

"To late we already talked to him!" Nina said, winking at me.

My best friends Nina and Jaz had brought me to a formal dance at Nina's church for new years eve. It was the first dance I had been to that was ACTUALLY formal and the boys ACTUALLY asked the girls to dance. Stating that fact, I was extremely nervous. I hadn't danced with anyone before...

Neither of them would tell me who they were setting me up with! I had a few ideas. There was David, a cute guy I had seen around school. There was also Devin, another guy that I knew from school. And then there was Niall Horan. I had had a massive crush on him in past years. I never told Nina or Jaz how much I actually liked him though. My feelings for him never really went away.

Not to far into the dance a few of my friends from school has shown up and we were dancing to the music. I was surprised a church dance actually had decent music!

Nina and Jaz kept whispering to each other, and I knew it was about who they were setting me up with. They both walked away together, not saying a word to me. My heart started beating massively. I knew they were leaving with some purpose of me being set up with a boy. I hid my nervousness and just continued on dancing with my friends.

After a few minutes of dancing my nerves had gone away and I was having fun, and letting loose with all of the people I was with. The song we were listening to ended, and I heard the slow beats of a slow song come on. I didnt think anything of it at first. but then I looked in the direction that Nina and Jaz had taken off in. I saw them coming back, walking fast with huge grins plastered on theirs faces. That's when I saw Niall following not far behind them. He looked pretty nervous. My mouth opened wide. 'had they really set me up with Niall?!' I wondered to myself. I tried to get out if sight by going to the back of the group I was in. But Nina and Jaz pushed right through everyone with Niall following right behind. I decided I shouldnt be awkward. I straightened out my posture a bit and looked up at him and gave him a shy smile. He offered me his arm to grab, inviting me to dance.

"Would you like to dance?" He said with a slight redness to his cheeks.

My excitement and nervousness kept my mouth glued shut. Maybe it was shock? instead if answering with words i answered by grasping his arm and letting me lead me to the danced floor.

"I've never done this before so I might suck." I said with a bit of a giggle.

"Nah it's easy." He said once we got to the middle. "You just move back and forth like this." He said. He looked down at his feet showing me how to move them.

I'd already seen how We were supposed to be positioned. So we both moved in. He placed one of his hands high on my waist and I placed mine on his shoulder. With our other hands we grasped each other's hands, bending our arm a bit. We started moving to the speed of the music, which was slow, moving back and forth just as he showed me.

"So your names Niall right?" I asked to seem as though I didn't know him as well and I actually did. (Yes I know, the 14 year old me was stupid.)

"Yea. And your Sarah?" He replied.

I nodded my response. I was surprised he actually knew my name!

"Are you in 8th grade?" He asked, probably just trying to break the silence.

"Yup! And you go to the high school?" I asked him. (They live in Mullingar, and I know they don't use this schooling system, but I don't know how theirs works, so just deal yo. :P)

He nodded in response.

I looked up at him and he looked slightly down at me.

"I'm sorry if I sound weird right now, but you have really beautiful eyes." He said.

"Thanks." I smiled up at him. "You do too." I replied nervously. Immediately regretting it because I sounded like a creep.

We both had the same shade of bright blue eyes.

A few moment passed without any conversation.

"My friends told me to ask what color a girls tooth brush is if it gets quiet." He said smiling. He had the most adorable crooked teeth.

I laughed. His awkwardness was cute.

"Mines blue." He smiled as he said it. He was always a pretty entertaining kid.

"Mines pink!" I giggled back.

The song was almost over, sadly, so we danced in silence the last few seconds.

I honestly didn't want it to end. The way my hand fit in his was just perfect. The way he held me, even felt just perfect.

After it ended he put out his elbow and I grabbed it. He led me back over to my group of friends.

"There you go." He said. Flashing his adorably crooked smile.

"Thanks, bye." I said back to him with the same tone and smile.

He hesitated a bit before heading back over to his group.

I waited for him to get a decent distance away from us before I freaked out. I smiled a huge smile and covered my mouth to keep from laughing or screaming. "Oh. My. God." I said. It was all that would come out. All my friends congratulated me on my dance.

We continued dancing, but things weren't the same with me the rest if the night. I couldn't stop smiling! And I couldn't stop thinking of Niall

There was nearly 10 minutes until midnight. Everyone was jittery getting ready for the new year. Some people had those blow things and others had nothing. The music was still going and everyone was still dancing. I couldn't help but look over at Niall every few minutes. my eyes were like magnets to him.

The Cupid Shuffle came on and i noticed how good of a dancer he was. He actually had some rhythm! I smiled to myself and looked up at my friend Sydnee who was smiling at me. She knew I was looking at him. But I just could t help it. He was so perfect. The yellow Christmas lights that lit up the room seemed to be glowing on him. His brown hair was in its normal style, but gelled back a bit and swept over his forehead. And his smile just seemed to brighten up the whole room. I couldn't help but smile every time I looked at him.

I looked at the timer up on the wall, only 1 minute until the next year. The seconds got lower and lower and the music turned off. At 10 seconds everyone yelled out the count down 10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0!!!!!!

I shouted it out with the rest of the people. Everyone blew there things and others screamed at the top of their lungs. I looked toward Niall only to find him looking at me. We kept eye contact for a few seconds then both turned away with a smile on our faces.

Looking at him was the perfect way to start off the new year.

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Thanks so much if you read this guys!!!! It's my first story so I'm trying really hard to make it as good as I can!!!! This scene is actually based on how my first dance actually went, every detail is exactly my first dance, just with Niall instead of the guy I danced with. It actually happened last night!!! 💕 With a guy I like, so it was perf!!!! Anyways!!! Ill set an update schedule and all that soon! Hope you guys enjoy the rest of the story!

-Sarah 🌸