The Help - (Zach Aplin and Niall Horan)

Chapter 6

You could say that Zach had a bit of a problem when he was pacing around his room, stepping in some clothes on the floor that he thought could wear for his "date" with Niall.. If he even thought it was considered a date. Living with a drunk ass who hardly cared about his son and spent all his money on liquor really didn't give Zach the best wardrobe. His closet contained of two flannels, three t-shirts, two pairs of black skinny jeans-- well actually one good pair because one of them had tears on the knees, one sweater and one pair of shoes he got from Maddie. Well basically his whole closet was from Maddie.

Luckily for Zach, he haden't seen his so called "father" for a few days. It wasn't unusual for him not to come home for a few weeks and Zach really didn't mind. With his father gone, he called Maddie to come over and bring some of her dad's clothes for him ti wear in his "date".

ZACH'S POV

I slipped on the plain white t-shirt that Maddie threw at me, I swear this was the tenth shirt Maddie gave me and luckly I liked it. It was plain, like me. I didn't like the polos and dress shirts she gave me because I kept on insiting her that it was just lunch. Nothing more, nothing less. Well I do hope its more than just lunch.

I spun around to face the mirror, smiling just a bit when I saw my appearance. Yeah, I particularly didn't like everything about myself but I did feel fucking confident right now with my hair styled into somewhat a quiff-- thanks to Maddie and the shirt perfectly fitting on me.

"Oh my! Look at my baby, Zach! Growing up so fast, going on his first date!" She said, pretending to wipe off her fake tears, coming towards me and engulfing me into a big embrace. "Well I don't even think it's a date, Maddie. Just lunch, thats all. Yeah, just lunch" I said a bit unsure of myself.. Was it even a date? Just a patient and his therapist going to get lunch, thats all. "Well he better bring you back by eleven." she said, sending a wink in my direction and sitting back on my bed. I rolled my eyes at her and picked up on of the discarded shirts from the floor, throwing it towards at her. Grinning widely when it landed right on her head. "Well its just lunch, not dinner." chuckling to myself and picking up all the clothes from the floor and placing on the bed. I glanced at the clock on the night table and cussed. "Shit, he'll be here in any minut--" I said before being interupped by a car honk from outside. "Well, thats him." sighing a bit, walking back towards the mirror to check my outfit once more.

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I looked back to Maddie who was standing at the front door, giving me a small wave and smile. I returned the gesture and gave her back a small wave and a weak smile before walking to the car. It was a white, slick Audi that looked too expensive for me to even look at. I looked at the drivers seat seeing Niall with his sunglasses on, a simple black blazer ontop of his plain white shirt, like mine.

"H-Hi." I said pulling the door handle, slipping inside the car, almost hitting my head on the side of the car. "Hey, you look great, by the way" He said with a smile on his face. I really couldn't see his amazing blue eyes with his sunglasses on but I just blushed at his comment and put my head down so he couldn't see my face. I fumbled with the seatbelt, trying to put it on but it kept getting stuck every time I pulled on it-- fuck. I look like a complete idiot. Great one, Zach.

"Here, let me help you--" I suddenly felt his body literally on top of me. My breath hitched when I also felt his hand brush against mine, that was holding onto the seatbelt. He finally pulled hard enough for it to fully move and buckled me in "There ya go." with a smile of accomplishment on his face, he finally took of his sunglasses and put them on the collar of his shirt. He sat back in his seat and adjusted his blazer. "These damn cars cost a shit ton and the seatbelts won't even work!" his laughed filled the car and I couldn't help but laugh a long. A genuine laugh. Something that doesn't come out of my mouth often unless I'm with Maddie. Even then I don't genuinely laugh with her. But this time, Im full on laughing. My face is red and I can almost feel tears coming out of me. But the laughing finally dies down and we haven't said a word since. We just sit in complete silence and stare at each other.

"You have a really nice laugh." Niall blurts out randomly, I face my head towards him and cock my head to the side a bit. Did he just say-- I must be defiantly hearing this now. "Did you just say..?" I trail off, hoping for an reasonable answer. "Oh, erm.. Yeah. As a therapist I say stuff like that, because its improvement and yeah" he says unsure of himself. He quickly turns on the engine and looks at the road ahead of him.

Well this is going to be an interesting day..

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