Once In A Lifetime - Niall Horan [njh] COMPLETED

7. If You Like Causing Trouble Up In Hotel Rooms...

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SOFIAS POV

I walked to the bunk room in the back of the bus and found Harry sitting in a chair playing with his phone. He heard me walking and shot his head up to look at me.

"Hey Sofia, what's up?" He said.

"Niall told me to come back here with you an Louis until we got to the hotel." I replied.

"Niiice." Harry dragged out.

"I think I need a good hiding spot," I began to say.

Harry looked around the room for a good place for me to hide. He got up and eventually determined the perfect spot.

"Right here should be good," he said as he held open a curtain to one of the bunks that was a bit more hidden and out of the way than the rest.

"Okay! I hope this all goes well..." I said.

"Don't worry, everything is going to be fine." Harry assured me.

***

We arrived at the hotel, and I could tell because I could hear the girls screaming outside the bus.

"Do you think we should stop and meet them?" Harry said.

"Well, it is pretty late and I'm sure they've been here a while. Maybe we should..." Liam replied to Harry.

"Can you tell how many there are?" Harry said, shortly before Louis woke up.

"ARGGH!!! What the hell is all that noise?!" Louis smashed the curtains open with his arm and squinted out into the light of the room. His eyes weren't yet accustomed as he had been sleeping in the bunk for about an hour.

"That NOISE would be our FANS, Louis." Liam sassed.

"Oh, right. What time is it, anyway?" Louis asked.

"2:15 AM." Harry informed us all.

"Hell, why are they all still awake?" Louis plopped back onto his mattress and closed his eyes once again.

"Our fans never sleep, you know that Louis." Liam said.

"Well they ought to! It's freezing outside. Plus, management will probably just make us go straight into the hotel." Louis said matter-of-factly.

"I'm not going to let them tell me what to do. Those fans have been freezing their arses off all night long and I'll be damned if-" Liam began to say before he was cut off by Niall, running into the room.

"There's so many fans outside! How are we gonna get Sofia off the bus without bein' seen?!" Niall was panicking. He wanted so badly to make this work, I could tell, but the reality of it all was that it was never going to be easy.

"Just calm down, Niall. Me and Harry will just go outside and meet fans, and we will tell them that you and Louis already went inside through a different entrance." Liam said as if it was the most obvious solution in the world.

Niall thought about Liam's response. "But what if they don't leave?" He asked Liam.

Liam thought for a couple of seconds. "Then I'll just tell them that you and Louis are ABOUT to go in a different entrance. I'm sure they'll believe me, even though it's not a nice thing to lie to our fans." Liam sounded a bit guilty.

"Liam, I know it's bad but we can't risk Sofia being caught. The media would be all over this in a split second." Harry interjected.

Niall sighed to himself. "Do we have any clothes that we could possibly hide Sofia in? Some that could possibly make her look older?" Niall questioned.

"How about dressing her like a BOY, so people don't think we have a girl with us, eh?" Louis sassed from inside his bunk.

"True..." Niall liked the sound of Louis' idea.

***

"There. She should be fine." Louis said to Niall.

"I really hope so." Niall sighed as he stared at me in my new outfit.

"So, do I look like a boy from the back?" I asked, my back facing Louis and Niall.

"Ya sure do!" Louis exclaimed.

I heard the sound of what probably was Niall hitting Louis. I was right, because Niall said "Ya don't hav'ta say it that way, Louis!"

"Whatever, Niall," I heard Louis reply.

"So... let's get off this bus," Louis pushed Niall and I towards the doorway and down the hallway. I silently prayed that there would be no fans outside, and soon enough, we were emerged into the cold, night air.

Not even one second passed that we all stepped foot out of the bus, and I heard a girl shriek. It was safe to say that my heart dropped into the soles of my shoes, making me feel slightly woozy. What if the girls see me? What if I get endless hate on social media? What if a paparazzi photographs me and Niall and they never let him live it down?!

"LOUIS!" the sounds got closer. It wasn't just one girl, it was definitely a few.

As soon as the sound pierced the air, I felt Niall's hand on my back, shoving me towards the hotel doors. I looked up out of my sunglasses, barely able to see in front of me due to the darkness of the night. Niall guided me through the front doors of the hotel and ran towards the elevator, slamming the button with his finger until the door opened. Fortunately, it opened immediately, and Niall pushed me in and to the side, out of view from the hotel lobby entrance. His hand held me in place, assuring that I wouldn't move from my position, and I heard him rapidly pressing the button to make the elevator doors close.

The doors were taking forever, and all of the sudden to my despair, we heard a voice gasp and exclaim, "OH MY GOD, IS THAT NIALL?!"

By this point, Niall's finger was slamming the elevator button so fast that you would've thought he was in a video game championship, just about to win first place. As all this was happening, he had pressed his body against mine and wrapped his arm around me tightly, smushing me into the elevator wall. The doors finally began to move, and the voices in the distance sounded closer, saying, "NO, WAIT!"

By the grace of God, the doors "ping"ed closed just as the girls got to them. I could hear them pressing the outside button, while Niall was still slamming his finger on the button inside. The elevator started moving up, and the girls were slapping their hands on the outside doors. Once Niall had seen that we were about 3 floors up, he sighed heavily, resting his body weight on me. His forehead was rested against the elevator wall, and he was breathing heavy. I could feel the warmth of his breath on my neck, and it sent shivers down my entire spine.

It hadn't registered in my mind that Niall's entire body was on top of mine until the chaos ended. Now that I was aware, my heart was pumping so hard that it felt like it was going to leave my body.

I lightly gasped and tilted my head back involuntarily, savoring all that was happening. My body pressed backwards, into Niall's. I've wanted something like this to happen for so long, and I was finally getting it. I'm actually kind of happy that those girls were in the lobby, or I might have never gotten to experience what it felt like to have Niall's whole body pressed against mine.

Niall gasped, effectively snapping me out of my daydream.

"Oh my god, I'm SO sorry, Sofia," Niall sounded upset.

He stepped back, and I turned to face him.

"No, don't worry Niall, I'm fine!" I responded.

"I'm sorry ya had'ta go through that. Thank God those doors closed, or I don't know what I would've done." Niall breathed heavily.

"Well," I sighed, "let's just be glad it's over." I said as I stared into Niall's eyes.

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