Our Time Together ➸ Niall Horan

Inner Beauty and Lila Burgers

Eleanor's POV  

"Louis! Get up!” Louis was never good at waking up. He tried throwing a pillow at me, and I just sat on him.

“What?!"

“You have to get up!”

“Why?” he asks, running his fingers through his hair.

“Because we have things to do! You have 5 minutes!” I say, getting up. I go to the kitchen and make coffee and pancakes. I put down the plate to see him sitting there, a huge grin on his face.

“You’re out of bed!”

“I smelled pancakes. Did you put in-“ I cut him off by plopping a blueberry-chocolate chip pancake on his plate. I make him his coffee while he gulps down the pancake. 

“Do we need to clean this with soap? You seemed to have done a pretty good job without it.” I say sarcastically, plopping another one in front of him.

“Nope. I’ll eat any amount of these. They’re amazing!!” he gulps that one down.

“Thanks, Boo Bear!” I give him a quick peck on the cheek and go to get dressed. Lou and I were going to make sure everything was set for the wedding. The others were coming over in an hour, and then we were all going. I had bought a wedding bell push pin, and I put it on the map that Lou bought. I throw on some jeans and a shirt. He comes in while I’m doing my makeup.

“Why do you need makeup? Your beautiful without it,” he says, coming up behind me. He puts his hands on my waist, and his chin rested on my shoulder. He looked at me in the mirror.

“Thanks, but I like putting on makeup. It makes me feel prettier.”

“Prettier?!” He asks, taking his hands and chin away, looking at me like I’m crazy, "That’s impossible!”

“Shut up, you!” I say, giving him a shove. I walk into the kitchen as he gets dressed.

“Have you seen my striped shirt?” he comes out, pants on, shirt off.

“In the bottom drawer, I think. You haven’t worn it in so long!”

“I know,” he says from the bedroom.

 “But I miss it.”

“So do I,” I say as he comes in, putting his shirt on. 

KNOCK KNOCK

“Coming!” It was the others.

“Hey guys! Welcome to casa de Eleanor and Louis!”

“Hey!” They say. I go and sit on Lou’s lap on the couch, and they come join us.

“So what’s the plan for today?” Ari asks.

“Well, we need to make sure that the flowers we ordered are the right ones. Ariana, Zoe, you 2 are in charge of that. Sophie, you and I will get shoes. Lou, Zayn, and Liam, you guys are going to make sure that the food order is right. Harry and Niall, you guys are going to meet with the DJ about the music. Here are must-haves. We’ll all meet for lunch at 1:30.”

“Where?” Liam asks.

“Let’s get burgers!!” Ari suggests.

“I love burgers!” Niall says.

“We know!.” Harry says. 

“Okay. So see you all for burgers at 1:30. Let’s go!” I say. Sophie and I go to this little shoe store down the street, and I tell her what I’m looking for. I always wait until last-minute to go shoe shopping. I don’t know why.

“Okay. And do you want me to look for flats for the reception?” she asks.

“Nah. I’ll find something.”

“Okay!” she says. We look for a while, try on pair after pair, and before we know it, it’s 12:30.

“OH MY-- HOLY-- SOPHIE!!!” I scream.

“What- OH MY-”

“THAT’S WHAT I SAID! Aren’t they perfect?” I ask. I found these beautiful heels that were white with this beautiful design, and it was gorgeous.

“They fit!” I say, walking around in them.

“They’re flawless,” Sophie says.

“I know! And so cheap!”

“I know! Did you find flats?”

“No. Better.” I say, showing her the white Converse I found. 

“That’s adorable! I was going to do that at Senior Prom.” She says.

“What happened?”

“My date ditched me.”

“I’m sorry. I promise you’ll get a dance at the wedding!”

“I was worried Zayn was going to ditch me,” she laughs. I give her a smile and she asks “What does it feel like, getting married, I mean.”

“Different. Like Louis is an amazing person and boyfriend, but who knows what kind of husband he’ll be?”

“Are you excited?” she asks, as I pay for the shoes.

“Yeah! I’m marrying my best friend! He’s such an amazing person, and I bet he’ll be an amazing father.”

“So you two have talked about that?”

“Yeah. At first we were going to wait, but we don’t want to.”

“How cute is that?” We talk for a little while on or way to get burgers. 

“How are you two doing the vows?”

“We’re doing our own. We aren’t allowed to see the other person’s until we hear them.”

“That’s the cutest thing in the world!” Sophie gushes. We get to the place, and the others were already there, and Liam and Ari were talking away from the others. 

“What are they talking about?” I ask, sitting next to Louis.

“I don’t know some girl,” Zayn replies.

“Oh,” I say, brushing it off. We order, and Liam and Ari come back.

“What was that about?” I ask, with a mouthful of fries.

“Remember Lila? I told her to meet us here and Liam’s acting weird.”

“We went on one date!” Liam says, acting angry.

“And fell madly in love, and broke up because you didn’t want to go through that much pain again. You know, after Danielle."

“Yeah, but it’s not going to work out!” he shouts.

“Shh! It works out for the rest of us,” Niall interjects.

“Yeah,” Zoe agrees.

“Yeah but-“ Liam tries.

“But nothing. She’s over there. Go get her!” Louis says, pushing him.

“Hey, Lila,” he says, walking away from us. They sat at a table far away from us, and talked and laughed.

“They seem to be having fun!” Sophie says.

“Yeah. I want him to be happy,” I say, looking at Louis.

“Yeah,” Ariana says.  “

So!” Zayn says, breaking us from our trances, 

“Are you two nervous?”

“YES!” We say together.