ADELAIDE'S POV
I'd always liked the snow, clean and crisp. I never liked what came with the snow, the cold. I hate the cold, I hate wearing knitted sweaters and long jeans, I hate putting my summer clothing back into storage to make room for the abundance of black that I wear during winter. I have been procrastinating this day, kind of. I had several assignments due this week, my Art, Design, and Digital Culture's professor insisted I dropped the class, something about putting too much on my plate and I shouldn't have been doing so much. It just gave me Thursday afternoons off so, in all reality, I didn't care enough to fight for that class.
It was November and I don't think I've woken up without Harry being somewhere in the house, I wake up for work and he's in the shower or blow-drying his hair, Niall isn't even over as much as he is, I haven't seen Niall in almost a week other than in Music and I thought I was deteriorating. No, technically Niall wasn't my boyfriend but he was. It was like every female has learned their boundaries except for Tammy, she doesn't know a damn thing about boundaries.
"Hayden, I really need you to get rent this month," I practically begged, "Business has been really slow at the salon."
"Adelaide, I'll make rent, relax," she sighed carelessly, keeping her attention on the food in front of her. I really had to pee and Harry had been in the bathroom an hour, I thought I was going to lose my mind and my ability to keep my bladder from exploding.
"Is he ever going to come out? I have to pee so bad it's bloody killing me." I was pushing the food around my plate and kept eye on the time before I had to leave for my first class. I about had it and I stomped to the bathroom, banging furiously on the door, "Harry, I swear to God get out of the bathroom!"
"If it makes you feel any better, Harry's visiting family this weekend so you'll be here by yourself, using the bathroom whenever you please," Hayden announced from the dining table.
"You're meeting his family?" I asked and heard the toilet flush and Harry washing his hands before his tall stature made an appearance in the doorway. I pushed him out of the way in order to get to the bathroom without withering away to a liquid.
I walked out to a disgusting makeout session with the occasional "I love you" being exchanged, I rolled my eyes and left the house unnoticed. I was about to get in my car, only driving because the temperature was freezing and I wouldn't have made it if I walked, an extremely attractive black Suburban pulled into my driveway and I snapped only to meet eyes with my favorite pair of blue ones.
"Thought you could use a ride," he shouted from the driver's side. I walked closer to his car before rounding to the passenger seat, his car smelled different, more feminine. Niall's hair was left down instead of it being in it's usual blown out style, certain areas of his hair remained blond while his natural brunette took over. He sported a white long-sleeve sweater and black jeans with rips in the knees completed with his all white high top vans. He looked tired, ragged like he hadn't slept in months.
"It smells like peaches and vanilla," I said as he placed his right hand on my knee, playing with the holes in my jeans. I watched him closely, his jaw clenched and unclenched and all his blood seemed to rush to his face. "Niall, are you -"
"It's not what you think," He spat out rather quickly, I almost didn't catch it because his accent thickened.
"What do I think?" To be honest, I wasn't thinking anything, it was just an overpowering smell that smelled so sweet I thought my teeth were going to rot and fall out of my head.
"I -" He stopped and soon started again, "Louis invited me and some of the lads from Zeta Psi to go out, you know - a guy's night. I had a drink, maybe two, and this girl was so drunk, Adelaide, she was just -" I blanked out after hearing this, I trusted Niall enough to know he's not that kind of guy and that he's nothing like Greyson, he won't string me on and then confess he never even felt a sliver of admiration for me.
