You can't help who you fall in love with... (One Direction fanfic)

[C.11] Say what?

#CHAPTER 11#

*still Jess’s POV*

“So where are we going now?” I questioned Liam, Zayn was still deep in thought.

“Ice skating” Liam replied with a smile and then returned back to his conversation with Chloe.

I froze, iceskating? I can’t iceskate to save my life! This is going to be so embarrassing! I can not let one direction see me iceskate, I just cling to the edge and slowly pull myself along. When I come to a gap in a wall I wait for one of my friends to come past and help me. Georgia had seen how bad I am, she found it hilarious, which it is, but it's so embarrassing too. Especially since all of my friends were so amazing so I look even worse at iceskating compared to them.

“Hang on, Liam, did you just say iceskating?” Georgia had the same concerned look on her face as me. She could be so understanding sometimes.

“Yeah, why?” he questioned

“I… can’t iceskate” I admitted, I really didn’t want to admit it though.

“I don’t really enjoy it if I’m honest” Zayn and Niall added. Zayn must have been disturbed from his thoughts.

“So I’m not the only one?” I asked.

“Yeah, we’re only doing this because Louis wanted to.” Niall said.

“But I love iceskating!” louis pulled puppy eyes.

“Well maybe us three could go ice skating for like half an hour and then sit in the café for the rest of the time?” Niall questioned, signalling to himself, zayn and me with his hands.

“Yeah” me and zayn agreed. The limo (still not used to saying that!) pulled up outside the skating rink.

We put on our ice skating boots and Liam passed us all a pair of gloves that he’d brought with him from the limo. I really wasn’t looking forward to this half an hour.

“You ready?”zayn questioned me with a smile.

“I’m scared” I replied.

“Jess, I promise you, im not going to leave your side” he said.

“But I thought you couldn’t iceskate?”

“I can, I just don’t really enjoy it, it’s the same with Niall.”

“Oh, okay” I smiled. I was so scared! Everytime I had ever been iceskating I managed to make a fool out of myself, I really didn’t want to do it infront of one direction! Espicially not zayn!

We all walked towards the rink. Georgia loved iceskating so she was skating around quickly, leaving Harry chasing after her. Everyone was busy skating except for me and Zayn. He climbed onto the ice and held his hand out to help me onto the ice. I held onto his hand and slowly stepped onto the ice. Straight away I nearly slipped over, Zayn automatically wrapped his arms around my waist to steady me.

“Oh my god, I can’t do this. I’m going to end up pulling you over” I warned.

“I don’t mind” he smiled.

*Zayn’s POV*

Jess almost slipped as soon as she got onto the ice, I could tell this half an hour was going to be difficult, but I’m not going to let her get hurt. She’s such a lovely girl and so beautiful too. I really loved my conversation I had with her earlier. She said if a boy fancies her, she’d want to know. When I was telling her about this girl that I kind of like, I meant her. I wonder if she likes me too, she was telling me any girl would be lucky to have me, so hopefully she does. There’s only one way to find out, when we sit down in the café I’ll get Niall to go and get me a drink and then I’ll tell her how I feel. I know it’s risky, but I just feel like I need to tell her. I can't blow this oppotuntiy.

I was holding onto Jess’ left hand and she was using her right hand to hold onto the side.

“Let go off the side” I encouraged her.

“I can’t” she replied. I began skating backwards so that I was facing her and still holding her left hand. I held out my other hand so she could let go of the side and hold both of my hands.

“I bet you can”

“Fine” she sighed. She grabbed onto my hand and I slowly pulled her along, I know she wasn’t actually skating but she was still doing well. I smiled at her, but she still wouldn’t look me in the eyes. What was up with that? She hadn’t looked me in the eyes yet, I really wanted to see how gorgeous her eyes were.

We glided around the rink for half an hour having conversations about the others and different celebrities that me and the boys had met.

“Has it been half an hour yet?” Jess moaned.

“Yep, I’ll just call Niall and see if he still wants to come to the café.”

“Okay”

“Oi! Niall, me and Jess are going to go to the café now, do you still want to come?” I shouted at him, luckily there were mainly adults in the rink so there no fans to come and disrupt us.  Niall was busy flirting with Nicole.

“No, think I’ll stay with Nicole and keep her out of trouble” he shouted back.

“Looks like it’s just you and me then” I smiled to Jess. This would give me more of a chance to tell her how I felt.

We both ordered a hot chocolate and went to sit at a table them. I was half way through telling Jess about the time Louis locked me out of the house when Harry and Georgia walked over.

“mind if we sit with you?” Harry asked me. I still hadn’t told Jess how I felt, but I couldn’t really say no to harry.

“Yeah, sure”

“We’ll just go and order some drinks” he smiled. I guess this was my chance to tell Jess.

“Jess, I need to tell you something.” I burst out. She looked up from staring at her drink.

“Okay” she smiled.

“Well, you know the conversation we were having in the restaurant earlier.”

“Yeah..”

“That girl, well, she’s you.” I said quietly, reaching out to hold her hand. Just as Harry and Georgia reached the table with their drinks.

“What?” Jess asked.

“She’s you. The one that I like.” I repeated.

“How can you like me?  You’ve only known me for a few hours!” Jess protested, standing up in a fluster and tears. She ran out of the café.

“Jess!” I shouted after her standing up to run after her, but Harry held me back. Georgia ran after her.

“Man! Why didn’t you let me go after her?” I yelled at harry. Telling Jess was a bad idea.

“Because it was best to let Georgia go after her and talk to her.”