Hired by Horan

Chapter 26

GUYS I AM LITERALLY SOOO SORRY TO KEEP YOU WAITIN FOR SO LONG! LITERALLY EVERYTHING THAT COULD HAVE GONE WRONG DID, YOU JUST CANT WIN AT LIFE, BUT I PROMISED A FEW OF YOU ID UPDATE TODAY AND EVEN THOUGH ITS SUPER LATE AND THIS CHAPTER MIGHT SUCK, I'll WRITE IT ANYWAY... IM ESPECIALLY SORRY TO KORINA, I DIDNT PLAN TO KEEP YOU WAITING SO LONG...

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"What kind of questions?"

"Um, well, sort of personal ones I guess."

"Fine, ask away, but I reserve the right to Plead the 5th whenever I so chose." I told Korina who seemed happier than me on grocery day, and that's hard to accomplish.

"Ok, well, is Niall really how he is presented to fans?"

"I guess, although he's extremely oblivious, I think you guys give him more credit than he deserves... But he's sweet and hardworking I suppose."

Wait, did that just come out of my mouth? Who said that?!

"Have I caught you at a bad time? You seem distracted by something..." Korina asked looking concerned and confused.

"Actually, you have, but it's ok. You've helped me to come to realize something. I'm not angry, I'm just confused. Thank you Korina!! But I have to go."

"Wait! Before you go, can I have a quick selfie?"

"Ugh I look gross, but since you helped me, I'll oblige. Feel free to post it if you so choose..." I added with a wink.

Honestly, I don't care how I look, I just said that because it's something girls say and if I'm going to lie to fans about being in a relationship, I'm basically acting.

So what have I planned? I have unintentionally become an actress, sure it's no commercial, but who said I can't play a part? So I've created my own character.

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I decided rather than get myself all amped up and go to the batting cages, I would turn around and go back to the bus and have a little, but very important, chat with my new kiss partner. Gross. I hate myself for even thinking that.

I walk in and what do I find? Niall holding his hands up and covered in pads and pillows. Wow, he definitely prepared himself...

"You can take off the protection, I'm not gunna hurt you..." By the tone in my voice, everyone could tell I was being honest, including Niall because he took it off.

Although, I couldn't let him get away without a single form of physical punishment. So I slapped him across the face.

"OWWW! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T HURT ME!"

"I lied." I said flatly. "But that's all I am going to do, you are responsible for getting us into this mess. You deserve to be slapped."

"Alright, you have a point there..."

"Of course I do. Anyway, I wanted to tell you I've made up my mind. And also, I'm not mad at you anymore than my original dislike for you."

"Well that's a relief, and yet still insulting...."

"You can thank Korina for the non-violent form of this conversation, you should've seen the one I had planned. It involved your body being dumped over a bridge." He looked confused and relieved and then scared. All completely understandable of course...

"I don't even know what to say right now."

"Wow, that's a first. And I made up my mind. I will kiss you," wow I can't say that without contorting my face like I just swallowed an entire lemon and and suffering from both the sour taste and choking. "BUT this kiss is going to be on my terms."

He looked a little too happy for my liking...

"First of all, it will be short. Emphasis on SHORT! Second, it will never, EVER be repeated, we will make up some crap that 'I don't kiss you in public because I know it hurts the fans,' and third, I just want to clarify that this kiss means absolutely nothing, nada, zilch. I'm doing this because you screwed up. I am just acting, it's a stage kiss. Got it?"

"Got it. But now I have my one requirement, it is going to happen at the county fair next Saturday."

"Fine, remind me to go shopping for some barf bags before then."

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You are probably thinking about how confused you are right now and making the 'what the heck just happened face' well me too girlfrand, me too.

So the truth? First, there is no way I wasn't going to kiss him, the kiss is worth millions and I haven't wasted all this time for nothing. I'm not stupid. At first I was doing this for my family, but now I'm doing it so I haven't wasted my precious time goofing off and not getting paid.

Second, this kiss doesn't exactly mean 'nothing' I realized while talking to Korina; I'm not mad, I'm confused. And by confused I mean about my feelings for him.

The reason I was mad at Niall before was because I was pissed that because of his stupid kiss it made me realize I might like him. Yuck.

As many know, there is a fine line between love and hate and honestly at this point I don't know if my feelings have taken a stupid turn for the worse over time and changed from feelings of hatred to feelings of a crush.

I'm definitely no expert at this, it's probably why I've been so oblivious to Niall's fondness of me as well as my fondness of him. Or, possible fondness for him anyway...

That's why I need to go through with this kiss thing. Last kiss I felt a weird feeling I never felt before. I labelled it as being nothing and backed it up by saying I was probably just so pissed it was bubbling over and I was just caught off guard. Now, I realize it may have been feelings coming from the opposite side of the forbidden line.

So, I plan to pour passion into the kiss, not only to earn my pay and convince management, but also to hopefully convince myself I am wrong. This is one time I'm praying not to be right. I don't want to like him.

THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FAKE! As fake as Nicki Minaj's music.