Stole My Heart.

Tweets and Texts

Rachel's POV

It had been a couple of days since our little run in with One Direction. I still had Niall's number in my phone but I was too much of a scaredy cat to actually text him first.

"Guys, do you think I should text him?" I asked nervously to Aleah and Katie.

"No," they both said at the same time.

"The guy always text first," Aleah said smiling at her cell phone. Easy for her to say. Zayn texted her ten minutes after they left.

"If you text first, it's going to make you look desperate," Katie said as she was playing the piano. We had stopped in a music store after the instrument had caught her eye. She practically started drooling.

"What if he doesn't like me?" I said.

"Don't say that! I'm sure he's just nervous to text you," Katie said, "Right Aleah?"

Aleah was giving me a sympathetic look, "To be honest, it's been awhile..." she looked down as if she shouldn't have said it, "Sorry."

"Nah, at least your being truthful," I said.

"Guys, listen to this song!" Katie started to play the piano in a cute upbeat way. The way she could whip up songs like that was amazing.

"Just out of curiosity, make a song out of these notes," Aleah plucked four notes that sounded bad. Katie shrugged and played out chords that followed the notes.

"...I hate you," Aleah and I said at the same time. Just then my phone buzzed and I looked down. Niall had just tweeted.

That moment where your just looking at her name, not knowing how to start the conversation.

"Guys!" I whined. They ran over.

"Did he text you?!"

"Yea, did he?"

"No, it's worse!" they both waited, "he likes another girl!" They both looked at my phone and then just stared at me.

"Sometimes I wonder..." Aleah said.

"Wow."

"What?" I said.

"Just wow," Katie said, going back to the piano.

"What is it?" I asked.

"He...you... you see Niall... Oh, never mind!" Aleah said.

What were they talking about? It was obvious that Niall liked another girl and he was having trouble talking to her. If he needed someone to talk to, I could help him. Even if I was helping him out by setting him up with another girl. If it made him happy.

So, I heard that you're having trouble texting a girl? I finally had the guts to text him, even though it broke my heart.

I got an immediate reply: Yea, I really like her but I don't know how to start the conversation

Why don't you try "Hi"?

Hahaha, I guess I'm just too nervous to text her first. What if I get rejected?

I'm pretty sure you have nothing to worry about in that field

Haha thanks, Rachel. My heart beat fast. Even though he didn't say my name, I could her his Irish accent in my head. I felt so bad that he couldn't talk to the girl so I gave in.

What's her number? I'll text her for you

Really?!

Yea, I'll put in a good word for you! I waited a little bit before he text me a number. I quickly sent a message to the number saying: Do you know Niall? My phone buzzed. I was pretty sure it was Niall so I opened it. It just said: Do you know Niall? Confused, I texted it back saying: Yea, I do. Who is this? After about five minutes of this I soon realized that the number Niall had texted me, was my own. I'm so stupid.

Niall, you texted me my number

Yea, I texted the number of the girl I like;) What was he talking about? Aleah suddenly burst into laughter, "What's up?" I asked. She came over to me and started reading through my texts.

"Zayn just told me that Niall has been texting you," she had a grin on he face.

"Yea...? And?"

"I knew that this would happen. I can't believe you texted yourself for five minutes. The girl Niall likes is you!" She giggled, handing me my phone back.

"No! He said that he..." she was just giving me the: "Rachel, you're stupid" look, "But he can't... I mean...Come on! It's me."

"It's Niall Horan!" she said.

"Exactly!" I said, "You and Katie both have fantastic guys, even if it's not official! And you both are talented! Aleah, you can sing, dance and act. Katie is practically Beyonce. I'm just me, there's nothing special,"Katie stopped playing and looked at me.

"That's a lie. Rachel, you have a black belt. If that doesn't scream "hot" I don't know what does," she laughed.

"Come on! And you both are pretty!" I said.

"Niall doesn't seem the type to judge girls on their appearance," Aleah said.

"Ok... so you guys were kinda made for each other," Katie joked, "Let's see, his name is Niall Horan. Your name is Rachel Whorton. Both your last names mean "the whore." If you take away the w and t, then change the last o to an a, you have Horan," she finished with a smile.

"Holy crap guys!" Aleah said, "I totally realized you can do the same thing to mine and Zayn's name!" She wrote 'Aleah Zody' then 'Zayn Malik' on the white board, "Look! If you erase my entire name, you have Zayn Malik," both me and Katie laughed at her sarcasm.

Did I say something wrong? Niall texted.

No, you just said something incredibly right

"Awww! You guys are going to be so cute!" Katie squeaked. Only with Aleah and I will Katie ever act like this. Niall and I continued text and each time I would get a text from him I couldn't help but sigh. He was so perfect. the phone rang loudly and we all jumped. Katie pulled out her phone and answered it.

"Hey Harry," she said nonchalantly, "Yea? Mhmm," she smirked, "We'd love to!" she said too enthusiastically, "I mean, we'd love to" her voice went back monotone, "Alright, see you there."

"What is it?" I asked.

"Harry just said that he, Niall, and Zayn want to meet up with us at the movie theatre later."

See you soon, babe Niall texted.

My heart melted.