A Trip To Tesco - Harry Styles Fanfic - WATTY AWARDS 2012

Chapter 27 - Picnic

Chapter 27 - Picnic

Five days had now passed and I was now home from hospital, things had been going really well and I was now able to talk. Sure when I first got back I was a bit wobbly on my feet and I sometimes had trouble remember things but that had all gone now.

Harry hadn’t come around since the day I saw him at the hospital, I hadn’t even received a text or call from him, not that I wanted to speak to him anyway. I’d been spending a lot of time with the others, especially Zayn and Niall. Liam and Louis would often come around with Danielle and Eleanor and I loved being in their company.

Niall was a great laugh and felt like a brother to me, although he’s been texting a lot lately and every time I catch him he has a massive smile on his face, I’m pretty sure a girl has to do with it but I’ll ask him about it later.

Then there’s Zayn. I’ve become so close to him, I can’t believe we were distant at the start, I can tell him anything and he always listens and gives me the best advice. He knows how to make me laugh and pick me up when I’m down, which is quite often when I think about Harry. It still hurts like hell at what he did, but I can’t lie - I missed him.

“Daisy, we’re going to the park. Do you want to join us?” Zayn asked, he, Niall, Louis, Liam, Danielle and Eleanor had been arranging to go on a picnic there and invited me. Harry had gone home to his family for a few days according to Niall so there was no chance of getting caught up with him.

“Yeah I’d love to, let me just change” I said running upstairs. It only took me ten minutes to get ready, I wasn’t that bothered in making myself look mega pretty - who was there to impress? Since I’ve gotten closer to Zayn I’ve learnt more about him – such as even though he is labelled as the ‘vain’ one in the band he’s not bad. Sure it takes him the longest to get ready but being in the public eye does make you want to look your best.

I ran down the stairs and grabbed my bag before walking out the door to the van where everyone else was sitting ready to go, I squeezed myself in and shut the door looking for an empty seat. The only one available was between Zayn and Liam so I sat down fastening my seatbelt under Liam’s gaze and looked up to Zayn’s smiling figure.

The drive to the park was filled with chatter between us all, switching from chicken, to shoes, to pineapples – I’m not sure how – but eventually we made it to the park and hopped out. It was a hot day so we all came prepared with sunglasses and sun cream (Liam) as well as blankets, a football and a picnic (Niall).

I put my Ray Ban sunglasses on and sat on the blanket next to Eleanor and Danielle as they boys kicked around the ball in front of us. It wasn’t that busy and for the moment, so we were free from any paparazzi, although I wasn’t sure how much longer that would last. The press knew I had been hanging out with the boys again so I didn’t have to hide like I did with Harry. I wonder what he’s doing now- I cut my thoughts off not wanting to think about him.

“So you and Zayn seem to be getting on pretty well” Eleanor said winking at me, I rolled my eyes and laughed.

“Yeah, he’s a great friend” I said sipping one of the cartons of orange juice, Danielle and Eleanor looked at each other before grinning making me slightly worried at what they were thinking.

“Do you not see it?” Danielle asked, my forehead creased as I wondered what she was on about. Was I being dumb or something?

“See what?” I had no clue what they were on about.

“Zayn likes – likes you” Eleanor said grinning, I thought about what she said then it hit me – HE LIKES ME? He can’t can he? I’m mean we’re friends, and just friends at that. He couldn’t like me when Harry did, didn’t that break the guy code or something?

“No he doesn’t” I said concluding an answer in my mind, he had no reason to like me. It was crazy enough that Harry liked me, yet a second member of one of the most famous bands in the world liked me too!

“Don’t you see the way he looks at you?” Danielle said, what?! He looks at me like a normal person; I mean what else was he to me? I didn’t see him as anything as more than a friend, sure he was good looking and had a great personality but so did all the others and they were like brothers to me.

“He’s just a friend, nothing more” I said and they pouted, I couldn’t help but let me eyes wonder off towards him. He was lying on the floor with the ball clutched in his arms as the others tried to get it off him, I smiled at the sight. They were an amazing group of guys and I was so lucky to know them, ever since the Josie thing I’ve not taken anything for granted.

Louis managed to grab the ball and came running in our direction hiding behind Eleanor, Niall, Liam and Zayn came jogging over and sat down on the blanket, opening the picnic basket and opening everything to eat, I rolled my eyes but grabbed some food otherwise it would be gone by the time I wanted any.

“Who packed the basket?” Louis said looking rather annoyed although I wasn’t sure at what; he was alright a second ago. Liam raised his hand looking rather worried at Louis.

“You forgot to pack the carrots, how am I meant to enjoy this when there’s no carrots?!” Louis exclaimed pretending to cry on Eleanor’s shoulder as she pattered his back.

“Well you don’t normally take carrots on picnics Lou” Liam said eating part of his ham sandwich, while Niall was grinning texting and eating on doughnut. I bet it was his mystery lady.

“Niall, who are you texting?” I said trying to look over his shoulder but he hid it before I could see, his face went slightly red and he shook his head before replying.

“N-No-one” he stammered obviously lying, the others had all seen him too and had mischievous grins on their faces. Zayn and Louis looked at each other and nodded tackling him down, each pinning a side while Liam got the phone out of his hand. Niall protested the whole time and even though I felt slightly sorry for him I really wanted to know who this girl was!

“So Niall you and Katie huh? Seems you two are pretty close by the texts you’ve been sending” Liam said scanning through his phone ,I grinned at his defeat. Katie huh? Niall wouldn’t hear the end of this that’s for sure!

“Uh, yes” Niall said as Zayn and Louis let go and Liam handed him his phone back, he scowled but wasn’t that annoyed at them.

“So? Tell us!” Eleanor exclaimed speaking on behalf of all of us. Niall rolled his eyes and picked up a packet of crisps before he began.

“Well when we were visiting Daisy at the hospital I bumped into this girl visiting her Uncle. We talked and you know…” Niall said while shoving a crisp in his mouth. I was so happy that he’d found someone he really liked!

“Aww” Everyone murmured and Niall’s cheeks went red again. I needed the toilet but didn’t know where the closet was so asked.

              “I know where they are, I need the toilet anyway” Zayn said standing up next to me, I asked if anyone else needed to go but they shook their heads, Danielle and Eleanor eyed me with a knowing look but I just shook it off.

The walk to the toilet was pretty quiet, we didn’t say much and thank goodness we didn’t get seen or I would be plastered as Zayn’s latest hook-up, and I didn’t want to look like the type of person that went out with lots of boys, especially those in the same band.

Once I walked out of the toilet I found Zayn already standing there grinning at me, I smiled back and walked up to him before we began heading back to the others. Occasionally his arm would brush against mine but that’s about it – or so I thought. Suddenly Zayn stopped and held my arm making me turn and look at him – I had to be truthful, his eyes were amazing!

“Daisy I need to do something I’ve wanted to do for ages?” he said and before I could take in what he said his lips crashed against mine, I didn’t know how to react. Zayn Malik of One Direction had just kissed me when I was/wasn’t/not sure that Harry Styles was my boyfriend.