Summer Break (One Direction AU) Fanfiction

Chapter 4 ~ Introductions

Niall's POV

"Wooohoooo!" Niall was running down the street with his shirt off, celebrating the end of college for another few weeks.

"Calm down mate," said Liam as he and Zayn walked behind. "It's not like you've won the lottery or anything,"

"Cheer up, Payno, there's no college now! We can get pissed every night if we wanted to!" said Louis, balancing on a wall, walking across the top for no reason besides the fact that he was very, very happy.

"Yeah! We can do what we want!" exclaimed Harry. He was skipping in true flower-child fashion.

"I suppose so," said Zayn.

Niall and the boys were headed towards the Body Care shop. There, they were buying some fresh lilac hair dye for Niall (and were secretly planning to get some blond as well to do a streak in Zayn's hair, but he hadn't agreed yet, and they didn't think he would, but they were going ahead with it anyway). The current lilac was starting to fade slightly and he wanted it to look good for the summer.

"I'm happy, but you look like a bunch of retarded monkeys like this," sassed Liam.

"We don't care!" shouted Niall.

"We don't care," repeated Louis, matter-of-factly.

"Where are we going after this?" asked Zayn.

"I don't know, home probably," answered Louis.

Niall got an idea. "Let's go back to mine and open a few cans while I do me hair," He knew the best way to get Zayn to do something slightly rebellious was to get him drunk before hand.

"That's a plan," said Liam. "The drink's on me lads,"

Nobody disagreed - they were all a bit broke so free alcohol couldn't be denied - and before long were walking into the shop. It was mostly female dominated so they got a few strange looks as they searched the isles for men's hair dye.

Niall found the dyes. Now he just had to find the right colour. As he did this, he was met by a group of around 6 teenagers, all maybe a bit younger than Niall. One of them (the shortest, he noted) was looking at the different colours while the rest of them chatted. He tried not to stare too much as they looked pretty hardcore; well, maybe just the two boys, but he didn't want to drag attention.

He was stood side-by-side with the red-headed girl for a few moments before Louis followed him onto the isle.

"You found it yet, Niall?" he said, glancing up at the group.

"I think-"

"Oy! Brock! Over here!" Niall was interrupted by Louis yelling over to the people. Well, I guess Louis knows these guys, thought Niall.

As Niall looked over to the other people and the girl looked at Louis, he got a fairly close-up view of her face. She had tanned skin, with icy blue eyes and a cute nose, somehow. She's adorable! Thought Niall.

Then, her gaze turned to his own. He quickly smiled at her and she smiled back before her eyes turned to his hair. She seemed to like it. He grinned to himself. He loved it when people noticed his hair. She then went back to looking through the dyes.

"Louis! Hi!" said the guy, Brock, walking over to him. The other people followed him; one other boy and three other girls. Niall looked at them and smiled, and they waved. They seemed pretty distracted by Louis' tattoos; he was covered in them after all.

"Wait, let me get the other guys," said Louis, turning round the corner and signalling for Liam, Zayn and Harry to come.

They came over and Louis introduced them; "Right, this is Harry, he likes flowers and shit, this is Zayn and he likes books, this is Liam and he's in the fraternity which says enough, and this is Niall and he likes lilac, as you can tell,"