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Chapter 8 - There's Always Perks

Niall's P.O.V.

She just sat there, reading the book. How could she concentrate? All nine of us were in the room, and yet she barley noticed our presence. How did she do it? She could block everybody out and not notice anything happening around her, and it didn't even look like she was trying.

I looked around the room. Louis and Harry were fooling around and chasing each other around the room. Typical Larry moments. Even though they had almost fallen on top of her several times she hadn't noticed them. Danielle and Eleanor were trying to get Zayn to talk about his relationship with Perrie, but so far they had no luck. Liam and James were tossing a soccer ball (A/N: Since it's Nialls point of View I said soccerball, but I'm talking about a football since I'm American. If you're not following that I'll put it in simpler terms, I'm talking about the brown ball, not the black and white one.) around, and Charlie didn't even notice that. And here I was Sitting on the couch across from her, just trying to figure her out. 

"You know she wont put that book down until she's finished with it." James said while sitting down next to me. I looked to him scrunching my eye brows. "She's reading 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower', It's her favorite. She's read it a billion times, and she won't stop." He shook his head, "I don't know what's so interesting about it, It's just a book. And I read it. I didn't think it was very interesting." 

I looked over to Liam who had just sat down on my other side. All he did was shrug. I looked back toward Charlie. Here eyes were glued to the page, while a smile tugged at her lips, and she mouthed some of the words. 

Liam got up, patted my back, and walked over to Danielle, pulling her onto his lap, as she smiled up at him.

"We're thinking about going to the beach, wanna come?" I looked towards Charlie, and back towards James.

"Sure." I guess I wasn't doing anything else. 

"I'll come too." We all look towards Charlie. Yet, she still didn't acknowledge us, but she heard what James said? She stood up, still reading her book, and slowly walked towards the stairs, and cautiously climbed up them. I watched her while I smile tugged on my lips. Turning around, I saw that everyone was watching her, a little shocked. And then there was James. Shaking his head and claiming that she was weird. 

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Still Niall's P.O.V. 

We had just arrived at the beach, and everyone was in the water except me and Charlie. She sat there reading, while I pretended to sleep. Really, I was watching her. She was just so interesting, I didn't know what it was, but there was something that intrigued me. 

Chalie's P.O.V.

"So, if this does end up being my last letter, please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. 

And I will believe the same about you.

Love Always, 

Charlie"

I glanced up from the last page when I finished reading, to see Niall watching me. I looked back down and smiled to myself. "I know you're looking at me." I chuckled. He looked shocked that I noticed, and slightly embarrassed.

"Oh..uhm.. yah.." He stuttered, making me laugh. "Did you finish the book?" i nodded my head, glancing down towards the last page. I loved this book, but nobody seemed to understand that. Niall got up from where he was and sat down next to me. Barley leaning over my arm, he read the title and looked up at me. "Whats it about?" I smiled gently and looked down at the book, my fingers skimming through the pages.