Golden Heart n.s

07. Cafe Jobs

NIALL

"Louis fucking Tomlinson!" I shout out loud once I spot his familiar brunette hair among the rest of the heads. I push my way through the mass of students, catching up to him.

He turns around at my voice, grinning. "And now, the whole of England knows my name." He rolls his eyes. I breathe out a short laugh. "What's up?"

"I just wanted to ask if that cafe you're working at is hiring?" I ask randomly and he raises a brow in surprise.

"And you had to scream my name for the entire world to hear just to ask me that?" He scoffs. I giggle, shrugging.

"I had to grab your attention. So? Are you guys hiring?"

"Yeah. There's only me and two other workers there, so we could really use all the help we can get." He says. "Why the sudden thought though?" He asks. I shrug slightly.

"I need the cash." I say. He snorts out a laugh.

"Ni, your parents are loaded. You're filthy rich." I roll my eyes, huffing slightly in annoyance.

"And yet, they couldn't care less. I just want to earn some cash on my own, ya know." He smiles softly, nodding.

"Sure. You wanna come by after your class?" He asks. I nod.

"Yeah, I'll drop by after track practice. Are you working today?"

"Yeap, dinner shift." He tells me.

"Great, I'll be there at let's say... 8 yeah? I'll end my practice at 7."

"Sure." He grins widely. "We close at 9 by the way."

Before I could say anything further, my phone rings, and I'm putting a finger up for Louis, gesturing for him to wait.

I pull my phone out, seeing that it's my mum.

"Hello?" I answer, rather tentatively, seeing as it's pretty rare for my mother to call.

"Niall, hunny!" She greets me, rather enthusiastically.

"Hey mum. What's up?" I answer. Louis raises a brow at me, obviously not expecting it to be my mum either.

"How are you and Mrs Styles son doing? Edward was it?" She asks, her voice overly sweet.

"Yeah. We're fine, I suppose. Taking it slow." I tell her.

"Good, good. Your father and I are planning to treat Mr and Mrs Styles' family to dinner this weekend. So bring Edward along, yeah?" I sigh softly. Wait, family, does that mean Harry's gonna be there too? Why do you care, Niall? Well, things might be a little... weird.

"Why so sudden?" I ask. It's not that I don't want to have dinner with them.. it's just... yeah, who am I kidding, I don't want to have dinner with them. Which part of taking it slow did she not understand? And meeting parents, having 'family' dinner is far from taking it slow.

"Your father wants to discuss a business deal with Mr Styles." She tells me and I roll my eyes. Of course, why did I even ask?

"Plus, we wanna know more about the alpha our baby's dating." She coos and I sigh, running a hand through my hair.

"Fine. What time and when?" I ask defeatedly, already knowing that there's no way out of this.

"I knew you'd understand, love." And I can just imagine the wide smile on her face at the moment, which makes me feel slightly better. I just want my mother to be happy, even if it means going to this stupid dinner.