It All Started With Lou

Consequences

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They finally walk in the door and they are holding hands! Wait, holding hands?? *gasp* they are dating!!! Yay! I mean, they snuck out. I could be fired. I'm having such mixed emotions! Gosh!

They got bagels! Yay! Niall ate all the food that Skyler had and I'm hungry.

Paul sends Niall and Skyler to the kitchen so that he can talk to them while I start making myself an egg bagel. My favorite!

"I HAVE NO PATIENCE FOR YOUR SASS MISSY!" I hear Paul scream. There was no screaming involved in the plan. I turn around and see a frightened Skyler. That's it.

"PAUL!! LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE!! SCREAMING WAS NOT PART OF THE PLAN! SO CALM DOWN!" I scream at him. I don't like seeing my bestie scared and she wasn't going to say anything to stick up for herself.

"Oh my god! Fine, Lou! Ill TRY to talk normally." Paul says to me.

"Not try. You WILL." I instruct him. If he raises his voice at all I can and will slap him. He cannot scare Skyler again.

*Skyler's POV*

Lou ended up yelling at Paul for me. I was going to yell at him myself...eventually. Probably not. He's a scary man.

Lou told Paul to talk normally, guess it was that obvious that I was scared. How amazing is that? Not.

Basically, Niall and I really should have woken up Paul so that he could have kept us safe. He found out about us seeing those girls because they tweeted Niall about seeing him and attached the pictures I took. Management hasn't called, so they overlooked it. If they did care about it, they would have called by now. Paul figured that they probably think that the pictures were photoshopped and that's why we're in the clear. While Paul continues his rant, Niall places his hand on my thigh with his palm facing up, signaling that he wants to hold hands under the table. I gladly accept his hand with mine and we continue to listen to Paul.

Then, out of nowhere, I hear Lou squeal and see her jump up and down. She's looking in the small space between Niall and I. I instantly realize why she's screaming, jump out of my chair, and cover Lou's mouth before she could say anything.

"If you say something....you will be slapped by me. You're my bestie and I don't wanna slap you, but precautions will be taken if you say something." I whisper to her. Niall and I will tell everyone soon, but not like this. We JUST got yelled at and we don't want to look like we were not listening by announcing our relationship. Lou nods her head at me and I slowly remove my hand from her mouth.

"But why aren't you gonna tell anyone? They'll find out eventually.."

"Because if we say something now it'll look like we didn't listen to Paul at all. We will say something at dinner. I promise." I whisper this to her because I don't want anyone to overhear our little chat.

"Okay!" Lou squeals and walks away. She's probably going to get Lux from Harry. Harry always has Lux; it's crazy.

I just realized that everyone must have left the kitchen once I covered Lou's mouth. I have no clue why, but there's no one in here. Even Niall left, so now it's up to me to find him!

I find all the boys, except Niall, talking in the living room and Harry has Lux so Lou has joined in on their conversation. Where is my leprechaun? I go downstairs and I don't see him there. Only Paul was there and he was sleeping again. Oh yeah! I'm tired and want a nap, maybe Niall is in my room? I run up the stairs and attract attention. Damn.

"What are you doing Sky?" Liam asks. All the guys call me Sky and I really like it.

"ERM....I'm just going to take a nap because I woke up at 5am and only got four hours of sleep, and I'm about to crash." I say. It's partly true, I just didn't mention the possibility of Niall being in there. I'm so sneaky. Just kidding because I'm actually not.

"Really? Then why are you sprinting to your room?" Louis questions me. Damn someone's sassy about my business. Like, I can't run to my room?

"'Cause I'm excited for my nap!"

"How are you going to sleep if you're so excited?" Harry questions.

"I don't know. I just will." I say and start to walk off.

"Oh, hey, Skyler? Have you seen Niall?" Shit.

"Um-no! You? I never usually see you guys apart..."

"We haven't seen him. That's why we asked. Mind if we look around?"

"No! You don't even have to ask! My house is your house! For now anyway!"

"Okay! Is it okay if we check your room first? Since you will be taking a nap, we don't want to disturb you."

"Yeah, fine. Go ahead!" Dang. I now know for a fact that Niall is in my room and now they'll find him. I stay in the hallway while Liam peeks his head in my room. He looks at me and motions me over. I'm curious now. Why would he want me to look in my own room? And be quiet too?

I peek into my room and see the cutest sight ever. Niall is asleep on the far side of my bed. I swear I would have a heart attack right now if I were still just a fan, but now I'm a fan AND a girlfriend. I pull out my phone and have an improv photo shoot.

At one point, I climb on my bed and stand over Niall to get a good angle of him sleeping, and my legs get pulled out from under me. I scream because it was an unexpected action. Well, I guess, Niall woke up when I was standing over him and he grabbed my legs, pulled me down, and twisted me to the other side of the bed so I didn't fall on him.

"Hey! Why'd you do that?" I ask him. I don't know why I asked because I already know the answer.

"Because you were standing over me!"

"Yeah, sooooo?"

"Ugh. Nevermind. What took you so long?" Dang. Everyone is still in my room. They just heard that Niall was expecting me. Lets hope they just disregard the question.

"I was talking to Lou and then the guys dragged me on a search party for you."

"We did NOT drag you!!!" Louis screams at me.

"So..? I just wanted to sleep!" They all just laugh at me. Everyone always laughs at how I act when I'm exhausted. "Okay, you found Niall! Woot woot! But can I sleep now? And even if you say no, I'm gonna pass out anyway. So, I suggest that you leave unless you want to be creepers and watch me sleep." I'm just 500% done. I NEED sleep at this point, whether I'm "alone" or not. I really wouldn't be alone because Niall is sleeping in my bed with me because he fell back asleep and no one is going to disturb him.

Everyone floods out of my room so I can sleep. Finally. I climb under my covers and prepare for sleep. Right before I fall asleep, Niall moves and grabs me to cuddle with him. He has his arms wrapped around my waist and I feel so safe. Feeling safe, I fall asleep.

(A/N:

Hey guys! I hope you enjoyed this update! See you all next week :)

-Skyler Horan)