“Boys shut up.” I groaned. They wouldn’t stop making fun of me because of last night.
“Sorry babe, but it’s too funny!” Zayn said still laughing. I picked up a pillow and whipped it at his head.
“It was the first time I ever got drunk. Now let’s figure out what to do today.”
“Why don’t we go to the lake?” Suggested Liam
“Or we could play truth or dare?” Louis said snickering
I turned towards him and growled ready to pounce.
“Okay! The lake sounds good, meet down there in ten?” Niall said clapping his hands together.
Ten minutes later we were all at the lake and the girls and I were all tanning, while the boys were all swimming. I felt a shadow go over me and before I could open my eyes I was being thrown over someone’s shoulder. “Put me down right now!” I screamed “Okay.” I heard Harry chuckle and then I was thrown into the lakes cold water. I went under and popped back up to see Harry running away from me.
I shot up and chased after him only to be captured by Niall.
“It’s not worth it. Just enjoy the water.”
I smiled at him and started to swim around. Niall swam over to me and grabbed my ankle and pulled me under. I screamed under water and pushed him. He grabbed my waist and attempted to kiss me, which ended with him swallowing water. I wriggled out of his grip and broke through the surface and took in a deep breath. A few seconds later Niall popped up and smiled at me.
“Let’s go on the dock?” I said nodding my head towards the dock
“Sure, race ya!” he started off without waiting for my reply.
“Hey no fair!” I shouted but took off.
Unfortunately for him I was a very good swimmer and beat him, by a lot in fact.
I hopped up on the dock and a few seconds later Niall popped up next to me out of breath.
“How can you swim that fast?”
“Niall, I have something to tell you…” I said seriously
“Uh okay, what is it?”
“I’m a mermaid.” I said straight faced
He started laughing until he saw that I wasn’t.
“You’re joking right?”
“No Niall, I’m serious.”
He stared at me wide eyed.
“What the hell. Where’s your tail?” He asked me seriously
I laughed inside my head at how gullible he was. He grabbed my leg and started inspecting it.
I couldn’t take it anymore and started laughing.
“What? What’s so funny?”
I laughed even more. “Niall I was joking! You are so gullible!” I said laughing even more.
“Hey I knew you were lying! I was just pretending to believe you!” He said pouting
“Yeah sure you did Niall.”
He rolled his eyes and pouted again. I laughed at him and leaned over and kissed him.
He snapped out of it and started to kiss me back. I reluctantly pulled away, not wanting things to go too far and laid back on the dock. Niall laid back and snuggled into my side. I smiled to myself and cuddled into him some more.
I sighed in content and looked out at the water. All the others were paired up and it seemed like they were having fun.
All the boys were together with someone, so that left out any awkwardness. Josh and the rest of the band decided to stay back at the hotel thinking that this was a ‘couple retreat’ I wish they really would have come along.
We stayed out on the dock for an hour until someone suggested we’d have a barbeque. Niall and I reluctantly let go of each other and swam back to the others.
Now the boys were trying to start a fire but with no luck.
“Guys, step back and let the pro handle this.” I said smirking
I grabbed some small sticks and a napkin and put the napkin inside the small teepee.
I lit the napkin on fire and started to blow on it. Soon it caught on fire and I threw some logs onto it. After a couple of minutes a nice big fire was started. Now I had to light the grill for the actual cooking.
I threw on some burgers and a couple of hot dogs. Harry soon took over not wanting me to ‘burn’ them. I just rolled my eyes and went over to Niall. I sat down on his lap and looked at the fire. It was slowly dying down and we needed some wood.
“Niall can you come help me look for wood? We’re running low.”
He nodded and got up.
“Guys we’re looking for some wood, we’ll be right back!” I shouted to whoever was listening
“Payton the wood is in Niall’s pants.” I shook my head at Louis and Niall just blushed.
We walked off and started looking around.
“Hey Payton?”
“Yeah?” I said looking back at him
“Can I ask you a question?”
“Sure.” I said walking up to him and grabbing my hand.
“So as you know, we’re leaving soon to go home, and I was thinking…”
My heart skipped a beat, this is it. He’s gonna end things with me. I closed my eyes waiting for him to say it.
He grabbed my chin “Why are your eyes closed?”
I shrugged my eyes still closed. “If you’re gonna break up with me, then just do it already.”
I felt his hand leave my face and his arms wrapped around me.
“You thought-?” I felt him chuckle
“Oh god no Payton! I want you to come back to Ireland and ya know? Meet the family and the lads.”
I opened my eyes in shock. He wanted me to meet his family? His friends?
“Sure!” I said tackling him in a hug. He laughed and hugged me back.
“Okay, I think we got enough wood. Let’s head back.”
We both grabbed some and headed back. We broke through the clearing and set the wood down.
“Pay, did you find some good wood?” Lou asked wiggling his eyebrows
“Yeah sure did.” I replied with a smirk and watched Lou choke on his drink and Niall turn cherry red.
