Walls

Chapter Ten: Seriously?!

Niall kept his head down and we tried to decide on what to eat.

"Niall!" She kept calling as she walked up to us.

"Oh hey, Alexandra." He said quietly and winced at my glare. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? HE CHEATED ON ME WITH A GIRL WITH PRACTICALLY THE SAME NAME?! I griped to myself. She looked me over with distaste, but smiled at Niall.

"I haven't seen you in forever! How long has it been?" She giggled obnoxiously. I wrapped my arm through his own instinctively.

"Umm, maybe three or four months?" He made it sound like more of a question.

"Ohmygosh! Wehavetoreconect!" Her words started to slur together and I cleared my throat. She turned to me and her expression immediately became disgusted. "Who is this?" She said in a monotone.

"Umm, this is my sty-err...girlfriend." Niall confirmed cautiously and my eyes widened but I managed a false smile of bliss and I held out my hand.

"I'm Alexandria, but I go by Lexi." I smiled and tried not to sound annoyed.

"Oh, well I'm Alexandra." She said boredly. "How long have you been together?" She asked, trying to sound interested. I forced another smile and he smiled as well.

"Seven and a half months." We said automatically and we exchanged a mystified look as he planted a kiss on my lips. A knowing smirk grew on her overly collagen filled lips. I rolled my eyes as her slutty friends began to call for her.

"Well I have to go but it was sooo nice to see you again, Niall! We have to talk soon!" She smiled and slapped a folded piece of paper into his hand and ran off with her crew of sluts.

"Ugh, Americans." I rolled my eyes and we ordered food for the boys and my sister, realizing they're probably wondering where we are. "So what made you pick that one?"

"For the life of me, I don't know why I even went for something like that when I had a beautiful girl like you that I was crazy about." He sighed sadly. I shook my head to banish tears that sprang into my green eyes. "I'm sorry I made you go through hell, Alex." He said, lifting my chin to meet his eyes.

"I thought I was in hell..." I looked down, "but maybe things DO happen for a reason." He smiled that same smile that made me fall in love with him in the first place.

"Why did you say seven and a half months when she asked?" Niall asked.

"That's about how long we where together before you...you know, cheated," I said the last word uneasily and he nodded solemnly. An awkward silence passed between until he cleared his throat.

"I have idea for some names." He said confidently.

"Oh?" I smiled and raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah I was thinking Harper or Rose or maybe Charlotte." He smiled.

"What about boys' names?" I giggled.

"Umm...I don't know I was looking forward to a little girl." He chuckled and I smiled.

"Me too, I kind of had a dream about this little girl and her name was Elizabeth Rose, it sounded like a perfect name." I said and nodded confirmingly.

"Elizabeth Rose." He repeated to himself, "Huh, it does have a nice ring to it." He smiled and we reached the group of hungry boys and a whiney girl.

"Lexi!" Melissa whined, "Louis tried to put me in a trash can!" I put my hand under my chin and moved my eyes between my little sister and stripe-wearing boy.

"'Nice job, Louis!" I giggled and high fived him. Melissa stomped her feet in a huff and fished herself a burger from the pile of trays we had in our hands.

"TACOS!" Harry screeched and grabbed a few from the tray. I rolled my eyes and grabbed a gargatuan piece of Chicago style pizza.

"Since when do you like pizza?" My sister asked.

"Since I wanted some damn pizza." I growled and took a bite of the cheesy goodness.

"What took you guys so long anyways?" Louis asked with a mouthful of hot dog. Niall and I exchanged a knowing look and I smirked at him.

"We ran into an old friend." I said and the boys shrugged their shoulders. I finished my pizza and waited impatienly as the boys seemed to take their time to enjoy their food. My eyelids became heavy as sleep threatened my exsistence. I felt myself being lifted from the hard bench and a hand under my head and knees. I felt like a stupid child but I had no energy to kick or fuss, because I was in the type of sleep where you could hear everything around you but couldnt do anything about it. My body was laid across the familiar leather seat of the SUV and my head supported by someone's lap.

"Lexi, you feel asleep at the table." A velvety voice whispered and I nodded dreamily.

"Thank you." I mumbled and I felt the car come to a gentle stop and someone lifting me once again and struggling to get me into the small doorway of the tour bus. I felt my body sink into the softness of my bunk and a figure tiptoeing around, picking up my bedding that had been thrown around this morning. My head was gently lifted and my soft pillow was slid under it. I quickly turned to my stomach and buried my face into my sweet-smelling pillow. I rolled over again to my back to get a little more comfortable. Finally, my duvet was pulled up to my shoulders and I nuzzled into the warmness quickly.

"Thank you." I said sleepily.

"You're welcome, Lexi." I heard his voice very near my head and I wrapped my arms around his neck unknowingly. I pulled him in slowly and felt a pair of unfamiliar, yet soft, lips against mine. Whoever he was pulled away slowly, still having ahold of my hand.

"Goodnight Lex." He kissed the back of my hand and I heard the scratching of those metal curtain rods on alluminum as he closed the curtain to my bunk.