Together

Chapter 7

NIALL’s POV

Having laughed a lot for the whole evening, we ended up sitting on the couch. Laura chose a serie on the internet to watch. I don’t even remember the name because we hardly concentrated on it and honestly I’m not interested in it. I think it’s “Gossip guy” or something like that.

“You want something else to drink?” I ask sleepy Laura. I look at the clock. God, it’s already  1 am.

“Don’t know. Maybe after all those glasses of wine a little bit water wouldn’t be bad!” she answers with a smile. I have to grin. We’ve been drinking like two bottles of wine.

“Okay” I leave the room and enter the kitchen. It has been such a lovely evening. I grab my phone which is laying on the commode. It’s switched off. I remember switching it off before the movie had started. I look at it and suddenly it starts vibrating and beeping: 7 missed calls and 15 missed messages. All coming from management, only one from Zayn. I decide to open Zayn’s message first. It arrived only some minutes after we had gone to the movies. Everything’s fine again? ;) hah, have fun. Don’t forget the meeting 2morrow!

Oh yes. The damn meeting. I’ve already thought of a chilled day with Laura, but unfortunatly the meeting is important. We’ll be told all the details for our concert at Wembley Stadium in five days. Damn it. I open the fridge when my phone rings again. It’s Louis. Why is he calling me at one am? I decide to answer it.

“Yeah?”

“Hey, Niall! Jessy from management has just called me to say that I have to tell you to call her. I don’t know why she doesn’t call you herself but mate, she seemed really angry and annoyed. So if I were you, I’d call her immediately.”

“Louis, you know that it’s one am. I don’t need to be contactable this late. I mean we also have a private life!”

“Have we? Niall, you needn’t tell me this, ‘cause you know I’m also fucking annoyed of her. She’s always calling this late. But hey! We can’t change it. So let it go. Just call her back.”

“Yes, the only problem is that I have visit. And I don’t want to have a fucked up conversation with management with her being around.”

“Her? Who is she? Niall, you finally got to know somebody?”

“Yeah, I don’t know. She’s really cute and we’re getting along so well. We laugh and talk about everything except…”

“Except?” he asks with a knowing tone.

I don’t want to admit that I didn’t tell her about the band, my friends, my every day life, actually my whole life. I don’t answer him. But I know that I needn’t ‘cause he know it anyway.

“Niall, you didn’t tell her about the band?” he asks… softly?

“Maybe… I mean, yes. I didn’t tell her. She just dumped into me the other day and she didn’t recognize me. But she liked me anyway. And we had a great day. And today she called me and we went to the movies. And you know it feels so great to know that somebody, well, a girl likes you because of you. Not because of you’re job, you’re house, you’re car, you’re money, you’re friends. Not because you are a star and in a succesfull band. Only because of you. Louis, this feels so great.” It’s so nice to talk about. I know that it’s wrong not telling her this. And I know that it won’t take much time until she finds out, or - even worse - the media finds out about her. I don’t know how she will react. But I know for sure that she won’t like it.

“Hey. It’s okay. I can totally understand you. Of course you like it. We all would. At the beginning of a relationship you never know how serious the girl is. But you’ll find out very fast. And you also have to see her site. It’s not fair for her neither. Not knowing that there are thousands of other girls who would – and will - hate her if the knew what a lucky girl she is. So if you wanna know my opinion, it is: Tell her!”

I sigh. I knew he would say this. “Yes, I’ll think about it. But you know, she’s different. I’m not sure if she likes this glamour and the éclat she would surely get. Not speaking about all the hate. Maybe she would even dump me?” Louis doesn’t answer for a while before he says:

“She would be really stupid if she dumped you! She can be fucking lucky to have you in her life. And she needs to accept your job, your life. Otherwise she doesn’t even deserve you.”

“I hope so” I really do. Otherwise I’d really understand her of she wouldn’t accept my life.

“Okay, Nialler. It’s 1:20 am now and I know that Jessy’s getting’ furious. So please call her back.”

“Yeah, though I really hate myself for doing this because you know it’s so late and we have…”

“…our private life.” He interrupts me. “I know. Well, good night. And have fun with her” he laughs and hangs up.

I sigh again. But before I’ll call Jessy, I have to bring Laura her water. I’m sure she’s already wondering why taking a simple glass of water, takes 20 minutes. As I enter the living room, I see that she’s  fell asleep. I’m just looking at her. She’s really pretty – even when she sleeps. She’s breathing with the mouth so it’s a bit open. I think she’s freezing so I take a blanket, sit down next to her and wrap it gently around her. She sighs in her sleep and I have to smile. I really, really like her. I decide to not let Jessy wait any longer. So I press the “answer button” to call her.

She answers immediately and starts screaming in the same second.

“NIALL! I’ve been trying to call you for hours. Why didn’t you answer?! You know it’s important when I call you at this time. I…” I interrupt her. Who does she think she is? Screaming at me this way.

“Stop it. If you don’t stop screaming at me, I will end this call. You know it’s 1:40 am and I know it’s hardfor you to imagine this. But guess what? I also have a private life.”

“Yes, I know, Niall. And I wanted to talk to you exactly about this private life.” She answers angrily. Oh no, this doesn’t sound good. What happened? I didn’t even do anything.

“Okay. You’ve got five minutes. Then I have to go to bed ‘cause tomorrow is this very important meeting” I say with sarcasm in my voice.

“Great. I want to talk with you about the girl you’re meeting.”

(Sorry for this late update. Please vote if you liked and maybe you could also tell some friends about the story? Love you! Good night! Xo)