I'm a Payne // n.h.

Chapter 5

"We cooked. It's your obligation to clean." I said smiling at Niall. "I think I'm going to go for a quick nap." I walked up the stairs and went into my room for the summer studying it. It was really nice, with a walk out balcony that overlooked a great forest. I laid down on the couch outside and slowly drifted off.

Niall's POV

After what she pulled with Jessica, I realized I really did l like her. I mean, she's perfect. From her long dark brown hair, her never ending hazel eyes, and her adorable cheek bones. In general, she has a kick ass personality, which I really love about a girl. I wanted to spend more alone time with her, but I've already spent more alone time with her than she spent with her best friend. Liam got up and went up to talk to Alyssa or something. Right as Liam walked away, Harry of course had something to say, or do, as they tackled me to the ground and took my phone away from me. Not that I cared or anything, I had absoloutley nothing on there.

"So, Niall" Louis started. "Alyssa." He wiggled his eyebrows. I tried getting up but they pushed me down even harder.

"What?"

"You know."

"You know what?"

"That you like her."

"No, I don't."

"Prove it."

"How am I supposed to prove it Louis?

"I don't kn-" Alyssa cut me off.

"Hey do you guys have any bottles of water?" She looked at us dogpiled on the floor. "What are you doing?" I got nervous.

"Oh, we're just trying to get Niall to prove to himself that he likes you, Alyssa." Harry stated matter-of-factly. I blushed.

"Alyssa, tell them we have nothing going on, that we're just friends so that they'll get off of me!" I

She had a blank expression on her face. "There is nothing going to between Niall and I we're just friends, so stop crushing the poor lad." She said a monotone voice. Louis looked at me to Alyssa back and fourth twice, he finally got up.

"Whatever you say Nialler." He walked away, the rest of the lads getting up simultaneously, following his lead.

Alyssa's POV

I was heartbroken. The bad thing was I couldn't show any emotion, or do anything about it without making it obvious that I was developing feelings for Niall. I had to play it off as nothing, I didn't have anyone around me to talk to. Liam wouldn't approve, Zayn, Louis, and Harry would tell him, and well you know, and I obviously could not talk to Niall. I took a deep breath and put my headphones into my iPhone and blasted the music, slowly drifting off.

Niall's POV

I couldn't believe what I just said. Admitting I liked her would have been 10x easier than just doing that. She made it clear that she didn't have feelings for me, why would she? I was her brothers best friend. She had limits, or she just didn't like me. I mean who would? I wasn't good enough for her. Hell, she could have a boyfriend for all I know. She never said anything about being single in the first place, and she was drop dead beautiful, who wouldn't want her?

Two hours later we decided to skip the London Eye, and go straight to the carnival.

We arrived at the parking lot-turned fair and bought enough tickets to last us till at least 10 tonight.

"Buddy system!" Liam shouted sounding like the Father figure he is.

Ironically, Alyssa and I were the only ones left. I gave her a smile and she smiled back. "We cool?" I asked looking into her eyes.

"Course. Why wouldn't we be?" She chirped happily. That almost put me over the edge, she spoke like nothing's wrong. Like earlier had never happened. We were just 'friends.' I tried to remain happy, but it was hard.

Alyssa's POV

It was hard not to break down and melt into him. We went down those huge slides twice, us winning each one time. The rides were the usual spinning ones that I loved and Niall and I went on every single one and before we knew it was nighttime and the rides were flashing and gave off a pretty shine. At one point in time he grabbed my hand to make sure we wouldn't 'get lost.' I replied back, calling him cheeky not that I was going to let his hand go. He won me an stuffed purple monkey that I hadn't let out of my sight either, because I had sucked so bad at those fair games. It had gotten pitch black and we had gone on every ride, except the ferris wheel.

"We have to go on it to say that we went on every ride." Niall commented. Honestly I just wanted to sit up at the top forever, with him. Even if we were just friends. We stood in line, then got into the bench. Our purple monkey sat inbetween us, leaving a good foot and a half between us. We rode around about 20 times talking about how pretty it was from the top, when we stopped at the very top.

"I love stopping at the top, that minute when you can just see everything." I commented.

"It feels like you're on top of the world." His Irish accent sounding really cute at the moment.

"How long have we been up here?" I asked.

"At least like 10 minutes." He suddenly sounded alarmed.

"Do you think we're stuck up here?" I asked suddenly getting the shivers. Niall picked up the purple monkey set it to the side of him and put his arm . around me and gave me his jacket. "I don't need this, you take it back."

"No, you take it. And probably. You don't sit at the top of a ferris wheel for 10 minutes." Niall commented. I smelled the jacket. It smelled really good.

"What are we gonna do about it? And by the way this smells really good." I commented leaning my head on his shoulder.

"We could tweet demanding it to be fixed?" Niall laughed and pulled out his iPhone and snapped a picture of us, arm around me and all. My phone buzzed with the notification.

@NiallOfficial: stuck on the top of a ferris wheel. #getusdowncarneys! Trend it! @AlyssaPayne

I looked at the twitpic, it was really cute. Niall's arm was snug around me my hair flowing behind me, his jacket baggily laying on my arms. The only light we got was the moon, and the fair lights around us. I saved it to my phone and made a mental note to put it as my wallpaper later. I put my phone away and Niall did the same.

An good half hour of peaceful silence passed and Niall broke it.

"Did you really mean it when you said you just wanted us to be friends?" Niall asked looking into my eyes.