Happily

Happily - chapter 7

Niall's POV

She looks stunning. I'm taking her to a small restaurant just off campus, nothing to fancy as I'm not sure if she likes that sort of stuff and because I'm not made of money. We continue to walk out of the girls dorm complex, I want to talk to her but I don't know what to say. Just say something. "You look pretty" I say like an idiot "thanks, not so bad yourself" she replies with a tiny bit of laughter on the end. We finally make our way to my car, I unlock it and open the door for Beth as she steps inside and does her seatbelt up, I walk round the other side of the car and do the same. We drive in silence, I'm searching for words to start a conversation but I can't seem to find any. "So where are we going ?" She asks breaking the more then awkward silence that fills the car "it's a little italian place not long away now" I answer her, I hope she likes italian food. "Great. I love pizza. Defiantly my favourite food" she says. Yes. "That's good. I love pizza to" I reply, I can't help but a laugh a little at her answer. "What's so funny ?" She adds also kind of giggling looking confused, "nothing, it's just that most girls ask if they have salad or something. But your very different" I tell her, it's the truth. "Well it's good to be a bit different sometimes" she answers, I love her originality. I've only taken out a few girls and they all wore very short skirts or tight skimpy dresses and ordered a salad and water, but not Beth and that's a good thing. I pull into the parking lot and park my car. I walk round and open the door for Beth "why thank you" she says laughing a little. Maybe I'm being to fancy but I'm not sure. We walk into the small place and the waitress leads us to a table for two. I pull out Beths chair and she sits down and I take my seat. "Would you like any water ?" The waitress asks, I look at Beth and she nods "yeah, two waters please" I tell her and she leaves us. "This place is so small" she says, oh no, she doesn't like it "so cute. I love it" she continues, thank god. We talk for a few minutes about the place for no reason other then I'm desperate for conversation as I can't think of anything to talk about. "I don't know about you but I'm starving" I say opening the menu and scanning through it "yeah same here" she says doing the same with the other menu that's on our table. "What kind of pizza do you wanna get ?" I ask her because I'm happy with anything to be perfectly honest "I'm not fussed. You choose" she replied. Oh god. She's left it up to me, I've got no clue what to order, I was hoping she would choose "okay....um.... The meatlovers sounds nice ?" It comes out as more of a question then an answer "yeah. Let's get that" she agrees, I know it's only pizza but that was a weight off my shoulders. As if on cue of my choice the waitress comes back "are you ready to order ?" She asks "yes we are. We'll have the meatlovers pizza" I tell her "yep, what's that a small ?" She asks, a small ? Is she serious like does she expect that Beth with order a salad or something like what the hell "uh no that's a medium thanks" I tell her, "yep any drinks ?" She asks "I'll have a coca cola, Beth ?" I reply as she writes it down on her notepad "I'll have a coca cola as well thanks" Beth chimes in, "okay, won't be long" the waiters says grabbing our menus and walks off. "So Niall, do you have any siblings ?' She asks me to make conversation "yeah, I've got a brother, Greg. He's married with a son named theo" I reply "oh yeah dumb question, you told me you had a nephew. Duh" she says face palming. She's adorable. "Haha that's fine. I forget almost everything" I say trying to make her feel not so stupid. "Do you have more then one sibling ?" I ask her knowing that she has a niece "no I've just got one sister" she answers. "I've heard this college does like field trips" I tell her, I don't know why "yeah, it's not very college like with all the games and stuff like that" she answers back to my comment.

Our food finally comes. I love the way Beth eats, she's so cute but like extremely hot at the same time. Oh god listen to me going in like this. We have some light conversation as we eat but we both finish eating quickly because we love pizza no more needs to be said. "Did you want dessert ?" I ask because I could fit a whole other pizza in my stomach but I won't if she doesn't want to "no, well not here it's really expensive" she says kind of quietly. I like her. "Well we could get ice cream on the way back ?" I offer "sounds great" she says enthusiastically. We pay and leave. There's a beach not far from where we are and I know they have some nice little ice cream places along the boardwalk. "Do you wanna walk along the boardwalk and get ice cream there ?" I ask her hoping she says yes as I don't want to go back because we will probably run into Harry and it seems to me that he's jealous so I don't wanna rub it in his face. "Yes that sounds fun" she replies with a smile from ear to ear. We walk down to the beach and find a small ice cream stand "what do you want ?" I ask Beth "uhmm, I'll have a Cotten candy flavoured ice cream" she says. Cotten candy ? She's such a fun childish spirit. "Next" the lady behind the counter says "hi, we'll get one Cotten candy ice cream and one cookie dough ice cream thanks" I say as she gets them for us and I pay. I'm glad she hasn't argued with me over me paying because I suck at playfully fighting, that's random but I do.

We continues to walk along the boardwalk. We talk and laugh. I really hope she likes me because I really like her. "Wanna take a picture ?" I ask her, because I wanna capture this moment her hair blowing in the breeze and her face lit up with a wide smile "yeah" she says. Yay. I grab out my phone and turn it to the front camera, I hold it up into the air "say cheese !" I say cheerfully as I snap the pic. "It's getting cold, do you mind if we head back ?" She asks "sure, it's a bit chilly down this end of town" I answer. I hope she is cold and not just hating this date. We finally come back to my car which is still parked outside that italian place. Oops. I unlock it and open her door again, then I go round and get I to my car and start up the engine. This time I'm sure to put the radio on so it's not so silent. "Yes, I love this song" Beth says excitedly. It's Cher Lloyd's song 'want you back' . Beth hums to the tune of the song and we soon return to campus. We get out of the car and start walking back to her dorm. We reach the girls blocks. I don't want this to end. I really want to kiss her but I don't since it's the first date. I see her door. "This has been really fun" she says "thanks for taking me out" adding to her little speech "yeah thanks for coming" I say to her, she smiles "hopefully we can do it again sometime soon" I say as we stop in front of the door. "Yeah I'd like that" she says smiling like an idiot, she looks really happy I'm so pleased. "Yeah. Well goodnight Beth" i say "okay, goodnight" she says. I'm not sure what to do so I hug her. It's a little awkward but she's hugging back at least, she's so warm. "I'll see you tomorrow. Bye" she says as she opens her door. "Yeah. Bye" I say. She closes it and I start to walk away.

Beth's POV

"Yeah. Bye" Niall says, I then close the door. No ones home. Odd. I walk over to my bed last the closet, "ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!" I scream so loud I swear I've broken glass. It's Sarah, Liam, Louis and El. "What the hell is wrong with you guys" I tell them playfully hitting them as they come out of the closet from scaring the crap outta me by jumping out at me. Someone knocks at the door, I rich over to answer it, it's Niall "is everything okay ? I heard you scream from down the hall" he says with concern written all over his face "oh yeah, Liam Sarah, Louis and El thought it would be funny to hide and scar the crap outta me" I tell him as Louis comes to the door "man you should have seen her face" Louis says whilst cracking up laughing. "Okay good. Well bye" Niall says "bye" I say closing the door. He's so sweet. "How was the date ?!!?" Both of the girls scream at my face as soon as Niall leaves "it was good. Really good" I told them, I felt a bit awkward because Liam and Louis were still here. "Well aren't you gonna tell us everything ?" Sarah pleaded "well I'm sure you guys don't wanna know" I said mostly referring to the boys, they looked half asleep "oh that is disgusting, your first date really ?' Louis says, I'm a little confused but then I get it "oh no, no, no !! I just meant it because you and Liam looked bored as hell" I said clearing things up. "Oh good, I was gonna say" he added to that conversation. "I'll tell you girls later" I say collapsing onto my bed. They all start talking about god knows what, then it clicks in my head, "wait !" I say loudly and everyone is silent "it's after dark" I continue "Louis and Liam why are you still here ?" I ask "oh, I guess time got away from us" Liam answered "we should go then, you girls look tired" Liam says following his previous comment "okay then, we'll see you guys tomorrow at that freshmen year meeting thingy" El says "bye guys" we all exchange goodbyes and soon enough the boys are out the door.

I got a text. From Niall. It says 'tonight was really fun. Here's the picture I took incase you wanted it' with the picture attached. He's so cute and hot, like he's really beautiful. 'Thanks, it was very fun' I reply to the text. 'Goodnight' he sends and I send it right back and look at the picture for a minute. I must have been smiling like an idiot because Sarah picks up on it "did he text you ?" She asks "yeah, he sent me a pic he took tonight" I tell her showing her the picture. "You guys are so cute together" she says. Before all this El had returned to her dorm, too bad she misses out on all the goss.

Niall's POV

I sent her the picture and a goodnight text. She's adorable. I stare at the picture for at least five minutes before harry burst in the door. He didn't say much, he just said goodnight and went to sleep. A weird lad he is. I keep looking at the picture.

Then I set it as the background on my phone and fall asleep dreaming of her.