Cliché to Original

Chapter 7

"Nine boys in my apartment.." Kaylee said. Madi, Kaylee and I were all in the kitchen staring at them from the kitchen. "The One Direction boys and the 5 Seconds of Summer boys. Most girls would look at this as a dream come true."

"We are definitely not most girls," I sighed.

"I second that," Madi agreed.

"How did they even come to knock on my door?"

"Michael said that he texted Niall and told him to come."

"Sorry, Rae."

"So, Michael doesn't know about your year and a half long relationship with Niall?"

"Nope."

"Why not?"

"I haven't told him."

"Well obviously, but why haven't you told him?"

"It never seems like there's a good time to."

"Rachel."

"Madi."

"You should have told him."

"When? How? Bring it up when he's talking about how much he likes me? 'Oh, you know who else you really like? Your best friend Niall, by the way, I was totally in love with him last year.'"

"Maybe not like that.." Kaylee said.

I groaned and put my head in my hands. "What am I going to do?"

"I don't know, love."

"Hey you guys should come to our interview," Ashton offered.

"Oh, they probably have-"

"Sure." Niall cut me off. He smirked at me while I glared at him.

"Great let's go." Michael stood up and walked over to me, Niall closely behind. "Ready babe?"

Niall rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, let's go." I took his hand and we all walked out of the apartment.

It was awkward in the car because I was sat right in the middle of Michael and Niall and Niall would lightly brush his fingers against my thigh. I would glare at him every time, but he acted like he wasn't doing anything at all. I felt like I was going to pass hot from anxiety. I was worried the Michael was going to see and then he'd get the wrong idea. Thankfully he saw nothing and we made it to the interview. But I'm me and I'm destined for bad things to happen, so I ended up being left alone with Niall. Where were my friends you ask? Standing over by the cameras with the other boys. Why didn't I go? Because Michael wanted to be able to see me easier. This sucks.

"So what? You're with Michael now?" Niall asked, an edge to his normally soft Irish voice.

"Technically.."

"Technically? What does that mean?"

"It means we're not really official yet.." and I'm regretting telling Michael no all of a sudden.

"So then that means you could technically come back to me?"

"That's not happening."

"Why not?"

"We didn't work, Niall."

"You broke up with me, and I haven't stopped loving you since then."

"Oh no."

"What?"

"You can't love me. No."

"You can't just tell me no."

I just shook my head refusing to believe him.

"Don't you still love me?"

"I'll always love you, but not in a romantic way."

"Rachel," he said, turning me to face him. "We can work this out, whatever the reason was for you to break up with me was, we can work it out."

"I don't want to."

"Why not?"

"Because I-" I stopped, not wanting to admit my true feelings to Niall, knowing he'd go an tell everyone.

"Why?"

"Because I like Michael, Niall, not you."

He slowly slid his hand up my arm. "I know-"

"Oh, that's her," I heard the interviewer say. I quickly jumped away from Niall and looked back at everyone. "I see she's finally reconnected with Niall."

"Reconnected?" Michael asked, watching the two of us. How much did he see?

"They've dated. They broke up a few months ago, Niall was heartbroken."

"Oh..."

And I believe this is the part in every cliché story where everything falls apart.

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Short chapter, I know, but I really felt like updating again. Hopefully you guys still like it!!!

~Rachel