Baby Doll | Niall

Chapter 5: Would you?

"Sorry I'm late" I said bursting through the door at Starbucks and sitting in the booth across from Austin. I think he was glad I was finally here, there were these two young girls obviously chatting him up and wanting his number. They looked annoyed when I came along, probably thought I was his girlfriend. I don't have any intentions of letting that happen.

I felt awkward around him knowing what I know. One of the only reasons I came was to see if he would be honest with me or not. I don't think he will. Why would he, his career is at stake, as a businessman he'd take any risks to secure the future of his company. I'm used to people taking advantage of me and my 'social status', it's what all those dumb models do, try and get close to me so people will notice them. I hate it, are there no genuine people anymore?

"Katy?"

"Yes."

"I need to tell you something and I just want you listen until I'm done, can you do that?"

"Yep" maybe I'm wrong, maybe he will be honest with me.

It would be a nice change too, I feel like everyone lies to me and just tells me everything that I want to hear. 'You're so pretty', 'You're so successful', it's a bit annoying. I don't need praise for something I didn't earn. My career is my mothers doing, forced into this because of her ending youth.

"Ok, I know that we only met yesterday and we haven't talked much either since then but I find you fascinating, I think you're beautiful and absolutely amazing. And I really want to get to know you better" or not "so, will you be my girlfriend?"

Ok, so he wasn't going to be honest with me. No matter, being the woman I will have to take control of the situation. I will confront him about it, tell him what I heard and everything I know then see what he has to say to that.

"You can cut the crap, Austin, I heard you and my mother last night" he made an 'o' shape with his mouth. I can't tell if he was shocked or not, does this sort of thing happen often?

"I'm sorry, you know what sort of predicament I'm in then, I need this; please"

"But I don't want to date you and faking it would hurt both of us"

"You heard your mother, if I'm not dating you in a weeks time, my business will go to hell!"

"I know, I know. I just... I had other plans for my life"

"I can't tell you how sorry I am for this but you have to understand and I wouldn't be that bad of a boyfriend would I?" I laughed and replied with a 'no'. "I can't make you do this but I'd never forget it if you did"

"I know but I would die of guilt if let my mother ruin you, so yes I will be you girlfriend"

I know I said I wouldn't let it happen but my conscience would kill me. It won't be for long anyway, I'm sure of it, it's just to get my mother off of his back and leave him alone. I wouldn't do it for any other reason, I'm just too nice to let someone's business go to ruins because of my crazy bitch of a mother.

This is actually the last thing on earth I would ever want. After spending time with him, his attractive level has gone from a 10 to a 3. He's gorgeous but his personality is a bit dull. He needs someone who understands - and can tolerate - that, I don't think that person is me, maybe Alison.

We order drinks and sit and talk for a while, just to get our story straight. So as far as anyone but him, me and my mother knows, we've been dating for almost 2 months after meeting at one of my dad's business conferences. Our relationships will be a bit hush hush for the next few days but then we'll make it 'public'.

When we leave, he kisses me on the cheek and I think I blushed. I can't lie, being kissed on the cheek like that made me feel really special.

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Austin sent me a goodnight text, and a good morning one too. I admit this made me feel special as well as the kiss but I'm not sure wether it was really necessary, I mean, no ones gonna see it besides us so why do the minor details matter? I'm such a relationship novice...

I didn't wake up till twelve. I felt kinda bad seeing as he sent the message at about 8. He probably thought I'd be awake. After I replied he sent me a string of text messages,

Austin: Can I take you to breakfast?

Austin: Or lunch?

Austin: We can do anything you want.

Austin: I'm sorry, I don't mean to sound annoying.

Austin: Please forgive me.

Me: it's fine, and yes I will to go to lunch. We have a lot to talk about :)

I try to be as polite as possible, he's nervous, I get that. I am too, I don't know what to do, whether I should send 'good morning' and 'good night' texts or hang out publicly. I never thought relationships required so much thinking or depth, maybe I'm just over-thinking it all and that it's really quite simple.

I hate to sound rude though but I hope that both our nervousness goes away with time, because getting this many messages at once from the same person is kinda irritating. Maybe I'll get used to it and won't even notice, maybe my nervousness will balance out the scales.

Austin: Can I come pick you up in half an hour?

Me: Sure, I'll be in the lobby.

Austin: Ok then :)

I left to get ready. I wore casual clothes, and grabbed my bag throwing half of the stuff in it on my bed. The elevator was packed, I only just managed to squeeze in. They were mainly all business men.

I took a seat on one of the lounging chairs in the lobby, it was a soft leather, quite comfortable actually. I took my phone out went on twitter, I felt kind of bad as I haven't been on lately. The amount of hate was getting higher recently, sometimes it gets to me and I don't need insecurities to close to a pageant.

Today there seems to be a lot of positive messages. I like to follow and reply to as many people as possible, I know it makes them happy. I try and find ones that aren't asking for a follow and say nice (or funny) things, in my opinion they deserve it more.

I scroll through the tweets to me and find one particularly encouraging, 'you are my idol, I wish I could be just as perfect as you <3'. I retweet her and followed her. As I saw Austin about to walk into the lobby, I also DMed her.

Me: thank you for your lovely tweet, it brightened my day :)

"You ready?" Austin asked, standing in front of me with a smile plastered on his face. I nodded and followed him to his car.

"So, where are we going?"

"On our first date as a couple"

"A date? I'm not dressed for a date, I dressed for lunch"

"What? You look beautiful"

"Well, thanks but..." My voice trailed off when my phone buzzed, the young girl I DMed earlier just replied to me.

Her: You are most welcome! I can't tell you how much of a fan I am, my dream is to be in pageants like you

I somewhat feel like this is a lie, like I'm misleading her into thinking my life is great when the truth is, it isn't all that fantastic. I get horribly depressed sometimes and very insecure, people treat me like my job is a joke and guys just want to take advantage of me. That isn't great, and I don't feel great either, I just feel used.

Me: If we ever meet in person, I'll make sure to put in good words to agencies ;)

"We're here" The car pulls to a stop, another fancy restaurant. It's not that I'm not excited but I feel like these are the only places I ever eat at. I remind myself why I'm doing this and head inside. It's only for a couple weeks, I think to myself, just get lost in it and it will be over.

The restaurant is quite big, the chandelier hanging from the roof wobbles occasionally and it's starting to scare me. Particularly now that we are seated directly below it. The waiter comes and takes our order, I decide to eat whatever it is Austin ordered. I hope he has good taste.

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