Cliché to Original

Chapter 12

Rachel's POV

"I ran into Niall on the way in here," Michael said. I almost had a heart attack, and slowly turned to face him.

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah. He said that he had changed his mind about coming to see you. He wanted to give you just a little more space."

"Oh.." I turned back to the clothes that I was currently folding.

"Are you disappointed?"

"I'll be honest.." I sighed, turning back to face him. "I do kind of miss being his friend, ya know? We were super close and it sucks that all we do is fight. And I hate that I've come between you guys-"

"You haven't. Niall and I talked and we worked things out."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"What, um, what'd you say? What did he say?"

"Just that he was sorry for trying to break us up, and that he screwed up, so I better make sure I don't do the same thing."

So everything he said was a lie?

"I promise I won't," he whispered as he put his arms around me.

I shook it off and smiled at him. "I know."

"And to prove that to you, I'm bringing you to the recording session tomorrow."

"Really?" I could hardly contain how excited I was. "Is that even okay?"

"Well if it isn't, it's gonna suck for them. You're going to stay, because I really need to spend some time with you. And Madi, Kaylee, and Jen are going to be there too."

"I'm so freaking excited!" I yelled, wrapping my arms around him.

"Me too, babe." His grip tightened, and I frowned. "Okay, what else do you need to tell me?"

"I invited Niall."

Shit.

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"You can do this. You can act like nothing happened," I told myself as I tied my black flannel shirt around my waist. I tugged my black skinny jeans up a little more, and adjusted my graphic t-shirt. "I can't fucking do this."

"Am I missing something?" Madi asked, coming into my room.

"What? No, you look perfectly together."

She laughed. "No, I meant with you."

"Oh.. Um no."

"Then what exactly can't you do? See Niall today and act like best friends."

Act like I didn't let him kiss me. "It's just Niall in general, I guess."

"What do you mean?" she said as we started walking out of my room. "Was Niall over here yesterday?"

"Yeah."

"He was?" Jen said.

I groaned. "Yeah."

"Well, did something happen?"

"Uh, let's talk about how your anniversary went instead."

"Uh, no. So did something happen?"

"Something definitely happened. You can tell just by looking at her," Kaylee pointed out.

"Geez. Gang up on me, why don't you."

"We're just saying."

"It could potentially help if you told us," Jen smiled.

I bit my lip. "Niall and I may have had a slip up."