it's you [malik]

ten | rehersals

"Or you can stay here with me all day." Niall proposed as I started getting dressed.

I had just got out the shower and Nia called me saying that since the boys aren't rehearsing today we'll use the venue.

"I have rehearsals babe. I'd love to stay here with you but you took me away yesterday so that means I have to go." I say then kiss him swiftly before returning to what I was doing.

He watched as I pull my semi damp hair up in a shitty looking bun.

I really should've got my things from upstairs last night because I don't have anything here. But to be fair, I did miss Niall and he definitely missed me so I guess it was worth it.

"Why don't you go out with the guys instead of laying in bed all day." I suggested looking around the room for all of my things.

"No one ever wants to do anything. Harry's depressed without Annie. Liam's with his wife. Louis is being Louis somewhere. And Zayn is just I dont know." he lists.

"Do you talk to Zayn? I haven't really met him yet. He seems distant." I asked curiously.

"Zayn doesn't really talk to anyone now. We aren't sure why. We just let him be." he explained.

"Maybe you should try asking him whats wrong. He could be going through some shit." I suggest then he just shrugged grabbing his phone from the nightstand.

"Alright, I'm going. I'll miss you." I say while Niall fake cried watching me walk out.

He gave me his keys earlier so I could drive straight to the venue. I was already late so I could've just went back to the apartment and put on new clothes but I didn't.

I got out the car and walked through the door, remembering it from the other day.

"Finally. God. What we're you and Niall fucking this morning too? We get you did it last night but damn. We have a performance to get ready for." Brook scolded while Nia made gagging noises.

"Are you jealous?" I tease while putting my bag down and walking onto the stage.

"Oh I haven't told you yet? I have a boyfriend so no I'm not jealous. I definitely get my own." she smirked.

Boyfriend? Since when?

I don't even ask. She's always up to something, I wouldn't be surprised if she had 3 boyfriends and a husband.

The first thing we did was listen to the song a few times figuring out who's going to sing which part. Then we started on learning the dance.

It was honestly one of the easier dances I've made. I didn't want it to be anything too flashy because we want to keep it moderate in case Simon didn't like it.

Also, since the beat wasn't too fast or too slow it was pretty easy to choreograph. Nia and Brook are quick learners so that also helped out the process.

"Okay so its 'if I let you' than leg tap on 'in'. 'Don't you let me' leg tap on 'down'. Then Nia sings 'Never thought you'd be the one I want to be around." I demonstrate to them.

They follow my lead copying my movements then after it was perfected I move on the next part.

"If they sit right there we'll walk down the stairs. Nia, Me, then Brook. We stand in front of them while we sing the little acapella part then back up finishing it off with the last dance break." I continue explaining while they nodded understandingly.

We ran through the routine ten more times until I was satisfied. I don't joke around about dancing. It legitimately has to be perfect or I can't even fall asleep at night.

"Okay Abby Lee. Can we go eat now? We've been here all day." Brook said laying on the floor breathing heavily.

"First off, Abby has nothing on me. Second, yes we can go eat Brook. I'm hungry too." I laughed helping her off the floor.

We go to a pizza joint Brook discovered a while ago and sit while talking about how excited but nervous we are about the performance.

This is so surreal I feel like it's not even really happening.

We could really go on a world tour. To think I simply work at a Starbucks and now I might possibly be famous in a week or so.

That reminds me I need to quit my job and let Cheryl know what's going on.

"I dont know. I know we're good but have you seen Simon on AGT? Hes brutal. He's like the Gordon Ramsay of singing television." Nia says taking a large bite out of her pizza.

"We'll be fine. We have a fire song and great choreo. Nothing can go wrong unless one of us falls and busts our ass." Brook chuckles.

"Thanks, bitch. Now we have to worry about not falling." I say then she shrugged.

"Niall said he really wants this too work out so even if we do even slightly mess up he'll probably overlook it." I say.

"Maybe. How'd yesterday go with you and him anyway." Nia asked then Brook quirked an eyebrow.

"We already know how it went. He said sorry and she ended up missionary." Brook commented and Nia snorted.

"Actually, I apologized as well. We talked and eventually worked it out then I ended up reverse cowgirl. Get it correct." I winked at Brook then Nia's mouth dropped.

"Isn't he supposed to be the sweet one in the group?" Nia exclaimed laughing.

"You can be sweet and still want to have sex NiNi. I keep forgetting about your minimal experience with men." Brook says.

"It's not like I have a lot of experience either. Niall's only my second ever boyfriend and most of the time Andrew and I weren't talking to each other so we barely had sex." I defend.

Andrew is my ex-boyfriends name. We dated all throughout high school then for two more years after we had graduated. It was fun but it was a really complicated relationship so we ended things.

Let me rephrase that. He ended things.

"Okay but you guys dated for like 7 years so you still had a lot of sex."

I just shrugged and we finished our food still talking about the performance.

I'm ready. We can do this.