The Fatal Flaw | LT

VI

"What happened to you yesterday?" Niall asked as I glanced down at my Vans clad feet. I didn't want to tell him what happened but I have a feeling he already knows, just wanted to hear my side of the story. "If you don't want to talk about it, it's fine. I understand."

"Thanks Niall." I smiled at him, grateful he understood me.

"On the bright side, we're going to Ireland tomorrow!" He screamed at the empty field as we take our lunch here, not wanting to get any stares from anyone.

"I'm excited Ni." I giggle taking in his excited state as he bounced up and down his seat.

"Bloody hell, you should be! We're up for a craic lass!" He chuckled as he calms down.

"Now that's an Irish term right there." I laughed at him. "I should get the proper tourist treatment or else I'll be miffed."

"You Muppet, of course I'll give you the full Irish tour. Just no olagonin', yeah? My country's great and all that but it's nothing like London or Manchester. It's a bit more on the country side."

"Olagonin?" I asked. "You're totally forgetting that I am from Holmes Chapel. That's a county."

"It means complaining. And yeah, forgot about that, well come on then. Don't want to be late for your next class, do you? But I'm afraid I won't be able to walk you home later, I've got a 4pm class and football practice at 5, sucks to be me."

"You love it, the football practice, all the swooning. Besides, that's fine. I go home at half four, I still need to pack." I said as we walk down the bleachers.

"My mum is excited to meet you. They all are, my brother is planning to take the piss out of me more because according to the grapevine it's the first time I'm bringing a lass home. Told them we're best friends but the wanker didn't believe me." He chuckled shaking his head.

"They're probably just relieved you're not gay." I laughed and he slapped my arm slightly. "I'm chuffed to meet your family as well. Don't reckon meeting anyone's family besides mine and my neighbors. I'm probably going to embarrass myself in front of them."

"Not the only one. Well, I'm headed this way. Ring me when you get home yeah?" He hugged me and said goodbye as I walk to my next class.

My thoughts wandered to a certain text I received last night which I didn't respond to. I was miffed and decided it's best to just ignore the fact that the wanker laughed at me and didn't even bother to help me. Not that I was expecting him to, just didn't thought he would laugh. He was giving me mixed signals and I'm afraid this is going to turn out real bad.

As to Harry, I still haven't talked to him, and he bombarded me with a lot of text messages last night and a couple of phone calls. I know I am being a child, but can you blame me? Gemma also texted me saying that she had a talk with Harry but I also didn't respond to that seeing as there was no point. My mum and dad called me this morning asking if I need anything to my trip in Ireland with Niall and had a proper scolding from my dad saying they are still yet to meet Niall. But I assured them Niall was fine and wouldn't let anything happen to me. Those were one of the times where I knew I was the baby of the family. My mum actually made a list for me and sent it to me via text message on what to bring on my trip and all the doofer. They even insisted on making me get a rental car but I told them that Niall was bummed that I paid for my tickets back and forth there and all he could do was pay for the whole trip.

I actually convinced them that I was okay and got told that Harry wasn't keen on the idea of me going to another country even though basically it's an hour flight. Half of his text messages were scolding about the trip. I was happy on doing something on my own even though I have Niall, I wasn't kidding when I said that I was excited for this outing.