Striving for Perfection. (Niall Horan fanfic)

Chapter Two.

Niall didn’t have the chance to talk to me the other day because coach called the band over to him. Today was the competition; before we started One Direction performed their song ‘What makes you Beautiful’ then we started.

Lauren was up first on the beam. As usual she did well, she did more than well. She then moved onto floor, she did perfect until the end when she landed she fell forward. On uneven bars and vault her dismount was the same.

My turn was up, I just had to do what I did the other day and I would be fine. Beam first, it was a different routine to the basic one, it was the next level up. I went to the uneven bars, I jumped on and then did a straddle back then I did a geinger followed by a fronthip circle and then finished off with a three quarter giant.

I was happy, and then I moved to floor. The music started and so did I, my routine was really fun. Arabian front, back handspring, did some dancing a triple back and finished it off with a double layout.

Vault, Round Off 1/2 Turn and Handspring Front with 5/2 Twists.

Once I was finished, everyone else from the gym performed. As I was watching them, Niall came up to me.

‘You were great out there’ he said

‘Thanks’

‘I am Niall by the way, I was going to talk to you the other day but I was uh interrupted’

‘Yeah, happens a lot when your famous, Lucy’ I laughed

‘That will be you one day, with all those Flippity-flips you do’

I let out a little laugh ‘Flippity-flips, really?’

‘Yeah’

‘Now for the awards ceremony’ the voice over the speakers said

‘Good luck’ Niall said as I walked over to the other gymnasts

‘In third place, Trudy mcarny’ everyone clapped as she went up and got her fake bronze medal

The medals were cheap, knock off versions of the Olympic medals but they did, they were pretty cool. I had about six.

‘In second place, Lauren Smith’

‘Go Lauren!’ I shouted out

‘And finally in first place’ I grabbed Sophie’s hand and squeezed it

If you did well now, you had a better chance of getting to the Olympics.

‘Lucy Hemsdale!’

Everyone cheered and clapped, I couldn’t believe it I came first for the first time. I went up and got my medal and stood on the podium. If I was excited about this, imagine if I got gold at the Olympics. I saw Niall cheering me on and he mouthed ‘good work’ to me.

We walked off and I saw Niall again.

‘I knew you would do well’ he said nudging me ‘good work’

‘Thanks’ I smiled

‘So why don’t I take you out to dinner one night?’ he asked me

‘Are you asking to take me out on a date Mr Horan?’

‘Why yes I am Miss uh, Lucy’

‘Hemsdale’ I laughed

‘Right, so will you?’

‘I don’t know, I don’t want anything to distract me right now’

‘Come-on just once and if I distract you, which I can do with my charming looks, we won’t go on another one okay?’

‘Okay’ I smiled

‘It’s a date’

He walked off and joined his other band mates and I was joined by Lauren and Sophie.

‘What was that about?’ Lauren asked nudging me and smiling

‘Not much, just going out on a date’

Lauren and Sophie started screaming and I looked over at Niall and his band mates were giving him hi fives then they looked at us and Niall just smiled at me. We went back to our dorm and had a relaxing session.

‘So where are youse going? What are you wearing?’ Sophie and Lauren asked

‘I don’t know, we haven’t picked a day yet’ as I said that there was a knock on the door

Sophie insisted on getting it.

‘Lucy! It’s for you!’ she screamed out

‘I wonder who it is’ Lauren winked

I walked over and saw Niall and gave Sophie the ‘go away now’ look, she understood and quickly went back to Lauren.

‘So I forgot to get your number to text you about dinner’

The chorus of Call me maybe by Carly Rae started playing and I looked behind me and saw Lauren playing it on her phone.  Niall handed me his phone and I typed in my number and he did the same to me then he left.

‘Oh my god, you just got Niall’s number!’ Lauren squealed

I just laughed; I took a picture of my medal and sent it to mum.

Mum, I came first in my competition. Wish you were there xx

Mum had only been to about two of my competitions in fourteen years. She always had to work; her job was being a personal stylist to celebrities. She was currently with Taylor Swift while she was doing her tour. That’s the reason mum put me into gymnastics, they had a campus. You didn’t have to stay there, but I did but I had to.

I never really had that mother-daughter bond with mum; we only spoke by email or phone. My dad passed away in a car accident when I was three. That’s why mum put me into gymnastics because no one was there to stay home with me.

I got a reply for her straight away.

That’s great kiddo. I will be there when you win gold at the Olympics, I promise! Xx

I went to sleep with a smile on my face. When I woke up Lauren and Sophie were already awake and getting ready. I put on my purple leotard and put my track pants over it. I chucked on a jumper and  we were off to the gym, as we walked in One Direction were singing. During the performance a few girls came up to me and asked me about Niall.

‘He is just taking me out to dinner that is all’ I said

‘You are so lucky’

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A/N: Sorry about all the gymnastic terms. Look them up if you like :) they have all of them here: http://www.drillsandskills.com/skills/index

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