My Baby Penguin ( One Direction )

Plane Ride

Zayn and Baylee were standing by the door, looking all lovingly into eachothers eyes, swinging their linked hands back and forth. 

"I'm sorry he have to leave so soon. We'll keep in touch, okay babe?"

"Mhmmm," Baylee hummed into his chest, after Zayn pulled her in for a hug. They pulled away, and Zayn grabbed his bags, signaling to us it was alright to get a move on. Zayn walked out the door, looking back at Baylee...Who was texting on her phone, completely oblivious to the scene around her. Zayn had a disappointed look on his face, but he quickly recovered and went out to the car.

I thought it was rude, and slightly cold hearted. I was tempted to see who it was, but that's not my business. Still...

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This is my first plane ride. I've never ever seen a plane. I grabbed a bottle of benydril from the small store near the entrance on the airport, just in case there was some fear of planes I hadn't known about. I had borrowed Harry's worn, blue suitcase from his closet and easily packed my small amount of clothes in the container. After going through bag check and whatnot, we entered the gate and boarded the plane. We had to separate into pairs, and ended sitting with Niall. Harry and Louis were sitting together across the aisle, and Liam and Zayn were sitting behind us.

"Niall, I've never been on a plane." I said in a panic-y voice, facing Niall.

"It's alright, love. If you do get scared, I'm right here." He said in an honest voice, and I calmed down a bit.  

"Thanks, Niall." I smiled, then a lady in a white button up dress and red lipstick walked up the aisle. 

She started talking but all I heard was "Safety procedure.. yadayada.. pull string.. blah. Have a nice flight." 

Take off wasn't bad, as Harry had handed me a piece of gum, just before. "It helps," I recalled him saying. 

"Do you want to listen to some music?" Niall asked me as we reached 10,000 feet. 

"Yeah. What are we listening, to?" I took an earplug and pressed it to my ear.

"I was thinking I could familiarize you with our music." He grinned, and scrolled through his ipod. I looked out the window, careful not to pull on the earphone wire. It was already dark. I didn't realise we left for the airport so late. I yawned unconsciously and looked back at Niall. The light from the Ipod put a oddly flattering light over his face. I had to smile at how cute he was. I tilted my head and just looked at him.  Niall finally clicked on a song and light guitar and Liam's voice was in my ears. It was beautiful.

heart beats harder....  trembling hands touch skin...

I closed my eyes and just listened for a while. Then Niall's part came on. I opened my eyes and looked at Niall. He looked at me.

don't wanna be without you.. my judgements clouded.. like tonight's sky.

I felt like the lyrics he sang we to me. I blushed and smiled at my lap. 

"It's beautiful, Niall." I wiped a welling tear from my eye. It just had that affect on me.

"Not as beautiful as you, Jess." He looked at my lips and glanced away, not wanting to make an entire plane ride awkward. I smiled and leaned over to kiss his cheek, lingering there for a moment.

as I feel myself fall, make a joke of it all...

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I awoke, my head on Niall's shoulder, his cheeking laying in my hair. Niall had wrapped his arms around me, and I was laying comfortably in a Niall burrito. I laughed at my unromantic analogy to the situation. Nonetheless the hands that lay around my shoulders left me with a giddy feeling. I felt as if I could just be floating with Niall forever.

But only to soon I felt Niall take a deep breath and sit up, the way you do when you fell asleep but didn't mean to. I looked at him and he blushed.

"Sorry about that." He had a crooked smile on his lips. I don't think he had meant to get caught holding me. And I laughed lightly, making him blush a deeper red.

"You have nothing to be sorry for, Mississippi." He smiled at me.

"Oh, not that again. I'm not a river." He laughed into his words. I punched him lightly on his shoulder, laughing myself. "I should call you Amazon."

"I don't think so, I'm too short to be an amazon."

"That's alright, makes me feel better about myself." I looked at his 5'7" body. "What are you, four foot eleven?"

I scoffed. "Uhm, five foot, thank you very much!" 

Zayn popped his head over the seat. "You guys are like an old married couple." Thats all he said before sitting back down.

Me and Niall looked at eachother, blushing but we had a smirk on our face. 

"We will be landing shortly, gather your belongings."

We were soon off the plane and picking up our suitcases from the convader belt.

"There's the van guys, lets go!" Liam was running off towards it, obviously in a hurry to be out of here.

"Wait!" I was hurrying to find my last small bag. Niall ran over and picked it up. "Oh." I said dumbly. Niall chuckled and grabbed my hand. He ran to the van, with me in tow. We made it to the van, tossed our things in the trunk and buckled up. Niall gave me one more grin before the car started moving. My heart fluttered at the look in his blue eyes.

I couldn't actually like Niall.. could I?

I think I did.

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I know these are short. I know I know. But it's still cute.

Short and sweet babies! 

--Jay