Let Me Show You

17. Names

What's he doing? Does he LIVE here? One of the boys I met in the elevator at the stadium, the blonde one, is here... standing in front of my room!

"Are you looking for someone?" I ask standing with arms crossed behind him. As soon as the words travel out of my mouth he jumps and turns around to look at me.

"Geez! You scared me!" We make eye contact and I can't help but fall in love with his beautiful blue eyes. How did I not notice them before? "Oh, it's you!"

"It is me... can I help you?"

"Yeah... no..." He looks confused and nervous.

"Alright, well I need to get into my room so if you could just move over that would be amazing."

"No!"

"Excuse me?"

"I mean, do you want to go for a walk with me?" I notice him staring at my lips as I bite down on them.

"I don't even know your name why would I go on a walk with you?"

"Because I think you're pretty, Dakota!"

"You remembered my name?" 

"How could I forget?" I stand there looking at this stranger, searching his face for answers on why he is doing this but I find none.

"Okay let me grab my phone and a jacket and I'll come for a SHORT walk with you." I'm not sure how I feel about going out with some stranger but I figure now would be a good time to figure out who this guy is. "So do you live here?"

"No not permanently, but for the Europe part of the tour I do. What about you?"

"Well I'm not quite sure but for now I do, I guess. So where are we walking to?"

"No where, I just like walking."

"The woods here are beautiful I could walk for hours..."

"Me too!" We keep walking farther and farther into woods in silence until my phone rings.

Text Message from Zayn Malik:

        Hey love! Wanna hang out for a bit? Maybe go for a walk to our spot? I really want to talk about US ;)

"Whose it from?" Elevator boy asks me kicking a stone forward.

"It's from Zayn, he wants to hang out..." and talk about US...

"Oh," elevator boy looks down kicking another rock. "If you want to go hang out with him I can go do something else I understand it's no prob-"

"I'll just tell him I'm already busy" I say shaking my head.

"You want to keep  hanging out with some stranger?" He looks up at me with a shimmer of hope in his eyes.

"Why not? If the stranger's good looking I'd say its worth it!" I laugh and he tilts his head to the side like a confused puppy.

"You think I'm good looking?"

"No I was talking about that tree behind you" I say sarcastically pointing to a random tree.

"Oh yeah that tree IS really good looking!" Elevator boy says turning around to look at the tree while we both laugh. He pulls out his phone and holds it up taking a picture of him next to the tree.

"What are you doing?"

"Tweeting about this!"

"Why?"

"Has anyone ever told you that you ask WAY too many questions? Because I want to remember this moment forever and I want to share it with the world!"

"O-k... what are you doing now?" It looks like he's taking more pictures but not of himself, of ME! "Stop! I know what you're doing!"

"What am I doing?" He pouts his lips holding the phone down. We continue to look at each other for a moment before I make a mad dash towards the lake me and Zayn found. Zayn. I forgot to text him back.

I pull out my phone as I continue to run away from elevator boy.

Text Message to Zayn Malik:

        Sorry! I would love to but I'm already doing something! Maybe another time

I send the message just as I reach the lake. Elevator boy shortly joins me and we both look out over the peaceful water. His hand brushes my hand and chills are sent through my body followed by a feeling I cannot describe. My phone rings again breaking us out of our trance. Followed by two other rings.

"Someone's popular! If I had known that before I would have gone for someone easier to catch" I turn to face him just in time to see his wink. I pull out my phone to see I have three new text messages. 

Text Message from Zayn Malik:

        That's fine! Can't wait to see you for our meeting 2moro! Night love

Text Message from Harry Styles:

        We need to talk. Meet me in my room in an hour?

Text Message from Beckett Montague:

        I've been thinking and I really want us to be more than friends. Can we talk?

If you had asked me what the largest number of texts from boys I had received in one day a month ago, the answer would have been none. If you had asked me how many guys wanted to be more than friends, the answer also would have been none.

But here I am today with at least two guys wanting to make things official with me not even counting the one standing next to me trying to hold hands with me. To make the situation worse, I don't know who I would choose. That is IF I'm interested in being in a relationship. I don't want to mess up my career over some guy, so IF I do this I need to do it right and not hurt anyone more than I already will.

When I look down I see my hand is locked in elevator boy's. 

"Look, you're really sweet and I like you but I don't even know your name or-" I'm cut off by his lips crashing into my lips and his body pressing into my body. My hands move to his shoulders while his cup my face. Everything feels so right but I can't get rid of the other names circling inside my head. 

Elevator boy pulls away and we stare into eachother's eyes enjoying the other one's presence. The other names keep circling in my head... Harry... Beckett... Zayn...

But soon there's only one name I care about.

*** Bum bum bummmmm! Who will Dakota chose? Keep reading to find out! Things are starting to get goooooood! xoxoxo ***