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Eight

Olivia Allen

I love life. I feel like the luckiest girl in the world for having met this boy.

He's so adorable and sweet and attractive and Irish. Ugh.

He brings something out in me. It's a new confidence I'm not used to. Like when I said that neither of us were drunk now, I was basically asking him to kiss me and that is not like me. At all.

I had already cleaned up Niall's bed and so I went to finish the dishes. To my surprise, he had already done everything. The pan I cooked the bacon in, the egg frying pan, plates. It was all sitting by the sink spic and span, probably because he didn't know where it went. The only thing he left was my coffee mug because I hardly drank any. I was too afraid I would have coffee breath. I stuck it in the microwave and put away the clean dishes.

After grabbing my coffee and my laptop, I settled in on the couch to make sure I was prepared for class tomorrow.

Once I had gone through all my emails, mapped out my route to class tomorrow, and stacked the supplies I needed on the table ready to go, I decided to call my mom again.

When I got my phone, which was still in last night's purse, I saw I had five missed texts from her.

How did your date go?

Hello!!! How was your night?

Were you just messing with me?

Olivia Jane Allen answer me

Call me

I also had a text from my best friend Hanna. We were roommates freshman year, both pledged the same sorority, and stayed as close as ever. Considering she loves One Direction as well, I was a pretty shitty friend for not telling her yet.

Looks like I have a couple calls to make.

There were also messages in my group text I have with my pledge class. It was weird not being there in Oklahoma with them. It was morning at home so people were waking up and starting to send pictures from last night. They were funny and made me miss them. I wasn't super wild when we went out drinking but it was always fun to see what crazy things others did.

I sent, "Miss y'all!"

Texts poured in.

LIV HOW'S LONDON?

Having so much fun!!!?

Miss you too!!

Say hi to the queen for me

Could I tell them about last night? I feel like it's a bad idea and they wouldn't even believe me.

We all talked for awhile and then the conversation switched to next weekend. "Sig Chi is having a Burnett's party Friday !!!" I'm not going to be there all semester and I am just going to have to not dwell on the texts that come through because my semester is going to be way better. And it's not like I'm leaving forever. I still have senior year with these girls.

Considering I ignored her for the last nearly 24 hours, I better call my mom.

On the third ring the voice of my father said, "Hello?"

"Dad! Hi!"

"Honey! How is it? Your mom said you met someone, huh? I'm paying for you to study abroad." Gotta love good old Joe Allen. He was joking, kind of. He's not seriously mad but if I get poor grades he will be upset.

"Yes I did, and I promise I will study hard."

"I'm just messing with you. Did you catch the game? It was actually kind of boring. It was a blow out."