Always

Chapter 5

LISSA

I sat stiffly in the plush booth of Mikey's Club. Loud techno music played and the dance floor was full of sleezy looking girls and sweating guys with over styled hair. Mae was getting me a drink while we waited for the rest of the party to arrive. I had told her i didn't want a drink but she insisted.

Then Harry, Niall, three attractive guys, and three model-hot girls emerged from the large crowd.

"Hey!" Niall shouted over the thumping music. "This is Liam, Zayn, Louis, and their girlfriends-"

"I'm Kat, Louis' girl!" a tall and curvy girl said. She had brilliant green eyes and long pale brown locks. She shook my hand politely.

"Liam's girlfriend, Dakota." Dakota was slightly taller than Kat with bright red hair that gave her the title of a total ginger and blue eyes. Liam wrapped his arm around her waist protectively before quickly taking in the club. Both Kat and Dakota had American accents.

"And I'm Elizabeth, Zayn's girlfriend." She had blonde hair and blue eyes. After Elizabeth shook my hand she took me by surprise and hugged me. It seemed as if she did this often to new people. I, being my awkward self, just stood their shocked. She let me go with a laugh, The laugh was really loud too, because it was heard over the loud club's music and people shouting to each other.

We all sat in the booth with our drinks. The boys took no time to down their first glasses of some type of alcohol. I hadn't touched my drink and the girls were gulping down some every few minutes. They weren't blasted yet but i wasn't sure if I wanted to be the designated driver. They were all laughing about a sexual joke Harry had made. Niall was sitting next to me and Mae was on my other side, Harry sat beside Mae comfortably and the girls and their boyfriends were on Harry's other side.

For a while we only talked and laughed. Then after everyone else had had a few more drinks, they started asking Mae and I more questions. Mae openly told them, partly because she didn't mind and partly because she was slightly drunk. She almost told them that she liked Harry. Then the attention turned towards me.

"So... Who's your boyfriend?" Elizabeth asked with a slight slur, I was surprised again. Niall gazed over at me with a confused look with hazy eyes.

"I. Well. Um. I-" I was abruptly cut off.

"Niall of course, I mean they've been chatting all the time during classes and he does give her quite the looks." Mae said fully drunk now. I about turned beat red. Niall gave me a shy look and then stared off in to space for a little while. I could tell that they were all drunk, It looked like I would be the DD after all. I also wanted to punch Mae in the face since I was starting to get the hang of my right hook. I thought otherwise.

The girls smiled and giggled and the rest of the boys laughed with them and nudged Niall. I just hoped everyone forgot about tonight. I didn't know how to respond and just decided I should take everyone home. I checked my phone to see messages from everyone in our booth that had their addresses along with a short note on how Mae had given them my numbers. Niall had written a long message. I didn't have time to read it. I walked them all to the nearest cab after taking them each to their cars to lock them for the night.

I got a van/cab to take everyone to their flats. They were all murmuring about nothing as I tapped my foot to the music and hummed softly. I didn't normally sing but the tune on the radio was so catchy. Niall, in his drunken state, had insisted he sit by me which was very amusing. I almost wanted to record him. I figured out that Elizabeth lived farthest away and started from there. The ride for me mostly involved pushing the boys' shoulders back so they weren't crouched over and studying Google maps.

Only Niall was left to be dropped off and he had awoken from his short slumber. He had slightly sobered up but not much. He started to talk incoherently. When he started to make sense I started to get confused.

"You know I have been wondering." he stopped for a moment and I didn't know whether to listen or not. "Why you never have noticed me, the way I." he stopped again in his drunken state, and then coninued. "Noticed you. The first day, when you walked in. wow. best looking student ever." his words were odd and unfamiliar. I didn't know whether to take what drunk Niall had said as a compliment or something more perverted. I also didn't want him to continue to talk since he was my instructor and 7 years older than me.

I was amused a his behavior. I wondered if Niall would have said that if he had not been drunk. Then the van stopped at a much nicer flat than mine. I didn't know that Niall had the money to buy such a nice flat judging by his clothes, but maybe he didn't like people knowing his was rich just by his appearance. That would be a way to get gold digger friends. The driver pulled up a little closer and put on the parking brake.

"Alright here's you house." I said calmly. "You should-" for the second time tonight I was cut off but not by words, but by lips. Niall had turned to me and planted his lips to mine. In the moment my lips felt as if they were on fire, and without knowing, I kissed him back, I must have had more than a few sips of that vodka because I felt fire within me as we kissed. It was only for a mere 4 seconds before I pulled back quickly. I had hoped that all that had been said about Niall liking me had been just the alcohol talking but I wasn't so sure. This romance was foreign to me. I didn't want anyone to like me like that, because I didn't think I could like them back like that.

I practicaly shoved a very upset Niall out of the cab. He walked to the door with disapointed and slumped shoulders. Maybe he had wanted to kiss a little longer. I thought. Then I snapped out of it and told the cab driver to drive me to my address. As soon as I got home I fell asleep. It was 2 in the morning and I was beat from all that had happened today. Now that I thought about it, maybe my weirdly attractive boss was like Niall and liked me a little more than I thought, but I dissmissed the idea of anyone liking me like that. I just hoped tomorrow everyone would forget about this night.