The Bartender

The Cacophonous Chaos

It's New Year's Eve, the easiest night on the planet. It's like a swarm of bees in here it's that busy. It's great tonight as I'm not working. Which is very unusual for New Year's Eve, I'm usually roped into it either by drinks of double pay - which I'm not complaining about.

"I'll have a vodka orange Pez" I say to her talking a seat on the stool the opposite side of the bar that I'm used to. "What time are you getting off?" I ask her

"11.45, no way I'm not getting drunk on New Year's Eve" she laughs pouring me my drink and sliding it across to me "where's your pals then?" She says

"Back over there" I point to my friends in the far corner "needed a drink" I tell her

"More like trying to spot if he's here" she smiles I shake my head, she must think I'm obsessed or something but can go a night without thinking about him.

"I'll see you in a bit" I take my drink and walk back to my friends

"Hey who's that?" Taylor asks he points back to Perrie "you need to set me up with her" he says I shake my head, no way am I letting him get with Perrie. No offence but he's a psycho when it comes to girls... He may look like a 10, but he treats girls like crap.

"She's taken" I lie, I take a sip of my drink the vodka hits the back of my throat burning, I swallow.

"So you going to find anyone to kiss at midnight?" Jacob asks I shake my head, I have no plans of kissing anyone, I feel it is strange to kiss a stranger on a night like this. But then again you ain't going to remember if you did or didn't the next day are you? Being intoxicated.

"Really Lou?" Taylor asks putting his arm around my shoulders "make a plan... I'm either going to plant one on your barmaid friend or on that girl over there" he says pointing to this girl with short black hair, who is fairly pretty.

"Right so your saying I should basically plan to kiss someone in this bar?" I ask him he nods smiling

"Yeah... Kiss whoever is next to you. Whether it male or female" he says smiling I shake my head, no way am I kissing a girl

"Okay, I'll kiss the guy closest to me at midnight" I take his hand in mine and shake on it "you two better run then 5 minutes before" I laugh "don't want to be planted with these do you" I pour my lips as if I were a grandmother trying to kiss their grandchild who absolutely hates it like on those cartoons

"You can fuck off if you think your going to be kissing me" Jacob laughs taking a full of his beer

"Right I'm going to have a scout around" Taylor says winking "see what swimming in this ocean tonight" he smiles putting his arms out pretending to breaststroke he takes a deep breath then dives into the sea of bodies grinding on eachother

I turn to Jacob and we both burst into tears laughing "think he needs his head testing" I laugh

"Hey!" Perrie shouts as she joins us, she puts her arm around my waist and cuddles me "what going down?"

Me and Jacob look at eachother and laugh

"This is Jacob" I introduce Perrie to him "this is Perrie Jacob" he takes her hand and kisses it

"Nice to meet you Perrie" Jacob smiles, I look at Perrie her whole face has gone red "you meeting your boyfriend soon?" He asks her

Sugar... "No?" She questions she looks up at me "I'm a single Pringle me" she laughs

"Oh, well Lou-" he starts to say

"Said how fabulous you are and that you deserve the world" I smile interrupting Jacob he looks at me

"Well I'm off to get a drink, care to accompany me Perrie?" He asks her and she smiles walking off with him to the bar. I've just messed that up. Now Taylor is going to be annoyed that Taylor is with Perrie. I'm a great friend. Not.

The cacophonous chaos on the floor get more and more. I pull my phone out of my pocket 11.50pm... 10 minutes

I turn around trying to find one of them but I can't it's too busy, I head outside to the smoking area. To my surprise snow starts to fall onto the ground, the cold air brushes over me.

A diminutive figure starts making their way towards me, I can't quite make out who it is. I pull a pack of cigarettes out of my pocket and lightning one and pressing it against my lips

"Busy night?" A familiar voice says next to me I look beside me. It's him. It's Harry. I smile feeling myself blush

"It's my night off" I smile "How have you been? Haven't seen you in a while" I ask him thinking back to the night he got drink and basically said I was attractive that was a few months ago now

He looks at me then says "great" he smiles "fancy going in to watch the fireworks?"he asks I nod putting my cigarette out on the wall I pull on the door to open it. The cacophonous caps hits my ears again.

It then dawned on me, I've got to kiss Harry if I'm still with him in, I look at my phone it reads 11.57pm, 3 minutes! I feel myself become more and more nervous. I can't just kids him, he might think I'm crazy. I take a deep breath and click on my phone again, 11.58, 2 minutes.

"What's wrong with you?" He asks me I smile trying to act cool... It's too late though, I'm having a nervous breakdown about kissing you in about oh gosh, 11.59pm, 1 minute

It goes quite and everyone starts counting down "10, 9, 8, 7 , 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 HAPPY NEW YEAR" says a chorus of people

I take my chances and lean forward and kiss his lips, it's light to begin with, slow, he said about coming in to watch fireworks... But this here this is fireworks. It becomes a little faster, his right hand comes up and strokes my face his other hand goes around my waist pulling me closer towards him. I put my hands around his neck. I could stay in this moment forever if I could. But I knew at some point this has to end.