Chasing Ari (a 1D Fanfic )

Chapter 8

***Niall's POV***

This night had been totally different from what I'm used to. Definitely not what I was expecting. So far, I've been in a pillow fight, gone on a spy mission and am currently sneaking around the side of McKayla's house to pelt Harry with minature marshmallows. 

We were almost fully around to the back side of the house, Ari and Mckayla were leading, and Zayn and I trailing behind. McKayla and Ari were whispering back a forth furiously. I could only catch parts of thier conversation.

"I ..... Zayn is trying ........ " McKayla's voice barley registered.

"What? How do ..... know? I don't .... think of him.... You know I like....." Arianna responded. I could only hear about every three words, I was so confused.  She seemed frantic, a little schoked.

"I'm serious! He said so himself." 

"I feel bad....I don't like him, and he has a girlfriend." Ari waved her hands as if to shake of the thought. I wonder what they could be talking about. More like who. Before I could get any awnsers, they had stopped dead in thier tracks, putting one hand behind then to tell us to halt.

"On three, Okay?" McKayla whispered. She didn't even turn around. Zayn and I watched her hand as she counted up to three. 

"Go!" Ari screeched, running out from the side of the house, the rest of us following with marshmallows in our hands.

The marshmallows were flying the ten feet to Harry. Most of them missed, granted, but Harry's reaction was priceless. He looked up at first, holding his hand out as if they were falling from the sky. After, a round hit his ear he realised he was under fire. He laughed and tried to the some back at us. It was to no avail. Eventually, he turned it into a game. He tried to catch as many as possible with his mouth. Sydney just scooted out of range and was laughing at the odd situation.  

Once we were out of marshmallows to vault at him, we all broke down in laughter. Harry didn't seem mad at us or anything. He must have been getting used to the girls' antics.

The rest of the night I couldn't really concentrate. First, I lost my phone, The girls seemed to have misplaced theirs, too. Harry , Sydney and Zayn went to hunt for everyones phones. Reappearing after ten minutes or so, handing everyone their phone back. I didn't even check my phone, just slipped it back in my pocket. No one else cared for their phones, as long as they know they had it in reach.

Later, McKalya introduced me to some people, no one I really cared for. The only ones to stand out were girls with feathered boas and tiaras; guys with angry faces, too busy checking out the girls to be bothered.

Ari was floating around from one bunch to another, inadvertantly avoiding me. She always seemed to stay on the far said of the room, like a magnet was repelling us. 

I wasn't sure how she felt about me, she didn't seem too interested in me. Replaying the nights encounters in my head, she seemed more friendly than anything else. Zayn seemed to be out of luck, his plan had a few flaws.