First Summer of Us

Chapter 7

Niall's POV:

Sure, I've had past girlfriends, but no girl has made me feel like amber does. And knowing she's out with some jerk tonight, worries me and hurts me. I need to clear my head so I take the elevator down to the hotel bar and order a glass of scotch and down it. I order another and another. I knock them all back. I start to feel too relaxed and after a while, I barely even know what I'm doing anymore.

"hey look. It's that faggot from one direction." I hear someone say as they walk past. I can remember what happened after that, the last thing I heard was Liam shouting my name.

My head hurts as I open my eyes. The sun streams through the hotel bedroom and makes my head hurt more. I groan and stretch my sore muscles. I hear the door open. "wake up sleepy head!" Louis calls. Zayn and Harry jump onto the bed next to me. I sit up and hold my head in my hands.

"someone's got a hangover." Harry says. Liam hands me a glass of water and I take a sip. "what happened last night?" I say. "I think you might want to see this." Liam says, dropping this morning’s news paper on the bed in front of me. the headline reads: 'pop star smack down.' Oh no. I read all about how British boy band's Niall Horan got drunk last night and got into a bar fight with 2 other men. Apparently I came out of it with a black eye and cut lip. Zayn hands me his mirror. The newspaper's right. My left eye is a dark purple/blue and yellow around the edge of the bruise. My lip is also cut and there's some dried blood on my chin. "you look pretty!" Louis teases.

I spend the morning sleeping off the hangover. At 1:30pm I get woken up by my phone ringing. It's amber. "hello?" I say sleepily. "what the hell Niall?!" amber yells at me down the line. "you better get over here soon and explain!" she says.

I check my tweets. They're a mix of hate and support. I tweet 'I'm fine and I regret everything. Was an idiot last night. Sorry guys. x'. I get the driver to take me over to amber's house.

I knock on the door and her mum answers. "hi mrs Conrad." I say. She doesn't exactly look pleased to see me. No doubt she's read the paper, but she gestures for me to come in. "ambers in her room." she says. "thankyou." I say. I go upstairs to ambers room. "what the hell were you thinking Niall?!" amber yells at me as soon as I enter her room. "nice to see you too." I say. "don't be such a smartass. You could've got seriously hurt! Do you know how serious bar fights can get?!" she says and I shut up. "why would you even get drunk in the first place?!" she says. "you have no idea." I say, looking her square in the eyes.

"what? Ok you know, you can do whatever you want Niall. I don't care." she says. "good!" I yell. "fine!" "fine!" I yell again stupidly. I don't know how, but the next thing I know, I'm kissing her and she's kissing me back. "no!" she says all of a sudden. "no! I'm dating Jonah. It's not right." "you mean that jerk who looks at you like you're a piece of meat?" I say. "oh, what do you know?" she says. "I'm a guy. I know when another guy's an idiot." I say. "you mean like someone who gets into a bar fight?" she says. "you know what? You're right." I say, picking up my jacket and walk out. "you know, I talked to Sofia about him. Told me the reason you guys broke up in year 10. Just think about whether you really want to be with him." I say and leave.