"Hey hey! Niall Horan, how the heck are ya?!" Some middle age man says clutching a mimosa with half his dress shirt untucked and a half smoked cigar in his other hand.
Maybe this was a mistake?
Niall puts on a smile hugs the guy around his neck as the guy laughs in his ear. The guy was sweating and Niall looked visibly uncomfortable.
"Doing great, Marlin. How are you bud?" Niall says stepping back, shoving his hands in his pockets as I stood behind him observing the room.
"I'm doing great man. I miss you-" he says cutting off his drunken rant to make eye contact with me. My eyes kinda of widened as I started to freak out.
"You brought Leonard with you? Gosh- buddy I haven't seen you in so long." He says and moves past Niall opening his arms wide to engulf me in the worst hug I've ever had.
And I don't hug people.
"Oh actually, marli- that's not Leo." Niall says trying to get the sweaty, drunk man off of me before I start screaming stranger danger. My arms stayed straight as the guy swayed us back and forth.
Niall finally pried his arms off of me and pushes the drunk guy back. I straightened my button down shirt and wiped the sweat off my exposed chest with a nearby napkin as Niall explained that I was Leo to Marlin.
He treated him like a baby who needed to be calmed down.
"Oh sorry man. I just thought that was him." Marlin says before picking his drink up again just to have Niall take it from him.
"No more of this." He says and empties it in his finished bowl of oatmeal. He sits Marlin down before excusing himself back to me as I messed with my fedora. Feeling the velvet material as Niall sighed before smiling.
God look at that smile.
"Hey, sorry about that. He's going through a divorce and he gets day drunk. Shall we?" He says gesturing to another room where I can see a buffet of breakfast food and men in suits laughing and talking.
I start walking into the room only to have Niall direct me to seats towards the center of the room. We get seated and take orders from a lady who carried this iPad and wrote evt on the screen. Literally. Used the iPad as paper with a permanent marker. That's LA for ya.
At least she had wet wipes.
We got situated in our seats and it took everything in me to not ask him who Leo was. Maybe he would reject me or get upset. Hell flip the table. I doubt Niall would sit here and tell me about his ex, who was also in the band, who looks like me which means I could possibly be his type-
"You look nice today." Niall says as I turn to look at him knocking my whole train of thought. I looked down at myself and slightly blushed. I wore a floral red button down with dark black jeans and a fedora. Also a few chains my dad gave me back when I was a kid. Also wore his rings.
Hey, it's brunch with producers. They deserve a little pizzazz from Harry Styles.
"Oh thanks. You look the same." I say and Niall frowns.
"Weird compliment." He tells me squinting his beautiful blue eyes. I mean blue eyes. Just blue eyes.
"Be lucky you got a compliment." I sass back, crossing my arms across my stomach. He frowns.
"It's hard to be nice to a smart ass." Niall scoffs before checking his fancy Apple watch as I feel a wave of regret. Maybe I should be nice to Niall. But I could also push him away more that way so I won't fall for his stupid pink cheeks or blue eyes.
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Just A Kid || Narry AU
Humor"I need this job. Badly." He paces and looks over to me, biting his lip leaving me hungry for an answer. "Can you play the guitar?" And so it began
