Call Her Gorgeous Like It's Her Name [Niall Horan]

Chapter 6

Hey guys! So I finished this while listening to Take Me Home on iTunes! Ahhh! Is it not like perfection? I don't know what my favourite song is on it yet...comment yours?(:

~OLIVIAAAA<3

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"You..you what?" Eli stumbled. I couldn't even find words. I opened my mouth to talk, although nothing came out. Why would the boys possibly want us to come with them? I mean, yeah, they're the closest things I have to friends, but they needed to practice.

My instinct told me no, screamed to reject their offer, but I almost couldn't. Just look at their puppy dog faces...especially Liam's. He was definitely a puppy in his past life.

"I don't know if Simon would let us..," I trailed off, seeking an excuse. With Eli and I there, they'll never be focused. Is that the only reason I didn't want to go though? Maybe it was the fact that I don't want to develop feelings for any of them. Maybe I didn't want something like long distance to get in the way again.

"You don't have to tell him," Louis said, already planning how we'd sneak out without Simon knowing in his head. I glanced at Niall for support, but he revealed that perfectly imperfect crooked toothed grin, making me want to melt away.

"How would we do it?" Eli interrupted, smiling like an idiot. She would do anything to be with these boys. Eli has always been the troublemaker of the two of us, besides school. Who knows why she got dad's brain, while I got mom's sense of fashion, while I had both of their sense of innocence when she had nobody's rebellion. Ew, parents. I didn't want to think about them anymore.

I glared at Eli, mentally screaming at her for even bringing up the fact that it is easily possible for us to go with them without Simon's knowledge. She grinned smartly at me before turning back to the boys.

"I don't know, guys. Simon is our mentor, after all. What if he catches them? We'll never make it through," argued Liam. I nodded noticeably so that the boys somewhat got the hint that I thought that the whole idea wasn't a good one. Niall turned his gaze from me to the floor as he rocked on his heels with nerves. Why was he nervous?

"Where are you guys going, anyways?" Eli asked.

"Harry's bungalow in Holmes Chapel, for two weeks," answered Louis, who now hung his head lowly.

"Oh..," Zain sighed. "We just thought it would be fun to take you guys with us. Have you ever been to Simon's house in Miami?"

I thought back to the breath taking sight. Palm trees, a beautiful view; all for five minutes before dad claimed he'd be late for his business meeting. Turns out that he just stopped by to see his brother, and he wanted to take us along with him on the business trip, because it's so fun to hang around in a boring hotel room for two weeks. At eleven years old.

"Yeah we have, but only for a short bit. I really wish we could go to Harry's..," Eli groaned, turning towards me to silently beg like the rest of the boys, minus Liam.

"It was really nice. I'm sure you'll all have fun," I murmured, feeling sort of horrible. A sorrow filled silence filled the gap in our conversation, which of course I hated. I despised awkward silences. Especially when you're surrounded with what might as well be hurt dogs.

Suddenly, when I was just about so say something to break the ice, Niall grabbed my shoulder violently to pull me aside. His gesture in general shocked me, leaving me exasperated and breathless.

"Niall?" I gasped. His face was just inches from mine. I licked my bottom lip in nervousness. So...close...

"Gorgeous, you have to go," he whined. "I know you're not because you'll 'distract' us, but that's not true. With or without you, you'll always be clouding my mind now, okay? So being there for me and the lads will just make us more confident and better." By the end of his rant he was panting. His long shaggy hair blew in the light warm breeze. Suddenly I was tempted to run my fingers through it.