Chapter 24

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Chapter 24

Emily's POV

I laughed at another one of Niall's cheesy jokes. We had been driving for about ten minutes now, and Niall refused to tell me where we were going. Niall had been telling me jokes, trying to make me laugh, and he was succeeding.

"Niall?" I asked, when I stopped laughing.

"Yeah?" He asked, glancing at me before looking back at the road.

" Are we almost there?"

"Yeah, actually. In 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...." He trailed off as he parked.

I looked out of my window, trying to determine where we were. It looked like a field.

"Ready?" Niall asked.

"Sure?" My answer came out like a question, making Niall laugh.

Niall jumped out of the car and ran to my side. He opened the door and grabbed my hand, helping me out of the car. I blushed and looked down, allowing my straight brown hair to cover my face. He laughed at my shyness. He held on to my hand and lead me into the field. 

"So, tell me a joke." Niall said, breaking the silence.

"Um, I don't really have one." I shrugged and looked up.

"Come on, nothing? Even something lame." He begged.

I racked my brain for a joke. "Oh! I think I remember Luke telling me one. What do you call cheese, that isn't yours?"

"Uh, what?" He asked, after thinking.

"Nacho cheese!" I exclaimed, trying to make it sound good.

Niall looked at me, before he started laughing. I started laughing along with him, for whatever reason. When we stopped, Niall looked at me and I stared back. he cleared his throat and looked away. 

"That was so lame, it was funny." he said.

"Thanks." I said, looking at the floor.

I hadn't even realized that we had stopped walking, but not even a second later we started walking again. I looked up. It was light out, but only barley. I'm going to guess that is was about, what, 7 o'clock? Maybe.I heard distant music and sounds. I looked ahead of us, and seen some lights. Where was he taking me? As we got closer, I realized that Niall was taking to a theme park. Oh my god...

"A theme park?!" I exclaimed, a grin consuming my face. 

He smiled back at me and laughed at my excitement. "Excited?"

"Yeah! I haven't been to a theme park in 5 years!" I bounced on my feet.

"Well, then what are we waiting for?" Niall asked, dragging me to the ticket booth.

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"Niall?" I asked, my smiling widening -if that was even possible. 

We had been at the park for about 3 hours, now. We went almost every single ride. Some I was too short for, making Niall tease me. Then there were the rides we were too big for, which was sad. That was my childhood.

We had even played a few games, and Niall had won me a giraffe. His favorite animal, like I didn't already know that. But it was fun. We just needed to do one more thing.

"The picture booth?" he asked, following my gaze. I nodded, excitedly. He smiled back and sighed. "If you really want to."

"Thank you!" I exclaimed, hugging him. I pulled back and he seemed a pit flustered, but smiled.

"No problem. Come on."

I nodded and basically dragged him to the booth. We both sat in their, but it was really small, so we didn't really fit that well.

"Here." Niall said, as he lifted me onto his lap like I weighed nothing. I blushed.

"Okay, so. Which one are we going to do?" I asked Niall, as I reached to put in the 5 dollar bill.

"Nope." Niall reached out and grabbed my hand, pulling it back. "I'm paying."

"Niall!" I exclaimed, grabbing his hand so he couldn't pay. "You payed for the whole night!"

"Yeah, and the night isn't over yet. It's rude for the girl to pay, on a date." He gave me a heart melting smile.

I sighed in defeat. "Fine. But I'm paying next time."

He smirked and put in the money, choosing the 'dumb and dumber' theme. "Next time?" He asked.

I blushed and looked down. "Uh, I-I mean-"

Niall laughed and cut me off. "I know. If you want to go on another date, I would not mind. Now smile, for the next picture."

I smiled at the camera. I hadn't even noticed that they took the first picture. In the seconds picture, Niall made a pout, well I closed my eyes and stuck out my lips. We started laughing,as the camera took the second picture. When the count down started again, Niall looked at me. And right as the picture was about to be taken, he kissed me. The Niall James Horan kissed me. And I kissed back. Niall pulled away, and rested his forehead on mine. I opened his eyes, as did he.He lightly cleared his throat.

"Uh, sorry. I guess I couldn't help it." he gave me a smiled, which I returned. 

"Don't worry about it."

We stayed like that for a few seconds, before Niall sat up straight. He Looked up at me. 

"Would you like to get something to eat?" He asked, as I got off of his lap.

"I would love to." I have him a shy smile as we walked out of the booth.

I looked in the picture slot, and seen that the pictures had come out. The first one was me blushing and Niall laughing, the next one was of our funny faces, the third was the one of us laughing. I could see the way that Niall's eyes were closed and that the corners scrunched up at the corners. His face made me smiled. My eyes fell to the last picture. It had caught the  moment that Niall had kissed me. I blushed looking at the picture. Niall grabbed my hands and intertwined our fingers, making my blush darken. I looked down and let my hair cover my face, letting Niall lead me to the car. 

When we got to the car, Niall held the door open for me. I gave him a smile and mumbled a thank you. He returned my smile, as he closed the door. We walked to his side and hopped into the divers seat. He started the car and started driving. I looked out of the window, thinking about that kiss. I hope that it wasn't one of those 'in the moment' things. I shook my head, trying to get that thought out of my head. Niall wasn't like that, right?

Emily, a voice in my head scolded. Don't think like that, about Niall.

I knew the voice in my head was right, and turned to Niall.

"So, where are we going to eat?" I asked.

"I don't know. Is Nando's okay with you?" He asked, looking at me for a second before looking back at the road.

"That's fine."

We sat in silence for a few more minutes, before we arrived at Nando's. We walked inside and ordered our food. We waited on the side for it. When it came, I went to get a table, well Niall carried the food. We sat down and just talked about anything, for the rest of the night. It was amazing, to say the least.

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