As Long As You Love Me

11 ~ Football, Visits, & Light

♔ niall horan ♔

I couldn't stop looking at her. 

After a while, Demetria yawns and says, "Can we go outside or something? Do any of you play football?"

Harry nearly falls of the couch in shock. 

"Yeah! I do!" I say, raising my hand like a kid in school. She giggles. 

"I'm better than both of them," Zayn scoffs. 

"None of you have actually played in tournaments on a team like I have," Louis scoffs. 

"I can try," Eleanor sniffs. 

"NO!" All of us chorus, remembering the last disastrous time Eleanor had attempted playing a sport. She'd shriek and duck whenever something was thrown at her, and in the end she just ran away. 

"Well then," she mutters. "I'll watch." 

"Can we go now?" Demetria asks excitedly. "Today's our last day of freedom before recording." 

"Yeah," Louis says, his cheeks already flushed with anticipation. 

"Count me out," Liam says, rolling his eyes. "I have to Skype Danielle." 

"Can you play?" I ask Dems as we all stand up. 

She nods, and I can't help but feel a rush of happiness and love for her. She liked to eat, and she could play football? 

I actually don't care what'd happened to her. I like it. 

"Can I borrow a jersey or something?" She asks me, her smart almond-shaped eyes glinting with amusement. 

"Yeah, c'mon in." I lead her into my room. I can hear Luci through the walls on the phone in her bedroom and know she probably won't be accompanying us. 

The minute I shut the door, Demetria punches my arm so hard it goes numb for a second. 

"Bloody hell, you can punch," I mutter, wincing. "What'd I do?"

"You would lead a girl into your bedroom so she could borrow one of your shirts," she chortles. A blush warms my cheeks. 

"I'll have you know, I'm changing in the bathroom." 

☼ mitchie sky ☼

To be honest, I was actually kind of flattered. Even excited. I loved the sport of football, soccer, whatever. It was fun, it was exhilirating, and it was one of the few things I was actually good at. As much as people hated me at school, I was always picked to be on their soccer teams during PE.