Dirty Laundry

Five.

"YOU STILL DON'T HAVE HIS NUMBER!!!!!!" Shannon yells at me.

"MAYBE THIS PILLOW WILL KNOCK SOME SENSE INTO YOU!!!!" Kelly adds chucking her pillows at me as Shannon joins her.

"I'm sorry! I know I'm pathetic alright?!" I try and defend myself. "I was slightly intoxicated and he's so cute its distracting!" I continue.

They groan at me and continue to pester me all throughout breakfast about how I still don't know anything other than his first name. Once they've run out of things to yell at me for the focus shifts to Kelly and how her night went.

"So Kell, your night looked fun," I say as Shannon and I give her suggestive smirks.Kelly giggles and hides her face in her hands

"Yeah Pete's great... in a lot of ways." she says as returns our suggestive smirks and squeals with us.

As the day went on we tried to get some reading and homework done but of course we kept getting distracted by stories form the night before.

"You know what Emily, you're going to get his number and you're going to get it today!" Shannon exclaims throwing her pen down on my desk while Kelly and I look up from our beds. 

"And how am I going to do that?" I ask

"You are going to go knock on his door, now"

"NO no no no no I can't do that I'm such a wimp guys you can't make me do this!" I plea with them as they try and drag me off my bed.

After almost ripping the sheets of my bed in attempts to get me to comply Shannon hatches another plan.

"Okay, fine, then you are going to take this white board marker and we are going to go find his name on his door upstairs and you are going to leave him a not with your number."

Well that didn't sound too hard... I wouldn't have to face him and risk freezing up or making a fool out of myself. I also wouldn't have to risk being rejected in person. If he didn't want my number then he can just erase it and I can go on trying to never see him again for the rest of my life. Easy.

"Okay, yeah, I can do that. He's probably the only Niall in this building so that makes it a little easier." I tell them after I've thought it over. Shannon hands me the red maker and we make our way upstairs. Kelly and Shannon are laughing and making noise as we look at all the names on the doors. Kelly finds his door first and just about yells down the hall to me that she found it.

"Shut up Kell!! He'll hear us!!" I yell at her in a hushed tone.

Once I get to the door that reads "Tom & Niall" I begin to panic. I turn to Shannon and Kelly,

"What do I say? This is worse than writing in yearbooks!"

"Oh god Emily give me this!" Shannon takes the marker and writes the note for me because I really am that pathetic

Niall, I really want to keep seeing to you and not just in the laundry room :)

"There! Now I'm making you write your own number can you do that?" Shannon asks handing me the marker back.

555-1873 - Emily I write, and rewrite like five times because my hand is shaking and I want my hand writing to look cute even though most of the writing is Shannon's. Once I cap the marker I make a run for it back down the stairs to my room with Kelly and Shannon right behind me laughing all the way.

Back in our room Kelly and Shannon are still laughing and I'm on an adrenaline rush.

"This is the ballsiest thing I've ever done." I say once I catch my breathe.

And now we wait.

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And of course I spent the rest of the day and all that night and all the nights that followed wondering why he hadn't texted and analyzing every possible reason why and going over every interaction thinking I missed some sort of clue like this was a fucking murder mystery. 

But that's what I did. I over-thought and I waited.

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