starstruck.

chapter 6: date

Noelle POV:
The next morning I woke up around 9 am. Anna was still asleep so I quietly changed and got ready trying not to wake her up. I put on a light blue top with jeans. Before I could quietly make it out the door Anna woke up. "Where are you going?" I hesitated to answer. I couldn't tell her where I was going. "Uh- To get toothpaste, I must have forgotten it when packing. You can go back to sleep." She nodded and laid back down. I went down the elevator and out of the lobby. Outside was a Black Range Rover. The window rolled down to reveal the blonde boy sitting in the driver's seat. "You Ready?" He smiled at me. I smiled and opened the passenger seat and got in. "How did you sleep?" He asked. "Pretty good, how about you?" I asked. "Good, even though the boys kept me up most of the night." I laughed. It was awkwardly silent for the next few minutes. I was staring out the window at the California view. We were now in Los Angeles I believe. I looked out at the different shops on the beach boardwalk. I could feel Niall occasionally glance over at me. "Do you want to listen to some music?" He asked. I looked over at him. "Sure!" He turned on the Radio and 'Something About the Sunshine' was playing.
"I love this song!" I exclaimed. "Me too!" He replied. We both sang the lyrics together.

"Every day's a dream in California
Every night, the stars come out to play
Wish that I could always feel this way

There's something about the sunshine, baby
I'm seeing you in a whole new light
Out of this world for the first time, baby
Oh, it's alright
There's something about the sunshine
There's something about the sunshine"

He looked over at me with the biggest smile as we finished singing the chorus. We finally arrived at the Blackwood Coffee Bar. "This is my favorite café." He told me as he pulled into a parking spot. He turned off the car and stepped out, I did the same. "Why is this your favorite?" I walked with him towards the doors. "It's not super crowded plus its mostly kind elderly folks and not many younger people that would recognize me." We got to the doors and he held it open for me to enter. "Thank you." I smiled. We went in and ordered our coffees, I got a Caramel Iced Coffee and Niall ordered a black coffee. We sat at a table by the window while we waited for our coffee. "Plain black coffee? I could never." I laughed "It's my favorite." He laughed in response.
      After we got out coffee and talked for a bit we left the coffee shop. "How about I give you a tour of Los Angeles?" I smiled and nodded. He opened the passenger door for me. "Thank you." I smiled and got in. We drove to the boardwalk near Malibu beach. He pulled into a parking spot and put on his sunglasses and a hat. "Is that a disguise or something?" I chuckled slightly making fun of him. "You don't want to experience what happens if we get swarmed by fans or paparazzi." He got out of the car. I decided to do the same and put sunglasses on. I stepped out of the car and followed him down the street. We started walking down the boardwalk looking at stores, just talking and laughing. He bought us a disposable camera, We went to the HOLLYWOOD sign and took a picture in front of it, different graffiti art walls and clothing shops.
        All of a sudden two black vans pulled up and a bunch of paparazzi jumped out and started taking pictures of Niall and me. He stepped in front of me to hide me from the cameras. "Hey please stop, Not now guys." He told them as he gently gestured them to step back but they didn't listen and just got closer. "Take my hand." He whispered to me and I listened. He turned around and pushed through the crowd of people trying to get away from the paparazzi chasing us. We ran about 4 blocks until Niall found an ally way and turned in hoping to fool the paparazzi, and it worked. They kept running straight past the ally. "I think we lost them." He said to me. I nodded unable to speak. My heart was still racing from all the running. He was standing so close to me just as he did the previous day in the hospital. He smelt like a mix of the outdoors and ax cologne. "You have beautiful eyes." I smiled and looked at the ground blushing. He lifted up my chin to look at him and kissed me. He tasted like fresh mint and the faint taste of the coffee. It felt like we were the only two people in the world like nothing else mattered except for him and me.
        We drove to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He parked and He got out and opened the door for me. I smiled and walked with him inside. We saw all these Islamic, Asian, and Latin paintings and iron antique street lamps that lit up Wilshire Boulevard. "This is beautiful," I said to him looking around at all the lights. "You're beautiful." He said and smiled at me. He held my hand and pulled me closer to him. "Dance with me?" He asked. I smiled and nodded as I put my hands on his shoulders and he put his hands on my waist. We swayed slowly to the sound of the music and just stayed there staring into each other's eyes for the next hour.

Niall's POV:
"Mate, this is insane! Management isn't going to be happy when they see this!" Liam yelled at me while he paced in the room. "I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't already, It's trending all over Twitter and it's on every headline," Zayn replied back. "Niall Horan and New girl, New Romance?' 'Niall Horan getting comfortable with brunette tourist girl.' 'Niall Horan spotted with mystery girl on the boardwalk.' It just keeps going on and on, Some of these are pretty creative too." Louis remarked as he scrolled through the news headlines. Harry looked up from his phone to laugh at Louis's comment. I looked up from my head in my hands and glared at Harry who then went back to his phone. Suddenly the phone started ringing. Louis looked to see who was calling. "It's Simon." He answered. I sighed "Tell him I don't want to talk right now." Louis answered the phone "Heyyy Simon! How ya doing lad? Good? Great. Uh- Niall? Oh yeah he's busy uhh" He looked at me with wide eyes and raised eyebrows trying to think of an excuse to tell Simon. I just shrugged and put my head back in my hands. "He's uh- dyeing his hair," Louis answered back. Harry laughed and covered his mouth. Louis then walked out of the room to talk to Simon privately because he knew I'd rather not listen to whatever Simon had to say about my "mistake". I had like 10 texts and 5 missed calls from Noelle that I didn't plan on answering, at least not right now.

Noelle's POV:
I tried to sneak into the room without attracting too much attention to me entering the room, but I failed. "Noelle? Took you long enough." I walked towards the bed and plugged my phone into the charger. "Getting toothpaste huh?" Anna said as she showed me a tweet on her phone. "What is that?" I asked her as I grabbed the phone from her hand and read the screen. 'Niall Horan spotted with mystery girl on the boardwalk' Anna sat back against the bed frame and crossed her arms. "Are you mad at me?" I asked her as I sat across from her on the bed. "Not mad. Upset you didn't tell me, Extremely jealous." She laughed. "Sorry I didn't tell you." I hugged her. "It's alright, but please tell me EVERYTHING."
    After I spilled it all to Anna I needed to talk to Niall, Mostly to make sure he's okay. I called him and got his voice mail. 'Hey, It's Niall. I'm probably in the studio or on stage. Leave a message!' I smiled at the sound of his voice. I decided to call him again, still nothing. I called him probably like 10 times and texted him about 5. What if he was avoiding me? Maybe he was embarrassed about being seen in the press with me because it would look bad for his image. None of my overthinking questions would be answered unless he answered.