Stockholm Syndrome |n.h

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After ten minutes of arguing, we all piled into Niall's car, Alex wanted to drive separately, I countered that he was trusted by my dad and had to stay with me. I just wanted to go together as a group.

Before we left, Niall hand to pull the hood up on his hoodie and put on really dark sunglasses, which I laughed at.

"Do you wanna get mobbed?" He asked me as we pulled out of the driveway.

"No.." I trail off remembering my panic attack, which was caused my a mob.

"That's what I thought." He smirks and takes my hand in his. He wouldn't let go the whole ten minute drive to the theatre and even then, he only let go of my hand so that I could get out of the car.

Niall still had his sunglasses on as we walked into the theatre, and it was already dark in there. I couldn't miss the opportunity.

"Is it too bright in here?" I tease, "Maybe it's me, should I put my hood up?"

"Shush." He shakes his head with a small smirk. "Four for into the woods." He says as we approach the counter, he says it in an English accent to disguise himself further. "Haha, four." I hear him mumble to himself.

"I can pay for me and Case. It's okay." Alex steps in front of Niall.

"Dude." Blondie glares through his glasses.

Note to self: Never argue about who pays, you will lose.

Alex puts his hands up and takes a step back, slipping his arm around Casey.

"Oh my god." The girl at the counter says breathlessly. I give Niall a worried look, does she recognize him? "Your Evanna Harris!" The girl squeals.

"Uh," I nervously laugh. "Yeah?"

"You are such an amazing person,can I have your autograph?" She gushes.

"Sure?" She hands me a pen and the back of a movie ticket. I sign my name with an 'xo' and smile at her. I thought she was gushing over Niall, I was worried.

"I have a famous girlfriend." Blondie smirks as we walk away.

"Yes, bow down to me."

"I think he said famous, not royal." Casey giggles behind us.

"Why would she freak over me though? I didn't do anything special."

"You are special." Niall kisses my forehead right before we get to the correct theatre and leads us to our seats on the top row.

We all take our seats, Alex, Casey, me, then Niall. So the boys can protect us if anything is scary, Niall insisted but this is into the woods, it's all about fairy tails but whatever works for him. I think he just doesn't want Alex anywhere near me, because let's face it, I would so hold hands with Alex if it got Niall a little jealous. He's my best friend it's not like we've never held hands before.

Just as the movie was about to start, Niall's phone rang. He turned the brightness down and checked to see who it was. He showed me the screen and it said 'Hazza'.

"Are you gonna answer it?" I laughed.

"Nope." He shrugged and turned his phone on silent. Then the lights dimmed down and we all focused on the movie.

Niall kept fidgeting around in his seat and every time he would move, it moved me because he was still, wait for it, holding my hand.

"Sit still." I ordered him.

"Sorry." He mumbled shyly and turned his gaze back to the movie.

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"Let's go shopping!" Casey and I blurt at the same time as soon as we step out into the hall of the theatre. We look at each other, and high five due to our unison sentence.

"Don't get any ideas now." Alex groans. "The last time you dragged me with you, we were in one store for three hours."

"They were having a sale!" We say in unison again, and laugh.

"Alright alright, how about you guys go shopping and me and Alex can go do something?" Niall suggests and looks to Alex for approval.

"Fine by me." He breathes. "I just don't want to be asked every ten minutes 'does this make my butt look big?' Or 'my boobs look huge in this shirt, I'm getting it.'" He mocks in falsetto, imitating a girl. Well.. trying to.

"Or.." Casey begins to speak, the spotlight is hers. "You guys could pick stuff out for us? I don't know, I feel like messing around." She shrugs with a smile.

"Yes!" I smile to the boys. "That would be so much fun!" I giggle. Blondie smiles at my happiness and joins me by my side.

"Alrighty then." Niall agrees. "Alex?" He nods and we are on our way. To the nearest store.

We start in Rue 21 where the boys pick out the ugliest clothes for us. It's crazy.. the last time I was here I thought Niall was an asshole and I was being forced to shop.

"Ewe, no." Casey gives the dress Alex is holding a look of disgust and shakes her head. Then Niall looks to me and holds up an old looking turtle neck yellow sundress. I laugh but take the ugly dress out of his hands and head into the dressing room with a whining Casey.

"These are so ugly." She groans as we pull them up our torsos.

"Well, let's be lucky it's this and not some weird lingerie." I giggle and pull the dress all the way up. Beautiful. I almost gag just looking at it on my body but there is no way I'm getting it so it's okay just to show to my three closest friends.

"Alright guys!" We call from the small rooms and soon we hear the boys' footsteps.

"Come out." Niall says laughing. I do as he says and strut my stuff as I walk out of the tiny dressing room in the ugliest dress, along with Casey in a pink polka dot dress that is far too fluffy.

When I finally look up to the boys, they are both holding their camera phones up. I immediately do that natural thing and pose.

The boys laugh at me while Casey runs back I to her dressing room and closes the door.

"Shit." Niall curses.

"What?" I laugh and stand next to him.

"I have like thirty missed calls from Harry." He pinches the bridge of his nose Ann's calls him back, putting it on speaker phone for the three of us to hear.

"Niall?! Where the hell have you been?" Harry says almost immediately.

"We went to the-"

"I don't even care. Check E! News now." and with that he hands up, but sends Niall a link to the website. He clicks it and reads aloud.

"Niall Horan has been hiding for quite some time now, it seems. We haven't seen him out in the public eye for about a month, but earlier today, we spotted the world sensation at a movie theatre near London with a few friends. Two of the 'friends' were holding hands. We suspect they were in a date but what about Niall and the other girl? Mystery girl has not been identified but I guess we know why Niall hasn't shown his face in a while, and we wish some luck to his new lady friend."

Well, I guess were going public, and I'm not even his girlfriend yet.

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Alright, I just want to a tart it off on a good note and say HOLY FUCKING SHIT 14 K ?!?!?! THANK YOU GUYS

I love each and every one of you, and I cannot thank you enough. Sure this story isn't as famous as After or Motel 6 but 14k is a huge step for me and I hope to get to where they are one day!

Secondly, I started reading this story for myself. Usually I just write it, post it, forget it so I am going through and fixing all my spelling errors and such so the next update might not be so soon and I'm sorry for that. I also have rehearsals for the school play, and the hell we call school to worry about.

Thank you all for being so supportive of me and this story! It literally means the world to me.

-Tracy<3

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