I would die for you, but I won't live for you -Niall Horan au

thirty-two

“What kind of boy are you fishing for tonight?”

We were in a very expensive store looking through rack after rack of dresses. I knew we couldn’t afford this place, but Riley some how stole Louis’ credit card while he was still sleeping. “The hottest one there.” She smirked. “You going after Niall?”

I sighed and shrugged at her. Why was it so obvious? I walked to another rack and started going through the dresses on there. Yeah I wanted to be with Niall, but not in just that way. I also wanted to be his girlfriend. I wanted to call him mine and with all the mixed signals, I wasn’t sure if that was ever going to happen.

We had been acting like a couple these past few days but that could mean anything. I picked out a couple dresses, skirts and tops and headed towards the change rooms.

None of them looked good at all. I walked out of the dressing room to show Riley. “Well?” I asked, turning to show her the whole dress. “No. What do you think of this?” She asked. She picked up a really cute dress and showed it to me. I was kinda jealous that she had been the one to find it instead of me. “For you? Very cute.” I told her.

“God no, this is to sexy for me. I picked it out for you.” She said. I smiled and took it from her hands. I ran back in the change room and tried it on. It was actually perfect. Just the dress for me. It was only a simple strapless sequin dress with sparkles on it, but I absolutely loved it.

As soon as I changed out of my new dress, I went and paid for it. Riley had bought her dress while I was changing and it was really cute as well. She also got a black sequin dress but hers had straps and little beads around the boob area. I knew Harry would go crazy with her wearing that.

“Now. We need shoes.”

~*~

By the time we got back to the condo, it was five o’clock. We ran up to our rooms and started getting ready. I heard Riley start the shower so I went and to see Niall. I wanted to talk to him about the whole situation with Harry this morning. I walked in his room and found him sitting on his bed, playing guitar.

“You know how Harry likes Riley right?” I said, sitting beside him on the bed. He nodded, waiting for me to continue. “Well, I think they would be cute. So could you help me with something?” I asked. “Anything.” He replied with a smile. He stopped playing his guitar so he could pay attention to what I was going to ask. “Help me keep an eye on them? I want to make sure they don’t end up hooking up with anybody. Including each other.” I told him. He agreed to help and I got up from his bed and headed towards the door.

“Oh, Payton.”

I turned back to see Niall looking at me with a playful smirk on his face. “We’d make a cute couple too.” He said. He looked back down at his guitar and started playing again, not paying me any more attention. I ran out of his room and into my own, throwing myself on the bed. He basically just told me he wanted to be with me right? He said we would be cute so he must like me. No, I couldn’t get my hopes up. I had to stop thinking like this.

Well shit, there was no way I could stop thinking he liked me after he said that. Great, now I had my hopes up. I got off my bed and plugged in my curling wand. I took a shower this morning so there was no point in having another.

By the time Riley was out of the shower, I had already curled my hair and done my make up. “Took you long enough. Harry didn’t join you did he?” I joked. She narrowed her eyes at me, plugged in my hairdryer and started drying her hair. It didn’t take her to long, but curling it was going to be a basic bitch. That’s what I liked about my hair; it didn’t take forever to do.

There was a knock at my bedroom door as soon as she started curling her hair. “Almost ready? It’s almost seven o’clock.” Louis called from the other side of the door. “Give us thirty minutes!” I called back I quickly grabbed the wand from Riley and started on her hair. “Do your makeup.” I instructed her. She did as I told her and within twenty-five minutes we were ready.

I opened the room door to find Louis standing there with his fist in the air. Clearly he was about to knock on the door. “Ayyyy sexy ladies!” He sang. Riley and I tried to step past him but he wouldn’t let us go. “No! Let me announce you guys!” Before we could reply, he had already run down the stairs.

“Introducing… Payton!”

I rolled my eyes and started walking down the stairs. The boys clapped as I made my way towards them. I looked for Niall right away of course. His eyes were wide and he had that big, adorable grin on his face. He was only in a pair of jeans and a polo but he looked great. It took everything in my to not run up and kiss him. Once I was down, I turned to Louis and nodded, telling him to continue.

“And last, but not lease… Riley!”

The boys began clapping again as she came down the stairs. I looked over at Harry and saw that his reaction to Riley was almost the same as Niall’s reaction to me. Riley looked at the boys and I with a big smiled on her face but wouldn’t glance at Harry once. I felt bad for the guy. Harry shoved his hands in his pockets and made his way outside.

“Poor Harry. He didn’t even get a glance from her.” I whispered to Niall. The two cabs were already waiting for us outside so we each got into them. I don’t know how he managed, but Niall somehow got Riley sitting beside Harry in the back. She still wouldn’t look at him but he seemed happy to at least be sitting beside her.

Tonight was going to be interesting.

Drama in the next chapter :D