Best men

Chapter 2

NIALL.

Niall wakes up the next morning, with a throbbing headache. He had far too many beers, but he had a good time. At first it was a bit awkward, Harry acted a bit weird, but once he opened up again they had a good laugh. Thinking back about the night they had, brings a smile on his face. It’s been a while since the four of them, or even Zayn, Liam and him. had spent time together, just for fun. But last night made up for that. He had a great time. 

But he also has an incredible headache and is in need for a glass of water, or maybe two. He gets up from his bed, grabbing his phone from his nightstand while he stumbles to the kitchen. 

He looks through his phone while he grabs a glass, seeing he received some texts from Barbara. He decides to ignore them and drinks his water, thinking it would probably be a good idea to take some aspirin. 

Niall refills his glass and takes the aspirins while he comes up with the idea to send Harry a text. The boy probably has an even worse hangover than he has, considering they were already drinking when he came in. 

"Harry ! You okay mate? Got t worst headache haha !" 

He has to retype his text three times before he decides on this, sending it quickly before he makes up his mind again. 

Thinking he’s still a bit tired, he goes to lay on his couch. He turns his TV on and watches a bit absently and after a while he notices the way he nervously keeps turning his phone around in his hand, waiting for Harry’s reply. He throws his phone away, not wanting to be stupid and waiting for someone to text back and right when his phone leaves his hand and hits the cushion, it starts buzzing. 

He quickly sits up, grabbing at his head because in his rush he forgot about his headache, and takes the phone again, smiling a bit when he sees Harry’s name on the screen. 

"Hi Niall, I’m actually alright, thanks for asking. Sorry to hear about your headache, drink loads of water .xx"  

Niall chuckles softly at the correct style Harry seems to use in his texts and quickly types out a reply.

His headache had disappeared a while ago, and the day goes by a lot faster while he keeps texting with Harry, those text he received earlier from Barbara long forgotten.  

x

Niall hasn’t seen the boys for two weeks, until they meet up again for a testing of the wedding menu. Liam and Zayn agreed on the country house, and made a reservation for their wedding. 

The country house offers a lot of different menu’s for weddings and tonight they’ll go there to try some of their dishes. Zayn and Liam also invited Louis and Eleanor, since Louis is one of their best mates as well, and they figured it’ll be good to have a woman’s opinion as well. 

Niall and Harry have been texting for the past two weeks. Niall really enjoys the texts he gets from the curly haired lad. He thinks the boy is very funny and they’re actually becoming friends so he’s looking forward to see him again tonight. 

Niall drives to Harry’s place first, since they agreed on travelling together. Harry doesn’t own a car and Niall likes Harry’s company anyway so he isn’t bothered at all. 

He sends Harry a message when he has arrived and soon, Harry hops into the car. He’s greeted with a dimpled smile and a nod while Harry takes a seat. First thing Niall notices is how good Harry looks. He’s wearing a big dark grey sweater, way too big for him, with a black skinny jeans, as usual. And he placed a black beanie over his curls to control them. 

He has to admit to himself that he finds Harry quite cute, especially now he’s wearing this sweater which is big enough for the both of them.  He realizes he’s staring at Harry, hasn’t even greeted him yet, so he quickly looks away and mumbles a “Hi,” while his cheeks heat up.