Chapter Three

"Annie I am so sorry." "why?" "Annie I love you. I never wanted to hurt you." I begin to yell at him. "Then why did you?!" "I don't know." he has tears in his eyes. "Annie please. I was stupid. Or as Harry would say, I'm a big fat idiot." I giggle a little. "stop making me laugh, I'm mad at you." I say with a small smile. He takes me by surprise by taking my cheeks in his warm hands, pulling me close to his body, and kissing me. He pulls away. "I love you and only you. Please forgive me, I'm sorry." "did you really think coming out here apologizing and kissing me by surprise would fix everything?" he hesitates. "if you did your right. I may be stupid to fall for you again but I trust you." "I promise I won't hurt you again." "pinkie promise?" "pinkie promise." we lock our fingers. It starts raining. "why does the sky hate me?" I say looking up into the sky. I look over to where Zayn was sitting but he left. It starts raining harder, and lightning lights up the sky. "Would you like to get ice cream?" "it's almost two in the morning." "I know a place." "okay." he puts his arm around my shoulders and mine around his waist as we walk. He leads me into a little shop. "were here." he orders a vanilla ice cream for the both of us to share. We walk to a bench in the park across the street and sit down. He puts the ice cream in the middle of us. I laugh as he gets ice cream all over his face. He sticks his finger in the ice cream and rubs it all over my face. I return the act. "Hey!" he says taking another lick of ice cream. "That's what you get!" He finishes the ice cream. I take his SnapBack and put it on. "You look good in hats." "thanks." I say blushing a little. "Can I have my hat back." "Catch me first." I stand up and take off across the park. There's a warm pair of hands around my waist. They pull me into the owners body. I tilt my head up and see Niall's gorgeous blue eyes. He takes his hat off my head and puts it back on his. He kisses my cheek then let's me go. We lay down in the grass and watch the sun rise. I start coughing and Niall looks at me. "Are you okay?" "Yeah, I think, my throat just hurts though." he feels my forehead. "Your burning." "really?" "yes, let's get you home to rest." I stand up but immediately feel light headed. I grab Niall's arm for support. "what's wrong?" he asks taking my hand. "I just feel dizzy." "let me carry you." he picks me up bridal-style and walks home. We get home and he sets me down on the couch. The boys come and sit on the floor beside me. They ask me questions but Niall answers them for me. I close my eyes and fall asleep. I wake up numerous times coughing. Niall and Liam wake up too getting me water and calming me down. They try to give me medicine but I refuse to take it. "Annie you won't get better if you don't take medicine." Liam says offering me medicine. "I would but I just can't." "why not?" "it just makes me feel worse." I walk upstairs slowly and change into sweatpants and a T-shirt. I sit at the top of the stairs and one by one slide down to the next one. I get to the last one and just sit there waiting. I don't know what for, but I just wait. My mind wanders with random thoughts. We leave in two days to practice for the VMA's. I have to get better by then and I can't get the boys sick either. Maybe taking medicine is my best option. Or maybe sleeping, I haven't gotten a lot of sleep lately, that might be it. I turn sideways across the step and lean my head back against the wall. I doze off for a while. Someone picks me up and sets me down on the couch. I look up and see Harry's bright green eyes and curly locks. "go back to sleep." he says in a hushed voice. I close my eyes and bury my forehead into the couch cushions. I dream about the VMA's and how I will meet a bunch of new people. I imagine them walking up on stage to get their award. They perform and then sit by me. I'm in a beautiful dress. A dress. I need to go shopping for a dress. I wake up to a bunch of laughing. I open my eyes and see the boys on their laptop. "what are you guys doing?" I ask rubbing my eyes. "Twitcam!" Louis yells to me. "This is our Best Friend Annie!" Zayn yells into the computer. I walk over and sit next to Harry. "Yo." I say giving a peace sign. "woah! No gang signs!" screams Louis putting my hand down. We all laugh at him. "Okay well that's all. Have fun. Kiss a llama!" Liam yells. "hug a banana!" Harry screams. "Eat paper!" Niall yells into my ear. "Shampoo a platypus!" I say. "Touch a cloud!" Zayn says. "Smell a pigeon!" Louis says lastly. "You look a lot better." Niall comments as he closes the laptop. "I feel a lot better." They all look at me smiling. "What?" I ask suspiciously. "We are going to go dress shopping!" Niall yells. "really?!" I say super excited. "yes and Danielle, Perri, and Eleanor are coming. You will all get dresses." says Liam. "yay! Thank you! When?" "later today. So go change." I get up and hug them then walk upstairs. I can't wait to get a dress. I get in the shower then blow dry my hair. I put on a pair of pants with a tank top. I put on my vans and go to my room. I haven't touched my phone since the first day I got here. There's hundreds of notifications from facebook, twitter, and instagram. I check twitter first and see a bunch of rude comments about me hanging out with One Direction. I then notice that the boys replied to some sticking up for me, by saying I'm beautiful, the best thing ever, and a great friend. I check facebook and see pictures from parties and all my friends hanging out. I do miss them but I'm having the time of my life in England. Instagram has the same pictures. But there's also pictures of me and Niall at the beach, park, forest, and tea shop. How do people get these pictures? Were just friends right? Nothing more and nothing less. Well maybe best friends, but I don't think I could date him. I receive hate for just being friends and living with them, it could get worse if I dated one of them. I just try to brush the thought off and ignore it. I put my phone in my pocket and walk downstairs. "Thanks." Is the first thing I say when I see the boys. "What?" I show them the conversations on Twitter. "Oh yeah. We can't just let them hurt you, you've done nothing wrong." Louis says giving me a side hug. There's a knock at the door and the girls come in. "Heyy!" they say giving us all hugs. "You guys ready?" asks Danielle. "Let's go girl!" screams Louis skipping towards the door.