I was sitting, in between Niall's legs as he sat on the log we were in front of the massive fire that had been set up. He was chatting excitedly with Ian who was on his left. Harry was on his right flirting shamelessly with one of my good friends Loreen. Evie and Anna were dancing by the beach shack, Mark trying to impress Anna as most boys were. Liam and Lily were sitting right next to the fire not sitting on logs sitting cross legged and perfectly happy laughing in their own personal bubble. I was still wearing my bikini, Niall I had noticed my two tattoos and my scars. I didn't tell him what they were. He loved the sea turtles on my ankle and he adored the massive music notes on my shoulder.
Zayn and Louis were messing around with some people that they met that night, and were just basically having a great time. I looked around and smiled. For the first time in maybe forever I felt happy, I had a perfect fake boyfriend that I actually really liked, I had gained four best friends that I knew were great. Last but not least, Lily approved of Niall.
As I was looking around I saw Mckayla try and get Zayn's attention, I slightly giggled to myself as Zayn constantly tried shrugging her off. Louis videoing the whole thing, he was running around obviously having a laugh and he had already so much footage of me and Niall just because our relationship was new.
Niall leaned down, kissed my still bare shoulders I had covered up to a large oversized Camaro that slipped down my shoulder. He asked me what was so funny. I just turned grinned and pointed toward Zayn. His beautiful hearty laugh filled the air. In amongst the loud music, people laughing and talking I only heard Niall.
Since when was I ever like this?
Never.
I stopped laughing and couldn't help but go all melancholy and started thinking about things. I got up and pecked Niall, I grabbed my drink and went to get a refill. It was just mainly parties out here in Cornwall. But when you have beautiful beaches and great company why the hell not? Once I was refilled, I grinned at Louis but strolled off a little way. I didn't know what it is, but I just feel this draw to the ocean, as I paddled my feet someone had come and joined me. I turned and grinned at Zayn.
"Hey darlin'" He greeted, I rolled my eyes at him as he put his arm around me. He looked at my watery smile and squeezed my arms. "What's up buttercup?" He asked sweetly. I looked back out to the water.
"It's nothing, go back to the party" I replied, he leaned down into my ear.
"I am the party" I choked a laugh. I rolled my eyes.
"Well if you say so" I laughed, he nudged me. I looked up at him. "It's just.." I couldn't help but trail off. "I'm not this girl!" I exclaimed. He frowned and looked down at me. He looked utterly confused. "I'm not the girl that likes a boy… I'm the mysterious girl at the back off class that no one talks to because she's weird" I exclaimed. He laughed. He had the balls to laugh. He turned to me and I did the same, frowning at him.
"Honey, you got mysterious down right and you have weird down right. But you would never be the girl at the back of class. Have you ever heard 'nobody puts baby in the corner'" I smiled at him. I shook my head at his movie reference surprised he had watched it.
"My ex-girlfriend made me watch it" I nodded, not saying anything so he didn't have to carry on if he didn't want to. "see, I kinda know how you feel. I didn't see how someone like her would like a nobody like me" It was then that I elbowed him in the ribs, he laughed as he flinched but came back to standing next to me. "I was never that boy, I was never popular, I was never the one with the coolest clothes or the prettyiest face" another elbow later and he carried on. "but then I realised, things change. She did like me in fact she loved me. We had a very happy two year relationship and then she had to move away, otherwise I'm pretty sure we'd still be together" he grinned down at me.
"I like him Zayn" I whispered. "I don't know what to do… this isn't me" I whispered again.
"you'll learn" He squeezed me again. "we all do" he smiled. "I know for a fact that, that boy is head over heels in love with you. Niall is one of my best friends and to fulfil my brotherly duty to say that you hurt him and we won't talk" He winked. "I like you too much to be mean" he grinned, just as Niall walked over.
Niall's point of view…
I watched her out of the corner of my eye. She went to get her drink refilled. She messed about with Louis for a few minutes getting her face in the camera I saw her say something and everyone laugh. I saw her astounding beauty heighten in the camp fire light.
"She really likes you" Lily said, looking at me. I looked back at her. She had her legs draped over Liam as she grinned at me. "I've never seen her this happy, especially after…" she trailed off.
"After what?" I asked her, I frowned the thought of anything happening to Sarah hurt. I thought about her perfection, and then I thought about it, she had scars all over her body. Maybe she did get hurt. I couldn't help the anger that rose through my body when I thought about someone hurting her.
"I've said too much" she turned back to Liam and changed the subject. I looked back up to Louis. She wasn't with him, but then neither was Zayn. I searched the beach. I saw them both standing in the surf, Zayn had his arm around her. I saw her laugh and elbow him. A flare of jealousy went through me, I quickly shrugged it off. Zayn was my best friend. After another five minutes I thought I'd go over. As I got just behind them I overheard what they were talking about.
"I know for a fact that, that boy is head over heels in love with you. Niall is one of my best friends and to fulfil my brotherly duty to say that you hurt him and we won't talk" I saw him wink at her and it made me happy that there were talking about me and not on a non-existent love life. "I like you too much to be mean" he grinned, He turned and saw me. He grinned sheepishly. "Hey lover boy" he grinned at me. Hit me on the back and ran away. I looked to Sarah and hesitantly smiled. Her whole face had lit up when she saw me. I was so happy it was unreal.
"Hey baby" I greeted. She grinned and wrapped her arms around me. She kissed me, softly and slowly. As we moved our lips in sync, she sighed into my open mouth.
"Sarah!" Mckayla interrupted. Sarah growled and pulled away from my mouth. I glared at the annoying girl coming towards us.
"What do you want?" she exclaimed. She said in a kind of tone that implied 'Can't you see I'm enjoying myself' wishful thinking is a bitch. I know my head is screwed.
"Oh I just want to show you something" she grinned motioning us over. She deflated against me. She grabbed my hand. As we ran over, Sarah grinned over her shoulder at me. The party lights against her beautiful skin was so strange she looked like she was glowing. We reached Mckayla and she couldn't find what she wanted to show us. What a surprise.
I wrapped my arms around Sarah and rested my head on her shoulder why we spoke to her briefly, we got ourselves some shots and another drink. I had to admit I was past tipsy at this point. I was glad Zayn had stopped drinking and was only drinking water because he was driving us all home.
Once it hit about half three in the morning we all piled into our trusty camper van.
"guys, don't forget, we need to be quiet. Brendon…" she hiccupped and she and Lily dissolved into giggles. I just grinned at her. She was so sweet when she was drunk. "Has a baby" She was sitting on my lap, Lily was sitting on Liam's lap, and Loreen was sitting Harry's lap in the front seat. Loreen and Lily plus Evie were staying with us for the night because their parents couldn't come out and pick them up. Evie was involved with conversation with Zayn and wasn't paying any attention to her two best friends. Loreen, too busy making out with Harry on the front seat, me I was content to just watch the beauty that was Sarah. 'Hey brother' By avicii came on the radio, Me and Liam started to belt out the lyrics, Louis soon joined in. Sarah turned to me.
"For you! There's nothing in this world I wouldn't do" She sang somewhat quietly now. I stared into her eyes for a few seconds getting to the next part of the song.
"I will her you call" I whispered hotly into her ear. She sighed dreamily. She bit down onto my neck. I couldn't help the flush of arousal, as she licked and sucked the skin she had just bitten.
"Mine" she growled and my ear. I pulled her closer, I knew she could feel my erection but I just wanted to hide it from everyone else. She giggled, and went back to sucking on my neck.
"You've got to stop that" I whispered to her. She looked up, she looked like she was about to argue but Louis pulled into the driveway and parked. Sarah pulled out her keys.
"Stay here! I'll just check that the cost is clear" she whisper yelled. Everyone laughed but humoured her.
"Why is she doing that? Is her uncle home?" Evie asked. Everyone just shrugged.
"She likes to think she's our protector, she's very protective of us and likes to just check everything's okay, even in the state she is in" Louis explained to her. Sarah walked into her Uncles house and turned on a couple of lights, I imagined her check every room and quickly run upstairs, she checked that all the windows were shut and locked. I heard a crash. I looked towards the house.
"I bet you ten quid she fell down the stairs" I laughed. Zayn grinned along with me. She poked her head out the door exclaiming everything was safe. "Oh god!" I whispered at her beauty. Everyone looked at me. "I actually think I'm the luckiest guy on this bus, to be paired with her" everyone laughed at my soppy moment. Sarah opened the door, grabbed my hand and yanked me out.
"Come on guys" She grinned, she continued to walk back into the house rubbing her ass. I pulled her back to my chest as we walked.
"Did you fall down the stairs baby?" I grinned. She giggled.
"How did you guess?" she asked, I winked at her when she turned her head and looked up at me.
"I know you" I grinned, she laughed and kissed my chin. After everyone was in the house, Sarah proceeded to lock the entire house. Everyone had gone to different rooms and passed out completely. It was just me and her awake now, well the others might have been awake but I did not want to know what they were doing. She turned, we were in the kitchen. She paused as she looked at me. She smiled and turned her head. She walked over. I wrapped my arms around her and she lifted her arms and traced my facial features.
"You're so pretty" she grinned. I smiled, and leant down and kissed her it was so passionate and I tried to tell her how much I liked her. She pulled away and giggled, pulled me up the stairs. At this rate, my arms were going to fall off. She dragged us up to her room. In her state I think she forgot I was there, she stripped down till she was just in her underwear and jumped into her bed. I grinned, shook my head. I turned to leave.
"Please stay?" Sarah whispered quietly. I turned and looked at her. She was peeking out from her blankets. I had not seen that expression on her face before. She looked… vulnerable. I walked over took my trousers and top off. I slipped into her blankets and pulled her close.
"Always" I whispered. I rubbed her back and felt one of her bigger scars. I was horrified when I saw the jagged thick pink scars that marred her body.
"the last person to say that, gave me these scars" she whispered. I pulled her closer. I closed my eyes, I knew they weren't self-inflicted and I had wanted to know how she got them. She turned in my arms so she was looking at me. "He betrayed me, He's the reason why all my 'friends' hate me. Everyone knows the story and they stay away from me. Not like I could have done anything about it, it wasn't my fault" She explained, she was looking at her hands. "I guess what I'm trying to say is. When we go back to school, don't believe everything you hear" She whispered. I captured her lips. She was vulnerable and small and I wanted her to know she didn't have to worry.
"I promise, and I promise, I'll spend every day of the rest of this week showing you I am yours" I whispered. She smiled, I knew she hated to look weak.
"I'll keep you to your promise Mr. Horan" she grinned, and pressed her lips to mine.
"Sarah" I paused, she looked up at me, I knew she was trying to see me through the haze of alcohol. "I've only known you for what feels like forever, but in reality has been a week. I am so comfortable with; I thought I would only ever get to this level of comfort with the boys. But you have shown me differently. I love being with you, I love who I am when I'm with you, I love the way you make me feel" I said nuzzling into her neck too embarrassed admitting this. She laughed, her hand threading into my hair.
"I think I have the danger of falling in love with you" Sarah whispered. I pulled away from her neck and looked into her eyes.
"I promise, I'll do my best to catch you" Sarah smiled and just pressed her lips to mine. "I wonder, if you could possibly do me the privilege of becoming my girlfriend for real?" I asked, she looked down in thought, I thought for a second maybe I had gone to fast, when she looked back up she had a teasing glint in her eyes, instantly making me stop from taking back my last sentence.
"Are you sure you can handle all this sexiness?" she asked. I laughed.
"The sexiness I can deal with, the craziness might take a little while" I laughed as she shoved me playfully. "So, how about it then?" I grinned and kissed her neck.
"How about yes?" she asked. She giggled at the huge grin that spread onto my face. She started to tickle me, as she squealed when I tickled her back, we tumbled off the bed with a thud this however did not stop us from laughing and attacking each other.
….
As Harry and Liam sneaked into the room that Sarah and Niall had stayed in the night before, Zayn had got his camera they were being absolutely silent. They opened the door, and thanked any god that was listening that the door didn't squeak. The sight was strange they weren't on the bed, they were wrapped around each other with the blankets then wrapped around them, Sarah was facing them her backed snuggled into Niall. Niall's face was snuggled into the crook of her neck as her head rested on his bicep. With Zayn recording Harry and Liam snuck over to the sleeping pair. Liam pulled the covers off and Harry attacked Sarah's body with tickles.
Before anyone knew what had happened, Sarah had flipped Herself and Harry and was now straddling Harry one hand on his throat and the other poised by her head ready to punch his lights out.
"Oh, Harry" she put her hand down and immediately let go of the pressure on his throat. As Harry started to cough, Niall pulled her back to him and wrapped the blanket around her. He was secretly shocked that, as soon as someone touched her in the morning that was her reaction, but he was also secretly pleased that she could fight for herself. He whispered in her ear the fact that she wasn't wearing that many clothes and he didn't want the others to see her like that.
"What was that?" Harry was to be said, slightly scared of the spitfire and unpredictable woman that was Sarah. Sarah looked down and rubbed her elbow.
"I er… well… I guess… it's a bad past" She kind of trailed off saved by her uncle coming through the front door.
"Sarah?" Uncle Gary called through the house noticing a few teenagers littering the house.
"Uncle Gary" she cried, she tore away from Niall and ran down the stairs. He turned when he heard thundering footsteps on the stairs. He grinned when Sarah launched himself into his arms. He spun her around her feet no longer touching the ground. The others were standing on the stairs watching the scene in front of them. "Not that I'm complaining but how comes your home? I thought you were coming home tomorrow?"
"Well I really wanted to see you! What's it been? At least two months?" He asked. The guys noticed that this family were used to seeing each other and were close as. "And I wanted to go to the notre fayre" He grinned, as she groaned.
"You're gonna make me go aren't you?" He laughed and nodded his head vigorously. He looked around at all the bodies in his house. "So who is everyone? Did you have a party last night?" he asked peering around her.
"Well, two of them aren't staying here, they just stayed last night. You know Lily, Loreen and Evie. But this is Harry, Lewis, Zaid and Lee" she grinned then pulled Niall down. "And this is my boyfriend Neal" Sarah introduced. Gary was very protective so she wasn't surprised to see him straighten up a little bit. Sarah rolled her eyes.
"Um Sarah…" Niall trailed off after giving Gary a swift handshake. "You're not wearing many clothes, and these brainless dicks might get some ideas" he smiled down at her. She squeezed his hand. She looked up into his eyes and almost got lost in their beauty he had put his glasses on. She looked down as what he had said clocked. She blushed and ran upstairs.
Niall chuckled and shook his head fondly. Liam and Zayn nodded at Gary and proceeded to tell him they had made breakfast he grinned and walked through to the kitchen. They all started a carefree conversation, Gary would always go a little harder on Niall just out of protectiveness.
It was thirty minutes later when Sarah resurfaced. Gary watched as her face lit up when Niall turned immediately when she showed her face. He immediately grinned and she was suddenly wrapped in his arms. She started eating off the food he saved on his plate for her. Gary was satisfied that they were well suited, that when one of them moved so did the other almost like they orbited each other.
"So what is a Notre Fayre?" Louis asked. Sarah groaned, Niall pulled her closer.
"The Fayre itself is actually quite fun. It's a competition with all the people I hate. I'm really competitive so I change" She winked at everyone in the kitchen. Loreen was sitting on Harry's lap as they ate. Lily and Liam were holding hands under the table thinking that no one knew. It might just have been Sarah who clocked on. What was really surprising was Evie was sitting on one of Zayn's knees no on even saw them talk at the beach party yesterday.
"It's tomorrow, me and Sarah normally compete together as it's a partner challenge, But seeing as she actually has a partner it wouldn't be allowed." Gary grunted. Sarah rolled her eyes and pulled a tiny amount of bacon off her big bit and threw it at him.
"Ask Mary, don't be such a baby" he grinned and reached over and kissed her on the cheek. She curled back into Niall and carried on eating her food. It was another half an hour and the girls who weren't staying there went home, after exchanging numbers. Sarah pulled Liam to the side.
"You have a girlfriend" she accused. He looked down. He looked like he could cry.
"We er… broke up" Liam said around what sounded like a lump in his thought. Sarah searched his face for what she knew was truth. "She was struggling with the distance as it was, and now with the not even knowing where I am, and she told me that she had started to develop feelings for some other bloke" Liam ground out. Sarah pulled him into a hug.
"I'm so sorry!" Sarah said. He hugged her back and squeezing her. He was surprised by how quickly they had become friends.
"I guess, Lily helped me forget how she made me feel" Liam whispered as they hugged.
"I just wanted to say something because I knew she liked you and I didn't want her to get anymore hurt" Liam smiled at this information. "And she lives under a rock" Sarah also said. "She's not used to people, she hides herself away in her basement and reads, she has never been in love or a relationship so I knew she'd go head over heels" Liam grinned and pulled back.
"I know, she doesn't know one direction. But she did know I was in a band" Liam winked over at her. "something about her best friend being in love with a certain irish fellow" Liam grinned and teased her.
"He asked me out for real this morning" she whispered back to him. Liam tried to hide his smile.
"Well don't leave me hanging, what did you say?" He asked. She pushed him.
"I said yes of course" He grinned. He looked around.
"I'm glad, I've never really seen him this happy" she smiled back at him. She handed over her phone.
"Take this upstairs to the bath room and call your parents, don't tell the others" She whispered. He quickly gripped her tight and kissed her temple. As she walked back into the kitchen she swiped her second phone, Nialls phone and Gary's mobile. She walked over to Niall. She slipped his phone in his hand and whispered in his ear.
"Take this to the garden and phone your parents or whoever. Don't tell the others baby" he grinned at her and kissed her passionately. Harry had been the only other person in the room; he hadn't even noticed their exchange. She slid Gary's mobile over the kitchen table. "Take this to your room and call your mother. Don't tell the others" He looked at the phone then back up at her, he lunged for the phone then pulled her into a bone crushing hug. He ran upstairs like a giddy child. Sarah went on the hunt for Louis and Zayn, she found Zayn coming out the bathroom.
"Go back in" she said, she handed him her second phone "call your parents, your sister. Just don't tell the others" she grinned and winked. He beamed hugged her in his still damp form and she groaned. She found Louis who was just getting kicked out of his bed room as Harry was trying to come up with excuses to get him out. Sarah grabbed his hand without saying anything. She took him to Gary's home phone.
"Call your parents your girlfriend, whoever just don't tell the others"