~Can't Help Falling In Love With You~
A week passed after I finally told Zayn about Niall and I. It was a bit weird at first after I told him, especially after that weird hug he gave me. But I've long learned not to ask him to give any explanations for whatever weird things he does to me. He'll be giving me looks every time he caught me staring at Niall but at the same time he's been trying to push me to talk to him again, but I haven't got the guts yet. Honestly, I was just embarrassed at myself for over-reacting. I used to laugh at girls who over-react over the smallest of things in a relationship. And now I'm one of those girls. I can feel the disgust in myself.
But that week was different. That week was supposed to be our one-month anniversary. And I was finally going to talk to him again. And I wanted to do something nice for him, because I felt so bad for ignoring him these past few days. I've been thinking of what to get him for the past few days and it hadn't been the easiest. But then I was watching PS I Love You one night and I got the idea for what I wanted to give him.
I had kept a little something from each date we had had. So I prepared 5 letters, one for each day of the week leading up to the day itself. It also represents the number of dates we've had so far. The first letter was written on a hotel 'Do Not Disturb' sign, from our first date in the hotel room. I placed it sneakily in Niall's dressing room table on the first day. On the second day, I prepared the letter on the Nando's receipt of our second date, which I had secretly kept. This time, I asked Zayn to pass it to him. For the third day, I wrote a poem on a gift shop coupon from our third date when he bought me a little present for myself. I pasted it on his table mirror so that he could see it. For the fourth one, I gave him a blue rose, along with a picture of the black rose he had given me on our fourth date and placed it on his tour bus bed that night. For the day right before our anniversary, I had bought a blazer for him, with a little note telling him that he'll look good on it and I wanted to hang it beside my favourite polo shirt of his.
Everyday, I expected him to give a little sign that he had seen all my gifts. But he hadn't made a single reaction to it. I was starting to worry that he had given up hope on me. On the day before our anniversary, I was heading to give him the blazer but stopped short when I saw him with another girl. He was being all flirty with her, smiling and laughing and being oh so close with her. I felt a hint of insecurity in me, but I didn't want to be jealous. But the girl was really very pretty, kind of looked like a model. Maybe she is one in this hometown. I turned to walk away, thinking I'll come back a bit later, but I thought Niall had seen me, because he called out my name.
"Lila? What are you doing here?"
I slapped my forehead, knowing that I've been caught and there's no way to run now. I turned towards him, and smiled fakely.
"I just wanted to ask if...if I could borrow your hairbrush?"
And again, I mentally slapped myself. A hairbrush, seriously?
"Erm..okay, I guess? It's in my bag." He exchanged smirks with the girl. "Oh yeah, this is Stacy Hughes."
I smiled politely at her, but she instead sneered at me. I gasped, taken aback. Wow, rude.
"Yeah..erm, so I'll just take the hairbrush, and I can leave the two of you alone." I said abruptly, kind of pissed of at Stacy and wondering how Niall could even find her interesting. I walked off, not waiting for his response.
After I snucked in the blazer, I left immediately, not wanting to get caught. But as I left, I couldn't help but peeked at what the two were doing. Wrong decision it turned out to be, because I saw Stacy rubbing her filthy hands all over Niall's arms. And he was still smiling about like an idiot. So the reason he hadn't been responding to my gifts and notes was because he had moved on?
I fell asleep pondering over that thought. When I woke up, I felt so tired. Then I remembered what had kept me awake all night, and stuffed my face into my pillow, angry at myself for embarrassing myself again in front of Niall. I forced myself out of bed and got ready to check out the boys in soundcheck. But just as I was about to head out, Zayn texted me telling me I wasn't needed during soundcheck. I was confused, and texted him back but he didn't offer me any explanation. I just put that into the list of weird things he does. It was supposed to be a good day for me, but I had no one to hang out with. What kind of person has no one to hang out with on her anniversary with her boyfriend?
I sighed and decided to just take a stroll along the town, and read a book or something. Time passed by real slow when you're not having fun. Finally it was time for the concert. I came backstage to wish the guys good luck like I always did. I had planned to watch them from the side of the stage, and occasionally hang around in their dressing room like I always do. But the guys had another plan for me it seemed. Liam handed me a concert ticket, and asked me to watch them from the audience. Louis butted in, saying they had a different arrangement today and wanted me to judge whether it was a good change to the tour. So I happily agreed.
I went to my seat, which was somewhere in the middle of the venue. I placed myself there, watching all the girls come rushing in with their banners. It was kind of weird to be in the concert alone. Just as I had thought of that, I saw Stacy coming in my way. I rolled my eyes, wishing I hadn't wished for someone to be there with me. But it was too late I guessed. She saw me, and again sneered at me. I did not know what her problem was. I was minding my own business when she started talking to me.
"You know, I kinda have a thing for Niall.."
I was a bit shocked of how straight-forward she was, but wasn't shocked of what she had just said. I kept quiet.
"And I know from all the gossip news and all, that you're kinda close with him and stuff. And from what I saw yesterday, it was so obvious you like him too. So I'm just gonna say this to you. He's so gonna be mine, so you can just keep dreaming."
My jaw dropped immediately when she spoke those words. That little blonde! She thought she could just suddenly appear in Niall's life and steal him away? I wanted to punched her in the face then, but then I figured I should be mature about it and just ignore what she said. Clearly she was just trying to get something out of me. I knew Niall likes me, not her so what's the point of arguing back. Right? Somehow, I was starting to doubt myself and Niall. Damn Stacy. Who is she anyway to tell me that I should do?
The lights dimmed, signalling the show was about to start. Stacy immediately screamed her loudest (hurting my ears at the same time), and started fan-girling as I continued with my laid-back style. I've seen the show like a million times, I know how this thing works. But halfway through, I started to see the change in arrangement. They had changed songs! This got me a bit more excited.
So they were singing 'Stole My Heart', personally my favourite song of them. I was rocking out to the song, and was watching the boys having fun on stage. I was lost in the song so much that I didn't notice that Zayn was walking towards the stairs at the side of the stage until Stacy started screaming 'OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!' It was kind of funny actually.
I saw him walking through the audience, but then lost him again. I looked back at the stage, and noticed Niall wasn't there. Weird, where'd he go? They've definitely changed the tour a lot. Suddenly, Stacy's screams started getting louder and she was just jumping around and flapping her arms everywhere. I tried to see what she was looking out and realised that Zayn was walking in her direction. Oh I see what they were doing, they were trying to win a fan's attention. Nice tactic, I thought.
But then, Zayn continued walking and stopped right in front of me. I raised my eyebrows at him as he held out his hand for me. I looked around me, and saw girls screaming out his name, and saw Stacy actually crying while giving me dagger eyes, trying to get his attention. I took his hand proudly, trying to shove the fact that he wanted me instead of her right into her face, and he led me towards the stage. I was still lost, and trying to figure out what was happening. I tried screaming out to him, asking him what was going on, but he continued singing the song. He led me up the stage, and motioned towards the chair that had appeared in the middle of the stage with a spotlight shining on it. I blushed as I realised I was standing in front of thousands of girls who were probably so jealous of my position right now. The boys one by one circled around me while singing the song to me. Louis and Harry winked at me playfully as I was still trying to figure what was happening and decided that they were playing a prank on me. I kept covering my face with my hands and laughing because I couldn't believe the boys actually decided to play a prank on me like this.
When the song ended, Zayn took the mic to give a little speech to the audience. This ought to be good.
"So! How was that?" he screamed to the mic, as the girls continued cheering and screaming.
"As you can see, we've got a girl here on stage. But she's not any other girl, she's special to all of us boys. I'm sure some of you guys know my best friend Lila Simmons?" He paused to let the girls scream again. He clearly loves the attention.
"Now, today is a very special day for her." He turned and winked at me. In my mind, I was like 'No way, he's not gonna reveal anything right?' and I was starting to panic a bit.
"But I can't tell you guys what it is." Pheww, I heaved a sigh of relief.
Then Niall's voice popped out from behind me. "But I can."
I turned to see him with his guitar, and then he started strumming to a familiar song. It was 'Can't Help Falling In Love With You', by Elvis Presley and it was the song I had once told him I'd like for someone to sing it to me. I couldn't believe he remembered that!
He started serenading me with the song, and all the way I was blushing throughout the song. I was just speechless at what he was doing. The fans were just screaming and gasping and I saw some of them tearing up. When he ended, he went up to me, and took my hand and asked me to stand beside him. Then he spoke out to the audience.
"I'd like you guys over here, to be the first ones to witness this." I could hear the front row shouting out,'What is happening?' I was questioning that myself.
He turned to face me, and with his blue eyes staring into me, he said into the mic,"I love you, Lila Simmons. Have been since the first day I laid eyes on you, and still am."
