~Lovebug~

"From the moment I met you, everything changed. I knew I had to get you, whatever the pain. I had to take you and make you mine." the Irish boy said deeply.

We stared into each other's eyes for a few seconds. But I broke the silence by breaking out into fits of laughter. He grinned then joined in the laugh as well.

"I'm sorry! That's from one of your songs! I couldn't take you seriously," I managed to blurt out in between my giggles.

Niall and I were on our first date that night. He had called me up as he had promised the night before we left for Wolverhampton, and arranged for a date after their first show. I agreed and we kept things on the down-low. No one suspected a thing, and we didn't give each other any signals throughout the day. The boys had to come in the concert venue early to do a sound-check before the show. I came with Zayn and Pixie, and acted like nothing happened between Niall and I. I chatted with Niall like I usually do, but the topic of the date never came up.

See, that's what I loved most about him. We're in sync, like he totally understands me without me even telling him. During the concert, I was in the audience as I watched them perform all their songs. I was in the front row, surrounded by all these screaming fangirls, who I infer, only wanted to gain one thing from the concert: To touch the hands of the boys. Some of the girls recognised me from the pictures online, and knew I was acquainted with the boys so they asked for a picture or two with me. I had a blast being around them, and it was funny how they were suggesting that I should go out with Zayn or Niall. Halfway through I gave in and decided to just join in the fun and started screaming and holding out my hands to the boys. I was certain all 5 boys saw me and started laughing while trying to sing their songs. I couldn't care less; it was a concert and I wanted to let my hair loose. Anyways, all the screaming and holding out my hand paid off; I got touched by Niall, who managed to sneak in a wink at me, which only made me blush and scream even more. I didn't know what came over me. After the show, I went backstage to congratulate them. They had a meet-and-greet session, so I only got to spend a few minutes with them.

"You guys were great just now! So much fun!" I exclaimed as I sat myself down, tired from all the jumping and screaming. I was sweating as if I'd just completed a marathon and my face was flushed.

"We saw you! Hilarious! You shouldn't stand in the front row anymore, your craziness amused us, it distracted us a bit there," Louis commented. Everyone laughed at what he said, which made me feel embarrassed. So I covered my face with my hands.

Zayn went to hug me from behind and said," Aww, there there, don't need to feel shy! It was nice to see you let loose. It actually made us feel good about ourselves, cos if you of all people can turn into a crazy woman in our show, then we can totally bring the house down in all our shows! Right guys?" he wriggled his eyebrows at the boys cheekily.

I gave him a playful slap and pretended to pout. Which only made everyone laughed out loud again. Then the tour manager called up the boys to get ready for the meet-and-greet, so they left the dressing room. Everyone left, but Niall stayed on for a while.

"Hey," he smiled. "About later..the boys wanted to go celebrate after this..you know, party? So erm.." He looked down, clearly upset.

"Oh! It's okay Niall..we can always go out another time.." And when he gave an unconvincing smile, I touched his hand and continued,"Hey! How about..we just bunk in one of our rooms..you know kinda like a date in our room, after the party? I'm not picky about it, unless you are.."

He lit up at my suggestion. "Yeah, yeah that sounds good!"

"But no funny business. Just like a sleepover..without the sleeping over.." I said as he left the room to joined the rest of the boys.

After the small party, Niall and I met up. Since Niall was sharing rooms with Zayn, we agreed to do it in my room. I was sharing with Pixie, but she said that she would be out all night. I didn't asked any further, cos she was offering me an open opportunity to use our room. I have yet to tell my two best friends about Niall and I. I just felt it was too soon, and besides, I just patched things up with Zayn, why would I want to make things more awkward between us by telling him that I agreed on a date with his mate?

So now here we are, on my very comfy bed, sitting in front of each other cross-legged, just staring into each others' eyes. We were both full from the party, so we decided to just talk. I had asked him why he had asked me out, and he had suddenly turned to a very serious face, looking at me in the eye, and dramatically said out the lyrics of his song Stand Up. I tried to keep a straight face while he was saying it out loud. But I couldn't hold my laughter after he kept the serious face on.

"I'm sorry! That's from one of your songs! I couldn't take you seriously," I laughed out loud.

We continued laughing till our stomachs hurt. Then I asked again,"But seriously, why did you ask me out? Why do you like me?"

He smiled again and looked at me dreamily. He tucked a loose strand of hair behind my ears, and then placed his hand on my chin. I realised I was blushing and looked down, away from his eyes. He lifted my chin up, which forced me to look directly into his blue eyes.

"Because you light up my world like nobody else."

"Niall!" I pushed him playfully and started beating him softly with a pillow.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry" he laughed as he tried to protect himself.

He finally grabbed my wrists to stop me from beating him up, for which I tried to struggle to break free. But my resistant only made it worse; we were having a small wrestling match by then. Tired of fighting him already, I gave up and plunged beside him on the bed. I rest my head on his arms, facing him. I admired his face as he tried to catch a breath. He looked so gorgeous, so young. Why had I never look at him that way before? His blond hair,with some newly-highlighted brown, which always looked like bed hair everytime, just made me wanna scruff it up all the time. The way he smiles reminds me of a young playful kid, and that always makes me smile. I giggled as I watched him closely. He immediately turned to look at me and realised that I had been staring at him.

"What?" he asked, smiling.

"Nothing..I.."I blushed. "Thank you..for all this. For all that you've done for me. For making me smile."

He grinned. He moved in closer and said softly,"I asked you out because I had liked you from the very first moment I saw you. When you entered the studio with Zayn and was so shy to introduce yourself-"

"And you were the first person to say hi to me..I remember how excited you sounded." I smiled as I remembered the scene.

"You're so pretty, and you were so shy but then you opened up to everyone. You cheered everyone up whenever you come down to visit us. Then when I saw you running in tears that day, all I wanted to do was give you a big hug and make you smile. Because your smile, it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I finally picked up the courage to talk to you..and when you told me about you and Zayn, I was heartbroken. But then I still care about you too much to see you sad, so I tried to be the best friend I could be to you. Asking you out? That took me all the muscles in my body to do that, because I know you don't see me that way. But I'm glad you did."

"Niall.." I was tearing up, as I listened to him and tried to put all the pieces of together. That was why he acted weird around me sometimes!

"And..and..I don't want to put you in the spot or anything but I..I really just wanna kiss you now..but I don't want to rush anything..and I know you might not want to yet..cos you know..and I really just like you a lot " he stared at me for a while, then blinked away to the side, like he didn't know what else to do.

To be honest, I was taken aback at how blunt he was in asking for a kiss. But no one's ever took a liking in me before, so what do I know? Maybe guys do that sometimes. Besides, he was cute when he said that. And he is still cute and so sweet.

I smiled, and said,"Go ahead."

And when he looked confused, I whispered,"Kiss me."

He lit up but still hesitated, but then he slowly moved his head closer to me. I moved my body closer too, cos I was still resting on his arm. We were cuddled up, and I could feel the warmth of his body. Our faces were inches from each other, and I was smiling. He was smiling too, his pearly whites just peeking through his thin lips. I glanced back and forth his eyes and lips, just taking in how sexy his face is up close. Then he cupped my face with his hand, and I took a deep breath as I felt his soft skin on my cheek. I was nervous, to be honest. I am that close to kissing Niall Horan, that close to having my first kiss ever. He moved in closer, till I could smell his cologne. I closed my eyes, as I felt his lips gently land on mine, and at first, my mouth was just frozen there but as he draws me in to the kiss, I kissed him back. Soft lips, with the slight taste of strawberries. He pulled in for another one before he gently parted his lips from mine.

I continued to close my eyes as I savour the taste of his lips then opened my eyes slowly, to see him smiling and giggling to himself. I guess he liked it? I giggled as well. He placed his forehead against mine as he looked down to admire me.

I whispered,"Best first kiss ever."

To which he replied,"Best date ever."

We fell asleep on each others' arms that night, cuddled up in each others' warmth.