As I've said in my authors note, i've been a bit depressed so i've had a bit of a writers block from all this stress. Not to worry though, I feel as if I owe it to you guys to write this. I will try to finish the story, but if there isn't an update for a while that means another writers block. I'll try to make this one extra long just for you! Aha, I'm in the writing mood so expect one or two more chapters soon!
Love and rockets,
Mackenzie! xxx
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"Im Niall as ive said. Niall Horan."
"And as ive said, Im Kelsey McDougall. Have we not been through this?" Kelsey smiled playfully, as she saw Niall blush. As she looked into his eyes, she saw a twinkle that wasn't there before.
He's so adorable, she thought to herself. I wonder if he has a girlfriend ... KELSEY! You are not hinking about dating a boy you just met, a boy who made a TERRIBLE first impression, a boy who could have a million prettier, smarter, sportier, funnier girls than you.
Suddenly, she felt insecure and looked away from Niall. He seemed to notice, and looked away himself. Kelsey glanced over and she thought he looked a little hurt, but she decided it was probably just an act.
Kelsey reached into her green and blue polka dotted hollistor carry on, and slipped out her blue iPhone. She saw she had a new message from Aleisha. She slid her finger across the screen and it read:
One New Message : Aleisha Rose Hey girlie ! Hope your plane doesn't crash, I'd hate to be stuck here all summer ! ;) But anyways, tell me about all the hot brits you meet, I'd like to know how I should pack ahead of time ;) OH, and the totally hot guys who sing WMYB are called One Direction ... google them on the way there? anyways, have a safe trip and call me asap! (:
Kelsey couldn't help but laugh. Typical Aleisha. Always going on about the cute boys she saw, or the future hotties she would meet. Not like she couldn't get them. She was beautiful. She was tall, with brown hair down to the middle of her back, bright green eyes with flecks of blue, and perfectly pink lips. And Kelsey was jealous. In every picture, no matter what pose Aleisha did whether it was funny, sexy, quirky, and just a smile she looked perfect. When Kelsey tried to look funny or silly she thought she looked like a wild goose. Which made her even more insecure.
As she was about to type her reply, when the pilot came on through the speakers.
"Hello lady's and gentle men, I'm Erny and I'll be your pilot this morning-"
Niall silently chuckled to himself.
"What's so funny?" Kelsey asked with an odd look on her face. Was he laughing at himself or some joke he made? How ... odd.
"Erny, who names their kid Erny!" Niall continued to chuckle, making Kelsey grin. He had such a beautiful laugh.
"-turn off all electronic devices untill told otherwise. The temperature in London is now ..."
Kelsey turned her phone off and slipped it into her bag, and saw that Niall was about to do the same. As she zipped up her bag from the right to the left, and Niall zipped his up from the left to the right, their hands brushed one another. Kelsey felt something, like a bolt of electricity soaring through her. She jumped. Kelsey looked over at Niall and saw he has dont just the same.
"Must have been the static," Niall said. Kelsey nodded and smiled. Although it was werid, she couldn't help but think about his eyes. A strangers eyes. Someone whom she had just met. Up untill this morning, she had a different pair of big brown eyes in her mind. Liam Payne's eyes, to be exact. He was one of the hotties in the brit boyband One Direction. He was hot. He had a cute curly "justin bieber styled" haircut and always dressed in plaid shirts. Adorable. He had the warmest smile, and she couldn't help but stare deeply into his eyes when she looked at pictures of him.
" ... put your seatbelt on. If needed, flight attendants will help. Enjoy your flight and thanks again for choosing Spirit Airlines for your travel."
She and Niall both quickly put their seatbelts on. Niall did up his hoodie and put his hood on, looking like he was about to fall sleep. As the plane took off, Kelsey stared out the window watching as she, her brother, and her mother rose into the air on their way to their new home. She had been avoiding thinking about how everything would change. A new school, a new house, new friends, a huge loss of friends, a new neighbourhood, a new city, a new country, and a new continent away from her old life. The life her and her Dad had shared.
She closed the window and looked up as she saw a flight attendant whispering to people. As the beautiful flight attendant from before walked over to her, she smiled.
"Darlin', you can turn on any electronics you have if you'd like. My names Riley, so if you need anything just holler." Riley said in her southern accent. Kelsey said her thankyou, and Riley walked off. God, she was just beautiful! Why she wasn't a model, Kelsey wouldn't know. Kelsey quickly undid her seatbelt.
She pulled out her iPad and clicked on the Facebook App button, and typed a quick status before scrolling through all the "goodbyes" and "i'll miss yous!" on her wall. Kelsey wasn't the most popular girl in school, but she was close to it. As she exited Facebook and went to click on her Twitter app, she felt a finger tap her shoulder. Kelsey looked over to see Niall intently staring at her. She blushed.
"Yeah?" Kelsey asked with a smile. "I thought you were sleeping."
"Naah, I have a hard time sleeping on planes. I thought you might want to play a game?" Niall said in his weird accent, smiling very bashfully. Adorable.
"Sure. What did you have in mind?" Kelsey smiled back.
"Well, I was thinking Quick Fire? It's a game where we ask eachother questions and we have to answer really fast. There's no hesitations, pauses, or laughing or I win." He winked and grin, making Kelsey's heart skip a beat. She just nodded, afraid to use her voice.
"Alright then, ladies first?" Ahhh. A gentlemen.
"Okay, are you a good singer?"
"Heh, not bad. Can you?"
Not too sure, but my shower seems to think I'm great. Favourite Colour?"
"Green. What's your favourite band?"
"Everything. I've recently taken a liking to this band One Direction though. Where are you from?"
She watched as Niall half smirked, half blushed. She had no idea why.
"Ireland. Was the name and accent that hard to figure out?" He laughed, playing her favourite harmony.
"Yes! I'm from L.A, it's not everyday you meet a cute boy with an irish accent!" She blushed, and then remembered he had laughed. "HEY! You laughed, so I win!" She grinned widely, causing Niall to grin back. That was just the affect these two had on each other.
"God Dammit! Want to play again?" Niall laughed.
"Yeah, sure. You go first!" Kelsey giggled. They went on talking for the next hour, neither of them finding the pause between conversations awkward. With Niall, it was easy. She wasn't pressured to act, talk and look a certain way. He made her feel special. By the time Niall fell asleep again, Kelsey felt as if they'd known each other for years.
Kelsey reached into her carry on and pulled out her light blue coloured iPad. She slid her finger over the password icon and saw she had internet. Could there be internet on a plane? She thought it was odd, but didn't complain. Who was she to give up free wifi?
She went into her music and turned clicked her playlist titled "On the highway to hell", her playlist for the ride there. She didn't feel bad one bit about it. She clicked shuffle and looked intently to see which of the songs would come on first. To her luck, What Makes You Beautiful came on. She smiled to herself and paused the song before she got lost in the music. She had a bad habit of that. She quickly looked over at Niall to mak sure he was asleep, which he was. She was so nervous about moving to London, and one of the few things that calmed her down was singing and she was even more nervous singing around people. But Niall was sleeping, and the loud hustle and bustle of people around her would cover up her voice. She hoped.
Kelsey clicked play and soon heard the cowbell in the song. She thought it was kinda cute how these boys but a cowbell in a song of theirs. As of twitter, she had heard One Direction was in L.A for a few weeks filming the video for this song, but everytime her and Aleisha went to see them at the beach they were long gone, leaving a trail of crying girls as they left. The secong day Kelsey and Aleisha went to the beach, she could have sworn she saw a bleach blonde head poke out of an orange and white "hippie van" as it drove away. Thinking back now, she thought there was something familiar about that head, but as the song was about to start playing one of the boys voices, she stopped thinking and closed her eyes, ready to sing.
Kelsey started singing.
"You're insecure, Don't know what for. You're turning heads when you walk through the do-o-or. Don't need make up to cover up. Being the way that you are is eno-o-ough. Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else but you-ou.
Baby you light up my world like nobody else, the way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed. But when you smile at the ground it aint hard to tell, You don't know, oh oh!You don't know you're beautiful. If only you saw what I can see, you'd understand why I want you so desperately. Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe you don't know, oh oh!You don't know you're beautiful oh oh! That what makes you beautiful.
So c-come on, You got it wrong. To prove I'm right I put it in a so-o-ng-" Kelseys thought she heard a noise or something. She quickly opened her eyes and saw not just Niall, but his friends Zayn, Harry and a beautiful unknown boy staring at her. Kelsey quickly turned away and cursed under her breath. Great, she thought. Embaress yourself infront of yet again ANOTHER hot brit. Kelsey was startled. How much had they heard? In all irony, moments after singing " your insecure, dunno what for" she suddenly felt insecure with four beautiful pairs of eyes on her. She turned round ever so slowly to look at the face of four shocked boys.
"I'm sosososososo sorry if i woke any of you, I-I just get so caught up in the music I don't even realize when I start to sing, and-nd these One Direction boys-s, I don't know if you heard of them, but they sing this really amazing song in these really beautiful voices that make you sing along, which usually leads to me embaressing myself, which leads me to go on and on like im doing now, so i'm just going to shut up. And if your going to laugh at me, just go do it in different seats because I don't need four teenage boys having a go at my singing." Kelsey went on, probably losing any chance of befriending these boys.
Suddenly, they all erupted in laughter. Kelsey grabbed her carry on bag and quickly got up from her seat. On the verge of tears, she ran towards the bathroom. She pulled off her sweater and switched it with a pright purple guess one with a hood. So those boys wanna laugh at her? Well she was going to see and hear exactly what they thought.
She reversed her bag, through all her belongings inside, pulled her hair back into a pony tail and threw her hood on. She exited the bathroom, and saw an empty seat near the group of boys. As she sat down, she hadn't even realized there wass a person behind her. She figured it was just a bunch of coats.
"- Did you hear her voice sing our song mate? Beautiful. Almost as beautiful as her. " Kelsey figured 'Our' meant him and his friends song. Kind of like what couples had. " Think I can catch her number?" The boy she knew to be Harry grinned, showing off the most amazing dimples she had ever seen.
"Hazza, I'm still trying to think who's number you CAN'T get." Chuckled the unknown boy.
"Oh Lou, I only have eyes for you."Harry replied, gaxing deeply into the clearly older boys eyes.
"I know Hazza, I know." 'Lou' winked back. The two of them shared a laugh, while Zayn sat with Niall. Niall looked abit worried, like he had just lost something very important. Weird, Kelsey thought. If anything his face should be in pure delight, he laughed at everything else!
Kelsey thought she could hear the words " She'll come back" come out of Zayn's mouth, in his weird british accent. But she was probably wrong. Scratch that, she was 100% wrong. Why would Niall care if she was gone? He wasn't too excited when she got on the plan, but now he was sad? No way. Niall would never miss her, like her, or ever want her. Who would? She was Kelsey. If she couldn't even love herself, who ever would?
All of a sudden Kelsey was woken from her thoughts.
"Excuse me? But I believe your sitting on my jacket." She heard from a deep, tired sounding voice from behind her. When had he gotten there? When Kelsey turned arounf she immediately recognized him. Liam Payne. She noticed him almost inctintley by his eyes. Kelsey mustered up a warm smile, despite how confused she was with Niall.
"It's a terrible day when someone sits on Liam Paynes hoodie," Kelsey replied as she sat up to give the boy his red Jack Willis hoodie.
"Errrr ... you know who I am?" Liam looked taken back. They probably didn't have many fans from the States, so this must have been quite a surprise. That, and probably the fact that the girl next to him wasn't fangirling right now. Truth be told, Kelsey's dad had had his own recording studio, so Kelsey had come accustomed to meeting bands.
"Yeah, I kind of listen to your music ... which is sort of why I'm over here right now ..." She watched as Liam gave her a crazed expression that said get me the hell out of here. "Oh, nonono its not like that. I'm not some fan trying to steal a lock of your hair, or something crazy like that. I was singing one of your songs and well ... apparently the cute blonde guy I was sitting next to heard me and invited his friends over to have a laugh at me. That's them over there." Kelsey pointed to Niall and his group of friends.
"Well, I'm glad for that! Well, err I mean not that they laughed but the fact your not here to steal my gorgeous locks." He grinned, making Kelsey grin back. "Though love, I doubt they were laughing at you, they don't look the type."
"Well, you think you know someone after an hour on a plane .." Kelsey joked. Liam chuckled, which made Kelsey grin again. He was fun to be around.
"I bet your not that bad, if you sing half as great as your personality then you should be fine." Liam smiled, making Kelsey's heart flutter.
"Trust me Liam, she sings just as beautiful as she looks."
Niall's POV
He watched as the beautiful girl sang her heart out to the song. His song. He heard footsteps behind him, a loud bang, and someone curse.
"Shit!" muttered Louis, as he got up from the floor. Niall looked over to see his friends laughing, and standing behind him helping Louis up. Niall let out a snort, but focuses his eyes back to the girl.
"If only you saw what I could see, you'd understand why I want you so desprately,"
Which was true. Niall hoped the girl would notice how much he liked her already. Her strong personality, fit body, beautiful face, amazing sense of humor, and now he loved her voice.
"Oh." Said Louis.
"My." Said Zayn.
"God." Said Harry, all of their mouths gaping. Niall just nodded and stared back at the girl next to him. Suddenly he understood why their mouths were open. She had stopped singing.
Kelsey was just staring at the four of them, her lip quivering and eyes glossy. Niall heared she would start to cry, feared that he would make her feel any pain. But, before he could fret any longer, she spoke.
"I'm sosososososo sorry if i woke any of you, I-I just get so caught up in the music I don't even realize when I start to sing, and-nd these One Direction boys-s, I don't know if you heard of them, but they sing this really amazing song in these really beautiful voices that make you sing along, which usually leads to me embaressing myself, which leads me to go on and on like im doing now, so i'm just going to shut up. And if your going to laugh at me, just go do it in different seats because I don't need four teenage boys having a go at my singing."
Niall and his band mates couldn't help but laugh. These One Direction Boys, I don't know if you heard of them, but they sing this really amazing song in these really beautiful voices- So this girl really didn't know who they were. It was nice, not having to be bombarded by fans every five seconds. And it was also quite funny how she responded to him when she first go to their seats. No one has talked to Niall like that in a while, and he probably needed to be put back inot his place.
But he lost that pleasant feeling as the girl grabbed her bag, and ran away. He felt his face drop as she ran into the bathroom, tears flowing down her face. Niall had never felt so bad in his entire life. Making a girl cry? Especially one as beautiful as she? Who Niall fancied, but would never tell the other boys. Well, except maybe Zayn or Liam. Definitley not Louis. He looked over at the rest of the boys whose faces were also dropped.
As Niall stood up and started to walk towrads the bathroom to apologize and explain everything, something had stopped him from moving. Zayn's hand was tightly arounf Niall's wrist, bounding him to the spot her was in.
"Just leave it be, Ni. Figure out what you'll say when she comes back." Niall simply nodded, and sat down. He felt so awful. He could not deal with tears. Whenever fans cried, Niall almost cried himself. He hated seeing people sad.
"I screwed up Zayn. I should have told her." Niall simply said, as he sighed.
"No, how do you know she wouldn't have fan girled? She was singing OUR SONG. At least now you'll know that if she likes you it's for YOU. For Niall Horan. Not for Niall Horan, that blonde bloke from One Direction." He had a point. Niall heard Harry and Louis having their own conversation, but ignored it.
"But I made her cry! She thinks I laughed at her singing!"
"But you didn't." Zayn replied, looking at Niall.
Suddenly, a familiar girl walked down the aisle in a purple sweater and a different bag. He couldn't see her face, but Niall knew it was her.
"Does she think im that stupid? I can tell it's her." Niall sighed. He didn't know how he could tell, but he could. Something about her presence automatically made Niall aware of Kelsey. As she walked by, Niall looked down at his feet looking even sadder for the fact she walked straight past him and sat in an empty seat. Zayn's seat. So he had forced her away from her seat too. Niall felt like a complete prick.
Zayn had obviously noticed her sitting in his seat. He simply looked over at Niall and shook his head. "She'll come back mate, don't worry."
Niall looked over again, and saw her talking with Liam. Niall was furious. So she wouldn't talk with him, but she'd talk to Liam? Then, again Niall remembered how he first acted and how he had just acted again. Probably making her feel unwanted, when in reality, Niall wanted her. He looked over yet again, and noticed her laughing. Obviously Niall had over reacted on making her cry. She bonced right back up, which made her even more attractive to Niall.
Harry heard her laugh, and turned around. He smirked, showed his dimples and walked over to Kelsey and Liam. Louis, Zayn and Niall followed.
"I bet your not that bad, if you sing half as great as your personality then you should be fine." Liam smiled at Kelsey, making Niall jealous.
"Trust me Liam, she sings just as beautiful as she looks." Niall saw Kelsey quickly turn around. She had seemed to noticed Niall, and she looked at the ground. Obviously not wanting to talk to Niall. Just Great, Niall thought.
Kelseys POV
"Trust me Liam, she sings just as beautiful as she looks." Kelsey quickly turned around to see not only the voice of Harry, but of Zayn, Lou, and much to her dismay, Niall.
Kelsey looked down at the ground, not wanting to meet Harry or Niall's eyes. Not after she reacted like that towards the blue eyed beauty, and definitley not looking in Harry's eyes because of the compliment she had been given by him. If you could'nt tell, she was a bit insecure. Scratch that, alot insecure. The girl couldn't even be told that someone like the pattern on her socks without getting insecure.
"Errrr ... thank you." She simply replied, blushing.
"Any time, love." Harry winked. So he's going to play this game, is he? Well, two could play.
"Charming fellow, aren't we?" Kelsey asked.
"Glad you noticed, beautiful." Harry cheekily replied.
"So am I, I'm very glad I noticed how you ignorantly came over here and started flirting with me when one of your best friends obviously has taken an interest in me. Some girls may fall for the eyes, and the dimples and maybe even the hair. But I'm a sucker for a sweet personality, and not one as arrogant as yours. So if you'll all excuse me, I'm going back to my assaigned seat. Sorry Liam, but it was nice meeting you. Your very sweet, compared to your arrogant prick of a friend over here. Maybe I'll come see you in an hour or so." And with that, Kelsey McDougall walked away with her pride, but not before noticing the faces she left behind. Harry looked shocked, obviously not used to how he was being treated. Lou was holding back a laugh, clearly because his best friend had been dissed pretty badly. Zayn was holding his stomach with laughter, and Niall was both blushing and smiling, clearly used to her attitude by now.
Where the fuck had that come from!? She hadn't even noticed Niall had taken an interest in her untill she said that for herself. But it's not like she lied. Harry had obviously acted like a prick. He knew it, Kelsey knew it and Niall knew it. He needed to be put in his place. And thats when a thought had popped up in Kelsey's head. There is still nine and a half hours left in this plane ride, and I have to sit next to Niall and his friends, which I so rudely screamed at. Kelsey half thought, half said. Can you say awkward?
To take her mind off Niall and his friends, Kelsey decided it was the perfect time to google One Direction. So she had met Liam Payne, that didn't stop her curiosity to find out about the rest of the band. She turned on her iPad, slid her finger across the screen and went to google. She didn't think many results would pop up, considering over three quarters of America had no idea who they were, and the fact that Liam was so surprised she knew him. But all that doubt went away when she clicked the first tumblr page that popped up. As she clicked it her jaw dropped to the floor. OF COURSE! How could I have been so stupid. She thought. Obviously she should have figured it out when Harry had walked over to her and Liam. They were all in the band together. Niall, Zayn, that Lou guy, Liam and Harry.
She could understand why Niall didn't tell her. He obviously didn't want Kelsey to fan girl over him, but she couldn't help but imagine what Niall's singing voice was like. If it was anything like his laugh, this girl would have serious problems. She went to YouTube and quickly typed in Niall Horan. She saw the blonde boy on what looked like a stage. He looked young, wearing a red, black and white plaid shirt. His hair was longer and there were bits of brown in it. Hmm. Before she she clicked play, she searched for her headphones. She didn't need Niall to know she was googling him and listening to him sing.
As she clicked play her mouth had gaped wider, probably hitting the floor. From what she had heard he was nothing close to 'not bad'. He was doing a cover of 'So Sick' by Neyo. The boy was amazing. And this was a video from when he was YOUNGER. She went back and searched through the results for a more recent video. Aha. It was a video of them on some tour. She clicked play, and her mouth was open, yet again. She had never heard such a beautiful voice. He was never out of tune, or pitchy. He was perfect.
Yet again, she felt a tap on her shoulder. Kelsey musttered up a face full of hatred to show Niall. He had lied to her. Technically he hadn't told the whole truth, but that was still a lie. As she looked up, she was surprised to see her mother. And from the looks of it her, her mom was surprised to see her too. Well, not exactly. She was probably just surprised by the look on Kelsey's face.
"Sorry for bothering you sweetheart, just checking on you is all."
"I see that." Kelsey bluntly replied, looking back over at her iPad.
"Oh." Her mother looked hurt. Good. Kelsey had felt hurt for monthes after she told Kelsey they were moving to London. "Well I'll just head back over to your brother. If you need anything, just come and find me. Have a good flight love." And with that, she was gone.
Kelsey went through more and more videos of One Direction, hearing all of they're voices. She was reluctant to find out that Lou's name was actually Louis. Well, that saved her from further embaressment. They all had amazing voices, each voice complimeting the others. It was like they were created for each other. I guess I should stop creeping. What would Niall think if he came over here, she thought.
Suddenlly, Kelsey felt ANOTHER tap on her shoulder. Jesus christ, would her mother ever leave her alone?
As she looked over again with an annoyed look on her face, she stopped in her tracks. In front of her was Eyes himself. Niall Horan.
"Errm, ... well this is abit awkward, but why am I on your iPad?"