"Lexi! What are you doing?!" I screamed still not able to break out from under her. Either I was really weak or she was freakishly strong. Maybe both. "Ugh!" Definitely both

"Would you relax you're going to wrinkle my jeans," she joked although I didn't see how any of this could be funny. I was going to have to have a talk with her brothers for teaching her this sort of thing. "Oh yeah, hey who is this?" Lexi asked, I had heard her say that it wasn't Niall before and I was a little curious myself but breaking free from her was only going to happen if I focused all of my attention on that.

"Lexi!"

"Oh hey. Mel, it's Louis. Hey, Louis, I like your hair… Yeah, you're welcome… Oh no actually-"

"Get off of me!"

"Mel, you're interrupting my conversation with Louis. Huh? Oh no she's usually very calm just she doesn't like being pinned down to the ground I'm guessing… Oh him too… Mel, Niall doesn't like to be held down against his will either. Isn't that cute? You two are so similar it's so adorable!"

"Off! Now!" I yelled and kicked my foot up to where it almost hit her. It didn't though. And now I was tired.

"Well that was close. Hey is Niall violent too?" Lexi asked forgetting all about me again and focusing on Louis. "Well he's probably mad because you told him you were going to give him the phone then didn't… Oh he does?!"

"He what? Lexi this is getting really annoying"

"Shhh" she said and covered my mouth. "Well then put him on, I wanna talk to him… No, no… Alright bye… He's gonna put Niall on the phone now" She said taking her hand off my mouth so I could reply.

"I'm pretty sure this is illegal somehow you know. Holding someone against their will like this. Maybe some sort of abuse law or something" I said trying to scare her but knowing that even if there was she wouldn't care. She doesn't really care for rules or legal matters.

"I love you too Mel. Oh wait he's on now" she said and covered my mouth again. "Hi, Niall right… Yeah my name's Lexi… Oh she talked about me. Aw Mel, well aren't you sweet… Huh? Oh yeah she's here but I wanted to talk to you first… Yeah I have a question for you… How do you feel about Mel?"

"What?!" I screamed louder than I thought I would, or could for that matter. It surprised both of us so Lexi took her hand off my mouth. "That's what you wanted to ask?!"

"Mel, please, stop interrupting me… I told you she was here… Answer the question, then you can talk to her… Well I'm waiting!" she told Niall. Of course she would do this, she knew how I really felt. This is why I always had to tell Lexi everything, because if I didn't, I couldn't tell her not to pull stuff like this beforehand.

"Give me the phone right now!"

"Excuse me Niall. Mel, what did we talk about?"

"Lexi, if you don't give me that phone right now I will return all the things that I bought you today… yesterday… whatever day it is… was… just give me the phone!"

"You wouldn't… you would, damn. Well it was nice talking to you Niall but I have to go. Why don't you just give Mel your answer instead, 'kay? Bye now." She said and put the phone in my hand were her foot had just been. "I'm gonna take a shower" she yelled as she ran up the stairs before I could catch her.

"Hello?" I heard a faint voice say and realized that the call was still going. And Niall was at the other end of it.

"Hi." I said so quietly I was afraid he hadn't heard it but knew he had when I hear him sigh. Why would he sigh? Maybe I just imagined it; I seem to be doing a lot of that lately.

"Kitty, hey, I'm so glad you answered." He said sounding relieved. Again with the imagining…

"Of course I answered, why wouldn't I. Oh duh you mean because I didn't the last two times, right. Sorry I kept losing my phone."

"Well actually I thought you were mad at me…" He said it with such an adorably small voice I almost awed aloud.

"No- I mean why would I be mad? You didn't do anything wrong, right?" I asked thinking of his broken phone. Maybe he had lied to me and that's why he felt bad…

"Kitty? Kitty, are you still there?" he asked worried.

"Yeah- yeah of course I- I'm still here" I stuttered. Why did I stutter? Darn his beautiful Irish voice!

"Good, listen I'm so sorry I didn't call you sooner. My phone broke and, well I already sort of explained that. Please don't be mad at me. I got you your late birthday present. If you want to come over I can give it to you," he said sounding hopeful. Seriously my mind needed to take a break from making things like this up. Why would he sound hopeful? He's famous and popular and why would he-

"Kitty, you're spacing out again aren't ya?" he said and started laughing. Oh how I've missed that laugh!

"Yeah, so- sorry" Ugh again with the stuttering

"I thought you'd be done doing that by now." He was still laughing at what I now guessed was some memory of me in the middle of something important but staring off into space like I always had.

"I'm sorry" I said not knowing what else there was to say. "I missed you" I added at the very last second feeling extremely embarrassed as I did. What kind of thing was that to say? Well it wasn't bad but-

"I missed you too" he said and all of me just shut down. Of course this wasn't that uncommon for friends to say to one another. But the way he had said it, with such emotion… We were both quiet for a little while after that, not in awkward silence but just, silence. Finally I was the first to speak

"So how long are you going to be in town?"

"I'm not sure, I told my mum I'd visit but she told me that I should spend some time with you, seeing how we haven't seen each other in two years and all."

"Yeah we should. I could introduce you to Lexi although I suggest you wear a lot of coats or some sort of padding. I'm the person she's the nicest to and she had me pinned to the ground not too long ago." He laughed, and I laughed because he laughed. It had been so long since we talked and I missed it, so much that it scared me. While I knew how amazing Niall was I had never understood how girls could scream their heads off just to get him to notice them. And now, sitting here, having him put all his attention on me, felt like a prize. No X Factor, no concerts, no nothing to keep him busy, just him, talking to me, how it used to be. Thinking about it now, I understood those girls. I would scream until I lost my voice if it meant being able to have time with Niall like this. We talked all night, well what was left of it, and it felt like I couldn't have asked for something better than this. It wouldn't have been possible.