Its Gotta Be You
Chapter Eleven Part Two
Ally's P.O.V
We got to the door and I knocked waiting for someone to answer it. I hear from behind the door a high pitched voice yell, “Password!” Then a round of giggles shoot out after that. I sigh and bang on the door while saying, “Just fucking let us in!” I only hear more giggling and wonder if there is a group of five year old's back there instead of grown up teenagers. Harry taps my shoulder gesturing to let him go forward and try. “Good luck” I mumble under my breath. He steps forward to the door and says softly, “Boobies.” The door clicks open and I see Louis standing there with a smile on his face then screams in Harry's face, “Correct! So where have you two been?” He wiggles his eyebrows at us and lets us walk into the hotel room. As if nothing happened before the mob everyone is back into their usual spots. Harry punches Louis' arm as he walks by him leaving Louis to softly rub his arm. Serves him right.
I walk over to Zooey and plop down next to totally disregarding the fact that I landed on her hand and she yelped. “I'm hungry,” Niall whined. I looked over to him with a harder stare than I should of probably gave and said, “You always are. Besides we just ate like...fourish hours ago.”
“Fourish? I did not know that was a time now...” Harry mocked me. I turned my hard stare from Niall to him and he whimpered back in fear while hiding behind Louis. “Louis, I think I'm going to die now and if I do...I just want you to know I love you!” He yelled then flung his arms around Louis' shoulders. “I love you too, Harry!” He yelled while snuggling into Harry's embrace. I just let out a huge sigh and looked over to Niall, “So what do you want us to do about your hunger problem then, hm?” He looked around at everyone, who were staring at him except for Harry and Louis who were still having their lovers moment, then he said, “Can we all go out for dinner tonight! Besides today we've been stuck inside of these damn hotel rooms so it's nice to get out, so can we? Please Ally?” He looked over at me finally and laid his gorgeous blue eyes on me.
“And why are you asking me for permission?” I asked already knowing the answer. Niall looked down at his hands which were intertwined with each other and then said, “You're the only one with a car...but please? I might just die if we don't get more food and then you'll have a pesky law suit or something from Simon Cowell...you know for killing one of the members of his favourite project and all...” He drawled off that last part with a playful smirk on his face. I looked around at everyone else who had a begging face on and then Zooey bumped my shoulder saying, “You know food would be nice Als.”
“Fine, but only on one condition. Louis!” I called over to him because him and Harry were still in their own little world and being touchy with each other. He snapped out of it at the sound of his name and said, “Yeah, love.” I smiled in satisfaction that I had actually thought of this bargain. “Louis, if I take you guys in my car to dinner then you have to give me my phone back, and I'm pretty sure Niall will eat you if you do not agree, right Niall?” I look over to the blond boy. He nods his head furiously and glares at Louis. All Louis says is, “Alright.” As if it was that easy the whole entire time to get it back. I really don't understand these boys at all.
LINE BREAK
They had taken a full hour to get ready, all of them. They complained about having to take showers and such because they still stank and they had to change out of their pajamas. During that hour, which they told us was going to be fifteen minutes, Zooey and I went downstairs to hang out in the souvenir shop looking at the strange nicnak's that the hotel had to offer. I was going through a rack of cheesy shirts when I felt a tap on my shoulder. Being startled I jumped a little and turned around to a face a brilliant set of white teeth. “Scared, love?” He said to me while winking and walked off. I stared at him and notice just how good Harry can clean up and not even just him, all of them. When I first saw them today they were all in pajamas or some form of sweats which I would have been in too if it was not for being woken up so early.
I was still standing in the middle of the souvenir shop watching Harry walk off with the other lads and Zooey. I got back into reality and caught up while walking next to Niall, “So any idea what you guys want?” They all look around and all of a sudden Niall screams, “Nando's” The rest of the boys just groan at him but I ask, “What the hell is a Nando's?” He stopped right in his tracks and looked at me with a look that scared me a little, honestly.
“Oh god,” Liam mumbled as he walked farther off. I stopped to wait for Niall to move or speak or something but he just stood there like a statue staring at me with that weird look. “Ally, did you just ask me what is a Nandos?” I nodded my head. “What is Nandos? What is Nandos! Nandos is only the food of the gods themselves, the chicken is chicken that is bread by the gods and for some odd reason or another they sent them down to us measly humans to breed and harvest for what is only called Nandos,” He stopped and breathed. Zayn turned around while still walking and said, “Just in case you can't tell, Niall really really likes Nandos, especially the chicken.”
“I don't just like Nandos, I love it, so can we get that?” He looked at me hopefully and I just thought of whats around here and if there was one. “There's none around here Niall, so what else guys!” I smiled to everyone else. Niall just looked heartbroken and shuffled along with the rest of us. He was really adorable like this, I thought. “How about just some pizza?” Harry slowly drawled out.
“Pizza is good, yes,” I said as I thought of where exactly I wanted to go. We walked to the doors to go outside the boys trying their best to be as discreet as they could. Well all of them except Harry and Louis, they were jumping all over each other and running around. When we got to the revolving door they ran around in it until Niall told them to hurry up or he was going to put a stick in it and keep them there forever. We got to my car and I went to the drivers seat while asking, “Well how are we going to pile you guys into this thing?” I put my hand on the door handle and finally looked up as everyone had thinking faces on. “Guys, seriously it's not that hard. Niall sit up front, Louis or Harry sit on each other, and Zooey sit on Zayn,” I called and they did as so. Liam got the hint to just sit in the middle by himself and we then drove off.
“Ally! I'm huuuungry! Are we there yet?” Niall whined from next to me. I gripped the steering wheel harder since he was starting to get annoying from asking if we were there yet. “Niall if you ask me one more time if we're there yet I will drop you off at a school or something and leave you there to get trampled by the pubescent girls that love you so,” Venom dripped in my voice. “Okay,” Niall whispered utterly terrified of my threat and he should be because I would do that no matter what kind of fame he had. “So Ally love, where are we going?” Louis asked from the back. I look in the mirror to see him on top of Harry with his arms around his neck and face nuzzled into it too. I sighed and said, “Some pizza place since you guys said that that's what you want, right?” I asked and everyone nodded. I heard squirming in the back and a foot kicking my chair, “Okay, who ever is doing that is getting thrown out in three seconds unless they stop!” It stopped but then Zooey's voice screamed, “You mean...!” She knew exactly where I meant where we were going and I just nodded my head with a big smile on my face.
We drove in silence for a while so I turned on the radio in the car. A loud guitar solo filled the entire car with sound and everyone put their hands over their ears to save them. I went to the volume button and turned it down while switching it to the actual radio. “What the hell was that!” Zayn screamed from the back. I laughed to myself because he was probably a rap kind of person or something. “That my friend was the trusty sound of a good guitar solo and a very hard one at that fact,” I gleamed to myself knowing that I could play that perfectly. I felt someone staring and me and looked to my side to see it was Niall. “So you play guitar too then?” He asked happily. I remember that beautiful song he played when I first met them all and how he wiped something off my face and something fluttering...wait that didn't happen. Well the last part but right now something is fluttering on the inside of me...weird.
“Yeah, been playing since I was about seven or eight years old,” I proudly said. “Yeah! She loves electric though, always playing some type of heavy guitar though, right Als?” Zooey called from the back. That's true but I only play that around other people to show off my intense skills of guitar. When I'm alone in my room I play me and my dad's favourite song on acoustic and try to desperately sing along to it but alas he was the one with a golden voice. Even still I try to desperately sing along to our song, Torn. “Hey, I can't help it if those are my jams!” I called back slyly. A burst of laughter comes from the back and it's from Liam who I am just looking at strangely from the front seat. “Sorry, but you just sounded really American right there, like I was ready for you to say 'Who Dat',” He said between laughs. This just cause me to give him a stranger look from the mirror, “Liam, Americans don't say 'Who Dat' only really ghetto people at most say that...and well I'm from a suburbia...” I said very slowly. “Yes you guys do! You're all like Who Dat! And every thing!” He called. Then as if it was already planned out they all said in perfect unison, “Who Dat!”
I couldn't hold my laughter in anymore and started to laugh hysterically. Oh god this was not good I'm driving but oh god they really think we say that and then oh god. My eyes started to close from laughing so hard and tears were forming when all of a sudden a hand sprung out in front of my and took hold of my hand on the wheel gently pulling it to the right. “We're not in England love, you guys drive on the right of the road,” Niall said smoothly adding a wink at the end of that. That fluttering came back and confused me immensely. What the hell is that, I thought to myself. “Oh sorry, but tea and biscuits boy back there honestly thinks we say who dat and I bet you guys say pip pip cheerio all the time there, right?” I ask mockingly while trying to do my best British accent but failing horribly.
“As a matter of fact we do, on every Tuesday at tea time of course,” Liam said seriously. I literally turned around to see if he was joking or not and Niall's hand instinctively reached out for the wheel making sure we didn't crash into the other side of cars. I realized what I did but saw absolutely no sign of him joking, “Liam...are being serious?” I ask. Then Zooey called out, “God no Als! He's obviously joking ya dummy!” I heard a round of laughter and my cheeks heated up immediately as I realized just how gullible I really am. “Well, he was just being so serious....” I tried to make reason of that. Just then I saw the parking lot for the place we were going to and pulled while parking, “We're here.” I mumbled that since I was still slightly embarrassed at myself.
I turned the engine off and grab my bag that contains my money and everything in it and I go to open my door but it pops open magically. I look up and see that Niall had rushed out of his seat next to me and ran to my door to open it. I instinctively blush and slowly get out making sure that I don't trip or further embarrass myself. I look into those amazing blue eyes and say, “Thank you” He smiles and puts his hand on the small of my back to walk me away from the door and then closes it. I hear a couple of whistles from the other boys and look behind me give them a death stare that can kill kittens. They shut up right away. I smelled in the fresh air and the smell coming from the restaurant. Fresh Italian food smell was coming from it and I loved it just like I loved this place. When I was little me and my father would come here all the time whenever my mother tried to cook something since she was not the best of cooks. But he knew the owner of this place so it just always felt like a second home and the owner was like my Dad when he passed away and before Jeff came into play. He would help me talk everything out and scare away boys from me something that my Dad probably made him promise to do. Although most of the boys were just friends but he probably had too much fun doing it that sadistic man.
I started to walk towards the old looking building that looked like it belonged in Italy and smiled. “Oh my god my mouth is salivating, I love Italian, right after Nandos...which you are trying one day.,” Niall said from beside me. I just looked over and gave him a smile telling him that I probably will never since after today I will probably never see them again. We walked to the doors and opened it to be greeted with a burst of heat probably coming from the open fire oven that heated up the pizzas. A man with a mustache greeted us and I walked right into his embrace, “It's nice to see you Mike.” He just put his hand over my head nuzzling me into his body and saying, “You too Als, it's been too long.” I pulled back and went back into the group of the boys and Zooey. He looked over to Zooey and smiled while nodding, “Hey there Zooey.” She smiled and said a smile hi. Then his eyes landed on the group of boys with us and his stare instantly hardened. “Who is this Ally,” He looked at me and his eyes softened. I smiled and pointed out each one as I read off their names, “Louis, Harry, Liam, Zayn, and Niall.”
“It's nice to meet you,” He said not even reaching out his hand for them to shake which Niall actually already had his out. After he awkwardly put it back by his side Mike asked, “Well then the finest table in this place then?” I smiled and nodded while following him after he picked up the menus and into the back where there was a round booth that I particularly liked. I slid into the middle to have Harry and Niall at both sides of me and the rest crowd around too. Mike gently gave me and Zooey our menu's while practically throwing the boys menu's at them not even caring if they caught them. Actually, the menu hit Harry in the face and he was gently rubbing it while I was suppressing a small giggle forming.
“I'll be right back to take orders and stuff then Allison,” He said and walked into the back of the kitchen. As soon as mike left all of the boys just stared at me while Harry asked, “Is he always like that?” I giggled softly and said, “Only to guys.” He went and stared off towards Mike who had just come out of the kitchen and was glaring at them. The boys all looked down at their menu's trying to avoid the look coming from Mike. “So what's good here, eh?” Liam piped up. I scanned the menu I had in my hands and said, “Everything.” He just stared at me and then went back to looking at his menu while mumbling, “Thanks for the help...”
Mike came back and had a pad in his hand asking, “Alright girls, what do you want” I scanned the menu and said, “A coke and a slice of Sicilian pizza and a bowl of spaghetti.” He wrote it down and asked everyone else what they wanted leaving Harry for last. “And you curly, what do you want?” He asked with a bit of grimace in his voice. Harry just stared at him with a scared look and said quietly, “Some chicken parm pizza...and a coke.” Mike hardly nodded his head and smiled at me before walking off to put our orders in.
“He really scares me Als,” Harry whispered into my ear causing me to have a slight shiver. I looked over to him to see his eyes were green right now and opened up very bright. His eyelashes were pretty long and I wondered what they would feel like to have them against my face or bumping into mine while we kissed...wait where did that come from? I mean sure I thought Harry was attractive but he was into older woman and I'm younger than him so he would never even consider me probably. I sighed and went to playing with the paper napkin that held my eating utensils. The boys and Zooey were in a very animate conversation while I just turned the napkin into little strips and the little strips into smaller strips and so on. Then I felt a hand on mine pulling it away the napkin I looked at the rough calloused hands and traveled the arm to stare into Niall's bright blue eyes. He had a concerned look on his face and I just pushed it off and also pushing his hand off of mine. Just as he was going to say something Mike had finally come and put our food in front of us causing him to instantly shut up and devour it.
I slowly dug into my pasta relishing in the goodness of the sauce and everything about it and then started in on my pizza. This is the reason why I loved this place, not just because Mike owned it but he actually put his heart and soul into making delicious food. I was just like that for my art, everything I made was always some type of an emotion I felt and it was the only way Zooey can tell what I am exactly feeling usually. After my dad's death I just kind of shut down and stopped telling people what I was feeling and the only person that I ever talked to about it was the picture of my dad that I had. Sometimes at night I curled up with it in my arms and cried myself to sleep while telling him how much I missed him and how I had no one to fight off boys for me now, even though there never have been any. But then I took art in sixth grade and found that I could just paint, draw, or use anything to express my emotions. They would always turn out beautifully tragic though for some reason...
I came out of my thoughts and notice that I had finished eat, the last one to too. I looked around and put on a big smile for everyone asking, “Good? Right?” They all groaned from fullness and nodded unable to make any rightful human sound. I just giggled and called for Mike to come over, “Alright, we're done here. What's the damage?” I asked waiting for him to tell me how much it was. He just laughed at me and waved his hand, “Ally, it's on the house just as long as you promise to visit more. I miss my little Allabal.” He used my old childhood nickname he so kindly bestowed upon me and cause my cheeks to flare up.
Everyone started to get while holding in laughter at it and I just walked past Mike mouthing, “I hate you.” I laughed and gave me a sass filled wave while I walked behind everyone else. Once we got into the parking lot I saw that it had gotten increasingly darker out and that the streetlights had turned on. The moon and stares were out tonight, clear sky. Just then laughter bursted out of them breaking the calm silence of the night. “Oh god! Allabal, what kind of nickname is that!” Louis called out to me. I just grew an increasing blush and kept walking while Harry called to Louis, “Hey, at least it's not as bad as Boo Bear!” As soon as Harry finished that Louis turned towards him quickly and yelled, “You promised not to tell anyone that name anymore! I'm going to kill you!” Harry just laughed and said, “You're going to have to catch me first then...Boo Bear!” He mocked Louis.
They chased each other around the parking lot while I just walked to my car. “Come on losers get in the car!” I yelled to them since they were all the way on the other side of the lot. “But I have to kill Harry!” Louis called over to me. “Well you can do that when you get back to the hotel...just think of the balcony!” I call back. Louis thinks this over and then says, “Okay! Thanks for the idea!” He and Harry then ran back over to my car but this time Harry sat on Louis. We all piled back into the same spots we were in the last time and I went to drive off. Halfway home I heard Zayn saying my name. “Yeah, Zayn?” I asked. Everyone was extremely quiet and it was only 7 at night, weird. Then again, I'm usually up to three in the morning since I simply can never sleep. “Uhm...I think Zooey fell asleep,” I said quietly trying to not wake her up.
“Alright well, we're almost at your hotel. I'll just drop you guys off there and she can just come to my house or something,” I say but that causes a few grumbled from the boys. “You're leaving us from our super awesome day of fun with Zooey and Ally!” Louis yelled from the back. I instantly heard a smack and Louis saying oh then Zayn whispering, “Quiet idiot.” He was probably pointing to Zooey but I knew that absolutely nothing could wake that woman up, nothing. We continued our car ride in silence until we finally got back to the hotel.
“Alright get out,” I jokingly said. Doors opened and the boys got out with a bunch of chorus' of goodbyes or good nights. Zayn told me to tell Zooey he said good night. Just one person lingered back and that was Niall who stayed in his seat waiting for everyone to go to the hotel. I looked over and to see he was biting his lip, “What Niall?” His eyes fluttered up to mine and I could see how intensified they were in the dark, it was like a light was shining through them. I sighed as I stared into them and he said, “I really hope I get to see you soon...we're not leaving here for another three days...signings and all,” He awkwardly stumbled all those words out. I stopped just staring at his eyes and said, “Yeah but I have school and you guys will probably be incredibly busy...so it's no worry if we don't,” I said. He just smiled a little and looked me right in the eyes, “Don't worry we'll hang out before we leave, Allison.” The way he said my name caused that fluttering feeling to come back into my stomach. A smile slowly grew on my face and I said, “Alright Niall, then I'll see you real soon then.” A huge smile formed on his face showing off his braces which oddly made him look even cuter. He then leaned in for a hug good bye and I swung my arms over him trying not to hit him in the face or anything. He smelt so good, like Armani aftershave which was my favourite. He then pulled away but the smell was cemented on my shirt. He looked back into my eyes and said, “Ally I think...” Just then Zooey let out the loudest snore that a person can make causing Niall to jump a little since we had completely forgotten that there was someone else in the car. I looked back to see that Zooey was laying flat on her stomach across the the back seats. I looked up to Niall and said, “Alright I better get sleepy head here to my house before she rolls on the floor.” Just as I said that a loud boom came from the back and the car shook a little. “Well...I spoke too soon,” I mumbled to myself. Niall laughed and said, “Alright, I better get into the hotel before the boys miss me too much.” He winked at me then ran to the hotel doors. He looked back once before going in and waved to me giving me a sweet smile. I couldn't help but replicate it and smile back.
I then sighed and put my hands back onto the steering wheel getting ready to drive off to home. “God Zooey, what was that?” I mumble mostly to myself. I hear soft snores coming from her from the car floor and try as carefully as I can to not swerve to much. I finally get home and pull into my driveway getting ready to hear barking from my neighbors dog but none comes. I turn off the engine grab my bag and look back to see that Zooey had slightly rolled around on the floor. She was now sitting against the car seats and facing forward but still asleep. I opened my car door and went to the back to try my hardest to wake her up.
“Zooey, Zooey, Zooey,” I whispered into her ear, nothing. I then climbed into the car a little more and put my mouth against her ear yelling, “FIRE CROTCH.” She jerked awake and flailed her arms around getting ready to defend herself. I laughed at her and waited for her to calm down a little. Finally, she looked up at me and glared saying, “I don't fucking have a fire crotch.” Then she stood up and walked out of the car and probably going up to my room. I just watched her walk away and then stared up at the night sky. The stars were really beautiful tonight and it wouldn't hurt to stare at them for a little while and Zooey probably just went back to sleep and my mom probably saw her...so I sat on the hood of my car and stared up. I imagined what could even be out there in all of those galaxies of stars.
I felt some type of vibrating coming from my bag next to me and searched through it bringing me out of my thoughts of the stars. I found it and saw that I had five new text messages, weird I usually have none. I opened it up and read them all.
Louis: Thanks for the advice...Harry has now fallen to his death from the balcony...just hope I don't get caught or you will be an accomplice in murder love! ;)
Harry: Be happy! Louis didn't kill me, only tickled to me. Oh, and this is why we kept your phone....be ready to actually become friends with all of us babe! Xx
Niall: I'm still hungry...help.
Liam: Don't mind the other boys...they said they're going to harass you into being their friends. I am so sorry Ally <3
Zayn: Tell Zooey to take my number down I want to talk to her...oh and Niall said that he wants another great place around here to go to eat. That boy is always hungry...
I laughed at all of the text messages from them and realized that now there was absolutely no way of shaking them off. They were determined to be my friends and they all had my number now. God, when did my life become so interesting? I asked myself. I just continued to stare up at the stares thinking of life and how interesting it was about to come now that I had celebrity friends. I felt my eyes slowly start to close as the moon reach right above me telling me it was around ten at night. This is so peaceful was the last thought I had before I completely passed out on my car.
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