Chapter 17

Chapter 17: The Dinner

"C'mon Sam, it won't be the same without you," Brianna says. Ugh, if she says it like that then of course he's going to come!

"I don't know, I'm behind on memorizing the script," he says and Brianna frowns.

"Excuses excuses! Come on!"

"Fine," he gives in. She smiles widely.

"Okay! Everyone meet me at our apartment at 6!" Brianna says and walks out of the door.

"Wait, Alex!" It's Logan.

"Yeah?" I ask looking over at Logan.

"I'll uh.." He says then shakes his head. "Nevermind, see you tonight!" He says and I laugh before getting in my car.

*Brianna's POV*

"Need a ride home?" Niall asks. I shake my head. I don't really want to go with him.

"No thanks, I'm gonna walk." I tell him and he nods.

"See you," he says and walks to his car. I start walking and I didn't even think about going home with Alex.

I look to the left and I see Sam by his car. Maybe he will give me a ride.

"SAM!" I call to him and he looks over to me. He waves.

"What do you want?" He asks.

"Can you give me a ride?" I say when I catch up to him. He nods.

"Already regretting turning down Niall's offer?" Sam asks and I frown. How did he know that?

Oh wait, everyone was there when he asked.

"No, I want to be with you," I tell him and smile. He smiles back.

"Hop in."

He drives for a while when I break the silence.

"Sam I'm sorry-"

"It doesn't matter," he says.

"Yes it does," I say," at least to me."

I sigh.

"How about tomorrow we hang out after rehearsal. We can go to

The arcade, get food, all that stuff," I offer. He nods.

"Okay."

"C'mon, don't give me the cold shoulder!" I say trying to lighten the mood. He smiles.

~

*Alex's POV*

"Crap, where's my shoes?" I ask out loud. Brianna looks at my appearance and shakes her head.

"Alexandra Brooke Hudson you are NOT wearing that!" She says and tisks in disappointment. I look down.

"What's wrong with what I'm wearing?" I ask confused. I'm wearing black skinny jeans and a fancy white top. She should be glad I'm even wearing this top! I never wear stuff this nice.

"It's not fancy enough! We are going to a fancy dinner, therefore we need to wear fancy clothing" she says. I look at what she's wearing and it's a short but not too short, fancy black dress.

"Well what do I wear then?" I ask. I don't exactly own any fancy clothes. She sighs.

"You can wear something if mine." She says and walks over to her closet. It's currently 6:09, nine minutes late dang it.

I nod and follow her. She opens her closet and looks through her dresses. There is a White one, black one, red one, pink one.

"How about this one?" She asks pulling out the pink one. It is pink and sorta girly, with a fancy design at the bottom. Gross.

I wince. "Nope"

She sighs and pulls out the black one. She raises an eyebrow.

"Nahh," I say. She nods.

"I see how it is, you don't want to match with me" she says joking. She pulls out the red one.

"Too sexy, Ew" I said. She groans.

"Ugh, Alex why you have to be so difficult?" She asks. I shrug.

"I don't know," I say. She takes out the white one.

"This is the only one I have left so put it on....NOW WE ARE WASTING PRECIOUS DAYLIGHT ALEX" she says and chucks the dress at me. I catch it and look at it. I nod.

"I approve," I say and go to change. I undress and then put on the white dress. It's sorta tight, but I guess I should have known since I'm bigger than Brianna. That skinny boowah.

I look in the mirror and the dress is short but past my fingertips. It's gorgeous, but it's "ehh" on me. I shrug and walk out.

"Ready to go?" I ask and Brianna nods, looking at the dress on me.

"You look nice,"she says and I say a quick thanks. We hurry outside and the boys are waiting.

As soon as we walk outside the boys are waiting by the car in their fancy tuxedos. Sam looks over at Brianna and you can see in his eyes how much he likes her. Niall though, is sorta glaring at Sam but also admiring Brianna.

It's cute Sam admiration for Brianna, but when Niall does it...it doesn't look...right. I don't even know what I'm saying.

I look over at Logan and I give him a smile.

"Well you guys look handsome" Brianna says smirking. Sam smiles and blushes a bit, while Niall smiles cheekily. Logan though, is smirking....cocky.

They all really do look handsome though.. Sam's curly hair was natural, and he wore a black tux, which fit him nicely. Niall's hair was gelled up in a quiff, and he wore a black tux as well. Logan's hair looked like it normally did and he also wore a black tux.

I knew they all were good looking but wow. I approve.

"Well thank you, miss Bri. You look gorgeous as well," Niall says formally. Fancy shmancy.

Brianna smiles, and nods as a thanks. She looks over at Sam and he still is staring at her. You can really tell how much he cares for her.

I cough to stop the silence.

"How about we um...go?" I say, and walk towards the car. Everyone nods and follows. Sam opens Brianna 's door like a gentleman, which makes Niall glare at him. Jeeze, they need to chill out.

I open my door and get in. No nice gentleman for me today.

It's silent for a moment before Niall turns on the radio.

"I LIKE BIG BUTTS AND I CANNOT LIE-" music bursts through the radio. Niall automatically switches the station.

"SAY SOMETHING I'M GIVING UP ON YOOOU-" Niall switches the station again, which makes me sad since I like that song.

"THE STORY IF MY LIFE I TAKE HER HOOOME" Niall keeps this song on. This is one of his band's songs so he's either showing off in front of Bri, or actually likes this song.

Brianna is up front humming the tune of the song.

After a few minutes of one direction we finally get to the restaurant.

"Hello, table for-" I stop and quickly count the people we have. Brianna 1, Sam 2, Logan 3, Niall 4, me 5.

"Five please" I say and smile. The man nods.

"Right this way please," he says and guides us to out table.

He stops in front of a table and we all sit down in a seat. I sit walk over to the seat of the far left, and flatten my dress on the butt so it doesn't come up when I sit down.

Logan sits in front of me, and Brianna sits beside me. Oh snap an argument is going to happen soon.

"Oh, no" I mumble under my breath when I see Sam walk over beside Brianna, and Niall glares.

"What's wrong?" Brianna asks. I look up at her surprised she heard me and then shrug, pretending I knew nothing. She's confused but hides it by looking at her menu.

Sam then stands up and mumbles.

"I have to use the restroom." Then walks off. Niall then smiles and when Sam is out of sight he stands up and sits next to Bri.

"Hey, Sam was sitting there-"

"But I want to sit next to my best friend," Niall says smiling innocently. I scoff.

"I thought I was your best friend, Niall." I pretend pout.

"I can have more than one-"

"Sorry but Alex is my best friend," Brianna interrupts. I laugh.

"B-but Alex I thought I was your best friend," Logan whines.

"Nope, Brianna is. Sorry guys," I say smiling jokingly.

"But Brianna is MY best friend!" Sam says. Wait when did he return?

"It's alright guys, plenty of Bri to go around," Brianna says laughing.

"Brianna has Niall as a best friend, and Sam, and Logan and me. Dang best friend slut," I joked.

"I never said Brianna was my best friend," Logan said. Ouch Brianna, that must hurt.

"Ouch," I say looking at Brianna. She holds a hand to her heart.

"I-I thought we had something special!" Logan and I laugh, while Sam and Niall have a blank expression.

"Woah guys no need to be jealous." I said. "Logan isn't Brianna's best friend since he's mine," I said, laughing.

"Awe, I'm touched Alex. I really am."

"Thanks Alex," Brianna mumbles."Nice to know I've been replaced."

"Do you gentleman and ladies want anything to drink?" The waiter asked politely. Crap, we were too busy arguing over who's best friend is who's, we didn't even notice it's time to order...oops?

Travis,(I learned his name from the name tag thing) stands there with a raised eyebrow waiting for our answer. He looks around 23 and has blonde hair gelled back. He's pretty cute, I guess. I look over at Brianna and she's checking him out.

Typical Brianna. Let's just hope neither Sam or Niall saw this.

"I'd like water please," I say politely. He nods and writes it down on his notepad.

"Coke"

"Pepsi" Sam and Niall say at the same time. Just another reason for them to dislike each other.

They glare at each other while the waiter writes it down obviously not understanding why they are acting this way.

"Um- water please," Logan says breaking the silence. Thank you Logan.

"I'd like a coke." Brianna says simply. Niall then smiles, and Sam glares at him. Wow, they act like teenagers just because Brianna picked the same drink as Niall...shame.

"Okay, I will be back shortly," the waiter said and walked away. I sigh, and look over at Brianna. I see Niall whisper something into her ear, and she tenses. He better not be trying to take away Sam's sugercube because I ship Briam so hard.

She lightly shakes her head no. I wish that means she's rejecting him.

I mean, Niall's a great guy and all, he's one of my friends! I just don't think him and Brianna are good....together.

It's not jealousy talking, I don't like Niall like that.

I don't like anyone.

"That's B.S. Alex," Brianna mumbles next to me. Frick, I said that last part out loud. I shake my head.

"It's the truth though," I whisper back to her.

"What about Logan though?"

"What about him?" I ask confused.

"I thought you had a thing for him." Brianna whispers, and I look up at Logan. He's looking over at me.

Do I?

I chuckle to myself. I know I don't.

"Sorry to burst your bubble Bri, but I don't."

She stares at me for a while before she shakes her head.

"Logan kiss Alex," she says plainly, as my eyes widen. What? No!

"What!?"

"We'll see how you react to see if you like him or not." She says like it's obvious.

"Are you crazy!? I'm not kissing him! I don't like him like that," I say.

"Yeah huh!"

"Not uh! Ew, gross!"

"Thanks guys,"Logan says from in front of me. Wow, I totally forgot he was there.

"Shut up, Logan. I'm working," Brianna says. Logan just rolls his eyes.

"At least quiet down, people are staring."

I look away from then and to the people in the resturaunt. Everyone seems to be looking at us. Oops.

The waiter comes soon after and we all order our food.

"So, how did you and Niall meet?" Sam asks Brianna and Niall.

"Well-"

"Nothing," Brianna interrupts. She doesn't want him to know.

"Okay, then how did Logan and Alex meet?" Niall asks. Isn't it obvious it was from the movie?

"The movie," Logan said.

"Oh I thought it was before that," Niall says. After that it was an awkward silence. Seriously, it was so awkward I wanted to cry.

"Here's your food," the waiter says and I thank God he came at the right time.

I look over at Brianna and her steak is on fire like it is in those fancy places. We've never seen anything like that before.

"FIRE! EVERYONE STOP DROP AND ROLL!" Brianna exclaims and I'm embarrassed to say; I started rolling on the floor.

You can't blame us though! We aren't used to these Hollywood fancy stuff. How are we suppose to know its meant to do that?

"It's suppose to do that," Logan says and they all look at us weird.

"Oh."

"Good going Bri! Now everyone thinks we are freaks!" I say, sort so kidding I guess. We are freaks.

"It's not my fault I don't have enough money to go to fancy restaurants and see this stuff!" Brianna exclaims and everyone laughs.

I don't know how or when the fire is suppose to go out, and neither does Brianna. I saw her put something on it though, and it went out.

"Wow this is amazing!" I say when I take a bite of my steak.

"Mines, ehh," Logan says smirking.

"Stupid rich boy," I mumble, frowning as Logan laughs.

"What was considered fancy for you?" Logan asks and I shrug.

"Pfft, not T.G.I Fridays," I say even though it was, oops. Niall laughs.

{Ew, too many quotes;not enough discription sorry}