The Truth

I walked up to the counter and stood in the line. There were only two people in front of me, one happened to be a business woman who looked to be in her mid-20s. She was wearing a black pencil skirt and cute blazer. Her hair was pulled back into a tight sock-bun and she was wearing a businessy pair of glasses. The other person waiting in line was a rather fit-looking guy. He had on a pair of khaki shorts and a red baseball tee. Baseball? Ahh… a fellow American. He was cute.

When it was finally my turn to order, I turned to the girl standing in front of the counter. She looked to be about my age and she had gorgeous blonde hair that was dip-dyed pink at the bottom. That was something that I wanted to do to my hair but I was always too chicken to try.

“Hi, how may I help you?” she said brightly. She had a rather thick British accent but not one that I couldn’t understand.  I looked up to the drink menu observing the perfect handwriting that all of the items were written in. I found what I wanted and looked down at her, smiling.

“Hi, can I have a tall Vanilla-Bean Frappuccino?”

“Sure, that’ll be 3 pounds 80.”

I pulled the money out of my pocket and looked at it confusingly. Aghhh! I don’t know how to use this! I think the girl, Sandy according to her nametag, noticed my confusion.

“Need help?” she asked, looking at me sympathetically.

“Yes please!” I laughed. I could tell that a good amount of Americans came into here by the way that she acted about the money situation. She took my handful of bills and sorted it out. Then she took some, reached into the cash register, pulled some out, and handed it all back to me. “Thank you!”

“No problem,” she said coolly.

I went over to the side counter to collect my drink when I thought of something.

“Hey,” I paused. “Sandy?”

“Yeah?”

“I was wondering if there are some good places to shop around here? I’m gonna be bored tomorrow and shopping will be the perfect remedy.” I just got into shopping last year. I loved the thought of developing my own style but because of it, I was pretty much always broke. Oh well.

“Yeah, plenty, but you might want to figure out how to use your money first,” we both laughed. “I can show you around tomorrow if you like. I have the day off.”

“Really? That’d be awesome.”

I told her where my hotel was and we exchanged numbers. Yay! I had a friend here.

I finally got my drink and went to find a place to sit. I noticed that there was a tiny secluded room in the back. I jumped at the chance to get some privacy. I walked into the room. I saw the business woman from earlier and man sitting and talking quietly. A couple seats away was a boy sitting alone and I sat a few seats away from him. I took the first sip of my drink. It filled my throat with the cool vanilla taste. The first sip was always my favorite. I pulled out my phone and I went into my text messages. I had a new one from my mom and one from my best friend, Clara. I ignored the text from my mom for now but opened the one from my bestie.

‘Miss you chica! Imma visit u soon so watch out! Look out for 1D baby!’

I smiled at the first part but frowned at the end. That was honestly all I ever heard from Clara, One Direction this, One Direction that, and every time she says something about them, I mentally punch myself. I was the one that got her obsessed with One Direction. I showed her one video and she was gone. I still loved her to death though.

I’ve never kept secrets from Clara but I couldn’t bring myself to tell her about Niall, not even my parents knew, only Emma. I want to tell her so bad but something always stops me.

I shook myself out my thoughts and quickly texted her back…

‘Get over here quick and my eyes are peeled J Miss ya yo’

We had weird conversations…

I looked up from my phone, scanning the room when I noticed something I hadn’t noticed before. The boy that was sitting alone, his hair looked awfully familiar. He looked up from his phone and I almost screamed. Sitting in front of me was Harry Styles.

I flew out of my seat and ran over to him, playing it cool the whole time, obviously.

“You’re Harry Styles.”

He looked back up from his phone and smiled at me, looking me up and down, then staring straight at my lips. “Yeah love, and you are?”

I didn’t respond, just stared, not because I was in awe of Harry Styles sitting right in front of me, just because this is the closest I’ve felt to Niall in months.

After a few seconds he laughed and said, “Want a picture?”

I smiled politely but shook my head no. He was kinda taken aback, I could tell.

He tried again, “Okay, do you want an autograph?”

Again, I smiled politely but shook my head no. He was confused and I could tell it was killing him that I was acting like I could care less about him.

“Umm…” he said awkwardly.

Before I could stop myself, I sat across from him and blurted out, “Where’s Niall?” I didn’t realize how stupid that sounded until the words came out of my mouth. He wasn’t going to tell me where Niall was and at this point, he probably thought that I was some kind of creeper.

“Sorry?” he said.

“Okay that sounded really stupid,” I said leaning across the table. “I knew Niall a few years ago and I was just curious as to where he was?” CREEPER ALERT. What was I saying? Wow!

“Sure you know Niall,” he said rudely looking down at his phone. I could tell that he was annoyed with me.

“When I was sixteen, I came to visit Ireland for my birthday. I met Niall and we hung—“

I couldn’t finish my sentence because Harry interrupted me. Something I just said had got him interested.

“Please tell me you’re not Lennon,” he said. This time, it was me who was taken aback.

“What did you just say?” I asked with confusion. Harry Styles knew who I was which meant that Niall had to talk about me. I saw a glimmer of hope until Harry said,

“You’re definitely Lennon. Aren’t you?” I nodded. “Why did you do it?”

What was he talking about? “Do what?”

“You broke our little Nialler’s heart,’ he said, looking at me seriously.

“WHAT?” I said a little too loudly. If anything he was the one who broke my heart.

“We all saw the picture,” he said calmly, making me look and sound like a lunatic.

That’s when it hit me. The picture. Without saying anything else I knew what Harry was talking about. The night Niall stopped talking to me was the night of Michael’s party, the night Matt kissed me. The picture of Matt and I kissing? I knew that that had to be what he was referring to.

I looked down at my hands, a single tear escaping my eye. “I loved—no I love him,” I said correcting myself. I had never admitted it to myself before but I was certain that I loved Niall Horan and I blew it. I started to get angry at myself, at Niall, at Harry, at the whole freakin’ world. “Do you know how many nights I cried myself to sleep? How many interviews I have watched just so I could hear his voice again? I think about him every second of the day, the least he could’ve done was have the decency to call me and tell me that he saw that picture!”

Before I could continue, Harry interrupted me again. “Lennon, if you loved him then why did you cheat on him?”

“I didn’t, that’s what I’m trying to tell you. That kid was drunk and he kissed me. I immediately pushed him away and I haven’t talked to him since. Matt, the kid who kissed me, was my best friend but because of Niall, I never forgave him. Niall didn’t trust this kid either! I should’ve listened to him,” I ended quietly.

That’s when I knew Harry believed me. He looked at me sympathetically. “Lennon I’m sorry. If it makes you feel any better, he still loves you. He was upset too. He cried, and he wouldn’t talk to us for weeks. He never even came out of his room, not even for food. I’m sure he would hear you out… if it wasn’t for Stacy,” he said the last part under his breath but I could still hear him.

“Stacy?” I said questioningly, although, I already had a feeling I knew who Stacy was and I hated her already.

“Shit Lennon I’m sorry.”

That’s when I couldn’t hold my tears in any longer. I started softly crying.

“Lennon, Stacy is Niall’s girlfriend.”

A/N

BUM BUMM BUMMM... Next few chapter's have the boys :) yay!!!!