Never See Me Giving In

Tate

I couldn’t help but feel nervous as Jacob drove us to the studio. I was nervous because I didn’t know what Niall and I exactly were right now. I didn’t know what he wanted us to be. I’m pretty sure I knew what I wanted us to be.

I couldn’t help but walk slowly towards the studio trying to delay seeing him. What if he didn’t want to be anything more? What if he just kissed me because it’s what he thought I wanted? What if I’m reading too much into this?

“Come one Tate, you were so excited to see him before!” Jacob whined at me before practically dragging me inside. When we arrived in the main area I didn’t see him anywhere. I was half disappointed half relieved.

“Tate,” I spun around to see Skye coming out of a joining room followed by a dark curly haired girl. I smiled at her.

“This is Danielle.” She introduced us.

“I’m Liam’s girlfriend,” she explained. “I’ve been waiting for ages to meet you now. Since you know you might be one of us soon.”

I looked at them both confused.

“Don’t scare the girl Dani!” Skye scolded at her before smiling at me. “She means because you’re now dating a member of One Direction.” I blushed instantly.

“Oh Niall and I haven’t uh um...” I trailed off not really knowing how to say what I was trying to.

“It’s okay, it will probably take Niall a bit longer to ask you since he’s shy. He’s like Liam he took a while to ask me to be his girlfriend.” Danielle said walking over to a table to grab some food. “Whereas these two were already going at it before Harry asked her.” She added waving her hand at Skye who went bright red.

“Why must everyone bring up my sex life so publicly?” She exclaimed. Danielle smirked.

“Coz you’re dating Harry Styles! No one exactly expected you both to still be virgins.” I stood there shocked.

“Well I might just start talking about yours and Liam’s sex lives!” Skye announced rather loudly.

“Do we want to know why you want to talk about that?” Zayn’s voice asked as we all spun around to see all five boys coming out of a joining room staring at us curiously. Liam was a bit red.

“Is Harry not fulfilling you sexually?” Louis asked curiously. Harry looked at Louis offended.

“Of course I am!” He cried walking over to Skye and wrapping his arms around her. “I’ll prove it now!” he stated picking her up around the waist and trying to drag her off. She started laughing and made him stop. I stood there completely amused by this conversation that I momentarily forgot about a certain blonde haired boy. That was until I felt a warm hand clasp hold of my own hand. I glanced down surprised before looking up into his smiling face. I instantly smiled back calming down slightly forgetting about everything I was so nervous about.

“Aw, young love,” Louis said coming over and wrapping an arm around both of us. Niall turned to glare at the older boy.

“Leave them alone Lou,” Danielle said smiling at me and pulled Louis away. I smiled back at her thinking I might have already found a new friend. I liked the idea of that.

“Tate! Are you coming or what?” Ander asked. I stared at him surprised at the harshness of his tone before giving Niall a small smile and letting go of his hand and heading into the recording area.

“Geez, calm down I’m coming,” I mumbled at him, looking at Jacob questioningly. He just shrugged at me. I followed Ander into the booth and stuck the headphones on.

And this time you cross the line leaving me in the dark
But, I will light the way without you (without you)
And this time I realize you could have had my heart.
But I'm not going down without you.

I sung and took a quick break as Ander sung his part.

You were putting on a show, putting on a show.
So I'd rather be alone, rather be alone.
I took a deep breath before putting everything I had into the chorus.
Take another step and I'll lose it.
Sick of hearing all your excuses.
Breaking down your walls, breaking down your walls.
I'm not waiting for your call, waiting for your call.
Say another word and I'll lose it.
Everything you do is so useless.
Before I have to go, before I have to go.
I just wanted you to know, wanted you to know.
You're on your own.

We left the booth to listen to the play back. I cringed the moment I heard my voice, it wasn’t good enough. I asked them to record me doing the chorus one more time as I headed back into the booth. The boys were used to me having the need to make the music sound perfect. I was hardest on myself.

I sung the chorus three more times before I was happy with how it sounded. After our recording session was finished we all headed out to see Niall sitting on one of the couches with my stuff. I smiled at him happily and headed over there.

“What are you still doing here?” I asked smiling.

“Well I wanted to know if you wanted to come over and hang out with everyone.”

“I would love to!”

“Great! Are you ready to go now?” I nodded happily and he stood up holding my bag for me. I waved to the others as Niall grabbed my hand and lead me out to his car.

“So how did the recording go?”

“Good, I’m still not sure about my part though. I just don’t think it’s good enough...” I trailed off looking out the window and biting my lip. I felt him grasp my hand as I turned back to look at him.

“I’m sure it sounded amazing,” He said glancing away from the road to me. I smiled warmly before pulling my hand away from his and putting it back on the steering wheel. I saw his expression go slightly hurt.

“I’m not the biggest fan of cars.” I quickly explained. “I just really prefer if the person driving has both hands on the steering wheel.”

I was worried that I still offended him but I couldn’t help the nervous feeling I got if he took his hands off the steering wheel. However he smiled and I instantly relaxed knowing he would understand.

“Very well,” he said before making a show of tightening his fingers around the wheel and concentrating very hard. I laughed at his actions.

-

We walked into the elevator and Niall grabbed my hand pulling me closer to him. I smiled up at him feeling the butterflies in my stomach. I wanted him to kiss me again but remembering what Danielle said about Niall being shy I decided to take it upon myself. I leant up and pressed my mouth against his, closing my eyes. I could tell he was surprised at first but soon enough he wrapped his hands around my waist pulling me closer to him as my hands went around his neck. His tongue pushed against my bottom lip and I instantly let him in. Instead of fighting for dominance Niall merely explored my mouth and I felt my knees go weak slightly. Thanking God that Niall had me around the waist because I was pretty sure he was the only thing keeping me up right now.

There was a cough and Niall and I quickly pulled away to see an amused Zayn standing there. He walked in before the door’s shut and continued to smirk at us.

“You’re lucky it wasn’t one of our neighbours walking in on you to going at it.”

“We were hardly going at it.” Niall defended wrapping his arms around my waist and resting his head on my shoulders.

“Great, now with you too acting all cute, I’m the only one who doesn’t have anyone.” Zayn groaned.

“What about Perrie?” Niall asked.

“Working progress,” Zayn smirked. I could imagine Niall was smirking too. I rolled my eyes at them. The elevator door opened and we walked out and headed towards Skye, Harry and Louis room.

“Do you guys ever hang at anyone else’s place?” I asked. They both stopped and looked at me funny.

“Now that I think about it, I guess we don’t.” Zayn said frowning at Niall who just shrugged and grabbed my hand as we continued walking to the door. I raised my hand to knock but Zayn grabbed it to stop me. I looked at him curiously. He just winked at me before Niall leant forward and just opened the door walking in.

“You know some people find this rude.” I stated following them in or more like I was pulled in by Niall.

“No boundaries with us,” Zayn smiled before jumping on Liam who was on the couch watching a movie.

“I’M NOT HAVING SEX WITH YOU!” I glanced towards the closed door where the voices were coming from startled. Niall just casually walked over to the kitchen. There were more muffled voices coming from the door.

“I DON’T CARE IF YOU HAVE NEEDS RIGHT NOW!” Was the next yell heard from that room. I looked at the boys in alarm as they continued to watch the movie, Niall walked into the room with some food. He glanced at me curiously before pulling me over to a chair and making me sit with him. I was extremely confused and wondering what on Earth was going on.

Louis suddenly came through the front door and nodded at the boys.

“CALM DOWN!”

“DO NOT TELL ME TO CALM DOWN!”

Louis glanced towards the door before taking a seat next to Zayn on the couch and putting his feet up on the coffee table.

“How long have they been going for?” He asked looking around at us. Liam checked his watch.

“About twenty minutes.” He replied before focusing again on the TV.

“Oh good, almost done then.” Louis clapped and placed his hands behind his head settling into the couch. I was pretty sure my mouth was hanging open at how calm they were all being. People were yelling in their house and they didn’t even seem fazed. A door opened and I snapped my head to look. Danielle walked out of a bathroom which was next to the door that people were screaming in. I realized that it must have been Skye and Harry since that’s all who was left other than Eleanor. Unless there were people I didn’t know in there.

We sat there watching more of the movie which I realised was Toy Story. I screwed my eyebrows together thinking it was a rather childish movie but shrugged my shoulders and continued to watch. I didn’t mind I still watched Cinderella sometimes. Eventually the door opened and Skye and Harry walked out.

“Oh good everyone’s here.” Skye rolled her eyes and sat down on the couch next to me. She gave me a warm smile and focused on the movie. Harry walked into the kitchen.

“Is everything okay?” I asked her quietly, worried. She looked at me surprised.

“Of course,” she said smiling at me.

“I think you worried her with the fighting.” Danielle told her. I frowned nodding. It wasn’t right that Skye and Harry fight. They were such a perfect couple I never would have thought they would be having any troubles. Harry walked out of the kitchen with a drink and sat on the arm rest next to Skye, he just smiled at me.

“Oh sweetie, don’t be worried.” She said patting my shoulder comfortingly.

“We fight all the time,” Harry added smiling at me. I sat there staring at them gaping. How was he happy about that?

“You get used to it,” Niall said as I turned to see him staring intently at the screen shovelling chips into his mouth.

“But, but...” I trailed off not really knowing what to say. I was extremely confused. Skye laughed slightly.

“It’s just what Harry and I do. We fight a lot. But we also get along great. No matter how much we fight though we always work through it. A lot of the time we fight over stupid things anyway.” She smiled sweetly.

“More like all the time.” Louis snorted. Harry reached over and smacked him in the back of the head.

“And you are both happy?” I asked thinking of my previous relationships. If we had fought like that we would have been over a lot sooner. I wasn’t one for confrontation.

“Yes,” Skye giggled. “Our personalities are both extremely stubborn and were both quick to yell, that’s all. Trust me you will get used to it and learn not to worry.”

“Yep, because we’re not splitting up. Ever,” Harry said smiling down at Skye and kissing the top of her head. I smiled at this gesture.

“Thanks for caring though. That was very sweet.” Skye smiled at me. I blushed slightly.

“What are friends for?” I mumbled. She smiled largely and pulled me in for a hug.

“Great now that that’s done. Can we please enjoy the end of the movie,” Liam exclaimed glaring at us all before focusing back on the movie. I held back my laughter and turned back to the movie. Niall, now finished his chips, placed one of his arms around me and pulled me close. I pulled my feet up onto the couch and curled against him. I quickly glanced around the room and realised that in a matter of days I had acquired a whole new group of friends and someone who would hopefully end up being a lot more than a friend. I looked at Niall and smiled before leaning up to kiss him on the cheek. His face went slightly red as he glanced down at me. I just smiled at him and he smiled back.

“Awww!” was suddenly chorused around the room and I laughed as I noticed everyone was watching us even Liam.