*5 years earlier*

‘Come on Soph, you will be late for school. And don’t forget we are going out for afternoon tea with Maura and Niall after school, so don’t be late home!’ mum practically yelled at me as I was walking down stairs.

‘Mum, I am 14 years old, you don’t have to keep reminding me of stuff like that, your not the only one who has a brain around here’. She is so annoying how she thinks I cant take care of myself. Even if I do forget, Niall will remind me at school anyway. Niall is my bestfriend, people think its weird that I have a boys as besties,I don’t see why though. I have always gotten on better with boys, they are less dramatic and less high maintenance. Me and Niall have known each other for 10 years, our parents were friends and we have grown up together. I tell Niall everything, I could trust him with my life, which is a lot to say these days, you cant trust many people.

After school we met with Maura and Niall at the local coffee shop, it wasn’t hard finding it since we live right around the corner to it. My neighbourhood is really small, so everyone knows each other. There is only one school that most of the kids go to and there is also one coffee shop. We walked in and saw them straight away. Maura was yelling at Niall as usual, she always notices the bad things he does but ever praises him for the good things, sometimes he gets really annoyed and just walks off on her, other times he speaks back to her, which was what he was doing now. ‘You never do anything I ask you to do,I am sick of you acting so stuck up’ She yelled at him.  ‘Maybe because I don’t want to do what you ask me to do, you cant push me around forever’. He yelled in his Irish voice. He moved from Ireland when he was 3, and they moved in opposite where we lived, we have been neighbours ever since.

 We sat down at the table and they both turned to look at us and stopped in silence. Nialls eyes went directly on me, those beautiful eyes. I don’t know how I can stand them, they are so blue and full of wonder, I could never get used to them. He smiled at me and I smiled back, feeling that tingle inside. I have always liked Niall, not as just a bestfriend, but I would hate to ruin our friendship over some relationship that will probably only last for like a week. I have never told anyone, not even my mum. ‘Hey Soph, long time no see’ he said to me, chuckling. ‘yeah, havnt seen you in like 2 hours’ I said sarcastically laughing at what he had said, he I so funny but I don’t thing he sees it. He laughed and I could feel myself get warm with feelings, his laugh was another incredible good thing about him. We sat there talking to each other for a good 2 hours, our mum’s were talking also, probably about school or something. Then after they had finally finished being chatterboxes, they both stood up and started to walk out, we followed after them. ‘We’ll I guess I will see you tomorrow at school Soph’. Niall said as they walked towards their car. ‘ Yeah, same to you, bye!’ I yelled as we drove off.  I am so nervous around him, these days my feelings for him have grown bigger and I don’t know what to do about it, I don’t think he feels the same way.

*Nialls POV*

Omg, I cannot believe how much of an idiot I am, embarrassing myself in front of soph like that. Me and mum were arguing about me not doing my chores and they just came in and sat down and were both looking at us, They both always walk in on us when we were fighting, they probably think that we fight all the time, which we don’t we are actually really close, me and my mum.  I didn’t know what to say, I needed to think fast because the awkward silence was growing even more awkward by the minute. The first thing that popped into my head was the most stupidest thing I have ever heard in my life, I just blurted it out ‘long time no see’ I felt humiliated. Thankfully she laughed, I love when she laughs at me, her smile is amazing. She is amazing, she is my bestfriend what can I say, I wish she was more than my bestfriend though, she is so gorgeous, she makes me go red every time she looks at me. After laughing at me she replied with ‘ I know right, I havnt seen you in like 2 hours’ I laughed at that, so did she, thankfully she didn’t notice how embarrassed I was. It made me smile even more! After about 2 hours, we left and me and mum were in the car on the way home, ‘I have never noticed it before, 10 years knowing Soph and today was the first day I saw it’ she was acting like some mind reader and it was freaking me out. ‘what the hell are you talking about?’ I asked her, really confused. ‘SOPH! you like her, the way you look at her today when you guys were talking, you fancy her, don’t ya!’ she started laughing at me. I felt my face turn red, great, now she’s gonna think she’s right, good way of hiding it Niall.’ Mum firstly, no one says fancy these days, get with the times and secondly what makes you think I like her, she is my bestfriend’. I said to her, still trying hard to hide my biggest secret ever. After we talked for about 10 minutes we came to the conclusion that I did like her, and there is nothing I could say that could make mum change her mind. I think I will ring her tonight, to see what our future looks like.