This is a short story that will have between 5-7 chapters.
This is dedicated to my friend Livia (@horansqueen) because she’s such an amazing friend. She is always there for me and listen to me even when I make no fucking sense. I love ya loads!!
I added Isa (@sushiniall) because she has been such a good friend to Livia and plus she’s such a sweetheart.
This story will have romance, some drama and possible smut.
I apologize in advance for every grammar mistakes in this story.
🎄BLURB🎄
Olivia Cooper dragging her sister to spend Christmas in London this year is only an excuse to finally meet Niall Horan with whom she has been talking online for the past few years.
But colliding online and offline realities isn’t always as expected and for sure will make this a Christmas she won’t forget.
🎄PROLOGUE🎄
"Seeing is believing, but sometimes
the most real things in the world are
the things we can't see." - The Polar Express
“Remind me again why we are doing this?” My sister asked as we took our seats in the airplane.
I looked around as people rushed to their seats probably excited to reach their destination, but I knew that Isa wasn’t. She was never a good flyer and the only reason she was on board was because of me who begged her to not leave me alone for the Holidays. She was probably the only person in my life that I knew who wouldn’t refuse me my demand mostly because we always have each other’s backs.
“Because I need to be far away from my stalkerish of ex-boyfriend and you need to loosen up. Seriously, I love you to death, but you’re probably the most uptight person that I know.”
Ever since I broke-up with Josh, he kept coming over and trying to win me back. At first he was acting like he just wanted to be friends, but it soon became apparent that he was hoping for more. He wasn’t doing anything that I would say was dangerous, but it was mostly annoying trying to change the subject whenever he tried to ask me to get back together. He wasn’t a bad guy, but the spark was gone and there was nothing to light it up again. I was hoping that not seeing me for a while might just trigger him to finally go meet new girls.
“The need to get away from Josh, I get that. I think it would actually do him some good, but I am not that bad. I can have fun too.”
Of course, we were both quite aware that she was lying her ass off. My sister had definitely not inherited the adventurous gene in the family. Apparently I was the only one who did and I appointed myself to force my sister to step out of her shell; starting with this trip.
“Oh please.” I rolled my eyes. “So since the parents have decided that they didn’t want to spend the Holidays with us and go on that Caribbean cruise instead with the Jeffersons, I decided to take control on how we were spending it and I say we are going to London.”
“But why London? I mean, if you think I need to loosen up, I would have expected you to book us a two week vacation somewhere like Mexico, Cuba or somewhere like that so we could get drunk and party day and night.” She exclaimed as she started to fidget in her seat.
“Baby steps because let’s face it; you have never gotten drunk in your life or party for that matter and I wouldn’t want to scar you for life. Plus, I have an amazing friend who has a flat there that we get to stay in for free so it settled it for me. So we’ll try to get you to enjoy life a bit more and I’ll try to get as far as I can from Josh so he can hopefully start finding someone else to annoy. Is it too much of me to ask you to do this for me?”
“No, Liv. It’s not too much though I think you are more interested in meeting this “amazing friend” of yours more than just getting away from stalker boy.” She added air quoting amazing friend.
Niall and I have been chatting online for the past three years and never got to meet once before now. We met through a message board where I was looking for someone to teach me guitar and the piano. Niall was one of my teachers and if at first, the messages and video chats were more professional, we soon moved to talk about more personal stuff and before we realized it a friendship was born.
I tried to hide the small smile that appeared on my face behind a magazine; “Am I looking forward to finally meet Niall? Perhaps, but really, this was an offer that I couldn’t refuse. It’s London! We’ve wanted to go there since forever and we the parents gone and Niall’s offer, it was like timing couldn’t be more perfect.”
But yes, my sister wasn’t stupid and Niall’s offer for a place to stay had helped a lot into making my decision. And the fact that my parents dropped the money in my bank account so I can do something with my sister during the Holidays had helped a lot too. But she wasn’t aware of the last part and I wasn’t supposed to tell her for whatever reasons my parents kept for themselves. I stopped long ago trying to understand why they do what they do most of the time.
“Sure. That is the only reason you opted for London. The fact that there’s a handsome Irish guy over there is simply a coincidence.” She added.
“Quit it already okay. Now you’re just being annoying about Niall.”
“Fine, I’ll stop complaining.” She sighed. “Once we are in the air, I’m getting a drink and then sleeping until we land in London.”
“A drink sounds really good.” I agreed. “Might calm me down a little bit.”
“Nervous about meeting Niall or is it something else?”
“I’m not nervous about meeting Niall. I just have a weird feeling like I’m forgetting something.”
“I swear if you scream Kevin, I’m hitting you.” She exclaimed as we both started to laugh.
“Now you’ve ruined it.”
“That’s what sisters do.” She explained. “Now can we just take off so I can have that much needed drink.”
“Just relax. It shouldn’t be that long now. It doesn’t look like more people are coming in so I guess it should be soon.”
“Yeah if only that was a good indicator. Remember when we went to Orlando and even though we were all seated it took over an hour before we actually left ground.”
It took about half an hour before we were finally taking off and as promised, once my sister took her drink, she closed her eyes to try and sleep. I couldn’t sleep no matter how much I should get a few hours of shuteye. We were set to arrive around 9 in the morning London time and I planned to do a few things on our first day and it would be nice not to be tired all halfway through it.
I wanted to do all the tourist spots we could in the first few days so we can then move on to enjoy our time just hanging out in pubs and of course shopping.
I didn’t know if Niall would be hanging out with us the whole time we were going to be there. He offered us his flat, but we hadn’t talked about how often we were going to actually be hanging out. And with Christmas smack in the middle of our stay, he might be going back to Ireland to be with his family.
I couldn’t help the happy feeling invading me knowing that in about eight hours I was finally going to meet him. I didn’t know what to expect, but unlike my sister I was always up for new adventures.
maybe i'm late for the motivational discourse but... you gotta update headlines because we need to read the quality content you always post 👀💗
Aww youre so so sweet! And of course youre not too late! Thanks so much for alwaya caring about my writing and commenting and encouraging me, you have no idea how much it means to me, ilysm 😍💖
are we getting headlines chapter 13 soon baby?? 👀🥰
heyyyy! btw i miss you so so much!!! i should update Cloverleaf tonight so my next update will def be Headlines! hopefully friday night or maybe sunday!!! ILYYYY!
alright! have you announced which one you chose already? i voted for look who's perfect now 😊
no i didnt announce it yet!!! i sort of wanted it to be a surprise haha! i need to work on the banner and all, and then ill post all of it with a release date :X thank you so so much!!! ily!
