Until Forever- Nathan Sykes Fanfic

Chapter 17 - Date?

Chapter 17 – Date?

When it finally arrived to our date I was intrigued, I had no idea what he was going to do or how he was going to do it since we were stuck on the bus. I pulled on a red dress and brushed through my hair for the final time before walking out to the kitchen where I got told to go.

Max, Tom, Jay and Siva where stood there, wearing suits. Jay had a bow while the others wore a tie and smiled at me, I gave them a look to ask what was happening but no-one said anything, instead Tom walked up to me. “Good evening Miss, if you would like to follow me” he said, I tried not to laugh and followed him to the back of the bus.

When I got there Nathan stood holding a rose while the wooden table now had a white tablecloth with rose petals and candles dotted around, I couldn’t help but pause a minute and take it all in. Once I seemed to absorb the whole setting there was a whole other matter of Nathan.

He looked handsome, very handsome. He wore a black suit, bow tie and styled hair, he held out his hand which I gratefully took before he pulled the chair out for me. When he sat down I couldn’t help but smile, I knew it was a fake date but I kind of wished it was real, I mentally kicked myself, should I like him?

“Hey” Nathan said breaking the silence and my thoughts; I looked up to his dazzling smile and returned one back.

“Hey to you too” As I said this Jay walked in with cokes in two wine glasses, I chuckled as he sat it down trying to be a good waiter and not cracking any jokes like I knew he was probably dying to do, we thanked him and he walked out.

“Max!” Nathan shouted and he ran in with a camera, told us to say ‘lemons’, flashed the camera and ran out again, I chuckled slightly as Nathan said it was for Twitter for the fans to see, I nodded kind of disappointed that it wasn’t going to be private like a normal date would.

“Well I have to say good job Nath” he beamed like a little boy at Christmas and stood up, bowed slightly and sat back down, I laughed at him causing him to burst out laughing too and it carried on like that for another five minutes. I have no idea what I was laughing at but every time I made eye contact with Nathan I would burst into another fit of giggles, when Siva walked in with two menus we had just fell silent… well until I hiccupped really loudly and Nathan began laughing again.

By the time we really did finish laughing my stomach hurt and I swear I had magically gained a six pac, I wonder if Nathan did too… I picked up my menu to stop my thoughts going any further, when I opened it up there were on two things on the menu, chicken nuggets and fries and waffles for dessert, I chuckled the boys cooking skills really weren’t up to scratch. Maybe I should teach them sometime?

Tom appeared with a notebook and pen to take our orders, I looked at Nathan who was watching me and quickly turned away before I blushed. “It was a very hard decision but I think I’ll have the chicken nuggets and fries with waffles afterwards” I said and Tom smirked as he wrote it down. “I’ll have the same please” Nathan said and Tom briskly walked out.

Nathan and I chatted about random things, I never felt anything but myself when I was around him, we were already so close that if we did date the only thing that would change were the fact that we were not longer just friends but boyfriend and girlfriend too. Now really thinking about it I couldn’t imagine not being around him, he was like my rock.

“What are you thinking about?” Nathan asked raising an eyebrow, I blushed and looked away before replying.

“Oh nothing really” I took a sip of my drink and tried to avoid eye contact until the subject changed, I didn’t want Nathan thinking I had made my mind up yet.

The rest of the date passed without a hitch, I still found myself beginning to warm up to the idea more and more about actually dating him. I gave him a hug, as I did with the rest of the boys once it had finished, it had been cheesy, it had been romantic, but it had also been fake so I couldn’t hang on to it for long.

I sat on the sofa beside Max after everyone had changed back to their sweats and loungewear, Nathan was currently on the phone to his sister back home, “Tom put the date picture on Twitter” Max said and I nodded not saying anything, if it was real there would be no pictures circling the internet, if it was real Nathan would take me on even more dates, if it were real would I have the feelings that I had now? That I wished it was real?

“What’s up chicka?” Max asked disturbing me from the thoughts circling my mind; I looked up to his concerned gaze before replying. “It’s stupid really, I don’t know, part of me wants to date him, for the date we had to be real, but the other half’s scared of what would happen if it all goes wrong. I can’t lose him” I put my head in my hands, why did I have to over-think everything? Seriously, I always find myself paranoid and thinking about every possibility, I just need to let go and let loose.

“I can see that you’re scared, but you’ll never know until you try it. I know your fake dating him at the minute and it’s giving you a few ideas but you need to stop listening to your head and all the thoughts that go with it and listen to your heart, or your gut, or whatever you want to call it” Max said giving me an awkward side hug, I sighed thinking again.

“But how do I do that?” I asked, Max pulled away and looked at me. “Okay what’s the first thing you think of when you think of Nathan?” he asked, I smiled at the thought of him, “his smile” I said thinking about how it always dazzled me.

“Good, now give me something you don’t like about him” he said, I pouted pausing for a minute trying to think of something, when I didn’t respond Max smiled, “see you like him, you like every little bit because you can’t think of something you don’t like, okay last question, does it freak you out thinking about kissing him or seeing him in his birthday suit?” I laughed at the question, Max smirked but I knew he was serious and wanted an answer from me, “Um well since I’ve already kissed him and I see him half naked quite often no”  Max nodded but held that smirk “well ding ding ding we have a winner” he stood up and walked to his bunk leaving me sat there, that was it, I had to listen to my instinct and not my overworking brain.

It was official I liked Nathan Sykes, my best friend; I was going to take the leap of faith and risk everything to be with him. Only thing standing in my way was a fan base, and of course telling him that I wanted to dive in the deep end.

A/N – Hope you like it! Sorry it took me so long to upload and if it’s not up to scratch it’s because I had writers block! Comment, fan, vote! S x