Torre POV

Later that night, I sat in the living room of the apartment, my phone in hand. I was getting ready to call my mom to set up a good time for Niall and I to come to dinner when Eliza walked in.

"Hello darling." She greeted, setting all her bags down on the counter.

"Hi." I said.

"Haven't seen you all day. Where have you been my little lover?" Eliza said, plopping down on the couch next to me.

"I was with Niall. I went to an interview and then we went out to lunch and then out for ice cream too." I admitted. We actually did spend the whole day together...

"Wow you're really smitten." She giggled with a smirk.

"Oh come on. We just spent the day together. And we've been together for like 3 weeks. I'm not smitten." I argued. I may really, really like Niall, but I would never let myself fall that hard, that fast. I'm much more reasonable than that.

"Don't deny it babe, you're in loooovvveeee." She said in a singsong voice and waltzed her way into her room. I am not smitten.

With Eliza's grand exit, I now dialed my home phone number, hoping to reach my mom. Not surprisingly, she picked up on the first ring.

"Hi Torre! So good to hear from you." She said very excitedly from the other line.

"You too, mom. Sorry I've been so busy lately, I haven't made many calls home. How is everyone?" I asked.

"We're all good. Nothing exciting around here, ya know. But what about you sweetie? Whatever happened with you and that Niall boy?" She asked. Goodness, she sounded so stereo-typical motherly.

"Well, that's what I wanted to talk to you about." I started.

"What? What's going on?" She asked. She was trying to act calm, but she's been dying to help me with boy drama that's never come since the sixth grade.

"Well, me and Niall, are pretty much...official now, I guess you could say. Like, we're dating." I said.

"What?! Oh, I'm so happy for you Tor. And how are things going?" She gushed. I knew she would react like this.

"They're going good, really good, actually, and I really want him to meet you guys."

"Oh that would be wonderful, dear." She said. She was pretty much squealing over the phone now.

"Yeah, so could we like come for dinner or something next week?"

"Yes, is Tuesday night okay?" She asked.

"Let me check with Niall, but I'm sure that will be fine." I said. There was a ruffling noise through the phone and before I knew it, my sister was on the line.

"TORRE, what is going on? What have you not been telling me?" She asked. I mentally groaned. As close as my sister and I were, I had purposely been ignoring her texts and calls because I just know when I tell her Niall and I are dating she's going to freak out and get all weird and excited for me and it will just be this big ordeal. But I guess there's no escaping it now, is there?

"Well, uh, Amy...Niall and I are dating!" I said.

"WHAT? And you waited this long to tell me? How long has this been going on?" She demanded.

"Um... a couple weeks." I said. However, she didn't react like I expected her to. She actually acted mature.

"Well, Torre, I'm so happy for you. My big sister is finally growing up." She teased.

"Yeah well you'll be meeting him Tuesday night." I giggled.

"Ohhh, I cannot wait. Tuesday will be the night of our lives." She said excitedly.

"You're way to excited for this." I said.

"Oh no. You're just not excited enough." She said. One more thing popped into my mind before we got off the phone.

"Amy, I have one more favor to ask." I said.

"What is it?"

"Can you just make sure dad is, uh, cordial when we show up."

"Yeah, Torre. I've got your back. I'll make sure our father stays whipped into shape. We wouldn't want to scare your first boyfriend away." She laughed.

"Thanks. I know you've always got my back." I giggled.

"That's what a sister is for." She said.

"Okay, well I'll see you Tuesday." I said.

"Yep. Love ya, bye." She said.

"I Love you too. Bye." I hung up the phone and breathed a sigh of relief. One job was done.

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Niall POV

I'm so excited to meet Torre's family. Everything is all set up for Tuesday. If they're anything like her, they'll be absolutely amazing.

I'm sitting at the house with the boys. We're having another management meeting today, and I'm actually happy to have one. Hopefully today McClain will tell me what the heck his reasoning is behind holding back Torre and I.

If I thought I was ready to tell them before, I'm even more ready now. I've kept my word to McClain about keeping it secret up until now, but I don't know how much longer I can keep this so private. Somebody is going to catch us together sometime soon, and I don't want the world to find out about us that way, so he better change his mind soon, or I'm going to not even give him a choice.

I'm more anxious than I thought I would be. I don't like people telling me what to do, but I also don't really care for confrontation, so we'll just have to see what happens.

All of us sat out on the patio at the round, rod-iron dining table. The sun was shining brightly today, and for that I was glad. There's nothing like the sun shining right down on you to brighten your mood. 

McClain walked in moments later, and sat with us.

"Hey guys." He said casually. That was different. He was usually much more superior acting.

"Hi." We all murmured.

"Well, there's not much to talk about today. Things are going well with the album, your promo is all going very well."

"Okay. So is that it then, or? What exactly was the point of this "meeting?"" Liam asked.

"Well, actually this has more to do with Niall than the rest of you." he said slowly, nodding towards me. He was treading lightly, and I knew from the way he was acting this would not be good news.

"Is something wrong?" I asked in a hostile tone. Hell if I was going to be easy on him.

"Well, Niall. I know we told you that you needed to find a girlfriend, and-"

"And now I have Torre and we're very happy together." I cut him off.

"Well the management team and I have been working on something else for you, and we're very sorry, but-"

"Hell no. I'm not doing anything. I don't care what you say, but Torre and I are together and that's the end of the story." I was starting to really lose my temper and wondering why in the world we had this freaking management company anyway and from the looks of it, McClain was starting to get a bit angry too.

"Niall, we've found someone else for you to be with, publicly. Her name is-"

"I said NO. I'm not going to be a part of these publicity games anymore. Two months ago, you told me to find a girlfriend, and much to my displeasure, I did what you asked. Somehow that got me Torre, and for that I'll be forever grateful, but now I'm done." I said in an angry rush of words. As my anger and impatience rose, I could tell his was too, but I'm definitely not backing down. The rest of the boys just sat around with wide eyes and jaws dropped to the floor.

"Niall, I don't care what you have to say. You do what I say, and that's final. Her name is Spencer Collins. She is an up-and-coming singer. We've worked out a deal with her company. You'll be meeting on Monday night and that's final."

Before I even had a chance to yell at him again, he got up silently, and walked out the door, not saying another word. If I thought this meeting would bring any relief, boy was I wrong. I was so angry at him. Once again, he was trying to rule my life and I was not okay with it. I'm with Torre, and only Torre. I don't want to go prance in front of cameras with this Spencer Collins chick and pretend we're an item.

I was still sitting there in anger, and none of the other boys had said anything either. We all just sat there stunned in silence.

"Well that was unexpected." Louis mumbled.

"Ya think?" I said sarcastically. I didn't mean to take my anger out on them, but once again, this was just unfair and wrong.

"Look Niall, you don't have to do this. They really can't make you." Harry said.

"Oh I don't intend on going through with this. There's no way in hell I'm going to go through with it." I stood up and started pacing to try to control my anger.

"It's going to be okay, Niall. Just go upstairs and try to get your mind off it for a while. Let the anger subside a little bit, and then we can all talk about this and figure out what we'll do." Liam said. He was right, I just needed to calm down and then I could think about this all more clearly.

"Yeah, okay." I said and then started heading for the stairs. I stopped in my tracks though, and turned back to see all of the boys looking at me. "Thanks guys, for always supporting me." I said.

"That's what we're here for Niall." Liam said sympathetically. I nodded in return and slowly headed up to my room. I face planted straight on my bed.

What has all this come to? What am I going to do about the situation. My mind swirled with crazy possibilities, but the couple things I were sure of were that one, I wasn't letting Torre go, and two, she could never know about this.

{A/N: So we need a ship name...Norre? Tiall? Which one do you all like? Let me know! ~Macy}