Niall’s POV:
I opened my eyes and sighed when I realised it was still really dark outside. My phone told me it was still one in the morning; awesome, I thought to myself, annoyed. It was approximately the fourth day I had to spend inside because ‘I was still contagious’, and quite frankly, I was going mad! All I had to do was talk to Allison (don’t get me wrong, I love her to bits, but really, when you’re stuck at home, everything starts getting boring), and occasionally chatting to the boys through Skype call.
I couldn’t even talk to them often enough because they were rehearsing for our tour! I had developed this habit of waking up in the middle of the night, mostly because I napped a lot during the afternoon since I had pretty much nothing to do. I sat up in bed, and after about five minutes of contemplating how unlucky I was in the dark, a little cough from Allie brought me back to real life, and I mentally kicked myself.
I got to spend six whole days with the most beautiful person I knew, and I was grumbling about it? Pretty soon, once we were on tour, I’d be so busy with the signing and concerts and stuff we’d barely be seeing each other at all. I shook my head, and unable to stand the silence any longer, I gently poked Allison’s face till she woke up. She turned over to face me and sighed, even she had gotten used to me waking up at night.
I just shrugged at her when she gave me a questioning look and she sat up in bed next to me. Probably feeling cold, she snuggled into me as I put my arm around her.
“You really have to stop this you know,” she said softly, still tired, “Eventually you won’t have time to nap in the afternoon and...well...I don’t know what you’ll be doing then!” She said as she smiled looking up to me. I chuckled softly, “Hopefully, once I stop napping, I’ll stop waking up at midnight.”
“Well then how about stopping the nap time as from now so that maybe I could get some sleep? I don’t know, just a thought,” she finished sarcastically, yet in a sweet way so as to let me know she wasn’t really mad at me. I shrugged and nodded.
After I talked for a while and she was just nodding absentmindedly, she just got up and put on her slippers and walked to the kitchen. Confused, I quickly got up and followed her there, jumping and tip-toeing at the same time because the floor was really cold.
“Allie? What are you doing?”
“Well, you’re obviously not going to let me sleep for a while, and I’d rather not freeze in bed, so I’m gonna make myself some nice, hot chocolate. Want some?”
I nodded, “But you could’ve just told me to shut up you know? I don’t wanna keep you from sleeping, I just...” I ended the sentence there, not wanting to tell her that if I didn’t have anyone with me I’d start getting uncomfortable.
“And then what? You’d just wake me up once you’d get bored again,” she teased me, then stopped when she saw me look down, “Hey, Niall,” she came next to me, and made me look at her, “Don’t worry about it! I know it’s hard for now, but we’ll settle down, you’ll see. Don’t worry, ok? I don’t mind,” she said with a smile. I hugged her tight, aware that although she got annoyed when I woke her up, she preferred staying up with me and making us hot chocolate than just swatting me away and going back to sleep.
Back in bed, now warmer thanks to the hot chocolate she made us, we talked some more, mostly about the tour.
“This is going to be so much fun! I mean we’ll be visiting so many countries but it’ll be ever better than the last, cos you’ll be with me! You have no idea how much I missed you on our last tour, and we rarely talked on Skype cos of the time difference! Sometimes you used to wake up at three in the morning just so that we could chat for a few minutes...best few minutes of the day though,” I squeezed her hand.
She looked down and hid behind her hair, “Must’ve been nice for us, huh? Looks like I’m not getting my memory back, Nialler,” she looked up at me and there were actual tears in her eyes.
“Nooo, no, you can’t think like that, Allie! Look,” I said as I took both of our mugs and placed them on the floor. Then I slid down in bed and pulled her in with me, covering us both tightly with the blanket, “You can’t give up yet, ok? It’s only been a few months, and the doctors had said it might take longer than that, yeah? Besides, you remembered the memories that had to do with your family, there’s no reason to believe that our memories won’t surface too, ok? It’ll just take time,” I said as I pulled her close to me.
I felt her nodding her head in agreement. We hadn’t talked about her memory loss in a while, and in a way I had almost forgotten that she didn’t remember all the things that I did, and it made me feel really guilty. It was just that, she was so easy to talk to, she basically went along with anything I suggested, and she pretty much avoided the subject most of the time, so...
I felt her breathing deeply, and knew that she had fallen asleep. I was glad, I didn’t want to keep her up any longer than I needed. Putting my arms round her firmly yet gently, I slowly fell asleep too.
Allie’s POV:
“NIALL!” I shouted, trying to wake him up for the fourth time that morning. Eventually I just went over to him and hit him with my pillow. I was going shopping and I didn’t want him to wake up and just not find me there.
“What? Why? Allie!” He grumbled, as he frowned and rubbed his eyes.
“Don’t worry, you can go to sleep in a sec, just wanted to tell you that I’m going to the supermarket, ok? And I’ll probably be a while too, cos we haven’t stocked up in a while.”
I was about to leave when he registered that I was going out.
“No! Wait! Take me with you!” he yelled as he quickly got up from bed, then sat down again quickly, like he had gotten dizzy from standing up so quickly.
“You ok?” I asked, concerned.
He just waved me off and asked me to wait for him whilst he quickly got dressed.
“No, Nialler! The doctor said you can’t come out for at least two more days,” I said softly.
“Yeah, well, fuck what the doctors say, they’re not the ones cooped up in a flat for 4 days are they? Come on, we’ll consider it as a mini date! I haven’t taken you out for a while, and I can’t eat the rich food of the restaurants yet, so this’ll have to do, ok? Please?” he begged me, widening his eyes.
I shook my head at him and smiled, “You’re unbelievable, you know that? Come on then, I’m driving.”
Smiling like a child who just got told they’re going to Disney Land for the first time, he rushed into our room to get dressed, came out whilst wearing his shirt, tripped over the sofa (don’t ask me how) in his excitement, and eventually got into the car without drawing any blood.
Once we got to the supermarket he almost ran in but I managed to hold him back, “Are you nuts? You’re Niall Frikkin Horan you can’t just run into a supermarket! I’d actually like to get some shopping done before we’re bombarded with fans, please and thank you!” I hissed at him. Realising how harsh that sounded, I continued in a softer tone, “It’s not that I mind them, I mean of course I don’t, but they love you so much they just go crazy, so try and keep it down please?”
He nodded, and holding my hand, managed to walk in like a civilized person. We met around two fans whilst walking around; one of them politely asked me to take a picture of her and Niall together, which I happily did, whilst the other did everything but hiss at me, and when I asked her if she wanted me to take a picture of her and Niall together, she just shook her head roughly and took a picture herself whilst kissing his cheek.
Before she left, she nodded at me and smirked, as if to say whatcha gonna do about it, huh? I shook my head at Niall and smiled, but he was frowning.
“I don’t get why they treat you like that, I mean they don’t even know you!”
“Oh, don’t worry about it, she probably just wants you to herself or whatever. The other fan was pretty cute though, she was really nice, too!”
He nodded absentmindedly, and I pulled him to another section of the supermarket. At one point, while he was moaning about how there was so much food he wanted to buy but he couldn’t eat yet, I ‘escaped’ him and went to rent a few DVDs for us to watch later on. I had barely finished choosing four movies when Niall called me,
“Where the heck are you?”
I laughed at his panicked tone, “Sorry, got distracted. Where are you? I’ll come find you, ok?”
I hung up after he had told me that he was still in the sweets part. I didn’t want to tell him about the movies yet, I wanted to surprise him when we were at home. Soon after I found Niall we checked out and headed home. After talking to Lou for a bit on Skype, Niall came and sat next to me.
“I’m bored.”
“Already? We barely just got home!”
“Yeah, well!”
“I got us movies from the store. They’re in my bag. Go pick one!”
“YAY SEE THAT IS EXACTLY WHY I LOVE YOU AND YOU’RE THE BEST!!!” he squealed as he ran off to find my handbag.
I chuckled to myself and switched on the DVD player.
Niall came in scratching his head and holding two DVDs in his hands, “How am I supposed to chose between these two??” In his hands he was holding up Water For Elephants and A Walk To Remember.
I shrugged, “Both end in tears...so you pick,” I stuck my tongue out at him. “In the meantime, I’ll go make us some popcorn!”
Niall nodded and concentrated on the two films. I shook my head at him and went to the kitchen. When the popcorn was done I put it into two large bowls and went into the living room again.
“So, what are we gonna watch?”
“Well, Water For Elephants is amazing, according to Liam, and everyone loves A Walk to Remember, but I really wanna see them both, so we’re gonna watch them both, alphabetically! That means A Walk To Remember’s first,” he told me, just in case I had forgotten my alphabet.
I gave him a Look and popped in the film, then jumped onto the sofa next to Niall. Covering us both with a blanket, we snuggled into each other. I put my head on his chest, and held his hand tightly. I both loved and hated this film. I loved it, everything about it was perfect, but I hated the way it always broke me down into tears. Having Niall seeing me cry like that was not something I was looking forward too.
Half way through the film, just when it was about to get fantastically good, Niall paused it. I hit him gently, “But whyyy?”
“Cos Nialler needs a potty break!”
I laughed loudly as he threw his blanket off and ran into the bathroom. With amazing timing, I received a text from Liam.
WAZZAAAAAAAAAAAP?!?!?!?!
I shook my head at the craziness of the boys I spent so much time with and quickly texted back, finishing just as Niall came out of the loo.
Just watching a film with Nialler :) I’m guessing you’re bored? If u want we’ll watch another film in an hour or so u can come watch :b
“I’m gonna continue it, ok?”
“No, wait! I’m texting Liam and I won’t be fully focused if I’m texting...gimme a sec? Please?”
He nodded cheekily, “But you have to pay a certain price if you want me to wait...” he whispered as he leaned close to me. I closed my eyes and smiled, happily kissing him, until the vibration of my phone interrupted us. I jumped, somehow bit Niall’s lip in the process (drawing a little bit of blood), and managed to drop my phone onto the floor.
I looked at Niall, embarrassed, “Oops?”
He laughed and wiped his lip, “Unbelievably clumsy,” he tutted at me. I blushed and bent down to pick my phone and check the message.
Ew no ur probably all cuddly and kissy goo goo and y on earth would i wanna see that? No offense i wish u d best of luck with ur relationship :)
I raised an eyebrow, “Liam’s a weirdo,” I stated to Niall.
He nodded and kissed me, proving to me that Liam was right not to come over. I quickly texted him back and we continued watching the movie. Fifteen minutes later I was already crying onto Niall’s shoulder and he was gently stroking my hair. By the end of the film I was in a state but thankfully Niall was too busy cuddling me to actually notice what I looked like.
“I’m gonna go wash my face,” I said before we started the second film.
“Why? Come on let’s watch the next one!”
“Wait no, it’s all horrible and blotchy and DON’T LOOK AT IT!” I screamed as I ran away. Niall laughed and came running after me. He caught me and lifted me up, hooking my legs behind his back as he looked at my face. I looked down and avoided his eyes, but he gently put his finger under my chin and made me look at him, “You’re beautiful, Allie,” he whispered, “Don’t you dare forget that, ok?”
I hugged him, taking a deep breath to try to control the tears that were still falling down my face, not only because of the film now. I had no idea what I had done to deserve a guy like Niall. He gently lowered me down to the floor, still hugging me tight. Then, holding my hand, he led me to the sofa again.
“So now can we watch the film?”
I nodded and snuggled into him. Once the film started, I felt his hand searching for mine under the blanket. He squeezed it and put his other arm around me. I didn’t even watch all of that film, I fell asleep half way through on Niall’s shoulder. Some time later I woke up in bed, and Niall was still awake, looking at me.
I smiled and hugged him, “Good night Nialler,” I whispered.
“Love you, Allie,” he whispered back.
“Love you too,” I said as I kissed him softly.
ok so i APPOLOGISE for these soppy chapters recently i just needed some fill-ins sorta cos now NEXT CHAPTER RLY GOOD STUFF OMG :D *devlilish laugh...turns into a sob* it's gonna be a sad-ish chapter ok just warning you
^^SPOILER ALERT
anyway..im rly happy with the amount of reads they're going up rly quickly yay love you all ok xxxx
OMG GUYS YOU HEARD THEIR PERFORMANCE OF LITTLE THINGS ON THE XFACTOR I LITERALLY CRIED OK MY GOD SO GOOD THERE'S THE VIDEO IN THE SIDE IF YOU WANNA CHECK IT'S AMAZING OMG <3