A Happily Never After (A Niall Horan Fanfic)

The Beach: part 2

I squeezed the towel on my hair to dry it out the best that I could, it wouldn't be completely dry for about 24 hours because of the thickness. Yay!! I threw the towel on the sand and walked over to Niall. He led me a few feet away so the guys couldn't hear. I sat down and stretched my legs down flat as the dry and itchy sand stuck to them. Niall did the same. He picked up a handful of sand and clenched it in his fist.

"Ummm... Lenn," he said. He hasn't called me that in months and it pretty much made me swoon.

"Yeah Niall," I said, looking over at him. He had his head facing down and he looked like he was thinking. By the look on his face, it seemed as though this was going to be a very serious topic. That's weird, Niall is rarely ever serious.

"I need to ask you something," he said quietly, almost inaudibly.

I waited for him to say something, but after a minute or two, he still hadn't.

"Niall, what's wrong?" I asked.

"Lennon," he started slowly, "why did you.... ummm..." he rubbed the back of his neck. Suddenly, I knew what he was going to say and I immediately felt tears form in my eyes. Gosh I'm such a crybaby. I tried to hold them back but my throat was becoming really tight.

"Niall, I---"

"No, I need to finish," he said, his voice getting a lot louder. I saw Liam look over at us and he gave me a questioning look. I shook my head and looked back at Niall as he took a deep breath, "Why did you kiss Matt?"

There it was. The question I had been dreading to hear. Niall's expression was painful to look at. I never wanted to hurt him. He looked angry and upset yet his face was blank. He pulled his hand through his wet hair and looked at me, waiting for an answer.

I tried to search for the words to say but nothing seemed right. I didn't kiss Matt, he kissed me, so why couldn't I just tell him that? I decided to just explain it like I did to Harry but when it came time to talk, my voice just wasn't working.

When I wasn't saying anything, Niall bored his eyes right into mine.

"Really Lennon? You don't even have decency to tell me why you basically cheated on me?"

Did he just say I cheated on him? So he thought that we were in a relationship too? I felt like my heart was being torn in two as I heard him continue.

"Well what about this Lennon?" he paused and clenched his fists again. "Can you tell me why you are around dating some other guy now?" I think he regretted saying that after the words flew out of his mouth because his hand flew up to his mouth.

What? What the heck was he talking about? I wasn't dating anyone!! Did he think I was dating Zac? Could he really think I was dating him just because of that one text I got when he just happened to be holding my phone? There had to be more to this story.

All of the sudden, Niall roughly pushed himself off the ground and started to walk away.

"Wait!" I jumped up and grabbed his wrist, pulling him back. He almost tripped when I pulled him and his body ran into mine, almost knocking me over. When I regained my balance, I realized that our faces were inches apart. I stared into his blue eyes. He looked at me, his gaze softening. I had to muster all of my will power to not kiss him right there. Instead, I backed up, letting go of his wrist, and sat down motioning for him to sit next to me.

When I quickly glanced over at the boys, they were all staring at us intently, trying to listen in probably. Didn't Zayn just tell me that eavesdropping was rude?

I tried to ignore it and Niall sat down.

I took a deep breath and started talking. Hopefully, this would clear up everything. I wanted Niall and I to go back to the way we were.