Still The One (Niall Horan)

Chapter 50

∼December 24, 2021∼

*Niall's P.O.V.*

Soph's family got here last night and my parents and Greg are on their way over. My parents decided to go on a road trip before coming to spend Christmas with us, they came to the US a week and a half ago and spent a few days here with us, then headed to San Diego and San Francisco before coming back. They went to pick up Greg from the airport and he was able to bring Theo as well, since this year he gets to spend Christmas with him. Him and Denisse alternate each year so that they can both get to spend holidays with him. 

"When are your parents coming over?" Soph asked me as I walked into the kitchen, where Valen, her mom and her were busy making dinner already. They explained to me that Mexicans tend to celebrate Christmas Eve instead of Christmas. I mean they celebrate both, but the big dinner is on the 24th so that's what we're doing. Her family is cooking dinner for tonight and my family is cooking dinner for tomorrow, so basically we're having two Christmas dinners. Which is so much better, at least for me.

"They just texted me and told me that they had already picked up Greg and Theo from the airport, so they should be here in about an hour."

"I can't wait to meet them." Her mom exclaimed.

"They can't wait to meet you either!" I told her. "Do you need help with anything?"

"Actually, can you help me peel the potatoes?" Valentina chimed in.

"Hey, hey, hey, that's your job." Soph complained.

"Niall didn't know that! Thanks Sofia!"

"He's not going to do it for you, you can do it yourself." Soph continued while I laughed.

"Well, is there anything else I can help with?" I offered my help once again.

"Maybe you could start setting the table? Or is it done already?" Her mom asked.

"I already decorated it, but I still need to set the place mats and plates and silverware."

"I can do that."

"Great, thank you so much." She said as she blew me a kiss, she'd asked me to keep the PDA to the minimum while our families were here. She didn't feel comfortable rubbing it in her parents' faces, and we were already lucky enough that they had let her move to a whole other country with me when we had barely started dating. 

Almost an hour later, my mom texted me, to let me know that they were a block away. This was it, my family was here. It was time for our families to come together. 

"My mom just texted me, they're here." I announced, while I stood against the kitchen's doorframe. 

"Okay, I'll get my family together." Soph replied before I left to go and open the door for my family.

*Sofia's P.O.V.*

"Oh god they're here." I whisper exclaimed to my mom and Valen. "Please don't embarrass me."

"We would never honey." My mom replied.

"This was more directed towards her." I pointed to Valen, who put on her best I'm such an innocent person look.

"She'll behave don't worry." My mom reassured me.

"I'll go get Diego and Alex. Can you go and get dad?"

"I'll go." Valentina offered, anything to get out of her kitchen duties, she hated cooking. She left before either of us could reply.

"Guys! Niall's family is here, come and say hello." I opened the door to the music room and exclaimed over the music, it instantly stopped the second they heard me speaking. They'd been coped up here since they had arrived, they both loved playing and given that Niall was a musician the three of them had spent their morning here.

A minute later, all of my family was gathered in the living room, waiting for the Horan's It was so weird how life had changed so much in a years' time. This time last year, both Niall and I were spending Christmas with each of our families and hadn't even thought about moving in together. Now here we were a year later, spending our first of hopefully many Christmases together, having both of our families over, wow. Who would've thought?

"Hi!" I heard Niall's mom exclaim as they walked through the door.

"Hi." My whole family replied in unison, before they all started introducing each other and greeting each other. So far, so good. Now we only had to get through two dinner without my family embarrassing me. That was going to be the difficult part.

∼December 27, 2021∼

We spent a wonderful Christmas, surrounded by both of our families. And I swear we all ate our own weigh in food in the past few days. I guess that's what having two moms who cook all sorts of homemade meals and pastries visiting does to people. Our families got along pretty well, Niall even took all of the guys golfing while us girls decided to go shopping. I was so happy that our families were getting along, but I was sad at the same time that they had to leave so soon. We had a great couple of days surrounded by family but now it was time for us to say goodbye to them. 

"When are you coming to Monterrey?" My mom asked me as I helped her pack.

"The guys are closing their tour there on the 8th. So I'm assuming we'll be there either on the 6th or 7th."

"Of January?" I saw my mom's eyes lit up.

"No mom." I laughed. How could they possibly tour all of Latin America in a week? "Of February."

"Oh." She answered, disappointed.

"But it'll go by very fast, I promise. And the good thing is that we get to stay there for a while after the tour."

"You're staying?"

"Yeah, for about two weeks."

"That's great! I can't wait."

"Me neither."

A few hours later we were waving goodbye to both of our families, thankful that we got to spend time with them, and thankful that we had survived the holidays without any major incidents.

"That went well." Niall smiled at me.

"That went so much better than I expected." I let out a laugh.

"Maybe we could make this a thing?" He closed the door. 

"Oh I would really like that." I replied before crushing my lips to his. We hadn't been able to have sex since our families got here, which for us, was a whole lot of days. 

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Author's Note:

Hey there guys! Thank you for reading the chapter, hope you liked it! I know this is kind of a filler chapter, but after all of the drama from the past chapters, I figured we all need it haha. And don't kill me I know some of you want details, but I honestly suck at writing sex scenes and don't even get me started on smut. So if you really really want it, then I'll make sure to include it in the next chapter, but if you're okay with me not including it, then let me know as well haha. I want to thank you all for the incredible support you've given me and my stories, you have no idea how happy you have made me! If you haven't read Small Talk, I would suggest that you read that one first so that you can understand this story. I'm really hoping you enjoy it and any suggestions and/or grammar corrections are more than welcome. Don't forget to follow me, vote and comment, it really helps me out and I'd love to hear your thoughts! If you're obsessed with 1D make sure to check my TikTok account, I upload daily vids of the boys, it's @cristylealr, it would mean the world to me. I'm so grateful for all the love you're giving my stories and my tiktok vids!