I Love You Niall Horan

Chapter 1: Paint War

"Niall, I'm bored," I said, throwing a pillow at Niall's face.

"Dani, too bad."

"Let's do something fun," I said, pulling him onto the bed.

"What do you have in mind?" he asked.

"Let's paint your room!" I shouted.

"Ah! Dani!" Niall said clutching his ear.

"I'm thinking...Gray walls, a navy blue door, and-" I started, getting up and looking around.

"Why do we have to paint my room! Why can't we paint yours?" Niall interrupted.

"Mine is painted, and yours looks like you haven't painted it since ever." I laughed. Niall rolled his eyes and walked out the bedroom door.

"Where are you going?" I shouted down the stairs.

"To buy some paint! Hurry up!"

I squealed and ran down the stairs. Niall stood, holding the door open for me.

"Thank you kind sir," I said, bowing in front of him.

"You're welcome, Miss," Niall said, closing the door behind him.

The ride to the paint store was just like all our car rides. Niall singing along to the songs, and me listening to his voice. Well, at least for the first five minutes, then I joined in.

"DON'T WANT TO BREAK YOUR HEART, WANT TO GIVE YOUR HEART A BREAK," I screamed, making Niall burst out laughing. We arrived at the store and I ran all over the place, grabbing paints, paint brushes, painters tape, and ice cream.

"Why are you getting ice cream?" Niall asked.

"We are going to need a snack," I said, putting the supplies in the backseat of the car. Niall laughed and they drove home and got to work.

Niall and I took all the furniture out and started painting a wall. I turned to ask Niall a question and my face got splattered with paint. Niall started laughing as I wiped my eyes, grabbing my own paint brush and flicking paint towards him. We continued to splash each other with paint until Niall got some in my messy bun. A dumb choice might I say.

"That's it!" I shouted, grabbing the paint tray. Niall's eyes went wide, and he started backing up.

"You don't want to do this Dani," he warned. I smirked.

"Oh, hell yes I do," I said, dumping the entire tray on him. I laughed at the sight, until he began walking towards me. "Uh oh," I whispered, getting trapped in Niall's grasp. I giggled and screamed as Niall laughed. He loosened his grasp on me and my breath staggered as I realized how close we got. Our noses touched. My phone begin to ring and we both stayed in our places. I smiled and licked his cheek.

"Ah!" Niall shouted, shoving me away. I laughed, grabbing my phone and accepting the call.

"Hey Dad," I greeted.

"Hi Dani. Do you know when you are coming home?" He asked.

"I thought you were working late. So I was planning on staying over."

"Oh um, can you change your plans? I want to have dinner with you."

"Dinner? It's dark out." I said, looking out the window.

"Dessert, then. I need to discuss something with you."

"Oh, okay. I will leave in a few minutes," I told him before hanging up.

"You're leaving?" Niall asked, walking towards me.

"Yes, but I will see you tomorrow for the first day of our last year of school!" I said, hugging him goodbye. He planted a kiss on my forehead and I left.

"Hey! I'm in the kitchen!" my dad shouted as I walked in.

"What happened?" he asked, seeing my paint covered body.

"Niall and I were painting his room." I laughed.

"When is that boy going to ask you on a date?" he asked.

"Ew! Dad! Niall and I have known each other forever. It would be weird now if we dated."

"The blush on your face is telling me that you wish to date him." he smiled, making my blush go a deeper red.

"No."

My dad laughed and patted the chair next to him. I sat down and my dad grabbed my hand.

"I always told your mother that she would be the one to deal with your boy troubles and I would just scare them when we first met. I never expected her to not be here to actually see it happen." he sighed. I squeezed his hand, signaling for him to continue.

"It has been 10 years. When she first passed, I promise myself that I could never love again. Danielle, I broke that promise," he said, a tear slipping and rolling down his cheek. I wiped the tear and smiled at him.

"Dad, who is it?" I asked.

"Amber."
"Your work colleague?" I asked.

"Yes. I invited her to dinner tomorrow night, I hope you don't think it's too soon."

"Too soon? Dad! I have been waiting for you to date ever since mom died. I am sure Amber is lovely and I cannot wait to meet her. Just like I cannot wait to get out of these clothes," I cringed, looking at my clothes. My dad laughed and I told him goodnight, running up to my bathroom to shower. My shower thought of my shower session went from being about school to being about Niall. My dad had been telling me for years that Niall and I were soulmates. When we were younger, I thought we were too. We planned our wedding and we had names picked out for our kids. But when we got into middle school, we started to act like that never happened.

After 15 minutes of scrubbing, I finally got the paint out of my hair and old feelings of Niall out of my mind. I got into comfy pajamas and I picked my outfit out for tomorrow. I had lost some unnecessary weight and my body had got more toned over the summer and I wanted to show it off. I grabbed a short sleeve stripe top, that was tighter than a lot of my other shirts. I grabbed a pair of black ripped dreams and my black flats. I put them by my backpack and my phone dinged.

Niall James

We never ate the ice cream, and all the furniture is out of my room.

Dani Rose

Oops. Come on over.

Niall James

Already here

My door opened and Niall came in with ice cream and his laptop. I had broken mine at the beginning of the summer and I had yet to get a new one. I patted on my bed and he smiled, hoping on the bed and stealing most of the blanket from me.

"Let's watch The Sound of Music!" I suggested. Niall gave me a funny look.

"No! We are watching star wars." he argued.

"But we always watch that."

"It's my laptop."

"You can go and sleep on your couch." I said, shoving him up.

"Fine, fine! We can watch The Music of Sound." he said, giving up.

"It's the Sound of Music!"