"Babe!" I press okay on the camera timer settings and set it down onto the shelf.
"What?" I hear her call back, moments later.
"Come here, I wanna do something,"
"Do what?"
"Just come here!"
She dramatically huffed and the sound of her feet echoed loudly as she stomped down the stairs.
"Come here, drama queen," I opened my arms and she slowly walked into them.
"What do you want?"
I turned her around to face sideways. After shifting her a few steps to the side so it wasn't off, I jogged to hit the shutter button on the camera. The ten second countdown beeping began.
She groaned loudly and turned around to leave, "No!" I quickly pulled her back to our spot and wrapped my arms around her.
"Yes. Just real quick."
She looked down at herself, "I'm not even dressed for-"
"You look great, just smile."
"Niall-"
"Smile. At. The. Camera."
She fake smiled at the camera.
2 seconds later.. *click*
"Happy?"
"You didn't smile."
"You saw me! I did too!"
"When you smile, your whole face lifts, your cheeks become pink, and sometimes your tongue touches the back of your teeth. So, I think I know a fake smile when I see one from you."
Her mouth slightly fell open. I closed it with a kiss.
I grabbed the camera's remote off the table and let my finger hover over the button, "Let's try again, yeah?"
"3...2...1.."
*click*
"I wasn't ready!"
"What do you mean you weren't ready? I counted down!"
"I was out of it. Delete that! Please."
I unwrapped my arms from her and walked over to the camera. I clicked through to the last picture to see what she was talking about.
I paused. Holy shit.
She was looking at me like I was a newborn. Unaltered, adoration, and real love in her eyes as she looked up at me as I smiled at the camera. Usually that's how I was looking at her, but to see the roles switched was... amazing. Not only to witness it but to have a photo of it? I'm cherishing this to my grave.
"Why on earth would I delete this?"
I instantly felt her at my back, fighting to take the camera from me, "Niall, I'm serious!"
"Baby, so am I when I say that this might be one of the best pictures I've ever gotten of you. I'm sure, as hell, keeping it."
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Photogenic | n.h.
Fanfiction“when all she saw was the disgraceful image of what was standing in her mirror, he was willing to take a lifetime to show her that there was so much more.”
