Finding A Different Kind Of Love

chapter 10- The Confession

Liam's POV

After Harry refused to let us be around Niall for long periods of time, Zayn and I quickly set about to apologize. We had both talked and we couldn't really figure out why or how we had hurt Niall. We both had tried to talk to him, but Harry or Louis were always around. Speaking of which, they had both been ALOT closer to Niall. I'm not too sure what was going on, but one of the two were always beside him, and they got alot more touchy than they used to be. Harry now giving hugs, holding his hand and having his arm around him. I think it was all platonic, since Niall was technically still dating Zayn and I, since noone had called it quits....thankfully.

Since Zayn and I weren't allowed to talk to Niall, we had set up a "family meeting" for tonight, so that everyone knew to be home. It was going to be a little bit after dinner. I had also decided to have it in the living room that way if anyone needed to run off, they could go to their appropriate room to get away. I had a feeling if anyone ran off it would be Zayn or Niall, and I don't think Niall would go to our room, even if Zayn wasn't in there, so he still had Harry and Lou's.

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Dinner was all cleaned up, which meant....family meeting time. Zayn went to sit on the couch and I went to go get the other boys.

"Haz, Lou, Ni....can we talk in the living room now?" I asked quietly. I felt like something bad was about to happen, but I didn't know what it would be.

"Yea. right behind you." Louis said. He's been the more rational one towards everyone for some reason. I thought Harry would take on that role, if not me. But seeing I was on the wrong side of this dispute, I really thought Harry would take lead....but Lou has done really well with keeping the peace.

We all went and sat in the living room. Harry, Niall and Lou on the couch with Ni in the middle. Zayn and I sat on the smaller couch.

"So..I know you don't want to talk to us Ni, but we really can't remember the other night, so we're not sure of what to apologize for. Can you please tell us what we did wrong so we can get back to how things were? We really miss you babe." I started out.

"I don't want things to go back to how they were." Niall said quietly.

"Why not Niall?! Do you not want to be with us anymore?!" Zayn blurted out. He was already aggrivated about the whole perdicament, but thisw news was pushing him.

"No. I mean yes. Zayn that wasn't what I meant. I do want to still be with you, but before, two things were wrong."

"What was wrong Ni?" I asked concerned

"The first thing was that you guys kept doing things all on your own. Just you two, and I really felt like you didn't want me anymore. You two would go out on dates, or go to the store together, or anything with just you guys and you wouldn't even ask if I wanted to come. You didn't care about if I was there or not. You just kept doing it over and over, and when I asked if I could come, you just kept saying you wanted time with just you two, or you would come up with something else that I needed to do so that I couldn't come. Then the other night just made it worse." He said the last sentence softer than the rest. He sat back after his explanation with tears in his eyes. I was really surprised we had hurt him this badly. I hadn't noticed we had done any of that. i knew Zayn and I had been spending more time together, but I hadn't realized we had pushed Niall completely out. And according to the look on Zayn's face, he hadn't either.

"Ni....I'm so sorry. I hadn't realized any of that had happened. You should know I wouldn't purposely do that to you. I love you Niall. I wouldn't try to push you away on purpose. What happened the other night though?" I asked him curiously.