In The Nick Of Time

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 10

Summary:

Four.

Slumping into the living room, strangely enough - Niall was seated right in front of the fire. A blanket wrapped around him regardless of the fire, and he just watched it as the sun was finally setting. Liam walked over, "Hey."

Niall looked up and smiled, "Hey."

Liam pointed around him, "Is this normal for you?"

"Always normal around this time of the year." Lin said, making Liam jump a bit as he did. She settled beside him, "He's gone mad when he does this." She joked.

Niall scoffed and shook his head as she sat down beside him. "Just thinking of things. It's always good to sit and think some times."

Liam nodded as he sat down, "Mind if I join?" He sat anyways.

Niall chuckled, "I remember thing time back in Mullingar when we were little, we went out to the woods one day and we got lost."

Lin automatically let out a loud laugh, "I remember that. That was the day I got you to climb up a tree because I said there were wolves coming."

Liam smiled.

"Let me tell you, the spider on that tree was not happy."

They laughed.

"Or what about the time when we went to grand dad's farm, and you got the wit scared out of you when you got close to the pigs and one started chasing you."

He cackled out a laugh.

"I think those were the best days because it was scary at first, and then we just laughed after."

"Definitely." Lin mumbled. She leaned her side on his.

Liam nodded as well, being stranded as he leaned against the chair to their sides.

"What about you then?"

"Hm?"

Lin popped up, "Do you have any good memories back in Liverpool?"

He shook his head, "I have - tons."

"Well, spill it." Niall beamed.

Liam smiled, "I don't know." He mumbled, and looked to the beating fire. "There was this one time, me and my sister snuck out of my mum's house. And I could never forget the look on my mom's face when she found out where we went." He nodded, "We went to this old park that me and my family used to go to as kids, when we moved we had to leave that park behind. She wasn't mad we snuck out - she was mad we walked over six kilos."

They looked wide eyed. "What?"

"Yep." He nodded, "We were only teens, I was probably about - fourteen years old."

They smiled. "What else?" Lin leaned her head on Niall's shoulder, and their blue eyes watched Liam.

"Uh, let's see." He looked to the ceiling, "This one time me and a couple of mates went out just to cause a bit of trouble." He smiled, "We went out doing random things. Put trash barrels on top of people's cars, uh, we filled people's mailboxes with god knows what."

They two chuckled.

"We did crazy things as teens, even now, I think we've yet to be caught because we catch ourselves doing things we shouldn't. And-," his smiled slowly faded, "and get others in trouble." He looked down to his knees, "My friend actually - he's in a bit of trouble, don't know what happened to him yet. I have yet to hear about anything because when I left, the last thing I saw of him was him running the opposite direction." His heart felt heavy, "And the last time I saw my family, we were celebrating my sister's birthday."