Love to dust

Chapter 7

NIALL'S POV

I was back in Ireland and I was sitting in my living room with my family. Like the old times when mum and dad sat together, holding hands, and smiling at me and Greg, and eachother. I had my guitar out and I was strumming aimlessly.

The boys were there too. Ah the boys. I loved them all so much. They were laughing and talking. Louis and Harry were sitting together laughing at something Harry had said. Zayn was sitting in a chair grinning at Liam, who was sitting beside me with his arm around my shoulders. I smiled happily, humming a bit, which is what I do when I am happy.

Suddenly Louis stood up and Harry was giggling uncontrollably. "Shhh! Harry you're gonna scare him!"

"I'm sorry he just looks so cute!"

What's going on?

"I think we should stick his finger in warm water!"

Ok that was definately Zayn.

"Brilliant oh Quiffed one! But his sheets look all nice and squeaky clean..we should dirty them a bit," Louis says mischeiviously.

"Guys come on not too mean."

That would be Liam. My man sticking up for me.

"Alright ready steady then?"

"Right,"

"One..."

"Two..."

"PLATYPUS!!!"

I wake up screaming along with four other people. They were all jumping on me at once and yelling at the top of their lungs. I was hitting and kicking aimlessly just wanting my attackers off of me.

"Ahhh!! Hey gerroff, lemme go, you filthly little-"

"Well that's rude!" someone says indignantly.

I freeze. Waaaaait a second.

I reach beside me and turn on the light. Four smiling faces greet me, much closer than I expected.

"WAH!" I yell scooting back onto my pillows.

"Aw Niall it's ok, it's just your best mates!" Zayn says in a goofy voice.

I yell happily and try embracing them all at once, tears coming down my cheeks. I was laughing, crying, and talking all at once and so naturally it sounded quite like gibberish.

I didn't realize how much I had missed them until they were all sitting here in front of me, where i coukd hear them and see them and feel them. Everything that had happened in the past three months suddenly seems so real, that I wasn't sure whether to be happy or sad. So I just decided to be both.

"What is going on in here?" a groggy voice says. Louis freezes, a cheshire cat grin spreading across his face.

"GREGGY-POO DARLING AT LONG LAST WE MEET!!!" Louis yells jumping into Greg's slightly outstretched arms.

I laugh and Greg looks like he's just swallowed a cat. Which was what made the situation a million times funnier. Also it helped that Louis was kissing all over Greg's face.

"Alright alright get off it you savage," Greg huffs dropping Louis on the ground. Or hardwood floor I guess.

"OH HO OHHH THAY REALLY HURT!" Louis yells rolling around on the ground.

Greg looks at Liam. "What did you give him?" he says exasperrated.

Liam shrugs. "We starved him."

Greg sighs rubbing his eyes. "I thought you lot weren't coming until later this week," he says clearly wishing it was true.

Louis pops up and says "Oh I lied. You'll get used to it dearie. As we'll be here quite a long time!"

"Alright shoo Greg," I say getting up and pushing him out the door and closing it on his face.

I jump onto my bed and sit cross legged.

"So," Louis says sitting not two inches away from my face with a crzy grin on his face. "Tell us of this Girl you speak of."

All the other boys gather around eagerly. It's not often I'm the one with girl news. Normally that's everyone else.

"Well she lives next door-"

"Ah the classic "Girl next-door scenario. Very familiar with that. Wait there's another giant house? I didn't see it! Is it hidden? Is it-" Louis is cut off by Zayn.

"If you keep interreupting like that you won't know anything, so hush!" je says smacking Lou in the back of the head.

I smile and continue. "She lives next door and her name is Evalyn. She doesn't talk at all, and she lives alone with her grandparents, so her housekeeper maid thingy asked me to come over yesterday to keep her company and try to get her to talk. Which didn't work out well since I annoyed her and invaded her personal sketchbook thing and then the reason she spoke was to banish me from her house," I say quickly.

The boys stay silent for a minute.

"I-I didn't catch any of that.." Harry says slowly.

"I DID I DID I SPEAK NIALLESE!" Louis shouts.

"Let me sum it up for you. Girl. Mute. Friends. Invasion of private property. Not friends. Kicks Niall out verbally. Niall crushed and emotionally dead," Louis says smiling.

Liam rubs my back. "I'm sorry it didn't work out mate," he says sympathetically. I just nod in response.

The other boys respond similarly. Excpet Louis who says that I am a lovely lad with a geart of gold whobreads peoples souls. Uh huh.

"Tell us what she looks like," Harry says sounding interested.

"She is smallish I guess but not short. She's not skinny or fat, she's a healthy in between. Sort of muscular I guess. But not in a scary or ugly way. In a pretty way. She has these cool eyes and you don't know if they're grey or blue. Her hair is long and wavy, and she has the cutest facial expressions.." I say letting the sentence fade ways as I picture her in my mind again.

"Sounds lovely," Zayn says nodding.

Harry nods too, and Louis nods so fast it looks like his head will pop off.

"I just wanna go back and see her again, but she kicked me out, so..." I say sadly.

"Why don't we all come!!" Louis says jumping up.

"Ah, bad idea. She's not much of a people person."

Louis waves me off. "Minor setback. It'll work out. I promise," he says grinning at me.

I nod unenthusiastically.

Zayn and Harry were all for it, and even Liam agreed so in the end I had to allow it.

"Alright, what time is it?" Zayn asks yawing.

I check my clock radio.

"4:30. I'm going back to sleep," I say tiredly laying back down.

"Any extra bedding around Niall?" Liam asks

"Closet," I say getting comfortable. louis just hops right in with me and I smile a bit. The other boys get comfortable on the floor and soon we are all back asleep, me measurably happier than I was eight hours earlier. I smile, and hum myself to sleep.