The Air Between Us • NH

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Song: Sweet Talk Radio - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?

Tonight you're mine completely.

Only one girl in Niall's life had been looked at as a love interest. She'd gone through the many scenarios: from living together, possibly getting married, and finally maybe having children. All these wonderful ideas came to him, usually at night, filling his drowsy being and making him beyond happy. Although, one thing was never quite right, that one thing was blurry. Blurry in the sense that he couldn't see all these scenarios fully with Emma. He saw bits and pieces when he tried hard enough, but usually he saw a dark and lonely life. He saw her leaving him, a cold home, a broken marriage. Fxck the alter, she'd get cold feet and never make it! A train wreck is what he saw. 

The thing was, Emma was selfish and nobody but Niall knew that. Pretty girls... smart girls... I-see-my-future-and-you're-not-in-it-girls... Emma was that kind of girl. She wasn't a horrible person, she just didn't know how to love. She didn't understand what compassion, patients, listening was. Her parents taught her to fight for what she wanted, she fought the wrong battle in Niall's eyes. Well off family, but Niall didn't care about that shxt, he wanted her, she did not. She wanted the mansion, the expensive cars, the butlers and maids, she wanted the "stuff." 

What Niall figured out was that she was the "stuff," she was a materialistic girl and he wanted no part in that. Her cheating made things a lot easier to end between them. Made him a bit happy the day he walked away from that burning building.

After a month of all this will you give me another chance crxp with Emma, Niall had enough and became the man he is now. The quiet, dimly-lit-eyed, shy smile, questioning voice... the closed off young man. Of course no man can live very long this way, happiness is always just around the corner. That happiness began with a G and it was smooth sailing from there.

G-R-I-E-R

Better known as the girl who's broken his silence, brought light back to his blue eyes, made his smile grow so much bigger; especially when shes around. Only with her though, no one else gets to see this Niall. He likes it better that way because in his mind, no one deserves the happy Niall, if they haven't witnessed the sad one. 

If they haven't had the courage to walk through the darkened woods, all alone and come out victorious... the lost boy at their side and smiling from ear to ear, then they can live in the quiet despair of his life.

Now, this girl, this beautiful and adorable girl was Niall's future. He saw it clear as ever. 

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Innocent, young, pretty, a poet, she was everything and nothing at the same time. She was full of love, that made him curious. He was happy but the feeling was strange. She cared for him, going out of her way to make sure he was okay. He always was. Every moment they were together things seem to move slower. As if life wanted to give Niall the love he was supposed to have the first time around.

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Niall loved many things about Grier:

He loved kissing her. The way she would giggle into the kiss as he tickled her at times. She was so ticklish and when he found that spot (which was everywhere) he tortured her deliciously. She yelped and tried to fight him off during their tickle fights. It was something he grew to love, to be playful with each other, he enjoyed the child inside her. 

Her tiny whispers of adoration for him never went unnoticed either. His body would press into hers, a shallow breath omitting from her lips every time, she'd stare into his eyes as intimacy became them. Her eyes held his for hours on end. She never faltered to make him smile, make him feel loved. 

Tiny fights here and there is what kept them sane, it kept them going. That reason alone made them believe that there was something there. They came back to each other every single time. He opened his arms to her, she cried on his shoulder, he had stressful nights, she had the ability to soothe his soul, and massage his problems into silence. 

It was a road like any other, except, they loved each other and weren't afraid to show it.