For Worse, Or Better?

Chapter Five

Nialls POV

He was walking towards me but I was still in shock of what I just saw to do anything. He saw me but he was too far away to say anything.

My mouth was open and I couldn't even move. There wasn't anyone else around so no one went to help Belle.

"What did you see?" Sam asked me. I looked at him and shook my head.

"I-, what did you just do?!" I exclaimed getting more annoyed at what I saw.

"Well that's none of your business, and if you tell anyone what you saw, you're more dead than she is." He looked back at her and so did I. She hadn't moved since she fell.

"You can't just leave her there, you just hit her!" I shouted at Sam but he didn't seem slightly bothered.

"And? She deserved it, and I actually don't think she's just suffered enough, she's in big trouble when I she recovers" and with that he pushed past me.

"Hey" I shouted after him "You can't treat her like that, I know what you just did, and do you really think I'm going to let you do it again?"

He turned to face me and walked closer. "You don't know what you're getting into, just walk away, if you pretend you didn't see anything then it's not your problem."

"I'm not leaving her there." I answered him, he didn't scare me, he couldn't treat me like that.

"Fine, but you've got to sort out her face that's probably bleeding and swollen. You've got to watch her cry. She can sort herself out, she always has in the past. She's pathetic, I wouldn't waste your time." He walked away and didn't look back again.

Belles POV

"Belle, Belle can you hear me?" I tried to open my eyes but everything was blurry. My head hurt and I raised my arm to touch it. I looked at my hand that was now covered in blood. I shut my eyes again.

"Belle please" I heard again, I didn't know who it was. I felt someone touch my arm and then my head and they tried to lift me. I sat up and opened my eyes again, it was Niall. He looked down at me almost in tears "come on, I'll take you back to the house"

 "No" was all I could manage to say. Niall took his hand away from my head and looked at it. Just like my hand it was covered in blood. He ignored it and helped me to stand up. "I'm fine" I added.

"No you're not, come on, I'll sort out your head then we can go meet the others" I didn't argue and just followed Niall back to the house.

He sat me down on the sofa and went to get a first aid kit. "How much did you see..?" I asked him when he came back.

"Enough" was all he could say. "That's where the other bruises came from, isn't it" he added, he got out some wipes and cleaned the blood from my face.

"I can do it" I told him quietly.

"You don't have to blame yourself, why didn't you tell anyone?"

"Did you not see him? How can I tell anyone when he acts like that? Do you know what that was over?"

"Well he said he needed to talk to you, what was it about?" 

"I don't know, I told him I didn't want to talk and he flipped out, like he always does." I felt like I was about to cry but I have learnt to keep it in.

"I'm so sorry for leaving you Belle, I didn't know-" I interrupted him.

"How were you supposed to know, he's so good at covering it up.." There was silence for a moment as Niall placed a plaster over the cut on my forehead.

He looked into my eyes and I shivered as the plaster touched the cut. His eyes were amazing. We just stared at each other for a moment until my phone rang. It was Hannah. I didn't answer it.

"Look this is what were going to tell everyone, you came back and Sam left to go with the others, then I fell over something and this is how I got injured. Then you bought me back here, okay?"

Niall didn't look convinced. "What? You're going to lie for him?" I just nodded and looked to the floor. I couldn't stand to see Niall looking upset for me. "No, you have to tell the truth, I saw it too."

"You don't understand, you don't have to share a room with him, that's all night he has to do whatever he wants to me, and no one will know. You don't have to live with him and spend hours alone with him. If I told someone, no one would believe me then I would suffer for it, more than this. We can't tell anyone."

"But Belle, I saw it, I believe you, I won't let him do it again." Niall protested, he wasn't going to give in easily but this was important.

"Do you think he's going to let you near me now that you know?"

"Belle, he said something, after I saw it, he said something to me.." He looked concerned.

"What? What did he say?" I was worried now, I don't remember most of it but I vaguely remember me having a go at him. Then it hit me, I had shoved him. I was really going to suffer for that.

"He said, well.. He said that you didn't suffer enough, and that you were in big trouble when you had recovered from this" Niall looked like he was going to cry, and I felt the same.

"I'll be fine" I tried to reassure him, but I was so scared "you promise you won't tell anyone?" I asked.

"But Belle you-" I cut him off because this was really important.

"Do you promise me?" His eyes looked so sad as they looked into mine. He didn't have time to answer as now it was his phone that went off. The name on his phone said Will and he answered it.

He looked at me as he said "hello?" through the whole conversation we stared at each other. "No sorry, it's Belle.." There was a pause and I held my breath praying that he didn't tell the truth. "No, she's fine, she just.. Well she.." he sighed and placed his hand on mine "she just fell, she's okay."

I couldn't hold it in any longer, a tear fell down my face and Niall smiled at me trying to hide his tears. He hung up the phone and sat next to me on the sofa. "They're coming back, they said we can all go tomorrow." There was silence again. I turned and looked at his face that now also had tears falling down it.

"How long?" was all he said looking again into my eyes.

I shrugged, "about a year?" Another tear left Nialls eyes and instead of his hand being on top of mine he moved it so we were now holding hands. I trusted Niall, I felt safe with him, I didn't want this moment to end.

Authors Note: Awwwh so what do you think? What should happen next between Belle and Niall? I think they're really sweet together (':

Please comment and vote if you like it and thanks for all of the support, love you all,   lucy x

p.s this chapter is dedicated to @jerseygurl4life96 because she's really nice and she's always commenting on this story and I think it's really sweet so yeah (: