Learning how to fly (Niall Horan fanfic)

10 - A feeling

*Rikke's POV*

I woke up, totally cuddled into Niall.

Holy shit what was I doing here?

I looked down at myself, well at least I had all my clothes on. Omg this was so embarrasing! I was supposed to go home after watching movies with the boys and I ended up sleeping in Niall's arms. I can't believe that this happened. And I cried in front of him. What was I thinking? What was he thinking about me now? Dammit.

I tried to get out of his arms, but he just tightened the grip in his sleep.

Should I wake him up?

Before I managed to do something, Zayn slammed the door up and all the boys ran into Niall's room and jumped onto the bed.

As the boys fought and tried to wake up Niall, I felt very awkward, like I wasn't supposed t be there. 

Suddenly someone started to tickle me and I screamed like a little girl. I can't stand when people tickles me, I really hate it.

"Oh she is ticklish!" Louis shouted.

"No! Stop it!" I whined and tried to punch Louis. 

"Did you hear something?" Louis laughing asked the other boys. In all of a sudden all the boys were over me instead of teasing Niall. 

After a little while Niall said "All right, enough boys" and the boys stopped tickling me, I looked thankfully at him as the boys walked crestfallen out of the room, but then Niall jumped on top of me and started to tickling me himself.

"Stop it Niall!" I screamed "I'm seriously gonna pee myself!" 

He laughed at me and rolled down onto his back. I wanted my revenge, so I tried to dot him in the side but I forgot that he was a lot stronger than me and besides that he didn't seem ticklish at all. Bummer.

"Oh no you didn't" he said with an evil smile. I immediately regretted my decision and tried to escape but it was too late. Niall was already over again me and he tickled me until the both of us were exhausted by laughing. We both slowly stopped laughing with Niall still on top of me. We looked each other in the eyes, and realised how close we were. Niall's head turned red in a few seconds and I'm sure the same thing happened to me. 

"Sorry" he mumbled, as he quickly stood out of the bed. He had slept in all his clothes, which I was very pleased about, this situation would had been a lot more awkward if the only thing he had been wearing was his boxers. Not that it wasn't awkward. It was.

"No it's okay" I hesitated for a second "Nialler" not sure if I was allowed to call him that or not "I should have gone home last night anyways" 

"No, I wouldn't have allowed you to walk home alone" he said, with his cheeks in a light pink colour "I should have slept on the couch, I'm sorry, I just fell asleep. It wasn't my meaning to sleep with you... Or... You know... In the same bed as you"

I smiled shyly at him, he was a real gentleman. I hadn't thought that about him. "I actually felt... safe for the first time in, like,  forever" I said with a low voice. 

In no time he stood beside me with a protective arm around me, like as he knew I needed him to "I'm glad you did" he said "And I really wanna talk to you about last night, whenever you feel you're ready"

I wrapped my arms around his waist and hided my head in his neck. "I'll remember that, Niall, thank you" I said.

*Niall's POV*

We went down under to get something to eat. The boys sat apart from each other, absorbed in each their thing, but all looked up when we entered the room.

"You can still walk?" Harry asked Rikke. She just looked at him as she didn't understood the joke, but when the other guys started to laughed, she realised what he meant and stroke her tongue at him. 

"No" she replied "I'm actually flying right now. You're just the only one who can't see it because you're too stupid"

I laughed at her and we headed of to the kitchen. Harry just gave her the finger and all the boys laughed at him. Harry has never been good at responding.

About two hours later Rikke went home but before she left the boys convinced her to go out and eat dinner with us tonight together with Danielle, Eleanor and Perrie. She didn't really seemed like she was secure about the whole situation, but at the end she agreed to go.

All the boys really liked her and I think she enjoyed being with them too. She fooled a lot around with Harry and Louis and I saw her talking with both Zayn and Liam. 

I'd had the most amazing morning myself. I woke up before Rikke did, and I don't know why I pretended to sleep until she woke up, I think I just enjoyed being close to her...  

Later when I laid on top of her and we looked deeply into each other's eyes, I just felt something, and I know she felt it too. 

I walked into the living room where the other boys were, and said "Can I talk to you guys for a moment?" 

"Sure, what is it Nialler" Liam said.

I sat down in the couch "It's about Rikke... It's just... When I'm around her I can't stop smiling, and it's like no matter how she looks, if she'd just woken up or if she pulls a face, I always finds her beautiful in her own way. And at a time we really had this intimate moment, just looking at each other... And wow this sounds crazy because I've just met her two days ago."

At the beginning all the lads just looked at me, but slightly a big smile grew on Zayn's face. "Oh-h-h! Niall is falling for her!" he shouted. 

"What? No! I don't even know her" I said, unsure if Zayn really was right.

"You don't always have to know a person to fall in love with them" Liam said, as the sweet and innocent boy he was, "there is actually this thing called love as first sight"

Louis laughed at him but said "Yeah, and you told us the first day you met her, that you felt like you just had to talk to her. Maybe Zayn is right"

I couldn't believe what I've just heard. Was I falling for her? They all had girlfriends, so they must have known what they were talking about, right? I mean, they must know how it feels. 

"So you're telling me that I'm in love with her?" I asked 

This time Harry spoke, which surprised me a bit "Maybe you're not in love with her right now, but maybe you could fall in love with her if you spend some more time with her. So I guess we'll figure that out over the next few days" 

The boys nodded in agreement and I went back into my room without a word. This was weird.