Secret Admirers //one direction//

Chapter 44

We return to my house and I bring some ice-cream and a plate filled with waffles, I made myself this afternoon. I bring everything to the dining table where Niall is sitting.

"My mum isn't home. We have to finish with the arrangements before she returns. Who are you texting with so much interest?!" I ask him, frowning.

"It's just Perry..." Niall shrugs.

"Why are you texting Perry! She's not supposed to know anything!"

"I'm not telling her anything! We're talking about something else."

"About what?"

"Music!"

"You can talk to me about music as well! Is there any difference between me and Perry?" I cross my arms.

"Yes. You are a rock bias but she is a pop bias and so am I", he says.

I roll my eyes. "At least we can fight about who's better." I chuckle, hitting him with my elbow. He locks his phone and laughs.

"What is this?" Niall asks when he glances in my bowl, while I sit down opposite to him.

"I eat vanilla ice-cream with soy sauce." I admit grabbing the bowl.

"You did what?!" He leans forward, examining it closer, then throwing hurt look at me.

"Niall! Calm dowm, it's just a type of ice-cream preparation." I calm him down.

"Uh, yeah, but still. What a treason." He scoffs, looking away and then back at me.

"I knew you'd say that. Taste these." I move the small plate in his direction, offering him waffles. Not just some ordinary waffles, but reconciling waffles.

"Waffles!" He grins, grabbing one of them and having a bite. "Yum. These are spectacular." He finishes it surprisingly quick.

I know right! It's a new recipe. My parents ordered waffle maker from the Coffee Cup and so I tried them. I shrug my shoulders taking one myself and having a bite, they really taste good.

"I'm really happy to see you happy and engaging yourself in activities you love to do!" He compliments me but he instantly realizes it was a mistake when my face falls. "I know it's difficult for you, sorry."

His understanding me makes me feel so soft. Suddenly I can't imagine my life without him. I say the first thing that comes to my mind. "You know that I like waffles beyond anything else?" I ask and he nods. "Will you be my waffle?" I ask, not sure how I mean it and not sure what answer I will get.

He just chuckles, looking down on the ground and then back at me before speaking. "You know I like vanilla ice-cream, uh, without the soy sauce of course! Will you be my vanilla ice-cream, without the soy sauce?"

"Wh-what?" I stammer in surprise and confusion, my eyes widening.

"You see yours doesn't make much sense either and you could be joking so this may be completely out of the blue but now I need to finally tell you something." Niall sighs, putting down the waffle and putting his elbows on the table, grabbing my hands with his.

"When everyone thought I'm a nerdy dumb boy, you didn't turn your back to me. You were the one of a few people that cared about me. Maybe the only one who saw the good in me, you saw the true in me, told me to join music class and music made me see colours again all because of you." Seeing the sadness in his eyes physically hurts me and I want to tell him not to think about it like that but he continues.