out of the blue / n.h

Chapter 80

I wake up by a a little knock on the door. I groan and walk up to the door. I open the door to see Marcus smiling.

"Wake up, you don't want to miss dinner. Especially when Greg and Denise is here!" Marcus informs.

"Wait, what? Who are they?!" I hold Marcus's shoulder in attempt to quickly tell me what's going on.

"Why don't you take a look by yourself?" He scoffs, leaving me in confusion. I close the door and redo my hair by combing it and pull it into a ponytail. I change my dirty clothes to my red sweater Thomas gave me and it suits me well that I need time to check out myself on the mirror, admiring it. I put on my skinny jeans and run through the flight of glass stairs with my slippers, hoping not to slip away. I dart my eyes to thecounter to see Marcus and a blonde woman, holding a baby on her other arm while talking to Marcus. That must be Denise. I just hope it won't be awkward because apparently I'm socially an awkward person.

"Hi, you must be Melanie." She turns her body to face me before pulling me into a side hug.

"Yeah, and you must be Denise. And this is. . . Greg." I point to the baby and take a full look of the baby's face. He looks so much like Niall.

"No, his name is Theo." Denise informs as she chuckles. "Greg is his father."

"He looks so much like Niall!" I shake my head as Denise hands Theo for me. "How old is he?" I carry Theo in my arms, pumping up and down in a little pace to keep his cute face entertained. He's so cute and I'm all weak when it comes to cute babies.

"He's one and a half years old." She smiles. "She looks just like his father and that's why he looked a lot like Niall. You see, he has the Horan nose." Denise says as she pinches his nose.

I stare at him in awe as he starts to giggle at my silly face I put out for him. "He's really cute, and really heavy." I chuckle as I hand Theo back to Denise.

"That's weird, Theo always cries when it comes to strangers." Denise says. "Oh, don't take it personal—"

"No, no. It's fine I totally get it." I laugh as I rest my body on the counter.

"You're Niall's girlfriend, aren't you?" Denise asks with a smile on her face. She looks really sweet and beautiful.

"Yeah, I mean no. We broke up." I stretch my lips into a thin line. Well this is awkward. "But, you know, I just seem have to work things out." I chuckle.

"Well, you seem to be really sweet and it's a loss for him to waste a girl like you." Denise praises as someone from behind her enters the room.

"Who wants to play with her daddy?" He runs to Denise to get Theo off of her embrace. He picks Theo and flicker his eyes to me. Is he like Niall's twin brother with a brown hair because I thought I just see Niall. "You must be. . . Niall's girlfriend, am I right?" He reaches his hand out to me as I shake his hand.

"Melanie, please." I smile. "You must be Theo's father." I chuckle as the rest of us too.

"Just Greg. Well, I'm off to take Theo to go play in the back if you'll excuse us." He playfully swings Theo in his arms as Theo screams. I suddenly picture Niall and our son in the future. Whoa, future. I sigh as I look down, not acknowledging that Denise is still in here.

"What is it?" Denise asks as she takes a bite of the cookie on the counter.

"I miss him, that's all." I scrunch my nose. 

"Well, go and meet him." Denise tilts his head to the side. "I'm going to Maura's house tomorrow, you should come." Denise offers.

"Yeah? Is that okay?" I bite my lip.

"Yeah, totally! Maura is a sweet woman, she'll like you." Denise winks. I just gape and put my whole weight on my right foot.

The dinner went well as I try my best to sleep without thinking of Niall. I've have a major jetlag and I'm in need of sleeping. So I sleep into a deep sleep, dreamless.

I wake up on the most comfiest bed as I stretch my body and walk out of the bedroom and grab myself a milk.

"Hey there." Greg chimes in as I nearly jump out of it.

"Morning, Greg." I nod as I take a sip of the milk and sit on the chair counter.

"You have plans for today?" He asks while cutting off his toast, making it crusts into different pieces.

"Denise and I are going to Niall's mom's house." I inform. "I mean your mom's house. Maura. Sorry." I blurt out as he laughs.

"It's okay." He takes a bite of his toast.

"You look a lot like Niall." I shake my head. "Not to be creepy, though." I hold my hand up.

"Well, we're brothers." He finishes his toast as he takes a sip of the coffee. I laugh at his remark.

"Well, what about you? Do you have plans for today?" I ask back.

"Yeah, me and Bob are going to fish." He nods. "Well, we're going now, so, nice chatting with you, Melanie." He smiles at me before leaving me alone in the kitchen. I stand up and make my way to the sink, I wash Greg's plate and mug as I wash mine too. What if Niall hates the fact that I'm here? What if his mom hates me? I groan lightly.

"You don't have to do that, it's my job." Marcus scolds me from behind.

"Oh, sorry, Marc." I chuckle.

"Well, it's not a crime for her doing your job, Marcus." Denise scoffs.

"Morning, Denise." I greet her, taking a seat on my earlier chair.

"You better get ready, I'm going to leave in an hour." Denise informs, taking a bite of her toast.

"Okay, wait for me." I sqeual up to the stairs as I clean myself up and put on one of my Nirvana long sleeve tees and my skinny jeans. I put on my navy jacket and shove my foot into my combat boots then spray a little cologne on my neck and wrists. At least I'm going to look decent to see Niall and his mom. I take a deep breath as I run dowsntairs to see Denise and Theo in his stroller.

"You look nice." Denise chimes in.

"Thank you, you don't look bad yourself." I remark as Denise laughs and I follow her to her car. I go open the passenger seat and realize this isn't America so I walk to the other side of the car. Denise laughs at my stupidity and she drives me to Niall's house. I look back to see Theo is sitting on the baby-seat or whatever they call it. He looks really cute. When Denise parks in his driveway, I help Denise with Theo'sstroller and walk Theo to Maura's house. Denise rings the bell and the door opens, giving me a little heartache on my chest.