out of the blue / n.h

Chapter 96

"Morning, shitheads. What is that?" Niall arches his brows and takes the note from me. His eyes are wide open as he shakes his head. "I don't get your jokes." He chuckles as he sits next to me, resting his head on my shoulder. 

"Oh, and Niall, Thomas wanted me to give you this, too." Louis hands another piece of paper like mine to Niall. I sit up to see Niall opening the little piece of paper. I know the reason why he made a piece of paper, which why it made me laugh and I found that it was silly. It's because I used to do that a lot with him in class and maybe he started to make it as our trade-mark.

                        "Take care of her, Niall. For me.

                                                Tommy."

I briefly smile to know that Thomas counts on Niall to take care of me. Not only my father, but Thomas. And all I can do, is to assure Niall that everything will be okay as long as I'm with him. My fate is to spend the rest of my life with Niall James Horan.

NIALL HORAN

                        "Take care of her, Niall. For me.

                                                Tommy."

I let a big grin covers my face when I read it and there I see Louis, glaring at me. The letter is really sad but, it makes me even happier to know that not only his father that trusts me, but also Thomas. I'm assigned to protect her. To protect that little smile of hers, that beautiful appereances of hers and that fragile yet big heart she has.

"Niall, I have a letter for you too." She ruins my thoughts as she winks, still smiling. "It's from my dad."

"We have technologies! This is the 21st century, for God's sake." I laugh as I follow her to our room, leaving Louis alone in the room. I take a look at Lou who is chuckling and then back to focus on the TV.

"Here." She shoves out a white envelope. It says 'For the love of your life.' She leaves me alone in the room and I sit there on the bed, opening the envelope. I have a sense of happiness and also relief to have this envelope from Melanie.

My heart nearly stops when I see a drawing of me that I have been looking for my entire life. The drawing that Chris drew me. I let my whole face drops as I look at the old sketch of me on a piece of paper. It looks exactly like me and the old memory hits me on the back of my head all over again. All this time, I have been looking for it and it's here. Inside the envelope that was addressed to her love of her life, which is me. And it has always been me and always will be. I turn the paper around and the calligraphic letter of him reveals, giving me goosebumps. It's not very long.

"I know it has always been you. Take good care of her, Niall. Take care of Melanie.

-         Chris J. Richards."