My Princess

"You know I will always love you, Lindsay. And I will always, always be there for you. But I think my love for you is more of a brother and sister love. I'm sorry." This is harder to hear than I expected. I definitely saw it was coming, because I was feeling the same. But it's still hard breaking up with my boyfriend of a year.

"I understand. I love you too Matthew. Thank you for being honest with me. Goodbye," and with that I hung up. I don't think it has quite hit me yet, because I'm not crying or that upset yet.

Well, what now? I could get something to eat, but the whole breakup just made me lose my appetite. And all of my friends are out with their boyfriend or girlfriend. And my family is out doing various things. I could go to Family Video and see if they have anything. I'll just do that.

As I grab the keys, head out the door, and drive to Family Video, I find it hard to think. About anything. And as I walk around the video store, nothing really looks good. Then I stumble upon the Perks of Being a Wallflower movie, our movie, and it finally hits me. When school starts again after spring break, I won't be hand in hand with Matthew. We won't be Matthew and Lindsay anymore. That's when I feel a tap on my shoulder.

I turn around to find a guy a couple inches taller than me. He has blonde hair, beautiful blue eyes, and clear braces. Why does he look so familiar?

When he sees my tears, he hesitates. "I'm sorry. Why are you crying?" Irish accent. Holy crap, it's Niall Horan! But all of this stuff going on with Matthew, it doesn't really affect me.

I sniffle, and then wipe my eyes." It's nothing. My boyfriend just broke up with me. I saw it coming, but we were together for a year so it's still hard." I say with a weak smile. "I'm Lindsay, by the way," I say, wiping away another tear.

"I'm really sorry about that. He obviously didn't deserve you. I'm Niall. You look like you could use a hug." He stretches out his arms and I fall into them, weeping into his firm chest. As he hugs me, he nuzzles his face in my shoulder.

"It's okay, it will be okay," he says soothingly, rubbing circles on my back with his hand.

I pull away from him and see the wet spot on his shirt from my tears. "I'm sorry."

"Don't be," he says, blushing a little.

"Thank you Niall. So why did you tap me on the shoulder a minute ago?" Then I hear them.

"Did you find anything good Niall?" Harry appears, followed by Zayn, Louis, and Liam. When Harry sees me he stops dead in his tracks, causing Zayn, then Louis, and finally Liam run into the person in front of them. I can't help but laugh a little.

"Who is this?" Harry asks, raising his eyebrow at Niall.

"Hey, look at that. You have a beautiful smile," Niall says, ignoring Harry and the others and grinning at me. This causes me to blush. "When I tapped you, I was gonna ask if you could recommend any good movies," he says, finally acknowledging the other guys.

"Well, it depends on what you're looking for. Do you want comedy, action, horror?"

"Horror!" they say, simultaneously. I laugh again.

"Well, I've heard Sinister is pretty scary. I've never seen it, but I've heard a lot about it."

"Well then we will get that." Niall says, still smiling at me. Louis grabs a copy and they head off. Then I turn back to the movie in my hand. After a moment, Niall reappears. "Well, are you coming?" he says, grabbing my hand.

"Really?" I ask. "We just met!"

"So? You can't be alone right now! You need some fun!" And with that, he drags me off and out to the van.

When Niall and I enter the van, it's already packed. There's barely room in the back for me to squish between Niall and Liam. The guys immediately start asking me question about me. Finally, Louis brings up the thing they've probably all been thinking.

"So are you a fan of One Direction?" Everyone laughs.

"Actually yes," I say. "To be honest, I was actually listening to it on my way to the video store."

"Man we're good!" Louis jokes.

"Shut up Louis," Liam says. Then we pull into the parking spot. All the boys jump out of the van, leaving me to climb out alone. Niall helps me out of the van and as we walk to the door, in no rush to chase after the others as they run, Niall takes my hand and squeezes it.