Drowing

Chapter 6

NIALL'S P.O.V

She took a step back and ran. I felt so stupid, she probably thinks I'm some sort of obsessed creep, but I wasn't. I just really like her, it was hard not to, she was beautiful.

I watched her run to the edge when she reached it she didn't hesitate, she just jumped. I rushed to the edge of the 30ft cliff. I looked down, she was just letting herself fall, then she brought her arms over her head and within the space of a second she had swiftly and gracefully brought her whole body to form the diving position. she entered the water with a small splash, but she didn't surface? I started to panic, my eyes started darting around searching for her, praying she would appear

"Niall!" I heard her, but I couldn't see her. I looked out towards the horizon and spotted her waving, she was about 20ft away from where she entered the water. How the hell did she get all the way out there?

She asked me to meet her at the beach and to bring her towel. I gave her a thumbs up and made my way back down the cliffs. Wait, how's she going go get back to the beach? I glanced over my shoulder to find her swimming back to the beach, it was about half a mile from where she was to the beach!

Turned out she was there before me, wow she was really fast!

"Thanks!" she said wrapping her towel around her.

Shit! Did I say that out loud?

"Yeah you did." she replied trying to hide a smile and a smirk.

HEATHER'S P.O.V

I invited Niall back to my house for some hot chocolate. So we are currently sitting my living room (I had changed into some dry, warm clothes and gave Niall one of my oversized hoddies) drinking hot chocolate. We were watching reruns of Pretty Little Liars.

"Heather your an amazing swimmer!" he stated out of nowhere.

"Thank you." I spoke quietly. He didn't say anything for a minute but then said shyly "I'm sorry for shouting at you, and grabbing your arm. I just didn't underst-"

"It's okay, really don't worry about it!" I said brushing it off.

"No it's not!"he said his voice voice louder now and laced with a slight anger, "Did I hurt you?" he asked pointing to my upper arm.

"Kinda, but I'm okay, don't worry I'm tough."

"Okay," he said sadly.

"Would you like to watch a movie?" I asked trying to ease the awkward tension in the room.

"Yeah sure, whatcha wanna watch?" he asked, his strong Irish accent coming through.

"Horror or comedy?" I knelt down beside my stack of DVDs, flicking through them.

"Horror. If that's okay?" he said sitting back on the couch, making himself more comfortable.

"Umm.." I hated horrors, I only asked because me and mum only own those two types of movie (she owned the scary ones). I was hoping he would have picked comedy. "Sure!" I tried to sound confident but I don't think it worked.

I put on The Ring, I was terrified! Half way through the movie the front door opened I screamed, not knowing who ( or what) it was. Then Mum popped her head around the sitting room door making me jump.

"Heather?" she asked "Why are you watching a scary movie, you hate them?"

Then she saw Niall sitting in the corner, "Oh hiya! I didn't see you there!"

"Hi." Niall replied awkwardly.

"Who's he?" she mouthed at me. I just shook my head and furrowed my brow, signalling that I would tell her later. She left after that.

When the movie finished Niall looked over to find me hiding under pillows and blankets. "You alright?" he asked trying not to laugh.

"Just peachy!" I replied sarcastically.

"Okay!" he said putting up his hands in defence, "I should probably get going mum might start to worry, I had fun today."

"Me too."

"I might see you tomorrow?"

"yeah! I'd like that!"