Still the One- A One Direction Love Story.

Chapter Two

Allison POV

When Olly returns to the flat, I'm still upset with Liam and Louis for acting the way they did.  

It isn't their right or even their business to convince me to tell him, let alone try to tell him themselves.

Ellie and Charlie have started whining at me again, probably because they want dinner.

Olly and Matty can't cook to save their lives, so I make food for them a lot, like how I did with... you know.

I don't like mentioning his name. Brings back memories I want to forget altogether.

Anyways, I cooked some fettucini alfredo with chicken for us and gave some it to the girls as well.

Olly didn't bring Caroline with him (thank God) today, so it's just the three of us and the girls.

I don't really like Caroline, especially since I knew her because of Harry. When Harry was still 17 and started to secretly date Caroline, he told me and the boys about it but I disagreed with it immediately. I mean, she was 16 years older than him! That's just nasty. And plus, Caroline was a really horrid and nasty person as it was.

But Olly likes her and that's all matters, even though I try to avoid Caroline like the plague.

While we're eating dinner, I ask Olly about the single he's working on with One Direction.

"Hey Olly, working on any new singles?" I casually ask him.

"Yeah, funny story. I'm working on it with One Direction", he says, cautious of his words.

He knows what happened between them and I, and he generally tries to avoid the topic of them for me.

"How come you didn't tell me? I had to find out on my way home from Liam and Louis", I say.

"I'm really sorry Allison, I didn't think you would want to know", he says, frowning.

"I'm not angry with you, Olly", I say.

Olly smiles brightly at me.

"I'll tell you next time, okay?" he asks me, pulling me in for a side hug.

"Okay", I say.

"Wait, Lissa, you ran into Liam and Louis today? Was you-know-who with them?" Matty asks.

"No, Voldemort wasn't with them, and neither was... you know", I say.

"Oh... well if he was would you have told him?" Olly asks me.

"I'd like to think I wouldn't, but I had the girls with me, so I would have had to tell him", I explain.

Thinking back, I'm glad that he wasn't with Liam or Louis. I would have had to deal with him and quite frankly, I never want to see him again.

I look down at my left wrist, and immediately feel disgust. The tattoo I got is still there, because I can't bring myself to remove it.

Instead, I use cover up so I don't have to remember.

 "Lissa, you really should tell him. He's their father, and he has a right to know", Matty says.

"Why doesn't anyone seem to understand that he lost that right?! When he broke up with me over petty lies Taylor and Katie had made, he lost any right to see me again! He lost the right to my girls when he told me he thought I was lying and believed I cheated on him! With you, Matty! He thought I cheated on him with both you and Harry! I was pregnant then, too, so he lost his rights as their father. You know how long it took for me to agree to put his name on their birth certificates! He has no rights to either girl", I rant.

Matty and Olly both look floored. I'm furious with the world for not understanding.

I take the girls from their seats to give them baths and to go to bed.

You really fucked up, Niall. What happened to forever? I cry silently.

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Niall POV

I carelessly put on my clothes. I don't care for the naked girl in the bed. She looks at me with something I don't understand in her eyes, as I put on my clothes.

I leave the hotel room, putting on a beanie and a pair of sunnies so I won't get caught.

The sun and sounds don't bother me anymore. I didn't drink enough last night to have a hangover.

I go to my car and drive back to the other hotel I'm staying in while the boys and I work on a single with Olly Murs.

I saw Simon while I was in the studio yesterday. Allie wasn't with him. She never is. Allie left for the unknown years ago.

Allison Rossalind Cowell.

God I miss her. I haven't seen her since the day I broke up with her two years ago. I didn't believe her. I didn't believe the girl I still love.

Now I know she never cheated or went behind my back. Harry told me what had happened. I was such a bloke for believing Taylor and Katie. Two days after it happened, I told the press the relationship I had with Katie was fake.

Management wanted to kill me. But Simon had saved my sorry ass. He knew I had screwed up, and probably didn't want angry fans to deal with.

I walk into the room the boys and I are sharing, and Louis comes up to me.

"Hey Nialler! Guess who we saw today? All-", Lou starts to say, but Liam's hand smothers the sound of the last word.

Allison? Did he see Allison?

"Albert Einstein! We saw Einstein on a billboard today, right Louis?" Liam says pointedly.

"Yep! Einstein, right next to the Eiffel Tower", Louis says.

"Cool?" I say, wondering why Liam is trying to stop Lou from saying something else.

I walk away from the two, and collapse onto my bed.

I look at my one and only tattoo, the infinity sign.

Tears fall from my face, and eventually I fall asleep.

I dream of Allie and the future we could have had.