Expect the Unexpected (Niall Horan Fanfic)

Afraid

"Don't listen to what he says. It's not your fault," he told me.

He practically read my mind, except I told myself that it is my fault. It is my fault that he left us again and it is my fault that I almost took away someone who makes him happy. I never intended for any of this to happen, nor did I want it to happen.

"It wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for me," I said to him.

"It's not your fault. Either way, she's dangerous and it's not your fault."

I let my hands curl over the cool metal railing as I continued to keep my gaze into the darkness of the entrance of the house.

"Harry said it like it was."

"But Harry's wrong."

I think that it's not just the fact that she's psycho, I think it's her in general as well. I may have called her my best friend and verbally said that she meant a lot to me, but sometimes, I look back at the time we spent together and think that maybe I just needed someone to talk to and she was there. She was a good friend. A best friend? No. I think I just told myself that just to make myself feel better, to feel less lonely. I told her everything, just because I had no one else to talk to. She was supportive and understood me heaps. The advice she gave me sounded like she had experienced an event like that, even though she hasn't. But at the end of the day, I felt like I was annoying her with my problems.

I'd never admit this, but I'm afraid of her. Afraid that if she got close to the boys, that I'd lose my five best friends, and I feel like we're already losing Harry. It's what she does. She gets close to people really quickly and people like her back. Everyone likes her. Everyone wants to be her friend and that was the problem. I got mixed messages from her. Sometimes, she'd be drifting off with other people, and the next you know, she's by your side and won't leave you. I can't read her. She's too confusing.

"I would never want to take away someone who makes him happy, but it's because it's her."

"He knows that, don't worry. Harry will figure out right from wrong. You just have to give him some time."

"Well, we don't have much time until you guys go back to the studio."

Them going back to their studio and me going to college is like a deadline for all of us. The deadline for all this to stop. The days are slipping passed us too fast and they're getting ruined because of Harry not being here because of me. I don't want these last few days to go to waste because they started so well and now it's a mess.

"I guess we'll have to make the best of it," he told me as he planted a warm kiss on my forehead.

-

"I'm thinking that maybe Harry's turning into a psychopath from hanging out with Katie too much," Louis predicted making us all laugh a little.

This was partly true. Not the psycho bit though. There's just something inviting about Katie that pulls everyone in to her, and once you're close to her, you're like a magnet. You can't seem to stop being with her and its like you want her all to yourself. But when I look at her now, it's like it's all an act just to cover up her condition and when I say it like that, I feel sorry for her. Maybe I'm the one pushing her away. Things are just too complicated to figure out right now.

"He'll be back before you know it," Zayn added.

"It seems a bit different this time though. It's like he's actually serious about her," Liam joined in.

"Hey guys, when's your next day off?" I asked, changing the subject. It was really doing my head in.

"Uh, Friday. Why?" Louis asked.