Just Beneath The Surface *Niall Horan Fanfiction*

Chapter 15

******Hayley's POV******

Y:" alright well it all started when i was born. my mom died when i was born and my dad took it harder than you would think. to this day he still hasn't gotten over it. he was stuck raising me by myself and paying all the bills. i guess everything just built up. he would come home so stressed and i would try to make sure everything was perfect. even when i was like 8 years old i would try to clean the whole house when i came home from school and have all my homework done so he would be happier when he came home, but nothing would work. he was always miserable and he would come home and scream and yell and throw things. then he turned to alcohol to deal with all the pain and stress. he would come home drunk almost every night. he would stumble through the door and not know where he was. if i wasn't sleeping  he would yell and throw things and sometimes he would hit me. i-i didn't know what to do. i didn't know how to stop him and i didn't know what i did wrong. i cried myself to sleep so many times i-i"

by this time you started speaking so fast and tears were flowing down your cheeks and falling into your lap. you looked at the ground so niall wouldn't see. he reached over to you and lifted up your chin so you were looking him directly in the eyes. 

N:"I'll always be here for you, Hayley"

he wrapped both of his arms around you and pulled you towards his chest. he held you as your cried, staining his shirt with your makeup. you wrapped your arms around his torso and melted into his body. you scooted closer to him and he gave you a reassuring squeeze letting you know that he would be there for you when you needed him. you took a deep breath and your tears subsided and your breathing evened out so you could tell him more about you.

Y:"alright so then my dad got a job transfer to here in america, so we moved. at first everything was ok. i had to adjust to a new school and make new friends which wasn't to bad. but then they started making fun of me and telling me to go back to australia and making fun of my accent and stuff like that. they would make fun of my weight and throw things at me and spread nasty rumors about me. they made me feel so bad and made me feel like i was nothing. i was so self conscious and i would go home everyday and feel so bad about myself. i eventually ended up becoming anorexic and everything seemed to get worse. i lost so much weight. i look back on pictures from then and im so ashamed of what happened and how i let people like that get to me. i would go to school and people would pick fights with me. on one occasion i got jumped on the street and ended up with knife marks and cuts down my arms and a black eye. i was a target cause i was so skinny and weak that they could easily beat me up. one day i finally snapped back to reality and realized what i was doing to myself and just didn't care what anybody else thought about me anymore. i starting gaining back weight, but i would exercise and stay in shape, and then one day a group of girls confronted me and we got in a fight and for once i didn't lose. people finally started to leave me alone. school was getting better, while things at home only got worse. my father would try to "toughen me up" and i would thank god when he would pass out from drinking. i spent so many nights at my best friends house just trying to get away from him. i would pray that my mom would somehow magically show up at my door and save me ,but we all know that wouldn't happen. then you boys came along and everything changed. and as embarassing as this may sound, you guys gave me hope. i listened to your music all the time and i felt so much better. when i heard you were coming here i had to be here and now here we are"

niall was crying so hard, as were you. you both held onto each other again like you were the only thing each other had. this was the first person you actually told your whole story to, not even your best friend knew every grueling detail. you trusted niall with every secret and you spilled it all to him. a gigantic wait had finally been lifted off your chest and you felt so much better. you were surprise niall hadn't walked away saying he couldn't take being stuck with this charity case, instead he embraced you, held you close to him, cried with you, and told you everything would get better. you were so thankful for this guy, he was everything you needed him to be, a friend, a true friend. 

******Niall's POV******

there were no words to describe how i felt at this very moment. the air was still, the city was silent, as if everything and everyone was listening to this girl share her story, a story that touched my heart. Hayley went through so much in her life, something she shouldn't have ever had to go through. i sat there and cried along side of her as she told me every detail of what went on in her life. you could tell she wasn't over exaggerating any part of it. all i wanted to do was hold her in my arms and make all of the pain go away. make everything and everyone that hurt her vanish into thin air. i wanted to protect her. i wanted to be her barricade in between her and anything in the world. i had only known this girl for almost 2 weeks, and what she was telling me only brought us closer together. we bonded over this and i was touched that she trusted me with all of this, her life story. i could honestly say that i loved this girl. i loved her from the day i laid my eyes on her, and now we were so much closer.

Y:"Hayley, i know you've been through a lot in your life, and i know you've been hurt both physically and emotionally. but i want to be one less burden on your life. and even though i only met you a little while ago, i love you more than you could ever know. so will you be my girlfriend?"