All You Had To Do Was Stay || n.h. [#Wattys2015]

Chapter 27: "For The Love Of You And Your Pea-Sized Balls, I Did Not Swoon....

Chapter 27: "For The Love Of You And Your Pea-Sized Balls, I Did Not Swoon Over You!"

Skylar Emerson

The next morning the sun shine through the window, instantly warming my cheeks.

I slowly pried my eyes open only to see Niall sitting at the edge of the bed.

"What are you doing?" I said as I leaned up on my elbows, "And what time is it?"

Niall, who was apparently putting on some converse looked up at me and smiled. "Oh, you're awake. I'm heading for some jogging with Greg, that used to be our everyday routine." He smiled, "Oh, and it's 8AM."

I groaned. "So freaking early." I fell flat on the bed, closing my eyes.

Niall chuckled, coming at the corner of the bed where I was and kneeled down. "Get some more sleep, maybe?" He said while gently caressing my morning nest hair and I hummed in response. "I gotta go, baby, will be back within an hour or two."

Niall stood up and went out of the room, closing the door behind him.

I shifted to the other side, trying to get back my sleep. But then I realized that I was in my boyfriend's house which included his mother and brother and his wife and baby and I also realized that I was here to impress them and I also realized that by waking up late would not be a good impression either.

Well, that made my eyes open wide.

I quickly got up and went to the bathroom. But remembered I had my bathroom stuffs in my luggage so I went over to my luggage to grab my toiletries bag and entered the bathroom once again. I brushed, washed my face twice before I combed my nest hair to bring it down to decency and tied it up in a messy bun and changed into some new clothes.

I walked down the stairs and into the dinning room. I saw Maura sitting on one of the chairs, flipping a page of the newspaper.

"Morning, Mrs Horan." I greeted her as I walked over to her. She looked up from the newspaper, the corner of her mouth curving into a small smile.

"Morning, lovely. And please, call me Maura, dear." She said as she folded the newspaper and gently put in the middle of the table.

"Where's others?" I asked, taking the seat next to her. "Greg and Niall are gone for their morning walk and Denise? Well, she's still sleeping with Theo I assume." She finished and I nodded.

I didn't know what to say to keep up the conversation so I just started lightly tapping my fingers on the table.

"I bet you want to see little Nialler pictures, now don't you?" Maura asked taking me off guard and I looked at her blankly for mere seconds before I grinned wide, nodding. "Yes, please."

"Alright," she began, getting up from her seat. "I'll go get them. Sit down on the drawing room, dear." I nodded and did as she said. After a minute or two Maura walked in with three to four huge photo albums in her hand. "My God, they are really heavy." She laughed as she put them down on the center table. She sat down beside me.

"You'll love these pictures. Both Niall and Greg were so adorable when they were little." Maura said, taking an album in her hands, opening it.