Hurting Kind//Del Water Gap

Chapter 11

Ivy

After Holden's set, I was free for the rest of the evening. Niall was about to go on and I found myself outside of Holden's dressing room. I don't know why either. I think I just want to be around him. Maybe? Or it's because I feel safe around him. Either way, I should probably go back to Niall's room. I turned and started to walk away. I felt my phone vibrate.

Niall: Come to my dressing room. Now please.

Ivy: On my way

I was down the hall when Nat yelled my name. I turned and she had a concerned look on her face.

"Hey Nat, what's up?"

"Are you okay? I knew that guy was a creep. Holden told me what happened." she looked at me sympathetically.

"I'm okay. How is his hand? I patched it up the best I could." I asked her.

"Wait that was you? He told me he went to a medic" She raised her eyebrows.

"Oh uh. Listen, I really gotta go. Niall needs me." I hurried away

"We aren't done with this conversation. I need more details." She called after me.

I walked into Niall's dressing room and he was sitting on the couch with his phone out. He looked really mad about something.

"When were you going to tell me?" he asked looking up from his phone.

"Niall I was going to tell you after your show." I answered honestly

"Ivy, we've talked about this. I need to know when this stuff happens. Shit. Ivy I should've been there."

"It's not that big of a deal I swear. Niall I'm okay. Holden helped me." I walked up and put my hands on his shoulders.

"Ivy I'm sorry. I heard he was a creep. I should've gotten rid of him right then. You didn't need to go through that again." He apologized. Flashbacks from that night still haunted me.

"Niall I'm okay. You need to calm down. You have to be on stage soon. You should go." I told him

"Okay. I'll be back in a bit." He smiled at me as he left.

"I'll be here."

Turns out it can get really boring in a dressing room by yourself. I had texted Natalia and asked what she was doing. She said she was busy at the moment. Well. I got up and started wondering around backstage. I had until 10:30 before I had to be back to the room. I heard the fans and Niall singing. I was so proud of him. Being able to watch him do what he loved was always amazing.

I walked back towards the dressing rooms deciding to just watch TV or something. When I was passing Holden's, his door opened and he stepped out behind me.

"Ivy I was about to come looking for you." He said smiling at me

"Did you miss me already?" I played

"Always" he replied a little too quickly. "Follow me I want to show you something."

"Are you going to kidnap me?" I joked with him

"Trust me if I was a kidnapper I would've taken you the minute I met you." He said

"Oh how charming"

"I try my best" he flashed a smile and I rolled my eyes

We were walking and we came up to a closet door. He opened it and there were stairs leading up.

"After you" he pointed up

I walked up and when I looked behind me he was looking straight down. Respectful. I turned around before I got caught looking at him. We got to the top and you couldn't really see anything. He grabbed my hand and started leading me somewhere. We turned a corner and you could see everything. We were on top of the stage. Looking out you could see all the fans, the lights, and Niall preforming. It was amazing.

"Do you like it?" He asked me

"I love it. It's amazing." I said in awe. "How did you find this place?"

"Just a little big of exploring." He shrugged. "I like to come up here when Niall is preforming. Almost every place has something like this and I find them every time. I like to look out at the fans. Some are singing, others crying, and some are just having the best night of their lives. It's beautiful. I come up here when I'm stressed. Even if no one is preforming I like to sit and imagine they are all out there for me. I've never showed anyone this before." He said looking out at the crowd.

I took in his words. I was the only one he'd shown? It made my heart happy. I sat and watched him as he looked out at the crowd. I could tell that all he wanted was to have people react to him like that. I'm sure there are plenty of fans out there who are dying to meet him. He looked over at me and I looked away blushing. Niall had just gotten done singing Slow Hands and it hit me. I was supposed to be in the dressing room.

"Shit. This is nice but I gotta go. I told Niall I'd be in his dressing room." I got up and started walking. I could tell Holden was following me. I got to the stairs and almost tripped. He grabbed me and held me close to him. He smelt amazing. It was a familiar smell. I couldn't place where I had smelled it before. I pulled away and slowly walked down the steps laughing. We opened the door and stumbled out laughing and out of breath. We looked up and saw Niall and Nat looking at us.

"Oh god." Niall said looking between us.

"I fucking knew it" Nat said before looking at Niall, "you owe me 10 bucks."

"Dammit." He said grabbing his wallet.

"What are you guys talking about?" Holden spoke up

"Niall knew that there was no way you were going to stay in the dressing room that entire time. I bet if you did leave you'd go find him. When you texted me, I knew it. I said I couldn't so you went to him." She said looking at me.

She turned to look at Holden, "if I was busy you'd find her. Both of you texted asking me to hang out and I was busy so I said no. Look who was right. You found each other." She said proudly

"Well you got us there" Holden said

"Ivy let's go. We have a plane to catch." Niall said looking up from his phone.

"Okay. Bye guys I'll see you later." I said walking away. After a few steps I turned and saw Holden watching me walk away. I did a small wave and followed Niall out. I couldn't help but smile to myself.

"He's a good guy. You can trust him" Niall told me.

"Yeah I know"

"We go back to Mullingar in a few days. Are you going to be okay?" He asked me

What a way to ruin a girl's mood. Remind her of her life outside of tour.

"Yeah I'll be fine." I answered as we got into the car. At least I hope it'll be okay.

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