Stockholm Syndrome (Niam Horayne AU) (BoyxBoy)

Chapter 16

Niall stayed in his room after Zayn left and cried softly. He and Zayn were fine, and Liam came along and ruined it. But Niall knew he couldn't blame Liam. It was Niall's fault. All Niall's fault for cheating on his boyfriend.
Through watery eyes, Niall looked around his room his mind slowly drifting to Liam, wondering where he was. Was he in a cell? Being questioned? He missed Liam holding him when he was scared. He missed his hugs and kisses. He missed his presence. Niall missed him.
A knock on his door broke his train of thoughts and he jumped and looked up as it slowly opened. Even with his blurred vision he still knew it was his mother. "What happened sweetie, where's Zayn?"
Niall said nothing but only cried more. "I did something bad mum." He squeaked as he whipped his eyes on his hands. His mother sat next to him against the wall which was opposite the door and put an arm round him. It wasn't Liam of course but it was definitely comforting.
"Want to talk about it?" She asked and Niall wanted to nod and tell her everything, get it off his chest. But what if his mum didn't love him anymore, for cheating on Zayn. What if she wished he never came back from being kidnapped?
"The boy. The one that kidnapped me. I knew I him." Niall spoke, swallowing a lump in his throat, "he kept flirting with me around town and stuff and Zayn didn't like it. And I guess Zayn thought we did something when he kidnapped me." It was only half of the truth and Niall felt sick for lying to his mother. But he couldn't bring himself to say it out loud.
"What did you do that was bad then hon." She asked quietly.
"Flirted back. And it got out of hand." Niall hoped that was enough to for him mum to understand.
So you cheated on Zayn. Is that what you mean." She asked and Niall wanted to be sucked into a black hole.
He swallowed again, and nodded. His mum pulled him closer and Niall sobbed gently into her chest, but she said nothing, she didn't need to.

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The next day Niall was starving and he dawdled down the stairs for breakfast in his dressing gown and saw his brother sitting at the kitchen table eating some kind of food. He realised he hadn't seen his brother or his dad yesterday and felt bad. "GREG!" Niall cried and his brother looked up with a smile.
"Hey little bro." He said, standing up and pulling Niall into a tight hug. Niall hugged back happily, "you okay?"
Niall thought for a minute as he pulled from the hug, "I will be." He answered, and looked over at the plate of food Greg had placed on the table. Bacon sandwich. The smell made Niall's stomach growl.
"Hungry?" Greg asked with a smile as Niall nodded eagerly, "When are you not? Do want bacon too?." Niall nodded again and sat down at the table and watched his brother put some bacon in a pan and turn on the cooker and began frying it.
"It was weird without you, you know?" Greg said, and Niall felt a little sick, he didn't want to talk about that.
"I cheated on Zayn." Niall blurted out.
Greg let out a nervous laugh, "Sorry, what?!"
"Me and Liam, the one who so called 'kidnapped me', we kinda had this thing, I'm sorry I shouldn't have said anything." Niall muttered and sank down in the chair.
"Do you like Liam, then?" Greg asked, flipping the bacon in the pan.
Niall was a little surprised at the answer, expecting his brother to tell him it was wrong to cheat on Zayn, "I-yeah, yeah, I really like him." There was no point in lying to his brother, even if he wanted to.
"More than Zayn?"
"Yeah." Niall admitted, and watched as Greg turned the cooker off and went in the cupboard for a plate,
"Do you want it in a sandwich?" He asked, pulling out a smallish, China plate,
"Yes please." Niall answered. "I don't know what to do Greg. Zayn saw us together in the bar toilets, before Liam took me. He caught us, and then last night he didn't believe me when I said we didn't do anything. Though it was a lie anyway. I messed up really bad."
"No mate," Greg sighed sympathetically and handed Niall his bacon sandwich, "You just followed your heart."
Niall frowned at Greg's answer and began eating his sandwich, very quickly because he was starving and he hadn't had food this good for a few weeks now.
"But what do I do about Zayn?"
"Who do you want Ni, Zayn or Liam?"
"Liam." Niall answered guiltily and surprised himself a little when he didn't even hesitate.
"So break up with Zayn." Greg said, sitting down and eating his now cold sandwich.
Niall sighed. He didn't want to break up with Zayn. He just had a feeling that would end badly, "When I was with Liam, I kept having nightmares. But they were memories, of me and Zayn, only they were twisted. Zayn was really violent, and I guess I'm scared he'll become that."
"So you're just gonna lead Zayn on, all this time, and act like you love him when he kisses you."
Niall bit his lip and put his sandwich down, "I don't know." He said with a little sigh.
Greg put the last bite of his sandwich in his mouth and stood up, chewing it, before swallowing it. He put his plate in the sink, "Take my advice bro, break up with Zayn, if you don't want him anymore."
Niall nodded and watched his brother leave the room. He finished his sandwich and also dumped his bowl isn't he sink, before walking towards his room. Then there was a knock at the door.
Niall stiffened. The only person he knew who came to their door this early in the morning was Zayn. Niall walked towards the door and stood there for a a few moments, wondering whether to open it or not.
He grabbed the key from the hook at the side of the door, and put it in the key hole, and slowly turned it, then opened the door.
And there was Zayn, his hair perfect as always, jacket clung to his shoulders over top of an 'all time low' t-shirt. Niall always said it fitted Zayn brilliantly.
"Hey." Zayn said smiling.
Niall hid his confusion at Zayn's mood and smiled back, stepping aside to let Zayn in, "do you want to come up to my room or stay down here?" Niall asked.
"We'll go to your room." Zayn said, before following the blonde upstairs.
Niall shut the door and joined Zayn who was sitting on the bed.
"Listen Ni, I'm sorry for not believing you, I just couldn't believe you were home and-"
"Zayn, it's fine but-"
"No, Niall it's not, I need to trust that you are telling the truth. So if you say you and Liam did nothing, then you didn't." Zayn insisted.
"Yeah, but-"
"Shh babe." Zayn hushed and leaned in to kiss Niall.
And Niall, being his stupid self, let Zayn kiss him, and swallowed the words he was going to say back down, and pretended to love Zayn not Liam

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