Skinny Love

Chapter 24 - "You have no reason to be angry with me"

"That was a fucking long flight" Harry groaned as he loaded some luggage into two taxis,

"Shut up Harry, her mum is right there"

"its fine I've been known to throw the F bomb a few times"

"Mummmm"

"Izzie, your dad is waiting for us with the car"

"Ok"

"Here, I'm paying for your taxis" my mum handed Niall A £20 note

"Oh no Mrs George its okay I got this"

"Niall, its Jenny and no don't be silly, take it and give the other note to someone in the other taxi"

"Thank you"

When I got to my dad he hugged me tightly, I was trying to be strong but inside I was crushed, I knew he was too, he lost his mum and I couldn't even imagine losing my own. I knew the next few days were going to be hard. It was after 1am when I arrived back to my old house, I hadn't been here since we left when I was 16, I had no idea why my dad chose to keep the house but I was glad he did.

"Here you go guys" my dad opened the front door for us,

"It looks exactly the same"

"Of course it does, we left everything except the essentials"

I took in the old home where I had grown up in the outskirts of London, it looked the same. The cream sofas and TV were still in the same place. The wooden floor was still just as noisy as before and every move you made it would creak.

"Your mum and I are going over to your gramps house now; I assume you'll be round tomorrow?"

"Yeah dad"

My mum hugged everyone before she left, holding onto the boys more so which made me smile, animal.

"Ok so Liam and Jade take my mums room, Addison and Harry take the spare room on your left as you walk up the stairs, Ryan there is a perfect room for you opposite my old room"

"Where am I staying then?"

"Niall you are so annoying"

We carried our things up the stairs and I showed Ryan his room, it was my dad's old office but we had a bed in there for when my aunts came to stay, Niall and I walked into my second childhood bedroom, technically it was my first but it was the second Niall had seen.

"Another four poster bed?"

"What can I say?"

"I like this room; it's so young and girly"

"It's not young!"

"Yeah that's why you have posters all over it and pink things"

"Okay, ok! The last time I was here I was 16!"

"Come on, I need to sleep"

He crawled into the right hand side of the bed after pulling his clothes off, I was happier, I mean I was still sad but I felt better. Niall seemed to make me smile even when I didn't want too; he was the one thing that kept me going. I know all my friends were part of the reason I was feeling better but he was something else. He smiled and I smiled, I couldn't help myself, that's because you love him. I inhaled sharply; I did not just think that.

"What's wrong?"

"W-what? Nothing?"

"Why did you just gasp?"

"I didn't" I turned off the light and jumped into bed with him,

"You realise you're still in your clothes right?"