Live (Niall Horan Fanfiction)

The Stop

Freya's POV

It's been two days since I first met the boys. In that time, I'd grown extremely close to Liam and Timmy - in very different ways of course. Liam and I had had a few moments.

I loved to see how close Niall was to Eva and I could see he would go to lengths to protect her. Harry and Louis had filled me in about Niall and Eva's relationship and how they'd grown to each other etc. I thought it was sweet!

We had managed to sleep at different hotels both nights so we were lucky. I'd slept in a room with Liam and Harry, Louis had been with Timmy, and Eva and Niall had slept together...in the same room.

Although, Eva filled me in with the bare details of their nights together and from what I'd heard they had cuddled and kissed but they had not yet done the dirty - much to my dismay! Apparently Eva wasn't ready to go through with something so physical and she was still a virgin and she wanted to get it right.

It was Eva's turn to drive so she was in the drivers seat, I was in the passenger seat and everyone else was in the back all sleeping on top of each other.

"Aw don't they look adorable"! I pointed out and Eva looked in the rear view mirror and tutted.

"They should all be on alert"! She joked and we both giggled.

"It's Tim's birthday tomorrow" I mentioned after the laughter had died down. I checked the back to see Tim had fallen asleep on top of Harry's lap.

"Yeah, have you talked to any of the boys about it"? Eva asked me and I shook my head. I sat and fiddled with my zip for a few minutes.

"There's gotta be something we can do for him Eva." I said and she sighed.

"I wish there was but we can't go off route. We need to get to our destination as fast as we can - we've done enough messing around up until now so let's just get there."

"Well then there has to be something en-route, wouldn't you think"? I took the map out of the glovebox and spread it out across my knees. "So we are..." I trailed off. I was never good at map work in school.

"There." Eva pointed. "That's where we are going to and that's the road we are taking." Her finger trailed along the map all the way up to the defence base we were headed to.

I looked up and down the road but could see nothing. "Dammit. There's gotta be something"!

Then I saw it. A children's entertainment centre - only a couple of miles off of the road we were taking.

"I found an entertainment centre"! I exclaimed.

"Great! How far away are we"?

"I think we'll just about mange to get there by morning but that's only if we drive through the night."

"Well that can be arranged if we all do our fair share and go in shifts." Eva chirped.

"There's a catch."

"There always is with you" Eva rolled her eyes.

"It's a few miles off the road."

"Freya! I said not away from the road, didn't I"?

"I know, I know but it's the only interesting place"!

"But you know we have to be careful with our petrol." Eva argued.

I checked the map again and tapped it. "There's a petrol station a few miles before and after being there."

Eva paused for thought.

"Come on Eva! Timmy would love it, it's his birthday for Gods sakes - he's gonna be eight"! I reasoned.

"Fine. I give in. You can be really annoying sometimes, you know that don't you"?

"If I wasn't we wouldn't be as close as we are now"! I grinned and kissed her cheek.

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Niall's POV

"Eva? Are you still awake"? I asked into the darkness.

Harry was driving now and everyone else was asleep in the back. Eva and I were in the very back just in front of the boot. We had removed the separator so we could stretch our legs out into the boot so we weren't squashed in the night when we were trying to sleep.

I didn't care for sleeping in a car as I can sometimes get a little claustrophobic. Eva knew that so stayed away from me when sleeping in the car. But in the hotels she snuggled up to me fine.

"No" she mumbled and I snickered.

"Then who said that"?

"Eva's fairy godmother who will kick you in the shin if you wake her up"!

"Sure, sure" I tried to reach over but felt Eva's ankle hit my shin. I cried out, I wasn't in any pain really but it was a shock.

"Told you" I heard her mutter.

She then rolled over and huffed "what is it"?

"I just can't sleep."

"Well I could"!

"I know, I'm sorry."

"I'm joking Niall! Oh I forgot to ask you for your phone number."

She unlocked her phone and held it out to me. I typed in my name and entered the Irish flag emoji next to it.

Eva laughed as I passed it back to her.

"I need your number now." I said and she entered her details into my phone.

"I notice you've put the British flag next to yours. Nice touch"!

"It is where I'm from." Eva commented.

"Exactly. Be proud of your birthplace"!

We both lay in silence for a while. I had hold of her hand and was stroking my thumb against it.

"Timmy's eighth birthday tomorrow." Eva mentioned.

"Oh God, yeah! What's happening"? I had almost completely forgotten about it and I wondered if anyone had even thought of what to do. Poor kid.

"We are going to this entertainment centre in the morning. It's just a place where hopefully we can just relax. There might be a bowling alley and if we can get it up and running then I think we'll spend most of the time doing that." Eva explained as I listened intently.

"OK, well we better get some sleep then"! I suggested and Eva leaned in to kiss my lips.

"Night" she smiled.

"Night"