Left Alone To Cry.

Chapter 24: Pay the cost

WARNING: Bad language.

 

NIALL'S POV

Sam just dropped me at the hotel room and now I'm alone in the room.

It's 11pm but I don't feel like sleeping. I've slept all way long from Mullingar to London anyway so I'm not really tired. 

I want to walk in London's streets and just enjoy the fact that I'm back. I love Ireland a lot, but oh, how I missed England! 

So I grab the key of the room, put my coat on and get out. 

Outside, the night is cold and windy. But it feels so good. So good. I just want to jump everywhere and scream to the world that I'm back, that One Direction will be soon reunited once again! 

So I start to walk. I think I might look way too excited, because the few people that are still walking in the streets at that hour are looking at me with strange looks. I don't care.

Beautiful lights. Amazing weather. I feel almost new.

I walk in front of a few restaurants that make me smile like a dork. So much memories filling up my mind. 

One of these restaurants is where the boys used to take me every Sunday evening before we were so famous. We'd laugh until our throats burn and talk until night was there. It was great times...

I can almost see us five walk in the same street as I am right now, months ago, before I was taken away from them unfairly... I didn't realize until now how I miss the boys...

My smile slowly turns into few tears. 

As I keep walking with my hands in my pocket, the wind blowing against my face, I have an idea.

I could go see my house? I heard it was empty and everything.

"I want to see what they did to my house..."

I turn around, and start walking in the opposite way. 

My legs seem way more motivated than usual. I don't know why, I'm eager to run. I have to run. 

My feet start to move faster and faster. And I'm running. The wind whistles on my face but it feels good.

I haven't felt so alive since a very long time. 

To know you're closer to where you want to go, to find your smile back, to feel your body wanting to go further away, you want...

I swear, I'm alive.

After a few minutes of running, I'm in the good street.

I slow down my running a bit, getting out of breath, and I stare at the addresses of the houses.