Liam Payne's Step Sister

42: More Niall...

Ellie's P.O.V

The plane lands and everyone slowly gets off. We all decide that it's about time for some food and head towards the small food court in the airport.

"So... Ellie's a YouTuber." Liam says, breaking the silence. I quickly go to push him off the bench of our table but Niall reads my mind and puts an arm around my waist so I can't move much.

"You're such a dickhead." I sigh.

"That's what I am? That's your best insult?" Liam starts to crack up.

"You guys didn't know she was? I thought you did and it was just some hobby she did in her spare time." Zayn interrupts our little fight and we both stare at him in awe.

"What!?" He innocently asks once he notices everyone is dead silent and looking at him.

"You didn't think to tell us?" Harry tries to hold back his sudden anger.

"Look guys it's really not that big a-" I start to say only to be cut off by Harry.

"You seriously thought we knew that? You idiot!" He angrily shouts.

"What the hell? I didn't do anything wrong." Zayn defends himself as he looks at me for support.

"Come here, Harry." I hold my hand out for him as I walk towards him.

He gladly accepts the gesture and follows me over to the fountain.

"What was that?" I snap.

"Oh? So now you're mad at me?" Harry tries to act innocent and blame me but I've grown too used to their stupid tricks.

"Yeah. Yeah, I am." I snap.

"You seriously need to chill, Haz." I sigh.

"Look, I know it's probably not a big deal or anything but I just like to make sure my girl isn't keeping secrets." Harry winks at me.

"You're kidding, right? First of all, I'm not 'your girl' and second, I can keep secrets if you can." I say as I step away from him.

"What's his problem?" Louis snorts.

"Couldn't squeeze it out of him. What's next?" I try to move everyone on to the next subject.

"Don't know. Do you guys just wanna go home and eat there?" Niall asks.

"Sure. But I guess you're just excited about food huh?" I giggle.

Everybody gets up and Louis walks over to bring a pouting Harry along.

Once we got back home, I threw my stuff on the floor and flopped down on to my bed.

I love the feeling. When you've been away from home and you just want your bed. The feeling you get when you're finally in bed.

I didn't care what time it was. I was jet-lagged.

As I'm close to falling asleep, I hear the door creak open and a slight chuckle. I could probably place who it came from if I was awake enough. But I was pooped. Then, I was out like a light.

The next thing I knew, Niall was laying next to me in my bed and rubbing my back.

"Morning, Princess." He smiles.

"Hey..." I grumble.

"It's just us for the whole day. I made you breakfast." Niall tries to cheer me up.

"Wake me up when September ends." I quote a song as I pull the sheets back over my head.

"I don't think so." He chuckles.

"What do you-" I'm cut off as he picks me up and slings me over his shoulder.

Once we end up in the living room, I'm thrown onto the couch.

"I'll get you for that!" I yell as I chase him around the room for a good ten minutes.

We both lay on the couch again, out of breath, and I flop down on top of Niall.

"What now?" I ask and jokingly wink.

There's a flash at the window and our heads both dart to it.

"Probably just lightning." Niall concludes once nothing happens again.

"Probably..." I doubtfully agree.

"Let's watch the gossip channel!" I happily shout, knowing it would make him groan.

The boys have always had this thing against the gossip channel. It lowers their self-esteem.

"Does Niall Horan have a new girlfriend? We just received proof there might be a new 1D girlfriend. Let's take a look." A well-dressed, middle aged woman says.

Suddenly, a few pictures of our recent trip to New York and LA show up.

"Ha! They think we're dating?" I snicker.

Then, a picture of me on top of Niall on our couch shows up, with the caption: Getting cozy!

"Niall!" I groan.

"Guess it wasn't lightning." He chuckles.

"This is stupid. They're stupid."

And to make matters worse, the picture of Niall and I kissing from Tumblr shows up.

"Why do people have to like you?" I sigh.

                            ~*~

"What did you even do so that they would let you stay home?" I ask.

"Said I was on voice rest. They went to some stupid all-day interview." He explains.

"Ellie?" He suddenly asks in a different, confident voice.

"Yeah?" I answer in a timid voice. I tried to sound confident...

"Can we go somewhere? Like the little river down by the beach? The one that runs into it?" Niall asks.

"Uh... Sure. Why not? Let's go." I agree.