Jet Black Heart (Ziall Horlik) AU

Epilogue

Zayn's POV

"Zayn, where the hell are you taking me?" Niall asked me with a cute giggle. Even now that we were both well into our twenties, he was still giggling like the young boy that had always been my best friend.

"It's a surprise, love bug." I told him as I continue to lead my blind fold covered boyfriend. I was taking him to a very special step into our relationship that I knew we were both ready to reach.

After Niall had told me and his dad what Chris had done to him, things for us really changed. Real smiles were a thing that were always there. Well, after Chris had been removed from the picture. He ended up in prison because there was allot of evidence on Niall's body that I didn't even want to know how it got there and his testimony was enough to put that man behind bars. His mum divorced Chris but sadly the relationship with Niall and his mum seems to be damaged farther than just a few therapy sessions could fix. But when Niall started to live with Bobby, we all saw a happy Niall.

Some things didn't change with Niall, however. He got over his thumb sucking habit after a few years of therapy. Sex was still so incredibly scary for him. I had to be flat against him and not looking anywhere but his face for him to be able to do it. But, sometimes I mess up and try new things and he freaks out on me. I don't really care about the sex though. I would be fine without it. It's just Niall that thinks he needs to give me that for me to stay. I sometimes wish he knew that him giving me his heart was enough for me to stay for life. He begin to get horrible nightmares for years and even now still wakes up screaming thinking that Chris is coming back into his life. He delt with depression and anxiety for a while. But, even then I saw he was happier than I'd ever seen him in his life.

He ended up going to uni and studied chemical engineering. We went to the same school that I studied child behavior and therapeutic art treatment for those children. I guess just dealing with Niall and seeing what being sexually abused did to him kind of gave me a reason to go into studying that. We both shared a dorm room for the first couple years at uni then moved into a small flat near campus.

We both graduated and found jobs, but I think we were both growing up and wanted a few more things in our lives. So that's what lead me the where we were at the moment.

"Okay we're here, I'm taking off the blind fold now." I warned Niall. I slipped the bandana off his eyes and waited for him to react to what was in front of him.

"Why am I looking at a house with a bow on the front door?" Niall asked me confused. I chuckled and pulled him to the front door. He laced his fingers with mine and walked closely behind me.

It was a small house that I had found in a cute little neighborhood. It had three bedrooms and two bathrooms. The kitchen was big and so was the living room. Overall it was just a nice house to begin a real life together and maybe really begin the future together.

Both of us walked around the house with Niall telling me how perfect the whole place was. He liked that we could pick furniture for the house together and he loved how there were cute little sticky notes on each door and wall that I put up telling him how much I loved him and what my favorite things were about him. By the time we got to the backyard, Niall was bright red and giggling happily. I opened the door and immediately saw my favorite part of the whole house. It was the huge oak tree that already had a good sized tree house in it.

"Oh my gosh..." Niall gasped. He took off running down the steps of the porch pulling me along. I laughed at him, but was glad that this was his reaction because this was what I wanted. He climbed up the ladder with me following him. Once we got into the tree house, Niall found a little something that he picked up and looked over.

"Let me open that for you." I chucked and took the box from his hands. His blue eyes looked at me and watch me drop down to one knee as I flipped open the little box I had placed up here. He giggled and blushed even deeper as he looked at me.

"You read all those sticky notes that tell you how I feel. I also think by now you know how much I love you. So Niall... Will you marry me?" I asked him with a huge smile on my face. Niall giggled and leaned down to kiss me deeply. My hands rest on his hips as I stood up to continue kissing him.

After I slipped the light gold band on his finger, we both sat with our feet hanging out the side of the tree house with smiles on our faces. Niall's head rest on my shoulder and our hands were laced together. This moment was perfect and made the past seem so far away. Pain seemed to be only a bittersweet memory that neither of us wanted to call back. We both just looked forward at our first home sitting in a tree house looking forward to the future. You could say we grew up, but our hearts will always be those six year old boys that were full of adventure and somehow fell in love in a tree house.

A/N: I'm so happy and sad at the same time! This is now officially over! Again. Thank you for everyone that read this and commented and voted! I love you all!

Go check out my new Ziall story called Him. It's going to be a little bit smutty so if you little horny readers what to read that go on and read it haha the prologue is up!!!

I just want to say thank you all again for being here and reading this story. If you're going forward to read my next book then I'll see you there for that roller-coaster, but if this is your final destination then it was a fun ride with you and I hope to see you soon! All the love for the best readers! Comment / Vote!
- Bri;)