Shattered [Niall Horan]

Chapter 25

Chapter 25

// Niall

Gravity pulls you downwards. But it felt as though its role had been altered for me. I wasn’t just running, but gravitating almost instinctively towards where my feet were frantic to get me. Brynn’s equally hasty steps followed in behind me as I desperately dashed towards where the shriek had originated from, mind rid of each and every thought then.

My way of entering the room was a complete contrast to how I had left it, hands promptly shoving the door out of my way as I rushed in, alarm, panic and anxiety written all over my features.

“Cath!” I was quick to place myself beside her trembling body on the bed. Her hands had themselves wrapped around her propped up knees, head buried into them, preventing her face from showing.

“Cath, Cath honey you alright?” Excluding the minute bit of relief that I felt due to seeing her unhurt and the options of her having tripped or wounded herself being omitted off the list of possibilities, it was fretfulness that ruled my brain.

“Niall,” It was a couple of pleads later, that she decided to respond, her face concealing itself into the crook of my neck, as her hands wrapped tightly around me.

“Sshh, what is it darlin’? What’s wrong?” My shaky voice had been replaced by a composed one, hand rubbing itself up and down her back.

“There’s, there’s a s-spider,” She muffled into my neck, clutching me tighter.

A moment of pin-drop silence followed as I felt my jaw drop, relief and astonishment enveloping me entirely, as I took in her words.

“Are you serious now Cath?” Absolute disbelief spurted out of my tone, as I gently pried her off my arms, so she could face me. “A spider?!”

“It was so big,” She whispered in dread, eyes seeming as though they would jump out of their sockets.

A hint of laughter lined my tone, as I sighed simultaneously, shaking my head in the process. “You got me so scared,”

“I’m, I’m sorry, it was huge..” She murmured, timidly.

“It’s alright. Where is it?”

“It left through the window,” Her finger pointed towards the half open window-frame, the blinds pulled half way over it.

“I’ll shut it,” Someone voiced, and it was then that I realised Brynn was still there in the room with us. My eyes decided to follow her as she walked towards the windowpane, noticing a tiny smile etched onto her lips, displaying her amusement at Cath’s rather childish behaviour.