This Love (Niall fanfiction)

chapter 18

Cleo's P.O.V -

Macie takes off her facial mask resulting to us all touching and rubbing her face saying how soft it is.

"Let's watch The Exorcist!" Diana suggests.

"Yeah, I don't mind staying." Niall says looking over at me and I nudge him with my elbow. I wanted him to have a movie night with us, but not to watch this movie.

"Can't we watch something non-scary-ish?" I suggest, rubbing my arm with my hand.

"I love scary movies." Macie says, grabbing the movie.

Before we begin the movie I go upstairs to take a shower, wash my hair, and shave. I change into long sleeve pajama bottoms and a matching long sleeve top. I don't want to sit in the same dress with the same underwear on, so I had to shower with my own strawberry shower gel.

"I don't like scary movies." Lana blurts out. I agree with her. I'm terrified of scary movies, but I didn't want to let anyone know that, or else they'll just tease me about it. They turn the movie on and as soon as Diana clicks the light switch off, Lana gets up and comes back with at least ten blankets.

I sit across from Niall, he's sitting in the recliner..made for one person.

"Go sit next to him! I want to sit here." She winks and my cheeks turn red as I move in the same chair as him. His hands go on my waist to move me back on his lap and he scoots over so I have enough space to lean backwards.

"You smell good." I feel him bend his face in my neck sniffing which makes flinch away, almost falling out of the chair.

"I wasn't going to pull a move on you, Cleo. I was just complimenting you." He chuckles softly and kisses my shoulder and I tense up.

"Stop." I grit, shoving his chest with a serious look.

Lana tosses one at Macie and she catches it. Then she threw one at Diana but it landed on her hair.

"My hair is ruined." Diana says glaring at Lana.

"It's fine." Lana says. She always spent the longest getting ready in the mornings to perfect her makeup. She never realizes how pretty she is, but her boyfriend Logan tells her almost every hour of the day.

Niall throws his arm around my shoulder sliding it down to my waist while we sit on the couch and I look at him, but he doesn't say anything, he just pinches me and I make an odd noise that sounded like a cow and a squeal, jumping up slightly. Lana dumps a big blanket on us and goes back to a different couch.

"Don't do anything dirty over there." Macie points at us across the room. The lights are out, but I can still see her dropping her right eye into numerous winks at me and Niall. I blush, shoving  my face in my hands in embarrassment. I pull my knees up to my chest just in case anything pops up I can casually slide down and block the view of the television.

"Why do you have seven blankets?" Diana asks Lana.

"I told you guys I don't like scary movies." Macie is still laughing at her comment that was towards Niall and I.

"It's on, hush." Diana says over all of our voices.

I hear Lana whine a little bit once Diana said it was on. The name of the movie pops up across the screen making me clench the blanket a little.

We're halfway through the movie and I have been flinching the entire time. I can almost tell something is about to pop up. The music is lowering with a deep piano playing in the background. I slowly try to slide down, but Niall slides me back up "It's just a movie." He whispers to me.

I can't take anymore of the anxiety of waiting for the scary part to pop up. I know it's about to pop up. I just don't know when. This is why I hate these kind of movies. Niall grabs my waist, bringing me closer to him.

"Stop trying to feel me up." I hit his leg and he sighs annoyingly.

"Cleo, I am not trying to feel you up! You're scared of the movie, so I was just-- nevermind. I'll move my hand to make you comfortable." He scoots over as much as he can to give me more space to myself, keeping his hands in his lap. Occasionally texting.

I didn't mean to snap at him like that.

Macie is close to the screen sitting close to Diana. They love scary movies. They turn up the television on the highest setting, making me jump slightly. I wasn't expecting the television volume to go up.

Niall snickers at me and I roll my eyes at him.

"Turn it down!" I cover my ears. If it was going to be turned all the way up, it'd seem more scarier. The volume had lowered slightly and the piano in the background had deepened. The woman is opening a door slowly. Suddenly, something quickly crawls from underneath the bed, popping up at the screen.

I scream involuntarily, throwing the blanket over my head and hiding in Niall's chest.

"Oh fuck no. I'm done with scary movies. Goodnight." Lana threw the covers on top of her head and fell over on the couch. Everyone laughs and I come from under the blanket and see her, making me laugh along with everyone.

"Okay, okay the movie is still on." Diana says. I put the blanket back over my head and go back into Niall's chest.

"It's not a real movie, Cleo." He whispers slightly laughing in my ear. I came from behind his shoulder to lean in front of his chest.

"Stop trying to feel me up." Niall mocks.

"I don't care." I mumble underneath the blanket. "I'm barely touching you." I glance up at him.

"Exactly." He has a point.. I guess.

"No, you kept moving me closer to you. I'm not moving you."

"Cleo, you're moving yourself onto me. You've crawled your way into my lap if you have not noticed." I scoot over and watch the movie under the blanket.

He tries to remove the blanket off of my head, but I start swatting his hands away.

"What are you doing under here?" I see Niall's face above me.

"Not feeling you up.." The blanket shields my eyes, giving some sense of security. It's not a real movie. It can't be. It'd just be better to have a reminder that this is just a movie, that's why I liked leaning on Niall because he's there reminding me it isn't real and touching him let's me know that I'm not in the horror movie. I'm actually with someone.