Say You Care Like I Do // Niall Horan

Mr. Brightside.

Wait, what? What does Niall mean by saying 'How much do I relate to the song?' I mean obviously I can relate to the song but why did he want to know.

"I just really like the song." I lie, trying to avoid eye contact, I am not good with lying. He snickers, poking into my arm, "Come on, Soph. You care about this song a little too much to simply like the it."

I close my laptop, sitting it on the desk close to me. "How about we go out for a drink, yes?" I ask, hoping to get out of this situation. Him realizing I didn't want to talk at the moment, he nods, standing up. "We can talk later." He smiles, taking the guitar as he leaves my room. I'm never good at talking over my feelings, especially when they're so stong.

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"Sophie!! Are you ready yet?" Niall calls from outside of my bedroom. "Almost!" I yell back, taking a step back in my mirror to get a last look on my outfit. I sigh, grabbing my bag and phone as I leave my room.

"Niiceee." Niall chirps, showing a huge grin. I laughed, shaking my head, "You too."

We make our way to a local pub, since it was a Saturday night, the place was pretty packed, which always freaked me out but these were Niall's types of nights. He was always wild with the smallest amount of crowds, so when a huge one came around he was even more loud and roudy.

"Yeah, buddy!" He cheers, grabbing a hold of my wrist to pull me into the pub. I guess I should be happy speaking on the reguards of Sarah not attached to his leg. As soon as we enter Niall heads straight over to the bar. Ordering pint after pint, dancing with almost every girl in the place.

When I suggested to go out for drinks I just wanted to get away from talking, not for him to make a fool of himself. I'm always the party pooper of everything, I should just let go like he is now.

"Two shots please." I order my drinks by the bar, taking the two shot glass and siting at the nearest booth. As I'm downing my second shot, I notice something in the corner of my eye. Paparazzi.

"Shit." I murmur to myself as I try to find Niall. Scanning the entire place, I look over to see him taking a shot off of some chicks belly. I stomp my feet over to the group of shit-faced people, pushing and wiggling my way into the center of group where Niall was.

"Niall!" I yell over the group of kids cheering him on, he was probably way too hammered to even comprehend but I had to help him. "Niall!" I called again, this time wrapping my hands around his arm.

"WHAT?" He screams back, it wasn't because the people or music was too loud, it was because I was ruining his 'fun.' "We have to leave now!" I try to tug on his arms but he just pulled back hard, almost pulling me in his direction.

"Why do we have to leave. We just got here!" He tries to reason, but I just grab his arm again, dragging him out of the pub. It was pretty hard considering he was completely drunk and could barely walk. The sound of booing and flashing of the cameras filled my ears as I finally made our way to his car.

We're now heading towards the flat, me driving of course due to my drunk friend. Trying to keep my head focused on the road, I couldn't help but look over to Niall to check on him. "We didn't have to leave so early." He says coldly.

"You were acting all crazy, it's okay to have a few drinks but not get drunk out of your mind. I needed to help you-"

"You know sometimes you're a real bitch." He spat, throwing his hands up to only clench his fists into his lap. I knew it was only the alcohol talking, but that definitely stung. I tried to force the tears not to fall from my eyes as I just turned backed to the road.  

"Sorry."

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Throwing my bag on the counter as we came into the flat, I knew I wanted to be alone. Drunk or not, Niall has been making it very difficult with the way he was acting. When Sarah wasn't around he was so kind and he actually cared for what I had to say but when she came around he became so one-sided, so stupid it started to piss me off. But this time Sarah had nothing to do with this, although Niall was drunk I'm pretty sure this was just him talking, finally saying what has been on his mind forever.