Unexpected Turn. [h.s. & n.h.]

Chapter 2

I hopped out of the car,

"Do you need me to carry anything inside?" I asked shivering and chattering my teeth, I should have put something warmer on I thought to myself, I under estimated the weather once again. Even thought the sun was shinning it was freezing outside.

"No no, you look like your freezing. Ill grab the stuff from the back just go inside turn the heater on and set on some tea on please"

I walked up the three steps and unlocked the door; the flat smelled of Christmas and spilled beer. Wherever Niall was there was a 6 pack of beer, he even keeps his own 6 pack at mine and Harry's flat "Just in case". I adored Niall's flat, it was so homey. All the colour patterns match, which makes me have piece in mind because I can't stand when the colour patterns don't match. I was his right hand girl when he bought the flat; we redid everything and turned it into a masterpiece, well at least that was my opinion. I set on tea water and opened the fridge, lunchtime was passing by and it was almost 3pm and we haven't even starting setting up. We just spent the past 3 hours running around town with our massive shopping list, normally we are super organized and would have gotten everything a week earlier but because of work we had to do it the day of. I knew we would pull it off though. I heard the door finally close shut,

"We bought way to much crap" he said out of breath.

"God the cashier probably thought we were alcoholics or something..." I trailed off remembering my past.

Back around a two ago I was kind of a mess, well not kind of. I was a mess. Long story short, two years ago I went thought a break up I mean I've been thought a ton of break ups but this one was different for some reason. I spiraled out of control. I used to have my own apartment and if I'm remembering clearly I didn't leave it for around 3 weeks. I cut myself off from everyone; my only friend was a bottle of vodka. So far I think that was the worst path of life. And I never want to go down that road again, I met Harry a few months later though Niall and I was hooked the minute I met him, I fell quick and hard. He helped me get myself back on track and made sure I didn't relapse; now I'm doing good. More than good.

"Yeah.." Niall said quietly and awkwardly, we never talk about this point in my life so I changed the subject as quick as I could

"Okay for real, its almost three thirty. We have nothing done, we should really get going with this" I thought up a quick plan in my head "Ill start in the kitchen and you start decorating the living room. Ill make the little snacks and make room in the fridge for all the drinks okay?"

"Sound good, but I get the aux cord" he grinned

I went into the kitchen and got started; we didn't plan on cooking a huge meal or anything just some snacks to put around on the tables and such. I grabbed the bag of pretzels and the small blows we bought, Niall and I picked out a colour theme for this year, red, gold and brown. Brown wasn't my favourite colour but the colours went together and that's all that mattered. I wanted the least amount of brown so we bought the bowls in brown and really about it. We really went out all out when we went shopping. Gold and red balloons, streamers, confetti ect. I filled the bowls with the pretzels and carried them out into the living room, Niall was only around 20 minutes in but it already looked amazing, he had starting draping the streamers thought the chandler to the wall, I smiled and placed the bowls all around,

"Can you do me a favor" he said looking down at me from the ladder

"Yes of course what is it?"

"For the Champaign I have these fancy glasses with gold rims, I thought we could use them so could you go grab them?"

"The nice ones from your grandma?"

"Yes! They're in the locked cabinet but I'm assuming you have a key to it" he laughed