This Love (Niall fanfiction)

chapter 42

Cleo's P.O.V -

"Niall, I'm allergic to tomatoes." I inform him. 

It slipped my mind to tell him while he was ordering. His mouth was agape and I could tell he was starting to panic. He presses on the gas petal harder, making us go way higher than the legal speed limit. I can feel my airway closing up and it gets hard to breathe. 

I put my hand over my throat and start gesturing out of the window, pointing at an emergency room that was in sight. Niall sees my action and moves over two lanes to the right, getting ready to turn in the parking lot. I start gasping for air. Memories of my parents float back to the front of my mind. I start to think about this is how they must have felt whenever they were drowning. 

Helpless.

I can't do anything about the situtation right now. 

"We're almost there." Niall says rubbing his hand on my thigh trying to calm me down. I think he was attempting to calm himself down as well because he seemed pretty nervous. He didn't know I was allergic to tomatoes.

I pull down the mirror in the car and look at myself. I look bloody awful. Red bumps are surrounding the outside of my mouth. They itched horribly, but I didn't want to scratch them because then they'd become permanant to my face.

"Here." Niall says quickly grabbing the keys out of the ignition. Niall comes around to myside to open the door, but I'm already out. He holds my hand and starts to run. I'm suprised I can keep up with him because of how fast he's going.

We get inside the building and run up to the counter. Niall starts banging his hand against the granite counter tops trying to get the lady's attention. She's on the phone, but Niall doesn't care. I can't even speak anymore. I start to gasp loudly struggling for air and start coughing uncontrollably. 

The lady at the front desk hangs up the phone and bends over the counter top so see me underneath it. I'm too dizzy to stand, so I end up losing my balance and crouch down. Niall looks down at me and picks me up. 

Someone comes around the corner with a long white bed on wheels and Niall sets me down gently on the bed. 

"Sir, you have to stay over here. I'm sorry." the people dressed in their nursing outfits usher Niall away and he obeys them. Niall runs over to me and kisses me on my forehead twice. 

"I love you, Cleo." All I can do is nod in response because I can't get any words out. 

They take me away and into a room with a bunch of bright lights. The room was very dim, but bright lights filled my mind and they faded away leading to me passing out.

Niall's P.O.V -

It's been an hour since the nurses took Cleo. I was sitting down in an open area by myself. I put my face in my hands and bend over.

I think back to how happy Cleo was before she discovered the tomatoes in her food. I never knew she was allergic to tomatoes. I didn't even know she was allergic to anything.

Whenever she eats I don't really analyze the ingredients that it contains. This was my first time even being in this kind of situtation. 

My sister, Millie, was allergic to peanut butter. Once we found out that she was allergic, we never bought anything with peanut butter just to stay on the safe side. Millie never had an allergic reaction.

She doesn't have to worry about what food contains peanut butter anymore because she's no longer breathing..

Thinking about my sister made my eyes water leading me off to crying. It made me think about Cleo. I don't know what I would do if Cleo died. I wouldn't be able to live with myself knowing that it would be my fault. I caused this. This is my fault. 

"Sir, you can come see her now." The nurse says to me. I wipe away my tears, so that no one could tell I had been crying.

I walk into Cleo's room and see her wide awake and smiling at me. 

"Why are you crying?" Cleo asks me. I come closer to her and snake my arms around her back and begin to hug her tightly. She hugs me back with the same amount of force and pulls back. 

"I'm not going anywhere, Niall." She says wiping my eyes. "I'm alive because of you..well, and the doctors." she says smiling and running her hands through my hair. 

"No, you're in here because of me." I sit on the side of the bed.

"Niall, this isn't your fault. It's mine. I should've told you." 

"Well, all that matter's now is that you're fine." I say pressing my lips to hers. I didn't want her lips to leave mine, but the doctor came in and told me to sign some forms in order to have Cleo check out of the hospital. 

Whenever I was finished filling out the papers, I go back into Cleo's hospital room and she's already dressed. 

We got back into the car and she turns on the radio and starts singing as if nothing had happened. 

"Niall."

"What?" I say facing her looking into her brown eyes, then back at the road. 

"Thanks." 

"You're welcome." I can feel her leaning over and I face her and make our lips touch. She rests her head on my shoulder and rubs my leg with her hand. It was soothing until she started moving her touch higher up my leg. 

Cleo's P.O.V -

I rub Niall's leg with my hand and inch my way up. I can tell his breathing is picking up and it's quite amusing. 

"I love you, Niall." I say smiling up at him.

"I love you too ." He says looking down at me and presses his lips against mine. "Now stop teasing me."