This Love (Niall fanfiction)

chapter 48

Cleo's P.O.V -

The brightness from the sun came through the windows and woke me up. I sat up on the floor, seeing a lamp next to me. My head felt like someone was hammering the sides of it. I squeeze my eyes shut in pain and reopen them to look around for Niall.

I moved my head around to look for him because I didn't feel like getting up. I don't see Niall in the bed.

"Good morning, princess." Niall said coming into the bedroom. "-here take these." He handed me two tablets, I guess to sooth my hangover, and a glass of water.

"Thanks." I say, taking the two pills.

"Want to go get something to eat?" Niall says helping me up from the carpet.

"Yeah, I'm starving." I say walking into the bathroom. I shut the door and run the water. I pick up my toothbrush and begin to brush my teeth. There's a bottle of alcohol sitting on the counter. I stare at it for a while and remember what happened last night. Whenever I think about my uncle it just disgusts me. How can someone be so nonchalant about the fact that they want to be with their niece.

I wash my face and come out of the bathroom. I leave out of the bathroom and see Niall waiting on the bed, watching television. I reach into my drawers and pull out a pair of workout shorts, even though I had zero intentions of going to workout. They were loose and a lime green color. I just ended up throwing on a white v neck with the shorts.

I go into the closet to try and find my vans but I don't see them. 'Maybe they're in the room' I thought to myself. I go back out and don't see Niall nor my shoes.

"Are you almost ready? I'm hungry." I hear a voice from downstairs that belonged to Niall. I get down the steps to see Niall standing by the door with my shoes.

I try not to think about my hair not being long anymore while I move around.

"I was looking for these." I say walking up to him and taking my shoes.

After I put them on, we go outside to the side of the house and get into the black Range Rover. We drive out of the driveway and get on the road. Niall pulls into the parking lot and gets out. I look around and see the words "Ihop" written in bold letters. We intertwine our fingers walking the entire time until we're seated.

"Hi, my name is Kelsey and I'll be your server today." The blonde waitress says to Niall. She doesn't even acknowledge me. Her hair is blonde, long, and wavy. She looks like one of those fit models from a catalogue. "What would you like to drink today?" Her eyesight was still pinned on Niall. I wasn't too fond of her, especially whenever she pushed her arms together to show more cleavage.

Niall stayed looking everywhere except at Kelsey. "Ladies first." He says looking at me.

"Um, I'll take lemonade." I say looking back up at her.

"I'll take a soda." Niall says looking up at her only to hand her the beverage menus back. Kelsey takes them and leaves. My eyes follow her, not in an attracted way, but just looking at how skinny and pretty she was.

"Cleo, stop." Niall says with his menu still blocking his face. He pulls it down just so I can see his eyes, then returns it to it's original height.

"I'm not doing anything." I say sliding down further into the booth.

He puts the menu down flat on the table and his frosty blue eyes stare straight into mine.

"You're beautiful. Stop comparing yourself to her. She's too damn little. She should be eating here instead of working here." I knew he said that only to try and get me to laugh, which it did. Kelsey comes back over with our drinks on a tray and slides Niall's drink across the table. I sit there and talk to Niall while I wait for her to out my drink down.

She places my drink down and takes down our orders. Niall orders half a dozen chocolate chip pancakes with bacon on the side. I order a dozen caramel pancakes with I side of blueberries.

"I'll be right out with your orders, sir." Kelsey says directly to Niall. She stares at me and squints her eyes in a smirk. Niall didn't even see her because he was on his iPhone.

"What?" Niall says grinning at me.

"Nothing." I say fake smiling. I don't understand why the waitress didn't like me.

Kelsey comes back with the food on a tray and hands Niall his. She reaches over and hands me mine but drops it.

"I am so sorry! It was an accident!" She urgently says. I gasp at the hot caramel that was seeping through my shorts. It got onto my legs, but mainly my shorts.

"Just leave!" Niall says handing me paper napkins.

"Hot, hot, hot, hot!" I whisper scream wiping the caramel off of legs.

Kelsey leaves and comes back with more napkins.

"Again, I am really sorry!" She says smiling.

"No, you're not." Niall says bluntly. Niall comes around and sits next to me trying to help me.

"Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm just kind of ready to leave. You can finish eating though." I tell him. I wasn't comfortable with eating the food, knowing the waitress didn't like me. She wanted Niall.

"Let's go." Niall commands. He slides out of the booth and connects our fingers together. He throws a fifty dollar bill on the table and leaves. I can't tell if he's happy or sad. I feel like I owe him something, since I am the one who ruined our breakfast outing.