This Love (Niall fanfiction)

chapter 49

~A/N~

On a positive note, this book is almost to 1,000 reads :))

Cleo's P.O.V -

I ruined the morning with Niall. Well at least I feel like I did. The car ride home was quiet on my behalf. Niall just sat there driving going on and on about how bitchy the waitress was. I look at the clock and it read 10:47. We still had the whole day ahead of us.

"Cleo, you alright? You're not saying much." Niall says looking over at me. I didn't even realize he was still rambling on. I tuned him out until he had said something to me.

"O-oh, um, yeah. I'm fine." I lied. I. turned my vision back to the road. We had a ways to go before getting home. Only about twenty more minutes.

"Don't lie to me." He says sternly.

"I'm not." I say, tucking my now short hair behind my ear. I look down at the ground to avoid Niall's eye contact that was burning into the side of my face.

"Cleo, don't lie to me! I hate whenever people lie!" Niall says making me squeeze my eyes shut instead of flinching like I wanted to.

"Niall, stop yelling at me!" I turn to face him and raise my voice.

"Tell me what's wrong! You're acting weird and it's unusual for you to do that, you're hiding something!" He yells, but now facing the road. I don't usually feel the urge to just say everything that's on my mind, but strangely I did right now.

"You wanna know what's wrong, Niall?! Fine! My uncle is a fucking physco path, I keep having to pull you into this shit even though you probably don't want to be involved with this! You probably don't even want to be involved with me! That waitress absolutely hated me! For no reason! I won't ever be as pretty or skinny as that lady! She has everything I don't. Every single thing and I have no one to talk to about what's going on!" I sob while screaming. "I can't talk to you about it! I just!-" I cut myself off while Niall pulls into the driveway.

"You just what?!-" Niall parks the car and reaches over to me, trying to hug me.

"I JUST WANT MY PARENTS BACK!" I shove Niall off of me and climb out of the car. I slam the door only to hear another one afterwards. I don't have the keys to the house because they're latched onto the same chain as the car keys, which were lingering in Niall's hands.

I start to run towards the street and hear footsteps pounding on the cement behind me. "Just leave me alone!" I yell still running. I can hear Niall catching up to me. I just cry while I run. I receive odd looks from people in the town because it's early in the morning and I'm like this.

I keep replaying the phone call I got informing me that my parents had died. I can hear the man's voice playing over in my head and I just cry even harder. I can feel my face getting beat red from me crying, but I don't care. My arms come up to harshly wipe the tears that are falling down nonstop.

"CLEO, STOP!" I hear Niall hot on my heals. I knew he could outrun me, but surprisingly he wasn't this time. I needed to run off my anger. My thinking slows down my legs without me even noticing.

***flashback****

"Hello?"

"Hi, can I help you?" I answer the phone in a groggy voice because it's 2:17 in the morning.

"Is there a Cleo available?" The man with an American accent says seriously.

"I am Cleo..." I say confused.

"Well, sorry to interrupt your sleeping this early, but I work for the 'Sail Away' cruise. Earlier yesterday fifty passengers went scuba-diving and ten of them swam far down and the oxygen tank burst leading to death. I'm sorry to inform you, but-"

No. No.

No.

I immediately start crying because I was afraid of what he could say next.

"-your parents were... part of the ten. I'm terribly sorry."

The phone hits the ground and I stare off into space, hoping I'm dreaming. My tears stop. Everything stops. My world had came crashing down. I start angrily sobbing throwing anything that was in my sight. I broke everything I could. 'Why not me?' I thought to myself for the rest of the night and about two weeks later. That's how long I went without sleep.

I was an emotional wreck.

***end of flashback***

I'm still running, but I'm getting tired. My wrist gets tugged by a large hand and I'm whipped around to face Niall. His face is red from chasing me and he's out of breath. Niall brings me into his chest and tightly hugs me. I let out the rest of my tears while he shushes me.

"It's okay, Cleo. It's okay." He says shushing me. I can hear him sniff. I fist the back of his shirt while I keep replaying the horrific memory in my head.

"I-its not fair!" I muffle cries into Niall.

"I know, princess." He says kissing the top of my head, while rubbing my back. I bury my face into Niall's shirt and squeeze him.

"You're not going to lose me, Cleo." he assures me. "I'm right here."

After calming down a bit we walk back towards the flat. Niall comforts me the entire time while we walk. He holds me close to his chest. Niall pulls out the house keys and sticks them in the lock. Once we're inside, Niall starts making a homemade breakfast. He leaves the food out and comes over to me. I'm sitting on a stool with my head resting on my crisscrossed arms that were leaning on the counter.

"I'm right here if you ever need anything." He says hugging me from behind. I sit up and twist my chair around to face him.

"I just don't want to lose anyone else." I said looking at him in his frosty blue eyes.

"I'm not going anywhere, Cleo. I promise." He says kissing me on my forehead, my nose, then going down to my lips.