Taming The Untamed (Dark Niall Horan Fanfiction)

Chapter Four

Taming The Untamed - Chapter Four

Niall's P.O.V

When I saw that guy staring at Demi through the window, I couldn't help but feel my blood boil. It was like he was staring right into her soul, I recognised him. He was the guy that beat me up last night; I didn't know that he'd seen Demi help me. Actually maybe he didn't see her, and maybe he'd just seen us walk into the coffee shop and well when he came to the window, she was the closest to him. I was so scared for her though, I felt something in me that made me want to protect her, but I can't do that, I can't bring her into this life of mine. It's not safe; it's not nice, actually it's probably one of the most horrible lives to be involved in. Sometimes I hate it, but I could never go back to how I used to be.

As soon as I saw him pull that gun out a point it towards Demi, I wanted to jump up and grab her, but I couldn't. I couldn't show that I care; I could never let myself get close to someone again. I could never show her or the other guys that I actually care about someone. I just know that one of us would end up getting hurt.

Wait, why am I even thinking this? Who said she even cares about me. I heard her voice, it was loud. I didn't look up cause I didn't want her to realise I'd heard her. I know what she'd said; I heard it perfectly which was slightly surprising, because I thought I'd zoned out. "Right, just get into a line, it doesn't matter who goes first."
I didn't know what she was talking about, but part of me wanted to know. The other part of me told me it didn't matter. I knew I had to fight away anything that I thought about this girl, but yet there were so many questions that I needed to be answered.

I need to know why she helped me. Why she isn't scared of me or any of us. What she meant when she's experienced worse things than I can imagine. What are these worse things? Did someone hurt her? Is that why she's not scared because she knows we couldn't do anything worse than what's happened in her past? I needed to know, but that meant getting myself involved with her. Wait, no that meant me getting her involved with me, and well although she helped me after the incident in the alley, I didn't know what she actually thought of me.

Someone's voice pulled me out of my thoughts. "Niall?"I looked up and saw that everyone was looking at me. "What?" "Are you hurt anywhere?"I looked around to see where the voice was coming from. I realised it was Demi. "What?"She sighed before speaking. "Are you hurt anywhere? You know cuts or anything?"I shook my head. "No, I'm fine."She just nodded her head. I looked down at the ground again. I couldn't get her voice out of my head. "Are you hurt anywhere?"Those words kept replaying in my head.

It was the way she said it. It was if she wasn't just asking about me physically, it was like she was asking about me emotionally as well. Like she wanted to know what pains me the most. What hurts me the most? Yes, she was asking if I was hurt physically but something definitely told me that wasn't the only thing she was asking.

Does that mean she does care? She cares about me? Maybe she just cares about the whole of our group. I mean we've never had anyone treat us the way she does. It's like we've known her for years, when in fact it's been two days.

There was another thought that was going through my head, what did Bo say to her? I knew he was talking but I couldn't hear what he was saying. It seemed to make Demi smile though.

I don't know what's gotten into me. I've never felt like this about someone, I've always been the one that girls fall in love with. They're the ones that keep running after me, but something's telling me that at some point I'm going to have to do the running and something else is telling me that it has something to do with Demi.

I was pulled out of my thoughts by someone sitting next to me. I didn't move my gaze from the floor but from the corner of my eye I could see someone's legs. I looked up slightly and saw that it was Demi. Before I could say anything she placed her hand on my back and started talking. "What's wrong Niall? You've been really quiet." I didn't mean to get angry at her, but I just felt like it was the only way for me to make sure that I didn't let this girl get too close to me. "For fuck sake, how do you know I'm not always quiet, why do I have to tell you if there's something wrong. It's got nothing to do with you, so will you just leave me alone?" For a minute she seemed general scared at the tone of my voice, but that soon disappeared. She stood up and just looked at me for a few seconds. "You know Niall, you should probably be grateful that someone actually shows they care, or do you just have to push everyone out?"