Remember

Chapter 22

~ Arianna's POV ~

Last night terrified me. Zayn had turned different all of a sudden just because a man had robbed me of my bag. It didn't matter anyway though, because the most important thing that was in that bag was already gone. My wallet. Filled with $600 worth of cash that I had earned that same night. Working my butt off each day of the last month, and now it was gone. All gone and stolen, leaving me broke, with nothing to pay the rent with for my apartment. I still had at least a hundred bucks left from last month, but that won't last long enough for my next paycheck. What was I going to do for food after that? I won't have any money to pay my landlord this month either, and that man isn't very easy going, he might even kick me out.

This left me in such a mess. Everything has been such a mess ever since Niall left. I wish he would come back. It's been almost 2 weeks now that he had been gone. Another week and it'll be a month.

Hasn't it been long enough yet?

It's felt like a year for me. I missed him, even more now that I did before. I missed his smile that would send me fluttering in a world of butterflies. His big, blue ocean eyes that always made me swim in them.

I can't believe I'm doing this to myself. I said I was going to stop thinking about Niall but now I've been catching myself with him in my mind more than when he was actually living with me.

But when I thought about Niall, Zayn would show up, in that scene last night when he wasn't furious and scary. I can still remember his expression on that ferris wheel. He was happy, free of worry, and smiling because we had an amazingly, fun night together.

Zayn has been taking me out almost every night for a while, and I knew exactly why he was doing it. He was trying to make me forget about Niall, because he didn't want me to return to the gloomy girl who stayed in her apartment wasting her life away.

And I appreciated him for that. He helped me when I really needed him the most. I told myself that I was going to try and help him too, but I couldn't. Not when most of the time all he was focused on was me. Always being nice to me and buying things for me and making me laugh.

How could I repay that? And what I've always wondered, why was he doing these things for me? Why me? What did I do to deserve him like I do?

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~ Niall's POV ~

Soft couch. Black telly with the news. The sun creeping in through the window curtains. Greg talking on the phone. Amy vacuuming the house, or cleaning off dust. Same routine every day. Me just sitting, watching the television, letting it kill my brain day by day.

Everything was I guess what you would say normal now. We all had a routine when we woke up and ate and wasted the day away and went to bed and that was it. Nothing special. Not with these people anyway.

After that day we all had visited that one "professional" doctor, everyone calmed down about my situation. Parents returned back to their own house, and Amy didn't push me anymore to remember her. I guess they thought there was no need in trying since the doctor told them I would be okay, and that everything will come back to me soon enough.

Which, they weren't. But only I knew this.

My plan was working. It's almost been a month now, and when another week passes, I was going to break the question and leave.

Everyday I would imagine the scene where I would be running back to Arianna's apartment and seeing her expression as I ran up her steps, pulling her into my arms and feeling her embrace once again. She would cry into my shoulder and say,

"Niall, you've come back! I knew you would!" She'd say, and she would leave big, soft kisses on my lips.

If only it could happen now. I wonder what she has been doing without me there beside her. Before I was there she would be all alone, but was she alone now? I always wondered if she went back to the one boy in that picture and replaced me with him. But she wouldn't do that. She loved me too much, and she wasn't that kind of a person. Just thinking about it made me want to run away and hurry before anyone else takes her away from me.