Summer's barely started for the almost new couple, and they don't think it can get any better than being together. However, the reality of life is only around the corner and they never expected that keeping a relationship healthy would be this diffi...
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This can't be happening.
I must have heard Niall's parents wrong. Or they're playing with us. Or Niall's pranking me. Or anything, literally anything at all, just not this. The whole idea is crazy all in itself. There's no way his mom had said what she really said.
We want you to come here to live with us.
Her voice is ringing in my ears with the same sentence over and over again. With the constant repetition, my head is starting to spin.
I'm begging silently in my seat as I switch my perception from Niall to his parents, impatiently waiting for someone to say ha! that was just a joke! but no one does.
Instead, Niall's mom continues with, "We, um... we bought a house here, Ni. We've concluded that we're probably never coming back to America. And, just in case, we got one with an extra room. For you."
The excitement that had composed Niall all day has disappeared. Even his body is completely unmoving now, save from his shaky and jumpy behavior just minutes prior.
"I... I don't know about that." He stammers, glancing at me and holding my hand tighter.
His parents must've noticed his quick look at me. They know why he's being hesitant. I'm the one at fault, aren't I?
"Hey, it's okay." Niall's dad says. "We didn't expect you to accept right away. But think about it, it's a great opportunity. You can see a whole new country, son!"
"And there's a nice private school nearby! You'll love it." Niall's mom adds.
So this is why they acted the way they did when Niall announced me earlier. It's not that his parents didn't like me, it's that their proposal meant they were taking him away from me.
Ha, I mentally laugh inside, because now I'm actually wishing they hated me instead.
"We miss you very much," Niall's mom starts. "We're sorry for all the years we've let pass. It'd be nice to get to you know again."
I can't breathe. I swear I can't breathe, but here I am, sitting still and quiet as ever. I'm actually screaming violently in my head but I can't let them know that. Niall seems frozen himself, and I wish he'd put on an emotion so I can read what he's feeling.
Obviously, he puts on the best thing he knows to disguise how he really is inside. Something he's really good at even if it's fake: a big bright smile.
"Thanks," He says to the screen. "But I'm gonna need some time to think about that, alright? It sounds nice and all, but I have my own life here now, too. I'm not sure I can say goodbye to all of that so easily."
His mom fondly giggles and both Niall and I are taken aback. "Wow," She coos. "You really have grown up. I can't handle how much you've matured without us."
