Luck of the Irish

Welcome to New York

Amanda: "Why in the world would she send me on a scavenger hunt?" I asked my mom. "Honey, I don't know. Why don't you ask her?" "I've already called her. It just goes straight to voicemail." I called my mom to try and calm myself. "Then just go along with it. You just have to go with the flow sometimes." She always says stuff like that. "Okay mom." I said with a sigh.

Once I hung up, the doorbell rang. I walked to the door. "DAD?!?!!!?!!!!!" I yelled. I hadn't seen him since I was a freshman in high school. He got moved around some. He is in the Army and my mom wanted me and my brothers to have a normal life... so we stayed behind. I ran into his body like a train making us go a few inches backwards. "Hey puddin pop!" I was so glad to see my dad. I hadn't seen him in almost 9 years.

"Why are you here? I mean I'm glad you're here but why?" I hadn't seen him since I was 14 and he just shows up at my doorstep? That's not my dad. He tells you he's coming then shows up an hour early. "What's going on?" I was a little nervous considering that he didn't call me a week ago. "Can I come in?" He asked. "Yea. Of course." We sat down on the couch. "What's up?" I asked. "So you know how I've been traveling for the last 8 years and how your mother and I split up 5 years ago?" He asked. I nodded. "Well I've met another woman. She lives in France and we are getting married..." Woah woah woah! MY DAD IS GETTING MARRIED! "And since I knew you wanted to study architecture and design... I thought that you might want to come and live with us. In France..." I was shocked. "I...I... I don't know. I would love to. Of course. But I can't just leave Sarah and Tom. What about Sam and Niall?" I rubbed my eyes. "Excuse me? Sam and Niall? Those sound like boy names." Not the time for over protective father at the moment. "That's because they are. I mean Sam is a good guy and all.. but I don't know. And then there is Niall. Who is the most amazing person in the world... but I can't tell him that now that I already told Harry that I wanted to forget about him."

My dad looked confused. "How about this... you get things straightened out in your head and you call me." I nodded. He kissed me on the head and left. "What am I going to do? UUUGGGGGHHHHH!!!!" I flopped on my bed and took a nap.

When I woke up my phone was ringing. "Hello?" "Hey Amanda! It's me Harry. I need to talk to you and when I knocked nobody came." He sounded very overwhelmed. I hung up on him and let him in. "What's up?" "It's Niall. He-he is gone. We can't find him anywhere!" My head started to spin. "What. Oh my gosh! Ugh. I can't deal with too many things right now Harry!!!" I screamed and yelled at him as he sat there innocently staring up at me. "WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU TELL ME HE IS MISSING!!!!! I DON'T THINK I COULD HANDLE GETTING HURT BY A LOSS AGAIN!! I CAN'T HANDLE LOSING SOMEONE I LOVE!!" Then all of a sudden, I realized what I said. "I can't handle not having him in my life. As much as it hurt to hear that he didn't love me... I still do love him. When I went on that date with Sam... Niall was the one I was thinking about." Then it all made since, he let me walk out of that mall because he wanted me to be happy... even if that meant I was with out him. "Oh my gosh. What have I done!?!?" I grabbed my purse and ran towards the stairs. The elevator would take too long.

    "Wait!!! Amanda, I just got a text from Lou..." I stopped in my tracks. Niall told me that Louis doesn't text unless if something serious just happened. He does that so you don't hear him crying. I didn't want to ask but I did,"W-what did it say?" I felt the tears in my eyes start to build up. "He" he stopped him self,"I can't tell you." I stomped up to him and looked straight in his eyes," HAROLD EDWARD STYLES!!! TELL ME WHAT THAT TEXT SAID RIGHT NOW!!!" "H-he is in the hospital..."

     My life flashed before my eyes. My pupils went big. I ran out of that apartment building and sprinted to the hospital. I ran all the way up to the front desk. "I need to see Niall Horan right now." The lady had a blonde pixie cut and wore some glasses. Her nails were a bright red. She looked like a librarian to be honest. "Ma'am please calm down." "HOW CAN I CALM DOWN!!! I told him that me meeting him was a disaster and now he is about to freaking die!! Linda, can I call you Linda, I need to see him right now. You have to understand what it's like being 22 and you love someone so much... but you made the worst decision in the world... you have to understand me." I looked at her with desperation. "Honey, you're the 100th girl who had asked to go see him, go join the club." I looked over at the girls with flowers and balloons waiting to go see Niall.

   Then I felt Harry's hand on my shoulder. He was out of breath from running. "She is with me. Trust me, she's telling the truth. I smiled at him. "Thank you." I mouthed. He winked as he got flooded with a bunch of tween girls. "Go. I'll save myself. I chuckled as I ran to the elevator. I ran out like a bullet. I saw Liam outside the room that Niall was in. "Let 'em rest. He needs it." "I have to tell him something even if he is asleep, I have to tell him." He nodded and opened the door.

   I gasped at the sight of him. He had a black eye, his arms and legs were all bloody, and he had bruises all over his face. I almost cried but then Liam came in, "You don't need to see him like this. It's not good for you." I stopped him. "I'm never leaving his side until he gets out." He shook his head. "There really is no stopping you. He always talks about how kind and beautiful you are. How your hair always smells like watermelon. How he was so stupid for everything he did that made you feel regret. He is in love with you. He is. I mean your hair smells like food... how can he NOT love you." I chuckled.

   He left once he saw my smile. I turned to face Niall. "Niall, I know you're asleep but this still needs to be said... I-I lo-" a random girl around my age stumbled into the room. "Omg! Is he okay?" "I'm sorry, who are you? His cousin?" I was so confused. I knew he didn't have a sister. "No, silly. I'm the girl he was meeting for dinner... then this happened." "Wait going to dinner.. like for a celebration?" She was confused now, "No. Like on a date." My heart collapsed in my chest. "D-date?" She nodded. "Ex-excuse me." I ran out of the room.

    My eyes started to burn. Then I started to cry, not tears falling down crying. Like sobbing. My heart had been ripped out of my chest. Liam ran after me and he knew me to the point were I would just run into the bathroom and slide down the door. He did the same on the other side. "Hey." He said sheepishly. I didn't respond. "I saw you run out of the room. I came to check on you." "I'M FINE!!" I screamed although you could barely make out the words from my balling. "Can you please come out." "NO!" I didn't want to scream at him, but I couldn't help it. I was mad or was I sad... I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW I FEEL!

    We sat there in silence for a few minutes. "If you aren't coming out... I'm going in." Then he pushed the door against my force to try and stop him. He slid down next to me. I wiped under my eyes. "I'm fine Liam. I'm not the one who just got hit by a car." He stared at me. "But you feel like you just did." He said simply. "Harry told me what happened. We didn't know about the girl. This isn't some kind of sick trap... he wouldn't do that to you." "WELL THEN YOU TELL ME WHY I WASN'T THE ONE WHO CAME RUNNING IN TO SEE MY DATE!!! WHY I WASN'T THE ONE HE ASKED TO DATE!!! WHY I WAS SOOOO STUPID TO THINK THAT MAYBE I WASN'T STUPID!!! Why I fell in love with him... I'm going home."

   He let me go,"Amanda, don't please don't beat yourself for this. Do you want a hug?" Before he even said another word, I ran into his body knocking us on the floor as I hugged him. I made his shirt wet from all my tears. He didn't even care that his hand was scratched up from the fall. We hugged. I never wanted to let go. But I did,"Thanks, I needed that Liam." He nodded. "I can walk you home if you want." "No I'm fine."

  I walked out the hospital. My phone rand I tried to find it out of my purse. Then... all around me went black as I saw Niall and in the mist of that vision I saw a car coming straight for me. And all went black. All sound stopped. Except for one thing.. Niall. And then he was gone too.

    

              No a/n this time!!