Royal Love - Niall Horan Fanfic

Chapter 11

Chapter 11

I walked outside and took in a deep breathe of fresh air. I decided to hunt fish in the nearby lake. I took a stick that loooked sturdy enough and took out my pocket knife that I had found at the shack. It's weird how we found that shack. I don't understand. I feel this is really weird how all of a sudden Niall knows about this little cottage and all of a sudden we 'find' a shack full if weaponry. I sharpened the stick and waited patiently fir any sign of movement in the water. It was still. Too still. I watched gazing deeply into the water.

"Hey, Scarlett!"

I jumped and turned around to find a surprised Niall behind. I looked at my hands and saw that I was about stab him.

"Don't do that, Niall! See you scared away the fish!"

"My bad," he said looking down with his hand rubbing his neck.

I returned to looking fo fish but unfortunately there were none in sight. After what felt like 10 minutes of hopelessness, I turned around to spot Niall tearing off the leaves of a branch sitting down in a tree trunk.

"Having fun over there?" I asked him smiling.

"A blast. You wanna join?" He spoke with much sarcasm in his voice.

"Don't mind if I do," I smile and sut next to him.

He was still concentrating on the leaves on the branch. I stared into the beauty that surrounded us. He glanced towards me and saw how I was mesmerized with nature's beauty and spoke.

"Beautiful isn't it?" He spoke with much desire of a beauty like this.

"It really is."

We sat there just staring into the distance. What knocked me out of my daydream was a bug that I felt was crawling on my leg. I shooed it off and spoke to Niall.

"Niall, why haven't you talked about your family. Don't you miss them?" I asked curious to know the answer.

"Uh... I kind of left my family behind."

"Why?"

"It's a long story."

"I've got time."

He sat there quietly, hesitating whether or not to tell me about his past. By the way hus face changed when I spoke if hus parents it must've been something really awful to actuallu runaway from them.

"Fine. I'll tell you. But promise me that you won't get mad. Promise me that."

Mad? Why would I get mad?

"Uh... Okay I promise."

I reached out and pinky swore to him that I wouldn't get mad. I don't understand what's going on but I'll just go with it. I mean it's not like all of this has something to do with me but still. I looked at him and face showed sufferring.

"Well, when I was young, I had always dreamt of being someone. Someone in the music industry. That was happiness to me. But unfortunately my father had another definition of happiness. To him, I had to become someone very powerful in the world-"

"What do you mean powerful?"

He grasped my hand with his and looked down towards our hands.

"I'm so sorry but I'm-"

BOOM! The noise impacted us and we both got startled. We turned towards the noise and saw smoke. The birds began to fly away and I felt my heart stop. He clutched onto my hand even harder. What had happened? We stood up silently. Once the birds stopped chirping very horribly there was just silence. On the far east there was a huge cloud of smoke.