Breaking Point (Sequel)

Chapter 28

Samantha's POV

As soon as I stepped foot in the house, Niall had already found the bedroom we would be staying in and shut the door. I politely smiled to both Tom and Maura and made my way over to where Niall had gone. I slowly turned the knob on the door and entered the room. In front of me, Niall began grabbing his clothes out of his bag and throwing them roughly in the empty dresser behind him.

It felt like he didn't even realize I was in the room when I approached him. I placed my hand on his shoulder blade and he flinched before turning around to face me. The look on his face caused me to furrow my brows at him.

"Why are you doing this?" I asked, a little annoyed with the way he was acting towards this whole situation. He didn't answer me but continued to empty his suitcase into the dresser. If this was the way he was going to act, I was going to have no part of it.

"Fine, you can sulk in here by yourself but I'm going to appreciate my time here and at least one of us will spend time with your mother." I snapped. The room was quiet and you could feel the tension.

It had occurred to me that all the worries and anxieties I had coming here, had vanished like they were never there in the first place. Now my mind was consumed with Niall and the whole situation revolving around Maura and Tom.

"Look Samantha, this is not the situation I thought I would be walking into here when we got here and I don't think you should be expecting me to be completely fine with it." Niall blurted out of nowhere. I turned around to face him to see his face was straight

"That's not your decision to make. I'm sorry but what goes on between your mother's social life is none of your business. It's her life, not yours and its your job to find ways to deal with it." I said, sounding harsher than I had hoped. I softened my face and placed my hand on his arm. I sighed before I spoke again.

"All I am saying is give Tom a chance. You might find you really enjoy him. It looks like your mum is happy and if she is then I don't see the point in spoiling it for her." I made my way towards the door and turned to look at him again.

"Now can we please go down stairs and see your mum, I know she misses you and there's not one ounce of me that believes you haven't missed her." The smallest of a smile, if you could even call it that, crept on his lips and he looked down. It seemed like he began to contemplate and weigh his options. I held out my arm and gestured for him to grab my hand so we could exit the room together.

"Do you know you can be really annoying sometimes?" He asked in a joking tone. I playfully punched his arm and he winced like it had actually hurt.

"Yeah well this is what happens when you act like a child." He was about to respond back but we had already reached the top of the stairs and we could see Maura and Tom sitting on the sofa. They watched as we reached the bottom the stairs and joined them, sitting on the sofa across from them.

"Be nice." I whispered into Niall's ear as we sat down. I worried that there would be an awkward silence between the four of us. We seemed to be avoiding each other's gazes until Maura had broken the silence.

"How was your flight?" She asked. I looked at Niall to see if he was going to answer but it was apparent that he was going to stay silent.

"The flight went over pretty smoothly. Although I mostly saw the inside of my eye lids because I was running on very little sleep." I smiled. I could tell they weren't really interested in our flight, they were just trying to make conversation which was fine with me because I was terrible at trying to make conversation.

"You have a beautiful house." I complimented. Her face seemed to brighten up as soon as the words left my mouth.

"Thank you! Tom helped me pick out most of the furniture." She replied. I ignored the sudden stiffness beside me from Niall and concentrated on the two people in front of me.