Trying To Stop Dreaming (Niall Horan)

I Fell Inlove with a Couch.

"Hey are you okay?" Brandon asks and looks at my phone. He must've noticed I was being quiet. "Yeah. Hey I'm gonna need clothes so if you could please come with me to my apartment and help my grab some clothes?" I say and turn off my phone. "No one's gonna kill me right?" he says sarcastically. 'Nope." I smile. "Yeah I'll go then. But why do you want me to besides me helping you." I raise an eyebrow waiting for an explanation. "I know you Attie. There is always something else." he adds in. I sigh. "Because with you there I know I won't give into them." I say and half smile. He nods his head yes. "Well let's go before you change your mind." he says and puts everything down. "Wait!" I say loudly.

"What?" he says. I must've scared him when I said that because he jumped. "Did you move me to the bed?" I say and he looks at me. "Well duh." he says and laughs. "But how. I mean I'm fat and I'm surprised that you didn't die." I say. His smile disappears. "Attie, you are not fat! Don't let me hear you say that again." he says and hugs me. "I won't." I promise. "Good." he says and goes to open the door. I step outside and lead him up the flight of stairs and down the hall and up to my apartment. I look at him and he makes me open the door with my key.

I open the door and find five sleeping boys in my living room. "Why are they here?" Brandon asks me quietly. "They must've stayed the night." I say and walk quietly to my room. Brandon followed me and tries not to laugh when he see's baby pictures of me hanging on the wall. "You were a cute baby!" he says as soon as we get into my room. "Oh shut up." I say and slap him in the arm. "You still hit people?" he says. "Yeah. That's my signature move." I say causing both of us to laugh.

I pack my bag and grab some toiletries and then we start to walk out of my room. But I stop when I see Noah walking down the hallway. Me and Brandon are still in my room so Noah didn't see us. "Crap. Noah's up." I say and Brandon sighs. "Attie if they see you just ignore them." Brandon says and shrugs. "I'll try." I say and open up my door and me and Brandon walk out and into the hallway. "Attie?" Noah says. I cringe. I keep walking with Brandon right in front of me. "Attie!" Noah yells causing the One Direction boys to sit up. They all look at Brandon and then to me. "Brandon?" Noah asks. Brandon just nods his head. "You live in London now?" Noah asks. "Yeah. Now if you excuse us, me and my dear friend Attie would like to leave." he says causing me to snicker. Brandon looks at me. "Attie who is he?" Niall and Harry ask.

"A friend." I state and turn to walk out of the door. "Where are you going?" Noah asks. "You live here." he adds again. God he sounds so much like my father right now. "You aren't my father, Noah. But you sure as hell act like him." I say harshly. He blinks in surprise. "Attie just tell us where you are going. We won't bother you. We just want to know you're safe." Harry says. I was gonna say something but Brandon stepped in. "She is safe with me." Brandon says through gritted teeth. "Hey, calm down." I say and walk out of the door. Me and Brandon both walk down the stairs but Noah follows us. "What are you doing?" Brandon says and stops walking. 

"Attie you do know we believe you right?" Noah asks and Brandon looks at me, confused. "Sure you do." i say and wait for Noah to turn around. "Aren't you gonna go." Noah says in an annoyed voice. "Noah! Your mom is calling!" Maddie yells and Brandon laughs. I elbow Brandon to shut up. "Bye." Noahs says under his breath. He walks upstairs and me and Brandon walk to his apartment. "That couldv'e been better." I say as we get inside his place. "Yeah. Hey when will you tell me what happened." he says and looks at me from across his living room. "When you tell me why you got so mad when they wanted to know if i was gonna be safe." I say and he freezes. 

"I got mad because they didn't think i would keep you safe." he says in a hushed tone. I make an 'o' shape with my mouth. "So gonna tell me what the fight was about?" he says and sits next to me on the stools. "Niall found something that i haven't seen or used in a while. Maddie, Noah, Kennedy, Asian all looked at me with mad, sad, ashamed and very pissed expressions. Like they didn't believe that i stopped. But i did. I promised them i did." i say and let a tear slip out. He looks at me and i know what he was gonna ask. "It was a razor that Niall found." i whisper. "Thank god you stopped, Attie." Brandon says and grabs my face gently so i am forced to look at him. "But just to i know you aren't lying, may i see your arms?" i laugh becuase he was being so protective. I nod and lift up my long-sleeve shirt. 

Nothing was on my arms. "Good. Thank you." he says a nd hugs me. I hug him back. "Are you always this warm?" i say and he chuckles. "Yes ma'am." he says and hugs me tighter. I smile and break from the hug. "So i only packed clothes for a week. Then I'll find somewhere else to go so I'm out of your hair." i say and his smile goes away. "What's the sad face for? Any guy would want a girl to leave his apartment as fast aas she could could leave!" i say and use my hands for dranatic affect. He shakes his head ho. "You are fun to hang out with. I don't want you to go anywhere else to stay." he says and stands up to go and sit on the couch. "You are the first guy to ever say that." i say and join him on the couch. 

He doesn't respond back. "So! Where am i sleeping tonight?" I ask and watch him switch through the channels on the T.V. "Well, I'll take the couch again." he says happily. "You were on the floor last night though." i say and laugh. "Hey! We were on the couch for awhile, but you move around in your sleep a lot!" he says causing me to laugh even louder. "Sorry. You could've just went to sleep on your bed and left me on the couch."  i say and kind of stop laughing. "Nope. That would be mean for me to do." he says and fianlly looks at me. "How?" i say and expect something along the lines of, "Because i didn't want you to think you were alone.". "It would be mean for me to do because then you would have bad dreams." he says and i start to freak out. "Bad dreams?" i ask him to see what he says. Maybe he doesnt know about my bad dreams, well night-terrors. 

"Attie, i know about your nightmares. Me and Jenny were talking and we ended up talking about you and then she brought up your nightmars and that you have them a lot. I don't want you to be alone when you have one?" he says and looks me with a its-okay smile. "Nightmares are nothing. I have night-terrors." i say and remember my last night-terror. I trembled at the images appear in my mind. "Hey! It's okay. I'm here to keep you safe." he says and hugs me. I felt like this was wrong but right at the same time. I lke-well loved being with Brandon but with Niall it felt more natural. But i pushed the thought of Niall ever liking me. He was a world famous pop-star and yet here i am, a girl with a tendency to drive everyone away. 

I hug Brandon tighter and let him go. "I like hugging you. You are a good hugger." he says and I feel myself blush. "Same to you." I say. We both look at eachother and he does something unexpected.