The Only One (A Niall Horan Fanfiction)

Chapter 20

Niall’s POV

I walk outside to talk to Layla.

“I hope you’ve been treating my daughter right.” She says.

“I have. I actually have wanted to ask for a favor for a while, but I wanted to do it at the right time.” I tell her.

“Go ahead.” She nods. I close my eyes and take a deep breath. It’s time.

“Layla, I would like to ask you for your blessing to marry your daughter.”

“You have my blessing.” She smiles.

“Thank you so much! Oh you won’t regret this!” I exclaim and hug her.

“I know that you make her happy. That’s all I want. I want my girls to be happy. So when are you planning on proposing?” She asks me.

“I was planning to do it in 2 weeks. It will be our two year anniversary.” I tell her.

“Well I’m glad. All right Niall. Let’s go in.” Layla smiles. When we open the door, the boys, Dani, Katie, and Grace all tumble out.

“We totally weren’t eavesdropping!” Dani laughs.

“Girls, don’t go telling Emma about that conversation, okay? It must be kept a secret.” Layla tells them. She knows I’m going to talk to the boys. The girls nod and run up the stairs to Emma. Once I explain everything to the boys and answer all of their questions, I go upstairs to be with Emma and Jules. I tell the girls to leave. We talk for a few hours and go down for dinner. Then we go back upstairs and fall asleep. I already have the ring, and I dream about how I’m proposing to Emma.

2 weeks later

Emma’s POV

Today’s Niall and I’s 2 year anniversary. I wonder what he has planned for us. Right now I’m feeding Juleka a late lunch and watching Dora with her. Niall comes running down. He slept in late. It’s about 2:00.

“Yay! Dora!” He exclaimed, and I giggled. Niall is such a child sometimes.

“I love you Niall.” I sighed.

“Love you too, babe. Happy anniversary!” He kisses me and I kiss back passionately.

“Hey guys, I know it’s your anniversary and all, but you just had a baby, and we don’t need any more at the moment.” Harry appears in the doorway rubbing his eyes. I blush like mad.

“Harry, come on. Let them be.” Katie walks in, carefully taking Jules out of my arms. I start to tell her to leave Jules here, but Niall wraps his arm around my waist pulling me in.

“You need to take a break from our little girl. The only time you ever want to put her down is bed time. And even then you don’t want to.” Niall whispers in my ear. I just nod, and Katie and Harry leave us.

“So what have you planned for today?” I ask him, hoping I get a hint as to what he is planning to do tonight.

“Well I was thinking we could go to the movies or something.” He says.

“Cool! We should go watch Free Birds, I heard it’s good!” I suggested. We both got dressed and went to the theater. The movie was hilarious. And it was great because Niall rented out the whole movie theater, so it was just us. Niall and I didn’t even watch the last 30 minutes of the movie. We were too busy running around the theater and throwing popcorn at each other. Let’s just say, it was the best date ever. Once we got home, it was about 5:30. Niall left and said he had to go out for a little bit, so I just stayed home alone with my mom. The boys and girls took Juleka to go see ‘The Wiggles Live’. I pretty much just watched TV the whole time. At 7:00, I was getting worried about Niall. I went to ask my mom where he was, but she was gone. On her bed was a box and a note. I read the note, and it said to open the box. I opened the box, and inside was a beautiful baby blue high-low dress. It had fake pearls around the waist. Under the dress was another note.

 

Put the dress on and you will see.

How wonderful you seem to be.

What’s missing from this outfit worn by you?

Go check in your closet and wear the white shoes.

 

I dash to my closet, where white strappy heels where on the floor. The right shoe had another note on the bottom of it. It said to go to the orchard where Niall took you on your second date. Hmm. I put on the dress and heels, after doing my makeup. I called a car to take me to the orchard. I gasped. Niall had put up the fairy lights up again, but there was a wooden table with 2 wooden chairs on either side, in the middle of the trees. Niall was leaning against one of the bigger trees, with a nervous expression on his face. When he looked up and saw me making my way towards him, his expression changed to a wide grin, and he ran over to me. He grabbed my hand and pulled me over to the table. He pulled out my chair and then pushed it in when I was seated. Such a gentleman, he is sometimes. He looked so handsome, wearing his suit and bow tie. There was a waiter, and he brought over two glasses of red wine and a platter. The platter had dinner on it, which was a lovely chicken salad.

“Niall, this is wonderful. Thank you.” I smiled.

“Emma, you know I love you, right?” Niall asked me.

“Of course I do. Why do you-” I was cut off. Niall got down on one knee. Oh my gosh.

“Emma, from the moment I saw you, I fell in love. When I watched you twirl in that yellow dress, I knew I was in love with you. I love every moment that I spend with you. And I never want to lose you. Emma Taylor, will you marry me?” Niall pulls out the ring. I can’t believe this is happening!

“Yes, Niall. Yes, yes, yes! A thousand times yes!” I jumped up to hug him after he slipped the beautiful diamond ring on my finger.

“I love you.” We both whispered at the same time.