Adopted by Niall Horan (ABNH:Book1)

Chapter 24

You guys like smut don't you. I guess I'll have to make some more. IF you vote in which teacher fanfic you want. The one with the majority of votes win. Got it. Great. Good.

Niall p.o.v

I know I shouldn't have said it gave me a bad image. I should've thought of what I was gonna say before I said it. I hear a knock at the door so I go answer it. It's Shawn.

"Hey, is-is um Craig ready?" He says scratching the back of his neck not really looking at me.

"Yeah? C'mon in." I say then step aside for him to enter.

"I didn't know you were coming over. Is something wrong?" I ask looking dead at him.

"Uh-I'm, uh taking Craig to the gym." He says. The gym?

"Hey sweets." Craig says coming down the stairs and bending down to kiss Shawn. Already, he's dressed out of his school clothes and is in gym shorts and a white shirt. It's a see through shirt so you can clearly see his toned abs. But he has a bruise on his face. And a busted lip. Now that I can see it better. He was beaten up.

"You ready?" Shawn asks standing up. I do the same giving Craig a questioning look.

"Craig?" I say. And he doesn't answer it he just leaves with Shawn with no goodbye or hug or anything. I knew I shouldn't have said that. Fuck I messed up bad. Really, really bad.

Craig p.o.v

I know dad saw the bruises. I know Shawn knows I'm worrying about dad knowing.

"I love you Craig," Shawn says placing his left hand on my knee. "And, I just want you to know no one. I mean no one will ever take that away. Okay?"

"Yes I know, why is it so bad to like your own gender for other people. They are so mean about it and," I say getting my eye glossed over. "And I just wish people could accept others the way they are. Ya'know"

"Yeah I know," he says, I place my hand on his and lift it up to my lips and place a soft kiss on the back of his hand.

"I love you too sweets." I say, and drop his hand back down so he can take it back. And we both smile. "I love how you smile. It's beautiful."

"I don't like my smile it's disgusting," he says and goes back to a strait face and puts his other hand back on the steering wheel.

"Shawn Peter Rahul Mendes. You will not say that about yourself. Okay? You are a pretty young, sex on legs. You are the best thing that's happened to this world. And even your fans agree with me. You are a sex God. Alright?" I say then pause, "you should be lucky I remembered your whole name. Shees. That was a long name your parents chose." I say and hop out of the car with Shawn and enter the open gym.

Allie p.o.v

"Allie? Can I talk to you please?" Dad says coming into my room and sitting on my bed. I keep my head down looking at my phone because I took a shower and my bruises are gonna show if I look up.

"Please look at me. I can't have you both give me the silent treatment right now." He says. I look up slowly and hesitantly and stare at his sad and lonely eyes. When he sees my face fully his eyes get blurry and start to drip tears down his cheeks. He hugs me and says, "what happened at school? Why did they hurt you both?"

"They kept calling Craig a fag and Shawn punched one to protect Craig and they punched him back and Craig was trying to protect Shawn and," I pause to start crying, "he started to punch them but then they all went to Craig and. And I tried pulling him out and Shawn was helping me. Then we went to the bathroom and cleaned up. But- I- I didn't want to tell you. I was afraid of your power you can have against the school. And we didn't want to be the cause of that. So we didn't tell you." I say and lie down looking the other way. I'm just tired.

I feel something dip down next to me. I know it's dad because he's the only one here with me. He wraps his arms around me and pulls the covers over us. We stay there go a few minutes and acknowledge each other's presents. Dad then sits up and asks.

"You wanna go to the park?"

"Yeah. Sure."