The secret side of me

Chapter 13

Layla's pov

I woke up and immediately checked the time on my phone. 11:23. I suddenly became aware of something restricting me. A pair of arms. I turned over to come face to face with Niall. He awoke from my movement and looked at me with his eyes still half closed. And smiled.

"Good morning." He said in his groggy

morning voice. I put my hand on his arm pushing away just slightly.

"Now, Niall, what happened to keeping your hands to yourself?" I said in a calm but warning tone.

"Well in the middle of the night you started screaming in your sleep. You wouldn't stop, at all. So I put my arms around you and you fell back asleep." He said.

"Well am I screaming?" I asked "Then you can get off of me." I said quietly since I was still tired. He took his arms off of me and I sat up looking around. I looked back at him and saw him watching me." I'm sorry I woke you last night. Usually Nick would wake me when that happens." I said looking away again.

" It's fine I'm used to it. Most of the time I fall asleep out side your door when you have locked me out. I'm always the first to hear it. And I'm the one to get Nick." He said.

"I'm sorry about all of that too. I haven't wanted to see anyone. I didn't want to be questioned or to talk about it at all. I just didn't want to be with anyone. I didn't want anyone's false comfort." I said lowly.

"Don't apologize Layla." He said putting a hand on my back. We sat there for a moment with him rubbing my back slowly and softly, until we heard footsteps coming down the steps.

We both looked up to the stairwell looking for the person making the noise.

A girl came into view moments later. With a small figure and tan skin. She was wearing only a black shirt that was clearly Harry's since it was way to big on her and went down to her mid thigh. There was no doubt that she was beautiful , her hair was a dark and was in loose curls that went down to the middle of her back. She seemed nice.I suddenly felt very self conscious about my appearance.

"Good morning." She said in a light voice while waving." Sorry about last night. That's not really the impression I wanted to make. Anyways, are you guys hungry? I'm going to be making breakfast right now." She said walking out of sight and into the kitchen. A second later we could hear banging of pans.

"We should get up." I said looking over at Niall. He nodded and we both got out of the bed. He folded it back up into the couch and we walked into the kitchen and sat at the bar on the high stools next to The girl who was cooking.

She turned around and looked at us smiling. "Hey guys. I'm making pancakes.Oh, I'm Giana by the way." She said while she flipped the pancake she was making right now.

"Hi Giana. I'm Layla." I said and she turned around to shake my hand. She is so sweet. She didn't seem like the kind of girl Harry would hook up with.

"And I'm Niall, Harry's roommate." He said as they shook hands. He turned back to the pancakes and put them all on a plate and started to make more.

"Well, it's nice to meet both of you. Harry should be down soon and some of the pancakes are ready so you can come and get them." she said putting them I front of us with butter and syrup. We each grabbed a plate and grabbed some putting butter and syrup on them. I had one and Niall had two.

We both said thank you and started to eat. I felt out of place. I'm not like this, like them. Not to mention I was already insecure now.

Harry came down the stairs and went straight to Giana." Good morning babe." He said giving her a kiss on the cheek. He turned around and looked at me. Disgusted. "What the hell is she doing here?" He asked. I looked down at my plate trying to ignore his comment. I could hear Giana smack his arm and whisper not to be rude.

"Why she's an annoying little bitch." He said still staring at me. Niall grabbed me by the waist and whispered in my ear that we should leave. I agreed and without another word we walked out on to the front porch. Once we were outside I realized we needed our stuff and Niall said he would go and get it. I waited by the door that was just cracked open slightly while he went and got our stuff. I could hear his footsteps running up the stairs and then, shortly after , running back down. When I thought he was going to come out I heard Harry speak out.

"Where are you going?" He asked.

"I'm going with Layla" Niall said matter-of-factly. "And you need to stop treating her that way. She did nothing to you. And I'm not going to sit aroud and watch you ruin her life anymore. I'm not going to sit around and watch anymore. I'm sick of this." He said lowly. I could immidiatly feel my heart drop as if I was on a roller coaster. He was standing up to his best friend for me.

"What do you love the freak now?" Harry asked taunting him.

" And what if I did Harry" He said taunting Harry now."What would you do?Make fun of me? Beat me like you beat that poor girl out there everyday for the past couple of years?" He said making Giana gasp."Yeah you didnt know that about him did you?" He said in a kinder tone to Giana. " And Harry, if you ever do anything to her again I won't just sit there and let it happen and I promise you that." He said in a cold warning tone.

I felt my eyes sting from the tears threatening to fall down my face from all of the memories that came flooding in of the things Harry had done to me and from the fact that Niall just protected me from him when I was suposed to be protecting him right now but I have been to weak from my brothers death both physically and emotionally. I couldn't handle Harry right now when I didnt care before, but Niall could and he did. For me.

I heard his foot steps coming closer and I backed up from the door. He walked out and immediately saw me standing there crying. He put all of the stuff down and came closer to me.

"Don't cry Layla." He said in a whisper, wiping my tears away. I couldn't help it as I grabbed him and kissed him.

It was only a small and quick kiss. I pulled away and looked up at him to see his shocked face. "Thank you for doing that for me." Was all that I could say.

"I didnt do that just for you, I did it for me too. I couldn't take it anymore.I've sat back and watched him do that for to long." He said and I pulled him in to a hug. We stood there embracing each other for a moment and when I finally pulled away I picked up my shoes and quickly put them on.I looked back up at him and smiled at him as if nothing had just happened.

"Come on we should get back to the house." I said walking away. I heard his footsteps following behing me. As we were walking in silence realization set in that I had just kissed Niall. I had to play it off though, as if it had never happened. I just hope he will do the same.

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A/N:

Hey guys so theres another chapter since I've been horrible with updating. I hope you like it and I also just put out another story. It's alot different than this one so please go check it out it would mean a lot. so I will try to update again soon and vote and comment what you think so far. ILYG