Why Here?

Chapter 41

Niall's POV

Just after her soft kisses left my lips, her tender smile arose.

"You know what's weird?"

"What?" I whispered leaning down to steal one more kiss.

"I only know the things about you that I've read in magazines and online and I don't care." She smiled with her lips pressed against my cheek.

"You know a little more than that.."

"Not really just the stuff you told the group. But it's okay. I like finding thing out a long the way. It's fun."

"Okay. You wanna know stuff? Okay you'll know." I laughed moving away from her sitting on the floor across from her.

"Heyyy...." She whined.

"What do you want to know?"

She stared down at me with a puzzled glare. "Fine. What were you like when you were younger? Like with your friends?"

"That's really what you wanna know?"

"Yes." She giggled.

"Okay." I rolled my eyes "we were always just hanging out and playing rugby or futbol. Just being guys. We would sit in front of my house on the curb and listen to music and act stupid. There's this one video my friend has of me dancing like a moron." I laugh thinking back to that day. "I had long shaggy hair god it was awful. My pants barely fit even, but days like that is what I miss a lot just being myself and taking with friends."

"Kind of like this?" She whispered.

"Just like this." I smiled.

"I actually think I've seen that video. You did this move where you kicked your leg back and pretended your heart was pumping?" She laughed throwing her back.

"Oh my god." I blushed realizing she was right.

"It was cute! I loved it!" She spoke gasping for air.

"Okay okay! Your turn!" I tried to change the subject.

"My turn?"

"Yes. What were you like when you were younger?"

"What before working the strip club or before..." Her eyes dropped thinking of her past.

"I mean before you had to work for your life when you were still a kid." I corrected myself.

"Well I kind of erased from memory but I do remember this one time when I was about 7 and my mom got a CD player for my birthday and I kid you not I thought I was the coolest kid ever!" She giggled pushing her hair back behind her ears. "I even had it hooked to my jeans with those big full ear headphones. Oh my god I would jam to my Backstreet Boys or Nsync albums like no body's business." She laughed hard thinking back about it. I couldn't stop the boyish grim forming while watching her reminisce about her childhood. I loved the fact that I could talk to her about my life before the fame and she didn't care. She just listened like I was a real person. Her laugh was the cutest especially when she would scrunch her nose with her tongue just slightly between her teeth.

"Niall?" She mumbled.

"Huh? What?" I stumble my words being broken from my trance.

"You okay?"

"Never better."

"Okay. Cause you looked a little spacey just then." I couldn't stop staring at her, I was amazed at the fact that she didn't care about the fame or the money she just cared about me and the fact that I was safe and taken care of. I couldn't resist taking her face into my hands an planting a soft sweet kiss on her. She kissed back slowly before pulling away.