Letting Go (Niall Horan AU)

Chapter 26

October

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I lie down in his bed so he knows I'm not leaving. He can't make me.

I still can't believe I forgot about the angry red lines all over my body. I guess that's what Niall does to me though. He makes me forget.

But when he lays down next to me, not touching me at all, I still remember how emotionless he was a minute ago.

He told me to leave him. No tears. No yelling. Just calm. And it was terrifying.

I never want to see Niall like that again.

I shift to look at my boyfriend. Is he even my boyfriend? What are we? We've been dating for a couple weeks now, and he knows more about me than anyone else. Niall beats me to the question.

"What are we?" He whispers pushing my hair out of my face.

"What do you want us to be?" I ask.

"I want us to be forever. But of course we don't have that." He answers.

"Forever?" I question.

"Yes. Infinite. Just you and I."

"I want that too." I reply.

"But since we can't, October, will you be my girlfriend?" He asks taking my hand.

"Okay."

We both smile. Then I remember how he was kicking me out minutes before.

"Niall why did you change your mind about me leaving."

"Because I'm selfish." He responds.

I don't reply to that.

"But I am still going to change. I have to." He says playing with my bracelets.

I ignore him again and pull myself into his chest.

He pulls me impossibly closer and promises, "I will never let you go."

As he whispers the words I fall asleep to the beat of my boyfriends heart.

Niall

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"I will never let you go." I whisper when I know she's asleep.

But someday she will have to let me go.

And I would give anything to change that.

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