Love Ain't Easy |Niall Horan|

Chapter 26

~Niall's POV~

I came back from the local bar with Harry and Zayn after I got an urgent text from Liam and Louis. I shake my head and stumbled, falling on the couch.

"Why the fuck weren't you answering anyone's texts," Louis snaps at me.

"What texts," I mumbled, accidentally sending a drunk one to River, then realizing my mistake and deleting it.

"Mine and your wife's," Liam snapped, "And Louis's!".

"River didn't text me," I hiccup.

"Check your inbox, Dumbass," Liam mumbled under his breath.

I do as he says and check my texts again, my vision clearing. I gasped loudly at what River said.

She texted about being sorry for me storming off stage and for being a selfish person. Then I saw a picture of her crying with a caption that said she was sorry for hurting me.

I felt as if my heart was in a vice grip. No, River wasn't the source of my anger. The source of my anger was the schedule the boys and I were on, which was a tight one and I was upset because it didn't give me time to call her.

"How am I going to tell her I'm not mad at her," I ask the boys.

"That's your problem," Zayn says.

I glare at Zayn, "Ya know you can help!".

I head to my bunk and climb up, then I put headphones in my ears and call my worried wife.

H-hello?

"River, baby, what's wrong," I ask.

Like you care, she says and I can hear the pain in her voice.

"Because I love you," I tell her.

Then why'd you storm off stage, she asks, more pain in her voice.

"I'm stressed and angry about the schedule we have to follow. Adam won't let us call anyone and it's making me angrier because I miss helping you relax with my voice and going to sleep," I whined softly, equal pain in my voice.

River and I talked for a while longer, then she yawned and I sang to her. When I heard her softly snoring on the other end of the line, I hung up and went to sleep myself.

What's going to happen now?