I Still Remember (a Niall Horan's fanfic)

Part 18

"But mom wait.... What happened? Daddy was not going to go back again?" Mary told her mother Claire, interrupting her from her big and inspiring story.  She looked at her confused about a part of the story. 

"Well... I think you should let her keep going with the story..." James told her. He wanted to keep on hearing everything about it. 

I feel Edmond's arm around me while we walked through a store looking for dresses. I looked everywhere. I could remember when Niall went with me to the mall and he carried all of my shopping bags. He carried all of them no matter how much his hands could hurt.  "You know.... sometimes I feel sad because my parents literally don't live with me. They are always at work and on trips making contracts with other countries. Is sad, but I feel much better when I think about the good things I have" He looked at me, but a gave him no word and neither a look. "You should try it...." He suggested. I kept walking and turned my face off. I crossed my arms and tried to avoid him getting far away. I went out of the store and I saw Lauren standing in front of a shoe store with some bags. 

"Hey!" She turned to me. She went to be to greet. She left her bags on the floor and greeted. "How are you doing?" She said. I was thinking of something good to tell her, since my life was a complete sad and insignificant thing when Niall was gone.  

"Well, I had some problems with my legs, so I haven't been going to volleyball or running... And you?" I said helping her with some of her shopping bags. I took them and began walking at her side. 

"Well, I am doing fine. I went to a trip to South America with my family last weeks." She said laughing about it. I looked at her and my lips waved giving her a short, but friendly smile. She gave me a similar smile, but it was a happier one. I think she had a better attitude then me in that moment. She was clearly not going through the same things as me. 

"Well, I have to stay here. My boyfriend is waiting inside" She said stopping in front of a sport store. I saw a brunette guy looking at some balls and playing with them. 

"Okay, bye" I told her. I gave her the bags. I said goodbye and went back where Edmond and Chloe were waiting for me. I began walking and like at the end of the hall I say Chloe discusing with Edmond. He was just going insane. Edmond seemed confused and guilty. Suddenly Chloe turned around and when she saw me she threw all of her shopping bags and went running to me. She hugged me. 

"Where did you left?" She asked preoccupied looking at me. I gave her no answer. She didn't protested, she knew I wasn't talking since long time ago. She guided me to Vanilla Spoon so we could eat some frozen yogurt. I loved to eat that, but even though in my interior I was smiling and laughing I tried to hide it. 

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"Okay..... Your dad and I have been planning to go on a trip with the Horan family." my mom told me excited. I looked at her and suddenly my lazy, boring and horrible face changed to a great smile with no words. I turned happy and started screaming."Yesterday I talked to their mom and she said they would love to go to the mountains." She was driving, but sincerely I didn't cared at all. 

"Mom!!" I shacked her arms excited about it. "Why did you thought I was taking you shopping? Just to waste my money? Well... you need clothes for camping." She said without taking her look of the road. She looked at me and relaxed her arms. She looked at me, we were waiting for the light to turn green. 

"So.... Like the idea? Because I can change it to a California trip with just Jake you dad and I.I smiled at her and bite my lip happily. 

"I love it mum!" I said excited. 

It was a crazy shopping. She never used to buy me things and suddenly she does. She bought me so much camping things. I loved her. It was funny. We went into a store and the saleswoman looked at me with a killer face. I went in the store scared about her. 

"Hi!" I smiled at her. Everyone else smiled at me. I was just missing her. I looked at some shirts while she was still looking at me. 

"Okay Claire! I found what I wanted...." My mom went closer to me, looking at her new shoes. They were some snickers. 

"Yeah! Lets go!" I went out of the place. The lady was still looking at me. When I left I heard some laughing. I looked back and she was laughing about me. She was just making fool of me. That was so mean! I thought of going back to the store, when I remembered what happened the last time with the waitress. I decided to keep smiling and don't let that affect me. 

***

"Jake! Jake! Wake up!" I screamed right in his ear. He just placed a pillow on his face and turned away. It was finally the day of camping. My wallets were already prepared. My mom was downstairs preparing the food, and I was hoping for Jake to wake up someday. He finally went up from the bed and took a pillow in his hands. He slammed it all over my face. 

"Shut up!" He said tired of hearing me. "Uh! You are so noisy" He said. He left to the bathroom. I looked at him and smiled. He was already up and that was a great happiness for me in that moment. I smiled at him and watched how he went rudely to the bathroom. 

"Thanks!" I said. He looked aback at me. He just hated me in that moment, but I was so happy that I gave it no importance. 

***

"Is everything ready mom?" I asked her. I helped her to get some things inside the car

"Yes... I think so" She examined everything in the car trying to look for something that could be missing. I looked at everything in the car. I remember  I wasn't taking my journal. My journal is something I use every time I go camping. I use to write on it while I am in the woods. I went running inside and took my journal out from my room. 

"I am ready..." I closed the door and went to the car.