Hiding

Trees and Cookies

Rylies POV

I went to my closet and pulled out my own sweater and my converse. "Alright you ready to go?" I asked, walking towards the door.

"Yeah, thanks for giving my sweater back." He said following me out of the apartment.

"Thanks for letting me borrow it." I said, as we stepped into the elevator. There was another person in there, so it was quiet and awkward.

We stepped out of the elevator and went back to his car, and he did his gentile man thing when he opens and closed the door for me. It gave me butterflies, very easily. I showed him the way to my parents house, it wasn't too far, just a ten minute drive.

"Here we are!" I said stepping out of the car as he followed me to the path.

My house wasn't too big. It had 4 bedrooms, enough for me, my little brother, parents and a guest. There were 3 levels. It was a very modern house. The outside was cubic-shaped and the inside consists of very modern furniture and things.

"Damn. Nice house." He said as I knocked on the door.

In about 5 seconds, my mom had come to the door, beaming. She opened it, saw Niall, and her jaw dropped.

"Rylie!!" She said, reaching out for a hug. "I see you brought the boy that's all over your walls?" She said letting go of me.

"Yeah, I hope you don't mind, he was in town and I invited him. You know how me and Athena became friends with them, right?" I really hope she doesn't mind him coming.

"Yeah, just friends, sure." She said with a smile. "Hello, Niall, I'm very happy to meet you, and I'm very happy you could come."

"The pleasures mine, Ms. O'Connor." He said, reaching out to shake her hand.

Well this is going well, and that's perfect. She took it a lot better than I thought she would.

My dad walked down stairs. "What the- holy- Rylie?" He said stopping at the sight of Niall.

"Yeah dad, Niall Horans here, get over it." I said laughing and giving him a hug.

"Pleasure to meet you, Niall." He said as he let me go and shook Nialls hand too.

"Same here, Mr. O'Connor. Nice place!" Niall said looking around.

"Thanks, it was renovated 4 years ago." He said "Please, come in!! I could use another man to help me set up the tree. Usually Rylie helps, she's very strong for a girl her age."

Niall looked at me and smirked, causing me to blush.

"I'm gonna go get Corey." I said, running upstairs.

I knocked on his bedroom door and slowly opened it. "Hey Corey!" I said walking in.

He turned around from his chair. "Hey!" He said getting up and giving me a hug. This is weird... Corey is happy with me. I thought he hates me because of the Niall thing.

"Well you're happy!" I said looking at him.

"I just wanna make it up to you." He said with apologetic eyes.

"For what?"

"Being mad. It wasn't your fault that people made fun of me. I should've been nicer to you and been there for you. I read those things people sent to you on twitter and you had it a lot worse than me. You're my sister and I should've been there for you through Niall, and all the other Boy Band Crap. You can like Niall if you want, and if he is here right now, I promise I will be nice." He said with a sad smile.

"I love you Corey, thanks." I said giving him a hug. "Now let's start decorating that tree!"

We walked down stairs to find Niall and my dad sitting on the sofa while my mom set some cookies out.

"Thanks, where is the tree?" Niall asked reaching for a cookie.

"Outside, mind helping me get it?" Dad asked standing up.

"Not at all" he said getting up too. "Lead the way!"

They stepped outside and Corey and I walked towards the living room.

"Corey!" Mom said with a bright smile. "I thought you would never show up!"

"Well, I'm here so if you don't mind I would like to start decorating." He said with a smile.

"Alright! Why don't you go help Niall and your dad with the tree?"

"Ok." He mumbled walking outside to them. Corey is very moody and always has mood swings.

I saw Niall shake his hand and introduce himself. "Help me get the ornaments from the basement, yeah?" My mother asked.

"Sure." I said turning on my heel and entering the basement. It was a finished basement, and we did use it for things other than storage. I went into the storage room and pulled out two boxes of ornaments and went back upstairs, set them down on the floor and then got the rest.

"It's a nice tree!" Niall said as him and Corey placed it in the stand.

"Yeah, we cut it down at a tree farm." He said stepping back.

"That's a lot of ornaments you got there, Rylie." Niall said taking a bite of a snowman cookie.

"Yeah, I guess it is. This box has the lights, this one has tinsel and beads and the things that go on the mantel, and these two have the ornaments." I explained.

"Alrighty, let's start with the lights, yeah?"

"Ok." Corey and I said.

Our parents didn't usually help anymore, since we were grown up and didn't really need them to help. And today we have Niall here so it's all good. My dad say in the office and worked while my mom was cooking. We decorated the tree and we all had fun.

At fist I did not want to bring Niall home, afraid that he wouldn't get along with my parents or Corey. But we were all having a good time and now, I'm glad I was wrong.

Christmas Carols came on as we sang along to a few, and ate some more cookies. My parents came back to look at the tree and invited Niall to stay for dinner. This should be very fun.

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Hahahhaha sucky chapter but it's getting there...

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