Teach Me

Chapter 15 - A lot can change in a second

I felt the bed moving, and snuggled further into my pillow and duvet. The bed suddenly stopped moving, and I'm not sure whether it was just a part of a dream or if I was going crazy, because I was pretty sure the bed couldn't move.

"Liz?" A voice whispered softly as to not wake me up if I was asleep. I opened my eyes slowly to see where the voice came from as I snuggled closer, I guess this was one of those days when I wasn't going to want to leave the bed. At first I didn't really see something because my face was lying in the pillow, so I pulled away to get a better look and that's when I noticed that it wasn't a pillow.

"Niall, I'm sorry, I fell asleep." I tried to pull away from him, but he still had his arms wrapped around me.

"It's okay Ella." He answered as a smile formed on his face. "I fell asleep too."

"Yeah, you were snoring." I stated with a small giggle at the memory of the sound of his soft snore as I was snuggled up to him. Niall gave a chuckle and in that moment, the idea of Niall liking me back didn't seem so unreasonable. The way he made me feel when he had his arms wrapped around me was something I've only dreamt about, but I knew I shouldn't get my hopes up. "I should go to my room and get dressed."

I didn't need any of the other boys to see me leave Niall's room in just my pyjama pants and a t-shirt, because there was no doubt that any of them would let that pass without questioning me. Sure, I could just tell them I had just gone in there to ask Niall about something, but I wasn't exactly the world's greatest liar.

Niall didn't say anything, but I felt him remove his arms so I could leave. I started to move out of his arms, but before I got fully out of them he stopped me. He then moved closer and before I knew what was happening he pressed a soft kiss to my cheek. "I'll see you downstairs afterwards then." He said with a smile as he let go off me again and sat up in the bed.

My heart was racing, and I don't think it had ever raced as fast as it did then. "You will." I answered him a wide smile spreading across my face as he turned his face away from me. All I wanted to do was to scream, let all the feelings out, but I couldn't, it would definitely send the wrong message, so I got out from underneath his duvets and his bed. I opened the bedroom door carefully and peeked out into the hallway to see if there was anyone there.

I then walked into my room and closed the door after me. I leaned towards the door and slid down so I was sitting there, my back against the door and the smile never left my face. I doubt this day could get any better and I didn't need it to either. It was perfect so far, and I couldn't ask for more.

I think I just sat there on the ground for about ten minutes before I finally stood up and got dressed. I tried to find my phone and couldn't understand where I had left it when I realized that I had brought it with me to Niall's room last night. I must have forgotten it there when I left his room, so I guessed it was still there.

I left my room and knocked on Niall's door in case he was still dressing or something. There was no sound, I was just stood there waiting for the door to be opened, but it never was. I pushed down the handle and walked in slowly, just in case, but he wasn't there. Niall had probably gone down to the kitchen so I walked over to his bed in the search of my phone.

I lifted the duvet, the pillow, and I searched the whole bed, but it wasn't there. Maybe Niall had found it, or maybe it fallen off the bed. I got down on the floor and crawled around it in the hope of finding my phone, but not even when I looked under the bed did I find it.

I sat down on the bed and sighed as my gaze went around the room searching the nightstand, the dresser and his desk if he had put it on one of them, but I wasn't even sure if he had found it. I decided to just ask him afterwards, so I left his room again and started walking down the hall on my way down to the kitchen.