Flying in Love (a Niall Horan fan fic)

Chapter 51

"Lexi! LEXI! LEXI WAKE UP!" Someone shakes me awake. I open my eyes to Brian. "What do you want?" I grumble.

"Lexi, we need to go!"

"Go where?" I mumble again and adjust my position to get comfortable and get some more sleep.

"THE HOSPITAL CALLED AND SAID DAD IS IN THE HOSPITAL!" the words make me wide awake and I stand straight up. "What?!"

"C'mon! We need to go!" I look around to see Zayn sleeping on the floor, Louis on the kitchen table, and Liam on the other couch, still snoring. Woah, their deep sleepers. Wait where's Niall? Probably at home. "Are you coming or what?" Brian asks.

I quickly get my coat and we run to the car.

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I'm not crying yet, just more in shock. Why me? Why do I have to be the one who becomes an orphan?

Brian on the other hand, is bawling. I rub his back and rest my head on his shoulder. "T-the nurse said it was a c-car accident," he stutters through his tears.

"Alexa? Brian?" my dad grumbles.

"Dad!" I kneel on the floor.

"Just remember that I love you very much. I know I never had time for you guys and I really regret that." he holds my hand and I finally feel a tear crawl down my cheek.

"Dad, please don't go." Brian sobs.

"I love you, daddy" I cry.

"Stay beautiful," we're his last words. Those two words brought back more memories than any other two words could.

*beep* *beep* *beep* *beeeeep* the line that was once moving up and down repeatedly on the screen goes flat.

I put my head down onto he white hospital sheets and cry.

"No! NO!" I scream. How can this be? How can this happen again to me!?

Several minutes pass before I get up and decide that Brian and I should leave. "I'm so sorry for your loss..." the nurse walks in before we walk out. I look back at my dad while the nurse puts the sheet up and over my dad's head.

'Stay beautiful'

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I've spent two hours in my room, crying. It's 11:00 and the boys are still sleeping. I don't mind. No one can make me feel better anyways. Not even Niall. I just have to face the fact. The fact that I'm never going to be happy ever again. The fact that I'm only nineteen and I'm an orphan.

It's like I have a hole in my heart. And it's empty. But it used to be full. Full of love and care. Then my mom passed. Part of my heart died with her. But I still had most of my heart left. I still had my dad and brother.

And now I only have my brother.

It's funny though. As a kid, I was a mommy's girl. Yet now that my dad is gone, it seems like I've always been a daddy's girl. And those two words still haunt me.

There was this one time when I was little, maybe six, I was playing princesses with my neighbor. She was the queen, even though she was a year younger than me. I was the princess. Brian was the king. And my dad? He was the dragon. My beautiful mom was taking pictures from the glass door that led to our backyard. I don't think she wanted us to notice. But, we all knew she was there.

"Rooaarr!!" my dad would crawl around and chase us.

"Aaahhhhhhh! The evil dragon!" my neighbor would scream.

"I'll save us!" Brian would boast and poke my dad with a twig and my dad would fall like he died.

"You saved our lives!" I'd say before hugging him.

"My husband is a life saver!" my neighbor would kiss him on the cheek.

Then, all of us would go inside for some ice cream. Even back then, my dad went to work everyday. He'd quickly finish his ice cream and rush out the door before kissing us. "Bye princess!" he joke. "Bye daddy!" I'd hug him.

"Oh and princess?" he'd say before walking out.

"Yes?"

"Stay beautiful"

Stay beautiful. How cliche. But I always loved hearing him say that. When you think about it, he said stay. So that means I'm already beautiful and he wants me to continue being beautiful.

I wish I could turn back time and be a beautiful princess again. And my long lost neighbor could be the queen. We used to be best friends. Until she moved.

And I wish my brother would become a king again. And my dad would be the evil dragon. While my mom would take pictures to hold memories.

I long to hear my dad tell me one more time 'Stay beautiful'.

"It'll be okay" A voice startles me.

"W-what?" I look up to see Liam at the doorway.

"Umm...The whole thing you explained to me. How your dad passed, how you were a princess, so on..."

Shit. I spoke my thoughts again.

A/N

Really short but better than nothing right? Anyway, I still can't believe we have 1K! AHHH!

Thanks so much! Happy early Valentines day! Hope you guys have dates, unlike me ;). My Valentines day consists of ice cream, The Fault in Our Stars book, and a tissue box. Cause...the books pretty emotional.

DONT JUDGE.

Byeeeee

~Liz