Chapter 36

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Know I’ve done wrong,
I left your heart torn
Is that what devils do?
Took you so low,
Where only fools go
I shook the angel in you

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 GENE'S POINT OF VIEW

"Gene," Niall starts. I clench my teeth and stare down at him. My eyes flit to the ring in his hand and I marvel at it's beauty. It's a gold engagement ring, shaped in an infinity sign with diamonds bordering it. He opens his mouth to continue when all of a sudden, there is a rapid knocking on our door. 

"Niall James Horan! Open this door right now!" A man's voice shouts through the door. Confused expressions cross everyone's face and I glance behind me to the front door. 

"Fuck!" Niall swears. "Gene, baby, please answer. Please marry me." 

I frown and take a step back.

"Wait. I know that voice. I remember that voice." I say. The man continues shouting and I make my way to the door. 

"Gene!" I hear Niall call me from behind telling me not to open the door, but I do anyways. 

A middle aged man barges into our apartment, dressed in a suit. He brushes straight past me and I fail to see his face. He glances around the room, taking in all the people and wrapping paper and leftover cake. His eyes travel around the room until they settle on Niall.

"Come with me. Now." The man demands. Niall scowls.

"Get the fuck out of my apartment." He shouted. The man made a move to grab Niall, but Niall quickly shoves him away. Everyone else seemed to migrate out of the living room, shutting the door behind them to give us privacy.

"I said, get the fuck out of my apartment, Dad." Niall sneered.

Suddenly, everything comes crashing down on me.

Memory upon memory. I suddenly remembered breaking up with Niall. It replayed in my head like a movie and that man's voice echoed throughout my head. It was him. He was the one who made me do it. He was the one who ruined my life.

"You!" I gasped out. Everyone turned to look at me and the man slowly revolved until he was facing me. "You're the man in my nightmares. You're Niall's.....dad."

Niall took a step forward and made a low sound in his throat.

"Why are you here!?" He snapped. The man laughed.

"Who's birthday is it?" He asks, smiling. 

"Mine." I said. The man walks over to me and eyes me up and down before reaching up and taking a piece of my hair in his hand. 

"Don't touch her!" Niall said, already walking over. He pushed me behind him and glared at the man. 

"I wouldn't touch her either, if I were you, son." The man said. Niall faltered for a second in confusion.

"What? What the fuck are you talking about?" He spat out. The man raised his eyebrow.

"Don't you know why she broke up with you?," He laughed. "Please don't tell me she hasn't even told you herself."

Niall turns around and looks at me.

"What is he talking about, Gene?" He askes frantically, his eyes wide and demanding.

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