Barbara’s POV
I tried running after Niall, he wouldn’t listen to me. He just kept going. What the hell did I do? It’s not my fault. I thought that Niall would be reasonable, I thought we had something going on. I started to cry, everything happened too fast. It’s just been two days, and within these two days I started liking Niall a lot. I decided to make him feel guilty, and even though I did care I wanted to send off the impression that I didn’t. I grabbed my phone and texted him.
“That was such a fun date, thanks for everything.” I sent to him.
I blamed a lot of this on myself, I have this tendency of opening up to people entirely too quickly and easily. It always ends up screwing me over but it’s just a trait I can’t change.
Niall’s POV
I felt so bad for leaving Barbara behind like that, she looked beautiful today. Her long brown hair in beachy waves, her golden skin and her glowing smile. I cannot fathom the immensity of regret and guilt I feel for leaving her behind. She probably thinks that it’s something wrong with her but it isn’t. Management is going to kill me once they see the news report. I’m literally going to be dead. That’s why I avoided the whole issue, as rough as it may sound my career is much more important than a relationship that probably won’t even last. She deserved some kind of closure but it’s too late now. I can’t be seen with her ever again and I’m going to have to deny everything.
I walked outside the hotel because I needed fresh air, I was just going to go on a small walk until I was bombarded with paparazzi.
“Niall are you dating Barbara?” “How long have you been dating.” “Where is Barbara?”
I decided that I was going to give them an answer.
“The guy that was with Barbara was most definitely not me, pure coincidence. He just looked a lot like me.” I told the paps.
I knew this was going to go everywhere and I knew that Barbara was going to hate me, which made me hate myself a little. I shouldn’t be putting her through hell like this but I need to do what’s best for me and for my career. I looked down at my phone once they finally left me alone to see how many missed calls I had from management, I had over 20, but I also had a text from Barbara, my heart sank as I opened it and read it. Immediate guilt started going through my body, she didn’t deserve that, none of that. And what I just told the paps made everything extremely worse.
I called management back not looking forward to what they were going to say to me. I don’t know why they insist that I remain the single one in the band.
“Hello Niall.”
“Yeah, hi.”
“So you had a little fling going on with that model huh?”
“We were just friends, we were out as friends, the media is manipulative, they’ll do anything in their power to just get a story even if-.”
“Niall, Niall, calm down. It’s okay.”
“What?”
“We’ve thought long and hard about this, as long as Barbara respects the fans, you can be seeing her.”
I hung up and nearly dropped my phone, I was in complete awe.
