Abused | Niall Horan

Chapter 27- Steep Stairs

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Niall's POV:

The car journey home is silent, as I try to accept the fact that Alex doesn't remember me.

It feels like it's a nightmare, and I just need to wake up, when I do, it will be okay, Alex will remember me, and Josh wouldn't have gotten to her. But it isn't a nightmare, it's reality.

Cold, bitter, evil reality.

If it was a dream, and I woke up, then I would ring her, and talk for hours, or even go and see her. We would chat and watch films together, under a warm blanket, with hot chocolate.

I'm pretty sure the thoughts that are in my head are pretty much describing a boyfriend relationship with her, even though I haven't actually asked her, and she's only known me a few days.

I wonder what she would say if I asked her?

Well, I can't exactly ask her now, because she is in hospital and doesn't remember me, so if I asked her, she would probably slap me or yell at me, or run away.

I wish I had gotten to know her better, if I had known her longer, then maybe she would remember me.

I think Dr Lawrence said something like, if they think about it a lot, it will come back to them gradually.

I don't understand though, how can she think of something she doesn't know happened?

Will she remember small things, and then put them together or something?

I can't get my head around it.

I made a really bad impression when I went in to see her.

From her point of view, it must have been really weird if 4 guys who she thought were strangers, just came to see her in the hospital.

Actually, she hadn't met Liam, Louis or Zayn in person yet, so I understand her worry around them.

Then me, going in there and asking her if she was okay, holding her hand- crying to her, that may have looked strange.

If that happened to me, my heart would be beating frantically, and I would make them leave immediately.

I didn't get the chance to explain anything to her though.

Does she actually remember what happened to her? Isn't she wondering why she is in the hospital?

Because if she does remember what Josh did to her, she's got to remember us all going in to help her, or Josh video calling us.

Otherwise, there's a chunk of the story missing for her.

I get so consumed in my thoughts that we are already at my flat, and the time has flown by.

I sigh and open the car door slowly, the energy that I had earlier, has burned away, leaving me a tired mess.

I climb out of the car, tripping over my own feet, and Louis runs around the car to my side, and puts my arm around his shoulder.

"Come on Niall, it's gonna be okay." He says forcing a half smile, trying to cheer me up, but clearly not believing his own words.

I appreciate his attempt and give him a sad smile, shifting more of my own weight back onto my legs, rather than his shoulder.

"Do you have the key?" Zayn asks me, "I lost my copy of it."

I sigh again and dig into my pocket and hand it to him.

"Thanks." He says, pushing it into the keyhole and turning it.

The door clicks and we step into the building, now we just need to get up the stairs.

I regret having the top floor, as I stare up the staircase, it seeming to be 20 times longer than usual.

There is a lift, but it has been broken ever since I moved in, I've never actually used it, and it being broken hasn't ever bothered me until now.

I groan and grab the bannister and begin to practically drag myself up the stairs.

Louis is one step ahead of me (literally) and is also helping me up.

Each step seems like it's stepper than the last and that there's a lot more of them.

When I finally reach the top, Zayn unlocks the door with my set of keys I have him earlier.

They take me to my bedroom and I lay down.

"We'll be in the livingroom if you need us. Don't worry Niall, everything's going to be okay. Of course she's going to remember you. It would be impossible to forget you forever.
We saw lots of photos on twitter, the things you two did were really sweet. There's no way that they will not come back to her." Liam says smiling, his eyes hopeful.

"I hope you're right. Goodnight." I say and he nods before closing the door.

I just lay on my bed, with my head sunk into my pillow, I start crying and let my thoughts consume me once
again, before falling asleep.

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AN: Sorry, I know it's a boring chapter, but I was going to include more, but I didn't have time to write it, and I hadn't updated in a few days, so I decided to, and I'm just going to include what I was going to in the next chapters.

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