Niam One Shots

24- Two Pieces of a Broken Heart

Warning: Payzer

(I actually fucking love Payzer. But niams kind of my OTP. Sigh. I'm so confused all the time.)

24- Two Pieces of a Broken Heart

"Damn it, Danielle! I understand you're pregnant, but your bossy attitude gets too hard for me to handle when you spit at me for not polishing your wardrobe door handles good enough!" Niall heard Liam's angry shouts from the hallway of the apartment complex they lived in. Niall lived on the far end of the corridor, but he just happened to be getting in from the shops as the argument started.

It wasn't the first time though; Niall often heard poor Liam being bitched at by his pregnant wife. Usually after those fights Liam would storm out and walk on over to Niall's flat to cool down, and Niall always let him in because they were best friends, and that's what best friends do.

Okay, maybe Niall was a bit in love with Liam too, but even if he wasn't he would still let Liam in. Sometimes Niall felt like Liam loved him too, on those nights where a fight with Danielle would be especially nasty and he could hear from his end of the hallway. But just when he thought Liam would make a move, he always stopped himself whispering, I should get back to Danielle.

Niall would just nod because who was he to expect anything more than friendship from a married man? A married man with a baby on the way.

Just as he was struggling with one of ten plastic bags stuffed full with recipe ingredients, he heard a door open down the hallway. He reached for his keys in the pocket of his grey hoodie, and dropped them just as soon as he grabbed them. He cursed as he pent down, leaning a hand on his bare knee where his black basketball shorts didn't cover. With a flick-away of dirt on new white nikes, he leaned back up almost dropping all his groceries.

"Where are you going!?" a shrill voice shouted loudly, making Niall wince.

"Out!" Liam's angry voice replied.

Niall turned around quickly after hearing him, and couldn't help the wide smile on his face as Liam walked quickly down the hall toward Niall. Liam surprisingly returned the grin, but then again Niall could always make Liam smile at his worst moments.

With a happy sigh, he took in the fact that Liam was wearing Niall's favorite hoodie that the brunette owned. The black hoodie with a white Adidas symbol fit perfectly on Liam, and Niall especially liked the jeans he was wearing.

Niall turned his eyes to focus on the small girl with a huge belly standing in the doorway of their flat on the other side of the hallway. The fluorescent lights casted a large shadow of her pregnant belly into the wooden floors, but Niall wasn't looking at that. He was watching the way she glared at him with a hateful look, but Niall just looked away. He was never one to give his personal opinion on Liam's wife.

"Hey Ni, need help with that?" Liam asked quietly, once he reached the blonde's door. Niall nodded, leaning his head on Liam's shoulder as the man unlocked Niall's own apartment. Once it was open, he entered and dropped Niall's keys into the bowl at the table beside the door while the blonde hobbled off to the kitchen with the bags. Liam inhaled the smell of Niall's flat, smelling like his cologne and the automatic raspberry air fresheners his mom always made him keep around the house.

"I'm just about to make dinner, you want to stay for steaks and beer?" Niall asked from the kitchen, and smiled gently when Liam came and sat up on his counter-top island in the middle of the medium sized kitchen.

"That sounds great, thank you. Danielle was making some funky shit that she found in a cheap cookbook. Wouldn't want to eat anything with that much cumin in it." Liam shuddered. Niall just laughed because he didn't need to say anything else; the silence was comfortable with Liam.