Something in the Mist. [Niall Horan fanfic]

7. Past Presens Future?

Merediths POV.

I woke up early the next morning. Well, I didn't exactly wake up. I had been awake the entire night, my brain refused to stop thinking. But when the clock had striked 5 am, I had made an decision. And as I had made that, everything else felt much easier on my shoulders. The hardest part had been to choose the right thing to do.

I put on my favourite red slippers from Primark and went out of my room and went into the living room. On the couch Niall was asleep with his mouth half open, while his blanket had fallen down on the floor. I giggled quietly and walked towards him and put the white blanket on Niall again, I didn't want him to be cold. Just as I was gently wrapping the blanket around him he slowly opened his eyes and looked at me. For a moment he looked shocked and looked around in the room. But just a few minutes after a smile came onto his lips, he remebered.

"Good morning", I said and smiled brightly at him.

"Hey", he said with a raspy morning voice.

"Slept well?" I asked him, but I already knew the answer. Me and Wes bought this couch at a fleamarket, we didn't have much money so this was all we affored, and it wasn't very comfy. "Can I make you some breakfast?"

"I'll help", he said and stood up. Too my suprise he was only wearing a pair of black boxers.

"Oh-" I said and felt the blush take place on my cheeks. I quickly looked away.

"Sorry", he said and put on his jeans and t-shirt quickly. "Didn't mean to, you know, showing off too much skin. But I couldn't sleep in my jeans, and I didn't bring a pyjamas.

"You could've just asked for something, Wes would for sure lend you some."

"Forgot you had a roommate", he smirked. "Where is he anyways? Didn't see him yesterday."

"He's with his boyfriend, he understood that we needed some privacy."

"Nice of him", he said.

"You're probably used to a very fancy breakfast, but I can only offer scrambled eggs, juice and coffee."

"Sounds perfect", he said. We walked into the kitchen, he started making scrambled eggs while I made coffee. Then we sat down with our breakfast and chatted for a bit. Not about the baby, just things about ourselves and our lifes. He was a really nice person, and seemed very energetic. He had the most contagious laugh, so our breakfast ended with tears streaming down our cheeks.

"So, what do you want to do today? I have a day free", he asked when we had calmed down.

"I don't know. It seems like it's a lovely weather outside, maybe we could just take a walk?" I suggested, but by the time I saw his disaproving facial expression I quickly changed my mind. "Right, sorry, you're a celebrity and got loads of paparazzi around you."

"Sorry 'bout that, but if I go out the media will go crazy, and you will get so much attention, and trust me, it's not very nice all the time."

"What's your favourite movie?" I suddenly asked and looked up at him.

"Eh-" he said. "The Godfather, James Bond, and Frozen of course."

"I can go and rent a few movies, and we'll just stay in all day."

"Are you okay with that? I mean-it's not the ideal way to spend a sunny day."

"Don't sweat it, I'm perfectly fine with watching a movie, to be honest, I would much rather spend the day indoors. I'm not much of an outdoors type."

"Great!" He said and smiled his big, beautiful smile.

"Stay here while I just go and rent some, it won't take long, the rental shop is just a few minutes away."

"Great!" Niall said and smiled. "I'll do the dishes while you go."

"Awesome", I said and walked towards the hall.

"Hey Meredith?" Nialls asked behind me.

"Yes?" I said and turned around.

"I'm really happy you found me."

"Me too", I smiled.

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"Let it gooo, let it gooo, can't hold it back anymooore!!" Me and Niall sang in harmony. We were on our knees on the floor with our hands in the air like we were performing for millions of people. "The snow never bothered me anyways!" We sang and started laughing hysterically.

"I'm gonna have a talk with the management and see if you can join the band", he joked.

"That'll be great", I laughed and took a sip of water. "How amazing is Frozen though?"

"It's amazing! I've watched it atleast five times, and it keeps getting better."

"Right?!" I agreed. "Favourite character on three, go."

"Olaf!" He said.

"Anna!" I said.

"Are you kidding me? Olaf is the best one, no doubt. He is the one that makes the film funny!"

"Well, a charachter needs to have more depth. Anna is the ideal character."

"Olaf does have depth!" Niall disagreed. This argument was going on for a long time. We didn't realise how long we'd discussed it until Anna was getting ill, and Kristoff took her to Prince Hans. We stopped talking and looked at the rest of the movie with big teary eyes. When the film was almost at its end, when Kristoff kissed Anna, Niall grabbed my hand. I looked into his clear blue eyes and smiled shyly. He leaned forward, and just as our lips were about to meet, I quickly backed off. He looked at me with a mixture between shock and disapointment.

"I'm sorry, it's just-" I began. "We just got to know eachother, and we have a past, and probably not a future. I can't do this."

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Sorry for the short chapter, but I'm much better at posting now, right? :P

Lisa x.