Tragedy to Love

Ireland

"Sally!" I was sprinting toward her. She was standing on the edge of a rock over the river being tormented by about four or five boys. She had the look of terror in her eyes. I couldn't let anything happen to her because I know Sam would die if anything did.

"Niall help me!" She screamed as the boys were getting closer to her as she was getting closer to the river. The boys looked about thirteen so why are they picking on a ten year old? "Niall!" She was screeching my name.

"Get away from her!" I screamed jumping toward the boys.

"Or what?" They all laughed.

"Why are you doing this to her?" I asked them curious as to why they would be torturing a poor little girl.

"Well this stupid little girl decided to kick sand at us." He sneered edging toward Sally.

"I said it was an accident! I was playing in the sand box and I tripped!" She was trembling.

"Oh well now you pay the price. What you don't want to go for a swim little girl?" He smirked as the other kids laughed.

"Don't touch her." I said clenching my teeth.

"Oh you mean like this." And he poked her right in the stomach hard enough where she stepped back.

"Sally stop moving!" I yelled reaching for her.

"Niall help me." She said softly as the kid continued to poke her.

"That's it!" I busted I took the kid and threw him right off the rock on to the ground. The other kids grew wide eyed and ran away and helped the other kid up. I ran up to Sally on the rock and helped her down.

"Are you alright?" I said cupping her face in my hands.

"Mhm." She said shaking her head a smile on her face as a tear rolled down her cheek. She gave me a tight hug and I took her hand as we walked back to the apartment.

Sam's P.O.V

I was lying on the couch when I heard the door open and I opened my eyes. The first thing I saw was Sally with her face tear stained and Niall with a bloody knee.

"What happened?" I sprinted up off the couch over to the two.

"Well Sally had a little run in with some boys and things got out of hand but it's okay now." Niall explained.

"Nothing… bad happened right?" Niall got what I meant by bad.

"No just some boys who were in the way when Sally kicked some sand up was all. She's fine now." Niall walked over to the sink and cleaned off his knee.

"Niall saved me." Sally said softly. "If he hadn't come I would have been somewhere floating in that river." She shivered.

"What! You never mentioned a river!" I was furious that somebody tried to push Sally in a river.

"I said it was fine Sam. Calm down." Niall said before walking out.

"Sally why don't you go take a bath." I told her and with no hesitation she was in the bathroom.

I walked over to the bedroom where Niall had gone. "Niall?" I asked sheepishly. We had not exactly been on speaking terms lately.

"What?" He said without turning to face me in the door way.

"Thank you." I walked over to sit next to him. When my arm brushed his it sent shivers up and down my arm. He was so warm even with it being cold out.

"No problem." He looked up and his eyes and mine locked for the first time in many days. I missed this so much and he had no idea. We just sat there staring into each other's eyes. "Sam, I love you." He said softly. Those words I hadn't heard in days and they gave me butterflies.