When Life And Love Gives You A Second Chance (A One Direction Fan Fiction)

Chapter 9 - Cheating

Summer’s POV)

It was the night of the finals and I was so excited. We were invited backstage and we watched everything from there. We didn’t get so much time with the boys before their performance. They were getting ready and running around being nervous. I gave Niall a kiss before he walked out on stage. They made a kick-ass performance with Torn. It was really amazing and I thought they actually would win. That would change their lives forever. They really deserved to win; they fought so hard for it.

When the boys came back from stage I didn’t see Niall anywhere. Emma and I walked with the others towards their dressing room and I hoped I would find him there.

“Niall will come soon, Summer.” Louis explained and smiled at me. Then he left together With Liam, Zayn and Emma. I didn’t really catch where they were going but I was going to stay and wait for Niall anyway. ¨

Harry stayed behind too; he sat across the room from me. There was an awkward silence between us. We never really hung out on our own before so I didn’t know what to talk about. Plus it was a really weird tension between us and I didn’t know what to do.

“Summer,” Harry said breaking the silence. ¨

“Yes?” I said slowly.

“I like you.” He said loud. “Very much.” He added as he walked towards me sitting down next to me on the bench. He looked deep into my eyes and I wasn’t afraid to look back.

“I… Niall…” I started to stammer but he interrupted me by putting his arm around my waist. His was hand moving on my back inside my shirt, it distracted me a lot and I didn’t find my words. Harry’s green eyes stared at me and I didn’t know what to do. 

“I want you.” He said pulling me closer to him.

“No.” I said.

“Yes.” He put his lips on mine and for a second I returned the kiss but then I came back to my senses. I pulled away from him fast.

“I’m not going to do this.” I said angrily, looking at Harry with confused eyes. Then I saw a pair of clear blue eyes in the doorway, wide open of shock.

“Niall, I…”

“It’s okay.” He said opening the door. “Harry we need to get back out. Come on.” And they both disappeared. I didn’t know what to do. I wanted to explain to Niall. I wanted him to know that I didn’t like Harry. Or maybe I did?

To ruin Niall’s night even more, they didn’t make it. They came third. I was so happy for them though because they got really far together. If I only could find Niall and talk to him so that I could explain everything.       

I was also worried that the boys would start fighting within the group all because of me. Zayn calmed my worries a bit when he told the audience that One Direction would stay together for sure. Simon Cowell also promised that this was only the beginning for the boys.

The boys formed a group hug once they got of the stage. Emma and I just stood back and watched because we didn't want to disturb them. After many minutes they let each-other go.

"Niall," I started. "Can I please explain?" I begged when he walked towards me with an empty look on his face.

"It's okay." he said but his sad eyes told me it wasn’t. 

"Let's go talk in private." I said and pulled him with me. We went to the dressing room again. 

"I told him no." I started to explain.

"I know, I saw and heard everything." Niall told me.

"So you know I didn't kiss him on purpose?" I took a deep breathe of relief.

"Yes, I said it was okay didn't I?" Niall said but his eyes still looked so sad. 

"What's wrong then?" I asked him. 

"I doesn't matter that you pulled away for him to avoid hurting me. What's hurting me is that you wanted it, right? I could see it in your eyes. It looked like you were paralyzed. It sounds more like the only thing that kept you from kissing him was hurting me. That if I wasn't there you could have done it." 

"I love you, Niall and only you. I know we belong together. Together our love has created miracles that neither of us can understand today." In fact it was Niall’s love that made me stand here and it was my love for him that kept me there. I was alive because of it. Our love had created something so big and he couldn't even understand it. I wish I could explain it to him.

"You're right about one thing though.” I continued. “Maybe I was under Harry's spell because I like the way he looks at me." 

"What do you mean?" Niall asked while staring at me. "Like when all he sees when he looks at you, is just someone he can sleep with and forget? Do you like when someone treats you trash?" 

"No of course not! I just wish you could look at me like that sometimes. We act like we've been married for 50 years. I just wish you could find me more attractive. I wish you could look at me that way sometimes because I feel unattractive when you don’t.”

"You’re beautiful, Summer. I just don't want to push you into doing something you might regret. I don't like to look at you like that; it's not how I play." Niall was sweet but it just didn’t feel good enough for me.

"You should see how he looks at you when you don't notice, he's crazy about you." Harry said from the doorway. 

"Harry?! What are you doing here?" I asked shocked and scared that he would say something bad.

"I just wanted to apologize for my behaviour before. I can't help that I find you so attractive and unlike Niall, who truly adores you, I can't restrain my feelings. Niall treats you with more honour than I do because he loves you. He never talked about any other girls and he rarely looks at other women. You're his special princess. I'm sorry for making such a mess on your relationship. I didn't mean it." 

"Thanks, Harry" Niall said and smiled his way. Harry smiled back and then nodded my way. He understood that everything was forgiven and walked out again, giving Niall a quick hug on the way out.  

“I really love you, I’m just really afraid of doing something disrespectful.” He walked closer to me and pulled me in his arms. “I love you.” He said again while looking deep into my eyes.

I lost the place where I was. The only thing that existed was Niall. He crashed his lips to mine. We haven’t kissed for real in such a long time. He pulled me close. My hands played with his hair. He moved his hands on my back, inside my shirt. His lips moved down my neck and a moan escaped my mouth. I moved my hands down and was just about to pull the shirt over his hand when someone opened the door. 

It was Louis. 

“I’m sorry to disturb guys but our job isn’t done for the night. We need to get out on stage. Matt won by the way. We got some interviews after the show too.” Louis told us. “Besides I don’t think you should do that in here when you got an unlocked door.” Louis closed the door again and Niall and I busted in to laughter.  He gave me a quick kiss on my smiling lips before we walked out hand in hand.