Falling for you.

Chapter 9

The car is filled with silence as Niall speeds to where? Back home? The hospital? Oh god not the hospital. My grip tightens on his hand as I think about shots and blood and all the other things that a hospital involves.

"Gonna be ok babe." Niall says reassuringly.

"He kissed me." I think to myself "and called me princess."

"Dammit!" Niall says startling me out of my daze. I hadn't realized we had pulled into Harry's driveway.

"No ones here." Niall sighs as he runs around to the backseat and pulls me out gently. It's true the other cars that usually litter the driveway are gone.

Niall pushes the door open and dashes upstairs to the bathroom. He sets me down on the edge of the tub.

"Baby what happened?" Niall says, tears swimming in his eyes.

"He tried to take your necklace." I whisper I gasp the necklace! Pain shoots through my body as my hand flies up and grabs the chain. The key is caked in blood but it's still there.

"You should have given it to him." Niall took both my hands and pressed his forehead to mine. "If you would have...." A tear falls between us and I can't decide who it belonged to.

"We need to get you cleaned up." Niall continued sniffing as he got up and turned on the water for the bath. He left the room and returned a minute later. He dips a washrag into the already filling tub and as he brings his hand back I grab it.

"Niall I feel sick." I tell him urgently. Niall acts quickly lifting the seat of the toilet next to us and scooting me closer just in time for me to vomit into the bowl.

"Oh baby." Niall whispers rubbing my back soothingly. I vomit again. And again. And again. Until there is nothing left in me to vomit and I'm just retching. Niall holds my hand and rubs my back the whole time, until finally even the retching subsides.

Niall gently spins me a around so my feet are in the warm water. There is immediate stinging and the water turns a light pink. I try not to cry out.

Niall lifts my shirt above my head, helping me out of it because I can't lift my arms, and begins to dab the rag on the cuts and scrapes, washing the blood away. I sit silently watching Niall work, gritting my teeth and trying to ignore the stinging. By now the water has turned a light shade of red. I didn't know I had been hurt that badly. I tried to rotate my shoulder a little bit but I felt a sharp searing pain that caused my eyes to widen.

"Don't do that babe." Niall told me. "You probably pulled a muscle. I'll wrap it up after we're finished." Niall proceeds to wash the blood out of my hair and clean the cuts and scrapes on my legs. There are angry, dark bruises everywhere and the water has turned terribly dirty. But finally when I felt like I couldn't keep my eyes open much longer Niall wrapped me in a towel and carried me into his room laying me down on the bed.

"I'm going to call your mom." Niall explains gently. I groan. Niall smiles a little.

"She'll understand." Niall assures me.

"Not if she's drunk." I mumble. Niall starts to leave but I grab his hand.

"Ni?" I say though it sounded more like a question.

"Yeah babe?" Niall replies.

I close my eyes. "No more mood swings ok?" I whisper.

"Ok." Niall smiles and leans down his lips brushing mine briefly. Then he's gone.