Chapter one: Goodbye
“Cat this is urgent news please come over right now!” Niall had called me and this is what I heard. I was freaked out so I threw on some trousers and went over. I barged through the front door and made a bee line towards his room, “Niall! What was this urgent news you needed me here for!?” “Does this shirt match with these pants?” he asked “I’m going over to Harry’s for the week and all the boys are such sharp dressers I need to make sure I look fit.” Did he really just call me over to make sure his outfit matched he must be crazy. “Niall, you look great and all those outfits match don’t worry about anything. You can still make my football tryouts right? It will be a week from when you get back.” He replied “Of course I can make it! I wouldn’t miss it for the world; I mean I did teach you everything you know.” He gave me a friendly nudge and gave me a smirk and then went back to packing. He told me that his flight would be leaving early tomorrow morning for Holmes Chapel; he said he wanted to get one more movie night together before he left. I accepted his idea but I had to go home to straighten myself up a tad. I went home and did my hair and packed an overnight bag to go over.
As soon as I got over he had already had his lounge pants on and had the biggest stack of DVDs I have ever seen. “Ladies choice.” I didn’t want to make him suffer from a chick flick but then I hate horrors but I remembered one of my favorite things in the world is his laugh so I decided on a comedy. I gave him the DVD and he put it into the player. Before I knew it we were only half-way through the movie and I had fallen asleep to Niall laughing at all the cheesy lines in the movie.
I woke up the next morning on his couch with the biggest pain in my back. I looked around and Niall was no where to be seen in his living room. So I got up and walked towards his bedroom, I knocked lightly making sure I didn’t wake him and then opened the door. He wasn’t there either, I checked my phone and I didn’t have any missed calls or texts telling me where he was. Half-asleep and confused I walked towards the kitchen and before I got there his mum came out of her room and saw me and said “ Catherine I thought you had left already? Niall left about a couple hours ago and took a taxi to the airport. Sorry hun I thought he would have woken you up to say goodbye. “ I just stared at her for a while and then walked off to get my stuff.
I put my headphones in and had my backpack on. The entire way walking home I had to hold back tears. His life was going to change if I liked it or not. I just cannot believe he didn’t wake me up to even give him a hug or anything.
Just as I thought he didn’t care about saying goodbye at all I walked up to my house and on the doorstep was a bouquet of flowers and a letter that Niall wrote me it said “ You will always be my number one gal don’t forget that.”
