Finding Love

Chapter 14

Niall's POV

"Babe, stop! You're making me laugh and it's hurting!" I scream like a little girl to Taylor as she continued to tickle me.

Right now we are at my house, listening to music and playing around. It's nice to finally be able to be with her and hang out with her with out the stress of my friends. It's nice to see her smile, it means everything to me to see her smile.

"But I can't stop, it's funny." She said. After another minute of complaining, she stopped and laid down on my bed with me. I fake pouted and pretended to be mad, but she simply rolled her eyes at me.

She turned her head and smiled her beautiful smile. "I love that, you know that right?" She asked, and I couldn't help but smile. Just hearing those three words could change my whole mood. I smiled at her a did the only thing on my mind: I kissed her. Kissing her was beautiful and adventurous each time. Her lips were soft, but she pushed them against mine hard. Kissing her was simply lovely, much better than any other girl I've kissed.

"I love you too Taylor." I said as I pulled away, but leaned back in and nuzzled into her neck.

"I talked to Louis, he's okay with it and he said that he already knew because I was 'acting different'" she said with air quotes and I couldn't help but laugh at the small gesture.

"That's great love bug." Her smile vanished and before I could say anything about it she broke out into laughter.

"Love bug? That's hilarious." She finally said once her laughter died down.

"What's wrong with love bug I thought it was super cute and adorable, but if you think other wise, the door is that way." I said and jokingly pointed to the door. She just smiled brighter and jumped on me, pulling me into a hug.

"Gosh your so darn cute boo bear." Taylor giggled into my ear.

"Well hello love bug, I'm boo bear." I laughed and pulled her into a hug.

I knew I'd have to tell her how it went with my friends, I just didn't want to. I didn't want to break her, I didn't want to see her face broken. And I knew that she would break.

"Erm, Taylor babe, I've got some bad news." Her smile faded as she looked at me.

"What's wrong?" She asked and pulled me closer to her. I let a moment of warmth of comfort pass over me before I pulled away to explain.

"Zayn is mad about us, he walked away. I don't know what to do. He is my best friend and he walked away because you aren't 'popular' or what he thinks is 'popular'." I said, looking down at her hands which were on top of mine.

"Niall that's not really news to me, I figured it might happen. I'm sorry, I didn't want anything to go wrong with you telling your friends about us, I was hoping for the opposite reaction actually." She bought her hand to my cheek and wiped away a tear that I didn't even know was falling. "I understand if you don't want to be with me anymore, I know Zayn is your best friend, and I shouldn't come before your closest friends, I completely understand if we can't be together anymore." She whispered the last part and wiped her own tears. I was shocked, what was she saying? Why would I break up with her?

My thoughts were going crazy that I didn't even notice her getting up from the bed. Before she could opened the door, I jumped up and ran after her. I grabbed her and spun her around and pushed her against the door softly, careful not to hurt her.

"I will never never break up with you, I love you with all my heart. And nothing can change that, you're my love bug after all. And nothing will stop me from being with my love bug." I whispered into her ear. " I LOVE YOU!" I yelled after moving to the front of her face. I grabbed her face with my hands and pulled her in for a deep kiss. The kiss was perfect and in sync and I felt a manly version of butterfly's in my stomach. I grinned as I pulled away and pecked her once more on the nose.

"I love you too." She responded and pulled me closer.

In that moment I knew I wanted to be with her forever, even if it means losing one of my best friends. She will become my best friend.

Taylor's POV

What am I going to do? I can't live with this guilt, I cant be the reason Niall lost his best friend. I know that Zayn's being ridiculous about this whole 'popularity' thing, but no matter how much I hate him, Zayn is Niall's best friends. I cant come between them, I don't want Naill to resent me later on in life. I love Niall but I can't do that to him. He is popular and I'm not, its as simple as that. I need to end this, I need to get out now, before I hurt him more than I should. I will always love him, but he needs someone better. Someone who he can be proud of and bring around his friends.

"I better get going, don't want my mum worrying about me." I told him and stood up quickly and left before Niall could get a word in.

I made it out the front door before I burst into tears. He's the love of my life and I have to end it. The tears were coming to fast and pain was overbearing. I have to find a way out to be good enough for Niall so we can stay together. There's only one think I have to do, I have to talk to Zayn.

*Next day at school*

I made it through the first half of this horrid day with out talking to Niall. It was becoming increasingly hard to ignore my sweet Irish boy so I ended to find Zayn and talk to him as soon as I could.

I saw Zayn walking down the hall towards the lunch room. I took a deep breath to build up my confidence and walked towards him.

"Hey!" I yelled, successfully getting his attention. "I have to talk to you. Now." I said with as much force as I could muster. He turned and looked towards me with a confused and kinda scared face.

Perfect.

"I need to talk to you and how you disrespected you best friend because you are too arrogant to realize that maybe he is happy, you have some nerve. He's you best friend, you should be glad that he's happy no matter who its with. You disgust me." I spat. "You have no right to be upset with him. You are the reason why all people can't be friends because you think you are better than the rest of us, when in reality you are nothing. And one last thing, because I'm a nice person and I don't want to be the reason why two people can't be friends, you get your wish, I'm breaking up with Niall because I know he loves you even when you are a dirt bag. So get off your pedestal and go talk to Niall." I gave him one last look of disgust and hatred before turning away.

Before he could say anything I quickly walked down the hallway. As tears fall from my eyes I decided to skip the rest of the day and headed towards the parking lot. My tears were blurring my vision so bad that I almost didn't notice Zayn standing in front of my car.

"What do you want?" I snapped at him. I was tired and not in they mood for any of his shit. Without looking at him, I dug my keys out of my bag as I waited for him to say something.

"I want to say sorry." I laughed bitterly and turned towards him.

"You're funny. Where are the cameras because I know I'm being pranked." I barked at him.

"I'm not a swear, I want to apologize. I'm a dirtbag, I know, I just didn't like the idea that Niall was keeping a secret from us. Just don't break up with him, he really cares about you." He pleaded, but let's be honest; this is Zayn Malik, I wouldn't be in my right mind if I believed him.

"I don't believe you." I said and opened the door to my car and got in. Before I closed the door Zayn grabbed a hold of the handle and pulled it back open.

"You must believe me, I never wanted to hurt anyone, Niall is my best friend and I love him. I just don't like people keeping secrets." He stated as if I cared.

"I don't need you BS, now please let go of the door and get out of my way." I yanked the door out of his hand and slammed it shut.

I knew he was lying. But for some reason, I couldn't help but feel sorry for him.

But that doesn't matter, I need to break up with Niall.

He's done so much for me, this is the least I can do for him.