Shutterbug (With Vic Fuentes and Niall Horan)

Chapter 8

"Vic!"  I screamed playfully as he wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me so close there was no gap between us.

We were back at the pond he brought me to the day before.  Birds were singing and the sun was large but wasn't too hot.  You could say everything was perfect.

He lowered his head and rested his chin where my neck meets my shoulder.  He sighed.  "I love you, Lennon."  I felt the touch of his warm lips replace the spot where his chin once rested.  I felt the biggest of all smiles grow on my face.  He opened his mouth to speak again but this time a different voice rang out, an accented one.  "Do you love me?"  The Irish twang startled me, expecting  Vic's voice once again, But that was soon gone when a flock of butterflies were unleashed in my body.

I turned to face the man and i was greeted by flowing blond hair and bright blue eyes that seemed to put you in a trance when you looked deep enough.  I slowly brought myself up a couple inches to where our lips just barely met, he met me half way and pulled me into a full embrace. 

It was magical and when we finally pulled away i looked up one more time to take in the beauty of the blue eyed boy, only to gaze upon swirling brown eyes.  I took a step back.  The man i thought was Vic was Niall and the Boy i thought was Niall was Vic. 

Still in his embrace, he stepped with me, bringing me closer to his body.  He leaned down once again to lock me into another kiss.  I wanted to meet him again, but i was too scared that when i pulled away once again, a different man would be standing there.  I was too afraid of him not being the one i kissed.

I ducked out of his grasp.  "What's wrong?"  The man asked, still in Vic's character.

I shook my head, I didn't know.  "Y-you're not-"

He opened his arms again to comfort me.  I took a step back, only land on someones foot.  I started to wobbled backwards when another figure caught me.  "You okay there, love?" Niall.

Both Vic and Niall were now standing over me. and in unison they both chant, "Do you love me?" over and over again.

I felt the tears well up in my eyes, my skin, hot.  My hands grip my ears as they both close in.  I start to scream, telling them to leave me alone, to go away but they both just keep inching closer and closer.

i was ripped away from this scene by a violent strike to the stomach. I sat up, panting.  I looked to see where the mysterious pressure was coming from when i saw Vic's startled face laying across my stomach.

"Doll, are you okay?"  He asked, rolling over into a sitting position by my side.  He draped his arm around me and coddled me in him arms.  

The tears i had felt in the dream were real now, barreling over my eyelid and down my cheeks.  His grip tightened.  "Vic, it was Horrible!"  I screamed, not caring who heard me.  "It was you and Niall, and-"

He cut me off mid sentence.  "It's okay Lenny, It was just a dream.  Whatever it was, is over now."  He pulled me tighter and pushed his lips to the top of my head.

"Vic?"  I looked up at him.

"Yes?"  He sighed.

"Have you ever loved someone?"  this question was blunt, and took him my surprise.  

He looked at me confused.  "What do you mean?"

"Like,"  I sighed.  "Have you ever loved someone but you couldn't love them, so you put all your feelings for them in a box and then burned it?"

"Why would someone do that?"  He asked looking at me again.

"Because there was someone else, the safer option, i suppose?"