Chapter 9

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Ashley's POV

"You have to pack your suitcase." Niall tells me.

"Yeah, good morning to you too."

"I'm sorry I kinda forgot to say that." he chuckles. I just roll my eyes. We're leaving to get to the airport soon, we have to pack our suitcases and then we have to get to the airport. I yawn and rub my eyes. I strech my arms and Niall grabs my wrist, pulling me out of bed. "You need to hurry a bit up you haven't packed anything at all."

"Maybe I'm fast at throwing stuff into my suitcase?"

"Of course." he says sarcastically. I poke his stomach and he embraces me lifting me up.

"Stop! I'm scared of heights!" I shout maybe a bit too loud considering that it's 4 am.

"You're a liar." he says.

"So what if?" I ask raising an eyebrow. 

Sometimes I wonder what's going on with Niall because one moment he's so nice to me and then he's as cold as ice and as talkative as a brick wall. Like, last night he just let me leave without anything and now we're having fun together, explain that to me please.

"Come on I can help you pack." 

"Who says that I need help."

"I do, and now hurry up or we'll be the last ones in the lobby." 

You might want to know why nobody packed before. Last night none of us felt like it and we decided that it would be better if we enjoy the last day fully and pack in the morning.

I walk into the bathroom and get everything out of it putting it onto my bed. Then, I grab the clothes out of the wardrobe and fold them one after the other. Afterwards I fit all my stuff into the suitcase. I don't even need to sit on it when I close the zipper.

"Are you looking forward to be home again?" Niall suddenly asks on our way to the stairs.

"Sort of. I miss my brother but he's going to pick me up from the airport today and we'll spend the rest of the day together." I say.

"Come on I'll carry your suitcase down for you."

"No, I can do that by myself" I grab my suitcase and walk after him. I miss one step though and slide down. Before I fall Niall catches me and grins.

"You sure about that?"

I blush madly and carry it down fully now. I hope he never mentions that accident.

When we see the others in the lobby we just talk a bit until the bus that takes us to the airport arrives. We give the driver our suitcases and then we take a seat inside. It's a skyline bus, a new one. 

"Okay guys listen, the plans for the next weeks are the following. Tomorrow we just relax or whatever, then the day after that we celebrate my birthday, Ashley you're invited too by the way. Then again one day nothing to pack for the city trips. We fly to Munich, Rome, Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam, New York and then Miami where we'll stay until the TCA's where we're  nominated and Ashley is a host. Got that?" Liam says. We all answer yes.

I lean back and close my eyes. I'm so tired. It takes only 15 minutes to get from Ammoudara to the airport in Heraklion. When we get our suitcases we walk straight to the counter where we can give it away.

We have to wait so long it's annoying. Usually I'm a patient person but not when it comes to airports. About 45 minutes later we can gladly go through security check. It might sound strange but I'm already exhausted.

We're waiting till we can board the plane. I'm sitting next to Pascalle.

"Hey I know we didn't have the best start but I'd like to hang out with you because you're very nice."

"Sounds good to me." I reply.

"Are you free tomorrow? We could have a girlsday at Liam's and my flat?" Pascalle suggests.

"Would love to, text me the address when we're home, this damn WiFi here isn't working."

"I will"

I look out of the windows seeing a plane land and another one fly away.

"Flight to London Heathrow airport is now boarding" we suddenly hear and stand up going to the man that scans our tickets again. I'm the first one to walk into the bus that takes us to the airplane.

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"Thank god we landed." I hear Sarah say next to me. It took long to fly. About 3 hours I think. It's just annoying that it was dark almost all the time. Now it isn't dark anymore though.

It takes so long until we get to baggage reclaim. Niall is the first one there though and the suitcases are already coming. All of us rush to get there.

Niall lifts my suitcase off the belt for me.

"Thank you." I say with a smile. He smiles as well. I get a text from my brother saying that he'll be a bit late cause he overslept. I can't blame him, I probably would have too.

"Guys we're leaving now" Eleanor says and one by one leaves until Niall and I are the only one's left.

"What are you waiting for?" I ask him when we sit down on a bench in the arrival hall.

"I don't want you to be alone." he smiles.

"You know it would be no problem if you just leave my brother is here soon. I'm prett-" he interrupts me with a kiss. I deepen the kiss a bit before we pull away.

None of us speaks we just sit there in silence. I wonder why he kissed me when he doesn't like me. If he liked me, what probably isn't the case, why is he mean to me?

I shiver a bit and Niall looks at me. "Freezing?" he asks. I nod slowly. He takes off his sweater and gives it to me. He's wearing a white t-shirt now. I put on the pullover and thank him.

A few minutes later my brother walks in and I run towards him hugging him tightly.

"Hi Ash, hope you had a nice vacation."

"Yes I did." I tell him. I partly enjoyed it okay, beside, I don't want to tell him what happened. Niall walks towards us with my suitcase. Michael takes it and walks towards the exit saying bye to Niall.

"See you at Liam's party." I say.

"Bye Barbie." he says cheekily. I show him my middle finger with a grin while walking out of the arrival hall to the car.

~ AN: hello! :) hope you like this bc niall isn't a dick towards ash yay haha it means a lot if you comment and vote xx

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