Break away - Niall Horan Fan fiction

Break away - Chapter 12

*Lola's P.O.V*

Today has been a really long day. After, the thing with Sophie we drove home and had to retell the whole story. Ella, Mia and Mae all flipped out once they found out that it was Sophie. Especially Mia. She paced around the flat shouting 'who does she think she is' and 'how fucking dare she'. It was cute. I know it sounds psychotic saying that it was cute but it wasn't what she was saying but rather the fact that she cares so much. We ended up telling the boys that they could stay over tonight meaning that the rest of the evening purely consisted of weirdness, mainly coming from me, Luke and Ashton, and laughter which 95% of the time came from Niall, Ella and Harry.

"I missed my best friend." Luke tells me as we all cluster onto the sofa to watch the first Harry Potter film.

"I thought the boys were your best friends." I state, trying to catch him out.

"No, they're my brothers. You're my best friend."

"Wow, big family you've got then. I mean eight of your brothers have different mums and dads." I giggle, he says nothing but grins instead which shows of his dimples. I wish I had dimples.

"Move up." Niall tells Louis who is sitting on the other side of me. Louis moves closer to Calum and Niall squeezes in the small gap between us with his massive bowl of popcorn. Like seriously the bowl is huge. It took 3 packs of microwave pop-corn to fill it, but still I doubt we have enough for all of us. I shovel a load of popcorn into my hand as the film begins.

"Lola, Lola through it into my mouth." Niall whispers as he opens his mouth for me to shoot. My aim is completely off and I end up hitting Louis instead.

"Oops." I giggle.

"You guys are idiots." He scoffs. Niall and I decide to stop before Louis actually kills us and to start paying attention to the film instead. I rest my head onto his shoulder and cuddle into his warm body. His sweet scent fills my nose as I close my eyes. I don't think I can stay awake much longer and quickly staying a wake becomes a challenge.

"Princess?" I jump and immediately snap my eyes open. The credits are already rolling and almost everyone is asleep. Knowing I'm not the only one who was shattered makes me feel better.

"Let's get you to bed, yeah?" Niall rasps, alluding to the fact that he'd fallen asleep too. I nod my head sleepily and Niall gets up from the sofa and lifts me into his arms bridal style. I giggle lightly as he carries me into my room. Gently, he lays me onto the bed, being careful not to hit my head too hard as I'm put down, and then pulls the covers over me.

"Where are you going?" I mumble, sleepily, as he starts to walk out of the room.

"To sleep on the sofa."

"Oh, okay." I reply with disappointment in my voice. I shut my eyes and allow myself to go back to sleep.

**

The sunshine through the curtains blind me as I wake up. It's 09:04 but normally I wake up at around 11.

"Lola!" Ella squeals as she runs into my room.

"What, what's the matter?"

"Dad! Mum said he's stopped drinking since I left and she thinks that he's actually going to stop this time." She tells me. Her eyes sparkle with joy as she speaks excitedly. I'm so happy for her. We thought that James was never going to change. I grin back at her before flinging my arms around her neck and pulling her down towards the bed.

"Mum wants me, you, Harry and Niall to come to dinner tonight so we can introduce them to her." She says. Introducing Niall to Ella's family is as close to him meeting my parents as we are going to get but I don't know if our relationship is ready for that. I mean we haven't said I love you yet or made the decision to label ourselves as 'boyfriend' and 'girlfriend'.