Opposites ~ n.h (rewriting)

Chapter 30: Leaving you.

Luna's POV 

The morning I've been dreading for so long has arrived. This is it. Me and Niall have to say goodbye for at least a month. Liz doesn't really understand much of what's going on, the only thing she knows is that her brother will be gone for a long time. When we wanted to wake her up we found her already sitting up in her bed with her face in her hands. She was softly crying, repeating over and over again that she didn't want Niall to leave. It took us an hour to calm her down. Netflix works. It distracts. For now. 

Niall drives us to the clinic and as we arrive there, he walks up to the front desk and asks the woman behind it what we have to do. A social worker is sent and we're taken into the family room. We get 15 minutes to say our goodbyes - too short for my liking - and then they'll take Niall to show him where he will stay for the next 3 months. 

"Well this is it." Niall mumbles. 

His words make me realize that we really have to say goodbye for a month. There's no turning back now. 

"I know." 

He walks up to me and wraps his arms around me, one around my shoulders and the other one around my lower back. I immediately catch on and wrap my arms around his waist, laying my head down on his chest as he sways us back and forth. Kissing my head occasionally. 

"I love you." I tell him as we slowly break apart from the hug, tears in both of our eyes.

"I love you." He answers me as one of his tears falls down his cheek.

Eliza runs up to him, jumping in his arms and wrapping her short arms around his neck tightly, but she makes sure she doesn't hurt him. She starts to sob in his shoulder. 

"I don't want you to leave." She sobs. 

"I don't want to leave, but I have to. Before you know it we'll see each other again, okay?" 

She nods but refuses to let him go as the woman walks in the room to get him. 

"Come on, Liz. Let's go home." I tell her but she shakes her head.

I grab her from Niall as she starts crying and screaming even louder. Her head is burried in my shoulder as I rub her back soothingly. 

"I love you, Liz. Don't ever forget that. You too Luna." He says as he gives me one more kiss before he leaves the room. 

The tears are flowing freely down my cheeks now as Niall takes one more look back at us, biting his lip to keep himself from crying and running back to us. 

This is it. 

1 month without any contact. 

3 months without him running through the flat, chasing Liz. 

How will I survive?

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Liz and I arrive home after we were sent away at the clinic. The people are very strict there but I suppose they have to be or no one is going to get rid of their addictions. Liz kept crying the whole drive here as I just kept my mouth shut, not making a sound. 

Liz refused to walk by herself so I carried her to the flat and sat down on the couch with her on my lap. She keeps hugging me, saying she wants Niall to come back. I keep telling her that he will come back but not now. 

I've been trying to get her to eat her lunch but she refuses. She doesn't walk, doesn't eat. Dear God, how do I handle this. I tried being strict and telling her to eat it right now or I won't let her watch Netflix for a week but she doesn't care. 

I made dinner about an hour ago and I finally got her to eat something. She ate two bites of her hamburger and picket out the tomatoes after. It isn't much but at least she ate a little bit, maybe she'll eat more tomorrow. 

"Liz, it's time to go to bed now." I tell her as I pick her up from the couch. She just nods and wraps her arms around my neck. She still refuses to walk. 

"Can I sleep in yours and Niall's bed?" She asks me. 

I smile softly at her. "Of course you can, love." 

I get her dressed in her PJ's and put on a T-shirt of Niall's myself. When I look at the bed, I see Liz already nestled in the blanket, on Niall's spot. She buries her nose in the blankets, probably smelling his sent. I crawl in next to her and smell on the blankets too. God, we must look like mad people, smelling the blanket. I don't really mind though. The smell of him still lingering in the duvet makes the missing a bit less painful. 

Liz is soon asleep and I silently watch some Criminal Minds before going to sleep myself. 

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"Shit." I curse as I see the time. 9 am. Liz' school started half an hour ago. 

"Liz! Honey wake up. We have to go to school. We're already late." I rush out of bed, already pulling on my jeans as Liz finally opens her eyes. 

I expect her to come out of bed but she doesn't, instead she starts crying loudly. 

"I don't want to go." She cries. 

"Darling you have to. You can't just not go to school." I tell her, sitting down next to her on the bed and rubbing her back. 

"I don't want anything! I only want Niall!" She screams, making me jump a little. I knew she could be loud but damn when she's upset she is well capable of breaking windows with that volume. 

"Honey, we can't. I wish we could see him but we have to wait." I try to tell her. 

She won't have it as she turns her head away from me. I could try and reach the rehab facility to see if they let her talk to Niall for a little bit. But first I'll call her in sick at school for today as will I for myself. 

The phone call to Liz' school is made quickly and I'm scolded for not calling before school started. I apologize before quickly hanging up the phone. I then call the rehab clinic to see if they will allow me to talk to Niall a bit. 

"Hi, this is Luna Smith, my boyfriend Niall arrived in your clinic yesterday. We were wondering if we could have a minute to speak with him." I speak nicely. 

"I'm sorry but Mr. Horan is not able to speak to you at the moment. He's in the middle of his treatment and is about to see the psychologist for the first session. He's having a hard time staying away from the drugs. We think he will end up in bed for the next week. He will collapse soon. I'm sorry." She tells me and hangs up the phone immediately after.

'Will collapse soon'? What does that mean. God it sounds like hell in there for him already. Why did I ever let him go? Tears build up in my eyes as I notice that Liz has fallen back to sleep. When I think about what he has to go through the next month a nauseous feeling rises in the pit of my stomach. Soon I'm hunched over the toilet, throwing up from an empty stomach. 

God, he's gone for one day and I'm already a sobbing, nauseous mess. I wonder how he feels right now?

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Very short chapter but I can't dwell on the way they feel about missing Niall or you'll all be sleeping behind your phones/tablets/computers or whatever. Anyways like I said in my little author's note this book is coming to an end and when the end has been written I truly hope this book is one you will remember and one you have enjoyed reading. 

Again, thank you for all your support <3 I love you lots like jelly tots ;)