"101 Dates."

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Twelve.

"We aren't going away for forever, right? How long were you planning to stay away? I don't have anything with me, Niall! I want you to stay with me, Niall! Please, don't leave! Please..", I begged him. Tears started to run down my face. I hold his hand up, which I had been holding for the past few minutes, but he immediately pulls it down.

I tried to look him into his beautiful, blue eyes through my tears. His eyes didn't look beautiful anymore. The sparkle was replaced with red. His whole face was red. He looked like he had been crying all night long. Days long. Weeks long. He looked angry as well, pushing his fist up in the air.

"No, Lauren, it's now or leave. It won't be for long. But I know if you leave now, you won't see me again. I'll come back to school, but not for you", he says without any emotions on his face. None, empty, he is empty.

"Okay", I said eventually.

"Okay, what?"

"I'll stay here. I have my family and so much to do here. I can't just leave all of that." Niall looked up. His angry face turned into a shocked expression. But when he noticed it himself, his face immediately changed back into anger. He didn't expect me to say that, but I couldn't just leave my family. I couldn't handle imagining their faces when they would notice that I was gone. "I'm sorry", I said while I tried to wipe a tear that was rolling down Niall's face.

"You were the only that I had left", he said trying not to cry.

"Well you weren't nice to me either."

"Have I ever done something wrong to you?" No! Never! Just let me go."

"Niall, I-" More didn't leave my mouth. I saw Niall running away from the gas station. Was this really happening?, I thought. Niall, the guy from school, the popular one, the one I fell in love with, which I never really believed, was running away from his own life. I didn't really know what had happened in his life, but I was afraid that I was never going to find out. I just let him go. Should I have chosen for myself, or for him? Had I been selfish?

"Wait!", I shouted. "Wait, Niall, Wait!", I shouted even harder. But Niall didn't hear me. "Niall", I shouted desperately again. I started running after him. "Niall!", I shouted again and he finally turned around. He stopped and waited till I finally reached him. "You didn't really think that I was going to leave you, were you?", I said while embracing him.

He grabbed my hand and with his other hand he pointed towards a building somewhere over the horizon. "That's where we're going. We can rent a car there and after that we'll see further."

"Okay." I didn't really know what to say else. I'm running away..Am I really running away? Yes I am. Should I see this as a new adventure? I'll just go for it! I thought. I'm going to text my parents, but I don't want them to think that Niall kidnapped me, because they already thought he was a player. I grabbed my phone. Niall asked me what I was doing."I want to reassure my parents."

"You can't text them. It's too risky." I think about it for a while and made a plan to just text them tonight.

After an hour of walking next to the highway I opened my mouth to talk to Niall. "Niall, I'm tired. My legs don't want to walk anymore. They just can't anymore." Niall looked at me and then to the road.

"Do you see that sign?", he asked.

"Yes."

"It says it's only 15 miles till the city, so if we walk in this pace for another 45 minutes, we'll be there. We'll take a rest and eat something. Oh and before I forget, I have cookies and other things in my backpack."

"But my legs", I whined. Then Niall suddenly stopped walking. I stared at him and stopped as well. He kneeled on the ground. "C'mon!"

"Are you really?"

"Yes, a piggy ride!" I grabbed his backpack and put it around my shoulder before I climbed onto his back. He grabbed my legs and I put my arms over his shoulders, holding his chest. We struggled for the first ten feet, but got comfortable after that.

After a while I saw that Niall was starting to sweat. "Are you still ok?", I said feeling guilty.

"To be honest.." He quit walking and I got off his back.

I thanked him and gave him a peck on his lips. "That really helped."

"Now, switch!", Niall said.

"You mean.."

"Yes." Before I knew Niall grabbed the backpack and jumped onto my back. Oh god. I only walked 5 feet before I started to falter. "Is everything great down there?"Niall said while grinning.

"Yeah", I mumbled, but before I knew it, we were laying down in the high grass. Niall's hysterical laughed filled my ears as I laughed as well. We needed this. Suddenly Niall grabbed me by my waist and before I knew we were kissing wildly. Our first step together as a couple. I pulled his snapback of his hair and went through his blond locks with my fingers. His hair was already getting browner on the sides and I actually really liked it. I heard his deep breath into my ear.

I tried to pull his shirt off, but it wasn't going up. "Lauren, not here", he said.

"I didn't really want to.."

"Shhh..", he said while putting his finger on my closed mouth. "Tonight."