Chasing Arya (A Niall Horan fanfiction)

"I won't be far"

it's like the world fell down on my shoulders and broke all my bones. but the world wasn't falling, just Arya.

"I have to leave, he's after me."

we sat in the car with water dripping down and chills over every inch of us.

"I can protect you" I said, looking at her with a plea.

she gave me a look like she felt sorry for me or I was a lost puppy.

"Niall...you can't." she placed her hand on my shoulders and she began to cry. I pushed the middle seat up and we pushed our selves together. She sat on top of me with her tears pouring every where.

"I have the money, I have people" I whispered in her ear.

"I know, but its not about that. You don't know these people Niall. they are stronger than you think. You can't do anything, I need to protect Peter"

she was almost inaudible through her tears and mumbles.

so it was set. I would leave. I would go back to my life and forget my side life, I would erase Arya and Peter from my mind.

"Arya...why is he after you?" I had just now remembered, I never knew why. Everything that was falling apart was for a reason I never knew.

She looked up at me with tears in her eyes and her face blotched with redness from her endless crying.

"he wants revenge"

"for what?" I ask

"for turning him in"

there was a long pause and she stopped crying. You could hear nothing other than the chirping of crickets and the faint whisper of our breathing collecting into fog in the car.

"what is he going to do?" I ask.

she just looks at me and does the same puppy dog look she did before. She never replies.

so I grab her face with my hands and whisper in her ear, "I won't be far"

and I kiss her, not as perfectly as in the lake but I kiss her. A long kiss for remembrance. we fall onto the seats, cramming our bodies into the small space until we can no longer breath. our skin is pressed to each others and life is paused. The struggle, the memories, the hatred, its all paused. Because I love this woman more than I have ever loved anything else, and if I hit play...she's gone.