No Interruptions

Chapter Twenty Five

--Final Chapter--

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Chapter Twenty-Five

I paced. I didn't know how to stay still, because my mind was racing between thoughts, and my heart was pounding so hard that it was a shock to me how it was still in my chest. I didn't know how to feel, and I didn't know what to do, so I paced. 

I thought about calling someone. Zayn, Dana, Harry...anyone at this point. Just to ask them what to do, tell them what happened, but I wasn't even sure what happened myself. Niall and I were kissing, his mother said something about us being a couple, and then he just...left. He left me just standing there.

Every single time I thought about that, my heart started to hurt. I had to stop and take deep breaths, because it hurt me that he'd just run like that. It let me know that we had some things to discuss, but I knew I needed to figure out what I was going to tell him first. How I was going to tell him that I had feelings for him.

It was now or never, so I ran a hand through my hair, and started for the wardrobe to pull out a sweatshirt. When I pulled open the door and reached for it, thought, something shiny caught my eye. I looked down to see a small square box at the bottom of the wardrobe, covered in shiny red paper and a black bow. Confused, I picked it up and searched for a name tag, my heart thumping with the thought that it could be for me.

When i found the little white Santa sticker with my name scrawled on it in Niall's handwriting, my heart stopped all together.

I dropped down onto the bed, and even though I shouldn't have, I started to open the gift. I pulled the lid off of the box and just stared at what sat inside for a moment before I pulled it out, sure that I wasn't breathing any more. He had given me a snow-globe, and inside it was a picture of me and him in the snow, and my jaw dropped slightly, a smile pulling at my lips.

I knew exactly when he had made it. When Dan was over for a second time to help Maura bake cookies, Niall had dragged him away and wouldn't let me in the room while they did crafts. I had just ignored it, but apparently Niall and printed out a selfie we'd taken in the snow and put it in one of those makeshift, store bought craft sets that gives you the fake snow and glitter. I felt warm all over, and I looked down into the box to find a note that read, 'From Ni and Dan, Xx.'

I almost screamed when a familiar voice spoke from behind me, "We need to talk."

**Niall's P.O.V.**

She whipped around, the snowglobe in her hand and something in her eyes that I couldn't name, her mouth slightly open. She blew out a breath before shutting the present away in the box and pushing it aside, standing and straightening her dress out. That dress looked phenomenal on her, and I'd tried to find a way to tell her that all night.

I shoved my hands in my pockets, an uncomfortable tightness in my chest since I'd ran out of the house and trudged out to the barn in fifteen degree weather, just needing to get away. When I was down there, I talked myself through what I had to say, and how I was going to say the things that had been on my mind for the past three months. I didn't know how she'd take it, but it'd been put off for too long.

"Why did you hide it in here?" She asked, shocking me with such a question. She looked just as uncomfortable as I felt, and about a thousand times more anxious. I blew out a breath, shrugging. "You don't sleep in here. It was the easiest place for us to hide it. You weren't even supposed to see it; Dan was going to give it to you." I told her, lifting a hand to tug at my hair, eyes flicking to the small box.