Live For Love // Niall Horan

Epilogue ~ Live For Love

Epilogue

~Alexis Kinley~

I was sitting in the passenger's seat of Niall's car as we pulled up to the front doors of my building. It had never felt so good to finally be home. After being at the hospital for 3 weeks, two of which I was awake. Home felt more like heaven whereas the hospital was hell. Two weeks of physiotherapy and mental therapy had completely worn me out. Luckily, my recovery had been a lot quicker and being released after only two weeks after waking up from a week long coma was a miracle itself.

"Home sweet home." Niall's voice reached my ears as I turned my head towards him.

"Thank god." I smiled. "If I had to eat another bite of that hospital food, I would have..." I scowled shaking my head, unable to think of a proper word to describe what I'd do.

Niall laughed, "Hey the food didn't look that bad!"

"Hmm...sure." I reply sarcastically.

I rolled my eyes and was about to glare at him when something in the rearview mirror caught my attention. Ella's car pulled up in the driveway. The boys were there with her as well.

I heard Niall slightly chuckle at me. "What?" I questioned.

"Nothing," he said as he continued to smile, "Here, let me get your door for you."

I watched Niall as he got out of the car and came over to my side of the car. He opened the door for me before offering his hand for me to take.

"Hey, just because I got shot in my stomach and went into coma for a week doesn't mean I can't open my own door." I said with a playful smile.

"Now Alex, how do you know I'm not just being a gentlemen." He teased.

I blushed and reached for his hand and slowly got out of the car. My stomach was still tender and if I moved a certain way, pain would shoot through my body.

All the guys were slowly getting out of the car and walking up towards the building while Ella bounced happily to within seconds. Of course she had seen me almost every day but I guess seeing me finally out of the hospital got her all excited. I couldn't blame her, because honestly, I was pretty excited to be out of there as well.

As Ella's small arms wrapped around my body and pulled me into a tight embrace, I winced. Her stomach pressed against mine which put pressure on the bullet wound.

"Be careful." Niall said.

"Oh my god," Ella exclaimed as she pulled away remorsefully. "Sorry Alex, I guess I wasn't really thinking about that.

I smiled almost immediately as I wrapped my left side arm around her neck and pulled her into a small hug, careful not to press my right side stomach against anything. "Don't worry, it's just a scratch." I smirked.

We walked in the building and Ella unlocked the front door to our apartment.

Once we were all scattered around the living room, everyone disappeared to go get some drinks or food. I sat on one of the sofas with Niall.

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After about three hours on catching up and just talking everyone left. Including Ella, she said she was going to have dinner with Harry. Which leaves Niall and I alone in this house.

"C'mon Alex, you need some rest." Niall said.

"Alright dad." I teased.

"Hey. I'm just being a nice person." 0He defended. We walked up to my room and I excused myself as I grabbed some shorts and a tank top to get changed.