Hired |N.H|

-Chapter 24

I woke up and the bed felt weirdly empty. It was then I looked over and seen Niall wasn't in bed. It was still dark outside so he couldn't have gone far.

I waited a few minutes to see if he would return because maybe he was in the bathroom or something but as the minutes ticked by and he didn't appear, I was beginning to get worried because where would he be at four o'clock in the morning.

I left the room and checked the bathroom but it was empty so I went downstairs and I found him sitting at the island in the kitchen. His back was to me though. "Niall." I softly said, making him jump. He turned around and even in the dim light I could see his tear stained face. I sighed and took a seat next to him while he quickly turned around.

"Niall, what's wrong?" I asked him, placing my hand on his. He flinched and pulled it away and kept the eye contact to a minimal.

"Nothing." He muttered. "Just couldn't sleep so I came down here for a drink." He said, pushing the mug around on the table.

"You sure?" I asked him, to which he merely nodded.

"Jenny, I think we should end this." Niall stated after a few silent minutes.

"End what?" I asked him.

"This contract." He firmly said.

"We can't I'm in for the year." I reminded him.

"I have money, and when you have money you can make anything go away." He said, staring straight at the wall.

"But we can't.."

"Why not?" He asked, looking at me.

"I need the money." I sighed.

"You can find another job." He replied.

"Not for this kind of money."

"Jenny, we are both gonna end up getting hurt and I don't want that to happen." He said.

"How are we gonna end up getting hurt?" I asked him.

"We will end up falling for each other and it will ony end in tears and god knows what else."

"How?" I asked.

"Because we will never actually be able to date each other, you could never date me in real life, why do you think I had to buy my fucking girlfriend? It's impossible for me to fucking have one." He said, rasing his voice.

"It's not impossible."

"It is, you know what it's like, camera's constantly on us, constant rumours, constant judging, it always ruins a fucking relationship and we won't see each other often because I'll be on tour and long term relationships don't work." He said.

"If you love someone you can make it work." I stated.

"But we don't love each other, we don't even like each other." He sighed.

"No, I like you." I calmly said.

"That is exactly why we have to end this and we have to end it now." He said. "You can't love a man like me." He softly said.

"Why not?" I questioned.

"I'm not an easy man to love, just take my word for it. I'm complicated and hard to date, you don't wanna do it." He said, wiping under his eyes.

"Maybe I want to."

"I don't want to date you." He said, making my heart break. I don't even know why because I don't even like him that much, do I? I looked over at him and he was biting his bottom lip, I was biting mine too, trying to stop myself from crying. "I told you I'd hurt you, this is why we need to end it here." He said.