Summer Love // Niall Horan

Chapter 50 - Broken Silver Lining

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|| NIALL ||

"Niall?" She started touching different parts of my face, while I remained still as a rock. "Oh my god! It's been so long!" Barbara says, embracing me in a hug. Her strawberry flavored perfume fills my nostrils as I returned the gesture back.

"Yeah, I can't even remember the last time we've been together." I pulled away, seeing her pearly white teeth smiling at me.

"We need to catch up on things, let's visit a café?" I can't say no to her since it's really been long. I dig through my memories as I let her lead the way to what café that is.

It was back in December when we were together. We were not official those days, but we are seeing each other. I remembered my friend Bryan back in America told me to see someone since I'm already 19 and being single makes me dumb and stupid, so I asked him who to date and well, you guess it. Me and Barbara were hanging out and enjoying each other's company those days, trying to get to know each other and all those cheesy stuff, but I know in myself she isn't the one so I was the one who broke it off, well not really broke it off since we're not together, but stopped the dating stuff.

"Niall?" I snapped out of my thoughts when I saw her waving a hand from me.

"Sorry, just got caught up for awhile." She smiled and I returned the gesture back to her.

We arrived at the café. It's clearly obvious that it is an authentic French café just from how the chairs have designed on them, how their are like umbrellas on each table, and basically how you picture a French café is. It's not full of people, but it is not a deserted place after all. Majority of the people are adults, some are just drinking coffee, and some are just stopping by to enjoy nature's beauty.

The smell of caffeine fills my nostrils as we entered the café. Majority of the people inside are drinking whatever they're drinking, some are just having a mini-meeting, and some are just lounging around. Me and Barbara sat at the very back of the café due to her protest in case there might be some paps snooping around.

"So did you find something you like? This café has amazing french coffee same as their food." Barbara says while I bury myself in the menu. All the food and beverages in here are all written in french and to make it worse, it doesn't have any pictures.

A waiter approached us and asked for our orders. Barbara replied confidently, while I remained silent looking at the menu.

"How about you, sir? Anything you like?" , The waiter turn to me, patiently waiting for my order.

"Uhhh..", I looked at the menu, pretending to have something in mind.

"Stop pretending, Ni. I'll order for you.", I let out a sigh, receiving a laughing Barbara in return. Even though we'd been really distant for so long, she still knows me so well.

"She knows you better." My inner self spoked to me.

To be honest, it's really obvious that she knows me better than Barbara considering she is a big fan before all of this and from her stories, I felt like she was and still is with me from diapers until here. Unlike Barbara, sometimes I need to remind her things for her to keep up. Yes, she knows some things that Isabelle doesn't know about me, but when you compare the two, Isabelle would win.

It was pretty silent for a couple of minutes and I look around to see if their are paps snooping around just to make false stories that might cause some bigger issue between me and Isabelle, but thankfully, there isn't one.

"So...I heard you have a girlfriend already?" Barbara broke the silence, a slight shiver running up my spine.

I was lost in words and whenever I try to think, it's like there is a big question mark on my head, drifting me further away from the answer.