Falling For Niall (Sequel to FIOD)

Chapter 6

After having such a wonderful flashback to my affair with Niall, the guilt began to build up. Liam needed to know. It wasn't fair for him, to me, or even to Niall. I gathered the strength to pull myself out of Liam's own bed, which he had selflessly given up for me. I waddled my way down to the living room, where I found all the boys sitting around watching television. I blushed and looked away from the intensity of Niall's eyes which bore into my own.

I stood in front of Liam  and held a hand out to him. His face contorted into a confused expression, but he took my hand anyways. I pulled him up from the couch and half- dragged him down the hallway and out the back door. We sat down on two separate patio chairs. I crossed my arms acroos my chest, hoping to gather a bit of warmth. The beginning of April still produced a low temperature and even though I was from Chicago and used to chilly weather, the air nipped at my skin and caused goosebumps to rise on my skin. Weather in the UK was still unfamiliar to me.

Liam looked at me and prodded me to start talking.

"Liam, I-" I cut my self off in hopes of not showing him I was choking back tears. Liam got up from his chair and sat next to me. I leaned into his arms and collapsed against his chest. I had missed the safety that had come with being in his arms. One of Liam's hands played with a loose curl by my cheek and the other was placed comfortably on my ever -growing baby bump, or mountain rather.

"Shh, Rhiannon, its okay," he whispered to me. I shook my head in disagreement.

"No LiLi. It's not okay. I did something really bad," I choked out.

Liam pulled back from me and moved both hands to my shoulders.

"What happened? Is it the baby? Did you get the abortion? I knew I shouldn't have let you leave the house alone! Wait- Zayn was with you! Oh God, Zayn went with! He let you do it! I specifically told him-"

"Liam-" I interrupted to no avail as he continued on.

"That was so irresponsible of me! I should've been paying attention to this. This is all my fault and-"

"LIAM!" I yelled louder this time, successfully catching his attention.

"What?"

"I didn't get an abortion!" Liam breathed a sigh of relief. "I cheated on you while we were together," I cried out. Liam sighed once more and wrapped his arms around me tightly.

"I know."

"I'm so sorry, I was just- wait. What do you mean you know?" I interrogated.

"Niall told me," Liam simply stated.

"When?" I asked in a small voice.

"A few weeks ago; he was so upset when he told me. He said he was scared I would hate him for it. I could never hate him," Liam admitted.

"But you could still hate me," I concluded quietly.

"I could never hate you." I fakely smiled in hopes he would fall for it.

"You should hate me. He's you're best friend and I was your girlfriend." I told him. I almost wanted him to be mad at me. I needed someone to be upset so I could have a reason to feel guilty.

"Well I'm not so stop feeling guilty and go talk to Niall. He loves you and you're being too stubborn to admit that you do too." With that, Liam sent me back inside. He quite literally pushed me inside and forced me to fall right on Niall.

Niall helped me up and kept me sitting on his lap. His arms wrapped comfortingly around my waist.

"Can we go talk somewhere?" Niall whispered. I nodded in a frightened state, thinking he would tell me the opposite of what Liam had said. I carefully stood up and Niall quickly followed. He put his hands on my waist to steady me and we slowly walked down the hallway. We went into Liam's room and sat on his bed. We laid on the bed in a semi awkward silence and stared at the ceiling.