Addicted To You

Chapter 16

Niall's POV

"Listen, Niall, I need to talk to you," Maisie said, pulling me to one side. We were all walking through the streets of France a few hours before the show started, just so we could get to know the place.

"Yeah?" I replied smiling.

"I think we should, maybe, take a break for a while. Not for ever, just for a little while," she said. I was confused. Why would she want to take a break? I thought everything was going great.

"What? Why?" I asked, really confused now.

"It's just, I don't think that, like, it's not like when we first started dating. I don't know, I just think it's for the best. I'm sorry, it's not going to be for long," she replied and then walked past me to join the others. I just stood there for a while.

"Hey Niall, you ok mate?" Liam asked tapping on my shoulder.

"Yeah," I said quietly turning around to face him. I gave him a small smile and then went to join everyone else. We walked along for a little while and we looked in a couple of shops.

Maisie's POV

I did feel bad for Niall but I felt like it was the right thing to do. We didn't speak at all after that. He was really quiet and he couldn't look me in the eye, which wasn't surprising.

We got back to the bus at about 4 o'clock and the boys needed to get ready for the show. Me and Emily decided to hang out in the stadium for a bit while we waited for them to get ready. People were already waiting to get in and the show didn't start until half past six.

Zayn's POV

We got back to the bus a bit later than we had intended so it was a rush to get ready. We'd all got changed and ready to go except Niall who was just sitting looking out of the window.

"Niall, are you sure that you're okay?" Liam asked. Niall had been quite distant all day. He started being like it after Maisie had spoke to him this morning.

"Mhmm," he replied. He stood up and went to the door. "We best hurry up," he said and stepped onto the floor. The rest of us shrugged at each other to say that we didn't know what was wrong and followed him towards the stadium entrance.

Maisie and Emily were sitting on the edge of the stage talking about something. She looked up at us and smiled but when she saw Niall, her smile dropped and she looked at the floor. There must be trouble in paradise.

I went over to them. Emily has always seemed to hate me so she just threw a dirty look at me but I didn't really care. I pulled myself up onto the stage next to Maisie.

"What's going on between you and Niall? He seems really spaced out," I whispered, ensuring that Niall didn't hear me. He was only standing a couple of feet away from me.

"Well, we're.....we're taking a little break," she whispered back. That shocked me. I thought that they were the perfect couple and I thought that everything was going well for them.

"How come?" I asked.

"Because," she replied, looking at the floor.

"Because?" I replied.

"I'd rather not tell you," she told me.

"Okay, it's none of my business anyway. Look, I've got to go and practice but I'll see you in a bit, yeah?" I said.

"Yeah." She replied. I smiled and she gave me a small smile back. I jumped down of the stage and walked over to the boys so we could practice properly.

"You ready to start sound checks?" Liam asked. I nodded. "Right do you want to go through They Don't Know About Us first?" He asked. We agreed and began to rehearse. We went through it but Niall wasn't really trying.

"Niall, at least try mate, yeah?" Harry said. He just gave him a death stare and walked away. "What's wrong with him?" He asked.

"Him and Maisie broke up," I whispered to Harry.

"Oh." He replied.