Forbidden Flight

Chapter 7

Niall's POV

Harry hasn't talked about what had happened this morning, not once. Class is almost over and after this we will be heading back to the apartment. He needs to yell at me or call me a douche because it's hard to read the silent Harry.

Class is finally over, in which I haven't been able to pay any attention to at all this morning.

"Harry we need to talk about what happened." I say while we head back to his car.

Harry snaps his head to me and says, "Niall I can't fucking believe you. You slept with my sister! I trusted that you would keep her company while I was out, not this much company, dammit! You don't know her past or probably anything about her! She's been to hell and back, believe me I was with her the whole way through and I'm not gonna let you hurt her. She's too fragile."

"I'm sorry. Yes I do not know anything about her past or much about her in general but it's different. I'm not using her, I never would. We didn't mean to you know, do stuff it just happened. And yes I know that sounds bad but that's the truth. I originally told her no because she's your sister but she urged me on. I fucked up, I know that and I'm sorry."

"I know you won't hurt her on purpose. But if you do I will fucking kill you. You just have to understand that she is very hard to read and she doesn't show much of any emotion anymore or opens up to anyone, easily. I'm not trying to say she's a bad person. She's just changed and this is who she is." Harry says as he opens his door to get in the car.

"What exactly happened in her past?" I say with caution as Harry starts the car.

Harry doesn't answer until we turn into a coffee shop parking lot. "It's a long story so let's go inside."

Once again there are barely any people in the coffee shop. That's probably why Harry and I like the shop so much. We both order a small coffee and sit down at one of the back tables in the shop.

Harry finally speaks after a minute or two of silence, "okay listen you can't tell her that I told you any of this. This was supposed to be between only her and I but you're kind of in the picture now. You know of her back pain right? Well last year, during her senior year of high school, the pain got immensely worse and not one of the doctors we visited knew what exactly was wrong with it. This made Camilla very frustrated and at a loss of hope. Our mother didn't help at all either. She would always yell at Camilla about her not being a part of the family and not wanting to do anything with anyone else since Camilla stayed up in her room the majority of the time. I was not around for much of this happening because you know, college. But she would always call me or text me whenever anything happened, I think I was the one in the family that she trusted the most. She would text me about how depressed she was and how there is no hope for her or will for her to live anymore. After that text I drove straight to our house and stayed there for two weeks. After that happened the pain would just start to feel dumb to her so she started to go out more often. The only thing is, the people she hung out with are not good people at all. They drank and smoke all the time. Camilla started joining them and she would go to parties every weekend and at every party she would find herself sleeping with a different guy. The only way that I was able to find out about this was when the worst happened, Camilla got pregnant by one of the douches she had slept with at one of the parties. She was petrified to tell mom and waited until she started to show to tell her. When our mom knew she was furious and disappointed in her, I mean I was a little bit too. Camilla decided to keep the baby and stop drinking and smoking. She was not able to find out who the actual father was so she was left alone. I mean really alone. Mom didn't talk to her hardly ever so I tried to comfort her as much as possible. When she was six months pregnant she got horribly ill and she ended up in the emergency room. The doctors confirmed that the baby had passed away and they rushed her in to give a stillbirth. That's when Camilla also lost all signs of life. Her depression got worse and she stayed in her room all the time and rarely ever ate. Camilla's face and body were so pail, it crushed me. I tried everything I could to get her up and going but it just wasn't working. I never saw her laugh, cry, or be mad, she was just there. She was like this for six months and I'm not sure what did it but she slowly started to eat more and get out of her room more. She was still never the same, I never saw that same Camilla before everything happened with the baby. She still has back pain from time to time but not as bad as before. But now she's doing a lot better, especially coming to see me was a lot for her. I saw the way she looked at you when I saw you guys staring at each other, I could almost see a little bit more of the old Camilla coming back."

I am at a loss of words. I never expected her situation to be like this, I just can't believe it. "I am so sorry that...that all of this happened."

"Yeah I know, me too. She is so unbelievably strong."

After a couple more minutes passed of us drinking coffee we decide to leave and go back to the apartment. When we arrive Camilla is curled up on the couch watching 7 Things I Hate About You.

"Hey" I say to Camilla as Harry and I walk through the door.

"Hey" Camilla says, looking up from the television.

"Alright guys, who's hungry?" Harry says with more enthusiasm while walking to the couch to try to lighten the mood from this morning.

"I am" Camilla says to Harry. She has a look of confusion because I think she was thinking that Harry would yell at her or something.

I eventually make my way to the couch and all I can do is stare at Camilla. She is so beautiful and I can't believe she had to go through all of those horrible things.

"I'll go get changed then I'll be ready." Camilla says while she walks to the guest room.

Harry whispers to me, "go talk to her"

I walk to the door of Camilla's room and lightly knock.

"Yeah?" Camilla says through the door.

"It's Niall, can I come in?"

Camilla opens the door and I walk in. I am at a loss of words, still. I walk up to Camilla and wrap my arms around her.

Camilla's POV

"Umm Niall? Is everything ok?" I say while I wrap my arms around his back.

Niall doesn't answer me for a couple of minutes and just keeps hugging me. I'm confused now. He finally breaks the hug and just stares at me. I start to see a weak smile spread across his face.

"Are you ok?" I say with a worrisome laugh.

"Let's go get something to eat." is all he says in return and holds my hand into his as we walk out of the room.