Most Days ||n.h

While You Were Away

"You've got to be kidding me!" I shouted drawing the attention of Ana in our shared bedroom.

"What's wrong?" She questioned, continuing to brush her teeth.

"They got photos of Jackson and I kissing! How did they get those! Somebody must be following me. Somebody is out to get me, to ruin my life. What did I ever do!is this just be use Im with Niall?" I shouted. Ana shrugged as she headed back into the bathroom to finish crushing her teeth. She came back out with a hairbrush in hand.

"Do you really think some whacked out paparazzi person is just following you around waiting for something to go wrong in your life? Sounds a bit excessive. Don't they have lives?" I groaned and flopped down onto the couch.

"I have no idea." I grumbled closing my eyes. By the constant blipping coming from our room I could tell that my phone was blowing up with messages. Probably from Alison and Victoria about the photos. Niall never got back to me about the kiss. Maybe he had. Jumping up I headed into my room and grabbed up my phone.

Missed calls from both of my parents. One from my dad and several from my mom. A missed call and about ten text messages from Alison. A voicemail from Jackson and what looked like a giant apology over text. I didn't want to look at it. Instead I deleted it. If he wanted to apologize he should say it to my face. Then there were four texts from Victoria. Nothing from Niall.

Hopping against hope, I called him. After ten rings I was about ready to hang up but the ringing stopped and a sleepy voice said, "Hello?"

"Niall." I whispered even though he wasn't anywhere near me.

"Sarah." He said sounding a bit hoarse. Niall cleared his throat. "It's like.. Three o'clock.. In the afternoon. Jesus." He muttered to himself under his breath.

"Aren't you suppose to be rehearsing or something?" I questioned.

"Couple days off." He murmured. "I usually spend them sleeping." It sounded like he was about to fall asleep again. "I've been out a near day. The boys must think I'm dead." Niall chuckled.

"A day? So you haven't..." I stopped. He was in a good mood. I didn't want to ruin it. Niall seemed to sense that something was wrong anyways.

"Has something else happened?" He sounded more awake now. I singed and nodded my head before realizing he couldn't see that. "I'm going to take it that you nodded your head on accident and what's happened babe?" I blushed a bit harder as he caught what I did.

"Jackson kissed me yesterday." I whispered. "I never told you or anyone. Not even Victoria and Alison because. I don't know.. I guess I wanted to forget but.." I paused, listening to him breathe in and out. "But Jackson told me a coupes years back that he was in love with me. I never felt the same way and I thought.. I thought he would forget about me once he went away to college. You know, find a girlfriend get married to her but he didn't." I paused again.

"He's been cagey around me for weeks and I asked him what was wrong. He told me he loved me again and then he kissed me. I didn't kiss him of course. I pushed him away in fact. Slapped him even. You should have seen his face Niall. He was devastated and I'm not trying to say that I'm going to break up with you and be with him now because I feel bad I just feel so bad for hurting him. I mean he's loved me for nearly six years now! And it certainly doesn't help that our kiss is plastered all over the Internet." I stopped talking wondering why Niall hadn't stopped me or said anything. "Niall." I breathed out. He cleared his throat again.

"I'm here." He said slowly. We were quiet again. I think we were both waiting for the other to talk.

"Say something." I whispered.