chapter 52

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FINALLY MY EXAMS ARE OVER !!! ☺☺☺

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Niall's P.O.V -

"Come on, we're here." I reach for her, but she slides out of the car herself. Her teeth are chattering and she's shaking.

Cleo's mittens are in the glove department, so I grab them for her to put on and she immediately does.

"You're cold." I state, smirking at her while I walk close to her to kiss her forehead. My thick coat with wool inside is taken off of my body and given to her, but she just shakes her head no.

"You're going to be sick, put it on until I buy you a new one." I hold it out for her while it snows.

"Cleo! Please, put it on! I'm freezing. We're going to go buy you one in a few minutes." She puts it on along with putting the hat over her head. "Zip and button it up." I grab her phone and lock the doors.

Walking across the street, Cleo's mittens are warming my right hand up.

"Wait, wait! My shoe came off in the snow." She turns around and walks back to bend down to dig in the snow.

"Cleo your shoe is on the left side of you, turn around." I chuckle and point to the other side of her body.

"Oh!" She is bent down with my coat that is too big for her and her mittens are making it hard to put the shoe back on.

"Why didn't you wear boots?" I ask once we start walking again.

"I d-d-don't know." Her teeth are chattering and it's making me laugh as she studders from being so chilly.

Once I purchase a winter coat for her it's similar to mine bc except it has pockets on the inside.

"I'm so warm." Cleo says with her jacket zipped up to cover her mouth.

"Your nose is running." I say laughing and she digs in her purse to get out her mini tissues.

"I like that tree with the lights already on it, lights are hard to put on a tree. I like the ornaments." The excitement in her studdering voice from freezing is adorable.

"You can go choose those and I'll go pay for the tree." I tell the employee that I'd like to purchase the tree on the top shelf, so once they get a ladder I pull out my debit card a shriek and the sound of glass breaking is heard.

"NIALL!" I had a feeling that was Cleo.

"That's my girlfriend, hold on."

I wish I could say she's my fiance.

Every time we discuss that, one of us ends up with our feelings hurt and that's usually me, so I don't bring it up.

The worker runs in front of me, and on the isle with broken glass decor I spot Cleo stepping over shards of glass and  limping

"I'm so sorry! I bumped into the shelf and didn't realize how hard I knocked the items off of the shelf." A man comes around the corner with his basket filled with children toys and chimney stockings.

"It's covered, I'll pay for it." He says quickly and I follow Cleo to the bathroom, but she runs off while we're discussing what happened to Cleo for her to scream like that.

"Hey, it's me. Can I come in?" I knock on the unisex restroom.

"No. Hold on." She replies, grunting and sniffling. She's only sniffling because of her catching a cold.

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