FOREVER [Niall Horan] ✔

Chapter 53.

“The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.” -The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Niall's POV

I sit on the grey couch and pull Ana on my lap. She looks lost in her thoughts and I can't help but worry about her. What happened today was very uncanny and something I cannot take my mind off.

I'm not sure how to react to the fact that Ana must have seen Tyler. I'm not sure if she actually did see him, she was pretty drunk but I also cannot let go off this without being sure.

What if he's actually here? What if he was going to hurt her because I wasn't there? What if this happens again? What if he tries to hurt her when I'm not around? I don't know if he was there or not but if I ever see him, I don't know what I might do.

I turn my attention back to her only to see that she's completely engrossed in her thoughts. "What are you thinking about?" I ask even though I feel like she's probably thinking about what happened earlier or maybe what she thinks can happen.

She shrugs. "Just things," She replies and tries to get off of my lap but I wrap my arm around her waist and pull her closer to me, resisting her actions.

"Tell me what's going on in that pretty head of yours," I ask her again and she sighs. She moves one of her legs to my other side so that she's straddling me and can look directly at me.

"I'm tired," She breaths and I know she's not tired physically but mentally and emotionally. She's already been through a lot of shit and she's still going through so much. I don't know what the hell am I even going to do about the whole situation. There's literally nothing, except for keeping tabs on Tyler that I can do until he actually comes in front of us but I also don't want him anywhere near my Ana. I absolutely don't fucking know what to do.

I don't know what I'm going to do next, I have to talk to Louis about it and I'm gonna do it today but I'll not tell her about it. I want her to feel safe and not worry about that piece of shit anymore.

She rests her head on my shoulder and I soon hear her soft cries. "Shh, Ana. It'll be alright." I gently rub her back and whisper sweet things in her ear until she finally stops crying. She leans to sit straight and I wipe her nose with my T-shirt. "No one can hurt you now, you know that right?" I ask and she nods, a small smile playing on her lips.

I lean and pull her into a small and sweet kiss before pulling away and kissing her red nose. She softly giggles and hugs me before whispering a 'thank you' in my ear.

We sit in complete silence, quite comfortably, before I door bell rings. I slap her bum and ask her to get off so that I can open the door. She does what she's asked to and I get up to open the door. She slaps my ass when I do and I raise my eyebrows at her, completely amused by her actions, with a hint of smile.

"Why would you do that for?" I mock a hurt expression.

"How can I resist it!" She rhetorically speaks and I laugh at that, shaking my head at her.

I compose myself and walk towards the door to let my friends in. I furrow my eyebrows when I see Andy along with them, for I thought he was still in Wolverhampton but put on a smile right after because I'm happy to see him.

Louis pulls me in a hug and Liam and Andy follow suit. "Andy!" Ana screeches from behind me and I jump. "What are you doing here?" She pulls him into a tight hug and I bite my lip when Andy hugs her back. I turn my face to look elsewhere since I can't help the jealousy building inside me.

"I came here yesterday and thought I'd give you a surprise." He winks at her.

I'm very well aware that Andy is into guys and that Ana loves me but I can't help the jealousy inside me. No matter how selfish it sounds, I want Ana all to myself but I also know that it doesn't work that way.