Still The One (Niall Horan)

Chapter 1

~Present day~ *April 2021*

*Sofia's P.O.V.*

"Niall, where's my brush?" I hollered from the bathroom, in hopes that Niall would hear me over the music he was playing. He kept moving around my stuff and every single day I had to ask him where he had placed something. It was kind of annoying actually, last time I was here we didn't have a problem with that since we weren't a sharing bathroom, but now that we were, it was a bit stressful. "Niall." I called out again, but there wasn't a response. I walked out of the bathroom with a towel turban, to find Niall laying in bed, eyes closed, with music blasting at full volume. "Niall." I hollered again.

"Huh? What is it?" He finally opened his eyes and acknowledged me.

"Where's my brush? i can't find it and I need to brush my hair to be able to style it or we're gonna be late."

"It isn't there?" He questioned me.

"Not where I left it."

"Did you check in my drawer?" 

"Umm no, why would I?"

"I may or may not have used your brush last night. I couldn't find mine." He confessed, making me laugh. 

"I'll go check there then." I went back to the bathroom.

"Did you find it?" Niall hollered as I opened his drawer to find my brush there.

"Yeah, baby I don't mind that you use my brush, but can you please leave it back in my drawer after you use it?"

"Yes, sorry petal."

"Thank you Niall." I responded before I started combing my hair. We were already running a bit late and this whole brush incident had only made me lose precious time to get ready. We're going over to Harry's place tonight since everyone is in town and they want all of us to get together before they get busy with the album. They've been busy writing but now that they'll start recording they're gonna be even busier. 

"I'm ready. We can go now." I announced a half hour later.

"Perfect, let's get going then." Niall stood up from the bed, rearranged his clothes and then started making his way out of the room, with me following closely behind.

"So tomorrow you start recording." I stated once we were in the car.

"Yeah, I can't wait. I've missed having the boys in the studio with me."

"I can imagine." 

"Do you want to come with us tomorrow?"

"Really? I'd love to!"

"Yes! It'll be great having you there so you can see how everything works."

"Yes, I've always wondered how the process works, so I definitely want to go tomorrow."

"Great, then it's settled." He smiled while he took my hand in his. 

*Niall's P.O.V.*

We pulled up to Harry's place 10 minutes later. I needed to find a way to tell the boys that Sofia would be coming with us to the studio tomorrow so that they wouldn't suggest that we recorded the song I had written about her. I still hadn't told her, I wanted it to be a surprise and I want her to hear it when it's all done. 

"Hi mate!" Harry answered the door and embraced me, before moving on to say hi to Soph. "Hello love." He gave her a quick hug. The old me would've been fuming by now, but I've come to terms with the fact that Harry and Sofia are friends, and that they're nothing more than that. So I'm totally okay with it, plus Harry has Cami too, and there's no way he'd cheat on her, specially not with Sofia. "Come on inside." He continued as we followed him inside, everyone else was already there. It was great to be able to spend some time with the lads and the girlfriends away from the studio, the cameras and management, and just have a chance to be ourselves. 

"Does anyone want a drink?" Louis asked.

"I'll come with you." I responded, I hadn't had a chance to tell the boys that Soph would be coming to the studio, so maybe I could tell each of them by themselves. "You want anything babe?"

"Can you get me some coke please?" Soph answered.

"Of course."

"Thanks baby." She smiled at me before Louis and I stood up and went to the kitchen to serve the drinks.

"So, Soph's coming to the studio tomorrow, but I still haven't told her that I wrote a song about her. Can you please not mention it tomorrow? I want it to be a surprise."

"Of course mate, sure. No problem." Tommo patted my back.

"Thanks man."

"What are we talking about?" Harry waltzed into the kitchen. 

"Soph coming to the studio tomorrow." Louis filled him in.

"So can you please not mention the song I wrote about her? It'll be a surprise." I finished.

"Yeah, no worries. I won't say a thing."

"Really? 'Cause you have trouble keeping your mouth shut." I mocked him, talking about the incident in which he slipped and exposed my relationship with Soph on live tv.

"Yeah, you're actually the worst at keeping secrets Hazza." Louis added.

"Oh shut up, both of you. It was just one time. I promise it won't happen again."

"Fine, fine. I'll believe you."

"And I'll cover your fucking mouth if you start to slip." Louis offered.

"Thanks Tommo." I answered. "And can you guys tell Liam and Zayn please? After me and Soph leave?"

"Yeah, I'll tell them when I walk them to the door." 

"Thanks H."

"No problem Nialler, now let's head back before the girls come in and ask what's taking us so long."

"Yeah, let's go."

We ended up having a great time, we ordered some dinner and just talked and sang together all night. Harry lended me one of his guitars and we were all sitting in his living room jamming and talking. I had missed this a lot when we were on a break, or a fucking 'hiatus' as management decided to call it, I don't even know why we broke up in the first place, we belonged together as a band, we were better together.

"Can we please not split again? or go on a fucking break for 5 fucking years?" I blurted out mid song.

"Yes please, let's never break up again." Louis added.

"Deal." Zayn, Liam and Harry answered.

"Yay!" I heard Soph exclaim, making us all laugh. She couldn't help it, she was a directioner at heart. 

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Author's Note:

Hey there guys! Thank you so much for reading this story. There's gonna be a few time jumps in this story so that I'm able to write all of the main events I want to happen. Sorry for the late update. If you haven't read Small Talk, I would suggest that you read that one first so that you can understand this story. I'm really hoping you enjoy it and any suggestions and/or grammar corrections are more than welcome. Don't forget to follow me, vote and comment, it really helps me out and I'd love to hear your thoughts! If you're obsessed with 1D make sure to check my TikTok account, I upload daily vids of the boys, it's @cristylealr